Shamanism
The Technical Ecstatic
On shamanism as a technology of consciousness, the structure of the shamanic call, and why this oldest of spiritual practices refuses to be dismissed as primitive superstition
Shamanism
Shamanism
The Three Worlds
On the shamanic cosmology of upper, middle, and lower worlds — the geography of non-ordinary reality, its consistent features across cultures, and what the map is actually mapping
Shamanism
The Animal Powers
On the role of non-human intelligence in shamanic practice — why other species are teachers, what the tradition knows about interspecies communication, and what humanity loses when it forgets to listen
Shamanism
The Wound That Opens
On shamanic initiation, the sickness that precedes the calling, the death-and-rebirth structure of authentic spiritual authority, and why the healer must first be broken
Shamanism
The Plant Teachers
On the role of entheogenic plants in shamanic practice — ayahuasca, peyote, mushrooms, and the question of what, exactly, is being encountered in the visionary state
Shamanism
Core Shamanism and Its Discontents
On Michael Harner's distillation of universal shamanic technique, the controversy around detaching method from culture, and the genuine question of whether shamanism can be transplanted without its soil