The Way of the Shaman Chapter Abstracts for Teachers

Michael Harner
This set of Lesson Plans consists of approximately 141 pages of tests, essay questions, lessons, and other teaching materials.

The Way of the Shaman Chapter Abstracts for Teachers

Michael Harner
This set of Lesson Plans consists of approximately 141 pages of tests, essay questions, lessons, and other teaching materials.
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Chapter 1, Discovering the Way

• The author reports on commonalities between the world's shamanic spiritual belief systems.

• Harner lives among tribal people and learns shamanic ways firsthand from them.

• He describes his own spiritual experiences involving water.

• He writes about his experience of "flying" inside a mountain.
• The author writes about experiencing demons as reptiles and carrying a balsa stick for protection.

• Not every tribe uses drugs in shamanic rituals.

• Lakota Sioux and Coast Salish tribes are two examples of groups that achieve altered states of consciousness without drugs.

• Harner emphasizes that Westerners don't need to take drugs to access shamanism.
• The author meets a Jivaro shaman named Akachu.

• Akachu helps Harner acquire spirit helpers called tsentak, which cause or cure illness.

• These helpers are activated when swallowed by a shaman.

• Under the influence of a hallucinogen, these spirit helpers appear as animals such as jaguars or monkeys.
• A...

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