About the author
Olga Kharitidi is a Russian-born psychiatrist and writer, known for two books recounting her encounters with shamanic and mystical traditions in Central Asia and Siberia. Entering the Circle describes a journey into the Altai Mountains where she was guided by practitioners of an old Siberian healing tradition, an experience she presents as having reshaped her understanding of psychiatry and reality. Master of Lucid Dreams follows her travels to Samarkand and engages with lucid dreaming as both a personal and cross-cultural practice. Kharitidi writes from her training as a psychiatrist, framing these accounts as a professional's encounter with traditions outside conventional Western medicine, rather than as clinical research. Her books belong to the memoir-and-travel strand of contemporary writing on shamanism and altered states, and will interest readers curious about non-Western healing traditions narrated by a Western-trained clinician who took them seriously enough to travel and study them firsthand.
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“Olga Kharitidi offers a compelling, albeit niche, exploration of healing through the lens of Central Asian mysticism. The narrative effectively blends her background as a psychiatrist with the esoteric teachings of Samarkand,…”
Esoterica Books editorial team, Occult literature desk · on Master of Lucid Dreams
“While Kharitidi’s journey is undeniably captivating for those open to metaphysical exploration, this book may frustrate readers seeking rigorous academic analysis or historical documentation. It is not suited for skeptics who…”
Esoterica Books editorial team, Occult literature desk · on Entering the Circle: Ancient Secrets of Siberian Wisdom Discovered by a Russian Psychiatrist
