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.
â In order to reverse the contraction of the print news business in the late 2000s, Senator Ben Cardin of Maryland introduced a bill that would ease the process for a newspaper to become a non-profit organization, which would greatly reduce or eliminate the tax liability for the newspaper. â.