The book is the first Russian monograph on the ontology, psychology and psychotechnics of shamanism for a wide range of readers. The authors of the book, Doctor of Psychology, Professor Vladimir Vasilyevich Kozlov, psychologist-researcher Alexei Karamyshev, analyzed the development of the psychology of shamanism from antiquity to the modern stage of the development of human civilization. The book reveals shamanism quite deeply as a cultural and psychological phenomenon.