When we look at many of the ancient shamanic cultures of yesteryear, be it the Altai Shaman, the Mudang Shaman, the Siberian Shaman, the Tamang Shaman, the Tungus Shaman, or the Yakut Shaman, there is one prerequisite that the prospective shaman or the shaman to be must satisfy in order to gain his or her shamanic abilities, and that is to undergo the near-death experience. The near-death experience from all accounts can be the result of a natural illness or a result of an induced illness that reduces the shaman-prospect to the near-death state. Before we go any further it would be appropriate to define or give a definition to the word shaman and though they sometimes act as healers or medicine men or women, shamans are not always necessarily healers. Shamans in short are those among us who have the ability to see and communicate with spirits and it is with the help of these spirits that shamans are able to concoct remedies and foretell the future or remove hexes and malediction