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Letcher, Andy (1968– ) British scholar of religion whose work has focused on the role of the bard in contemporary Paganism and entheogenic neo-shamanism. His research on the latter, Shroom: A Cultural

Leary, Timothy (1920–1996) – Clinical psychologist and counterculture drug guru. With a Ph.D. in clinical psychology, Leary founded the Harvard Center for Research in Personality in 1958. After eating a number of

John Lame Deer, (Fire) (1900 or 1903–1976) – Oglala Lakota wichasha wakan, holy man or medicine man, who also earned a living as, among other things, a rancher, rodeo rider, and reservation

Lakota – Indigenous nation originating in and around the Great Plains of the center of North America. Their holy people serve as repositories of knowledge, ceremonial leaders, healers, and mediators with significant

La Barre, R. Weston (1911–1996) – American anthropologist and ethnologist best known for his studies of peyotism among Native Americans, particularly the Kiowa and the Native American Church in the 1930s and

Krippner, Stanley – Professor of psychology and director of the Center for Consciousness Studies at the Saybrook Graduate School, San Francisco, and past president of the Association for Humanistic Psychology, the American

Korea – Shamanism in Korea is almost entirely a women’s phenomenon: both shamans and their clients are normally women. Shamanic rituals, kut, involving trance and the entertainment of ancestral and other spirits,

Serge Kahili King – Leading proponent of the Hawaiian Huna tradition. The addition of the family name Kahili to his name derives from his adoption by a kupua, or “shaman of the

Kim, Chongho (1954– ) – Korean scholar whose doctoral research at the University of New South Wales, Australia, entailed fieldwork among Korean shamans, their clients, and wider society. In contrast with Laurel

Kharitidi, Olga – In her book Entering the Circle: Ancient Secrets of Siberian Wisdom Discovered by a Russian Psychiatrist (1997), Kharitidi suggests that her experiences with indigenous shamans began at a psychiatric