Believe in Ghosts, then you must be vis visionaries, mystics, New Agers, recreational drug users and drug addicts,

 The west is well organised to discredit stories of other worlds. They are defective apprehensions, the products of deranged minds—the mad and drug-users. The visions do not correspond to anything that exists, and the seer should be helped to stop seeing them, with antipsychotic drugs and drug-rehabilitation programmes. 

So bringing home shamanic islands of stability requires taking seriously nonmodern versions of the self that are devalued and stigmatised in modernity, not least in academia. 

No doubt, shamanic stories ghosts etc do resonate with many people in the contemporary west, but they are visionaries, mystics, New Agers, recreational drug users and drug addicts, the mad and people verging on one of the many mental illnesses to which modernity is prone.