The Role of the Shaman

[@patfrench8046]

Please, if possible, keep teaching us how to live in this chaotic world.

[@nuclearmaga9694]

always so thought provoking.... soul nourishing

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Thank you so very much. I do not have enough words to express this in my fullest desire.

[@leahkingbird5113]

Awesomeness

[@Sheepdog1314]

excellent - as always....keep going, rock on - we love you

[@JEKAZOL]

Perfectly timed. Thanks.

[@runeguidance1341]

Happy New Year my dear friend 🙏

[@lareddewyrd]

Thank you!!!!!!

[@not2tees]

It's easy to understand why you would be in so much demand. May you continue to be a strong voice for the truth and knowledge in the new year, wherever you bring your light.

[@elainemblakely282]

Greetings from the Texas Gulf Coast, USA. Happy Trails, my Friend. I hope to see more of you next year, but I understand where you are coming from.

[@333Eriana]

This is wonderful Arith - much of what you have said here reminds me of the role of native healers and elders in the area where i live, and the healing ceremonies are often done the way that you described near the beginning - the women form a circle and sing - and lend energy to the sickperson and the shaman in the healing circle

[@Find-Your-Bliss-]

The tradition carries on. Never think it doesn’t matter.

[@ransomdavid6752]

Love ur vids Arith! Always a wealth of information. You are truly appreciated.

[@aemiliuswolf5348]

I came here for knowledge but stayed for the clarity Thanks again Arith, i have been interested in the Animus view of the world since i was young enough to reflect on the experience I was having as life.

[@HeidiSanToro]

Thank you for all of your videos these last few years....everything you do is much appreciated

[@iainmelville9411]

Another wonderfully brilliant video. Thank you for your time, your intellect and, most importantly, your willingness to share your knowledge with us. Happy new year to you and your family and friends.

[@spikewillow4552]

It will be a sad day if you stop as I've been following you for years & always find answers in your videos. I get that life gets in the way though so I will say a Huge Thank you for sharing all your wisdom brother. May the light of the returning sun light your way for many years to come.

[@methatron1]

I don't want to be the one that says don't go I've got alot more of your videos to watch thank you for filling in the spots my guides left out.

[@flashbackactivator2802]

Many Thanks for your contributions. You have provided a sane, clear body of work explaining what may otherwise spiral off into eddies of conjecture, incoherence, and dogmatism. It would be beneficial to many (both now, and further into the future) to have your work spread more and more. Best wishes, from out here between the shifting sands of the Pecos and the Rio Grande. ~ Peace to All ~

[@MrBrothasky]

It is a shame I only found your channel just now. I have been watching much of your backlog in the last few months. Your channel has been helpful with grounding myself after taking in many of the misconceptions found on the internet. I wish you good health, and peace in this new cycle.

[@landru49]

My best wishes for you and your future dear Arith. Thank you for sharing your knowledge and wisdom so far.

[@ernamoller175]

Thank you Arith. Your videos are very important for me. May you have a wonderful and blessed 2022

[@osborn.illustration]

Another fantastic video, thank you my friend! Very interesting and so well researched. Loved it!

[@larrymarron1170]

Thanks for your help 👍 always appreciated

[@AriaIvancichArt]

Thank u.

[@mihaelharaminec8945]

thank you, Arith, for everything. greetings from Adriatic coast.

[@weatherwizard150]

I am sure you will continue with the channel, calling all Patreons!

[@soSo-ml8dv]

Merci pour cette vidéo. Je suis complètement en phase avec ce discours. Beaucoup de choses aujourd'hui sont irrespectueuses.

[@miguelferreira8280]

Excellent reasoning and logic. It's always good to re-examine one's underlying assumptions. Looking forward to discussing this with friends. Thanks for this.

[@stewartthomas2642]

Love your stuff kick on love it

[@martinobanassa]

Thanks for sharing your knowledge and insights. I'm grateful for all the energy you put into your videos. I hope the coming year brings you increased blessings and love.

[@angelaarsenault]

Yes!

[@keithbolland2231]

Thank you so much for the wisdom. A breath of fresh air. Good fortune were ever you fare x

[@davidhunt8685]

Thank you, and Happy New Year. I hope I will be able to continue learning from you next year :-)

[@ba-qf9em]

Your channel is a source of knowledge of indescribable value. Thanks for sharing.

[@francheskahenderson]

Thank you so much for your videos. You are my favorite sharer on these subjects. Just know no matter how many or few videos you make you are loved and appreciated

[@XENA_O_VANIR]

Love everything you make!!! Take time for yourself!!🥰🥰🥰🥰

[@hazeltuxhorn5617]

Thank you, Arith

[@willowraevynwood865]

I hope you have a very blessed and successful 2022, Arith...whatever it may throw your way!

[@BenedictaXValentina]

Thank you Arith for such a thorough understanding and research on this subject and Happy NewYear to you too X 🥰😁😊👍🏻🌙✨🧿✨💫❤️🔮

[@irisscot101]

Thank you. Happy New Year to you, your family and friends. May 2022 bring you many blessings.

[@colinp2238]

I couldn't watch this all the way through as it brought up memories that should stay hidden. Over 25 years ago I thought that I would try "astral Travelling" and settled down in my flat to do it. Itstarted okay and i drifted to a green place that seemed very peaceful, but empty, even though I had the feeling of being watched, and a feeling of not belonging. I came back after looking around for someone, anyone, but finding no-one. It felt that I had been away a very long time but in truth only minutes had passed here. The rest of the day I felt uneasy and ill and decided that was it. The only time that i will travel like that is in my dream state.

[@trezokache9803]

Thank you for all of your content, hard work, and sharing. Well wishes to you in the new year. If you do not return, you will be sorely missed. I take comfort in the fact that I have a backlog of your videos to catch-up with. Fare-thee-well.

[@cactuskat333]

You are amazing Arith! Thank you so much for your channel, its helped me in so many ways. May the energies protect and guide your path ♡♡♡

[@leearellano5303]

I appreciate your work and yes it is very important to me! Thanks for all your work and many blessings to you. Peace.

[@mtheinvincible4156]

Yes, thank you for this video. Your discussion of the mediating role that it is necessitated for someone to take for an animistic society's world-view beginning at about 41:00, makes a lot of sense. This is a fascinating discussion of what gives the shaman his purpose--the very mediation to deal with the 'elements' that most people would prefer not to---due to fear or trepidation. The terrible thunder, the horrendous destruction of the mountain's avalanches, and so forth seemed to call for a mediating response from the community somehow. Since animism has clearly been the most common human world-view among societies in history, it only makes sense that to truly understand even our own past and our own history, we have to take understanding shamans and their ceremonies and services very seriously.

[@sheriesehenderson429]

Happy 2022..🙋🏽🙏🏽

[@gripp8572]

I love your videos. They mean alot to me because you ha e opened my mind to a broader spiritual outlook on the worl we inhabit. Even if you don't return leave your vast video library up for us to revisit. Thank you for Colorado

[@toebeans1385]

Really enjoyed this video. Thank you for sharing all that you have. I hope you find a balance that is best for you when it comes to creating in the future. Remember you cannot pour from an empty cup! Best wishes as you enter the new year !

[@jesserichards5582]

Thank you very much for everything you do. Definately helps me alot in this chaotic world & i have looked into alot of things on my journey & alot of authors & teachers on things become very biased on their views that i dont completely agree with. Anyways the way you teach us these things is a blessing & I found that following your heart is the best way though that can be decieving too if your heart is in the wrong place. But i digress. Like Heilung says "Remember, that we all are brothers. All people, beasts, trees & stone & wind. We all descend from the one great being. That was always there. Before people lived & named it. Before the first seed sprouted"

[@antsquirly7654]

Fabulous lecture! Thank you, Arith for your time. May things ease as you need.

[@helvetii4808]

Great work from a great man of spirit... Thank you for what you do. You've helped many on their paths in a time of struggle and loss. Keep up your good work.

[@dindrane1]

Thank you for all the wonderful things you have taught me. I hope you have an amazing new year and I hope you can continue this channel in some form; I find your videos calming and they help with my anxiety disorder 😊. Thank you again for your videos.

[@grimvisions5592]

Thank you for all your hard work Arith. Good luck to you in 2022!

[@bianca.cordey]

Happy new year! Thank you for sharing. I wish you plenty of time and lots of happy moments to recharge.

[@mitziewheeler8517]

Thank you so much. I just found your channel about 5 months ago, and I totally love it. I am a history geek always have been. I love that you are standing up to those that refuse to change even as new evidence is found daily in digs around the world. Your teaching often reminds me of Marija Gimbutas. Another that bucked what others refused to change after finding the truth. I follow the craft (not wicka) but any that have done ritual weather alone or in a group should understand there are other realms and worlds. We call on them daily. Science seems to finally be catching up some with there study’s of the multiverse and string theory. Now if only those that write the history books would catch up. I think your channel is awesome. I am sad that you may not continue, but you must always follow your true hearts path. I ask that you please leave your stuff up because I am still catching up on them all and sometimes I watch them more then once to see how I stand and feel about each one. I hope to see you put out new ones even if just every few months, but you must do what is best for you and your family. I ask the Lord and Lady to always watch over you, to entwine there gold and silver lights around you and protect you and yours, so mote it be. Have a wonderful and joyous New Year. Blessings Be to you and yours. ❤️💖💕

[@melissabrentford8260]

So inspiring that I'm so at peace with everything I've just heard, Mr. Arith beautiful work! Thank you very much. May you have a New Year full of happiness and success, health and hope in the Future! Thank you 🌷 ⭐🙏

[@elmaruttgers6804]

You really surprised me with your inspiring knowledge and bright explanation. Thank you for sharing such an almost lost information, especially needed these days. I am looking forward to see more of your wonderful videos soon.

[@d.c.trinity4631]

The flow of your words alone is proof you are true to your wise perception🌒🌕🌘

[@fem_doggie]

Much love Arith!!! Your personal interpretation , and source material have been both inspirational, and insightful! You have not only guided me on my path, but inspired me to strive to making better connections with myself, and the surrounding Persons!!! Though I admittedly succumb to much sadness in your possible departure, we must understand you are an individual, and must follow Your own path. Kemst þó hægt fari, Brothers and Sisters!

[@kristiesmith2556]

We wish you. The best New Year with much love

[@tarenmauga9582]

Thank you so much for everything you've done for us and putting info out on KZbin. You've been such an important source of info and insights on many of these subjects. You do, however, have to do the best thing for you. Know that many of us are always happy and excited for anything that you decide to do or put on mediawise. And, know I also hold a special place in my heart for you and your work because half of my family line came from parts of Spain--right next to Portugal.

[@rkt1578]

You DO bring such comfort and education to the topics you cover in these videos! It’s been a couple years that I’ve been watching you now and I have learned so much reliable content from you compared to other sources, you have grown me spiritually and open my mind more than you know, and I think I speak for many in saying that! I currently am learning more (mainly through you of course!) about shamanism and animism because I have a wonderful novel series idea and one of the characters will be a shaman! I have learned so much already from you in regards to the Scandinavian studies, I thank you so much for all you do, you are so so busy and still you find time to research, prepare and film these amazing videos!! You’re superhuman!!! 👏🏻🤩♥️

[@Megan-mu8so]

Wonderful video, enjoyed the kitty helpers in the corner as well. Sending you blessings of abundance in hopes for more videos next year. Take care and happy new year!

[@adrianarodriguesdacunhacos7612]

Thank you for sharing some of your knowledge in such a clear, respectful and humble way. Happy new year sir ✨

[@belladonna70]

interesting , i also love animism happy new year Arith. really respect you and value this channel.thank you.

[@creepyjanitor]

this is so well put together and comes through you very naturally. Huge epidemic of phony 'shaman' nowadays, weekend retreat, narcissistic, instagram grifters come to mind. The word shaman is itself kind of an unfortunate umbrella term for the modern age. thanks for covering all of that clearly.

[@patfrench8046]

Thank you for drumming.

[@CoachDoug714]

Well done, Arith. Thanks for all the work and the great insight you provide. Keep out coming, please.

[@Juen-Nyded]

SUPPER HAPPY 2022 TO YOU!!!

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U are awesome 💯 It is an Honor as well. Light & Love🤍

[@arizonaraven419]

Yes please continue with vids. I appreciate all your efforts as they align with my Indigenous beliefs. Aho

[@naturvaket]

Thanks for another great video. There is so much to consider and I really think we could use true knowledge and know our own body’s better in these times. I’m so grateful for this channel and still have some of your early videos to watch. All the best wishes for the next year to you, other people here and all other beings in this beautiful world, let there still be wonders in our hearts 🙏🏻✨🪶🌀

[@draug7966]

Whatever you do Arith, don´t stop making videos. Even if you just do one every second month or smth but please don´t stop. Hope you will have a blessed 2022, best wishes.

[@saraperidott2013]

ihave been subbed for awhile and couldnt give an ear for these kind things but now, it reached my attention and i wont digress. i am glad to know this channel because resources for undrstanding these things are wordy if only from books and i really love to have by word of mouth from somebody who has been read and learned abot this. thank

[@saraperidott2013]

thank you

[@abbylane6435]

As always a wonderful and informative video with a new perspective to a common idea. Thank you so very much for all the work you have put in and what you have produced on this channel. You have truly awakened a deeper understanding within myself and for that I will be forever grateful(: thank you friend

[@rastraeoslitae6696]

Wish the best for you and family to this year to come and many others. Hopefully to be seen you in future video as you said are very important to me. Thanks to the teachings you put in place never forgotten. Blessed be

[@CarolineVigneron71]

Best wishes to you! I hope you'll find a way to continue posting a video from time to time and that your professional life will offer you all the incomes you need without draining all of your time and energy! You're indeed one of the few youtubers I find to be a good source of information when it comes to such matters. In this video I've been particularly glad to see a solid critic of Eliade's work. It's rare to hear such a thing and very welcomed and needed, in my opinion! The first critic of his work I found was in IM Lewis' book, Ecstatic Religion, just a few months ago. It's a book that helped me understood better the sources of core/neo shamanism, along with another book by Bertrand Hell: "possession et chamanisme " (in French). I'm particularly interested in the topic of possession/incorporation/mediumship in shamanism and it seems Eliade was wrong on that matter too. Soul flight is not the only way for shamans to get some information: quite often enough, the spirits come to them or directly through them (through their body). It seems most if not all anthropologists followed Eliade for decades and little by little dare to step away from his influence. I guess Michael Harner was a follower of Eliade, as so many others, and built his "core" technic on that work ("core" is something that looks like sophrology to me, more than shamanism). I also particularly appreciate the emphasis you put on the other than human "persons", that word "person", and the role of intercessor/mediator of the shaman and of the importance of creating relationships. It seems more and more people tend to "psychologize" shamanism and consider spirits as "archetypes" somewhere in their head (maybe under the influence of Harner's "sophrology" thing?) and that's quite disastrous in my opinion. As a sidenote, I wonder if all "sources" on shamanism really do show that the shaman systematically pleads for forgiveness for all deaths caused by hunters, in all cultures? I wonder if animals killed by the lion expect the lion to say sorry for that death and what if animals consider us as any other predators (though maybe the worse of them)? Maybe animals don't have the same perception of death as us... Non-human spirits often have different worldviews than ours...

[@sandra.helianthus]

I fully agree to all your points. And also on your latter question. In my own experience, if I may share it, animal spirits answered these kind of questions much more pragmatic to me, than I (being a vegetarian) do myself. I eat, you eat, they eat. When I harvest grain, I take a life too. But life and death are part of the whole, open the door for development. Personally, I think, the appeasement of spirits is much more a religious aspect, depending on the community's worldview, than it is a spirtual necessity. In my experience it is of much more importance to pay respect to the living person - a thing mankind lacks greatly (not only in the "western" world!). In this I do see an important modern role for people on a neo-shamanic path (whatever this actually means - it simply lacks a proper name): as a mediator between the humans who cannot "see" and the unseen persons, not only to be of service to a human community, but also to the unseen communities. 🌻

[@marocat4749]

@@sandra.helianthus Through that would be at least kinda a loose community that would at least have to be open to animism to degree to work out ?! But yep reaching out too is communal work. (as opposed to evangelizing,thats just harassment, and you can go around talking, buttak a noorsomeone not willing as no)

[@sandra.helianthus]

@@marocat4749 not necessarily, I think. There are many people having contact to non-human persons (e.g. angels, ancestors etc.) who feel far away from being animists. For me as a person with an animistic world view, this would leave out many non-human persons and might not even help our connection to our basic environment around us. But those people too can certainly do communal work while connecting the seen and the unseen. (I just believe a more "nature"based connection broadens our horizon, is "better" - for us and other beings. )

[@sandra.helianthus]

@@marocat4749 in case you meant we need an animistic view to treat non-human persons with respect... I think: not really, (though somehow I wish it would) because scientifically speaking there is no reason to assume us to be any "prior" or "above" to another animal. An animal is an animal is an animal. That humans deem themselves prior did also happen in animistic societies, unfortunately.

[@hermit.masteroflight5970]

Hi Arith. I am now using this chance to wish you an emotionally fulfilling and generally positive new "Gregorian" year. It sounds like the channel might have changes in the near future. I think you know you have become a relevant name in relation to the true knowledge about Nordic culture and many related matters. So needless to say, we would all lose an important man in case the channel would stop publishing. However, life is a cycle and I understand if your path takes you to other places. I hope this will not be the last time I know from you. Best regards, Lior

[@angaidhjones2605]

I'm so happy to finally have the time to enjoy this video ! Amazing work as always, AND always a pleasure to "see you" :D Thank you for the research and the sharing of your knowledge in such an interesting way ! ( And I have to add, I absolutely LOVE your thumbnails)

[@ForrestAnna]

Once again, thank you for your effort, and may your path have aclear light to see you home.

[@guelkaratas5164]

Hello from Germany...I am a newly subscriber...watching your videos now on a daily basis...so much knowledge and so much heartly effort. Happy that I've found this channel because it is very helpful on this path. Thank You so so much.

[@racheldawn65]

Wow.

[@wlowe4]

I want to start out by saying I am only 5 min into this video. 3 months ago I embarked to understand Paganism, Mythology and just the practice of my ancestors. I was tired of modern day religion and wanted to create my own path into spirtialism. I have watched many KZbin videos about Pagaism, especially Norse Pagaism. Arith, you are so knowledgble I wish you had a way for me to pay for your service if not just to mentor. I hope I see more videos or content from you. I look forward to the rest of this video. Just wanted to stop and say how I noticed this right away.

[@svenlenninghausen6342]

You are very inspiring, thank you very much for your effort, I find your videos very interresting, wish you all the best in 2022 👍

[@morganacrows9974]

Amor você é sensacional, você está sendo um professor, um mestre pra mim. Seus vídeos me fizeram a acreditar mais em eu mesma e me libertei de várias amarras aí. Seu trabalho é sensacional. Que os Deuses te abençoem sempre trazendo tanto conhecimento. Por favor, não pare com isso vídeos rsrs, Vou mandar os Corvos prai para te ajudar kkkk Porquê eu imagino, na verdade são 4 empregos pk aqui no youtu.bevocêéum professor para todos nós. Te desejo todo amor, prosperidade do mundo. Gratidão por tudo

[@mistsister]

I am ao thankful for your effort to expand understandings of the arts of living on this physical world. You've helped revive the olden ways inside, essential. ~•8•~

[@alexandrepinheiro8636]

Ótimo vídeo como sempre.obrigado!

[@AmayzinG13]

A thousand thanks for all your efforts Arith. Do you have any suggestions for travel destinations in Portugal for the esoteric explorer?

[@veronicafrometa9715]

Felicidades ,prospero año 🇨🇺👌👌👌

[@AnjaTeich]

Yes yes yes. A shaman serves. I so agree for the good of the community. I tried to explaine that to some that became a big ego and want to be treated like the big whatever. At the end it's a one for all all for one 😊 Thank you.

[@chilledmonkeybrains6199]

Thank you so much for your videos!!

[@lillysnet9345]

I just started to watch your representation... So interested what you going to say about Stabilizing Compromise Relationships...

[@MarcoGalliafr]

This is great content, very useful

[@vanderschulz]

Dear Arith, It is always a joy to watch your videos and to have the opportunity to be introduced to such new and fascinating perspectives on the topics of animism and shamanism. Your ideas are really inspiring and I feel trully grateful for the existence of your channel. Today I have a question for you and hope you can help me : how would you translate the expression "other-than-human-person" into Portuguese? "Non-human-person" é fácil : "Pessoa-não-humana", em uma tradução ao pé da letra. "More-than-human" : "Mais-que-humana", também ao pé da letra. "Other-than-human-person", however, I find difficult to translate. I thank you very much for your attention and wish you all the best.

[@joeschneider02]

WOW Thank you !!!!!!!!

[@isitover9010]

Pertaining to 25:00 can one slip in and out from one to another? Sensitive but not understand what’s going on?

[@I_scribbles]

Thanks for today. I hope one of those jobs is an Author...

[@familiabranquinhobranquinh9503]

First of all, our wishes for great success and health to be able to continue with your Channel! Much strength and success and courage that the Future will smile and bring youFirst of all, our wishes for great success and health to be able to continue with your Channel! A lot of strength and success and courage that the Future will smile at you and bring you knowledge to present us with your videos! May you have a Happy Life!

[@tuberklz]

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[@Leathurkatt]

As someone who has lived within a life experience that firmly pushes me to a position of being a Shaman within an Animist Totemic belief and world view throughout my life since early childhood, the modern colonialist ideology which states that for a person to be a Shaman they absolutely must be taught, initiated, and certified as such by a particular physical human of specific authority has never felt "correct" to me because a Shaman is not a "priest" in the Western colonialist ideological sense, and thus "human authority" cannot mandate who is and is not a Shaman. The Shaman, by definition, is one who facilitates interaction and communication between the physical and spiritual realms and the entities there in. A priest can engage in Shamanistic practice, but a Shaman is not necessarily a priest per se as dictated by Western theological ideology. A priest is a spiritual leader, teacher, guide, healer, and councilor as needed by members of the community, but a Shaman is a whole different level of spiritual service to the community. So how can a physical person dictate who is or is not, can or cannot be, a Shaman? Especially when it is the non-corporeal spiritual beings who choose the Shaman whether the person wishes to be a Shaman or not.