(n.) A priest of Shamanism; a wizard among the Shamanists.
Example Sentences:
(1) As a central feature of every ceremony, Nepali shamans (jhãkris) publicly recite lengthy oral texts, whose meticulous memorization constitutes the core of shamanic training.
(2) The shaman is a specialist in producing and managing altered states of consciousness.
(3) • Mayan shamans took part in a ceremony to mark the end of the Mayan cycle and the start of the new age in the ancient Mayan site of Tikal, 350 miles (560km) north of Guatemala City.
(4) Accessible to non-specialists, the system conveyed by these recitations acts to validate shamanic intervention as a significant and intelligible activity.
(5) Shamans themselves have adapted their politics, diagnoses and symbolic actions to an increasingly cold social climate.
(6) This discussion reveals those aspects of the shaman's experience that render her more, rather than less, like those she treats and suggests a process whereby the shared reality of shaman and client is realized in lived experiences, rituals, and conversations.
(7) Psychotherapeutic management of a potential spirit medium (shaman) in a modern University Hospital setting in Malaysia is described.
(8) Using their oral texts, shamans effectively reproduce worlds that require shamanic interventions.
(9) I went to Peru to Machu Picchu and did ancient shamanic ceremonies to cleanse myself after I eventually realised why I couldn’t let her go.
(10) The pharmacological effects of the alkaloid on the human body are shown to have informed shamanic therapeutic practices and beliefs.
(11) This time, the insecure, anxious Howard Moon (Barratt) and the self-assured, narcissistic Vince Noir (Fielding) work in a second-hand shop owned by their shaman friend Naboo (played by Michael Fielding).
(12) However, the shamanic state of consciousness (SSC) can be differentiated physiologically from possession trance states.
(13) Within anthropology, investigations of shamans and their altered states of consciousness have followed some of the prescriptive problems inherited from the discipline of psychology, coloring the assumptions and perspectives of students of shamanism.
(14) In the postshamanic culture derivatives of shamanism and non-inspirational healers (naturalists) are active.
(15) The shaman may also be medically active when his expert knowledge of the supernatural disease agents is called for.
(16) Differences included more complex theories about illness, greater number of folk practitioner types and greater differentiation of the shaman role (i.e.
(17) Assumptions behind Siberian, particularly Khanty, shamanism are examined through analysis of training, seances and cosmology.
(18) It is then possible to differentiate between the shaman as primarily the mediator between the supernatural powers and man, and the medicine-man as primarily the curer of diseases through traditional techniques.
(19) In the ensuing ethnic dialog, Meratus shamans are cast as perpetrators as well as curers of the kind of illness-causing sorcery that makes Banjar most vulnerable.
(20) Covent Garden has long been home to a diverse collection of living statues and fairground freaks, a levitating shaman competing with unicycling jugglers and motionless men in their silver-painted suits.
World
Definition:
(n.) The inhabitants of the earth; the human race; people in general; the public; mankind.
(n.) The earth and the surrounding heavens; the creation; the system of created things; existent creation; the universe.
(n.) Any planet or heavenly body, especially when considered as inhabited, and as the scene of interests analogous with human interests; as, a plurality of worlds.
(n.) The earth and its inhabitants, with their concerns; the sum of human affairs and interests.
(n.) In a more restricted sense, that part of the earth and its concerns which is known to any one, or contemplated by any one; a division of the globe, or of its inhabitants; human affairs as seen from a certain position, or from a given point of view; also, state of existence; scene of life and action; as, the Old World; the New World; the religious world; the Catholic world; the upper world; the future world; the heathen world.
(n.) The customs, practices, and interests of men; general affairs of life; human society; public affairs and occupations; as, a knowledge of the world.
(n.) Individual experience of, or concern with, life; course of life; sum of the affairs which affect the individual; as, to begin the world with no property; to lose all, and begin the world anew.
(n.) The earth and its affairs as distinguished from heaven; concerns of this life as distinguished from those of the life to come; the present existence and its interests; hence, secular affairs; engrossment or absorption in the affairs of this life; worldly corruption; the ungodly or wicked part of mankind.
(n.) As an emblem of immensity, a great multitude or quantity; a large number.
Example Sentences:
(1) This study compares the mortality of U.S. white males with that of Swedish males who have had the highest reported male life expectancies in the world since the early 1960s.
(2) He is also the foremost theorist of the Tijuana-San Diego border in terms of what happens when the urban culture of the developing world collides with that of the developed world.
(3) The Trans-Siberian railway , the greatest train journey in the world, is where our love story began.
(4) You can see where the religious meme sprung from: when the world was an inexplicable and scary place, a belief in the supernatural was both comforting and socially adhesive.
(5) The result has been called the biggest human upheaval since the Second World War.
(6) But earlier this year the Unesco world heritage committee called for the cancellation of all such Virunga oil permits and appealed to two concession holders, Total and Soco International, not to undertake exploration in world heritage sites.
(7) Patrice Evra Evra Handed a five-match international ban for his part in the France squad’s mutiny against Raymond Domenech at the 2010 World Cup, it took Evra almost a year to force his way back in.
(8) Because of the small number of patients reported in the world literature and lack of controlled studies, the treatment of small cell carcinoma of the larynx remains controversial; this retrospective analysis suggests that combination chemotherapy plus radiation offers the best chance for cure.
(9) The new Somali government has enthusiastically embraced the new deal and created a taskforce, bringing together the government, lead donors (the US, UK, EU, Norway and Denmark), the World Bank and civil society.
(10) A world conference in Edinburgh during August 1988 will have the theme.
(11) Mutational mosaicism was used as a developmental model to analyze 1,500 sporadic and 179 familial cases of retinoblastoma from the world literature.
(12) I hope this movement will continue and spread for it has within itself the power to stand up to fascism, be victorious in the face of extremism and say no to oppressive political powers everywhere.” Appearing via videolink from Tehran, and joined by London mayor Sadiq Khan and Palme d’Or winner Mike Leigh, Farhadi said: “We are all citizens of the world and I will endeavour to protect and spread this unity.” The London screening of The Salesman on Sunday evening wasintended to be a show of unity and strength against Trump’s travel ban, which attempted to block arrivals in the US from seven predominantly Muslim countries: Iran, Iraq, Libya, Sudan, Somalia, Syria and Yemen.
(13) But it will be a subtle difference, because it's already abundantly clear there's no danger of the war being suddenly forgotten, or made to seem irrelevant to our sense of what Europe and the world has to avoid repeating.
(14) Robben said: "We've got that match, the Fifa Club World Cup, all those games to look forward to.
(15) David Cameron last night hit out at his fellow world leaders after the G8 dropped the promise to meet the historic aid commitments made at Gleneagles in 2005 from this year's summit communique.
(16) Maybe the world economy goes tits up again, only this time we punish the rich instead of the poor.
(17) Alcohol abuse remains the predominant cause of chronic liver disease in the Western world.
(18) The Pan American Health Organization, the Americas arm of the World Health Organization, estimated the deaths from Tuesday's magnitude 7 quake at between 50,000 and 100,000, but said that was a "huge guess".
(19) It shows that the outside world is paying attention to what we're doing; it feels like we're achieving something."
(20) Undaunted by the sickening swell of the ocean and wrapped up against the chilly wind, Straneo, of Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, one of the world's leading oceanographic research centres, continues to take measurements from the waters as the long Arctic dusk falls.