The roots of Siberian shamanism encompass a vast region in Asia. Indigenous peoples of Siberia have practiced it for centuries through various rituals. Siberian shamans engage in mind-altering states ...

In the southern Russian region of Siberia, along Lake Baikal, and just north of Mongolia, lies Buryatia. A federal subject of Russia, this republic is the modern version of an ancient offshoot of the ...

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Long suppressed by missionaries and then by Soviet antireligious campaigns Siberian shamanism has experienced an unprecedented revival following the collapse of the Soviet Union and the number of ...

They are shamans—called by spirits to heal bodies, minds, and souls—and their numbers are growing.

(RNS) — Aleksandr Gabyshev, a member of Russia’s far eastern Yakut ethnic group and a practitioner of Siberian shamanism, has been indefinitely confined to a mental institution after losing an appeal ...

But there are big differences in the way that shamans operate in distinct societies. In Siberia, shamans’ trances are generally described as being a kind of “out-of-body” experience, in which they ...

YAKUTSK, Russia -- A court in Russia has ruled that Aleksandr Gabyshev, a shaman in the Siberian region of Yakutia who gained notoriety in 2019 after declaring that he wanted to drive President ...