... the shaman. The shaman was almost always an artist, and would draw or make something. An example of his work would be a cave painting. He would then take some of his anima and infuse it into what he created. The pictures were extremely general, so whatever he ... made he turned into a prediction or spell of what was to come. For instance, drawing a bison being hunted on a cave wall (like the ones on the walls at the Lascaux cave) would be like a spell a shaman would "cast" for a good hunt. This type of "magic" was called sympathetic ... are constantly changing; but, since knowledge mus...

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... to behave based on that faith. When we are confronted with radical new knowledge and/or experiences, our faith is sometimes slow to change. Plato's Allegory of the Cave and the Gospel of Mary are both examples of people trying to impart their newfound knowledge onto others. In both cases it is difficult to ... do, and for many of the same reasons. In Plato's Allegory of the Cave we are presented with a story of a group of people who are kept imprisoned in a cave for their entire lives, "Here they have been since childhood, chained by the leg and also by the ... and because she was not a...

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