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1. Shamanism As a Spiritual Practice for Daily Life by Thomas Dale Cowan, Tom Cowan | |
Paperback: 224
Pages
(1996-09-01)
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My Personal Favorite Book on Shamanism
not working for me
cat's cradle
not impressed
Shamanic journeying for Americans |
2. Practical Shamanism, A Guide for Walking in Both Worlds by Katie Weatherup | |
Paperback: 160
Pages
(2006-09-30)
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Easy to understand
My favorite book on Shamanic journeying
Practical Shamanism A Guide for Walking in Both Worlds
great starter book on shamanism
Practical Shamanism: A Guide For Walking In Both Worlds |
3. Plant Spirit Shamanism: Traditional Techniques for Healing the Soul by Ross Heaven, Howard G. Charing | |
Paperback: 280
Pages
(2006-08-03)
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A theoretical and practical book on plant healing and magic
Break Through
Awesome Book!
this book will open your mind about our world
Excellent book on the benefits of nature's healers |
4. Reiki Shamanism: A Guide to Out-of-Body Healing by Jim PathFinder Ewing | |
Paperback: 192
Pages
(2008-09-01)
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Great Book
Reiki Shamanism: A Guide to Out of Body Healing
Reiki Shamanism
A library MUSTfor any healer or traveler between worlds
Reiki Shamanism |
5. Shamanism: Archaic Techniques of Ecstasy (Bollingen Series) by Mircea Eliade | |
Paperback: 648
Pages
(2004-01-19)
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Eliade's Classic Text
Essential for anyone interested in art history, culture, anthropology, psychology and more.
Solid Work on Religious Basis of Shamanism
Very detailed.
Shamanism:Archaic Techniques of Ecstasy |
6. The World of Shamanism: New Views of an Ancient Tradition by Roger Walsh | |
Paperback: 336
Pages
(2007-08-08)
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Shamanism Today
Excellent and thoughtful book
The Definitive Analysis of Shamanism
Good resource
Beware! Older edition not the same! |
7. Secrets of Shamanism: Tapping the Spirit Power Within You by Jose Stevens, Lena S. Stevens | |
Mass Market Paperback: 227
Pages
(1988-08-01)
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Editorial Review Product Description Throughout history, shamans have possessed the power to journey deep within themselves to tap the universal source of information and wisdom. Bypassing the stumbling blocks of the outer, material world, they perfected techniques of communication with the innermost world of the spirit in order to find answers to questions, foretell the future, and achieve, profound understanding. Now psychologist Jose Stevens and his wife Lenademonstrate how the ancient techniques of Shamanismcan be adapted to the needs and concerns of the modernworld. Through a series of simple exercises, lessons,and rituals, they teach you how to identify and communicatewith your inner spiritual guides -- and how to achieve professional success, psychological enlightenment, and personal fulfillment. Shamanism will help you harness the power you never knew you had. It is an exciting way of thinking and perceiving that will completely change the way you live your life. Customer Reviews (21)
My favorite book on Shamanism
fluffy and generic
Nice Meditations and Visualizations
Secrets of Shamanism: Tapping the Spirit Power Within You
My first Shamanic book. |
8. Singing to the Plants: A Guide to Mestizo Shamanism in the Upper Amazon by Stephan Beyer | |
Paperback: 544
Pages
(2010-06-30)
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Editorial Review Product Description Ayahuasca shamanism is now part of global culture. The visionary ayahuasca paintings of Pablo Cesar Amaringo are available to a world market in a sumptuous coffee-table book; international ayahuasca tourists exert a profound economic and cultural pull on previously isolated local practitioners; ayahuasca shamanism, once the terrain of anthropologists, is the subject of novels and spiritual memoirs. Ayahuasca shamans perform their healing rituals in Ontario and Wisconsin. Singing to the Plants sets forth, in accessible form, just what this shamanism is about -- what happens at an ayahuasca healing ceremony, how the apprentice shaman forms a spiritual relationship with the healing plant spirits, how sorcerers inflict the harm that the shaman heals, and the ways that plants are used in healing, love magic, and sorcery. The work emphasizes both the uniqueness of this highly eclectic and absorptive shamanism -- plant spirits dressed in surgical scrubs, extraterrestrial doctors speaking computer language -- and its deep roots in shamanist beliefs and practices, both healing and sorcery, common to the Upper Amazon. The work seeks to understand this form of shamanism, its relationship to other shamanisms, and its survival in the new global economy, through anthropology, ethnobotany, cognitive psychology, legal history, and personal memoir. Customer Reviews (12)
A Jolly Good Read.
Honest Perspective
From One Ayahuasca Writer to Another
Excellent
Viewpoint from an experienced Ayahuascero |
9. Shamanism for Beginners: Walking With the World's Healers of Earth and Sky by James Endredy | |
Paperback: 288
Pages
(2009-06-08)
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Editorial Review Product Description Healers and visionaries, food-finders and rainmakers—as intermediaries between the physical and spirit worlds, shamans have served a vital role in indigenous cultures for more than 40,000 years. The timeless wisdom of the shaman also holds relevance for the challenges we face today. James Endredy explores shamanic paths from around the globe and discusses the tools, rituals, and beliefs that are common to most traditions. You'll discover how shamans are chosen and initiated, and how they establish a relationship with power animals, ancestors, and other inhabitants of the spirit realm. Along with many stories from his own experiences, Endredy shares insights from other scholars in the field, including Mircea Eliade, Michael Harner, and Holger Kalweit, and from indigenous shamans throughout history. Shamanism for Beginners concludes with a thoughtful, empowering look at how shamanic practices can help restore balance and peace to our lives and the earth. Customer Reviews (3)
Not Much Different Here
Shamanism for Beginners
A book of authentic authority |
10. Healing States: A Journey Into the World of Spiritual Healing and Shamanism by Alberto Villoldo, Ph.D., Stanley Krippner | |
Paperback: 240
Pages
(1987-06-15)
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Changed my Life
Healing States
Excellent Book!
The trail starts here. |
11. Shamanism and Tantra in the Himalayas by Surendra Bahadur Shahi, Christian Rätsch, Claudia Müller-Ebeling | |
Hardcover: 320
Pages
(2002-09-30)
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Editorial Review Product Description The Himalayan kingdom of Nepal may be the only culture in the world where both shamanic and tantric techniques are still alive and in full practice today. The result of eighteen years of field research, Shamanism and Tantra in the Himalayas presents for the first time a comprehensive overview of shamanism that is based on the knowledge and experience of the different tribes from that region. Included are original statements from the various ethnic groups and 135 color thangkas, which act as visual guides to the specific practices of the tantric tradition. In addition to the thangkas, the book is lavishly illustrated with numerous photos of different shamanic healing ceremonies, ritual objects, and culturally significant plants that have never been published before. The book also contains a wealth of original recipes, smoking mixtures, scientific tables, charts, and descriptions of more than 20 plants whose psychoactive properties and uses by shamans have never before been researched or documented. Customer Reviews (6)
AMAZING
Enjoyable, rich
Shamanism and Tantra in the Himalayas
Visual masterpiece, subtle disaster The few issues i have with this book are serious Firstly is the issue of Botanical misrepresentation. Christian was involved in re-editing 'Plants of the gods' and made the same errors there in my opinion ruining what was a cornerstone book with loose scholarship. Beware some pictures are misleading and shouldnt be used as ID. Thirdly the word of the shamans is taken too seriously. Musch of what they say is true but having spent some time making local contacts and chasing similar herbal and cultural connections (the similarities are striking in the interactions with an interested foreigner relayed between Nepalese villagers and Balinese villagers). A specialist researcher going into this situation runs into real danger unless they are trained properly to be the quiet yet interactive observer and not be ask questions that might 'lead the witness'. Its strange - i love this book for its beauty and enjoyment and yet i do not hold it in high regard as a refernce text for anything id write. Its simply got too many holes and glaring errors to be trusted enough. And thats it all, Trust. Its a function of the sum quality of the scholars work and without that what might have been a great book is converted to something half true and potentially very dangerous to the truth Great coffee table book though i think the more concise books, the original Plants of the gods by Schultes and hoffman as well as the stunning work, Great books of Hashish vol 2 is of a much higher standard.
More Shamanic than Tantric On the positive side, the pages are dripping with stunning photography. Rich color reproduction shows off the details of the Shamanic world, Nepal, and over 50 gorgeous paintings of the relevant deities. These paintings are given their own descriptive addendum to insure they are properly appreciated. The majority of what is discussed in the text is pictured somewhere nearby, so if anything is unclear there is immediate visual help at hand. The text itself is clear, engaging, and stock full of details, many of which appear to have been overlooked by other authors writing both on the Himalayan region itself and on Shamanism in general. This wealth of information is because the authors were not satisfied with being arm-chair anthropologists, but spent over a decade among the Nepalese Shamans, becoming their friends, gaining their trust, and being allowed into their world. They are very sympathetic to this view of reality and write about it with passion, so it's rarely boring. On the other hand, there are some problems. First, despite the size and the comments in the other review, don't be misled into thinking this is encyclopedic. It isn't, and the authors clearly say so themselves. Their major focus is on making available data that is not found in most run of the mill books on Shamanism in this region. The general picture is there, but the details focus on trying to shed light where there has been little before. For this reason, it probably isn't the first book on Shamanism you would want to read. Second, if it's the Tantra angle that interests you, there is very little on it. There is so little, in fact, that there is really only one sustained discussion on it, which is only part of one chapter. The other information is scattered throughout the rest of the book's discussion on Shamanism. Again, this isn't the first book on Tantra you would want to read, but if you know enough about Tantra to connect the dots yourself it provides some really interesting links and suggestions regarding how the two worldviews relate, both doctrinally, artistically, and historically. On the picky side, the text suffers various lapses that will annoy people to different levels. Those involved with religious studies will be progressively irritated with the naive philosophy of religion that the authors display. Despite the book being a monument to the fact that Shamanism functions as a religion, they insist it isn't. They also claim it involves no faith, again in the face of many things presented in the work that must be accepted by faith. In fact, a number of the statements of the Shamans in here are factually inaccurate, yet nothing, no matter how far out, is ever questioned in the slightest, nor is the epistemological problem this casts on the information they gain from their trips, whether on hallucinogens or not, ever discussed. Social and psychological aspects that effect the Shamanic interpretations and the authors' research methodology are dismissed, if not completely ignored. If things like that don't bother you, the sloppy inconsistency on points might. For example, on the exact same page (186) they proclaim that destructive energies can be both destroyed and not destroyed. How about their claim on page 13 that "shamanism only exists in specific areas of Asia" today, which is contradicted by their displayed knowledge of it in the Americas elsewhere in the book? These should not be confused with the numerous contradictions between the various Shamanic schools that are presented, which are given for completeness. Finally, and this would not be worth mentioning if it didn't come up so many times in a book repeatedly promoting love, harmony and understanding: at least one of the authors is anti-Christian to the point of unreasonable bigotry. It ranges from statements of factual error (such as Christianity not being an historically oriented religion) to slander (such as the long disproved accusation that Wycliffe translation teams are covert CIA operatives, for which the authors can only provide a specious debunked source over 20 years old). All that aside, I bought it, read it, and it has a secure place in my library as a resource I can see returning to many times in the future. It's pricey, but it's worth it. It's the only book I've ever had where I constantly caught people stopped in their tracks looking at the pictures over my shoulder and interrupting my reading to find out what it was. ... Read more |
12. Shamanism by Piers Vitebsky | |
Paperback: 184
Pages
(2001-03)
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Editorial Review Product Description Includes more than 250 color illustrations that present a unique pictorial record of shamanism in practice and as represented in art and artifacts* Includes a detailed region-by-region survey of shamanism with full-color maps* Explores both spiritual and psychological aspects of the subject, as well as the relevance of shamanism to contemporary Western culture Customer Reviews (5)
Great Author
Start here!
A Good Quick Reference
An interesting look into Shamanism
a perfect example of "don't judge a book by its cover." i was horribly let down. ...first of all, it's completely disorganized.vitebsky jumps all over the place and can't seem to make a coherent point to save his life. secondly, the material is seriously flawed.vitebsky shows virtually no signs of firsthand fieldwork; instead, he relies on outdated ethnographic accounts and mircea eliade's work, which are both flawed in and of themselves.several bits of "information" presented along the way [a reference to the bering land bridge migration, which has very little basis in actual fact, and a short anecdote about the "berdache," a term that is frightfully offensive to native peoples, among others] made my jaw drop at the ... poor scholarship shown in preparing this text. the only upside to this book is that it's very colorful and has lots of nice pictures.it may make for good collage material, but as a serious text on the subject, it's worthless.
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13. Shamanism, Colonialism, and the Wild Man: A Study in Terror and Healing by Michael Taussig | |
Paperback: 538
Pages
(1991-12-15)
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Difficult, but worth the effort.
Taussig takes one on a terrifying, gut churning, horrifying
Much more than a simple ethnographic investigation... |
14. Fire in the Head: Shamanism and the Celtic Spirit by Tom Cowan | |
Paperback: 240
Pages
(1993-05-14)
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A poorly written work
A classic of the field
More history than instructional...
The Metaphor in the Humanity
Packed! |
15. Shamanism: A Biopsychosocial Paradigm of Consciousness and Healing by Michael Winkelman | |
Hardcover: 309
Pages
(2010-08-05)
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Editorial Review Product Description What does the brain do during "soul journeys"? How do shamans alter consciousness and why is this important for healing? Are shamans different from other kinds of healers? Is there a connection between the rituals performed by chimpanzees and traditional shamanistic practices? All of these questions—and many more—are answered in Shamanism, Second Edition: A Biopsychosocial Paradigm of Consciousness and Healing. This text contains crosscultural examinations of the nature of shamanism, biological perspectives on alterations of consciousness, mechanisms of shamanistic healing, as well as the evolutionary origins of shamanism. It presents the shamanic paradigm within a biopsychosocial framework for explaining successful human evolution through group rituals. In the final chapter,"the author compares shamanistic rituals with chimpanzee displays to identify homologies that point to the ritual dynamics of our ancient hominid ancestors. Customer Reviews (2)
An important new look at shamanism
Must Read for Students of Religion |
16. Shamanism (Quest Book) by Shirley J. Nicholson | |
Paperback: 318
Pages
(1987-05-01)
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Very Nice Overall Read |
17. Journeying : Where Shamanism and Psychology Meet by Jeannette Marie Gagan | |
Paperback: 192
Pages
(1998-03-02)
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Editorial Review Product Description Journeying is the term used to describe a shaman's movement into an altered state ofconsciousness to obtain healing information. Psychology, like shamanism, works to alleviatehuman suffering and makes use of altered states in a variety of ways including guided imagery andhypnosis. Shamanism, the oldest healing tradition known to humankind, springs from natural,intuitive, and spiritual sources. Psychology, a relative newcomer on the Western scene, relies onlogic and science. In bringing these two healing disciplines together, the author illustrates how variations onthe practice of journeying strengthens the psychological process. The true heart of this book restsin the application of journeying to the healing of emotional wounds--wounds that occur whenparents are unable to sufficiently bond with their infants. In such healing journeys shamanic poweranimals and spirit helpers provide nurturing not previously experienced, softening edges ofneediness and desperation that sometimes feed adolescent and adult aggression. Journeying beats a fast-paced path to the alchemy of psychological transformation inwords easily understood by practitioners and lay persons alike. Customer Reviews (11)
Nothing new to offer
Ges's Take
Apples and Oranges --Shared Slices 1. How does the shamanic tradition bring such potent healing power to wounds incurred in the earliest months of life? and By contrasting the two traditions historically, Dr. Gagan, underscores the slices of each fruit that can be shared.Central to finding common ground are the notions of altered states of consciousness, imagery, and the Jungian alchemical processes to healing. Throughout her story Dr. Gagan weaves in carefully chosen vignettes from her clients' journeying, and explains how these experiences transcend verbal therapy and succeed in achieving transformation. --A very convincing and readable book.
A shamanic practitioner's viewpoint I caution that the shamanic path cannot be catagorized or analyzed, it is fluid and changing; it is chaotic in nature-if you don't know "the way". I suggest that if you are a professional go out and journey for yourself, explore the path, draw your own conclusions.
Review by Bernie P. Nelson |
18. Healing with Form, Energy, and Light: The Five Elements in Tibetan Shamanism, Tantra, and Dzogchen by Tenzin W. Rinpoche | |
Paperback: 176
Pages
(2002-05-25)
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Healing perspective from Bon Master
very nice
For the Shamanic at Heart
Learn To Think Like A Tibetan
good reference book |
19. The Complete Idiot's Guide to Shamanism by Gini Graham Scott | |
Paperback: 336
Pages
(2002-06-18)
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Skip this one
This book is great!
Not my cup of Ayuahuasca
Take a Shamanic trip Ms Scott devotes a couple chapters to the "history" of shamanism, starting from prehistoric times to the present, as well as describing its forms in various parts of the world. Even if all of these forms of shamanism developed indepedently of each other, it's interesting how they all seem to share some common ideas. I liked how Ms Scott talks a bit about "power animals," I have a handful I work with when doing meditations and have found them to be very helpful. Ms Scott also does a great job describing the various "shamanistic worlds," Upper, Middle & Lower and what you will find in each of them. Ms Scott also describes the process behind going on a shamanistic journey and what to expect and what to watch out for on such journeys. This is a topic that up until recently most people found to be very mysterious and now that it seems to be gaining in popularity I'm glad to see a book like this out that gives a good overall view of what shamanism is and isn't. I have friends that are shamans and now I have a much better understanding of who they are and what they do. ... Read more |
20. Ecstatic Religion: A Study of Shamanism and Spirit Possession (Volume 0) by I.M. Lewis | |
Paperback: 216
Pages
(2003-01-30)
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Excellent Book
Ecstatic Religion: A Study of Shamanism and Spirit Possessio |
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