If we broaden the scope a bit we can quickly include medicine men and women, witch doctors, sorcerers, magicians, healers and mystics. A little further and we get the seer, the prophet/prophetess and the priestess/priest. While we’re being generous, we can begin to add those individuals that stretch and expand our consciousness--artists, musicians, poets, philosophers, explorers, and, yes, scientists.
Staunch shamanites would make loud po-po noises if we tried to include Greek, Minoan, Celtic, Norse, Mesopotamian, or Egyptian culture into the mix, let alone the Romans or the Renaissance. The cold, calculating, critical thought of the “West” is to be most po-po’d.
The “Wizard of Menlo Park,”
that modern Prometheus, would take cat-naps under a counter in his lab
(to avoid the bill collectors). Einstein speculated on the nature
of the universe while riding a bicycle. William Blake would have
conversations with angels while lying nude on his lawn. Many people
were taught to appreciate the world by a deaf, dumb and blind Hellen Keller.
Aldous Huxley cleansed the doors of his perception with hallucinogens.
Picasso once painted on a little girl to show the transientness of his
work. Our modern world needs people that can help us understand our
nature. Our modern world has people that can communicate with this
world, the one at hand, and inform us of its way, its usefulness, its purpose--its
nature. 
“Four score and seven years ago, our forefathers brought forth, on this continent, a new nation.” This is no Indian legend. This was penned on the back of an envelope, before cars and planes and moving pictures and computers. But to some it is too modern. It was written with pen and paper, on a train, and to some is much too modern. But it is legend, just the same. This is our world. The world we live in. And we must make sense of it.
There are incantations, potions, festivals, journeys, amulets, chants, ecstatic techniques and healing methods in this world. They are not more valid than the other methods, those of “true” shamans, but they are here. We can not shun them or they will bite us in the ass just as the old ways, which we have shunned, have come to bite us. They are as much a part of our nature as the air we breathe.
Smith, Michael C. Jung and Shamanism in Dialogue:
Retrieving the Soul/Retrieving the Sacred. New Jersey: Paulist
Press, 1997.