The Way of the Shaman

By Michael Harner

The book that brought shamanism out of the ethnographic monograph and into ordinary Western lives. Drawing on fieldwork among the Jívaro and Conibo of the Upper Amazon, Harner distils the practices he found repeating across unconnected cultures into a teachable method he called core shamanism — the drum-driven journey, the power animal, the healing retrieval. It remains the foundational handbook of the modern shamanic revival.