SHAMANISM AND SCIENCE - Roland Urban

ROLAND URBAN Director of the Foundation for Shamanic Studies Europe

Shamanism and science appear to be diametral disciplines and incompatibleonly at first glance. If you look at them from a different perspective, however, they are like two sides of the same coin. Both involve natural phenomena. Both want to perceive, describe, explore and understand them exactly in order to use the resulting knowledge to cope with our life contexts. Both are ways of knowledge. Concrete experience is at the core of both shamanism and science. In academic science, the pathway to knowledge leads through observation, inquiry and experiment, in shamanism through contact with spirits. In methodological terms, the latter is just as systematic, transparent and comprehensible, only the repeatability is non-existent or possible just to a limited extent (...)

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