Michael Harner and Core Shamanism

Primary source

• Michael Harner, The Way of the Shaman: A Guide to Power and Healing, 1980, Introduction; ch. 1, 'Discovering the Way' (read in the Bantam reprint, March 1982)Harner presents his shamanic methods as learnable by anyone (introduction), and dates his Jivaro fieldwork to 1956 and 1957 and his Conibo fieldwork to 1960 and 1961 (ch. 1).

  for anyone who has the capacity and inclination to

The tradition itself

• Michael Harner (ed.), The History and Work of the Foundation for Shamanic Studies, 1991, Foundation for Shamanic Studies Newsletter 4.2 (Fall 1991), reprinted in Shamanism (2005)The Foundation's own account: workshops from the early 1970s, the Center for Shamanic Studies founded 1979, 'core' shamanism as basic universal methods, and teams sent to help Inuit and Sami recover shamanic practice.

  help the missionized Inuit peoples in northern Canada to recover