Michael Harner’s „Cave and Cosmos: Shamanic Encounters with Another Reality“ ist now available.  Wherever books are sold and in the internet as well as from The Foundation for Shamanic Studies Europe, office@shamanicstudies.net – Price  15.— EUR, postage not included (from 2,90 up to 6,80 € depending on country in Europe).

Michael Harner’s „Cave and Cosmos: Shamanic Encounters with Another Reality“ ist ab sofort verfügbar. Bestellungen an die Foundation for Shamanic Studies Europa, office@shamanicstudies.net, Einzelpreis EUR 15,--, Porto wird extra berechnet (zwischen € 2,90 für Österreich und  € 6,80 für europäische Länder).

Die deutsche Ausgabe („Höhle und Kosmos“, verlegt von Random House) folgt im Laufe des Jahres 2013, vermutlich im November. 

The classical works of Prof. Mongush B. Kenin-Lopsan are now available in German.

1. SCHAMANENGESCHICHTEN AUS TUWA   - Myths and Legend of Tuvan Shamans, published 2011.

2. SCHAMANENGESÄNGE AUS TUWA   - Songs of Tuvan Shamans, the Algyshtar, published 2013. The book is sold together with a DVD, showing films of contemporary shamans performing a healing ritual as well as a purification; in addition there are historic videos and songs.

In this article I hope to surface some of the issues involved in ethical shamanic healing, as well as to provide some basic guidelines.

Many physicists are thinking more often and more openly about traditional wisdom. And are asking, if there might be a Beyond as supposed by shamans.

In the past, the answer depended upon whom you asked. Catholic bishops, Indian ascetics and Siberian shamans may seem radically unlike, but all agreed: spiritual worlds are experientially accessible realities, and the soul and the hereafter undoubtedly exist.
The answer was equally unanimous among scientists, who formerly concurred that belief in the afterlife was either absentminded dreaming or spiritism at best. Though our meeting occurred decades ago, I can still clearly recall asking an internationally renowned Viennese forensic physician, for whom my query seemed nearly obscene. He answered by pointing to his scalpel and scoffing, “Boy, I ain’t seen nothing like that in all my livelong days.” (The informality of tone needn’t be construed as impoliteness, but can be explained by the age difference between the venerable professor and the cub reporter.)

The drum is a very important tool in shamanism. Of course there are other items like the Dayak (a wand) or a flag and the human voice - but the drum is the usual attribute of a strong shaman in Siberia.

The life of the drum is similiar to the life of the shaman: it ends at some point. From ancient times there are no drums left to us except the cave paintings or rock drawings. Until present days the drum of a shaman is usually destroyed when the shaman passes over.

At Roundstone, Irland, Malachy Kearns lives in an old monastery building. For 32 years now he is constructing Bodhráns, the old Irish drums.

"I take the life of the goat but I change it into another life. The soul and the compassion stay withe the drum. The deep sound is the peak of the good feeling. The secret of a perfect drum is the treatment and the processing of the goat skin. "