Two who live the path.
Shamanism cannot be transmitted by textbooks. Only by people who have walked the way themselves. Dr. Mark Hosak and Eileen Wiesmann bring academic depth and over thirty years of lived practice to every initiation they give.
From Heidelberg art historian
to wolf shaman.
Mark holds a doctorate in East Asian art history · he studied at Heidelberg and spent three years researching Japanese sacred art at Kyoto University. His dissertation deals with the Siddham script and the iconographic foundations of ritual practice — a work that attempts the rare bridge between academic rigor and lived initiation tradition.
During his Kyoto years he encountered Taguchi Sensei, in whose Ninjutsu lineage he was later confirmed as successor. He is a researcher and practitioner of the Shingon tradition and has walked the entire Shikoku 88-temple pilgrimage on foot — one of the most demanding and longest pilgrim routes in the world.
In parallel, his path led him into other shamanic traditions. Vodou initiation in a direct lineage, with references to the West African Loup de Baron; shamanic initiations across the cultural realms of the wolf (Ōkami in Japan, Golden Jackal and Anubis in Africa, Fenrir in Northern Europe); work with Egyptian ritual texts; Daoist body practice. Over thirty years of lived practice, today converging in the wolf shaman lineage.
Mark is the author of three books: "The Master Path of the Wolf Shamans" (2025), "Shamanic Healing Drumming" and "The Big Book of Reiki Symbols" — the latter an international bestseller in German and English that translates the Siddham research of his dissertation into spiritual practice.
What stands out — and what everyone who has worked with him says — is the fusion of academic precision and real shamanic depth. No wellness reiki. No esoteric clichés. The things work because they have worked for centuries — and because he received them firsthand from the masters of their lineages. Indiana Jones meets Zen monk, but with the actual scholarship.
What Mark himself says.
"I never wanted to become a wolf shaman. I wanted to understand the symbols that fascinated me as a child. Ninja signs in films, scrolls in manga, the strange scribbles on old Japanese talismans. Three decades later I know: they all come from one source. And they really work."
Mark is married and lives in Germany. He speaks German, English, Japanese. He travels regularly to Japan, to Haiti, to shamanic places in Northern Europe.
Religious historian with
shamanic practice.
Eileen is a historian with a master's degree · her academic focus is religious history. Her doctoral thesis investigates Daoist ritual in Japanese folk magic — a field where two of the five traditions covered on Shamanic Worlds overlap, and which almost no one has worked through academically in the West.
Her path as a shaman did not begin in a weekend course, but in a deep spiritual experience at the Abe no Seimei shrine in Kyoto — the main shrine of the most famous onmyōji in Japanese history. What happened there connects her to Japanese folk magic on a level that purely academic study could never reach.
Eileen works as a shaman and mentor, especially with sensitive and highly perceptive people. She has an extraordinary feel for what is said between the words — and the precision of a historian able to tell genuine from staged traditions.
In the work with Mark she brings in the female shamanic perspective — Eileen is the shamaness (巫), Mark is the shaman (覡). This polarity is no marketing gimmick but lived division of labour: certain initiations flow differently when a woman gives them. Certain layers of perception open more deeply for sensitive practitioners when they are guided by a perceptive female initiator.
What Eileen herself says.
"I am not a weekend shaman. I am writing a doctoral thesis on the exact rites I practice — because the two belong together. The mind is not the enemy of the soul. When you use both well, they amplify each other."
Eileen especially likes to guide people who have long sensed that there is more — but have not yet arrived anywhere that felt right. Her door is open for the perceptive, the seriously searching, those who have left the wellness course behind.
Further project by Eileen · tantracat.com · sensuality as spiritual power.
Two voices · one work.
Mark and Eileen work as equals. No hierarchy · no assistant construction. Two independent paths that complement each other in shared practice.
At live events they take turns. In one-on-one guidance some practitioners get Mark, others Eileen — depending on theme and resonance. At certain initiations both work together — that is the moment when the polarity of shaman (覡) and shamaness (巫) sounds in its full register.
They are co-writing the new Shingon Reiki book — the second major work of the lineage, after Mark's international bestseller. Both are part of the "Schamanische Welten" podcast, both run regular conversations and live sessions.
What unites them: uncompromising academic honesty and at the same time the willingness to take the undocumented seriously. What a shaman sees, he sees. What a historian analyzes, she analyzes. Both belong in serious work.