It was announced that Michael J. Harner, author of The Way of the Shaman, died Feb. 3 at the age of 88. Dr. Harner was born in Washington D.C. in 1929. He received his doctorate in anthropology in 1963 from the University of California, Berkeley, after which he taught "at various institutions, including UC Berkeley, Columbia University, Yale University, and the graduate faculty of the New School in New York." Founder of the Foundation for Shamanic Studies, Harner was widely acknowledged as the world's foremost authority on shamanism and has had an enormous influence on both the academic and lay worlds. Michael Harner's legacy lives on through his thousands of students and practitioners of shamanism. His was an authentic life well lived and he will be deeply missed.
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