January 2012 Gathering of the Council

Members of the Circle of the Foundation: The annual Gathering of the Council, January 27 – 28, 2012 in Mill Valley, California. The gathering begins Friday, January 27, 2012 with a special evening presentation with FSS Field Associate Leslie Conton, Ph.D. All...

Peruvian Shamans Murdered – Please act now

December 15, 2011 UPDATE ON MURDERED PERUVIAN SHAMANS In early October, the Foundation learned of the reported murder of 14 Peruvian shamans in the northeastern jungle region of Loreto. The Foundation called for action (see thread below) from its constituents to...

FSS in Mongolia

FSS Faculty Kevin Turner spent July 2011 on field assignment in Mongolia where he represented FSS at the Ataa Tenger Conference of International Shamanic Studies. Kevin spoke on core shamanism in Asia, and met a number of researchers involved in central Asian...

The Shamanism Annual – FSS Scholarly Journal

Once a year, the Foundation issues its scholarly journal the Shamanism Annual. For more than 30 years, the Foundation has been offering authentic writings on the contemporary and indigenous practices of shamanism around the globe, first with Shamanism and now with the...

Michael Harner’s The Way of the Shaman in French and Mongolian

Michael Harner’s book The Way of the Shaman has recently been released in French in a new translation. This translation, La Voie du chamane, by Laurent Huguelit, who is an FSS faculty member in Europe, provides an effective rendition of this classic work. It is...