The shamans of the Changpa-namads of the Ladakhi highlands of Changthang belong to the Tibetan culture. Moderniy has reached even their remote world and challenges their life basis in a dramatic way. Their traditional healers, the shamans, recognize the disease of modernity the clearest. They envision the presence and future in trance, which bewail so much more violence in our times (more blood than ever before flows down the valleys), their admonitions get a ...