Moving inside the chaos of this planet usually consumes all our strength leaving our soul without the vital force to adapt to this fast pace. Its spiritual nature demands it to slow down once in a while and discover the beauty within things. Actually it is an inherent requisite of each of us.
Habits tend to control people’s daily lives like a mandatory requirement for security. No spiritual matters fit into our already overcrowded schedule, where masterpieces of musicians, poets and movie makers seem pointless.
Rich in ideas, but poor in expressing them we fail to remember that we don’t live alone and we need to communicate with others to give a reference value to our thoughts. People can be as similar as they are different and perceive things through their own scale of value, but art is universal. Artists can make similar words, similar musical notes and similar images to send infinity of messages as long as they find the right key to combine them. Their works express a synthesis of their observation of the world, transforming ideas and thoughts most of us had into messages that can be interpreted by generation after generation for eternity.
Art does for the soul what science does for the body. Similar to shamanism, art tries to fulfill the needs of the soul; with the mention that art is translating the cosmos at a human scale, meanwhile shamanism is trying to bring the soul to a cosmic scale. Alleviating the soul can be difficult considering its transcendent dimension, but shamans are doing that for so long as you can read in Lujan Matus’ work.
Walking through the jungle of the soul without knowing the path is a concern found in every religion, shamanism being usually assimilated with one. Yet notes or words of a profane love poem act the same of a bible guiding you through a storm of feelings up to the final conquest of heaven. Images will start forming into your mind in the same way a producer composes the scenes of a movie.
To improve your comprehension of shamanism you can refer to Lujan Matus work.