Way of the Shaman
paperback
Format: mass market paperback
ISBN:
9780553259827 (0553259822)
Publish date: February 1st 1982
Publisher: Bantam
Pages no: 214
Edition language: English
Category:
Fantasy,
Magic,
Non Fiction,
Reference,
Religion,
Philosophy,
Spirituality,
Psychology,
Occult,
New Age,
Paganism
This post is an expansion of my review of Dwellings on Goodreads. I began re-reading Linda Hogan’s book of essays Dwellings and Michael Harner’s The Way of the Shaman at the same time. This pairing of readings couldn’t be more dissimilar in style, content and purpose. I finished the la...
I read this because it was on The Ultimate Reading List for "Inspirational Non-fiction." It was one of only a few on that list I thought might be of interest to me given Harner was a anthropologist that had studied shamanism in the field as well as practicing it--I thought he might have some insight...
When I picked this book I expected to get a bit more research on the subject, not the author's interpretation of what shamanism is to him. I didn't really buy how he kept preaching that hallucinogens weren't needed for successful shamanic practices yet he said over and over again that he does use th...
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