Robert Anton Wilson's Prometheus Rising starts this 8 system model with the thinker and the prover. For the purposes of the shaman - modern or otherwise - the shaman must always be thinking or dreaming. This process of validating one's own thinking (dream) is what makes the shaman the creator of self and the creator of realities or worlds.
Wilson has 2 chapters on the oral self and the anal self. The oral is equated to the mother instinct and self nurturing or finding substitutes. The anal is likened to the social or political instincts or how I would say or father teaches us how to nurture or cooperate with others.
Thinking and proving goes in the path or beside and on the path with both of these instincts. The shaman or all people to some degree should be able to attract to the oral zone or affect society with their shit according to their thoughts. Internal feelings and external reactions will affect the proving part of the process, allowing the shaman feedback whether their spells or rotes are working. Making the necessary adjustments is the Art or the science...
This is the basic means into how the shaman weaves magick and dreams a dream... I tell myself through the writing of this piece so I may get a better handle onto what I am thinking (dreaming) and consolidating for myself what my thinking is creating for me.
I like writing and externalising my shit in this way. It is a good feedback loop that has always worked for me. As a shaman I write and I weave small spells on my guitar.
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