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limited to shamanic domain. Add single-mind that the luminous epiphanies overflow, in
India, the experience yogi, as an example of the Montana ecstatic ascension of Siva by
Arjuna, which ends in a supernatural light (Mahabharata, VII, 80).
But the inside "is the key experience Eskimo of the cha-ancestor-worship. Until we can
say that their obtention tantamount to a test initiation. Indeed, the nominee has this" ilution
"-qaumaneq-after long hours of meditation, in com - plete isolation. According to the
shamans interviewed by Rasmussen, qaumaneq consists "in a mysterious light which the
shaman re-pentyne feel in your body, inside the head in the center of the brain, an
inexplicable beacon, a bright fire , which enables him to see in the dark, both as a
figurative sense-sion, as this is capable, even with their eyes closed, see through darkness
and perceive things and future events, hidden from other beings human can know both
the future as well as the secrets of others. infonnaciones again according to Rasmussen,
when the first candidate experience "enlightenment" (the qaumaneq) is "as if the house is
to rise from blow, the look very far forward, through the moun -
This attitude can guess the ambivalent about the sa -
degree, on the one hand you feel attracted by the magic-religious power, and in addition
one feels rejected. On the meaning of this ambivalence, see our historla Treaty of
religions, ps. 26, 393.
dows, exactly as if the earth was a great plain, and his eyes go to the ends of the earth.
Nothing is hidden since before the "(K. Rasmussen, Intellectual Culture of the Iglulik
Eskimos, ps. 112
and 113).
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