Of Water and the Spirit: Ritual, Magic and Initiation in the Life of an African Shaman

Ironically, the name of Malidoma is very precisely depicting the mission of life he has tried to achieve. Indeed, the glory behind "water and spirit" is in the way Maritoma is "educating strangers" and trying to educate rather than hurting the Western world. He explained the lifelong of his grandfather and the vivid conviction of his enlightenment, but I doubt that it belongs to a totally different world from Westerners.

Sherman is an intermediary between the world and the spiritual world. They represent the ceremonial community, heal people, and help guide the people of Sherman to others. Sherman's life belongs to the village, they are responsible for creating families, communities, and all happiness. World famous shaman and therapist Brant Sekunda established the Deer Dance Foundation in 1979. The goal is to help the Ficolls maintain their tradition of shamanism, maintain their cultural and economic survival, and bring this ancient power and joy to modern wisdom.

Ceremony is a collective effort to connect shaman, client, and spiritual world. Each shaman usually moves in his or her space, where the statue of God is adorned. It seems to be a doctor's clinic. People frequently visit in a short period of time and use Sherman as a consulting company sometimes telling lucky. She only starts a longer and more complicated ceremony only when Sherman diagnosed a more serious problem. A complete ceremony is the last resort to solving any problem. All the team helped Sherman to do her ritual. They play instruments to help Sherman touch the supernatural world - the most important are drums and cymbals of hourglass, cymbals, rattles and flutes. Through a ceremony with various voices of Sherman: At the most dramatic moment, a loud, cheerful and attractive rhythm can last for several minutes

Traditional animists practice shamanism. Sherman is a person who mediates the visible world and the spiritual world through ritual exercises for healing, fortune telling, and management of natural events. For Sherman, the altar is a sacred place where the spirit of Sherman lives. Shamanism is seen as a way of maintaining communication between the seedlings and the spiritual world. Nature's soul has illness, nightmares, even death, bringing physical and mental harm to Miao people. The wizard of Miao did a ceremony to track down the cause of the disease in order to obtain a therapeutic effect. Hearing impaired pass information to the person affected by the soul, and vice versa.