When it comes to shamanism, both the medium and the message are concerned with our investments in intersubjectivity. One may not wish to subscribe to such ideas, but there are many useful books that point out how and why we are immersed in intersubjective experiences -- Isabel Menzies Lyth's book on The Dynamics of the Social: Selected Essays is a prime example. Read it and consider how the Kleinian model of psychoanalysis tracks dynamics that affect the function of organisations. Believe or disbelieve at will.
Shamanism stands at the opposite side of the ideological paradigm, then, to such hardheaded investments as one might make in Ayn Rand's Objectivism. And shamanism returns a greater investment, psychologically and in terms of inner health. For Objectivism tells you "take what you can; relinquish little" (and you children suffer from its coldness). Yet an approach that maps intersubjectivity (with specifics as to how that functions within the community) puts in one's small hot hands a map that accurately pinpoints the patterns of the enemy's logistics.
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