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Shamanism



Shamanism is a traditional religious practice of interacting with the spirit world, usually through a state of altered consciousness, for the purposes of directing spiritual energies toward the physical world, usually for healing, divining, or seeking wisdom. Shamans usually train their whole lives to learn their practice from one or more experienced shamans in their tradition, and pass on their learning in turn. Contemporary interpretations of Indigenous shamanistic traditions are referred to as neoshamanism.

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The Four-Fold Way: Walking the Paths of the Warrior, Teacher, Healer, and Visionary

A leading expert on native spirituality and shamanism reveals the four archetypal principles of the Native American medicine wheel and how they can lead us to a higher spirituality and a better world.

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The Way of the Shaman

This classic on shamanism pioneered the modern shamanic renaissance. It is the foremost resource and reference on shamanism.

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Writing the Book of Shamanism: Eliade, Traditionalism, and Quest for Archaic

Andrei Znamenski seminar talk at L'École Pratique des Hautes Études, Paris, June 8, 2016. He discusses traditionalism as a philosophy that inspired Mircea Eliade to write his book on Shamanism.

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The Spirit Catches You and You Fall Down: A Hmong Child, Her American Doctors, and the Collision of Two Cultures

The Spirit Catches You and You Fall Down explores the clash between a small county hospital in California and a refugee family from Laos over the care of Lia Lee, a Hmong child diagnosed with severe epilepsy.

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What Is Shamanism?

Sadhguru explains a few aspects of shamanism and why its practices were never given much significance in the Yogic sciences.

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Spirit Walking: A Course in Shamanic Power

In Spirit Walking, shamanic practitioner Evelyn Rysdyk shows how we can all connect with the spirit world to find balance and healing.

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The Nepalese Shamanic Path

An excerpt from The Nepalese Shamanic Path by Evelyn C. Rysdyk with Bhola Nath Banstola (Part 1: Awakening. Chapter 1: Everything Has a Beginning).

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Shaman: The Wounded Healer

Summarizes forms of shamanism in various cultures, looks at its origin, and compares the methods shamans use to gain a vision of other realities.

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An Introduction to Neoshamanism

The term “neoshamanism,” or “new shamanism,” refers to just that—newer forms of shamanism that have been adapted from traditional indigenous practices in order to meet the needs of the modern world.

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Hallucinogens and Shamanism

Anthropologists report their findings on the use and importance of hallucinogenic plants in shamanistic practices.

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