"The knowledge of the realm of death makes it possible for the shaman to move freely back and forth and mediate these journeys for other people."

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I feel more and more as if time did not exist at all... only various spaces interlocking according to the rules of a higher form of stereometry[the geometric measurement of solid bodies], between which the living and the dead can move back and forth as they like, and the longer I think about it the more it seems to me that we who are still alive are unreal in the eyes of the dead.

— W. G. Sebald