1. Spirituality, Religion & Healing

2. Aspects of Religion Spiritual/Supernatural Beings
Religious Practitioners
Ritual
Myth
Symbolism

3. Types of Spiritual/Supernatural Phenomena
High God
Superior Gods
Ancestor Spirits
Animism
Animatism
Magic/Sorcery/Witchcraft

4. Zinacantecos of Chiapas, MX
Syncretized Religion with Many Types of Supernatural Phenomena
Christian High God, Jesus, Mary
Christian Saints
Ancestor Spirits that live in Senior Large Mountain
Personal animal spirits cared for by the ancestor spirits
Witchcraft definitions

5. Witchcraft
Some define it as a situation in which people believe that magic and sorcery are being practiced when they are not.
Others define it as a spiritual practice in which magic and or sorcery are used to try to affect everyday life.

6. Types of Religious Practitioners
ACT AS INTERMEDIARIES BETWEEN INDIVIDUALS AND SUPERNATURAL BEINGS OR FORCES
Priests
Full time economic specialization
Formal training
Mainstream institutional supernatural
beliefs
Shaman
Usually part time economic specialization
Frequently unpaid in traditional societies
Personal Transformation experience plus
apprenticeship with other shaman
Personal rather than institutional

7. Mother Goddess During the Upper Paleolithic
Found all over Europe
40,000 – 10,000 years ago
Large Game Hunting Cultures

8. Some Websites Kumari Zar MAMA Lola Romanian Witchcraft Voodoo
Zar
MAMA Lola
Romanian Witchcraft
Voodoo