Mi Westberg

Shamanism and animism are closely connected, but they are not the same thing. Animism is the ancient understanding that the world is alive with spirit - that animals, trees, rivers, mountains, stones, ancestors and places all carry presence, consciousness or sacred energy. Shamanism is the practice of working with that unseen world. In many traditional cultures, the shaman acts as a bridge between the human and spirit realms, entering altered states through ritual, rhythm, trance, dreams or...