Lux Ferre

Kenin-Lopsan, Mongush – President of the Society of Tuvan Shamans, founder and honourary chairman of Tos Deer (Nine Skies), the centralized religious organization of shamans in the Republic of Tuva, as well

Kendall, Laurel – American anthropologist best known for her books about Korean shamans: Shamans, Housewives, and Other Restless Spirits (1985) and The Life and Hard Times of a Korean Shaman (1988). She

Karen Kelly – Neo-shamanic practitioner living in Cambridge, England, who studied with Jonathan Horwitz of the Scandinavian Center for Shamanic Studies. With a background in core shamanism, Kelly offers healing to private

Katz, Richard – Clinical anthropologist whose research in the late 1960s on San (Bushmen) healing practices in the Kalahari Desert is published as the seminal volume Boiling Energy: Community Healing among the

Karuk – A people indigenous to northwestern California who typically refer to their shamanic healers and ritualists as “doctors,” êem. Traditionally considering themselves to live at the center of the world, their

Kardecism – Beginning as a spiritualist movement called Spiritism, founded by the self-named Allan Kardec in France in the mid-19th century, but reaching its most popular contemporary form in Brazil, Kardecism now

Kanaimà – The predominant form of dark shamanism in Amazonia. Neil Whitehead defines it as “assault sorcery,” which involves the “mutilation and lingering death of its victims.” Not only is an understanding

Kalweit, Holger – German ethnologist and psychologist who has studied shamanism in Hawaii, the North American Southwest, Mexico, and Tibet. Kalweit is the author of several books in German, as well as

Jung, Carl G. (1875–1961) – Swiss founder of psychotherapy. Jung’s ideas and techniques have had considerable influence on neoshamans, including their explicit use of visualization and common stress on individuation. Jung has

Judaism – This religion is rarely perceived to have shamanic elements, although those who confuse mysticism and shamanism may consider the Kabbalah to be shamanic. Ecstatic visionary journeys to Judaism’s equivalent of