SHAMANISM and ACTIVISM

I think the main contribution that Shamanism can offer to protest is awareness of the shadow. The gaze of many activists, in my experience, tends to be outwards at the expense of inwards. Hence the Extinction Rebellion placard below (which one friend put admiringly on FB) with its 'us and them' message. 

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I mean, even simple logic shows him to be wrong: who uses the fossil fuels, the producers of which he is demonising? It is ourselves. Any collective movement has a shadow, it is to be expected. We project what we do not like about ourselves onto politicians, CEOs, bankers, men, you name it. Hence 'us and them' when it needs to be 'us and us'. It is because we have viewed the earth as a 'them' that we have felt able to exploit her. And in bringing an 'us and them' attitude to environmental protest, we are bringing the very mindset that caused the problem in the first place.