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Jeremy Narby: The Future of Biology

By Jeremy Narby — 2014

The idea of a kind of intelligence active throughout nature is gaining support within the scientific community, affirming a view long held by indigenous people and shamans. See more...

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Shamans Through Time: 500 Years on the Path to Knowledge

A survey of five centuries of writings on the world's great shamans-the tricksters, sorcerers, conjurers, and healers who have fascinated observers for centuries.

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Jeremy Narby (editor), Francis Huxley (editor)
2025
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The Psychotropic Mind: The World according to Ayahuasca, Iboga, and Shamanism

In the Amazon, shamans do not talk in terms of hallucinogens but of tools for communicating with other life-forms. Ayahuasca, for example, is first and foremost a means of breaking down the barrier that separates humans from other species, allowing us to communicate with them.

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Jeremy Narby, Jan Kounen, and Vincent Ravalec
2025
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Masters of the Living Energy: The Mystical World of the Q'ero of Peru

Known as the “keepers of the ancient knowledge,” the Q’ero Indians of Peru are the most respected mystics of the south-central Andes.

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Joan Parisi Wilcox
2025
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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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Anne Fadiman
2012
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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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Evelyn Rysdyk and Bhola Nath Banstola
2019
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The Nepalese Shamanic Path: Practices for Negotiating the Spirit World

There are few areas of our world where shamanic traditions have been preserved in their original context and form. Nepal is one of these rare and special places.

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Evelyn Rysdyk, Bhola Nath Banstola, Sandra Ingerman
2019
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Taoist Shaman: Practices from the Wheel of Life

The shamanic roots of Taoist practice • Explains the principles of the Taoist Medicine Wheel, including the Five Elements, the animals of the Chinese zodiac, and the trigrams of the I Ching • Includes exercises from the “Wheel of Love” to access the Tao of Ecstasy • Contains...

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Mantak Chia, Kris Deva North
2011
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The Shamanic View of Mental Illness

In the shamanic view, mental illness signals “the birth of a healer,” explains Malidoma Patrice Somé. Thus, mental disorders are spiritual emergencies, spiritual crises, and need to be regarded as such to aid the healer in being born.

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Stephanie Marohn
2014
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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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Sadhguru
2020
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The World of Shamanism: New Views of an Ancient Tradition

Fascinating, comprehensive, and eminently readable, this guide explores shamanism―the world's most enduring healing and religious tradition―in the light of modern medicine, psychology, neuroscience, consciousness disciplines, and religious studies.

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Roger Walsh
2007
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