Acum câteva ore am văzut filmul lui Dean Geffreys "The Shamans of the Amazon". La final, tânărul şaman Flavio spune că toţi şamanii din întreaga lume trebuie să se unească pentru a arăta importanţa naturii, a rădăcinile copacilor..., "...natura nu trebuie distrusă!...", ceea ce îmi sună foarte personal, de parcă mi s-ar adresa mie sau celor ca mine. Acest îndemn are un ecou categoric în sufletul meu: "trebuie facut ceva, trebuie neapărat...".
Filmul nu este ceva nou pentru mine. De mai bine de două luni ascult aproape în fiecare zi câte o înregistrare audio a lui Terence Mckenna. În tot acest răstimp am fost din ce în ce mai interesat de gândurile acestuia, toată cultura sau contracultura psihedelică şi experienţa interioară pe care am întâlnit-o la George Bataille (în perioada formării mele filozofice), precum şi spiritualitatea în general, în lumea în care trăim. Astfel, imediat mi-au venit în minte cărţile, mai mult sau mai puţin filozofice, dar care categoric ţin de ultima parte a formării mele filozofice, şi care mi-au deschis orizontul căutărilor ce m-au condus aici: "Experienţa interioară" de G. Bataille şi "Mille Plateaux" de F Guattari şi G. Deleuze. Mi-am dat seama că din aceste cărţi se constrieşte de fapt, indirect, figura unui quasi-şaman urban contemporan din lumea postindustrială sau capitalistă în care trăim.
Dacă strigătul lui Flavio tocmai a primit un răspuns..., este pentru că aceste cărţi, mai exact două idei fundamentale din aceste cărţi, au trezit în mine ceea ce de acum încolo voi numi "cvazişaman". (Tânărul şaman ştie că nu numai indigenii sunt şamani, ci şi noi cei din inima "civilizaţiei".) Aceste două idei sunt experienţa interioară şi molecularul.
Aşadar, nu mi-a luat mult să mă hotărăsc să reinvestighez şi să fac public, din acestă perspectivă, aceste idei şi contextul lor. Aici, în acest log voi ţine evidenţa întregii investighaţii. O voi desfăşura avînd în minte două scopuri: unul spiritual, de iniţiere în logica şi lumea molecularului sau cel puţin de trezire spirituală prin conştientizarea propriei experienţe interioare şi un scop practic, în măsura în care nici una din cărţile amintite nu este tradusă în limba română, voi încerca să prezint cât mai simplu ideile conţinute în aceste cărţi extraordinare. Voi încerca să finalizez acestă căutare, împreună cu cei ce mi se vor alătura, prin adunarea şi organizarea notelor, ideilor şi observaţiilor de aici într-un ghid al quasi-şamanului care va fi publicat pe Internet. ;)



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First entry
Just a few hours ago I saw the documentary film "The Shamans of the Amazon" by Dean Geffreys. At the end of the film the young Flavio sais that all the shamans of the world must unite to show the importance of nature, the importance of the roots of the trees..., "nature mustn't be dstroyed", words that sound to me very intimate, as if Flavio is just adressing to me or to people like me. This cry has a profound eco deep inside my soul: "something must be done, really...".
The movie is not somthing new for me. For about two month already I'm leastening almoste everyday an audio recording of Terence Mckenna. In all this periode I've been so interested in all his thoughts, the psichedelic culture or counter-culture and the "Inner Experience" of Georges Bataille and "Miile Plateaux" of Deleuze and Guattari. I figured out that from all this books and ideas it can be drow the figure of a contemporary urban quasi-shaman of the capitalist an postindustrial world in witch we live.
If Flavio's cry has just received an answare ..., is just because this books (espacilly two ideas from it, the inner experience and the molecular ) have awaken inside me something that from now on I will call it "quasi-shaman". (The young shaman knows that not only the indigenous people are shamans, but also people like us from the "heart" of civilisation).
So, it not took me too much to make up my mind to continue to investigate and to make public this ideas and their context. Here in this log I will try to keep track of my hole effort. I'll will try to keep up with two aims in my mind: a spiritual one, related to the initiation in the logic and the realm of molecular or at least of spiritual awakenning trough the self awarness of inner expirience, and a practical aim, because none of this two books is translated into romainian i'll try to present as simple as possible their ideas. I'll try to achive this research, together with those who will come along, by gathering and organising all the notes, ideas and observatons into a guide of the quasi-shaman, made public on the Internet. ;)
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About post-industrial quasi-shamanic beliefs
We are all, in a sens, idolaters of this recent western cultural artifact called "shamanism"; we love, we cherish, we dedicate our self to it, but as much as we get involve, so little we have something to do with the original, indigenous shamanism; we've created a lie, an illusion and we keep doing it just because this is how our culture works... you don't practice shamanism to sell it and to achieve personal transformation, shamanism it happens to be practiced because the world has unmanageable situations and because life is precarious and unforeseeable , because some people (the shamans) are forced to talk to the spirits and to heal the sick people... they are not doing it for fun or for them, they are doing it because there are some forces beyond them that affects them. I'm not speaking about the "real" shamans, it does not matter this point of view, it only matters our illusion, our lie, our self-limitation. This is what I want to know about and I want to fight against.
My point is that the only accurate perspective or maybe the only "right" place of shamanism in our culture, can be found in the scholarly literature of ethnology, sociology, anthropology, psychology and history of religion, but not as a proclamation of scientific objectivity of our powerful western culture, but because this is the only really "fair" usage of this cultural artifact called "shamanism", meaning - the only aspect of our shamanic intelligibility that is not intentionally mixing indigenous culture with western culture, that is just acquiring information. I'm interested in scholarly literature at its most psychological or subjective (read it "weak") level, as a culture who tries not to conquer, to engulf another culture but just to understand it.
Note: this is an important shift of my search. Perhaps this blog will die or will become something else.
03.02.2009
I'm returning to this blog and leave it as it is, it's ok as it is...
I'll add some more links at the bottom.
30.12.2009
My point is that the only accurate perspective or maybe the only "right" place of shamanism in our culture, can be found in the scholarly literature of ethnology, sociology, anthropology, psychology and history of religion, but not as a proclamation of scientific objectivity of our powerful western culture, but because this is the only really "fair" usage of this cultural artifact called "shamanism", meaning - the only aspect of our shamanic intelligibility that is not intentionally mixing indigenous culture with western culture, that is just acquiring information. I'm interested in scholarly literature at its most psychological or subjective (read it "weak") level, as a culture who tries not to conquer, to engulf another culture but just to understand it.
Note: this is an important shift of my search. Perhaps this blog will die or will become something else.
03.02.2009
I'm returning to this blog and leave it as it is, it's ok as it is...
I'll add some more links at the bottom.
30.12.2009
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This is the log of a work in progress. I'm tryning to keep here acount of all my quasi-shamanic inspiration - the medium - so, please, do keep in mind that these posts are in fact the actual WORK that some day will be presented as a finished work - the message - (I hope it will be a book, but I certanly see this only as a last "bagage" that I have to throw away to free myself).
You can email me at -mariustoica_at_gmail_ dot_ com- for any question or opinion that you might have regarding my work.
Some info about myself: My name is Marius Stoica, I live in Timisoara (Romania), I'm 27 years old. Next week I'll get merried and my wife is pregnant in 4 months :) I've studied philosophy with an emphasis on contemporary french philosphy and some on phenomenology. In fact, I'm pretty influenced by authors like Battaille, Deleuze, Husserl or Marc Richir. I also don't like corporatism and imperialism and I try to resist to all the crap that the world is more and more filled in.
8 September 2007
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Trecem la modul freestyle
7 Octombrie 2008
You can email me at -mariustoica_at_gmail_ dot_ com- for any question or opinion that you might have regarding my work.
Some info about myself: My name is Marius Stoica, I live in Timisoara (Romania), I'm 27 years old. Next week I'll get merried and my wife is pregnant in 4 months :) I've studied philosophy with an emphasis on contemporary french philosphy and some on phenomenology. In fact, I'm pretty influenced by authors like Battaille, Deleuze, Husserl or Marc Richir. I also don't like corporatism and imperialism and I try to resist to all the crap that the world is more and more filled in.
8 September 2007
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Trecem la modul freestyle
7 Octombrie 2008
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