We recently received an interesting inquiry from one of our colleagues—one that we believe has meaning for a wide audience so we bring it forward here. Her appeal was as follows: I would appreciate your knowledge and insight on an aspect of shamanism that I have been...
As we move toward the beginning of a new year, many of us are courageously taking stock of what is going on in our world. And as we do, our attention is drawn inexorably, and with discernment, to the storytelling fare that is being presented to us by the major...
I often mention that in the Western world, when we hear the word “shaman,” most of us tend to conjure up an image of a masked and costumed indigenous tribal person, dancing around a fire in the dark, involved in some sort of mysterious ritual, accompanied...
Adapted from Traveling between the Worlds: Conversations with Contemporary Shamans by Hillary S Webb, Hampton Roads, 2004. Anthropologist Hank Wesselman has been described by his peers as possessing “the sober objectivity of the trained scientist with the...
Originally posted on Deepak Chopra’s site www.howtoknowgod.com in March, 2001. Research paleoanthropologist Hank Wesselman, PhD is one of those rare cutting edge scientists who truly walks between the worlds. He did his undergraduate work, as well as his Masters...
