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Spirit Boat: Overview: Finnish Shamanism
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Exploring Finnish shamanism and its relevance for today. ROCK PAINTING AT SARAAKALLIO NEAR LAUKAA, FINLAND. From prehistoric times in Finland there were two indigenous peoples—the Finns and the Saami—and both developed rich shamanic traditions. Where conclusive evidence is lacking on particular points, the following account of the shamanism of the Finns will rely on the informed opinions of influential scholars. The large icecaps of the Würm glaciation covering much of Europe in 23,000 B.C. began...The P...
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Spirit Boat: Suomalainen samanismi
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Exploring Finnish shamanism and its relevance for today. ROCK PAINTING AT SARAAKALLIO NEAR LAUKAA, FINLAND. Kimmo Veikkanen, Toronto. Mitä on suomalainen samanismi? Siperialaisesta samanismista syntynyt suomalaisugrilainen alkuperäiskulttuuri, jossa korostetaan luonnon merkitystä ihmiselle. Samaani on yhteisönsä hengellinen ja toisinaan maallinenkin johtaja, tietäjä ja parantaja, jolla on ainutlaatuinen yhteys luontoon ja henkimaailmaan. Ei ole uskonto, vaikka sisältääkin hengellisiä elementtejä.
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Spirit Boat: Practicing Finnish Shamanism: Spirit Connections
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Exploring Finnish shamanism and its relevance for today. ROCK PAINTING AT SARAAKALLIO NEAR LAUKAA, FINLAND. Monday, April 11, 2011. Practicing Finnish Shamanism: Spirit Connections. In an earlier post I said that as we reclaim the indigenous heritage of the Finnish shamanic tradition, we are able to access the spiritual knowledge embedded in its ‘original instructions’. This knowledge can in turn assist us in our personal and collective healing. Much of this work needs to be centred in Finland. Then if t...
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Spirit Boat: Rock Paintings in Finland: Re-Enchanting the World
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Exploring Finnish shamanism and its relevance for today. ROCK PAINTING AT SARAAKALLIO NEAR LAUKAA, FINLAND. Wednesday, July 20, 2011. Rock Paintings in Finland: Re-Enchanting the World. The sociologist Max Weber wrote that we are living in a time of “disenchantment of the world”. This condition of disenchantment was reinforced by the success of a long struggle against pagan animism waged by Christian churches in the West, including in Finland. This is accomplished through re-valuing the ontologies and wo...
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Spirit Boat: Spirit Connections
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Exploring Finnish shamanism and its relevance for today. ROCK PAINTING AT SARAAKALLIO NEAR LAUKAA, FINLAND. April 19, 2011. As a child in the 60s and early 70s, I traveled every Christmas with my family to the winter wonderland in the Upper Peninsula Michigan. On Christmas Eve we went by car to search the sky for lights, specifically Rudolf's nose. Here is a Wikipedia entry about it: http:/ bit.ly/4bThO. Subscribe to: Posts (Atom). Hal at Saraakallio (by Jay Smith). Two quotes I like:. 8220;Both metaphys...
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Spirit Boat: A Personal Journey
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Exploring Finnish shamanism and its relevance for today. ROCK PAINTING AT SARAAKALLIO NEAR LAUKAA, FINLAND. Sunday, October 31, 2010. A talk given at a local Toronto church, October 24, 2010. I want to share with you some aspects of my journey as they relate to my exploration of Buddhism and shamanism. I’ll start with my experience in my family. I was fortunate in that my parents talked to me a lot, which was very formative for me. What we mainly talked at home about was politics and environmentalism...
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Spirit Boat: Becoming Radically Present
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Exploring Finnish shamanism and its relevance for today. ROCK PAINTING AT SARAAKALLIO NEAR LAUKAA, FINLAND. Sunday, December 5, 2010. Many people are seeking guidance in the views and practices of ancient peoples in order to achieve personal balance and meaning in difficult times and to respond to the multi-dimensional crises the world is facing. The growing practice of contemporary shamanism is one manifestation of that search. Jürgen W. Kremer is an academic and the editor of ReVision Magazine....8220;...
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Spirit Boat: Reconstructing Finnish Shamanism for Today
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Exploring Finnish shamanism and its relevance for today. ROCK PAINTING AT SARAAKALLIO NEAR LAUKAA, FINLAND. Wednesday, February 23, 2011. Reconstructing Finnish Shamanism for Today. Native American academic Dr. Apela Colorado says that each people on earth was given a “sacred circle or original instruction to live by”, what she identifies as the “earth-based knowledge of their ancestors”. (Colorado: 1994). Photo by Jouni Jussila, Oulu, Finland. His sacred tree has been felled—recalling the on-going...
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Spirit Boat: Cited Sources
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Exploring Finnish shamanism and its relevance for today. ROCK PAINTING AT SARAAKALLIO NEAR LAUKAA, FINLAND. Abercromby, John, The Pre- an Proto-historic Finns, with The Magic Songs of the West Finns, David Nutt in the Strand, London: 1898. Billson, Charles J., in Hastings, James, editor, Encyclopaedia of Religion and Ethics, Part 19, New York : Charles Scribner's Sons, 1917-1922. Comparetti, Pietro Antonio Domenico, The Traditional Poetry of the Finns, Longmans, Green, and Co.: London, 1898. Shamans and ...
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Spirit Boat: About Spirit Boat
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Exploring Finnish shamanism and its relevance for today. ROCK PAINTING AT SARAAKALLIO NEAR LAUKAA, FINLAND. Recently there has been considerable activity in Finland to recover/ reestablish/reinvent the practices of the Finnish shaman or “noita” tradition on the part of several organizations, many shamanic practitioners, and what is currently a small number of recognized shamans/noitas. I take considerable interest in their progress and hope that Spirit Boat is seen as supportive of it. Since then I have ...
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