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Title: Healers


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Healers
  • A religious specialist who concentrates on
    healing
  • Can refer to either a Priest or a Shaman
  • Herbalist
  • Specialist in plant-derived cures. May provide
    or prescribe medicines. Intimately familiar with
    uses of local plant life.
  • Ex http//video.nationalgeographic.com/video/play
    er/places/regions-places/south-america/paraguay_pa
    raguayshaman.html (Healer/Shaman, Paraguay)
  • Ex http//video.nationalgeographic.com/video/play
    er/places/regions-places/africa-southern/zimbabwe-
    healers-pp.html (Traditional Healer in a
    modernizing society, Zimbabwe)
  • Ex http//video.nationalgeographic.com/video/pla
    yer/places/regions-places/africa-southern/southafr
    ica_creaturecures.html (South African Shaman)
  • Diviner
  • A religious specialist who specializes in
    Divination (a series of techniques and activities
    that are used to obtain information about things
    that are not normally knowable.)
  • Debre Zeyet villiage in Ethiopia (Healer and
    Diviner) http//video.nationalgeographic.com/vide
    o/player/places/countries-places/ethiopia/ethiopia
    -healingspirit-pp.html
  • The future, the present at a distance, revealing
    the identity of supernatural elements in the
    natural world.
  • Reading natural phenomena, cards. Entering an
    Altered State of Consciousness and retrieving the
    info there.
  • Ex The Tarot, astrology, necromancy

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Prophets
  • Someone who communicates the words and will of
    the gods to his or her community, acting as an
    intermediary between the people and the gods.
  • Ex Moses, Mohammad
  • Ex Wavoka (Pauite Native American) 1856-1932,
    the Ghost Dance and the Massacre at Wounded Knee
  • Ex Handsome Lake (Seneca Tribe)
  • Near death experiences and visions with Christian
    overtones. He preached a revitalization of
    traditional seasonal ceremonies, strengthening
    the family and a prohibition against alcohol.
    After his death in 1815, his teachings became the
    foundation of the Longhouse religion.
  • Ex Ngundeng Bong (Nuer, Eastern Sudan)
    1830s-1906
  • No written records of his life. Instead,
    stories Born when his mother was passed
    menopause after a 12-month pregnancy. Born with
    the power to contact the supernatural. As a
    young man he would often enter Altered States of
    Consciousness through fasting and seizures. He
    was possessed by the god Deng who would make
    prophecies through him. The Nuer believe
    prophets are chosen by a god an are able to
    predict the future, cure the sick and ensure
    fertility.
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