| From: | The Deb Decker <RJR96326@****.UTULSA.EDU> |
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| Subject: | "Secret: Aye-gent Shaman" |
| Date: | Tue, 14 Sep 1993 23:57:05 -0500 |
as consultants, or, as brought up by Herr Doom, as field operatives who have
a good degree of autonomy in their proscribed activities. Nonetheless, I still
maintain that the corporate shaman is rare in the extreme.
In the aforementioned instance of the corporate shaman who maintains his own
schedule, his rarity is induced not by his enmity toward the regulated lifestylebut rather
corporate attitudes and fears regarding the nature of shamanism.
Granted, Shamans are in a friendship with their totems, rather than a subservient role;
however, corporate authorities, especially those who are relatively
unenlightened about magic, may be disinclined to assign sensitive or classified
duties to a magician who may, in their eyes, desert. At best, most shamans
employed in such a manner will be assigned relatively trivial work: Repo Men,
counselors, and other positions that do not require a good deal of trust betweenauthority
and shaman.
J Roberson
