Stars of the Shaman. Philosophy of the Shaman

The foundations of a holistic view of the world and the ideas of “the perennial philosophy,” laid down in this audiobook, help you see reality differently and understand your place in it.

Vladimir Serkin is a professor, Doctor of Psychological Sciences, and a lecturer in the Faculty of Psychology at NRU HSE (Moscow). He is the author of three textbooks on the methods of psychology of subjective semantics, two monographs, and more than 150 academic and academic-methodological publications. For twenty years, the author has been researching and describing a system of worldview and an unusual way of life of a person whom others call a shaman.

The book “The Shaman’s Laughter” (“The Shaman’s Freedom”) has gone through more than 30 reprints in Russian, was translated into Lithuanian, Bulgarian, and German (in Germany—three reprints), and is now being translated into other languages as well. In the new work—“The Shaman’s Stars” (the philosophy of the Shaman)—the author continues the story of dialogues, nonstandard practices, the way of life, and the worldview of a person whom many consider to be a shaman.

For many years now (perhaps almost an entire century), the shaman has lived in solitude in a zone of permanent frost, without any reliance on society. At the same time, he is astonishingly “pathologically healthy,” remains practical and rational, and from time to time visits cities to learn new forms of interaction, practices, and tools of a changing society. His thoughts and recommendations often sound paradoxical, but they frequently become a turning point: they help make life more meaningful, humane, healthy, well-ordered, and materially stable.