Ailo Gaup, Michael Harner and Neoshamanism
https://link.springer.com/chapter/10...781137461407_1
Harner: “The Way of the Shaman”:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9N2z...nkingAllowedTV
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fbGb...hamanicstudies
I can fully relate to Gaup’s (then) need to revive the old ways and had I also at that time come across those speeches of Harner’s – I too would perhaps have been sold to his idea.
And sure, many people can learn “shamanic journeying” if one can relax enough, enter into a theta-brainwave state (perhaps through drumming) & get over the CCF barrier (Conscious Critical Faculty). But learning to journey or even learning to facilitate such events during a weekend workshops, does not make one a “Shaman”.
When the workshop:
“Many people, now you too can become a Shaman” (what I now assume were Harner educated facilitators) from FennoScandian/Saami lineage - channelling Siberian “Medicine People Shaman” called the “True Path” came to town - out of curiosity, I did attend:
https://www.spiritualforums.com/vb/s...3&postcount=40
Yeah - no.
That was both good, but not really heh.