REALM

August 5, 2025, 3:49 PM

From page 6:

“A notable example of this reductionist tendency in scholar of religion, Daniel C. Noel’s book: ‘The Soul of Shamanism.’ Noel IMPLIES that the proper way for Westerners to enter the shamanic realm is by EXERCISING THEIR IMAGINATIONS BY READING NOVELS.”

(SEE endnote #6 on page 349: Daniel C. Noel, 1997, “The Soul of Shamanism: Western Fantasies, Imaginal Realities, (New York: Continuum) page 60.

August 5, 2025, 3:33 PM

From Page 5:

“Many multi-disciplinary works also FAIL to engage the Native American worldview (ie: how Native Americans understand their own culture). Authors REDUCE their subjects to familiar and comfortable categories rather than venture into realms that QUESTION common beliefs about reality.”

(see endnote #5, page 349: Bert Kaplan and Dale Johnson, 1964, Navaho Psychopathy in Magic, Faith, and Healing: Studies in Primitive Psychiatry Today, ed. Ari Kiev, M.D., (New York: Macmillan) pages 203-229.