Michael Harrier, Ph.D., has practiced shamanism and shamanic healing since 1961, and pioneered their return to contemporary life, publicly teaching shamanic methods since the early 1970s. Founder and director of the Foundation for Shamanic Studies in Norwalk, Connecticut, he is former professor and chairperson of the Department of Anthropology at the Graduate Faculty of the New School for Social Research in New York, and has taught at the University of California, Berkeley, where he received his Ph.D., and at Columbia and Yale, as well as having served as co-chairperson of the Anthropology Section of the New York Academy of Sciences. He has done fieldwork in the Upper Amazon, Mexico, western North America, the Canadian Arctic, and Samiland (Lapland). His books include The Jívaro, Hallucinogens and Shamanism, and a novel, Cannibal, which he co-authored. He teaches shamanic training workshops and courses worldwide.
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