Resources, Reading, and Links
On Shamanism:
Books:
Shamanic Journeying: A Beginner’s Guide, by Sandra Ingerman
Soul Retrieval, by Sandra Ingerman
The Way of the Shaman, by Michael Harner
The Shamanic Journey: A Practical Guide to Therapeutic Shamanism, by Paul Francis
Websites:
The techniques of core shamanism:
https://www.shamanism.org/workshops/coreshamanism.html
The Society for Shamanic Practice:
Therapeutic Shamanism:
Podcasts:
Practical Shamanism, podcast by Katie Weatherup
https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/practical-shamanism/id1524333775
The Shaman’s Cave, podcast by Sandra Ingerman and Renee Baribeau
Jung and related works:
Books:
The Archetypes and the Collective Unconscious. by C.G. Jung
Man and His Symbols. by C.G. Jung
Synchronicity : An Acausal Connecting Principle. by R.F.C. Hull, C.G. Jung
The Undiscovered Self. by C.G. Jung
Podcast:
Jungianthology, by C.G. Jung Institute of Chicago
Spirituality and Culture :
The Four Agreements: A Practical Guide to Personal Freedom (A Toltec Wisdom Book), by Don Miguel Ruiz
The Twelve Wild Swans: A Journey Into Magic, Healing and Action, by Starhawk and Hilary Valentine
Ishmael, by Daniel Quinn
Books:
The Wild Within: Adventures in Nature and Animal Teachings, by Paul Rezendes
The Dance of the Dissident Daughter: A Woman's Journey from Christian Tradition to the Sacred Feminine, by Sue Monk Kidd
For Professionals:
Books:
Jung and Shamanism in Dialogue: Retrieving the Soul/Retrieving the Sacred, by C. Michael Smith
The Shamanic Journey: A Practical Guide to Therapeutic Shamanism, by Paul francis
Neo-Shamanism and Mental Health, by Karel James Bouse
Eastern Body, Western Mind: Psychology and the Chakra System as a Path to the Self, by Anodea Judith
Spirited Medicine: Shamanism in Contemporary Healthcare
Wheels of Life: A User’s Guide to the Chakra Sysem, by Anodea Judith
Scholarly Work:
Neural correlates of the shamanic state of consciousness. (Huels, 2021). Published in Frontiers in Human Neuroscience
Shamanism as neurotheology and evolutionary psychology. (Winkleman, 2002). Published in American Behavioral Scientist, vol. 45 no. 12
The healing power of shamanism in transpersonal psychology. (Almendro, 2000). Published in International Journal of Transpersonal Studies, vol 19 no. 1
MODERN SHAMANISM: What form should it take? (Woodcock, 2023)
Animism, empathy and human development. (Fox, 1995). Published in Between the Species, Summer & Fall 1995