The Shaman's Journey

THE OLDEST SPIRITUAL PRACTICE ON EARTH

Shamanism is not a religion. It is a technology — the oldest technology human beings have developed for accessing non-ordinary states of consciousness and using what is found there to heal, to navigate, and to understand the nature of reality. Archaeologists have found evidence of shamanic practice at least 40,000 years old: cave art depicting trance states, bone flutes used for rhythmic driving, burial sites with ochre-stained shamanic regalia. Every continent, every indigenous culture, every pre-modern people on Earth developed some form of shamanic practice — independently, convergently, suggesting that the shamanic worldview is not a cultural artifact but a description of something real about the structure of consciousness and reality. Across 13 lessons you will encounter Mircea Eliade's foundational analysis of shamanism as a world phenomenon, the three-world cosmology, the drum as the original psychedelic, soul retrieval and extraction healing, the vision quest as rite of passage, the Amazonian traditions of ayahuasca, the Siberian traditions where shamanism was first named, the Celtic otherworld, Aboriginal Dreamtime, Korean mudang and African sangoma, the role of plant teachers and entheogens, and the modern neo-shamanic revival initiated by Michael Harner. The shaman's journey begins here.

What You'll Learn