Tlingit Spirituality and Shamanism in the 21st Century

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Although the Tlingit no longer have shamans, their traditional spiritual ideologies remain vibrant. This discussion will review the traditional practices of shamans and focus on Tlingit spirituality and its manifestation in cultural objects including shamanic paraphernalia. It will also assess the exchanges between the natural and supernatural as they continue to occur in the round of ceremonies which are held primarily in the fall season and in memorial rites held throughout the year.
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@louisjov 3 ай бұрын

Thank you for making presentations like this so publicly accessible

@janaenae1338 8 ай бұрын

❤️🧡💛💚💙💜💙💚💛🧡❤️ We are ALL the SAME PERSON experiencing life in a BUNCH OF DIFFERENT BODIES!!! which means that EVERY PERSON that you meet, is really just YOU... LIVING IN ANOTHER BODY!! you see..you are INTERACTING with YOURSELF at ALL TIMES!!! & once you understand this,you can achieve unity! 💜💙💚💛🧡❤️🧡💛💚💙💜

@noahriding5780 11 күн бұрын

What is the spiritual meaning of totem poles? do they denote lineage, or like a ladder to heaven?

@TayTay-or4bx 4 ай бұрын

I’m having a hard time finding the paper they referred to that Dr. Worl wrote on shamanism. Anyone know where it’s at?

@johnvliet523 2 жыл бұрын

Are the pages and images of this lecture available as a book or electronically as a PDF?

@complimentary_voucher 6 ай бұрын

It's perfectly legitimate to evolve and alter ritual practises when the circumstances of a people change. You are still dealing with the same spirits and relationships; it's counterproductive to cling blindly to redundant forms when the life you're living and some of your needs have been transformed. Sympathy with that transformation is surely a strong element of shamanistic practise. You are interpreting and mediating a flow of energy. So no Tlingit should feel diminished by change or that they aren't entitled to practise this most ancient belief. Seize the day and construct a new way to channel your respect and intuition.

@tlingitfpv5765 5 жыл бұрын

Christian thinking has caused this. Please do not let this type of thinking wipe out our culture. It is precious.

@darkhorde6926 3 жыл бұрын

Yes, conservative Christian thought combined with capitalist colonialism was the end of thousands of cultures, peoples and lives :(

@lexi-gi1wl 2 жыл бұрын

Very very interesting, I’ve always heard about Tlingit Shamans but never truly knew what they did!

@brandonlee8313 2 жыл бұрын

Ya still don’t

@janaenae1338 8 ай бұрын

My name is Janae Fechner -Bowie

@lillianjaehnig2530 2 жыл бұрын

I would like to learn this, I had a premonition, seen kooshdaakaa 6 time’s and communicate with animals, and believes in natural medicine’s. I would send out a warning to the person, to stop there bullying, I use the full moon for my energy’s

@brandonlee8313 2 жыл бұрын

U are learning. Don’t stop or think u need anyone to teach u

@serenityempressmomma2017 2 жыл бұрын

The chosen one 🙏🏽

@HeavenOnEarth444 Жыл бұрын

❤️

@tlingitfpv5765 5 жыл бұрын

How can Non - Tiingit's make sense of Shaman's practice's? An outside organization should not have access to these items. They will not be a able to gain true knowledge. Why are they interested? What do they think they can gain?

@darkhorde6926 3 жыл бұрын

I think the non- tlingit they may want to take ownership of their culture! So I think that Tlingit should not let strangers to "train" something of their spirituality, your culture is fantastic, don't let whites people, or others take it from all of you!

@yamiyomizuki 3 жыл бұрын

This is both unproductive and illogical thinking. Culture is learned, not inherited genetically. Shutting your culture off from outsiders simply means that it's more likely to be lost. I should also point out that this is the exact same line of thinking that lead early colonialists to denny native peoples sovereignty, because they believed they couldn't understand Anglo-saxon values and as such were incapable of self governance.

@dntskdnttll 2 жыл бұрын

@@yamiyomizuki There have been and continue to be many many Culture Vultures who try to exploit indigenous cultures. This is not a new phenomenon and you can research the amount of people who have done this. If non native people want to connect with their own culture of origin that makes more sense as they have a direct connection to it. Cultures have a right to protect their practices and some knowledge is simply held as sacred, to be passed only to descendants. Cope with that, not everything is for every person to access.

@yamiyomizuki 2 жыл бұрын

@@dntskdnttll the only argument you actually have is the exploitation and commercialization of culture to which my response is that indigenous people can and do commercialize their own culture in a manner every bit as crass as outsiders, and people from outside of a culture can study it just a sincerely and respectfully as people born into it. after that you get into pseudo mysticism and espousing racial exceptionalism for "woke" reasons.

@mjinba07 Жыл бұрын

Late to the discussion, but for what it's worth... Protecting identity, heritage and spirituality is deeply important, of course. That said, in modern times such things are being shared and blended whether we want them to or not. Consider, also, that all identity, heritage and spirituality originated from a previous blend of sorts, however long ago, and have been influenced by other cultures periodically over the centuries. It's only through the gift of lengthy, relative isolation that any group can consider themselves unique. As a Non-Tlingit I can only say that I come with a particular interest in the parts of humanity and spirituality that we might share, not to imagine some sort of deep understanding or "appropriation," as some extraordinarily defensive folks might put it. I can't speak for others. Nor can I speak for those in the spiritual realms who might accept or reject the hearts and minds of knowledge seekers who don't have the more recent, requisite genetics.