Harner, Michael

Harner, Michael. "The Sound of Rushing Water." In Natural History, July, 1968. 

Harner, Michael, ed. 1973. Hallucinogens and Shamanism. Oxford University Press. 

Munn, Henry. "The Mushrooms of Language." In Shamanism and Hallucinogens. Edited by Michael Harner. London Oxford Univ. Press, 1973. 

Besides participating in Wiccan rituals, one can also study shamanism in modern America, thanks to the anthropologist Michael Harner (born 1929). Harner wrote, The Way of the Shaman, published in 1980, and began conducting workshops to teach neoshamanism. In 1985 Harner founded The Foundation of Shamanic Studies, which publishes a magazine devoted to shamanism, called The Shaman s Drum. 

Michael Harner publishes The Way of the Shaman A Guide to Power and Healing, and begins to teach neoshamanism in the United States. 

Everyone seems to have their own perspectives on the DMT beings. Anthropologist Michael Harner met bird-headed people who explained that they were the true gods of our reality. Various Amazonian tribes like the Secoya drink ayahuasca in a deliberate attempt to communicate with heavenly beings. Rick Strassman suggested that the DMT entities actually dwell in the parallel realities posited by modern theories of physics. Terence McKenna called the beings that he frequently encountered selftransforming machine elves. Like Strassman, McKenna speculated that DMT opens a portal to a parallel reality inhabited by these alien creatures. 

The evidence suggests that these phenomena may be a good deal more "common" than the quoted author realizes. The following account beautifully combines the four related themes of gnosticism, hallucinogens, shamanism and a Near Death experience into one event. Anthropologist Michael Harner here describes an adventure with ayahuasca, the potent psychedelic brew of Amazonian shamanism ... 

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