Shamanistic

They are given to magical invocations when things go wrong, and to other behaviour that would be more clearly identified as shamanistic, were it not instead identified as "liberal" and "progressive." ❋ Unknown (2009)

One point of view I don't see reflected here is the idea that almost ALL cultures can trace their religious roots back to indigenous, often "shamanistic" practices. ❋ Steve Caldwell (2008)

The unusual/creative behavior you are describing might be viewed as "shamanistic" leading those individuals to be placed in an honored position in certain cultures, which I assume would lead to increased reproductive success. ❋ Field Notes (2008)

'shamanistic' dances that interrupted them were more conventional. ❋ Unknown (2009)

It's believed that some of these elements represent shamanistic practices to encourage rain or enhance fertility. ❋ Meg Pier (2011)

Bronson's present production is an amalgam of shamanistic enterprise, healing sculpture, imagery, and spiritual-erotic massage-performance art that has been unofficially branded as the gay male recourse to living with the detonator of HIV still ticking in the mind despite the apparent if dubious constraint of the lentivirus in the absence of a certain cure. ❋ G. Roger Denson (2011)

With its vast size, its history of migrations and conquests, russia contains a myriad of small ethnic groups—from the reindeer-herding Chukots and the shamanistic Nentsy to the Muslim Avars and the throat-singing Tuvans. ❋ Daniel Treisman (2011)

They constructed a geodesic dome in the resort complex where films, talks including a conversation with Burning Man founder Larry Harvey, and shamanistic journeys led by Rafael Bejarano were held. ❋ MeiMei Fox (2012)

It's a nice shamanistic flourish considering the subject matter of dreams, death, and waking. ❋ Wendigomountain (2009)

McQueen constantly turned to nature for inspiration and for materials like shells, tree branches, feathers and horsehair, often used in shamanistic way, as if they embodied the spirits. ❋ Unknown (2011)

Many among this new generation appear to follow Bronson's lead in practicing art as some vaguely shamanistic ritual, if not something akin to a healing spirituality, or at the least, some sleight of hand that mesmerizes with the kind of tropes that ensure cinema will remain the most sensual of the arts. ❋ G. Roger Denson (2011)

Daniel's is musical at its core; emotional too and strangely forensic while shamanistic. ❋ Joseph Vella (2011)

Left alone in the wilderness, she draws closer to the Otherworld and the supernatural energies who share the land with her, and begins to develop powers of second sight, the channelling of healing energy, a shamanistic ability to embody animal spirits, and the like. ❋ Unknown (2009)

Counts: I very much believe in the shamanistic origins of art and theater. ❋ Steve Dollar (2011)

girl: "[Oh my god] look at all those [feathers] [that woman] is wearing. It's very Shamanistic!" ❋ Shamanistic2011 (2011)