Author: Lux Ferre

Altered States of Consciousness (ASC) – Shamans are sometimes distinguished from other religious or cultural leaders by their ability to deliberately enter distinctive states of…

Altai – The Altai Kizhi, Telengits, Teles, and Teleuts are pastoralists of mixed Turkic-Mongolian descent. After the great changes brought by Russian colonization in the…

Alleluia Shamanism – An evolution of Amazonian shamanism (particularly in the eastern highlands) influenced by Christian missionary discourse (e.g., prophetic promises of a new life,…

Ainu – The largest indigenous population of Japan, descending from ancestors who migrated there around 10,000 years ago. The Ainu mainly live in the northern…

Adjusted Styles of Communication (ASC) – In contrast with the common claim that shamanism is fundamentally a matter of achieving, controlling, and utilizing altered states…

David Abram (1957– ) American cultural ecologist and magician, a proponent of animism who argues that Western modernity is a form of willful disconnection from…