Monday 27 June 2011

Shamanism or the Abrahamic religions: It's one OR the other!

Those whose implicitly embrace the tenets of the Abrahamic religions CANNOT understand Nietzsche nor shamanism. After all, why seek for answers concerning good or evil if the truth is already known?

In Western culture, it is particularly difficult for women to follow the Nietzschean/shamanistic way of truth seeking, because they are already cast as evil actors in the minds of those who embrace the notion that there are pre-existing truths. We easily appear suspicious.

"He who seeks may easily get lost himself. All isolation is wrong": so say the herd. And long did you belong to the herd. The voice of the herd will still echo in you. And when you say, "I have no longer a conscience in common with you," then will it be a lament and a pain. Behold, that pain would be created by that selfsame conscience; and the last glimmer of that conscience still glows in your affliction. But would you go the way of your affliction, which is the way to yourself? Then show me your authority and your strength to do so!

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Cultural barriers to objectivity