Lux Ferre

Cannibalism – The seemingly ubiquitous fear of cannibalism is expressed in many similar myths and allegations about cannibals in many cultures. Shamans may be expected to protect their communities from human or

Joseph Campbell (1904–1987) – American scholar best known for his work on world mythology, as well as a popular public speaker and storyteller. In the first of a prolific number of books

Campbell, Alan T. – Anthropologist (then at Edinburgh University) whose book Getting to Know Waiwai (1995) is a reflexive ethnography of the Wayapí of Amazonia. Campbell struggles to find ways to convey

Californian Rock Art – The idea that the rock art of California might plausibly be linked to shamanism was revived by David Whitley in a paper entitled “Shamanism and Rock Art in

Eduardo Calderon- Peruvian shaman studied by Douglas Sharon, whose practices stand at the interface of indigenous shamanisms and neo-shamanisms. SOURCE: Historical Dictionary of Shamanism by Graham Harvey and Robert J. Wallis 2007

Simon Buxton – Founder and director of the Sacred Trust and a member of the faculty of the Foundation for Shamanic Studies. According to the Sacred Trust website, Buxton “has worked and

Buryatia – Located in south-central Siberia along the eastern shore of Lake Baikal, and part of the Russian Federation, Buryatia is home to the nomadic hunter, herder, and pastoralist Buryat, of Mongol

Burroughs, William S. – (1919–1997) American writer and performer whose correspondence with Allen Ginsberg about ayahuasca or yagé was published as The Yagé Letters in 1963. This was 12 years after he

Michael Forbes Brown : The Lambert Professor of Anthropology and Latin American Studies at Williams College, Massachusetts, Brown authored books including Tsewa’s Gift: Magic and Meaning in an Amazonian Society (1986), The

Brown, Joseph Epes (1920–2000) – Like John Neihardt, Brown is a significant interpreter of the Lakota knowledge told to him by Nicholas Black Elk. Brown’s book The Sacred Pipe (1971), based on