| In My Personal
Shamanic Library |
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Andrews, Ted. Animal-Speak: The Spiritual & Magical Powers of Creatures Great & Small. Llewellyn, 1996. |
A useful compendium of totems and descriptions of power animals. A great introductory section on honoring your power animal through dance, tool-making, ceremony, and ritual. Note: I would not take anything said in this book (or on any web site either, for that matter ;-) as gospel. Observe the animals themselves to determine whether Andrews' statements ring true for you. Your relationship with the spirits contains its own truth. Use what works for you.
Discard the rest. |
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| Andrews, Ted. The
Healer's Manual: A Beginner's Guide to Energy Therapies. Llewellyn Publications, 2002. |
One of the first books that I
bought soon after I had taken my first Reiki class and energy medicine class. This book has interesting and useful exercises on shielding, and on directing and modulating bioenergies. A lot of people don't like Andrews, fussing that he tends to give his opinions the force of fact. I find that if you read his works with the idea that his is one way of doing things, it works just fine. |
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| Andrews, Ted. Nature-Speak:
Signs, Omens and Messages in Nature. Dragonhawk Publishing, 2004. |
Another compendium, with entries
about trees, land shapes, and non-animal descriptions. |
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| Berggren, Karen. Circle
of Shaman; Healing Through Ecstasy, Rhythm, and Myth. Destiny Books, 1998. |
This is an interesting little
book and an easy read. In it, the author describes her fascinating journey to her unique shamanic practice, catapulted there by spontaneous journeys while drumming and dancing. She frequently references Gabrielle Roth and that author's works with similar practices and roads to the Otherworld. This book is sweet, inspiring, and quite unique in its approach and content. I can't help but recall dances to honor my own power animals, and dances taught me by shamanic teachers to take me to other places. This book certainly has its place on my shamanic book shelf. |
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| Berney, Charlotte. Fundamentals
of Hawaiian Mysticism. Crossing Press, 2000. |
An amazingly pithy little
book. Drawing on much of the work of Max Freedom Long, this book outlines his discoveries of what he termed huna, and which he codified into a system of spiritual and mystical knowledge. Long did not claim to have found hidden 'secrets', though some of his titles use that word, but rather truths which he said could be experimented with and either proved by practice or discarded. This little book distills much of his work into hard little gems of practice with added commentary and suggestion. It is all about fundamentals, the bedrock of what Max Freedom Long said that huna is all about. Easily grasped; may take a lifetime to master. Highly Recommended. |
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| Bopp,
Judie, Michael Bopp, Lee Brown and Phil Lane. The Sacred Tree: Reflections on Native American Spirituality. Lotus Light Publications, 1984. |
A slim volume that covers
energies and essences of the four directions. Short and sweet and filled with Great Stuff. |
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| Boyd, Doug. Mad Bear: Spirit, Healing and the Sacred
in the Life of a Native American Medicine Man. Touchstone, 1994. |
I enjoyed these accounts of Mr.
Boyd's travels and his observations of healings with Mad Bear. They have made me more aware of the complete world around me, and not just what I'm seeing with my physical eyes. |
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| Boyd, Doug. Rolling Thunder. Bantam
Doubleday, 1982 |
Another good read by Mr. Boyd
about his travels with Medicine People. Rolling Thunder deals a lot with "medicine", what it is, what it is not, and how one dances with it in one's relationship with Spirit. |
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| Brown, Tom, jr. Awakening
Spirits: A Native American Path to Inner Peace, Healing and Spiritual Growth. Berkeley Trade, 1994. |
The book that primed me for
shamanism. His "sacred silence" meditations are actually shamanic journeys. I just didn't know it at the time :-) |
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| Camateros, Amalia. Spirit
of the Stones; A Retrieval of Earth Wisdom. Earthspeak Publications, 2006. |
Good stuff here - the flowery
and overblown language was a bit much for me at times, but there is a good message here. I love her web site and the youtube clips of her talking about her process. The book gets a rather glowing review on the cover from Hank Wesselman, a noted shamanic practitioner with many titles to his name. AND she gets a great endorsement from Rabbi Gershon Winkler, whose book I list here and which I also love. Not about shamanism per se, but a very, very shamanic approach to and use of earth energies. She can be found on the web at |
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| Cloutier, David. Spirit,
Spirit: Shaman Songs. Copper Beech Press, 1980. |
A wonderful slim volume of
shaman power songs, healing songs, and transformational songs collected from indigenous peoples. Some of these can take your breath away. |
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| Cowan, Tom. Fire in the Head: Shamanism and the
Celtic Spirit. HarperOne, 1993. |
A much more scholarly work by
Mr. Cowan. A bit over my head at times, I'll admit. |
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| Cowan, Tom. Pocket Guide to Shamanism.
Crossing Press, 1997. |
A concise little book by one of
my favorite shamanic authors containing an amazing amount of very good information. Also has good ideas for journeys. This little book is *packed* with references to other very important shamanic teachers and authors. As always, Mr. Cowan gives beautifully crafted, succint discussion on a very wide variety of discussions about shamanism and on the many faces of shamanic practice. Recommended. |
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| Cowan, Tom. Shamanism as a Spiritual Practice for
Daily Life. Genealogical Services, Crossing Press, 1996 |
One of my favorite books on
shamanism. Tom gives amazing insight and ideas about incorporating shamanism into everyday life. Lots of ideas for journeying and mental fodder for creating "shamanic courses of study" for oneself to pursue. Thought-provoking. |
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| Cowan, Tom and Sandra
Ingerman. Yearning for the Wind: Celtic Reflections on Nature and the Soul. New World Library, 2003. |
A beautifully written
book. Tom's lyrical view of this magical world is utterly infectious. Not exactly a shamanic technique primer, but a study in different ways of seeing, nevertheless. |
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| Crockett, Tom. Stone
Age Wisdom: The Healing Principles of Shamanism. Fair Winds Press, 2003. |
A profoundly simple distillation
of shamanic principles. One of the most important shamanic books on my shelves. Highly Recommended. |
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| Crockett, Tom. Turtle Island Dreaming.
Grand Central Publishing, 2000. |
A fictional tale using and
illustrating shamanic
principles and ideas. |
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| Day, Kenn. Dance
of Stones; A Shamanic Road Trip. Dhyanna Press, 2008. |
This is a gem of a book, and now
one of my favorites. Writing of a real road trip with a German friend through sacred sites in France, and in the UK, Mr. Day ends each chapter with a discussion, a Deepening section that is one of the reasons I love this book. The Deepenings talk about the real work of the modern shaman, and in a way that I've not seen or heard from any other modern practitioner. Dance of Stones obliquely talks about the Medicine Body, our energetic body, and about an enhanced method of doing journey work using what Mr. Day refers to as the 'shamans body'. This book most closely paralelled my own experiences in the many years leading up to my shamanic awakening. Highly Recommended. |
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| Eaton, Evelyn. I
send a voice: A First Person Account of the Consciousness-Expanding, Transforming Rites of an Amerindian Sweat Lodge. Quest Books, 1995. |
Required reading for the
two-week shamanic healing intensive I attended in September of 2008. |
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| Eliade,
Mircea. Shamanism:
Archaic Techniques of Ecstasy. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2004. |
The classic survey bible of
shamanism and shamanic practices. Eliade was a religious historian working in the mid 1900s. This classic work is a survey of literally thousands of sources about shamanism and its manifestations all over the world. A scholarly tome. Lots and LOTS of footnotes. Originally published in French. An indispensible reference book for the serious practitioner. |
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| Eshowsky, Myron. Peace
with Cancer; Shamanism as a Spiritual Approach to Healing. Shoshanna Publications, 2009. |
From his author blurb: "Mr. Eschowsky is an author and consultant. His work has primarily focused on the question of how to bring healing to severely traumatized populations. He was the first shamanic practitioner in the United States to be covered by a health insurance plan specifically to provide shamanic healing." A wonderful approach to working with cancer patients and other traumatic illnesses and events. Replete with stories and case studies from his healing career, and with many, many exercises for the healer and for those wishing to be healed. His approach is full of heart and beauty. This is a small, self-published book. Also available is a PDF e-book version from his web site (see below). If you are a healer working with people with severe illness, get this book! It has an amazing array of journey ideas, case studies and personal anecdotes that I've not found elsewhere. See also links to Mr. Eshowsky's web sites below. |
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| Ewing, Jim Pathfinder. Clearing:
Liberating Energies trapped in Buildings and Lands. Findhorn Press, Findhorn, Scotland, 2006. |
An interesting book about
working with the energetic spirits of Buildings, land, both small and large tracts. Putting these concepts together with Reiki and with shamanic energy techniques makes for a very powerful combination. |
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| Ewing, Jim Pathfinder. Finding
Sanctuary in Nature: Simple Ceremonies in The Native American Tradition for Healing Yourself and Others. Findhorn Press, Findhorn, Scotland, 2007. |
The Amazon comments for this
book compliment the author on giving information on ceremony without betraying any tribal wisdom or secrets. The book says a lot about what ceremony is, how to prepare for it, and how to create it in an organic and authentic way. |
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| Ewing, Jim Pathfinder. Reiki
Shamanism: A Guide to Out-of- Body Healing. Findhorn Press, Findhorn Scotland, 2008. |
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| Fiore, Edith. The
Unquiet Dead; A Psychologist Treats Spirit Possession. Ballantine, 1987. |
This is a handy little book that
very efficiently sums up the possession dynamic and one of its treatments. Dr. Fiore's method is strikingly similar to the shamanic method of depossession that I was trained in. If you would like to understand more about possession and depossession, I would recommend this book. The book contains important information and self-protection exercises on how to prevent spirit possession as well, though these are lacking in detail and also lack some important safety information. My only caveat is that Dr. Fiore is working as a psychotherapist and omits a couple of important details in her method which I consider to be essential. I would not recommend that you use her method as outlined here without some additional training; she does not explain adequately about self-protection, nor does her method ensure that the possessing being won't return. Though using a very compassionate approach, her method is incomplete. |
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| Halifax, Joan. Shamanic Voices: A Survey of
Visionary Narratives. Penguin, 1991. |
I really loved this book.
It's a survey of interviews with shamans from all over. The tales they tell and the ideas they present are pretty fascinating. |
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| Harner, Michael. The Way of the Shaman.
HarperOne, 1990. |
The granddaddy text for the
modern, western shaman. Michael Harner re-introduced shamanism to the western world after doing field work with Central American shamans. Creator of the Foundation for Shamanic Studies, the non-profit educational foundation in the US dedicated to presenting and preserving "core shamanic" techniques, shamanic techniques stripped of its cultural content. This book is slim, a mere 150 pages including the appendices, but it is absolutely packed with information, both in precise shamanic formulae for journeying, shamanic healing and extraction techniques, and also with a wonderful bibliography at the end. The techniques for the Salish Spirit Canoe, a powerful group healing method, are outlined in fine detail, as are techniques for extraction healing and for journeying in general. I personally balk a little at Harner's prescriptions for drumming speed, but other than that, a most excellent reference to have. |
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| Hunt, Norman Bancroft. Shamanism
in North America. Firefly Books, 2003. |
A beautiful compendium of
shamanic peoples, pictures of shamanic tools, maps. Gorgeous book. |
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| Ingerman, Sandra. Medicine
for the Earth: How to Transform Personal and Environmental Toxins. Three Rivers Press, 2001. |
Sandra Ingerman's wonderful book
on transmutation of personal and environmental situations, toxins. Excellent exercises and lots to take home from this book. |
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| Ingerman, Sandra. Soul Retrieval: Mending the
Fragmented Self. HarperOne, 2006. |
Sandra Ingerman is credited with
bringing the technique of Soul Retrieval back into mainstream Western shamanic practice. Her books are an amazing tour of the technique and its effects on the lives of her clients. I loved reading the case studies. |
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| Ingerman, Sandra. Welcome Home: Following Your Soul's Journey Home. HarperOne, 1994. |
More case studies, and
furthering the techniques of Soul Retrieval. A great read, and on my shelf prominently. |
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| Kaldera, Raven. Wyrdwalking:
Techniques of Northern-Tradition Shamanism. Northern-Tradition ShamanismBook III. Asphodel Press, 2006. |
This amazing, not-so-little tome
is extraordinary. It contains a wealth of information that is not even hinted at in any other source that I've been able to find. Much of it is spirit taught and comes from the author's direct experiences through his travels in the Nine Worlds and with interactions with the inhabitants he finds there. If you suspect that you have this tradition in your ancestral line and are called to working with Norse deities, I would strongly recommend this book and all of its companions. Available in PDF and printed form from Lulu.com, the printed volume I bought was quite lovely and well-made. The content is nonpareil. |
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| King, Serge Kahili, Ph.D. Dangerous
Journeys: A Teaching Story by Serge Kahili King. Hunaworks, 2002. |
Actually a pretty fun
read. A detective/adventure story set in places I'd just returned from when I bought this and read it. It describes many ways to use shamanic tools in ordinary and in non-ordinary reality. The story may be fiction, but many of the techniques are most definitely not. I've expanded my non-ordinary reality repertoire of techniques by things I've found in this book. |
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| King, Serge Kahili, Ph.D. Huna:
Ancient Hawaiian Secrets for Modern Living. Atria Books, 2008. |
Currently
Reading I've loved both of King's other books that I've read and the many small pamphlets from huna.org, his institute. Can't wait to finish this one also. |
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| King, Serge Kahili, Ph.D. Kahuna Healing. Quest, 1983. | A fictional tale illustrating
the use of Hawaiian shamanic principles and techniques in everyday life. Interesting. The story itself was engaging, if a little dark, but the illustration of how techniques can be combined and used was quite illuminating. |
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| King, Serge Kahili, Ph.D. Urban
Shaman. Fireside,
1990. |
A unique look at using shamanic
techniques while still in ordinary states of consciousness. This was the first book of his that I bought, and it is heavily underlined, dog-eared and much referred to. |
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| Kingston, Karen. Creating Sacred Space with Feng Shui:
Learn the Art of Space Clearing and Bring New Energy into Your Life. Broadway Books, 1997. |
I absolutely adore this little
book! I bought it before shamanism was even a glimmer in my little eye. I had gotten into Feng Shui in a minor sort of way, but this book went much, much farther than anything I'd seen before. The author lived in Bali for a while, and much of this book is based on many of the daily practices she fell in love with while living there. It's sweet, lovely, and makes spaces that veritably sizzle with great energy. The book is more about energetic clearing rather than Feng Shui per se, but there's plenty of good commonsense advice about space creation and space re-creation and the energetic clearing thereof. In hindsight, it is a very shamanic approach and has lots of great ideas that can be applied to Extraction healing as well - after all, extraction is also energetic space-clearing of the body's energetic field, right? I really love her use of sound to clear out stagnant energies. |
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| Lewis, Allan P. Clearing
Your Lifepath Through Kahuna Wisdom. Homana, 1983. |
Fabulous little book.
Similar concepts as found in Charlotte Berney's book. No nonsense, and extraordinarily powerful. This book distills Hawaiian kahuna work and gives a set of exercises in each chapter, from mana breathing to the Ha Rite (prayer), to clearing grudges, fixations, complexes, cutting cords; it's all here. Highly Recommended. out of print, difficult to find. |
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| MacEowen, Frank. The Mist-Filled Path: Celtic Wisdom
for Exiles, Wanderers and Seekers. New World Library, 2002. |
A beautiful book of Celtic,
shamanic techniques. |
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| MacEowen, Frank. The Spiral of Memory and Belonging: A Celtic Path of Soul and Kinship. New World Library, 2004. |
Another beautiful,
semi-/quasi-shamanic text by this amazing author. I admit that I absolutely adore this man's writings. I look forward to taking a workshop with him sometime in the future. |
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| Madden, Kristin. The Book of Shamanic Healing.
Llewellen Publications, 2002. |
Despite the sometimes-cheesy
publisher, some good stuff. |
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| Madden, Kristin. Shamanic
Guide to Death and Dying. Spilled Candy Publications, 2005. |
Again, good info here. |
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| Mails, Thomas E. Fools
Crow; Wisdom and Power. Council Oak Books, 2001. (originally published 1979) |
Interviews and eye-witness
accounts of Fools Crow, a Lakota medicine man. Powerful, eye-opening, and inspiring. |
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| McPhail, David. Water
Boy. Abrams Books for Young Readers, 2007. |
A totally charming, very
shamanic children's fable about a boy and his relationship to the spirit of water. Beautiful watercolor illustrations, and a lovely tale. I totally adore children's books and have a stack of them that I keep around to read and re-read. This one is now one of my new absolute favorites. |
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| Moss, Nan and David
Corbin. Weather
Shamanism: Harmonizing Our Connection with the Elements. Bear & Company, 2008. |
A look at the complex and
intriguing subject of working with the spirits of weather by developing right relationship with them. This subject is lovingly approached by the authors and is supported with numerous case studies and excerpts from personal journeys and journeys from workshop attendees. |
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| Myss, Caroline, Ph.D. Why
People Don't Heal and How They Can. Three Rivers Press, 1997. |
A very good look at what Myss
calls "woundology", or why people identify with their illness and how one can help untie that knot and instead begin to identify with one's universal health. Myss' book is very much in line with shamanic/Toltec thinking, that is, how we think about ourselves and the world affects our experience of the world. It may not change the world or even change us, but it does affect our viewpoint of reality. |
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| O'Sullivan, Terry and
Natalia. Soul
Rescuers: A 21st Century Guide to the Spirit World. Thorsons, 2001. |
While not a how-to textbook,
this book contains numerous case studies, stories and anecdotes about the O'Sullivans' experiences as soul rescuers, psychopomps and depossession practitioners. This book was mentioned by Betsy Bergstrom in her course on Compassionate Depossession, and I find it an excellent companion to her lectures and demonstrations, even though there are some fundamental differences in approach and philosophy between Ms. Bergstrom and the O'Sullivans. An excellent book and quite an intriguing read. I'd recommend it if you're interested in hauntings and possessions, both of land, places and people. Despite not being a how-to, there are good clues as to how the O'Sullivans do what they do, how they prepare and how they protect themselves and their clients. Written from a deep Spiritualist background, not so much from a shamanic one. |
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| Perkins, John. Psychonavigation: Techniques for
Navigation Beyond Time. Destiny Books, 1999. |
Perkins' book on the shamanic
journey and from his eyes, what it can do for you. This was one of his first book written while coming out of the shamanic closet. Good information and some good ideas for how journey work can be used and some innovative ways to apply it to modern problems. |
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| Perkins, John. Shapeshifting: Techniques for Global
and Personal Transformation. Destiny, 1997. |
A very, very interesting look at
shapeshifting, one of the basic shamanic tools. I'm still not quite sure what I think of this! Though I will admit to having had some experience with the techniques he talks about here. |
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| Perkins, John and Shakaim
Mariano
Shakai Ijisam Chumpi. The Spirit of the Shuar: Wisdom from the Last Unconquered Peoples of the Amazon. Destiny, 2001. |
A good look at the pervasive
shamanic everyday actions of an indigenous people in the Amazon basin. |
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| Perkins, John. The World Is As You Dream It: Teachings From the Amazon and Andes. Destiny, 1994. |
An interesting book by an urban
shaman of several decades' experience. |
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| Pratchett, Terry. Wyrd
Sisters. HarperTorch, 2001. |
Knowingly or un, Terry Pratchett
has some of the most amazingly shamanic fiction around. And it's hilarious! This is the first book of his that I ever read in his Discworld series, and though it is outrageous fiction, somehow he puts his finger right on top of describing the non-ordinary. And did I say it's hilarious? |
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| Pratchett, Terry. et. al. |
The rest of his stuff is really
good, too. |
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| Quinn, Daniel. Providence;
The Story of a Fifty-Year Vision Quest. Bantam, 1996. |
The world isn't what we think it
is. Shamans know this, deal with this every day. This book and it's predecessor, Ishmael, help explain more about this and about how we, as people, buy into the story, the narrative we have concocted about our lives and the lives of our planet and our fellow beings. Read this. Read Ishmael. |
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| Roberts, Llyn and Robert
Levy. Shamanic Reiki: Expanded Ways of Working with Universal Energy. O Books, 2008. |
Wonderful ways for blending
shamanism and Reiki. If you are a Reiki practitioner who also does shamanic practice, this book can open the ways for some amazing healing methods. |
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| Rosenthal, Sheri A. D.P.M.
The Complete Idiot's Guide to Toltec Wisdom. Alpha, 2005. |
Written by a student of Don
Miguel Ruiz, this book (despite its irritating title) is an excellent first look at Toltec principles. Though not specifically shamanic in content, the principles laid out here are excellent tools for any shamanic practitioner and any healer in general. The Complete Idiot's Guide to Toltec Wisdom is all about learning how to free ourselves from the world of Dreams that we live in and how to operate in a more authentic and unattached way to outcomes and expectations, and instead interact with the world one actually observes rather than interacting with the story we have in our heads about the world. Extraordinarily powerful. I highly recommend this book and the many books by the Toltec wisdom carrier Don Miguel Ruiz. |
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| St. Pierre, Mark and Tilda Long
Soldier. Walking
in the Sacred Manner; Healers, Dreamers, and Pipe Carriers - Medicine Women of the Plains Indians. Touchstone, 1995. Earlier edition 1950. |
This is a wonderful little book
and answers a lot of my questions. Dated, to be sure, and full of information I've not found elsewhere. Chapters on specific subjects with interviews and excerpts by 'wise women', Medicine Women of the Plains Indians. Beautiful chapters on Ritual, How Ritual Develops, The Calling, and on Dreams. Additionally, there are some black and white pictures that are help- ful. An excellent resource for information about Plains customs and on hard to find information on Medicine Women. |
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| Sarangarel. Chosen by the Spirits: Following
Your Shamanic Calling. Destiny, 2001. |
The second in the series,
although the more simple of the two books by this shamanic practitioner following her shamanic and ancestral roots. |
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| Sarangerel. Riding Windhorses: A Journey into
the Heart of Mongolian Shamanism. Destiny, 2000. |
A very interesting look at
Mongolian shamanic practices. My personal communications with Shaman Chonbataar, the President of the Mongolian Shaman Society indicates that, unless you yourself are Mongolian, it is wise NOT to indulge in the exercise of shamanic practices that are not your own: Mongolian shamans take GREAT exception to those who journey and work with deities not from their own ancestral lines and traditions. |
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| Scott, Gini Graham.
The Complete Idiot's Guide to
Shamanism. Alpha, 2002. |
Despite how much I absolutely loathe the titles of
this series, this is a surprisingly good book. Interesting information, accurate sources, and cogent discussions of much of what shamanism is about and how it achieves what it achieves. Not a substitute for one-on-one instruction, however. |
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| Speck, Frank G. The
Naskapi: Savage Hunters of the Labrador Peninsula. University of Oklahoma Press, 1978. |
A good book about the Naskapi
peoples living on the very edge of survivability in the midst of a difficult and hostile ecosystem and their reliance on divinatory methods for finding food and for staying alive. It outlines and discusses several methods of divination used successfully for finding herds, lost hunters, etc., and for answering other questions. |
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| Stevens, Jose and Lena S.
Stevens. Secrets of Shamanism: Tapping the Power of Shamanism Within You. Avon, 2004. |
Not secrets so much as great
ideas for journeys and exploring the shamanic cosmology. Other people have derided this book (see some Amazon reviews), but I've found some good stuff here. True, I don't swallow any other practitioner's findings without trying it myself. But, this book, like many, many books that purport to be on shamanism, has its good information that can be of use to anyone pursuing a shamanic practice. |
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| Swimsaway, Crow, Ph.D. A
Circle of the Ancestors. Capall Bann Publishing, 2009. |
A wonderful look at wonderful
work. Swimsaway writes about his experiences with work that his wife, Bekki, created to contact ancestors in her family. Though I have taken their Ancestors workshop three times, by reading and following this book you will have an excellent description of the process and the many journeys that this work entails. I have found my own personal ancestor work to be invaluable in my life and in my shamanic studies. This body of work is extremely important to anyone who wishes to be connected to their family, and ultimately, to their real source of power. Available from the publisher. |
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| Swimsaway, Crow, Ph.D. Spirit
Knife Soul Bone. Seventh Direction Press, 2007. |
A modern shaman's tome about
shamanic extraction healing techniques. Self-published and currently not available from on-line booksellers, you may have to get this from the author himself. Containing numerous case studies and anecdotes, it is not a how-to manual, but does contain pointers and hints to valuable techniques. |
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| Villoldo, Alberto, Ph.D. Courageous
Dreaming: How Shamans Dream the World into Being. Hay House, 2008. |
Shamans are the "people of the percept", meaning, when we change the way we perceive the world, the world we perceive changes. Courageous Dreaming is about detaching from the story, about recognizing that we deal with the illusion of the world, the story we tell ourselves about the world and its people, rather than with the world itself. It's a familiar Toltec teaching, but this book focuses on that exclusively. In it, Villoldo gives some excellent methods and ceremonies for working with releasing ourselves from the stories we carry about ourselves, and about what we believe the world to be. Only then can we dream a new and better world into being. Though not the central focus, Villoldo also gives more detail about the Illumination Process and about how imprints form in the various layers of the body's Luminous Energy Field and how Illumination can address those imprints. |
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| Villoldo, Alberto, Ph.D.
and Eric Jendresen. Dance
of the Four Winds; Secrets of the Inca Medicine Wheel. Destiny Books, 1994. |
I really loved this book!
It was one of his early works and chronicles his first shamanic experiences: meeting his first teacher, Don Antonio Morales; his initiations with other teachers; his balancing act between shamanism and a university position; and finally, the ultimate revelatory experiences at Machu Pichu and the formation of the shape of his life's work. As I am currently engaged in the Inca Medicine Wheel training myself, this book sheds lots of insight into that process, and contains clues to simple, powerful transformative ritual and ceremony, and into shamanic ways of seeing and being in the world. Having said that, like Shaman, Healer, Sage, this book may be a little opaque to those who are not currently engaged in shamanism, and slightly less opaque to those who have not studied Andean shamanism as kept by the Quechua masters. For me personally, I find it an invaluable companion for my current journey. |
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| Villoldo, Alberto, Ph.D. The
Four Insights; Wisdom, Power, and Grace of the Earthkeepers. Hay House, 2006. |
This book contains the pith of
Andean cosmology teachings, and outlines methods for removing old wounds by seeing the world through four different levels of awareness. This book outlines many of the practices of his Four Winds School that teaches the practice of 'healing the Light Body'. These are powerful self-healing tools that I encourage everyone to pursue. |
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| Villoldo, Alberto, Ph.D. Illumination;
The shaman's Way of Healing. Hay House, 2010. |
This book disappointed me a bit
just because of its misleading title. The book is NOT about the Process of Illumination that he teaches in his Four Winds school, but rather it is about Initiation and the ways in which we heal ourselves through these major rites of passage. A good book; just not about Illumination as he has so carefully defined it in his previous works. Somewhat poorly edited. |
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| Villoldo, Alberto, Ph.D. and
Erik Jendresen. Island
of the Sun; Mastering the Inca Medicine Wheel. Destiny Books, 1995. |
Another really good read about
Villoldo's travels in the jungles and mountains of Peru, and his concommitant travels in the mind and shamanic consciousness. |
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| Villoldo, Alberto, Ph.D. Mending
the Past and Healing the Future with Soul Retrieval. Hay House, 2006. |
A very different take on the
traditional healing practice of Soul Retrieval. In this book, Dr. Villoldo presents his personal techniques and exercises for mending the self with Soul Retrieval, something that other practitioners of the art say is neither possible, nor desirable. The exercises are good and very intriguing, though, and I think that this is a valuable and valid look at Soul Retrieval for self-healing. |
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| Villoldo, Alberto, Ph.D. Shaman,
Healer, Sage: How to Heal Yourself and Others with the Energy Medicine of the Americas. Harmony, 2000. |
This is a good read and as good
an introduction into Peruvian Andean shamanism and the energetic healing systems therein that I have come across so far. I'll have to admit, though, that I read this before I had begun my Peruvian training, and it didn't make a heck of a lot of sense to me. Now that I at least have a rudimentary understanding of what he's talking about here, it's a much, much better road map, and I've learned a great deal from it. |
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| Vitebsky, Piers. The
Shaman: Voyages of the Soul - Trance, Ecstasy and Healing from Siberia to the Amazon. Duncan Baird Publishers, 2001. |
An interesting survey of shamans
and shamanic techniques all over the world. One of the classic texts. And with pictures! |
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| Weatherup, Katie. Practical Shamanism: A Guide for
Walking in Both Worlds. Hands Over Heart Publishing, 2006. |
This one I have not finished
yet, but what I have read is level- headed and seems sound. |
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| Webb,
Hillary S. Traveling Between the Worlds:
Conversations with Contemporary Shamans. Hampton Roads Publishing Company, 2004. |
Some amazing interviews with
powerful modern shamanic practitioners. From this book I found out about so many other practitioners, and also about their works. |
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| Wesselman, Hank. The
Bowl of Light; Ancestral Wisdom from a Hawaiian Shaman. Sounds True, 2011. |
A lovely read with some insight
into Hawaiian mysticism from Dr. Wesselman's friend and teacher, Makua. |
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| Wesselman, Hank. Spiritwalker;
Messages from the Future. Bantam, 1995. |
A wonderful and fascinating
account of Wesselman's spontaneous initiation into the shamanic experience. In this book, Dr. Wesselman describes twelve spontaneous spirit journeys he undergoes to meet and dialog with his future descendent, Nainoa. |
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| Wilcox, Joan Parisi. Masters
of the Living Energy; The Mystical World of the Q'ero of Peru. Inner Traditions, 2004. |
This updated
edition was first published under the title, "Keepers of the Ancient Knowledge" by Ms. Wilcox. This edition contains additional material about the Mesa and its use taken from direct transcriptions of lectures by Q'ero medicine paqos. It's inspiring and has a great energy; Ms. Wilcox travelled to Peru in the early 1990's with a small group of people expressly as pilgrims to be introduced into the energies of Peruvian shamanism. There she met the teachers and practices about whom she writes in this book. If you are at all interested in Peruvian shamanism, I recommend this book. |
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| Winkler, Gershon. Magic of the Ordinary: Recovering
the Shamanic in Judaism. North Atlantic Books, 2003. |
A totally fascinating book by
Rabbi Winkler. He explores the shamanic content of the Torah and the Judaic scriptures. I absolutely loved this book! It really got me excited. |
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| Wood, Jan Morgan. Easy-To-Use-Shamanism:
Unlock the Power of Earth Magic to Transform Your Life. Vega, 2002. |
Another amazing book with simple
explanations, great ideas for journeys, and amazing shamanic artwork by the author. Her web site: www.janmorganwood.com contains many, many paintings, drawings and etchings inspired by her shamanic healing journeys. One of my favorites. AND she has a free giveaway program for her images! Get one of her beautiful works today! I have several of her shamanic images gracing my home and my office. |
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| On
my "To Read" List |
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Blacker, Carmen Ph.D. The Catalpa Bow: A Study of Shamanistic Practices in Japan. RoutledgeCourzon, 1995. |
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| Brown, Tom jr. Grandfather:
A Native American's Lifelong Search for Truth and Harmony with Nature. Berkley, 1993. |
More about "grandfather", the
Native American man who adopted Brown as a teenager. |
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| Brown, Tom jr.
The Journey: A Message of Hope and Harmony for Our Earth and Our Spirits. Berkley, 2000. |
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| Brown, Tom jr. The
Quest: One Man's Search for Peace, Insight, and Healing in an Endangered World. Berkley, 2000. |
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| Brown, Tom jr. The
Tracker. Berkley, 1994. |
I own this but have not yet read it. | ||
| Brown, Tom jr. The
Search: The Continuing Story of The Tracker. Berkley, 1982. |
I own this but have not yet read it. | ||
| Brown, Tom jr. The
Vision: The Dramatic True Story of One Man's Search for Enlightenment. Berkley, 1988. |
I own this but have not yet read it. | ||
| Cunningham, Scott. Hawaiian
Magic & Spirituality. Lewellyn, 2001. |
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| Dobkin De Rios, Marlene. Amazon
Healer. Prism Press, 1992. |
I own this but have not yet read it. | ||
| Fritz, Fred J. Shamanic
Psychopomp: Guide of Souls. Authorhouse, 2003. |
I do not yet own this. |
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| Heinze, Ruth-Inge. Shamans
of the 20th Century. Irvington Press, 1990. |
I own this (I think!) but have not yet read it. | ||
| Hoffman, Enid. Huna;
A Beginner's Guide. Para Research, 1996. |
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| Ingerman, Sandra and Hank
Wesselman. Awakening
to the Spirit World; The Shamanic Path of Direct Revelation. Sounds True, 2010. |
Just got it! Can't wait. |
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| Jones, Blackwolf and Gina
Jones. Listen to the Drum: Blackwolf Shares His Medicine. Commune-A-Key Publishing, 1995. |
I'm reading this one. |
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| Kaldera, Raven. The
Jotunbok:
Techniques of Northern-Tradition Shamanism. Northern-Tradition ShamanismBook I. Asphodel Press, 2006. Kaldera, Raven. Pathwalker's Guide to the Nine Worlds: Techniques of Northern-Tradition Shamanism. Northern-Tradition ShamanismBook II. Asphodel Press, 2006. |
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| Kaldera, Raven. Wightridden:
Paths of Northern-Tradition Shamanism. Northern-Tradition ShamanismBook IV. Asphodel Press, 2007. |
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| Kaldera, Raven. The
Northern Shamanic Herbal; Northern-Tradition ShamanismBook V. Asphodel Press, 2010. |
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| Kalwait, Holger. Dreamtime
& Inner Space: The World of the Shaman. Shambhala, 1988. |
I own this but have not yet read it. | ||
| Kalwait, Holger. Shamans,
Healers and Medicine Men. Shambhala, 2000. |
I own this but have not yet read it. | ||
| Laurie, Erynn Rowan. Ogam:
Weaving Word Wisdom. Megalithica Books, 2003. |
A book on Ogam divination that
gets great reviews on Amazon. |
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| MacDonald, Arlyn J. Essential
Huna; Discovering And Integrating Your Three Selves. Infinity Publishing, 2003. |
Workbook format - gets good
reviews and is recommended by those in the know. |
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| Matthews, Caitlin. Singing
the Soul Back Home: Shamanic Wisdom for Every Day. Connections Book Publishing, 2003. |
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| Narby, Jeremy. The
Cosmic Serpent: DNA and the Origins of Knowledge. Tarcher, 1999. |
I own this but have not yet read it. | ||
| Narby, Jeremy. Shamans
Through Time: 500 Years on the Path to Knowledge. Tarcher, 2004. |
I own this but have not yet read it. | ||
| Roth, Gabrielle, and John
Loudon. Maps
to Ecstasy; Teachings of an Urban Shaman. New World Library, 1989. |
I had this book, bought it on a
whim at a used bookstore in Cleveland Heights, Ohio, but had never opened it. After reading Karen Berggren's book, Circle of Shaman, I am now completely intrigued and ready to begin :-) |
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| Sams, Jamie. Dancing
the Dream: the Seven Sacred Paths of Human Transformation. HarperOne, 1999. |
I'm reading this one. | ||
| Seed, John, Joanna Macy, Pat
Fleming, Arne Naess. Thinking Like A Mountain; Towards a Council of All Beings. New Society Publishers, 1988. |
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| Shook, Victoria E. Ho'Oponopono;
Contemporary Uses of a Hawaiian Problem-Solving Process. University of Hawai'i Press, 2002 (first printing: East-West Center, 1985) |
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| Tedlock, Barbara Ph.D. The
Woman in the Shaman's Body: Reclaiming the Feminine in Religion and Medicine. Bantam, 2005. |
I own this but have not yet read
it. |
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| Walsh, Roger M.D., Ph.D. The
World of Shamanism: New Views of an Ancient Tradition. Llewellyn Publications, 2007. |
I keep picking this one up in
the bookstore and putting it back. That I keep picking it up again is always a sign ... |
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| Other
On-Line Shamanic
Bibliographies Links to other book lists you might find useful |
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www.shamanscircle.com/books.asp |
Nan Moss and David Corbin's recommended reading list from their web site. |
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| www.shamantracks.com/14901/14963.html |
Dana Robinson's book list on his
web site shamantracks.com |
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| www.shamanism.org/products/books.html |
The Books section of the on-line
store at the Foundation for Shamanic Studies' web site, shamanism.org. Not exactly a book list per se, but contains titles not in my book list. |
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| udlibsearch.lib.udel.edu/anss/shamanism.html |
A selected annotated shamanic
bibliography compiled by Anna L. DeMiller, Colorado State University Libraries |
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| books.google.com |
Native North American Shamanism:
An Annotated Bibliography compiled by Shelley Anne Osterreich, 1998. This book is reproduced on-line at Google Books via the link at left. Contains listings of books, articles and special collections. |
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| Shamanic
Web Resources Links to other shamanic sites |
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www.3worlds.co.uk |
Three Worlds Shamanism, home of Nicholas Breeze Wood, shaman, teacher, and purveyor of shamanic artifacts. He also is the publisher of "The Sacred Hoop" (link below), a shamanic journal that is available as print and in PDF format. Nick also makes shamanic tools on a commission basis. The Articles section of his web site has some pretty wonderful reading; many of these articles have appeared in past issues of Sacred Hoop, his periodic shamanic journal. |
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| www.betsybergstrom.com |
Betsy Bergstrom's web site,
Heart Centered Healing. Ms. Bergstrom teaches Middle World work, mostly the healing technique of Depossession. |
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| www.circlelivingearth.org |
The site for Circle of the
Living Earth, a 501(c)(3) non-profit organization for shamanic instruction, and also providing social healing through shamanism. I heard the author and owner of this site, Lenore Norrgard, talking with host Christina Pratt of the podcast "Why Shamanism Now" about how she uses shamanic work for social healing. Very interesting. |
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| www.earthspiritwisdom.com |
Web site of Amalia Camateros,
shamanic dancer and creator of Earth Spirit Dance(tm). Her book, Wisdom of the Stones, is listed above in the book section. |
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| www.dnatribes.com |
DNA Tribes, an excellent source
of DNA testing for ancestral information. |
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| www.familytreedna.com |
Family Tree DNA, associated with
Ancestry.com. Another site for finding out ancestry based on DNA cheek swab testing. |
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| genographic.nationalgeographic.com/genographic |
The Genographic Project,
National Geographic's monumental geneology study using DNA collected from cheek swabs. See your deep ancestry, and the path your long ancestors took from the start of their journey to where you are now. |
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| www.goodvibeswellness.com |
Good Vibes Wellness,
home of a shamanic friend who is living and working south of Atlanta, GA. Stephen Cavitt is a student of Peruvian Shamanism and works with the traditional mesa in his shamanic practice. A very powerful practitioner. |
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| www.healingheartshealinghands.com |
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| www.huna.org |
Serge Kahili King, Ph.D.'s site
for Aloha International, the non-profit organization he founded and runs to teach about traditional Hawaiian huna methods of Polynesian shamanism. |
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| www.incaglossary.org |
One of the most amazing
resources about Inca and Peruvian shamanism I've come across on the web to-date. I urge you to go have a look. The glossary is incredible. |
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| www.janmorganwood.com |
The web site of Faith Wolfheart
Norton, formerly known as Jan Morgan Wood. Her shamanic art is wonderful and vibrant, conveying, even in secondhand digital images, the very powerful energies she receives from her allies and journeys. Faith has a giveaway program in which she will email you a digital image of any of her works on the web site. Periodically she does a "live" giveaway of her original paintings and drawings on a first-come, first-served basis. I have a few of her digital copies adorning the walls of my massage studio. I really love her stuff! |
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| www.lastmaskcenter.org |
Last Mask Center for Shamanic
Healing - Christina Pratt's web site, also the producer of weekly shamanism podcast, "Why Shamanism Now?" Really fantastic podcast with dozens of episodes, sometimes a monologue by Christina, sometimes a dialog or an interview with other contemporary shamanic practitioners. Highly Recommended. Guests have included Betsy Bergstrom, Martin Brennan, Sandra Ingerman, Gina Ogden, others! Wonderful. I particularly recommend the three podcasts that have Betsy Bergstrom as guest, where she talks about heart- cenetered shamanism and specifically about protection and how to be well-protected. The podcasts are: 6/3/2009 Heart Centered Shamanic
Healing
8/5/2009 Your Most Powerful Ally and Protection 2/24/2010 Protection: How To with Betsy Bergstrom find these on iTunes by searching for "Why Shamanism Now" under Podcasts. If you only listen to three, listen to these. |
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| myroneshowsky.com |
Primary web site for Myron
Eshowsky, shamanic practitioner, counselor, mediator and author. Contains articles and links to workshops and other events. Former faculty of shamanism for the Foundation for Shamanic Studies, Mr. Eshowsky is the first shamanic practitioner in the United States to be covered by a health insurance plan specifically to provide shamanic healing. |
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| www.peace-with-cancer.com |
The web site for Myron
Eshowsky's book, Peace with Cancer; Shamanism as A Spiritual Approach to Healing. On this page, Mr. Eshowsky also has a link to a free drumming MP3 file that can be downloaded and played for conducting your own journeys. If you are a healer working with people with severe illness, get this book! It has an amazing array of journey ideas, case studies and personal anecdotes that I've not found elsewhere. |
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| www.salkawind.com |
Salka Wind home page, by Gordon
E. Oakley, Ph.D. A site about peruvian mysticism by an anthropologist. In his own words, he went to the Andes to find things he could measure objectively. This, he says, he did not find, but rather something else completely and unlooked for. He has an excellent page on ayni, which I recommend, and many links to other sites about Andean mysticism and healing. |
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| www.sacredhoop.org |
The homepage for Nick's shamanic
journal, the Sacred Hoop, and of the 3 Worlds Shamanism podcast. Nick's episodes are sporadic and few-and-far-between, but worth listening to. I have especially enjoyed episodes about the care and feeding of an altar, and episodes 25 and 26 devoted to replaying old tapes he has of live lectures and Sun Bear and with other shamanic practitioners of note in our time. |
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| www.self-i-dentity-through-hooponopono.com |
The definitive Ho 'oponopono
site. |
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| www.shamanism.dk |
Scandinavian Center for Shamanic
Studies. Jonathan Horwitz's site, and featuring a great articles section. |
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| www.shamanism.com |
Brant Secunda's Dance of the
Deer Foundation for Shamanic Studies, dedicated to preserving Huichol Indian culture and teaching shamanism worldwide. |
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| www.shamanism.org |
The Foundation for Shamanic
Studies. Michael Harner's educational foundation whose mission is to bring Core Shamanism to Western cultures. |
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| www.shamanscircle.com |
Nan Moss and David Corbin's
shamanism site. Nan and David are the authors of "Weather Shamanism", and give workshops in the Northeast. |
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| www.shamansdrum.org |
Shaman's Drum: A Journal of
Experiential Shamanism and Spiritual Healing. Another amazing and important publication. |
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| www.shamansociety.org |
The Society for Shamanic
Practitioners, also the home of the Journal of Shamanic Practice, an excellent resource and always a very, very good read. SSP is a not-for-profit 501(C)(3) organization whose goal is to support the re-emergence of shamanic wisdom into modern, western culture. |
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| www.shamanstouch.com |
Kenn Day's shamanism site.
Mr. Day is a shamanic practitioner living and working in Cincinnatti as of this writing. Please visit his site and peruse his book, Dance of Stones, reviewed above. |
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| www.shamantracks.com |
Dana Robinson's site. Dana
is one of the Foundation's faculty members and has taken on the responsibility of teaching on the East Coast and in the South. Dana also has a program of shamanic instruction independent of the Foundation which he titles "The Next Step". I've taken several of his classes and can vouch for his offerings. He's an effective teacher and makes the learning fun and |
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| www.shinkaraconnection.com |
The home web site for urban
shaman Joana Shinkara. Joana taught me my very first shamanism class where I met my primary ally in the summer of 2005. A good teacher of the shamanic arts, she returns to Huntsville in 2010 to teach a Basic course and also an advanced course, TBA but most likely a course on Shamanic Extraction methods. |
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| www.thebearismybrother.com |
Web site for my friend and
shamanic colleague Vallerie Nunnelly. |
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| www.thehollowbone.com |
Web site for friend and
fantastic shamanic teacher and practitioner Ana Larramendi. If you are looking for a teacher of shamanism, look here. Ana has integrity, impeccable ethics, and a wonderful and deep connection to the land and relationship with the spirits. |
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| www.urbanshamanism.com |
Urban Shamanism, David Lee
Lang's shamanism web site. This articulate shaman has a lot to say about shamanism and the relationship between shaman and client and between the shaman and the world around us. Interesting guy, and I like his writings. Check out his Articles page. |
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| Select
Articles about
Shamanism and Shamanic Healing on the World Wide Web |
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Thoughts on working and healing the Spirit of Place |
A wonderful and very practical discussion and guide to working with spirits of place. Ana is an exceptional teacher and delivers concrete, down-to-earth advice. Her work is impeccable and extraordinary, and this article is a beautiful example of many of these fine qualities. |
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| Thoughts on shamanism and the
elusive nature of reality: |
This comes from www.urbanshamanism.com,
David Lee Lang's excellent site on shamanism and his ruminations on it. Check out his Articles page. This article is very much in line with Toltec and Hawaiian shamanic philosophies as I understand them. |
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| Thoughts About Paying for
Shamanic Work: Money,
Energy, and Spirituality by David Lee Lang
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Good thoughts about the world as
energetic landscape, and about the energy of exchange surrounding spiritual work and healing. |
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| Thoughts on Integrating your
Shamanic Healing: Integrating
Soul Parts After a Soul Retrieval by
Christina Pratt Integration: A Lost Opportunity by Christina Pratt |
Excellent thoughts, questions
and answers about the integration phase of shamanic healing. I believe that these also apply to any spiritual healing. |
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| Thoughts on Shamanic Healing: |
An article from the Articles
section of the Foundation for Shamanic Studies web site, www.shamanism.org. |
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| Thoughts on Shamanism: |
Dana is a teacher for the
Foundation. His web site is www.shamantracks.com. He also has a fantastic Book List of his own on his web site that is different than mine, and is divided into categories. |
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| Thoughts on Shamanism and the
weather: |
Nan Moss and David Corbin are
faculty of the Foundation for Shamanic Studies and also run their own shamanic teaching organization. They are the authors of Weather Shamanism: Harmonizing Our Connection with the Elements. |
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| Thoughts on Spirit of Place: |
First published in Shamanism,
now hosted on The Circle of the Living Earth, this article is a wonderful intro into working with Spirit of Place, and how harmonizing the relationships between Spirits of Place and inhabitants and visitors can have a profound effect on the energetics of daily life there. |
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| Thoughts on Coyote Medicine: |
An article by a shamanic friend
which appeared in Velocity magazine, a free publication circulated in Central Florida. Val's article begins on page 33. |
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| On a version of the Andean
Despacho Ceremony of blessing: |
A sweet, small article from the
web site, Inca
Shamanic Glossary, edited and compiled by Pat O'Neill. |
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| Thoughts on Shamanism and on the
Nature of the World: |
An thought provoking interview
with Jonathan Horwitz. |
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| An article about the power and
uses of the Rattle: |
I really love this little
article, sent me by a shamanic friend. It encapsulates so much about rattles, the nature of shamanism and about shamanic tools in general. It's just a little gem. |
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| An article on Wealth by Daniel
Quinn: |
Daniel Quinn is the author of
the book Ishmael, and subsequent books in the same 'story'. I stumbled on him by reading his book, Providence in a single evening. He espouses many of the ideas I've been circling around for a couple of decades, and he does so with clarity and with accuracy that I can't reach in my own thoughts and writing. So, I'll let him say it :-) I think that a lot of what he says is germaine to the modern shaman's conundrum of "how do I practice this tribal artform/ scienceform of shamanism in my modern, non-tribal world?" The answer, of course, is a very shamanic one: we do not inhabit the world we think we do. |
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| An article about Spirit
Communication by a shamanic friend: |
Sensible information on
communication with the helping spirits and with the not-s-helping spirits. |
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| Links
to Drum Sellers
and Other
Resources |
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| www.amazon.com |
Amazon sells an
inexpensive serviceable frame drum with a goat skin head that is perfect for shamanic work. The head is tightly stretched, and for the larger 18"+ drums, the head rarely gets floppy when humidity is high. This can be a problem with smaller natural-skin headed drums from this same manufacturer, however. I bought this exact drum from a shamanic teacher and paid more for it than Amazon is asking. Inexpensive and very satisfying for one's first shamanic drum investment; great sound, lightweight and very alive for shamanic work. Don't leave it in a hot car, though, or the hide head will shrink as it dries out and the frame will rupture in a dramatic, catastrophic way. I've seen one that did! |
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| www.atlantapropercussion.com |
Atlanta Pro Percussion, one
source for the Remo
Buffalo Drum, synthetic-head hoop drums suitable for shamanic practice. My banner picture on this web site contains one of these drums; it is my main shamanic drum and has been with me through many, many drummings since I bought it in 2005. Holds up nicely, has a good resonant sound, and is not affected by humidity. It does go floppy and flat when it gets warm, however: the mylar head relaxes when it gets hot in a similar way that hide drums relax when they get moist. Realistically though, I have only encountered this problem rarely while drumming outside on a sunny day. Great for cold winter days as the drum head gets nice and tight (raising the pitch) as it gets colder. |
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| www.didgeridoostore.com |
The Didgeridoo Store, home of
synthetic and natural didgeridoos and also for hoop and shaman drums, reasonably priced goat skin head drums for shamanic work. Cheerful and reliable. |
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| www.spiceoflifeherbs.net |
Spice of Life Herbs and Holistic
Center in Deland, Florida (my hometown!) has very good quality herbs. I have gotten excellent White Sage from them, sweet and easy burning stuff. These folks are nice and take their work very seriously. |
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