Tradition 22 of 33
Shamanism and spirit practice
Shamanic traditions, spirit journeys, trance practices, and cross-cultural spirit mediation.
Membership means relevance, not endorsement.
- Books
- 901
- Earliest
- 1191
- to 2026
- Read free
- 6%
- 53 with public full text
- With covers
- 32%
How books qualify
- Query + metadata match845
- Metadata match50
- Query match5
- Source classification (retained through merging)1
Every placement records its evidence — the controlled subject queries that found the book at its sources and the bibliographic metadata retained through merging. Each book page shows its own. How the rationale system works.
Key subjects
- Shamanism319
- Schamanismus144
- Spirit possession117
- Chamanisme112
- History82
- Religion81
- Social Sciences71
- Shamans62
- Fiction56
- sjamanisme54
- Philosophy52
- Arts and Humanities50
- Anthropology44
- Text43
- Archaeology42
- Art41
- Chamanismo41
- Non-fiction literature39
- Psychology38
- Szamanizm38
- Šamanismus31
- Religious Studies and Spiritual Practices30
- Sociology30
- Schamanism27
Top languages
- English468 · 52%
- German94 · 10%
- French67 · 7%
- Spanish47 · 5%
- Czech32 · 4%
Notable authors
All authors- Carlos Castaneda15 in this tradition16 books
- Mircea Eliade9 in this tradition17 books
- Alberto Villoldo7 in this tradition9 books
- Jörgen I Eriksson7 books
- Nevill Drury6 in this tradition10 books
- Michael J Harner6 books
- Sandra Ingerman5 in this tradition6 books
- T'ae-han Hong5 books
- Richelle Mead4 in this tradition12 books
- Harald Meller4 in this tradition7 books
- Robert J Wallis4 in this tradition5 books
- Jeremy Narby4 books
901 books

Thorn Queen
Richelle Mead
2009

Tradition and transformation
Koleoso Karade
2001

Unnatural Issue (Elemental Masters #6)
Mercedes Lackey
2011

Urban shaman
Serge King
1990

Visual Magick
Jan Fries
1991

When pigs move in
Don Dickerman
2009

Witchcraft and the shamanic journey
Kenneth Johnson
1998

World of Shamanism
Roger Walsh
2007

Zulu shaman
Credo Vusa'mazulu Mutwa
2003

シャーマンキング 1
武井 宏之
1998
Archaeological approaches to shamanism
Dragos Gheorghiu
2017
Psychoanalytic conversations with states of spirit possession
Shalini Masih
2023
Out of this world
Ioan P Culianu
1991
Animism in rainforest and tundra
Marc Brightman, Vanessa Elisa Grotti, Olga Ulturgasheva
2012
Studies in Lapp shamanism
Louise Bäckman, Åke Hultkrantz
1978
Divination and the shamanic story
Michael Berman
2008
Ängste entzaubern - Lebensfreude finden
Stefan Hammel, Astrid Vlamynck, Claudia Weinspach
2020German

Chacras na Umbanda
Raphael Ph Alves
2020Portuguese
Chamanisme
Tracie Long
2021French

Corps et possession
France Schott-Billmann
1977French

Familiarité avec les dieux
Marie-Claude Dupré
2001French

La Mente En La Caverna/ the Mind in the Cave (Arqueologia)
D. Lewis-williams, J. David Lewis-Williams
2005Spanish

La connaissance de l'invisible
Christine Hardy
1991French
La diagonale de la joie
Corine Sombrun
2021French