Fluff in Shamanic Works

OK here is why I blame Christianity on the fluff in shamanic works.

if you look back in time Shamans were the tribal council head on how to rid the tribe of witchcraft and its curses. By doing this they would work their own brand of magic and warding.

Christianity says that magic and warding is no different than what the witch does so it is ALL witchcraft and will not be known as a "good" thing.

My take on much of the new age fluffyism is that because of the persecution made upon all who stray from "gods way" and the bible, made up crap was spoken to keep a practice alive. In turn i think its been taken as "fact" over the years and become more accepted by the general public (which are the Christians) Now that its all been misspoken by the laymen "anyone" can achieve shamanic trance work with practice and money can be made by writing on it.

so yeah I blame the Christians for making the original practice an evil thing and the practitioner having to hide the truth to stay alive without persecution.


Quacks are something else altogether. There are those who have achieved the ways of being a shamanic practitioner. They can do anything a Shaman can do. The problem is they do it for a lot of money for people they dont even know.
1.) Payment is always something of a controversy because a Shaman is supposed to be family or tribal. We as Americans have lost the idea of honesty. Getting something for free is not honest, its robbery.
2.) a Shaman is supposed to know the person s/he works on. If a person isnt ready emotionally, and foolishly seeks out a healing they arent ready for it is the shamans job to either prepare the person for the work to be done or turn the healing away.
2 b: preparing can take months or even years depending on the work at hand. I have seen so called Shamans charging as much as 1000 dollars for a healing or soul retrieval to a perfect stranger. a single one hour session of counseling does not let a person "know" another person.


I call these people quacks not because of the work they do, but why they do it. They are irresponsible and careless to the talent they have and give "real" Shamans a bad name.