Shamanism refers to a range of traditional beliefs and practices concerned with communication with the spirit world. 1  The spirits can play important roles in human lives.  The shaman can control and/or cooperate with the spirits for the community's benefit.
Benjamin Louis Cardin has been a national leader on health care, retirement security and fiscal issues since coming to Congress in 1987. In 2006, he was elected by the people of Maryland to succeed Paul Sarbanes in the U.S. Senate.
Bivins served as a Republican member of the Texas State Senate from 1989 to 2004 from Senate District 31, based about Amarillo. He was first elected in 1988, when the incumbent Democratic state senator, Bill Sarpalius, was elected to the United States House of Representatives.