WIZARD OF THE FOUR WINDS: A SHAMAN'S STORY
Author | : Douglas Sharon |
Publisher | : Free Press |
Total Pages | : 256 |
Release | : 1978-12 |
Genre | : Body, Mind & Spirit |
ISBN | : |
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Author | : Douglas Sharon |
Publisher | : Free Press |
Total Pages | : 256 |
Release | : 1978-12 |
Genre | : Body, Mind & Spirit |
ISBN | : |
Author | : Gini Graham Scott |
Publisher | : Penguin |
Total Pages | : 338 |
Release | : 2002-06-01 |
Genre | : Body, Mind & Spirit |
ISBN | : 1440695784 |
You’re no idiot, of course. You know that shamans are also known as medicine men and women, who use the power of the mind and call on spiritual helpers to heal the afflicted. However, this ancient art has been put to more modern uses, including problem-solving, empowerment, and personal mastery. But you don’t have to trek through steamy Amazonian jungles or frigid Siberian tundra to become enlightened in the ways of shamanism! The Complete Idiot’s Guide® to Shamanism will show exactly how to discover your own shamanic power—and how that power will guide you in your everyday life! In this Complete Idiot’s Guide®, you get: - Shamanic history—from its origins in Paleolithic times to its spreading influence today. - Power animals—where to locate them and how they communicate with you. - How to take a shamanic journey—traveling through the Lower, Upper, and Middle Worlds, and exploring your past or future. - Shamanic healing techniques in use with modern medicine.
Author | : Robert J. Wallis |
Publisher | : Routledge |
Total Pages | : 322 |
Release | : 2003-12-08 |
Genre | : Education |
ISBN | : 1134416121 |
Robert J. Wallis explores the interface between the 'new' and prehistoric shamans of popular culture and anthropology, drawing on interviews with a variety of practitioners, particularly contemporary pagans in Britain and orth America.
Author | : Sudhir Kakar |
Publisher | : Knopf |
Total Pages | : 393 |
Release | : 2013-04-03 |
Genre | : Body, Mind & Spirit |
ISBN | : 0307831795 |
Shamans, Mystics and Doctors is a detailed and thoroughly fascinating account of the many ways in which the ancient healing traditions of India—embodied in the rituals of shamans, the teachings of gurus and the precepts of the school of medicine known as Ayurveda—diagnose and treat emotional disorder. Drawing on three years of intensive fieldwork and his own psychoanalytic training and experience, Sudhir Kakar takes us into a world of Islamic mosques and Hindu temples, of assembled multitudes, and dingy, out-of-the-way consultation rooms… a world where patients and healers blame evil spirits for emotional disturbances… where dreams and symptoms that would be familiar to Freud are interpreted in terms of a myriad of deities and legends… where trance-like “dissociation states” are induced to bring out and resolve the conflicts of repressed anger, lust and envy… where proper grooming, diet, exercise and conduct are (and have been for centuries) seen as essential to the preservation of a healthy mind and body. As he witnesses the practitioners and their patients, as he elucidates the therapeutic systems on which their encounters are based, as he contrasts his own Western training and biases with evidence of his eyes (and the sympathies of his heart), Kakar reveals the universal concerns of these individuals and their admittedly foreign cultures—people we can recognize and feel for, people (like their Western counterparts) trying to find some balance between the pressures and rewards of the external world and the fantasies and desires of the internal. This is a major work of cultural interpretation, a book that challenges (and should enhance) our understanding of therapy, mental health and individual freedom.
Author | : Ruth-Inge Heinze |
Publisher | : Ardent Media |
Total Pages | : 284 |
Release | : 1991 |
Genre | : Body, Mind & Spirit |
ISBN | : 9780829024593 |
"In Shamans of the 20th Century, anthropologist Ruth-Inge Heinze takes a critical look at the global re-emergence of the shaman in the late twentieth century, redefiing the role of the shama at a time when we in the West are questioning both our ways of knowing and medical practice. A pioneering work, hers is a much needed synthesis between third-world and primal people's holistic understanding of healing as embracing the total human condition-social, emotional, psychological as well as physical, and the radically innovative stance of Western New Age healers. Elinor W. Gadon" -- Back cover.
Author | : Graham Harvey |
Publisher | : Rowman & Littlefield |
Total Pages | : 334 |
Release | : 2010-04 |
Genre | : Shamanism |
ISBN | : 0810876000 |
Explores the common ground of shamanic traditions and evaluates the diversity of both traditional indigenous communities and individual Western seekers.
Author | : Graham Harvey |
Publisher | : Rowman & Littlefield |
Total Pages | : 394 |
Release | : 2015-12-15 |
Genre | : Religion |
ISBN | : 1442257989 |
A remarkable array of people have been called shamans, while the phenomena identified as shamanism continues to proliferate. This second edition of the Historical Dictionary of Shamanism contains with examples from antiquity up to today, and from Siberia (where the term “shaman” originated) to Amazonia, South Africa, Chicago and many other places. Many claims about shamans and shamanism are contentious and all are worthy of discussion. In the most widespread understandings, terms seem to refer particularly to people who alter states of consciousness or enter trances in order to seek knowledge and help from powerful other-than-human persons, perhaps “spirits”. But this says only a little about the artists, community leaders, spiritual healers or hucksters, travelers in alternative realities and so on to which the label “shaman” has been applied. This second edition contains a chronology, an introduction, and extensive bibliography. The dictionary contains over 500 cross-referenced dictionary entries on individuals, groups, practices and cultures that have been called “shamanic”. This book is an excellent access point for students, researchers, and anyone wanting to know more about Shamanism.
Author | : International Association for the History of Religions. Congress |
Publisher | : BRILL |
Total Pages | : 364 |
Release | : 2000 |
Genre | : Religion |
ISBN | : 9789004118775 |
This volume is the adjunct proceedings on methodology from the XVIIth Congress of the International Association for the History of Religions, held in Mexico City in 1995. Taken together, the essays present a thorough and coherent perspective on studying religion as an item of human culture.
Author | : Mariko Namba Walter |
Publisher | : Bloomsbury Publishing USA |
Total Pages | : 1088 |
Release | : 2004-12-15 |
Genre | : Religion |
ISBN | : 1576076466 |
A guide to worldwide shamanism and shamanistic practices, emphasizing historical and current cultural adaptations. This two-volume reference is the first international survey of shamanistic beliefs from prehistory to the present day. In nearly 200 detailed, readable entries, leading ethnographers, psychologists, archaeologists, historians, and scholars of religion and folk literature explain the general principles of shamanism as well as the details of widely varied practices. What is it like to be a shaman? Entries describe, region by region, the traits, such as sicknesses and dreams, that mark a person as a shaman, as well as the training undertaken by initiates. They detail the costumes, music, rituals, artifacts, and drugs that shamans use to achieve altered states of consciousness, communicate with spirits, travel in the spirit world, and retrieve souls. Unlike most Western books on shamanism, which focus narrowly on the individual's experience of healing and trance, Shamanism also examines the function of shamanism in society from social, political, and historical perspectives and identifies the ancient, continuous thread that connects shamanistic beliefs and rituals across cultures and millennia.
Author | : Graham Harvey |
Publisher | : Psychology Press |
Total Pages | : 488 |
Release | : 2003 |
Genre | : Body, Mind & Spirit |
ISBN | : 9780415253291 |
This is an essential tribute to the vitality and breadth of shamanic tradition both amongst the most distant tribes of America and Asia, and within seemingly ordinary aspects of modern western culture.