Shamanism – An A-Z Reference Guide

Dr. Marilyn Walker speaks from her new book which is to be released at the Salt Spring Island Library on April 28th.  

Shamanism is the spiritual base of all the world’s religions and is still practiced by many cultures throughout the world. Marilyn’s interests in this tradition are personal as well as academic. Her talk on her research, travels and experiences will be introduced by a calling-in of the 4 Directions, and accompanied by video clips and slides. There will be some time built in for questions from participants.  

Dr. Marilyn Walker is a retired medical anthropologist, archaeologist, and ethnobotanist with a long-term home on Salt Spring Island where she has offered many courses and workshop in music, drumming, shamanism, energy work, plant medicine, and so on over many years.  Last year, she published her 3rd and 4th books: Shamanism An A-Z Reference Guide: Beliefs and Practices from Around the World, and Sacred Geometry  A-Z: History, Beliefs and Practices. A Field Associate with the Foundation for Shamanic Studies, a Founding Member of the Society for Shamanic Practitioners, a past member of the Society for the Anthropology of Religion and the Explorers’ Club, Marilyn has given papers and workshops nationally and internationally, and published scholarly and popular articles on shamanism and related topics. On Salt Spring Island, she hosts experiential courses that will resume once Covid allows.  

Shaking medicine, x-ray vision, trance, fire, holotropic, intellectual property rights, and the drum are among the more than 100 entries in her book on Shamanism. Many of the book’s illustrations come from Dr. Walker’s own fieldwork in places such as India, Siberia, Mongolia, Southeast Asia, Arctic Canada and North America where shamanic traditions originated or are still practiced.  

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