Anyone writing a creative work knows that you open, you yield yourself, and the book builds and builds itself. To a certain extent, you have become the carrier of something that is given to you from what have been called the Muses -- or in biblical language, `God.' This is not fancy, it is fact. Since the inspiration comes from the unconscious, and since the unconscious minds of the people of any small society have much in common, what the shaman or seer brings forth is something that is waiting to be brought forth in everyone.

So when one hears the seer's story, one responds, "Aha! This is my story. This is something I had always wanted to say but wasn't able to say."