Who, Where, When, and What Is a Shaman?
CHAPTER 1: Why Shamanism and Why Now?
CHAPTER 2: Why The World of Shamanism?
CHAPTER 3: What Is a Shaman? The Challenge of Definition
CHAPTER 4: The When and Where of Shamanism: Origins and Distribution
The Big Picture
CHAPTER 5: Essential Spirituality: Central Principles and Practices of Spiritual Life
CHAPTER 6: What Is a Hero? Life’s Aims and Games
The Life of the Shaman
CHAPTER 7: Times of Trial: The Initial Call and the Initiation Crisis
CHAPTER 8: A Life of Learning: Shamanic Training and Discipline
CHAPTER 9: The Culmination of the Quest: Shamanic Enlightenment
CHAPTER 10: The Culmination of the Quest: Death and Rebirth
Diagnosing the Shaman
CHAPTER 11: Devil, Madman, Saint, or Sage? The Eye of the Beholder
CHAPTER 12: Primitive Madmen:
Assessing Traditional Views of Shamans as Psychologically Disturbed
CHAPTER 13: Putting Shamans to the Test:
Measuring Personality and Spiritual Mastery
CHAPTER 14: Spiritual Emergency and Spiritual Emergence?
New Views of Shamans’ Health
CHAPTER 15: Shamanic Trickery: The Tricks of the Trade
The Shaman’s Universe
CHAPTER 16: Many Worlds
CHAPTER 17: Many Spirits
CHAPTER 18: Mediums: Channels for the Spirits?
CHAPTER 19: What Is a “Spirit”?
CHAPTER 20: Cosmic Traveling: The Shamanic Journey
CHAPTER 21: A World of Ecstatics: Journeys in Other Religious Traditions
CHAPTER 22: The Varieties of Journey Experiences:
Dream, Out-of-Body, Near-Death, and Abduction Experiences
CHAPTER 23: Interpreting and Researching Journeys
Shamanic Techniques
CHAPTER 24: The Politics of Consciousness
CHAPTER 25: Transforming Consciousness:
Contemporary Understandings and Shamanic Methods
CHAPTER 26: Psychedelics and Entheogens: Revealers of the Divine Within?
CHAPTER 27: Divination and Diagnosis
CHAPTER 28: How Do They Heal?
CHAPTER 29: Healing the Healer: How Do They Heal Themselves?
CHAPTER 30: Shamans and Psi: What Is the Evidence?
The Shaman’s Mind
CHAPTER 31: Shamanic States of Mind
CHAPTER 32: Comparing States of Mind:
Shamans, Yogis, Meditators, and Schizophrenics
CHAPTER 33: How High Do They Fly? Levels of Consciousness
CHAPTER 34: The Evolution of Consciousness
CHAPTER 35: The Shaman’s Brain: Neurotheology and Neuromythology
CHAPTER 36: Shamanism(s) in a Changing World