# Facets of Shamanism [Contemporary Shamanism](https://shamanscave.com/component/content/category/shamanscave-content/contemporary-shamanism/) [ ](https://shamanscave.com/facets-of-shamanism/#comments) Shamanism is a dance across the unknown, a journey to test the limits of the human heart. Shamanism devolves you, rebuilding you on a different model of what a human can be. Whether good or bad, it is certainly different. Shamanism is: - Learning that time is not only not linear, but mostly irrelevant - Learning that clarity involves more than just understanding concepts - Learning that balance is an ongoing process of self adjustment and determination - Learning that seeing anything, is only one way to see among thousands of ways which are available to human beings - Learning that the paradoxes in shamanism (and most metaphysics) are not the end, they are only the means to create an opening through which one's consciousness can pass into a different realm of understanding - Learning that healing is a process of self determination for human beings and that sometimes you really can't help - Learning that stopping the world can happen in an instant, and in that instant, anything is possible - Learning that truth and experience is often in the movement of your energy and not in the final destination - Learning that being truly human is so much more than what we imagine and more than we choose to face - Learning that fear is real and that it holds your life hostage in ways people can never comprehend who seek to hide their fear - Learning that your own death is your true and only ally, that it puts all things in perspective and delivers you to clarity - Learning that perception is only a tool which man has chosen to use in very limited ways for very selfish ends - Learning that having compassion isn't the same as pity, even for yourself - Learning that you can do very little for your fellow man, but what you can do is important and almost always goes unnoticed - Learning to cry at your victories because you see the cost and laugh at your defeats for the same reason [##### List All Articles in Contemporary Shamanism](https://shamanscave.com/component/content/category/shamanscave-content/contemporary-shamanism?Itemid=101)