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What Every Shamanic Healing Tradition Has in Common

What Every Shamanic Healing Tradition Has in Common

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Anthropologist Michael Winkelman, PhD, joins Dr. Dennis McKenna on the Brainforest Café to compare shamanic and psychedelic healing practices across Mexico, Peru, Colombia, and North America. Winkelman spent forty years researching shamanism, psychedelics, and altered states, and his new edited volume gathers case studies of mushroom, peyote, San Pedro, morning glory, and ayahuasca traditions under a single framework. What emerges is a pattern too consistent to be coincidence: fasting, sexual abstinence, restricted diet, an overnight ceremony, family and community present, songs at the center, and a long integration period built around dreams and behavior change. His argument is that these are not cultural decorations around the chemistry. They are the vessel the chemistry requires, and modern clinical research has quietly discarded most of them. - - - Michael Winkelman is an ASU anthropologist and leading scholar of shamanism and psychedelics, with 40 years of cross-cultural research and editor of the Handbook of Entheogenic Healing (2025). Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
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