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This month's featured homepage features the multimedia story, "The Shaman's Journey." The story is told in a series of collages along with a written story line. This project was inspired by Joseph Campbell's idea of a universal hero's journey that can be found in stories in every human culture , and also by the the cross-cultural phenomenon of the shaman.
Michael Harner , anthropologist and founder of the Foundation for Shamanic Studies , explains the meaning of this term:
The word shaman in the original Tungus language refers to a person who makes journeys to nonordinary reality in an altered state of consciousness ... Although the term is from Siberia, the practice of shamanism existed on all inhabited continents.