On Being Certain/In Two Places At Once

[robinlandseadel at comcast.net]

It's no so much that a shaman dissapears when he finds Shambala. 
It is that dissapearing is one of those things that shamans do, 
something that got absorbed into later Eastern systems of 
enlightment, like the Sisterhood of Kunoichi Attentives. It would 
not be so strange that a shaman in Tuva goes invisible, there were
several foreshadowings of that earlier in this stretch of the story.
Of course, there is, during this anarchist miracle, plenty of signs 
and portents as well. . . .

There is a sense that Hassan gets his orders from "higher up".
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From: Mark Kohut <markekohut at yahoo.com>
> I say, from the hip: I am convinced.......
>   A shaman dissapears, says Robin, when he finds Shambala?

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