Lux Ferre

Medicine Wheel – The term was first applied to the Big Horn Medicine Wheel monument and sacred site on Medicine Mountain, part of northern yoming’s Big Horn Range. The wheel consists of

Medicine People – Also medicine men and medicine women. A term cognate with holy people among many Native Americans that may be comparable to shamans elsewhere. Medicine not only emphasizes abilities to

Medicine Fathers – In the biography of Thomas Yellowtail, a medicine man of the Crow, there are regular references to “medicine fathers” who elect and initiate medicine people, giving them instructions about

Brooke Medicine Eagle (1943– ) Also known as Brooke Edwards. Métis (i.e., of Anglo and Native American parentage) author and popularizer of a version of neo-shamanism. Medicine Eagle is described as a

Medicine Bundles – Among many Native American peoples, it is common to gather sacred and powerful stones, herbs, and other object-persons into bundles that then serve as the focus of respectful ceremonialism

Medicine – A term that is particularly common in discussions of Native American religious traditions and practices. In part, it draws attention to the doctoring or healing powers and abilities of medicine

Meadows, Kenneth – One of a number of neo-shamanic authors whose books in the 1980s and 1990s, such as Shamanic Experience: A Practical Guide to Contemporary Shamanism (1991), popularized shamanic practice, especially

McKenna, Terence (1946–2000) – Psychedelic thinker, writer, and conspiracy theorist whose experiments with LSD, DMT, and especially magic mushrooms (psilocybin) led him to proselytize the perceived benefits of entheogen use in his

Mazatec – People of southern Mexico in Central America. The Mazatec’s shamanic healing use of mushrooms aided Richard Schultes in isolating a curative agent useful in the development of a new heart

Matthews, John and Caitlin – British neo-shamans who, following their work on “the Western mystery tradition,” pioneered the study and practice of “Celtic shamanism.” John Matthews’s The Celtic Shaman (1991a) and Taliesin: