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H A Senn

Pitzer College, Claremont, California 91711.

1 paper in the library · 4 citations · publishing 1989

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Jungian shamanism.

Journal of psychoactive drugs January 1, 1989 H A Senn 4 citations

Shamanism is typically defined by five features: a call via illness or accident, a method for entering altered states of consciousness, the quality of those states, a healing process, and psychic feats. The life and work of Carl Jung exemplified all five, including childhood dreams and waking fantasies, active imagination for inducing altered states, contact with unconscious forces and archetypes, a dual personality, dialogue with the inner world, use of these discoveries for healing, and reported psychic abilities like clairvoyance and out-of-body experiences.