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Michael Harner
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The Way of the Shaman Test | Mid-Book Test - Medium

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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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Why is Harner afraid to take maikua?
(a) He's heard stories of death and madness that result from taking it.
(b) Nobody has ever taken maikua and lived to tell about it.
(c) It is a poison that affects the liver and impairs eyesight.
(d) Its bitterness leaves his mouth dry and burns his throat.

2. One person who tried Harner's step-by-step guided journey exercise reported bringing back what by accident?
(a) A message for a friend.
(b) A healing code.
(c) A monkey spirit guide.
(d) A beneficial being.

3. What does Harner speculate about the mandala?
(a) It could represent the doorway to stars and entrance to spaceships.
(b) It could hold the keys to astral time travel.
(c) It may guard coded instructions reserved for the most advanced shamans.
(d) It may represent openings to the sky or the Lowerworld.

4. The author states that the humility in shamanism lies in what?
(a) The number of spirit guides who choose a particular shaman.
(b) The shaman-patient relationship.
(c) The manner in which shamans speak to new and old souls.
(d) The reverence shamans feel towards nature.

5. It is typical for one or more spirits to help guide the shaman through what?
(a) A time-honored ritual.
(b) The ninth dimension.
(c) A hidden or non-ordinary reality.
(d) A series of questions only the shaman hears.

Short Answer Questions

1. Harner writes that in non-ordinary reality, spirit helpers appear as what?

2. In the cultures Harner studies, shamans are primarily:

3. In his guided, step-by-step instructions for a first journey, Harner instructs the aspiring shaman to eat:

4. What does the Jivaro shaman give to Harner to drink?

5. What do various cultures report noticing the shaman give off when in a shamanic state of consciousness?

Short Essay Questions

1. Explain the connection between an individual and his or her guardian spirit.

2. What are some of the similarities Harner notes in first-hand shamanic experiences reported by middle-class Americans?

3. Who is Akachu, and how does he help Harner?

4. What does a shaman do with the tsentak to help a patient?

5. How old is shamanism, and what cultures have best preserved this practice?

6. Describe the tunnel a shaman utilizes to journey into the Lowerworld.

7. Describe the spirit helpers known as tsentak.

8. Describe an environment that's conducive to the shaman being most effective while in a shamanic state of consciousness (SSC).

9. What is the participant of the exercise in Chapter 2 instructed regarding the end of the journey?

10. Describe Harner's journey with Akachu.

(see the answer keys)

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