Shaman

Among primitive hunting peoples a shaman is a person who in early life suffers a severe psychological trauma that induces a state of visionary psychosis. To enter any psychotic realm, a person separates from being a self in the ordinary world and travels inward into a state of supernatural vigilance suffused with mystical vision. Once there, the person is now an inhabitant or soul of the universe, a shaman, an astral traveler, a poet/seer. He/she hears one voice and speaks in that one voice. A gentle voice so fine children experience no fear of it. A voice from the great loneliness that comes from suffering. A voice from the future that remembers all that will ever happen.

Stephen A. Rozwenc is an American expat poet who lives in Thailand. He has published 5 collections of poetry. In the last 12 years more than 250 of his poems have appeared in print journals and online venues in the United States, Europe, and Asia. He is the first poet in the history of American literature to publish all of his work after the age of 65. He has also published a collection of translations of famous Russian poets. For further information and samples of his published work as well as Youtube presentations, Google search Stephen A. Rozwenc poetry.

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