Now I'm sure that you couldn't carry out a discussion Of this sort without observing that the prototypic figure for the artist As well as for the scientist Is the shaman The shaman is the figure at the beginning of human history That unites the doctor, the scientist And the artist Into a single notion of care-giving and creativity And I think .you know. to whatever degree Art over the past several centuries has wandered in a desert It is because this shamanic function has been either surpressed or forgotten And we've Different images of the artist has been held up At different times . a The artist as a. artist of sound The artist as a. handmaiden of a ruling class of family The artist as. designer For the production of integrated objects into a civilisation This notion of the artist as mystical journier As one who goes into a world unseen by others And then returns to tell them of it Was pretty much lost..."