A typical contemporary person's shamanistic "search" is often pointless due to a lack of stoicism. This lack is conditioned by consumerism, which has entirely destroyed the character. To really learn from anything in a shamanic way, one has to have the strength of character to persist and persist, even when no solutions or anything beneficial are forthcoming. One has to look inward and draw strength from even negative meanings or from no meaning. The modern individual (and most anyone today who is conditioned by consumerist expectations) cannot do this.
Pain, to him, signifies that something is wrong, quite straightforwardly. It does not raise an ambiguous question at all, but has an absolute meaning, signifying negativity and failure. So, the contemporary person cannot simply subsist with this state of being, understanding it and being at one with it. This type of person rather has to get some socially sanctioned "therapy" -- at which point the shamanistic journey comes to an end, as he or she hands their subjectivity over to another to be mastered and governed.
Pain, to him, signifies that something is wrong, quite straightforwardly. It does not raise an ambiguous question at all, but has an absolute meaning, signifying negativity and failure. So, the contemporary person cannot simply subsist with this state of being, understanding it and being at one with it. This type of person rather has to get some socially sanctioned "therapy" -- at which point the shamanistic journey comes to an end, as he or she hands their subjectivity over to another to be mastered and governed.
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