well my family has a history of witchcraft/shamanism going back to before we imigrated to the us, but the generation befor me (mom aunts grandmother) have all converted to christianity and destroyed anything realting to our past belifes.

so im taking it upon myself to at least try to keep the old traditions alive by studying shamanism, but.... i cant find anything realting to it. there is one bullshit store by my house that sells "new age religous books" but most of it all turns out to be "LIEK OMG IM TOTALY A TEENAGE WITCH NOW!" shit and i seem to die a little everytime i go there.



so for the sake of keeping an old family tradition alive can any of you point me to anything worth while in my pursuit of learning about shamanism? (celtic or northern european )

*points in ArmsMerchant's direction*

But we all know you just want to get wacked out to the hardest psychadelic shrooms possible. http://www.totse.com/bbs/wink.gif (http://www.totse.com/bbs/wink.gif)

[This message has been edited by ArgonPlasma2000 (edited 04-20-2006).]

I know where you're coming from. My parents were in a coven when I was concieved and they decided they wanted to raise me in the temple so they quit, but I was raised with a lot of Wicca influence. I learned to read palms, and tarot, and cascades. But, I hated it in high school, which is kind of ironic, but I did because it had been shoved down my throat so much. I've done quite a bit of reading on the subjects of paganism and heathenism since then, though and I currently observe major Wiccan and Duid holidays.

Cheers,

Lost

quote:Originally posted by earth59x:

so im taking it upon myself to at least try to keep the old traditions alive by studying shamanism..

Why ?

They have some very good links to websites about Shamanism here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shaman

quote:Originally posted by LostCause:

I know where you're coming from. My parents were in a coven when I was concieved and they decided they wanted to raise me in the temple so they quit, but I was raised with a lot of Wicca influence. I learned to read palms, and tarot, and cascades. But, I hated it in high school, which is kind of ironic, but I did because it had been shoved down my throat so much. I've done quite a bit of reading on the subjects of paganism and heathenism since then, though and I currently observe major Wiccan and Duid holidays.

Cheers,

Lost

Could you read my palm? http://www.totse.com/bbs/biggrin.gif (http://www.totse.com/bbs/biggrin.gif)

Are you going to take a picture of it and email it to her ? http://www.totse.com/bbs/biggrin.gif (http://www.totse.com/bbs/biggrin.gif)

quote:Originally posted by Digital_Savior:

Why ?

because in 30 years or so the only trace of it left would be a bunch of kidiots trying to summon satan

quote:Originally posted by Digital_Savior:

Are you going to take a picture of it and email it to her ? http://www.totse.com/bbs/biggrin.gif (http://www.totse.com/bbs/biggrin.gif)

Scan http://www.totse.com/bbs/wink.gif (http://www.totse.com/bbs/wink.gif)

quote:Originally posted by earth59x:

because in 30 years or so the only trace of it left would be a bunch of kidiots trying to summon satan

But why single out Shamanism, when your family is now Christian ? Why not Christianity ?

quote:Originally posted by Digital_Savior:

But why single out Shamanism, when your family is now Christian ? Why not Christianity ?



because christians is bad people...

quote:Originally posted by earth59x:



because christians is bad people...

I don't know if it is completely fair to judge people based on what religion they go by.

A person following the teachings of Jesus wouldn't and shouldn't be a bad person.

quote:Originally posted by Abrahim:

I don't know if it is completely fair to judge people based on what religion they go by.

A person following the teachings of Jesus wouldn't and shouldn't be a bad person.

not by their standards no but by mine they are barley human... the ones around here anyway im not so ignorant as to say you are the same as them withought meeting you.

quote:Originally posted by earth59x:

not by their standards no but by mine they are barley human... the ones around here anyway im not so ignorant as to say you are the same as them withought meeting you.

meeting me eh? I like the sound of that! Got MSN, AIM, Yahoo?

quote:Originally posted by ArgonPlasma2000:

Could you read my palm? http://www.totse.com/bbs/biggrin.gif (http://www.totse.com/bbs/biggrin.gif)

hehehe!

quote:Originally posted by Digital_Savior:

But why single out Shamanism, when your family is now Christian ? Why not Christianity ?

That wouldn't be researching family traditions ,though, would it?

Why not single out shamanism? It worships no false idols ,it has nothing to do with the devil. It doesn't refute god , or Jesus as your saviour. Shamanism seems to be able to fit into other religions as well if you're so inclined.

It's nice to see you didn't come on with ,"I am teh Shamans .. wh els is shams? uber power animal wil pwn ure uber pwer anmal!!"

Then I'd be upset ....

All sources about shamanism I've ever looked for have been bullshit ,although You might wanna check out BLTC ...

Have A Nice Day.

Adrenochrome's link looked good.

If you do get anywhere with shamanism could you kindly ask the logos to make my next psycadelic experience as informative as possible http://www.totse.com/bbs/biggrin.gif (http://www.totse.com/bbs/biggrin.gif)