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The Shaman's Journey
THE OLDEST SPIRITUAL PRACTICE ON EARTH
Shamanism is not a religion. It is a technology, and it may be the oldest one we have. For at least 40,000 years, people have used it to reach unusual states of mind, then bring back what they found to heal, to find their way, and to understand what reality is. The proof is old: cave paintings of trance, bone flutes used to drive rhythm, graves holding ochre-stained shamanic gear. Every continent, every Indigenous culture, every pre-modern people worked out some version of it on their own. That they all arrived at the same thing, separately, suggests shamanism is not just a cultural habit. It may describe something true about how consciousness and reality are built. Across 13 lessons you will meet Mircea Eliade's landmark study of shamanism worldwide, the three-world map of reality, the drum as the first psychedelic, soul retrieval and extraction healing, the vision quest as a rite of passage, the ayahuasca traditions of the Amazon, the Siberian traditions where the word 'shaman' was born, the Celtic otherworld, Aboriginal Dreamtime, Korean mudang and African sangoma, plant teachers and entheogens, and the modern revival that Michael Harner started. The journey begins here.