Taking a one-hour journey with Laura Beann of Napa could mean finding ancestors, talking with animals and discovering a part of yourself you had long forgotten – or perhaps had never even known about.

I was in San Miguel de Allende, Mexico, a few years ago for vacation and stopped by an outdoor bar with flowers climbing up the stone walls. I struck up a conversation with a couple, and while we ...

Sitting on the floor of his offices in Annapolis Sunday afternoon, shamanic practitioner Paul Sivert beat steadily on his drum, the two dozen people around him listening intently with their eyes ...

Shamanism, humankind's oldest spiritual and healing tradition, is in many cultures dominated by men, and Western skeptics often debunk its effectiveness. In a groundbreaking new book published last ...

DAVIS, CA – For over a decade, Manvir Singh, an assistant professor of anthropology at UC Davis, has immersed himself in the study of shamanism, conducting ethnographic fieldwork with Mentawai ...