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This dissertation examines the figures of the shaman and the cyborg, arguing that both act as intermediaries between the organic world of bodies and the artificial world of culture and machines. Using the sf of Robert Holdstock, David Zindell and Kathleen Ann Goonan as starting points, new forms of embodiment in the context of the cyborg and the shaman's shared narrative of radical boundary dissolution are critically and imaginatively examined. Throughout this thesis, the works of Deleuze and Guattari, Sadie Plant, Manuel De Landa, Erik Davis, Donna Haraway, Terence McKenna, and other speculative theorists who operate at the nexus of technological culture and the shamanic imagination serve as guidelines. / English Studies / M.A.

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<p>Syftet med den här uppsatsen är att göra en jämförelse mellan två olika healingmetoder som förekommer inom den så kallade neoshamanismen och i New Age sammanhang. I min undersökning som handlar om shamansk healing och reikihealing i dagens Gästrikland har jag intervjuat två utövare av dessa metoder.</p><p>Mina   frågeställningar är:</p><ul><li>Vad menas med healing för de båda informanterna?</li><li>Vilka kan utöva dessa metoder enligt dem?</li><li>Vilka hjälpmedel använder man sig av och finns det någon form av andekontakt?</li><li>Vilka är i behov av healing enligt dem?</li><li>Varför uppstår sjukdom och kan man bota med hjälp av healing?</li><li>Vilken världsbild och människosyn har man?</li><li>Vilka skillnader och likheter finns det mellan de båda personernas syn på healing?</li></ul>

Syftet med den här uppsatsen är att göra en jämförelse mellan två olika healingmetoder som förekommer inom den så kallade neoshamanismen och i New Age sammanhang. I min undersökning som handlar om shamansk healing och reikihealing i dagens Gästrikland har jag intervjuat två utövare av dessa metoder. Mina   frågeställningar är: Vad menas med healing för de båda informanterna? Vilka kan utöva dessa metoder enligt dem? Vilka hjälpmedel använder man sig av och finns det någon form av andekontakt? Vilka är i behov av healing enligt dem? Varför uppstår sjukdom och kan man bota med hjälp av healing? Vilken världsbild och människosyn har man? Vilka skillnader och likheter finns det mellan de båda personernas syn på healing?

This dissertation examines the figures of the shaman and the cyborg, arguing that both act as intermediaries between the organic world of bodies and the artificial world of culture and machines. Using the sf of Robert Holdstock, David Zindell and Kathleen Ann Goonan as starting points, new forms of embodiment in the context of the cyborg and the shaman's shared narrative of radical boundary dissolution are critically and imaginatively examined. Throughout this thesis, the works of Deleuze and Guattari, Sadie Plant, Manuel De Landa, Erik Davis, Donna Haraway, Terence McKenna, and other speculative theorists who operate at the nexus of technological culture and the shamanic imagination serve as guidelines. / English Studies / M.A.

The similarities between psychosis and different mystical experiences are striking. Professor Jens-Ivar Nergård (1998, 2006) has pointed out similarities between the calling of the Sami shaman/nåjd and the state of psychosis and high-lights the reciprocal meanings andpurposes of these similarities in a Saami context where the calling and the called are regarded as meaningful for the community. By comparing what psychodynamic theorynames psychosis with the calling process of the nåjd the aim of this work is to investigatethe question of how the latter’s discourse finds individual and contextual purpose andmeaning in the psychological functions leading to the former. Since this comparison andinvestigation concerns two different ontologies and discourses, with their own conceptsand views on the psychological functions mentioned, it is done in a qualitative comparativemethod of discourse analysis.The psychodynamic discourse through the books of professor Johan Cullberg classifiespsychosis as a psychological regression to a more primitive psychological state in whichthe individual is caught in primary process thoughts; characterized by dilutions, hallucinations and magical thinking. The psychodynamic discourse sees no contextual, and verylittle individual, meaning or purpose with these functions. This theory is what I will compare to the material given by primarily Jens-Ivar Nergård from a Saami discourse.What I find in the discourse material is an ontology - simultaneously psychological, spiritual, practical and religious (hence the interest from the perspective of psychology of religion) – which differs from the ontology of the psychodynamic discourse in crucial ways.In the Saami discourse the individual experiencing what the theory would name hallucinations, dilutions or psychosis is never disconnected from his or her community and contextbut is instead seen as an important and strong bringer of insights and knowledge. This isconnected to the ontology mentioned above in which relating to - seeing, hearing and interacting with - non-human persons is viewed as a natural experience to understand andrelate to nature, the community, the past and present. The psychological functions in which these interactions take place are regarded as meaningful, significant and sacred.

Author's name: Magdalena Hošková School: Charles University in Prague, Faculty of Arts Department: Institute of Linguistics and Finno-Ugric Studies Title: Spells as a Part of Finnish Folklore Supervisor: Mgr. Jan Dlask, Ph.D. Number of pages: 77 Key words: spell, Finnish spells, Finnish folklore, Kalevala, Finnish mythology, tietäjä, shaman, prayer, healing magic, homoeopathic magic, John Abercromby, James Frazer, neoshamanism, neopaganism This thesis deals with spells as a part of Finnish folklore. It depicts the circumstances of the spells' genesis, as well as their structural features and different purposes of their use. It is considered that most spells were created during the era of late paganism and early Christianity. This is true not only of Finland but also of Europe in general. The thesis also analyses the role of the shaman as the spiritual leader of Finnish people living in the era before the spells' creation and thereafter analyses the role of the shaman's successor: the tietäjä, the charmer who created spells and used them to help people in his community. So the tietäjä used his spells for the same purpose as his predecessor, the shaman, used trance states, which he entered via drumming, chanting and dancing. In the trance state, he talked to animal spirits and ancestors' spirits and...

<p>Syftet jag har med min uppsats är att ge fyra olika perspektiv på fenomenet shamanism för att komma närmare svaret på min fråga: Vad är shamanism för något?</p><p>Perspektiven jag ger är shamanism ur ett historiskt, religionsfenomenologiskt, parapsykologiskt och kulturellt perspektiv.</p>