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Sandra Ingerman

Sandra Ingerman

don Miguel Ruiz

don Miguel Ruiz

Alberto Villoldo

Alberto Villoldo

Michael Harner

Michael Harner

Terence McKenna1946 — 2000

Terence McKenna

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Psychosis and Human Society: A Historical Perspectivedownload

Psychosis and Human Society: A Historical Perspective

Stanislav Grof

Reframes some psychotic presentations as spiritual emergency, and sets that against how different societies through history have treated non-ordinary states. The theoretical ground beneath the Spiritual Emergence Network.

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Creating a Human Web of Lightpractice

Creating a Human Web of Light

Sandra Ingerman

A guided shamanic practice from Sandra Ingerman for connecting with your own inner light and joining a global community of practitioners in a monthly full-moon ceremony. Perfect for anyone wanting a simple, step-by-step way to experience inner radiance and contribute to planetary healing, no experience required.

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How to Work with Omenspractice

How to Work with Omens

Sandra Ingerman

Sandra Ingerman teaches a simple nature-based practice for noticing and interpreting the signs and omens that surround us daily, helping you tune into guidance from the natural world. Ideal for anyone wanting to deepen their intuition and feel more connected to the "web of life" through an easy walking practice.

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How to Heal Toxic Thoughtspractice

How to Heal Toxic Thoughts

Sandra Ingerman

A practical set of shamanic and energetic tools from Sandra Ingerman for transforming negative thoughts and emotional reactivity into healing energy. Great for anyone dealing with stress, conflict, or difficult emotions who wants simple techniques like breathwork, intention-setting, and visualization to shift their inner state.

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The Library of Consciousness — Terence McKenna Collectionpractice

The Library of Consciousness — Terence McKenna Collection

Terence McKenna

The single best free McKenna resource anywhere — 96 catalogued lectures, workshops and interviews, each with streaming audio, a complete searchable transcript, and cross-references to everyone he cites. No account, no paywall, no advertising. The estate's own site sends people here.

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History Ends in Greenworkshop

History Ends in Green

Terence McKenna

The complete five-and-a-half-hour Esalen seminar, free with full transcript — the same recording BetterListen sells. McKenna on dream, film, psychedelics and the Gaian mind, putting the hysteria of the age into perspective. Widely considered his finest long-form talk.

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New and Old Maps of Hyperspacepractice

New and Old Maps of Hyperspace

Terence McKenna

The talk containing his account of the tryptamine dimension and the self-transforming entities he claimed to encounter there. The single most quoted passage in his whole corpus. Free, with transcript.

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Appreciating Imaginationworkshop

Appreciating Imagination

Terence McKenna

A full weekend workshop on creativity, virtual worlds and shamanic states — how cultivating imagination lets us see past cultural conditioning. Over five hours, free and fully transcribed. Among his warmest and most encouraging sessions.

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The Archaic Revivalpractice

The Archaic Revival

Terence McKenna

The essays and interviews of his best-known collection, free to read in full. Shamanic values, the goddess, the Other and the end of history. The whole book, no account required.

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Food of the Gods: The Search for the Original Tree of Knowledgedownload

Food of the Gods: The Search for the Original Tree of Knowledge

Terence McKenna

His major work, hosted free via the Internet Archive through the Library of Consciousness. The full argument on plants, drugs and human evolution. Free to read before deciding whether to buy a copy.

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A Weekend with Terence McKennaworkshop

A Weekend with Terence McKenna

Terence McKenna

Twelve hours with McKenna across a full weekend — "healing the inner elf through trance, dance and diet" — touching nearly every subject he ever worked on. The deepest single free item in the archive. For committed listeners only.

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A Crisis in Consciousnessworkshop

A Crisis in Consciousness

Terence McKenna

McKenna arguing that the answer to the planetary crisis is already visible — shamanic, feminised, cybernetic and caring ways of being, extended from our best moments into whole lifetimes. Hopeful rather than apocalyptic. Under an hour.

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Awakening to Archaic Valuesworkshop

Awakening to Archaic Values

Terence McKenna

A weekend workshop on returning to the harmonic habits lost to history — the fullest treatment of what he meant by the Archaic Revival. Nearly five hours, free and transcribed. The idea at the centre of his work.

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Conversations on the Edge of Magicworkshop

Conversations on the Edge of Magic

Terence McKenna

His first Starwood Festival workshop, on human attitudes to the Other, the nature of language, and the non-Western techniques of ecstasy. Also the clearest place he defines the Archaic Revival in his own words. A think-along rather than a lecture.

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About Terence McKenna — Official Estate Biographypractice

About Terence McKenna — Official Estate Biography

Terence McKenna

The family's own account of his life and work, written by the people who knew him. Short, and the only biographical page on his profile that carries estate authority. Free, no account.

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Michael Harner's Lost Lectures: Volume 1download

Michael Harner's Lost Lectures: Volume 1

Michael Harner

The full transcript of Harner's 1983 Davos lecture "Shamanism and the World Crisis", published with a digitised recording restored from the original cassette. This is the only substantial free Harner audio on the foundation's own site — everything else sits behind the members' wall. Free, unpaywalled, with editor's notes and footnotes.

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My Path in Shamanismpractice

My Path in Shamanism

Michael Harner

A long first-person interview in which Harner traces his move from academic anthropology into shamanic practice. He covers the Amazonian fieldwork, the ayahuasca experience that changed his direction, and the pivotal discovery that monotonous drumming reaches non-ordinary reality as reliably as plant medicines.

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Science, Spirits, and Core Shamanismpractice

Science, Spirits, and Core Shamanism

Michael Harner

Harner's own statement on where shamanic practice stands in relation to empirical science, and why he regarded the spirits encountered in journeying as data rather than metaphor. Central to understanding why he built core shamanism the way he did.

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A Core Shamanic Theory of Dreamspractice

A Core Shamanic Theory of Dreams

Michael Harner

Harner's account of dreaming as a form of spontaneous journeying, and his argument that a dream is better returned to and questioned than interpreted after the fact. The theoretical basis of the foundation's Shamanic Dreamwork training.

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Shamanic Healing: We are Not Alonepractice

Shamanic Healing: We are Not Alone

Michael Harner

Harner on the working relationship between a practitioner and their helping spirits, and why core shamanism insists that the healing is never the practitioner's own doing. A concise statement of the ethic underlying all FSS healing training.

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The History and Work of the Foundation for Shamanic Studiespractice

The History and Work of the Foundation for Shamanic Studies

Michael Harner

Harner's own account of why he founded the organisation in 1979 and what he intended it to preserve. Covers the fieldwork, the conservation programmes for endangered shamanic cultures, and the decision to teach a distilled cross-cultural method.

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The Need for a Spirituality Focused on Healing – Free of Politicspractice

The Need for a Spirituality Focused on Healing – Free of Politics

Michael Harner

A late essay in which Harner argues for keeping shamanic practice oriented toward healing rather than ideology. Short, pointed, and revealing of how he wanted the tradition carried forward after him.

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Core Shamanismmini course

Core Shamanism

Michael Harner

The foundation's free explainer of the method itself — the universal and near-universal features of shamanism that Harner distilled for Western practitioners, including sonic driving through drumming. Note that it describes the framework but deliberately withholds journey instructions, routing readers toward the paid workshops.

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Michael Harnerpractice

Michael Harner

Michael Harner

The foundation's canonical biography of its founder — anthropologist, author of The Way of the Shaman, originator of core shamanism, and teacher of more than 100,000 students. Serves as the hub page linking to his articles, the documentary and the audio archive.

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In Memoriam: Michael J. Harner (1929 – 2018)practice

In Memoriam: Michael J. Harner (1929 – 2018)

Michael Harner

The official memorial for Harner, who died on 3 February 2018, carrying more than 165 comments from students and colleagues worldwide. It functions as both obituary and an informal oral history of his teaching.

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Power Animal Retrievalpractice

Power Animal Retrieval

Michael Harner

A long-time practitioner explains the retrieval itself and, more usefully, the client's ongoing obligation afterwards — studying the animal's biology, keeping its image nearby, dancing it regularly. One of the most practically actionable free pieces on the site.

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Shamanic Divination as Spiritual Problem Solvingpractice

Shamanic Divination as Spiritual Problem Solving

Michael Harner

How divination works in core shamanism — not as fortune-telling but as a structured way of bringing a real question to compassionate spirits and interpreting what comes back. A clear introduction to the method behind Harner Shamanic Counseling.

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Ancestral Work: a Core Shamanism Perspectivepractice

Ancestral Work: a Core Shamanism Perspective

Michael Harner

Working with ancestors from within the core-shamanic framework, including how the practice differs from lineage work in other traditions. Useful for readers arriving from mediumship or family-constellation backgrounds.

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Ethical Considerations in Shamanic Healingpractice

Ethical Considerations in Shamanic Healing

Michael Harner

The foundation's statement on practitioner ethics — consent, scope, the limits of what a shamanic healer should claim, and the relationship to conventional medicine. Worth reading before any of the technique articles.

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Shamanic Healing in the Treatment of PTSDpractice

Shamanic Healing in the Treatment of PTSD

Michael Harner

A clinical-facing article on soul retrieval and extraction work alongside conventional trauma treatment. One of the strongest pieces on the site for readers who want the evidence framing rather than the tradition.

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Shamanism and Creativitypractice

Shamanism and Creativity

Michael Harner

On journeying as a source of creative material, and the long association between shamanic practice and art, music and story. A gentle entry point for readers who come to the tradition through making things.

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The Healing Power of Songpractice

The Healing Power of Song

Michael Harner

On the role of the sung icaro or power song in shamanic healing, and how practitioners receive and use their own. Pairs naturally with the foundation's Singing Chorus journey recording.

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The Reawakening of Shamanism in the Westpractice

The Reawakening of Shamanism in the West

Michael Harner

A history of how shamanic practice returned to Western life over the last half-century, and the part Harner's work played in it. Good orienting context for anyone new to the subject.

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Trommelrhythmen (Free Shamanic Journey Drumming Samples)meditation

Trommelrhythmen (Free Shamanic Journey Drumming Samples)

Michael Harner

FSS Europe hosts nine directly playable audio samples covering the full range of the foundation's journey recordings — solo and double drumming, didjeridu, singing chorus, musical bow, rattle and multiple drumming. Free to play in the browser with no signup. The page is in German; the audio needs no translation.

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Schamanismus 2020 (FSS Europe magazine, free PDF)download

Schamanismus 2020 (FSS Europe magazine, free PDF)

Michael Harner

FSS Europe's annual German-language magazine, free to download as a full PDF. This issue mixes editorial essays, practitioner interviews and coverage of the June 2020 "Schamanismus und Digitalisierung" conference. Back issues from 2014 to 2020 are all free.

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The Curated Archive

Books & Literature

Yoga, Power, and Spirit: Patanjali the Shaman
The Illumination Process: A Shamanic Guide to Transforming Toxic Emotions into Wisdom, Power, and Grace
Soul Retrieval: Mending the Fragmented Self
Shamanic Journeying: A Beginner's Guide
The Book of Ceremony: Shamanic Wisdom for Invoking the Sacred in Everyday Life
Welcome Home: Following Your Soul's Journey Home
Walking in Light: The Everyday Empowerment of a Shamanic Life
Medicine for the Earth: How to Transform Personal and Environmental Toxins
Awakening to the Spirit World: The Shamanic Path of Direct Revelation
How to Heal Toxic Thoughts: Simple Tools for Personal Transformation
Speaking with Nature: Awakening to the Deep Wisdom of the Earth
The Shaman's Toolkit: Ancient Tools for Shaping the Life and World You Want to Live In
How to Thrive in Changing Times: Simple Tools to Create True Health, Wealth, Peace, and Joy for Yourself and the Earth
Walking through Darkness: A Nature-Based Path to Navigating Suffering and Loss
A Fall to Grace
Shaman, Healer, Sage: How to Heal Yourself and Others with the Energy Medicine of the Americas
The Four Insights: Wisdom, Power, and Grace of the Earthkeepers
Mending the Past and Healing the Future with Soul Retrieval
Courageous Dreaming: How Shamans Dream the World into Being
The Heart of the Shaman: Stories and Practices of the Luminous Warrior
Illumination: The Shaman's Way of Healing
Mystical Shaman Oracle
Dance of the Four Winds: Secrets of the Inca Medicine Wheel
The Wisdom Wheel: A Mythic Journey through the Four Directions
Soul Journeying: Shamanic Tools for Finding Your Destiny and Recovering Your Spirit
The Four Winds: A Shaman's Odyssey into the Amazon
A Shaman's Miraculous Tools for Healing
Island of the Sun: Mastering the Inca Medicine Wheel
Healing States: A Journey Into the World of Spiritual Healing and Shamanism
The Shaman's Book of Living and Dying
The Shaman's Dream Oracle: A 64-Card Deck and Guidebook
Skeleton Woman
Supernatural: Meetings with the Ancient Teachers of Mankind
Entangled: The Eater of Souls
War God: Nights of the Witch
War God: Return of the Plumed Serpent
War God: Night of Sorrows
Visionary: The Mysterious Origins of Human Consciousness
Food of the Gods: The Search for the Original Tree of Knowledge — A Radical History of Plants, Drugs, and Human Evolution
The Archaic Revival: Speculations on Psychedelic Mushrooms, the Amazon, Virtual Reality, UFOs, Evolution, Shamanism, the Rebirth of the Goddess, and the End of History
True Hallucinations: Being an Account of the Author's Extraordinary Adventures in the Devil's Paradise
True Hallucinations and The Archaic Revival
New and Old Maps of Hyperspace
Vision Plants: Transpersonal Challenge
The Search for the Original Tree of Knowledge
Under the Teaching Tree
The Way of the Shaman
Cave and Cosmos: Shamanic Encounters with Another Reality
The Jívaro: People of the Sacred Waterfalls
Hallucinogens and Shamanism
Ema's Odyssey: Shamanism for Healing and Spiritual Knowledge
Cannibal
Art of the Northwest Coast

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Courses & Programmes

The Path of Energy MedicineContact for pricing

The Path of Energy Medicine

Alberto Villoldo

A 10-month certified master training uniting ancient shamanic ceremony with modern science, split into a 5-month Personal Path and 5-month Practitioner Path. The culmination of Villoldo's 40+ years of teaching, leading to a practitioner certificate.

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The Divine QuestContact for pricing

The Divine Quest

Alberto Villoldo

A 21-day guided quest to reconnect with your soul's calling through daily shamanic practices, fire ceremonies, oracle guidance, and breathwork. Designed to help release the past and realign with sacred purpose.

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Shamanic JourneyingContact for pricing

Shamanic Journeying

Alberto Villoldo

A 4-week course teaching the ancient shamanic meditation practice of journeying through space and time. Ideal for beginners wanting a structured introduction to non-ordinary states of consciousness.

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Power AnimalsContact for pricing

Power Animals

Alberto Villoldo

A 4-week course connecting students to their power animal archetypes, walking the medicine wheel with the serpent, jaguar, hummingbird, and eagle. Helps students understand what each ally represents on the healing path.

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Seven Heavens – The Shaman's ToolboxContact for pricing

Seven Heavens – The Shaman's Toolbox

Alberto Villoldo

A 4-week online course guiding students through the shaman's cosmology of seven heavens, offering practical tools for healing and expanding awareness. Participants learn to navigate different planes of consciousness using techniques from the Q'ero shamanic tradition.

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Courageous DreamingContact for pricing

Courageous Dreaming

Alberto Villoldo

A 4-week course based on Villoldo's book of the same name, teaching students to consciously "dream" a new reality into being through shamanic practice. It explores releasing limiting stories to create a more vibrant future.

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Healing the Dark SideContact for pricing

Healing the Dark Side

Alberto Villoldo

A 6-week advanced course addressing the shadow aspects of the psyche, using shamanic techniques to transform darkness into wisdom and personal power. Draws on ancient lineage practices to help students integrate difficult emotions.

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Reading the Signs of DestinyContact for pricing

Reading the Signs of Destiny

Alberto Villoldo

A 6-week course teaching the shamanic art of divination and interpreting symbolic signs in daily life. Students learn to recognize synchronicities and use them as guidance toward their soul's purpose.

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Time MastersContact for pricing

Time Masters

Alberto Villoldo

A 5-week advanced course exploring how shamans work with time to heal the past and midwife a healthier future. Offers practices for stepping outside linear time to release old wounds.

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The Way of the Shaman®

The Way of the Shaman®

Michael Harner

The classic two-day introductory workshop in core shamanism, and the foundation's flagship offering. Participants use monotonous drumming to journey into non-ordinary reality for healing, problem-solving and building spiritual power. Run worldwide by licensed FSS faculty, with dozens of dates each season.

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The Shamanic Journey: Pathway to Knowledge and Power™

The Shamanic Journey: Pathway to Knowledge and Power™

Michael Harner

The online equivalent of the introductory workshop, teaching the shamanic journey as a visionary practice for reaching non-ordinary reality. Delivered live over Zoom across two days, carrying 7 FSS continuing-education credits.

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Shamanic Extraction Healing Training™

Shamanic Extraction Healing Training™

Michael Harner

Training in identifying, removing and safely disposing of localised spiritual intrusions understood to cause pain and illness. The method is touch-free and worked entirely in partnership with helping spirits. Offered in person worldwide.

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Shamanic Extraction Healing Method™ (Online)

Shamanic Extraction Healing Method™ (Online)

Michael Harner

The online form of the extraction training, delivered live over Zoom with 10.5 FSS continuing-education credits. Covers the same touch-free removal of spiritual intrusions, adapted for distance work.

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Power Soul Retrieval Training™

Power Soul Retrieval Training™

Michael Harner

Soul retrieval as Michael Harner developed it, emphasising the restoration of spiritual power and healing from traumatic experience. One of the most widely run of the advanced trainings, taught in person across North America and Europe.

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Shamanism, Dying, and Beyond™

Shamanism, Dying, and Beyond™

Michael Harner

Shamanic perspectives on dying and the afterlife, including the psychopomp or "soul conductor" methods for guiding the deceased to the Upper or Lower Worlds. Among the most requested workshops in the catalogue.

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The Shaman as Psychopomp™

The Shaman as Psychopomp™

Michael Harner

Focused training in conducting the souls of the dead, one of the oldest recorded shamanic offices. Delivered online through the Shamanic Healing Training Program.

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Advanced Shamanic Divination Training™

Advanced Shamanic Divination Training™

Michael Harner

Advanced divination techniques for journeying to obtain answers, including communication with plant and animal spirits and the use of quartz crystals. Faculty-set pricing has been seen publicly at $295–$315 USD for individual dates.

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Shamanic Divination in Practice™

Shamanic Divination in Practice™

Michael Harner

Methods for contacting spirit helpers through journeying, with close attention to how a question is framed and how the answer is interpreted. Run online across two days.

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Core Shamanism Healing Practice™

Core Shamanism Healing Practice™

Michael Harner

Advanced online training combining extraction healing, power animal retrieval, psychopomp work and power soul retrieval, with supervised hands-on healing sessions. For practitioners who have completed the foundational trainings.

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Shamanic Dreamwork™

Shamanic Dreamwork™

Michael Harner

Working with dreams through the shamanic journey rather than through interpretation — returning to a dream to ask it questions directly. Built on Harner's own core-shamanic theory of dreams.

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Shamanism and the Spirits of Nature™

Shamanism and the Spirits of Nature™

Michael Harner

Training in relationship with the spirits of plants, stones, weather and place — the animate world that core shamanism takes as its starting assumption. Taught in person, often partly outdoors.

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Shamanic Training in Creativity™

Shamanic Training in Creativity™

Michael Harner

Applying the journey method to creative work — seeking guidance, breaking impasses and drawing inspiration from helping spirits. A lighter entry point for people who arrive through art rather than healing.

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The Wisdom of Shamans: Exploring Cave and Cosmos™

The Wisdom of Shamans: Exploring Cave and Cosmos™

Michael Harner

A workshop built directly on Harner's final book, exploring ascent to the Upper World and the consistent accounts of the heavens that his students' journey reports produced. The closest thing the catalogue offers to studying Harner's own late work.

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In Person

Retreats & Live Events

South America Tour: Peru and Bolivia (13 Days) – Featuring Graham Hancock$13,985 USD per person

South America Tour: Peru and Bolivia (13 Days) – Featuring Graham Hancock

Graham Hancock

A 13-day tour of Cusco, the Sacred Valley, Machu Picchu, Lake Titicaca, Tiahuanaco, and Puma Punku, with an optional Nazca Lines add-on and exclusive sessions with Hancock.

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Two Week Shamanic Healing Intensive™

Two Week Shamanic Healing Intensive™

Michael Harner

The foundation's flagship residential training, covering extraction healing, power soul retrieval, psychopomp work, divination and the spirits of nature. Lodging and meals are included and 60 FSS continuing-education credits are awarded. Admission is by application rather than open booking.

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Three Year Program of Advanced Initiations in Shamanism and Shamanic Healing™

Three Year Program of Advanced Initiations in Shamanism and Shamanic Healing™

Michael Harner

Intensive extended training across three years in progressively higher levels of advanced shamanism, including initiations into rare and little-known practices. The deepest commitment the foundation offers, run as a closed residential cohort.

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Downloads & Audio

History Ends in Green by Terence McKenna$17.95

History Ends in Green by Terence McKenna

Terence McKenna

The complete six-part Esalen seminar on dream, film, psychedelics and the Gaian mind — over five hours of McKenna at his most expansive. Widely regarded as the best single long-form recording of him. The one to buy if you buy only one.

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Having Archaic and Eating it Too Workshop with Terence McKenna$17.95

Having Archaic and Eating it Too Workshop with Terence McKenna

Terence McKenna

The full seven-hour workshop version, ranging across psychedelic alchemy, the culture-state clash, UFOs and archaic shamanism. Long, discursive and very much worth the time. The lecture-length edition is listed separately below.

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Having Archaic and Eating it Too Lecture with Terence McKenna$9.95

Having Archaic and Eating it Too Lecture with Terence McKenna

Terence McKenna

The single-lecture edition of the workshop above — the same territory in a fraction of the time. A good sampler if seven hours is more than you want to commit to. Half the price of the full version.

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Food of the Gods (Audiobook, Tantor Audio)

Food of the Gods (Audiobook, Tantor Audio)

Terence McKenna

The authorised unabridged audiobook of his major work, narrated by Jeffrey Kafer for Tantor Audio. Not McKenna's own voice, but a properly licensed publisher edition. The practical choice for a long drive.

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True Hallucinations (Audiobook, Tantor Media)

True Hallucinations (Audiobook, Tantor Media)

Terence McKenna

The authorised audiobook of the La Chorrera narrative, narrated by Al Kessel. The story works particularly well read aloud. A licensed publisher edition rather than an archive upload.

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True Hallucinations: The Talking Book (9 CDs)

True Hallucinations: The Talking Book (9 CDs)

Terence McKenna

The original nine-CD "talking book" edition, read by McKenna himself — the only commercially released long-form recording of him narrating his own work. Long out of print and traded secondhand. The collector's item of the catalogue.

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Michael Harner's Shamanic Journey Solo and Double Drumming™ (MP3, All Tracks)$10.98 USD

Michael Harner's Shamanic Journey Solo and Double Drumming™ (MP3, All Tracks)

Michael Harner

The classic journey drumming recording, drummed by Michael Harner himself, in solo and double form with callback. The single most widely used recording in core shamanic practice worldwide. Instant MP3 download, no account required.

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Connect to Your Shaman Codes$22 USD

Connect to Your Shaman Codes

Amron Bevels

A recorded activation session (“The Archetype of Woman”) for reconnecting with your inner shamanic lineage and archetypal feminine power.

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