About JayDixon Expertise lyrics, instruments, vocal range
Experience Radio jock with 26 years commercial radio experience and radio station music director. Singer myself, poet and lyric writer. Former lead singer of a Doors tribute band. I own instruments, have the same vocal range as Jim had.
Education/Credentials Bachelor of Business - University of Queensland
Awards and Honors Holder of the CRA (Commercial Radio Australia) "25 Year Award" and a couple of other music and radio awards.
Question Hello, a shaman is an indian witch doctor or what I have read, I was wondering if a shaman is like a disguise for the devil to go into people and possess them? I am into witchcraft and personaly this is what I think. This question keeps coming to my mind so I wanted to know from an expert on this.
Answer Hello Tess.
I answered this very same question only a few weeks ago so I'll just post verbatim what I told the other reader.
A Shaman is a spirit mediator and healer essentially, there are both good and bad Shaman’s in many cultures and dates back to either the Mongol or some believe even, the Mancu language. Still found today in various races of people in Africa, Haiti and even here in Australia with the aboriginal people (Kadicha Man) and yes it is a form of witchcraft.
James Douglas Morrison to my knowledge was never a fully initiated Shaman but used to go into a trance like state both on and off stage, so he obviously held his belief in very high esteem. As a child in 1947 he witnessed a car crash involving some American indians and claimed he saw a vision of an old mystical indian at the scene, how much creedence you can put into that I don't really know.
Morrison was particularly attracted to the myths and religions of Native American cultures. While he was still in school, his family moved to New Mexico where he got to see some of the places and artefacts important to the Southwest Indigenous cultures. These interests appear to be the source of many references to creatures and places such as lizards, snakes, deserts and "ancient lakes" that appear in his songs and poetry. His interpretation of the practices of a Native American "shaman" were worked into parts of Morrison's stage routine.
Mind you that Jim was hitting the Peyote beans pretty hard as well.
I’m not a spiritual or religious person of any kind but I don’t knock anyone who is. That is my knowledge and understanding of a Shaman and what it entails, with it being open to interpretation I guess it could be perceived as a kind of Devil type enity.
