I think the big force is going to be consumer buying power.
What's really important about shamanism is that there is another reality that you can personally discover. . . we are not alone.
He (the Shaman) is a self-reliant explorer of the endless mansions of a magnificent hidden universe.
You are human, whether your ancestors come from Europe, Asia, Africa, or wherever, shamanism once existed there. We are just attempting to go home to our spiritual roots before the state religions, the agrarian centralized religions rose up with autocratic government and said, 'This is what you're going to believe, these are the official revelations, take it from us, you can trust us, we got it. '
If a state political organization is founded in part upon a state religion with a dogma based on one or a few 'official' prophets, then shamanism, where every shaman is her or his own prophet, is dangerous to the state. [. . . ] Shamanism, as I said, is not a religion. The spiritual experience usually becomes a religion after politics has entered into it.
Shamanism is a path of knowledge, not of faith, and that knowledge cannot come from me or anyone else in this reality. To acquire that knowledge, including the knowledge of the reality of the spirits, it is necessary to step through the shaman's doorway and acquire empirical evidence.
Shamanism is being reinvented in the West precisely because it is needed
Join not with grief, fair woman, do not so, To make my end too sudden.
A man cannot be said to succeed in this life who does not satisfy one friend.
We cannot handle injustice by finding more ways to impose what is in fact "right" on people. It has to come from the inside. And that's where the church should be working.
Whatever you and your team decide your new brand will stand for, deliver on that promise. That's the only way you'll ever control your brand. And beware: brands always mean something. If you don't define what the brand means, your competitors will.