The personal mythology of a shamanic healer.

Ever since the time of our cave-dwelling ancestors, listeners have gathered around the evening fires, eager to hear stories shared by members of their tribes. Storytelling has long been identified as a skill par excellence of the shaman.

Feinstein describes the shaman as a individual whose function is to "guard, transmit, and cultivate changes in the culture's inherent mythology" (1987, 267). Kremer states that shamanic acts "be they shamanic journeys, healings divinations, or other phenomena connected with contact with nonordinary reality, are reflected in the continu