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Shaman
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Cali moved around the house gathering things. She took shiny rocks they called “crystals”, dried herbs hanging from the rafters, fancy dishes, weird shapes or bones hanging on the wall, all this random stuff that Bianca just thought were cool decorations.
She didn’t seem satisfied with where she put them, frequently looking from one object to another, swapping them, holding her hands over them again, adding or taking away other objects around them, lining things up and then breaking them up agai
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As we know, bears hibernate in caves. They appear almost lifeless. This is an analog to the practices of ancient shamans, and to Sufis who practice the forty-day halvet (retreat), in which the Shaman would enter a cave, have an experience of dying, explore the spiritual realms, and then is reborn as the Initiate or Master (just as the bear is reborn each spring as it “wakes up” and leaves its cave).
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― The Sun at Midnight: The Revealed Mysteries of the Ahlul Bayt Sufis
― The Sun at Midnight: The Revealed Mysteries of the Ahlul Bayt Sufis
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