In this conversation, C. Michael Smith explores shamanism as a pathway to transformation, drawing on his decades of work bridging Jungian depth psychology and the shamanic traditions of cultures around the world. He speaks to shamanic healing and ceremony, the prophetic vision and its uncanny fulfillment, and what Jung called archetypal possession — the living, self-personifying images that move through the psyche. He reflects on the difference between pathologizing the psyche and tending it, and on what indigenous healing wisdom offers a disenchanted modern world.