We have Michael Harner to thank for the availability of shamanic knowledge and practice in our part of the world today. An American student of archaeology, he did his doctoral dissertation research in eastern Ecuador among the Jívaro people in the late 1950s. He learned a great deal about their ways from tribal healers and elders. In the early 1960s he learned from the Conibo of the Peruvian Amazon where he became a student of shamanic healing. He was then approved as a healer by both of these tribes. He later traveled to learn more about tribal healing in remote locations all over the world.
The word shaman comes from the language of a Siberian tribe.
Based on Harner’s studies, tribal healers universally practiced soul retrieval, extraction (clearing), and psychopomp (assisting the dead).
Harner created the Foundation for Shamanic Studies in 1979. He developed core shamanism, a system designed for Westerners to apply shamanism and shamanic healing successfully to their daily lives.
Click this link and scroll down for a definition of core shamanism and a brief talk from Michael Harner
https://www.shamanism.org/workshops/index.php
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