In 1980, Michael Harner blazed the trail for the worldwide revival of shamanism with his seminal classic "The Way of the Shaman. "Now, in this long-awaited sequel, he provides readers with dozens of fascinating narrative accounts of the experiences of contemporary Westerners during shamanic ascension. Extracted from the decades-old archives of the Shamanic Knowledge Conservatory, the striking similarities between the case studies suggest that these celestial realms, as well as the beings who live in them, do indeed exist.
But Dr. Harner doesn't just stop there--he shows readers how to...

Mysteries of the Jaguar Shamans of the Northwest Amazon tells the life story of Mandu da Silva, the last living jaguar shaman among the Baniwa people in the Northwest Amazon. In this original and engaging work, Robin M. Wright, who has known and worked with Silva for more than thirty years, weaves the story of Silva's life together with the Baniwas' broader society, history, mythology, cosmology, and jaguar shaman traditions. The jaguar shamans are key players in what Wright calls "a nexus of religious power and knowledge" in which healers, sorcerers, priestly chanters,...