Articles on Traditional and Contemporary Shamanism

By S. Mokelke, JD; N. Caldwell, MTCM, L.Ac; A. Solomon, MSW, LCSW; S. Williams, MA
Shamanic healing is finding a well-deserved place as an effective complementary healing modality for people who struggle with the disabling effects of trauma in general, and for Veterans with combat related PTSD in particular.

By Susan Mokelke
Shamanism is a kind of dance between the inner personal dimension and outer community action. As you grow in understanding and compassion, you work differently in the world.

By Nan Moss
While originally written in 1999 during the drought in the Western United States, which experienced a series of calamitous wildfires, with drought and fires sweeping many areas of the world, this article is especially relevant today.

By Timothy Flynn
I became a member of the tribe of “shamanic worshippers” shortly after graduate school. We’re spread around the globe, from the United States to Canada to Austria to Singapore.

By Nan Moss and David Corbin
“Though I have held a passion for weather all my life, and thought I recognized the aliveness, the spirit in all things, I saw that I still carried our culture’s world view of weather a purely physical forces….”

By Edith Turner
In the past in anthropology, if a researcher “went native” it doomed him academically. My husband, Victor Turner, and I had this dictum at the back of our minds when we spent two and a half years among the Ndembu of Zambia in the fifties.

By Timothy Flynn
This morning I got up at dawn for my daily spiritual practice. It has developed from a variety sources including dance, meditation and martial arts…my relationship to non-ordinary reality, as communicated by the FSS nourishes my practice.

By Susan Mokelke
For many years, I worked with an organization concerned with global community. Our work stemmed from a belief in the principle that “all is one.”… It was wonderful, useful, inspiring work.

By Alesia Kunz
Mr. Henry Kablalik, Inuit elder from Rankin Inlet, Nunavut, Canada, demonstrating the divination technique of “head lifting.”

By Susan Mokelke
With a global reach, shamanic training in digital space offers humanity a profound and effective tool for learning shamanic practice and how to connect with the compassionate helping spirits.

Roger Walsh and Charles S. Grob interview Michael Harner for his story of how he became involved with shamanism, its study and practical applications.

By Sandra Harner
One of the great surprises that shamanism affords is the joy of the unknown and that the unknown is joyous. There is a sense of wholeness that proceeds from the creativity that is inherent in the shamanic journey.

By Bill Brunton
Response to the September 11 tragedy.

By Susan Mokelke
“I am often asked if there is an article that explains what core shamanism is and how it can be used in everyday life. This article is intended as an introduction to the subject.”

By Michael Harner
Presented August 14, 2010, at the Foundation for Shamanic Studies Shamanic Dreamwork workshop, San Francisco, California. Michael Harner, who originated core shamanism and pioneered the return of shamanism and shamanic healing to the West, recently formulated this general shamanic theory of dreams.

By Lora Jansson
“I have to admit I have special fondness for power animal retrieval. Clients seem to like it as well. [W]hen I tell them I am going to do one, they grin like kids…”

By Susan Mokelke
We asked people whose lives have been touched by Michael’s work to contribute to an 80th birthday book for Michael. The outpouring of responses was fantastic. This tribute includes some of those responses along with a chronology of Michael’s work.

By Lora Jansson
“I am a woman who is in love with Bear. This is a vital love that is fed by gratitude to Bear for all of the cures he has performed…for all the gentle ways he has held me through the darkest times…”