What, then, lay at the end of this spirit journey?
In their rituals, music, dance, special garments and offerings are part of the performance that surround the spirit journey.
After returning from this spirit journey, communities in which the rite was practiced would have communal confessions, and then celebration.
"The gods took her on a spirit journey, but she never came back."
Laura experiences the changeover as a spirit journey through a dark forest, which is also at the same time Gardendale.
Shamans put the masks on to take a spirit journey into an inner landscape.
A volunteer helped him strap them on tight, and he launched anew on his "spirit journey."
On the other hand, making a spirit journey in an ecstatic trance involves the cessation of voluntary bodily movement.
It can be confusing for someone else to lead the spirit journey.
A spirit journey would show their true paths, and the journeys hadn't led Virissong's family to the powerful shaman spirits.