Tao Te Ching

The Power of Goodness, the Wisdom Beyond Words
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Igjugarjuk

(1885-??)

Eskimo healer, Caribou teacher, great Inuit shaman

Inuit shaman, great Caribou teacher, Eskimo healer of great wisdom; Igjugarjuk came into his powers when only a small child. His process of becoming his tribe’s shaman began with 30 days fasting alone in a tiny igloo without a blanket in a remote place where temperatures could drop to -40° F. Without lying down the entire time, he meditated and focused on only becoming a shaman which he experienced with “a fit of mysterious and overwhelming delight.” Later, teaching that the key to knowledge and power is suffering and deprivation, he led a life of “seeking for knowledge,” spirit journeys, and guiding his people. When older, he told his story to the famous explorer Knud Rasmussen who recorded it in his 10-volume series, The Fifth Thule Expedition.

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The Fifth Thule Expedition

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“The only true wisdom lives far from mankind, out in the great loneliness, and it can be reached only through suffering. Privation and suffering alone can open the mind of man to all that is hidden to others.”

from The Fifth Thule Expedition

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“The spirits do not like women with little children to stay too long away from their house… No one who is to become a skillful hunter or a a good shaman must remain out too long when visiting strange houses.”

from The Fifth Thule Expedition

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“Then, for no reason, all would suddenly be changed, and I felt a great, inexplicable joy, a joy so powerful that I could not restrain it but had to beak into song, a mighty song, with only room for one word: joy, joy! And then in the midst of such a fit of mysterious and overwhelming delight I became a shaman not knowing myself how it came about. I could see and hear in a totally different way.”

Themes: Happiness

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