Tradition
Siberian Shamanism
Era · ~30,000 years ago — presentRegion · Siberia, Mongolia, Arctic Circle (paradigm for global shamanism)
The archetypal shamanic tradition — practitioners enter altered states to travel the three worlds (upper, middle, lower) on behalf of their community, retrieving lost souls and brokering with spirits.
Core beliefs
- 01Three worlds connected by the world tree / axis mundi.
- 02All things have spirit (animism).
- 03Soul loss as a cause of illness; soul retrieval as healing.
- 04Ancestors and spirit guides as collaborators.
Practices
- Drumming and rhythmic trance
- Spirit journeying
- Vision quest
- Healing rituals, soul retrieval, psychopomp work
Key figures
- · Tungus and Buryat lineages
- · Modern interpreters: Mircea Eliade, Michael Harner
Bridges to other traditions
- World tree ↔ Tree of Life (Kabbalah) ↔ axis mundi
- Trance states ↔ samadhi ↔ contemplative absorption
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