"I don't know why, but memories well up in me about my counter with the Jesuit “Father” Caspar Miller, a white-haired old man from some place like Ohio. He lived for many years in Kathmandu and was practically a fixture at the Jesuit schools between Kathmandu and Patan. He wrote a book about shamanism in Nepal, entitled Faith Healers of the Himalayas, that has been reprinted a number of times. Shamanism, however, has nothing to do with faith. Shamanism is experience. It is only religion that is faith, because it lacks experience. Ever since the publication of this book, the seductive and misleading term “Faith healer” haunts the literature on the subject, Although Cass was a nice man, I asked him: What does a Jesuit have to do with shamanism? In response to my question I received a fantastic answer — he was given the assignment by his superiors to research shamanism with the goal that it could be more successfully penetrated and ultimately undone. The Jesuits go out into the world to spread the "Good News.” They do not do this in as superficial a manner as the Christian extremists, fundamentalists, and fanatics. They proceed more cleverly: first research, then destroy... Since the good father has never been in a trance before, he could not have experienced anything of the shamanic world. He was not allowed to do so. His superiors had forbidden him to get involved with the shamanic reality; he was only supposed to research the surface in order to discover holes for the Catholic Jesuit mission to make use of. When the good father explained that in principle there is no difference between shamanism and Catholicism because both of them battle “evil” I started to feel ill. I politely took leave of the Jesuit—and of the devil as well... Luckily the Jesuits have had a tough time of it with the shamans of Nepal. In the meantime, they have extensively established their missionary activities."