Shamanism needs to be part of where humanity is headed, rather than part of the opposition - in this case a fantasy of what the remote past was like.
Shamanism reminds us to water the roots of the tree, reminds us that we belong to mother earth, who is alive, and that we are nothing but her. At the same time, there is a glorious destiny unfolding in the branches of the tree, humanity's cultural and technological inventiveness, which is only gathering pace. How do we remember the roots as we soar into the sky? That is our great shamanic task as humanity re-invents itself as an interplanetary species.
It is the shamanic comfort zone to live in opposition to the modern world, to think we know better. We don't. Humanity has a destiny that the likes of Elon Musk and Silicon Valley are turbo-charging. We are an irrelevance if we do not allow ourselves to be thrilled by that adventure, if we go to that default counter-culture place of anti-oil (the earth's bounty), anti-nuclear, anti-modern medicine, anti-GM, anti-capitalism... the list goes on: it is tedious and life-denying and it goes nowhere.
We
need to seize our love of the roots of life, ignore the bad news that
the media perennially gives us, and bring that to the unfolding
adventure of humanity.
Yes. I agree with you. It is about embracing the totality. The earth the ancient, the new, the future. Each era has it's pros and cons. It is up to all of us to live in love.
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