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
- 876
- Earliest
- 1556
- to 2026
- Read free
- 4%
- 39 with public full text
- With covers
- 31%
How books qualify
- Query + metadata match821
- Metadata match49
- 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
- Shamanism305
- Schamanismus144
- Chamanisme111
- Spirit possession111
- History80
- RELIGION76
- Social Sciences71
- Shamans58
- Fiction54
- sjamanisme54
- Philosophy52
- Arts and Humanities50
- Anthropology43
- Text43
- Archaeology42
- Art41
- Chamanismo41
- Non-fiction literature39
- Psychology38
- Szamanizm38
- Šamanismus31
- Religious Studies and Spiritual Practices30
- Sociology30
- Schamanism27
Top languages
- English453 · 52%
- German92 · 11%
- French65 · 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 tradition9 books
- Michael J Harner6 books
- Sandra Ingerman5 in this tradition6 books
- T'ae-han Hong5 books
- Richelle Mead4 in this tradition11 books
- Harald Meller4 in this tradition7 books
- Robert J Wallis4 in this tradition5 books
- Jeremy Narby4 books
876 books

A Tangle of Magicks
Stephanie Burgis
2011

Hallucinogens and shamanism
Michael J. Harner
1973

Modern shamanism
Pirjo Holmström
2021Swedish
Shamanism
Margaret Stutley
2003
Shamanism and the Eighteenth Century
Gloria Flaherty
1992
From archaeology to archaeologies
Anna Simandiraki-Grimshaw
2012

Wolf Brother
Michelle Paver, Patricia Anton De Vez Ayala-Duarte
2004
Where the spirits ride the wind
Felicitas D Goodman
1990

The 'Codex Selden' (also known as 'Codex Añute').
1556Norwegian

Ecstatic religion
Ioan Myrddin Lewis, Julio Mario Santo Domingo Collection
1971
Buddhists, Shamans, and Soviets
Justine Buck Quijada
2019

Don Juan, Mescalito and Modern Magic
Nevill Drury
1978
From Yoga to Kabbalah
Véronique Altglas
2014
Near-Death Experience in Indigenous Religions
Gregory Shushan
2018
SHAMANISM
Merete Demant Jakobsen
1999

Shamanic voices
Joan Halifax
1979

Shamans
Ronald Hutton
2001
Shamans And Elders
Caroline Humphrey, Urgunge Onon
1996
Spirit Possession and Spirit Mediumship in Africa and Afro-America
Cynthia Shambaugh, Irving I. Zaretsky
2019

The complete illustrated guide to runes
Nigel Pennick, PennickfNigel
1999

Witchcraft Today, Book Three
Chas S. Clifton
1994
Christian Demonology and Popular Mythology
Gábor Klaniczay, Éva Pócs, Ágnes Birtalan, Monika Kropej, Anna Kuznetsova, Jonas Liliequist, Benedek Láng, Soili-Maria Olli, Vesna Petreska, Anna Plotnikova, L’upcho S Risteski, Ilana Rosen, Karen P Smith, Éva Szacsvay, György E Szőnyi, Erzsébet Tatai, Ulrika Wolf-Knuts, Wanda Wyporska, Zmago Šmitek
2006
Tibetan Demonology
Christopher Bell
2020
Warfare and Shamanism in Amazonia
Carlos Fausto
2012