Embrace "nature"

Shamanism is an answer to a lot of people who embrace ‘the natural’ in a superficial way. Embrace horror, randomness and arbitrary pain, if you like. That pertains to what is natural. On the other hand,if you are not one of those who would romanticize "nature", if you have any depth to you at all -- it is very existentially useful to understand the baseline of human experience. For the real shaman-intellectual, it is useful to know that there are certain guiding principles governing our relation to nature and ‘the natural’, but these are not many. Understanding how few these are can actually be very liberating, especially if one is inclined to subscribe to dogmas of any sort.