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Subject: Re: virus: shamanism (Was FW: JCS: Three and a half years of
Author: virus@lucifer.com at ~~CC3-LA-EC-SMTP-LINK
Date: 8/13/97 1:13 PM
On Wed, 13 Aug 1997, Wade T.Smith wrote:
> Wasn't there some correlation found between shamans and epileptics?
> Ultimately, the fugue state today could be the brain seizure tomorrow....
I believe this has been attributed to the fact that unusual and repeated
early childhood illnesses (epilepsy, for instance) are seen as "markers" for
a potential Shaman. And as such they are /selected/ out of the society and
groomed for that position at an early age.
-Prof. Tim