Yup, very easily could just be faith healing. But that’s the tradition. A shaman isn’t a monk.

I’m pointing it out so you can be more precise in your language, not trying to convince you shamanism is real. Shamanism is the only living tradition associated with serotonergic psychedelics, and it is a medical tradition, and it is practical and methodological.

Whether you think it’s fake or not is for you to decide. Now that I see what you think of it, I am happy to see your opinion reflects more detailed information. This is a good thing. You know the difference now. A shaman isn’t a monk. They’re a doctor, and their work is mostly concerned with mundane medical things - not apotheosis, henosis, nirvana, moksha, or similar categories.

I’m not trying to promote shamanism itself: just technique, inferring from the only living tradition with serotonergic psychedelics (shamanism) that technique is central. Other (non-traditional) methodological techniques, such as yoga or meditation, in my experience deepen the psychedelic experience (and conversely, the psychedelic experience deepens meditation and yoga). It seems to reflect what shamans report, that technique deepens things.

So, I want it to get into the collective consciousness: set and setting is only 2/3. Skillset completes the formula from the 1960’s, and is the more traditional view.