INTERNATIONAL SCHOOL OF SHAMANISM

A school based in Atlanta that offers individual and group seminars and workshops, consultations,healing, rites of passage, and other services which aim to align an individual’s mind, body, and spirit and reconnect people with the sacredness ofnature. It was founded by Thomas Richard Lake, who is described as “an anointed shaman” and has studied withNorth American, Mexican, andSouth American(Brazilian and Peruvian) shamans; his interest in shamanism derives from a background in theology and holistic psychotherapy. Like similarneoshamanicorganizations, the school has more in common withNewAgemetanarratives of shamanism than with indigenous shamanisms embedded in local and community contexts.