What is nature?

Usually the talk about nature includes only the woods, forests, deserts and oceans. Vegetation, wild animals and places without the man’s interference area easy to understand as nature. Also the talk about “returning to nature” is seen as isolation from modern society, seclusion to some distant corner of the man-built infrastructure to live as a hermit.

This definition brings us only to halfway to a concept of nature. This definition sees only the physical, visible side of the world, leaving outside a lot. Biggest mistake is to leave outside the worlds most widespread and know species – human. In my point of view human is also the part of the very same creation. And when I state that, I also state that modern society, our financial system, our states and behavior are also the part of the very same nature we live in. If man as a part of nature-creation creates, let’s say a car, isn’t that car the part of the very same nature? To state otherwise, is to state that man is an independent god-force with the ability to bring something new into our creation.  

Role of the modern shamanism should be to understand and take this wider definition of nature into account. Shaman’s role has always been to be the guide, the mediator, the pathfinder, the warrior and the intellect of the tribe. To understand what man creates is to understand the man. To study the societies, religions, social systems and different trends is important to learn from these and archetypal forces they represent. For they all are the windows, points of view, to the same creation we all are part of. Without this, there will be no guidance for those who ask for it, nor the shamanism of modern world.