Soul Concepts
See also: Soul dualismIn generally, some of the various cultures termed "shamanistic" can be understood better if we understand also the soul concept and the beliefs about spirits in the researched culture.
This applies also for some Eskimo groups. Eskimo cultures are not alike, neither are their soul concepts.
Read more about this topic: Shamanism Among Eskimo Peoples
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“For what we call illusions are often, in truth, a wider vision of past and present realities—a willing movement of a man’s soul with the larger sweep of the world’s forces—a movement towards a more assured end than the chances of a single life.”
—George Eliot [Mary Ann (or Marian)
“When you have broken the reality into concepts you never can reconstruct it in its wholeness.”
—William James (1842–1910)