Shamanism is a great mental and emotional adventure, one in which the patient as well as the shaman-healer are involved. "What Yogananda did for Hinduism and D. T. Suzuki did for Zen, Michael Harner has done for shamanism, namely bring the tradition and its richness to Western awareness. Some might argue that the reason we humans spend most of our waking lives in the OSC is that natural selection intended it that way because that is the real reality, and that other states of consciousness, other than sleep, are aberrations that interfere with our survival. The Way of the Shaman Summary & Study Guide includes comprehensive information and analysis to help you understand the book.
Good research but sometimes crammed into too little space without context. The Way Of The Shaman by Michael Harner (Pdf) is, however, considered somewhat…avant-garde for its time. The anthropologists' lesson is called cultural relativism. Ordinary reality and a. nonordinary reality. Around the same time, Harner created the Foundation for Shamanistic Studies, a training center dedicated to the preservation and sharing of shamanistic knowledge. Contents excellent and very tight. In some cultures, the state that allows for this perception can be reached without drugs. While referencing appropriate scholarship, Harner's treatment is phenomenological rather than explanatory. The enlightenment of shamanism is the ability to light up what others perceive as darkness. His first exercise is designed to take you on a "Shamanic rough the Tunnel into the Lower World. " What Western shamans can try to create, to some degree, is cognitive relativism. — (The Historical Dictionary of Shamanism, page 60). He is the founder of the Foundation for Shamanic Studies in Mill Valley, California.
Thank you for shopping with us! From the publisher: "This classic on shamanism pioneered the modern shamanic renaissance. It looks like it could be a fun, and possibly enlightening, game of psychology for a moderate-size group. CHAPTER 1: Discovering the Way. Because we've been raised in a culture of empiricism, valuing experimental results, when this same process is applied to the spiritual world we find the attraction to shamanism. It includes a series of step-by-step practical exercises to help you develop shamanic techniques and to enter the shamanic state of consciousness – directly based on what he learned with the Jivaro, among which are the Shuar, people. While it would seem like such an undertaking would be a thick tome given the wide variety of cultures in which Shaman are a fixture, Harner suggest that there is a remarkable similarity of methods used by these "medicine men" be they in the Americas, Central Asia, or the South Pacific. I should note that I read the 3rd edition of this book. They require higher standards of evidence. Either way, those entering this altered state of consciousness show different brain functions and patterns.
It's like there is a richness of culture that went unaddressed, to give the Western audience a dumbed down entry guide to experience "some shamanism". Athletes also in altered states of consciousness, natural, know when which state is more helpful. For him, all of nature has a hidden, nonordinary reality. The persons most prejudiced against a concept of nonordinary reality are those who have never experienced it. Trips, but found they had no framework or discipline within which to place their experiences. Another is that a few techniques and ideas for practice are not very practically to most people, such as the use of tobacco, the idea of a partner drumming for you while journeying, using games that involve more than two or more people to practice shamanic techniques, and so on. There is no magic pill, no magic doctor. Shamans have long felt that the power of the guardian spirit makes one resistant to illness. The internationally eminent Swedish anthropologist Åke Hultkrantz wrote that Mircea Eliade and Michael Harner were the two great authors on shamanism. The shaman's self-sacrifice calls forth a commensurate emotional commitment from his patients, a sense of obligation to struggle alongside the shaman to save one's self.
For example, among the Conibo of the Upper Amazon, learning from the trees is considered superior to learning from another shaman. In other words, the usual New Age stuff, but not anything that really discusses rigorously Shamanistic practices in indigenous and pre-Industrial cultures or useful to someone interested in ethnography or comparative religion. Related Titles from Harper & Row. To a certain degree the question is justified; ultimately, shamanic knowledge can only be acquired through individual experience. Published by HARPERCOLLINS, NEW YORK, 1990. I really enjoyed it and it was an easy read. These shamanic methods are strikingly similar the world over, even for peoples whose cultures are quite different in other respects, and who have been separated by oceans and continents for tens of thousands of years. The book is both eminently practical and very thought-provoking,. Take advantage of your inner healer. 4/5Excellent on technique, rather boring to read, another "go-to" manual for people practicing shamanic healing work. The story of Michael and Sandra Harner in the history and development of Core Shamanism, the near universal, and common practices of shamanism worldwide.
In 2009, he was honored by California Pacific Medical Center's Institute for Health & Healing with the "Pioneers in Integrative Medicine Award. "
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