FROM SHAMANS TO RITUALISTS TO WORD BELIEVERS TO PENTECO...

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FROM SHAMANS TO RITUALISTS TO WORD BELIEVERS TO PENTECOSTALISTS; AND BACK AGAIN. THE GREAT SPIRITUAL TRUTH OF OUR TIME

We see Pentecostalists with arms raised in ecstasy. They are singing and dancing as they praise God and as they seek to be infused with the very spirit of God. They make happy noise. They cry out in tongues. Near them is a shaman woman. She stares at us as she holds her sacred drum. She beats her drum to the rhythm of God and Earth, to the rhythm of the trees and all the beasts of the woods and fields.

There are many paths to God, so there is just one path to God. Pentecostalism and emotional healing are not dissimilar to shamanism; whilst the various mainstream Christian churches, that can range from puritanical simplicity to high ceremony, reflect and even reproduce the varieties of worship to be found in all the religions of the world. 