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Shamans are essentialy quantum physicists, and there is alot of evidence to back this up, and i can say for certain, because the shaman believes we are all connected, just like quantum physics, using vibrations to heal ailments (cats purr to heal broken bones because of the frequency they purr at)
They work on the energy level, which is what everything is, pure conciousness
If you want to dispute this, please, please give me evidence to show me im wrong, but you wont be able to... quantum physics is proving what we have known and been able to do all along... so you might as well all just start practicing shamanism, the oldest belief system we have
Maybe he's just hopeful that there are people out there with a logical mind of their own, but the sad fact is that a large amount of people here are mindless conformists who up-vote anything everything that says "supernatural," even if it goes against all logic. - The meaningful type of logic, not the definition of logic you've cooked up in your mind after years of following magical stuff.
I am not much of an expert on shamanism, but I like to think I'm somewhat knowledgeable about quantum mechanics.
The key difference for me is that quantum mechanics only deals with, well, the quantum. It doesn't cover spirituality, or consciousness, or any human construct. Only the subatomic.
Perhaps shamanism also deals with this, but I know that shamanism also has the spiritual side, which leads me to conclude that there is a difference between the two.
I am not much of an expert on quantum mechanics, but I like to think I'm somewhat knowledgeable about shamanism.
The key difference for me is that shamanism deals with the mind; with the connections between spirit and body, and how to influence the self. It doesn't deal with the subatomic, or really anything that is commonly accepted as science.
Perhaps quantum physics also deals with this, but I know that quantum physics is largely based in scientific/mathematic theory, which leads me to conclude that there is a difference between the two.
shamanism deals with connecting to the universe, bud, not just our mind, or our spirit, these are important aspects we must purge before we can connect with the universe, but once you lose self of "me" and realize all is one thing, you will have full conciousness, this is why bob marley always said I and I
you have to have concious awareness in order for anything to work, otherwise you wouldnt be concious (obviously) and therefore you wouldnt be able to observe anything at all, so while the quantum mechanics probably doesnt need a concious observer to do what it does, it needs a concious observer to realize what is happening....
Firstly, it's be far more accurate to call them Quantum string manipulators than physicists, but that is a complete insult to actual learned men, and their hard won information.
Furthermore, "cats purr, heals broken bones", what the fuck? Honestly.
You assume that a cat purring outside a broken leg for instance can bring bone cell elemental building blocks, completely into resonance, all of them, at the same time?
Given that bone is made up of a myriad different elements all necessary to actually make it bone, the cat's purr can simultaneously effect all of these different elements at the same time, meanwhile not altering the skin, muscle, nerve fibers etc in between.
They work on the energy level, which is what everything is, pure conciousness
Absolute wild conjecture. Energy=/= conciousness, no matter what way you want to spin it.
quantum physics is proving what we have known and been able to do all along..
As I assume you're talking about string theory, you claim that people have already known that there are many more physical dimensions than the readily observable four, or that matter is made up, at the fundamental level of loops of infinitely narrow one dimensional packets of energy that vibrate one way to becom an electron another to be a down quark and another to be an up quark.
They kept that well hidden, didn't they.
Maybe they should just close down CERN and get a couple of baked crusties to man handle some hydrogen atoms and describe everything.
You are a complete insult to our most respected leaders, and yes, cats do purr to heal broken bones, not only for when they are happy, they also use sound to sterilize medical equipment, its called frequencies...
Everything=energy, therefore, conciousness=energy
Maybe if you didnt have a golf ball sized conciousness, you would understand that when the shaman goes into a deep trance, he becomes pure conciousness, conciousness can do anything, it can even view atoms at the subatomic level...
"Actual learned men" you dont think shamans dont train from childhood all the way until they pass on? That takes alot of work, so dont be so insultful to things you know nothing about
And just because the website has the word belief in it does not discredit the article that clearly outlines whats happening today in our discoveries, so a primitive person was doing quantum mechanics and the only way they could describe it back then was "spirits" well now that we are in the modern age its time to undertsand what these "spirits" are. Shamanism utilizes inner technology, not external technology
Even if your first theory was true: everything is frequency. You have no reason to believe YOURSELF when you then say a human or cat can interface with that, because there is no known method or mechanism for this to happen and be proven under scientific conditions.
You are not a quantum physicist. So dont pretend like you understand it and its connections.
You have some kind of mental disorder, and if you keep this up, im going to work out what it is.
you dont believe you can change your frequency? theyve done studies on monks, and they can definitely increase their vibrational level, and all they do is meditate, and im not a bullshitter, if you dont like what i believe then i dont give a shit, your entitled to your.... beliefs... whatever those are, you obviously have done zero research on shamanism and quantum mechanics, and i am no quantum physicist, but quantum physicists themselves all say reality is subjective, and not objective, so... you are the one at fault here, they also say there are 9 parallels between quantum mechanics and shamanism, so really, who is a bullshitter? your just a troll who is pissed, and its ok
Who's they? Can you show some peer-reviewed evidence?
whatever those are, you obviously have done zero research on shamanism and quantum mechanics,
Exactly how? By reading the half-baked notions of some drugged up hippie college physicist.
and i am no quantum physicist,
Such revelation.
but quantum physicists themselves all say reality is subjective, and not objective, so...
No, they do not.
you are the one at fault here, they also say there are 9 parallels between quantum mechanics and shamanism, so really, who is a bullshitter? your just a troll who is pissed, and its ok
They = Fred Alan wolf, find me another, especially one that wasn't high off his box at the time he conducted the "research".
you do realize the double helix dna was discovered while under the influence of acid, right? drugs dont necessarily impair you to the point of non cohesiveness, its how you use them bro
if fred wolf is a teacher, he must obviously know something that you dont, you make rash conclusions about what we know and dont know, you have no clue that in 1000 years everything we think we know today is completely wrong, so stop saying you know, i never claimed to know, i only claim what i believe, and i believe its true, do i know its true? no, but i have a feeling it is
You are a complete insult to our most respected leaders,
My my, got your panties in a bunch, did I? Which leaders am I insulting by the way?
and yes, cats do purr to heal broken bones, not only for when they are happy,
Care to show some peer-reviewed material?
they also use sound to sterilize medical equipment,.
I'm well aware of that, it's called sonication and has nothing to do with affecting microbes actual constituent elemental frequencies, it is usually done in a liquid medium waves in the media caused by the high frequency sound cause the media to make the cells contract and compress rapidly, this forces the cell membrane to lyse.
its called frequencies..
I've already pointed out that it's called sonication, and utilises frequencies and does not interfere with the cell's elements.
Everything=energy, therefore, conciousness=energy
Space does not equal energy neither does time.
Maybe if you didnt have a golf ball sized conciousness, you would understand that when the shaman goes into a deep trance, he becomes pure conciousness, conciousness can do anything, it can even view atoms at the subatomic level...
I'm the one with a small consciousness, because I only accept evidence and don't buy into psuedoscience, your insults are quite telling of your state of confidence in your assumptions and conjecture.
"Actual learned men" you dont think shamans dont train from childhood all the way until they pass on? That takes alot of work, so dont be so insultful to things you know nothing about
I'm sure they do, as do witch doctors, priests, rabbis, imams and whatever you wish to insert from the world of the imaginary.
From your article:
Shamanic healing was the main form of healing used by the American Indians, who called upon helping spirits to cure the patient. Though there are few native shamans left in North America, 200 years ago upwards of 30% of the population had some form of spirit-enabled medicine power.
They weren't very successful then, seen as most of the native American populations were wiped out by disease, probably akin to the black plague, why didn't these Shamans' use their inbuilt sonication to eradicate the microbes?
In the late 1920s, scientists-led by Neils Bohr--were convinced, based on observations of their data and mathematics, that our reality was dependent on an "observer effect," an interplay between how our reality manifests and how we observe it.
Wrong, the Copenhagen interpretation only states that quantum mechanics show a probability of observing quanta and not an objective view of how matter is really behaving, the Feynman sum over histories states that a particle takes every available path, however to observe a particle you must introduce some form of energy into the system, a photon maybe, this collapses the wave function and forces an outcome, it is a limitation of our measuring equipment, which are all based on classical physics.
Now we are faced with the notion that there is an interplay between our local space-time reality and human consciousness.
This simply just does not follow, it is not the consciousness, it is the capacity of the measurement.
Nevertheless, this means that shamanism finally has an explanation based in modern physics. Shamans can effect change in local reality through spirit helpers working at the quantum level. This is achieved through their ritual action, in which the shaman's consciousness, in an altered state of being, is intently focused on a singular objective. For example, "Take this cancer out of this sick person."
More wild conjecture, more arguments that simply, do not follow, and unverified claims.
Do you honestly believe that if a Shaman could cure disease, they wouldn't be the most successful physicians in the world?
native ceremonial behavior is exactly what is needed to change reality via the observer effect.
What the actual? Change reality? Nobody is saying "the observer effect changes reality" except this credulous clown.
For example, shamanic rituals are extremely repetitive over long periods of time. This is because they are trying to effect the probability waves that bring reality into time and space in the first place.
The particles that make up you and me and everything around us are not existing outside of time and space.
Once you understand these new findings of physics, what shamans do in ceremony appears rational.
Not to a physicist.
The more "observers," the better the chance for success, so friends and relatives of the patient are often invited to participate.
This is just getting silly now.
For this same reason, a shaman will also ask doubters to leave before a healing ceremony begins. In fact, one often reads ethnographic records in which shamans would not conduct a ceremony if whites were present.
Kind of racist really, especially seeing as we are all observers and can by squinting and concentrating really hard make all disease go away.
I'm tired of copypasting over pieces, you can refute what I've said and we'll go from there.
And just because the website has the word belief in it does not discredit the article that clearly outlines whats happening today in our discoveries,
Nope, it doesn't.
so a primitive person was doing quantum mechanics and the only way they could describe it back then was "spirits" well now that we are in the modern age its time to undertsand what these "spirits" are.
That's not what your article states mate, maybe you should read it before you post it.
Furthermore, quantum mechanics is a set of physics principles, humans are part of the universe and are governed by the principles of the physical laws, to state that a person can change them at will denies that these are laws, so which one is it, magic or reality?
Shamanism utilizes inner technology, not external technology
And what a success rate they have, there's a reason that they don't want white people around, it's because they'll probably not take the drugs and laugh at the ridiculousness of the whole enterprise.
shamans HEAL, not cure, there is a HUGE difference
time and space are an illusion, and im going to stop here because this is where we will never be able to reach a final stand point, as our views differ extremely
and no its not racist, white people just didnt believe in it, so, ya...
im not gonna get into that discussion just so you can turn a few lines into an essay about "how wrong i am"
Just because I know how to refute your pseudoscience, you're going to stop discussing this, my post was long because you said so much that needed disputing and your article was widely misinformed.
White people back then, not now, back then, when the white man liked to kill indians, you know? ya...
So, back then, when white men were likely to kill Indians they were asked to leave, and do what stand outside?
(also, galloping is a full sprint, trotting is like a jog, FYI)
I have never encountered someone as credulous as you. You believe what you make up and you believe almost everything you read, or hear or see somewhere.
no its called experience buddy, transcedental meditation... LOL i believe what i make up are you an idiot? shamans believe the universe is made up of vibrations, just like string theory and quantum mechanics, thats why we have holy sounds LOL sorry that ive read all my resources i give, my god, you people fill me with hatred due to a sheer lack of comprehension, seriously, the education system sure is doing a good job of cutting off your awareness
ya maybe not your version of reality, but i have my proof, i have my experiences, i have what i know, and ya... were free to live how we choose, if anything my beliefs keep me pretty safe from falling into.... traps... if that makes sense...
The proof you have only makes sense to you, if you give/explain it to others you'll be laughed at.
Experiences. Our minds can produce all kinds of feelings, emotions, and states, even completely fucked up ones. The point, experiences mean nothing if you want to prove something.
You have what you know, you do, obviously. None of it worth anything to anyone but you. I've seen you giving out your knowledge, trying to explain it in futility, now why is that?
We are free to choose how we live. But why would anyone choose delusions, credulousness, etc?
if anything my beliefs keep me pretty safe from falling into.... traps... if that makes sense...
because even though all experiences are subjective and different for everyone, the one source of it all is what we connect to to obtain these experiences, the one source, is what is referred to as god, as the highest state a human can attain
I've relaxed my body and mind completely, focusing on feelings of love is not necessary. If you do want to focus on something then that should be anything that doesn't disturb you. All you get is a sleep-like state, mine was 40 minutes or so. You wake up and feel completely invigorated. That is all you get from it! Being in that state gives no one no knowledge of any kind but the knowledge that you can be in a state like that.
That is all I got out of it because that is all there is to it. The rest is you making things up.
Go ahead, make another debate where you say everything, word by word, what you learned from that trip, or those trips. Then we'll see if what you are talking about reflects reality. Try to be as clear as possible, since so far there hasn't been much else but nonsense.
Quantum physics does not show that you can heal yourself through vibrations. Neither does it show that you can make it rain by dancing or work magic by chanting certain incantations. Also, I'd like to know where you got the thing about cats purring from, it smells like bullshit to me.
well i didnt read about it from wikipedia but: The vibrations and contractions of a purr work during both inhalation and exhalation show a consistent pattern and frequency around 25 Hz; these frequencies have been shown to improve bone density and promote healing in animal models and humans http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pura