Ecstacy of Saint Theresa

In learning to define shamanism, from an academic stance, Carolyn Dean quickly jumped on the bandwagon that denotes a sole requirement of being "nomadic" peoples. She supported this claim in crediting the word to the Tungus people, that originally inhabited much of modern day Siberia. These people originated in Northeast Asia, close to Manchuria. It was Catherine the Great, who was able to prevent the influx of "shamanistic" practices in Europe. Practicing nuns and preists were to remain white men and women prone to epileptic seizures. Already the divide between "mankind" and the indigene had begun.
Thanks to artists like Eduardo Carrillo, we are able to view ecstasy and consumption as it proliferates ethnic boundaries, in place to discount the spiritual nature of humankind. This compulsive willingness to deny oneness as the primary attractive force at work in natural selection does nothing to culture a tribe.
In breaking from the European way of discounting "utilitarian" material representations of being, we find abstract form with a primary connotative function. Coinciding signs of consciousness are infinite in studying any and all "tribes". I know its a vague expression of more of the same, what can I say I've got a one track mind. Mediate on this ya'll, fur realz. A quote from Carl Jung, the father of the contemporary science of religion, being inherently linked to the psyche:

In our heroes and masks we meet ourselves with a thousand faces