ABSTRACT
“Charisma” and “shamanism” are Western categories used to imagine origin stories. Weber wedded them in his model of political leadership, while Eliade focused on the latter in his evolutionary religious model, both drawing upon Greek metaphysics and Christianity in their efforts to escape the disenchantment of modernity. Harner, the psychedelic anthropologist, developed universal Core Shamanism techniques taught in his School of Shamanic Studies, fueling the efflorescence of Western neoshamanisms, in which individuals seek spiritual authenticity and authentic religious experience associated with imagined ideal Indigenous healers. This process has contributed to the erasure of the diversity of particular Indigenous shamanisms.
