J Nigro Sansonese
Long ago the ancestors of the Greeks, Romans, and Hindus were one people living on the Eurasian steppes. At the core of their religion was the "shamanic trance," a natural state in which one's consciousness achieves a profound level of inner awareness. Over the course of millennia, knowledge of shamanic trance retreated from everyday awareness and was carried on in the form of myths and distilled into spiritual practices - most notably in the Indian tradition of Yoga. "A fresh and innovative view. What Sansonese has discovered and very nicely documented is the symbolic presence of the human organism in those least 'physical' of all events, myth and dream." Steve Larsen, author of The Shaman's Doorway
256pp, 10x8 ... Paperback
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Tenzin Wangyal Rinpoche
In the Shamanic world-view of Tibetan Bon, the five elements of earth, water, fire, air, and space are accessed through the raw powers of nature and through non-physical beings associated with the natural world. In the Tibetan tantric view, the elements are recognized as five kinds of energy in the body and are balanced with yogic movements, breathing exercises, and visualizations. In the highest teachings, Dzogchen, the elements are understood to be the radiance of being and are accessed through pure awareness. Healing with Form, Energy and Light offers the reader healing meditations and yogic practices on each of these levels. Tenzin Rinpoche's purpose in this book is to strengthen our connection to the sacred aspect of the natural world and to present a guide that explains why certain practices are necessary and in what situations practices are effective. This is a manual for transforming an anxious, narrow, uncomfortable identity into one that is expansive, peaceful and capable. And the world, too, is transformed from dead matter and blind processes into a sacred landscape filled with an infinite variety of living forces and beings.
176pp, 9x6 ... Paperback
Robert Wolff
Deep in the mountainous jungle of Malaysia the aboriginal Sng'oi exist on the edge of extinction, though their way of living may ultimately be the kind of existence that will allow us all to survive. The Sng'oi - pre-industrial, pre-agricultural, semi-nomadic - live without cars or cell phones, without clocks or schedules in a lush green place where worry and hurry, competition and suspicion are not known. Yet these indigenous people - as do many other aboriginal groups - possess an acute and uncanny sense of the energies, emotions, and intentions of their place and the living beings who populate it, and trustingly follow this intuition, using it to make decisions about their actions each day. Psychologist Robert Wolff lived with the Sng'oi, learned their language, shared their food, slept in their huts, and came to love and admire these people who respect silence, trust time to reveal and heal, and live entirely in the present with a sense of joy. Even more, he came to recognize the depth of our alienation from these basic qualities of life. Much more than a document of a disappearing people, Original Wisdom: Stories of an Ancient Way of Knowing holds a mirror to our own existence, allowing us to see how far we have wandered from the ways of the intuitive and trusting Sng'oi, and challenges us, in our fragmented world, to rediscover this humanity within ourselves.
208pp, 8½x5½ ... Paperback
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Ross Heaven & Howard G Charing
In Plant Spirit Shamanism, Ross Heaven and Howard G. Charing explore the use of one of the major allies of shamans for healing, seeing, dreaming, and empowerment - plant spirits. After observing great similarities in the use of plants among shamans throughout the world, they discovered the reason behind these similarities: Rather than dealing with the “medical properties” of the plants or specific healing techniques, shamans commune with the spirits of the plants themselves. From their years of in-depth shamanic work in the Amazon, Haiti, and Europe, including extensive field interviews with master shamans, Heaven and Charing present the core methods of plant shamanism used in healing rituals the world over: soul retrieval, spirit extraction, sin eating, and the Amazonian tradition of pusanga (love medicine). They explain the techniques shamans use to establish connections to plant spirits and provide practical exercises as well as a directory of traditional Amazonian and Caribbean healing plants and their common North American equivalents so readers can ex-plore the world of plant spirits and make allies of their own.
280pp, 9x6, illus. ... ISBN 1594771189 ... Paperback
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George McMullen
Running Bear's story begins at a time when the native American culture, living in harmony with nature, still thrived; it ends after the White Man had largely supplanted it, starting a cycle of devastation we've only recently begun to comprehend. Orphaned in the French and Indian wars, Running Bear is later adopted by the Mohawks. When he comes of age, he journeys back to his Huron village only to find it in ruins. Stripped of his heritage, Running Bear is destined to wander through a landscape increasingly poisoned by the White settlers' conflicts and passions. Speaking through psychic archaeologist George McMullen, we hear Running Bear's vivid account, spoken from spirit, of a grand dispossession.
168pp, 8.5x5.5 ... Paperback
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Steven Ash
The pulse of a drum will connect you with your bones, your heartbeat, your natural rhythm. Guided by a writer who grew up and studied on Native American reservations, join those throughout the world - from Siberia to South America, Australia to Africa - who venerate the drum for its healing and celebratory powers. Through painting, cleansing, blessing, smudging, dedicating, chanting, and performing, you'll find your own special beat, transforming the drum into a medicine tool and friend that brings joy and emotional rewards. Become one with an instrument that you buy or make yourself, and deepen your ever-growing relationship with the spiritual dimension. Draw on the knowledge of Native American and other cultures to drum away fear, purify, establish a sacred space, and reach into areas of the consciousness that would otherwise be inaccessible. Extra special bonus: a CD to learn from and enjoy, with an hour of drumming for a Sacred Directions ceremony, clearing space, medicine and healing, meditation, trance, group playing, and more!
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Ai Gvhdi Waya
Soul Recovery is about regaining the fragments of one's soul energy that have been trapped, lost or stolen either by another person or through a traumatic incident that has occurred in one's life. Taking back control of your life is at the heart of this shamanistic healing method. Here are a few signs of soul loss: depression, memory loss, especially from your growing up years, addictive behaviour of any kind, codependence, obesity, inability to release a person or situation, being controlled or manipulated by others, and a victim mentality. With soul recovery and extraction, an ancient shamanic healing method, you can recover your pieces and once again, be back in control of your life.
80pp, 8.5x5.5 ... Paperback
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Sandra Ingerman
With warmth and compassion, Sandra Ingerman describes the dramatic results of combining soul retrieval with contemporary psychological concepts. Drawing on case studies from her ten years of teaching and practice, Ingerman illustrates what psyche or soul damage is and why it is a common yet little understood cause of phycholigical dysfunction. Her pioneering work has enabled thousands of individuals to overcome traumatic dissociation, depression, addictions, memory repression, and other problems through the age-old shamanic technique of soul retrieval.
240pp, 9.5x6.25 ... ISBN 0062504061 ... Paperback
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Hank Wesselman
Not since Carlos Castaneda's tutelage under the Yaqui shaman Don Juan has there been a spiritual autobiography quite like Spiritwalker. Hank Wesselman's amazing true story begins with a series of vivid dreams he had while living on the flank of an active volcano in Hawaii. Eventually Wesselman became convinced that what he'd experienced were not merely dreams but a vision encounter with the spirit world. Why was he being propelled by these vivid altered states to embark on twelve fantastic journeys across time and space? Along the way he met shape-shifting entities, spirit helpers and guardians, and merged with a Hawaiian Kahuna mystic 5,000 years into the future. Wesselman's own scepticism makes his mysterious odyssey compelling reading for believers and doubters alike, and challenges our preconceptions of the world, reality, and our future. "What a fabulous, inspiring account! This book explodes our narrow ways of thinking about the nature of the mind." - Larry Dossey.
400pp, 9x6 ... Paperback
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Not since Carlos Castaneda's tutelage under the Yaqui shaman Don Juan has there been a spiritual autobiography quite like Wesselman's two books Spiritwalker and Medicinemaker. Hank Wesselman's amazing true story begins with a series of vivid dreams he had while living on the flank of an active volcano in Hawaii. Eventually Wesselman became convinced that what he'd experienced were not merely dreams but a vision encounter with the spirit world. Why was he being propelled by these vivid altered states to embark on twelve fantastic journeys across time and space? Along the way he met shape-shifting entities, spirit helpers and guardians, and merged with a Hawaiian Kahuna mystic, Nainoa, 5,000 years into the future. When Wesselman left Hawaii for San Diego, he feared that his connection with Nainoa would be severed forever. But then one day, a year later, in a trance of intense, exquisite clarity, Wesselman's mind merged once again with that of Nainoa. Over the course of the next five years and nine epic new journeys, the true purpose of their profound yet cryptic contact took shape. Wesselman's own scepticism makes his mysterious odyssey compelling reading for believers and doubters alike, and challenges our preconceptions of the world, reality, and our future.
336pp, 9x6 ... Paperback
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John Perkins
Deep in the rainforests and high in the Andes of Ecuador, native shamans teach the age-old technique of dream change. Now these shamans are turning their wisdom and power to the problems of curing a new kind of illness - that created by the industrial world’s dream of dominating and molding nature. John Perkins tells the story of these remarkable shamans and of the doctors, psychologists and scientists who have gone with him to learn the techniques of dream change. These shamanic teachings have sparked a revolution in modern concepts of healing, the subconscious, and the powers of each of us to alter individual and communal reality. Perkins had asked shamans of the Shuar tribe how he could help them. Their response was that they didn’t need help. It was his people who were destroying the world, who were dreaming the world in the wrong way. He should bring people to them so that they could learn how to dream a more harmonious world and how to heal themselves by changing their dreams of themselves in past, present and future. Highly recommended. Our 1995 "Book of the Year."
160pp, 9x6, illus. ... Paperback
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