Shamanism

Shamanism is any practice where a person journeys into an unseen world, or spirit world, and returns with unique knowledge. Shamans also sometimes use their powers to influence and manipulate the seen world, such as luring prey into traps, or inflicting harm upon their distant enemies.

Most often in psychedelic communities, shamans will use the transformative powers of psychedelic plant medicines to venture into the unseen spirit world and return with healing magic, or knowledge of the future.

Shamanism is a highly diverse practice and the specifics will vary depending on the culture in which it occurs. It often goes hand-in-hand with animistic belief systems, where every part of our world has an inner life or spirit, and shamans are capable of venturing into the hidden world of interrelationships between these beings.

Core Shamanism: Ancestral Rituals in Modern Times

Shamanic practices have been commonplace in human cultures worldwide since ancestral times. Today, people all over the world use core shamanic techniques to access the spirit world and facilitate healing. Shamanic practices have been commonplace in human cultures worldwide since ancestral times. Across all inhabited continents, humans have, for thousands of years, been using shamanic…

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Is My Gringo Ayahuasca Shaman / Ceremony Facilitator Any Good?

The globalization of ayahuasca has produced a wave of unqualified gringo shamans serving an ever-growing audience of neophytes who have little to no perspective of what a “good ayahuasca shaman” or what a “good ayahuasca ceremony” is. In a manner not so different from the West’s co-opting of the ancient Indian discipline of yoga and…

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