Talk:Soul travel

Copy and paste

The large section of text begining after The remainder of this article should be taken as subjective opinion from the viewpoint of one believer in this phenomenon on the old [1] version of this page appears to be copy and paste from other web sources. The adding author appears to be user:125.22.130.216 with no other edits then the ones on this page. This Google search [2] Lead to several pages, it is hard to tell what is taken from where but it seems clear that Wikipedia is not the single orginal version. some pages holding indentical content

• (http://www.llewellynjournal.com/article/693) probably primary source?
• (http://experts.about.com/e/s/so/soul_travel.htm)
• (http://www.answers.com/topic/soul-travel) credits Wikipedia as source
• (http://experts.about.com/e/s/so/soul_travel.htm)
• (http://reference.com/browse/wiki/Soul_travel) credits Wikipedia
• (http://p222.ezboard.com/favalonoftheheartfrm58.showMessage?topicID=40.topic)

Teminology: external ethnonym (exonym) "Eskimo"

I propose using the well established exonym "Eskimo" instead of "Inuit". Using "Inuit" would be unnecessarily restrictive, because soul travel concepts are not restricted to Inuits. Such ones have been recorded also among Yupiks, the other large branch of the Eskimos. Beliefs about "soul travel" have been recorded among groups both in the Yupik and Inuit branch of Eskimo peoples. Because the Yupik branch is the smaller one, I write a Yupik example in details (emphasis added):

“ Shamanic power was usually obtained voluntarily, by walking for many days in lonely places. Eventually a spirit would appear. Once the spirit began to speak, the novice would faint. The spirit would carry the novice either up to the mountains or into the depth of the sea, in order to teach him shamanic esoterica. The shamans's song was the major acquisition. Later the novice would awaken either on top of a mountain or lying in the water. Once the spirit was satisfied that the novice had gained his abilities, it would take him home. ”

It has been recorded among Chugach, by Birket-Smith.

• Merkur, Daniel (1985). "Chugach Initiations". Becoming Half Hidden: Shamanism and Initiation among the Inuit. Acta Universitatis Stockholmiensis • Stockholm Studies in Comparative Religion. Stockholm: Almqvist & Wiksell. pp. 124–128. ISBN 91-22-00752-0.

Physis (talk) 17:01, 21 June 2009 (UTC)

Soul Travel and Christianity

Christianity doesn't recognize nor support the idea of soul travel, and definitely not to Heaven. If this is in reference to the Book of Revelation, that is not "soul travel" as described here. Colonel Marksman (talk) 03:32, 30 November 2009 (UTC)