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A new take on Shamanism-

Pleasure, Shame, and Dignity Model of A Maverick Plot.

By Joshua johnsonPublished 2 years ago 9 min read

Throughout many cultures in history, there has existed an archetype for the person who seems recluse and yet very plugged into their community in an invaluable way. One way of describing such a person has been the Shaman. Many different cultures have a form of Shamanism that holds to their community, and Shamanism also holds different core principles depending on the origin of shamanism.

Every day it seems we are trading off physical matters, for matters of only the mind, as we create and exchange new ideas building our entire world around exchanging attention alone and forming communities around algorithms that become insular to others. I believe this calls for an update to the role of a shaman who attempts to understand and substantiate the spirit and nature of unfoldings rather than simply reacting to them.

In this video, I will attempt to update the idea and the potential of what a Shaman’s practice could encompass.

First, who is a shaman?

I’ll start by saying I am a kind of shaman

How does one become a shaman?

By simply dealing with spirits that affect the human experience. Everyone has within themselves their concept of what spirits are… Etymologically speaking “spire” in “spirit” just means “to breathe” which means spirituality is the quality of human breath defining the human experience. Or the quality of the human experience affecting the human breath. The interesting thing about the human experience is how it fundamentally is built off shame and the forms that shame takes on. If a shaman wants to take on spirits, then he must take on shame itself for himself or for whomever the Shaman leaves himself available or unashamed, to serve.

Where are shamans?

Often shamed. Shamans are outside hierarchies, and communities, fallen off to the outs skirts or delicately maintaining a balance inside and out, around and through the networks of the communities he still feels attached to? A core principle of a Shaman is to undertake pilgrimages, essentially, of either self-shame or exile to quiet the storm within or pursue a vision of which he’s been gifted. These days, we go on journeys internally as much as we do physically. Welcome to A Maverick Plot, it's a place deep within where I shamed myself and cultivated and I allow shame to fertilize my truest pleasures

When might you see a shaman?

When a shaman's undertaking has expanded him, it can also expand his Shame still tethered by it he will know what a shame it is to not attempt to share what he has discovered and will return, such might be called a shaman Holiday.

Why do shamans become?

Depending on the circumstances of a shaman's life, he might have accepted that shame will not be separated from his own life or anyone else's while noticing, with either disdain or discomfort that others make chaos in efforts to pretend it can be. Shame is what connects us, defines us, and brings us to the subjugation of form both for better or for worse. The choice to disconnect from people and connect with Principals and powers instead is also itself a shame but a shaman may accept that it’s a shame that must inevitably fall on someone, so why not him? However, he is only exercising the first option you always had when you were born and the last you will be left with when the illusions of life crumble around you. The reality is shame cannot be separated from the human experience, and any attempts to do so, or to live your life to seem like that’s possible, is only as I said, an illusion afforded by those with enough advantage who can determine how shame is cascaded upon its servers. This means shame management is a great deal of what we call life. Most people are comprised heavily of shame-avoidant strategies rather than living for their truest pleasures. Shamans are people who accept that, in some cases, it’s easier to carry the burdens of shame-embrace than the chaos of ignorance of the principles that comprise shame. The wisest would also choose to be shamed over being ashamed. Shame is being denied access, being ashamed is the manifold nature of shame leading one to not access much around them and even denying much of themselves… As for the chaos of believing shame can be truly managed out… It never gets managed out, it only gets managed along. Shame is the opposite of pleasure, Someone or something else will have to deal with shame for every pleasure someone else accrued, you pass that shame along and this will eventually reach the point of resentment which will inspire the group who took on a shame to bring shame back to the main group who’s has ceased pleasure.

This is one of many ways karma works.

Why might anyone concern themselves with Shame more than life?

Shame is the opposite of pleasure and radiance.

Shame is understood not only by someone who has equipped themselves to handle it but also by those who hope to discover or build richer forms of light.

Without the bravery to live with shame aware, and in harmony with pleasures, Intimacy becomes rarer until lost, and life becomes a shallow experience for those who cannot face shame as the second-hand counterbalance of life.

Intimacy loss is among the problems we face now.

People implement ways to make shame easier and ways to dominate others so others hold all the shame entirely, and now you’re seeing ways people actually, are implementing shame or shamelessness as a new mode of gaining pleasure, Such as Nikocado avocado, or Simps, Cucks

Shame is connected with how we choose to cultivate pleasures in life.

The Status quo, defined by me- a shaman, is simply the division of shame mutually settled upon by an environment's inhabitants. The state where no one wants more and no one wants less shame so everyone accepts what they have out of the situation. Understanding Shame as a fundamental element of the human experience will allow you to shortcut the answer you may seek to so many life questions surrounding human pursuits reducing exhaustion..

What is a shaman?

Well, to understand that you might ask

What is shame?

Shame is the principle of equal and opposite force to pleasure, making it a part of the understanding of the whole of pleasure principles. It is fear and pain, before the threshold where pain and fear are palpable.

A shaman understands, battles, and transforms shame into things lighter or more pleasant by understanding pleasure principles. Every pleasure comes to shame, and shame is what brings pleasure to an end and is among the forms of pain, which inspire more pleasure. Feelings of embarrassment, FOMO, and Envy are all mixed in but are only byproducts and the beginning of never-ending miscellaneous constructs that follow the dynamic and dichotomy of Pleasure and shame.

In a sacred way of considering it, Shame is depicted as the first thing Adam and Eve felt when they consumed the fruit. So you can understand first off Shame is Old…

It’s an old bitch.

Such serves as a metaphor for how, inseparable, pleasure and shame came about, that the fruit implies pleasure, and what followed was everything that began and put an end to that pleasure and a never-ending unfolding of more pleasure, shame, and shame avoidance …

Some have begun to accept this story is a coding story about the light-wave nature of the universe, but such could still affirm my point that pleasure is always connected to energy. Which moves in these divine forms.

A more Science-based understanding of it, Shame is the gravity within the human experience related to our formation. Just like gravity, it’s everything we as humans work with and everything we work against. It’s why we walk bipedally as if to have the opportunity to keep our hands clean, and yet we seem to be more than capable of making the biggest messes out of our existences, still. All in the name of whomever’s shame and shame adverse tactics…

Shame is to gravity which is to form

As pleasure is to light which is to radiance.

Simplicity and Complexity exchange turns throughout history.

Masculinity tends to chase the simple and Femininity tends to deal with the complex

As energy acts react and fashions and refashions and so on… so do Pleasure and Shame The place where it settles is Dignity: which I would call just a building component of Identity…With Dignity, you get the triangular relay of how I observe this kind of energy, which is connected to sexuality, and creativity, similar to that of the sacral chakra in Hinduism.

Dignity is the result of human efforts balancing their personal and collective pleasures and shame pursuits, arriving where we are comfortable with neither too much nor too little. What it means to be dignified in anything, at times can seem universal and at other times is very contextual.

Our archival of history and advancing technologies only give us more to be ashamed of. A deeper pit to climb out of and more pleasure to know and aim to achieve.

Currently, the problem everyone is facing: is how everyone is taking pleasure, in creating, sustaining, and fighting for new concepts that fundamentally can be reduced to just shame modalities. If we’re logical, we may call them the latest inventions of shame, If we’re spiritual, we may call them reincarnations of shame… However, these are created all the same, so others can have an egotistical moral ground of working for their preferred shame flag, often correlated to their pleasure pursuit. But this protects Shame because we never call it out by its original name or state. Shame is powerful whilst petite, and can lead to causing great physical damage to the outside world, like homicide or suicide, while being supported by every human on an individual level due to the fear of having one's perceptions, assumptions, and comfort transformed.

I’ve learned if one seeks to work with and against shame, whilst dignity is in the balance, one must be willing to let his identity be fluid to control shame. Every time you attempt to change shame for others there will likely be an uprising to use shame to control you and who you are.

But here is the secret, the part that is lost that must be remembered.

Shame has no allies, and never will. Good people use shame, and bad people use shame.

Shame, like the energy it is tempering pleasure, cannot be destroyed or banished permanently.

So far in this video, I may have made shame into a boogie man, but it is truly why we separate waste and excrement from places where we eat, it’s how we keep the vulnerable, women and children apart from those who might make it their pleasure to endanger them. Shame is a part of the human experience for better or worse. What we steer toward and what we steer away from. We each build our world inside out with pleasure and outside in with shame.

When one’s pleasure perimeter, or radius collides with another we decide in that moment to take on pleasures together, allow ourselves to be shamed or the other must brought to shame.

Entities bigger and beyond human comprehension use other humans to make fools of themselves while they change the shame paradigm or shift the Shame-terrain of societies for their gain and advantage.

Shame is like Code that engineers the program of human experience.

Shame is all about, it’s in the choices you make and the choices you don’t make.

I might say, as a Shaman, that all you have in this life is yourself, others, and the shame that tethers you all, sometimes from before your life even began. Going forward in life can be richer, if not made about implementing and enforcing shame for power alone, but forming chords, music, and rhythm, with shame shame pleasure, and dignity that arrived from and survived from, that inspire the bringing about of greater pleasures that extend into the future.

Much of the things that are making life complex and ugly now is how people want to be so creative with developing shame, that we’ve become ever increasingly unable to identify shame as simple as shame itself. You can see all the social justice movements, or the pill people, sphere people, cell people communities taking up the Internet.

Eventually working with this model of Pleasure shame, and dignity intertwined, confidence enters the conversation, centered around either or all of these three things and essentially to conclude :

A Maverick Plot is a place within me, I am the shaman here, I stand confident, with heavy Shame, and take pleasure assessing the dynamics and the confidence people hold fast to…as confidence can be provided by the system and powers that be, in dignity, holding pleasure, or avoiding shame.

However, there comes a time when shamans, like wizards, magicians, witches, Gangstas, Geniuses, etc. Provide us an understanding of what it means to take all three into your own hands as the system often only seeks to make you bargain amongst them, leveraging some for others.

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