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    Ahimsa, Dharma, and Spiritual Specialist Defined

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    In five pages the terms and practices of Ahimsa, Dharma, and Spiritual Specialist are defined. Three sources are listed in the bibliography.

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    or a medicine man. This in turn has many different meanings to a range of cultures. Shamans appear in many cultures, from ancient Siberia with the cold weather and furs  to the Caribbean and the Voodoo religion. There are commonalities that may be see in all areas where an individual may carry this title, despite the differences that may also  be seen. A spiritual specialist is someone that is able to walk between the worlds someone that can talk to the spirits and understand their world and the way  that it intersects with this world. In some cultures the spirits that are sought will be the ancestors, this is predominately in areas where there is ancestor worship, including the  North American Indians where ancestors are held in high regard. In other cultures there may be a different approach, such as in  Voodoo, in the Santeria religion the individual will go to a babalawo, who is a high priest of the religion and also fulfils the role of a spiritual specialist, in  order to gain guidance from the Orishas (Ryan, 2001). These are mysterious spiritual deities, in this culture the communication occurs through a system of divination called ocule and is  based on the binary system of ones and zeros (Ryan, 2001). Here the Orishasa are consulted when there is a problem and through the divination they will tell the babalawo  what the root cause of the problem is ands how it may be resolved. Although different in manifestation, this is a similar process  to other cultures. The shaman or medicine man will seek to speak with spirits, often this is gained in a more direct route though the inducement of a trance, which 

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