{"id":3599,"date":"2009-02-04T21:18:16","date_gmt":"2009-02-04T21:18:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/nasdat.com\/?p=3599"},"modified":"2009-02-04T21:18:16","modified_gmt":"2009-02-04T21:18:16","slug":"how-not-to-be-a-shaman","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nasdat.com\/?p=3599","title":{"rendered":"How NOT to be a shaman"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>*Favor de traducirlo si alguien puede hacerlo* Entendi algunas cosas y me<br \/>\nrei bastante<br \/>\nHumor &#8211; or is it? \ud83d\ude42<br \/>\n1.)Take miserable care of your body, your relationships, your finances and<br \/>\neverything in your life. Avoid anything that would make you happy &#8211; shamans<br \/>\nhave to suffer.<br \/>\n2.)Understand that you can only possibly practice when your mind is relaxed<br \/>\nand untroubled by other concerns. So if there&#8217;s anything else at all you<br \/>\n&#8216;should&#8217; be doing, do it instead. For greatest efficiency, just thrash<br \/>\naround and worry about what you should be doing instead of actually doing<br \/>\nanything &#8211; that way you can endlessly reuse the same things.<br \/>\n3.)You know it&#8217;s impossible to make a living as a shaman or healer, so have<br \/>\na day job you hate that leaves you mentally, physically and emotionally<br \/>\nexhausted. After work, you&#8217;ll be in no shape to practice, so have some ice<br \/>\ncream and watch TV. You deserve it.<br \/>\n4.)Invent endless constraints regarding under what circumstances you could<br \/>\nget shamanic work done. You need a special sacred space, a special set of<br \/>\nobjects, absolute quiet, a certain kind of music. Spend more time<br \/>\ncomplaining about the lack of these circumstances than actually working.<br \/>\n5.)You&#8217;ll be able to get plenty of shamanic work done when you&#8217;re<br \/>\nindependently wealthy and have lots of free time. Just wait till then.<br \/>\n6.)There are thousands of books on shamanism. Better read them all before<br \/>\nyou start, one of them must have the secret. (Be sure to skip all the<br \/>\nexercises.)<br \/>\n7.)Let&#8217;s face it, you don&#8217;t know enough to be a shaman. You&#8217;ve never even<br \/>\nread [insert famous lite<\/p>\n<p>rary work here]. Better get to it, or no one will take you seriously.<br \/>\n8.)Surround yourself with people who are jealous of your time, disrespect<br \/>\nyour practices and beliefs and undermine you at every turn. If possible,<br \/>\nmarry one and have kids.<br \/>\n9.)If you actually fail at all of the above, and actually do manage to<br \/>\npractice, make sure each movement, each act is perfect before you move on &#8211;<br \/>\ncompare it to your favorite shamanic writer&#8217;s published works (you don&#8217;t<br \/>\nthink people with talent have to practice, do you?) and attack it with all<br \/>\nthe viciousness of your cruelest and most bitter high school teachers.<br \/>\n10.)Give up as soon as it seems hard or you feel uninspired. After all, if<br \/>\nit were really possible, it would flow smoothly and be easy.<br \/>\n11.)Whatever you do, don&#8217;t actually finish anything. Just keep starting new<br \/>\npractices. (Any work prior to your latest sucks anyway.) Or endlessly<br \/>\ntorture your existing practices until you drain them of any vitality they<br \/>\nmight once have had.<br \/>\n12.)If you do accomplish something, immediately share it with someone who<br \/>\ncan be counted on to tear it apart, tell you you&#8217;re wasting your time, and<br \/>\nimply you&#8217;re an idiot for ever imagining you could be a shaman. Believe this<br \/>\nperson &#8211; s\/he wouldn&#8217;t say it if it weren&#8217;t true.<br \/>\n13.)Be sure you never actually work out in the world with other people. Take<br \/>\nthe decision of whether what you do works out of their hands: reject it for<br \/>\nthem.<br \/>\n14.)If an intent or practice seems to fail, don&#8217;t ever try it again &#8211;<br \/>\nobviously it was no good. In all likelihood, you aren&#8217;t either: be sure not<br \/>\nto pass up the opportunity to consider giving it all up.<br \/>\n15.)If, in an extreme case of failing at the above, you&#8217;ve actually done<br \/>\nsomething, know that it was just a fluke. Never ever believe in yourself.<br \/>\nRepeat as necessary.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>*Favor de traducirlo si alguien puede hacerlo* Entendi algunas cosas y me rei bastante Humor &#8211; or is it? \ud83d\ude42 1.)Take miserable care of your body, your relationships, your finances and everything in your life. Avoid anything that would make you happy &#8211; shamans have to suffer. 2.)Understand that you can only possibly practice when your mind is relaxed and<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[63],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3599","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-neochamanismo-la-charlataneria-new-age"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nasdat.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3599","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/nasdat.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/nasdat.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nasdat.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nasdat.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3599"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/nasdat.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3599\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nasdat.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3599"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nasdat.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3599"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nasdat.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3599"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}