Shamanic Vision Quest: Native American Ritual, Depth Psychology, and Renaissance Natural Magic

Volume 14 No 2 (2016)

Kathryn LaFevers Evans

DOI: 10.14704/nq.2016.14.2.946

Abstract

This paper portrays the shamanic vision quest through dreamtime cosmologies, common to the disciplines of Native American ritual, depth psychology, and Renaissance natural magic. The subject matter of Native American ritual is my practice, of depth psychology is C.G. Jung’s The Red Book, and of Renaissance natural magic is Jacques Lefèvre d’Étaples’ De magia naturali. Whether through Native American medicine wheel or medieval geocentric cosmology, these disciplines are grounded in the physics of gravity: the most mundane law governing life on earth, yet perhaps also the most obscure law at play in quantum physics

Keywords

shaman, vision quest, depth psychology, natural magic, medicine wheel, graviton, gravitational waves, dark matter, black hole, individuation

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