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This soul-threatening process of shamanistic experience opens up a wormhole in the nature of real and access to the realm of “spirit”. The achievement of shamanic doubt is shamanic skepticism, which transcends social norms and conventions and sees them as eternally pliable. The logic of shamanic skepticism can also be quite recursive -- thus Marechera’s very shamanic suggestion concerning his own attribution of value to anarchist resistance to social domination and control – “The Black Sunlight organisation was shit.” Such shamanic doubt values the fluidity and flexibility of forms of life over dogma.

[The realm of the spirit is both the existential counterpart and yet also the negation of the real (it is the negation in terms of the fact that the self-evident quality of reality becomes open to doubt and questioning: Ultimately the bridge to the other realm is crossed in terms of answering the question: is the real that pertains to communicable experience really the ultimate form of reality – ie. all that there is?. Shamanistic doubting of this sort is extremely politically subversive.]