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This test consists of 5 short answer questions, 10 short essay questions, and 1 (of 3) essay topics.
Short Answer Questions
1. How does Harner end his first shamanic journey exercise for the reader?
2. In early experiences with the Conibo, Harner hears rushing:
3. One person who tried Harner's step-by-step guided journey exercise reported bringing back what by accident?
4. What are the tsentak?
5. The author emphasizes that not all tribes use what in their shamanic practices?
Short Essay Questions
1. Describe the spirit helpers known as tsentak.
2. What is the participant of the exercise in Chapter 2 instructed regarding the end of the journey?
3. Harner emphasizes in Chapter 1 that becoming a shaman involves what?
4. What are the main functions and activities of a shaman, as described in Chapter 3?
5. Describe Harner's experience of spiritually going to a cave beneath a waterfall with a Jivaro shaman.
6. In the step-by-step instructions for going on a first shamanic journey that the author supplies for the reader in Chapter 2, how does he ask the participant to prepare?
7. Summarize the first shamanic journey exercise presented to the reader in Chapter 2.
8. Discuss what Harner says about the humility of shamanism?
9. Describe Harner's journey with Akachu.
10. Harner says that apprentice shamans report similarities in how they get out of difficulties. What are some of the difficulties he mentions?
Essay Topics
Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:
Essay Topic 1
Explain the process and procedure of extracting an intrusion and the role plants play. Why is intrusion extraction considered an advanced shamanic practice?
Essay Topic 2
An important job the shaman does is restore power to a sick individual by retrieving his or her power animal.
1. Define power in the context of shamanism. What is its importance or value?
2. How does the presence or absence of power affect the health and welfare of a person?
3. How does a power animal help an individual? What happens when the person "loses" his or her power animal?
4. How does a shaman's act of retrieving a power animal help a patient?
Essay Topic 3
Harner states that whether the shaman is working in ordinary or non-ordinary reality, the experience is real and healing takes place in both realms. Explain what makes the non-ordinary experience real. Then, answer the following: how does healing occur when the shaman is working in non-ordinary reality?
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