Sky Shamans of Mongolia: Meetings with Remarkable Healers

This astounding, inspiring book by American shaman Kevin Turner captures the beliefs and practices of the growing world of Mongolian shamans and will appeal to shamans and shamanic therapists, students of Mongolian culture and comparative religion, and fans of gritty travel memoirs in the vein of Paul Theroux.

Part spiritual travelogue, part participant-observer anthropological essay, this book takes the reader to visit with authentic shamans in the steppes and Stalinist-era housing projects of modern-day Mongolia. Along the way the author tells us the history of Mongolian shamanism and its unique features- a mix of direct experience of other realities with religious belief systems known as Tengerism–a belief in sky gods or heaven. Turner tells of spontaneous medical diagnoses, all-night shamanic ceremonies, and miraculous healings, all welling from a rich culture in which divination, soul-retrieval, and spirit depossession are practiced as part of everyday life.