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The word nagual derives from the Nahuatl word nāhualli [naˈwaːlːi], an indigenous religious practitioner, identified by the Spanish as a 'magician'.. In English, the word is often translated as "transforming witch," but translations without negative connotations include "transforming trickster," "shape shifter," "pure spirit," or "pure being."
The spirit will enter the tent through the top and the spirit will also leave through the top of the tent. The me that conducts the ceremony is the only one to understand and communicate with the spirit and they are not possessed or a vessel for the spirit but just the spokesperson for them. [ 7 ]
Each of the ten realms or worlds are contained within each realm, the "mutual possession of the ten realms" (Jap. jikkai gogu). The one subsequent hundred worlds are viewed through the lenses of the Ten suchnesses and the three realms of existence (Jpn. san-seken) to formulate three thousand realms of existence. [9]
The spirit is believed to enter and inhabit the doll, [393] with some practitioners stating that they can see the inhabiting spirit. [394] Sometimes the doll's clothing is changed to please the spirit, [ 393 ] while offerings, such as glasses of water or fruit, are placed before them. [ 395 ]
According to the traditional belief, Mapuche people fear that their spirit can be captured and manipulated by a wekufe spirit or a witch; [11] spirits of the dead can for instance be captured and polluted by witches unless they are appropriately dispatched to the afterlife. [20] The spirits of the dead can reside in an eternal shadow realm. [21]
The spirit guide energizes the shamans, enabling them to enter the spiritual dimension. Shamans claim to heal within the communities and the spiritual dimension by returning lost parts of the human soul from wherever they have gone. Shamans also claim to cleanse excess negative energies, which are said to confuse or pollute the soul.
Espiritismo (Portuguese and Spanish for "Spiritism") is a term used in Latin America and the Caribbean to refer to the popular belief that evolved and less evolved spirits can affect health, luck and other aspects of human life. [1]
The Spanish mystics are major figures in the Catholic Reformation who lived primarily in the 16th- and 17th-centuries. The goal of this movement was to reform the Church structurally and to renew it spiritually. The Spanish mystics attempted to express in words their experience of a mystical communion with Christ. [1]