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Book Synopsis Vital Souls by : Jon Christopher Crocker
Download or read book Vital Souls written by Jon Christopher Crocker and published by Tucson, Ariz. : University of Arizona Press. This book was released on 1985 with total page 408 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Vital Souls relates in an ethnographic fashion how the Bororo Indians of central Brazil understand their lives in terms of the bope, describing how they employ shamanism and symbolic thought to deal with illness and accident, sex and marriage, birth and death, and how they relate the human life cycle to natural processes. More central to the investigation, the author reveals how shamans of the aroe have disappeared from Bororo life. This is the first volume of the series, The Anthropology of Form and Meaning."--
Book Synopsis Shamanic Cosmos by : Romano Mastromattei
Download or read book Shamanic Cosmos written by Romano Mastromattei and published by . This book was released on 1999 with total page 272 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Papers Study Aspects Of Shamanic Cosmology As Found Diffused In Eurasion Environments, Inquiring Into Shamanic Trance/Ecstatic Experience, The Cosmos As Viewed By The Shaman And His Mysterious Power Among The Spirits.
Book Synopsis Vital Souls by : Jon Christopher Crocker
Download or read book Vital Souls written by Jon Christopher Crocker and published by Tucson, Ariz. : University of Arizona Press. This book was released on 1985 with total page 408 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Vital Souls relates in an ethnographic fashion how the Bororo Indians of central Brazil understand their lives in terms of the bope, describing how they employ shamanism and symbolic thought to deal with illness and accident, sex and marriage, birth and death, and how they relate the human life cycle to natural processes. More central to the investigation, the author reveals how shamans of the aroe have disappeared from Bororo life. This is the first volume of the series, The Anthropology of Form and Meaning."--
Book Synopsis The Nature of Shamanism by : Michael Ripinsky-Naxon
Download or read book The Nature of Shamanism written by Michael Ripinsky-Naxon and published by SUNY Press. This book was released on 1993-05-04 with total page 306 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Ripinsky-Naxon explores the core and essence of shamanism by looking at its ritual, mythology, symbolism, and the dynamics of its cultural process. In dealing with the basic elements of shamanism, the author discusses the shamanistic experience and enlightenment, the inner personal crisis, and the many aspects entailed in the role of the shaman.
Download or read book Cave and Cosmos written by Michael Harner and published by North Atlantic Books. This book was released on 2013-04-09 with total page 329 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The pioneering author of The Way of the Shaman continues his exploration of universal shamanism in this “wonderful, fascinating” guide (Carlos Castaneda) In 1980, Michael Harner blazed the trail for the worldwide revival of shamanism with his seminal classic The Way of the Shaman. In this long-awaited sequel, he provides new evidence of the reality of heavens. Drawing from a lifetime of personal shamanic experiences and more than 2,500 reports of Westerners’ experiences during shamanic ascension, Harner highlights the striking similarities between their discoveries, indicating that the heavens and spirits they’ve encountered do indeed exist. He also provides instructions on his innovative core-shamanism techniques, so that readers too can ascend to heavenly realms, seek spirit teachers, and return later at will for additional healing and advice. Written by the leading authority on shamanism, Cave and Cosmos is a must-read not only for those interested in shamanism, but also for those interested in spirituality, comparative religion, near-death experiences, healing, consciousness, anthropology, and the nature of reality.
Book Synopsis Tribal Epistemologies by : Helmut Wautischer
Download or read book Tribal Epistemologies written by Helmut Wautischer and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2019-01-15 with total page 436 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: First published in 1998, this collection of ten essays transforms our understanding of both the role of philosophical anthropology in modern world philosophy and the origins of tribal knowledge in their relation to contemporary assessments of cognition and consciousness. Ethnographic data from geographically distant cultures - such as the Maori of New Zealand, the Fore of New Guinea, the Sea Nomads of the Andaman, the Cowlitz of North America, the Maya, Australian Aborigines, Siberian Shamans - are carefully crafted toward an empirical basis for discussing a variety of phenomena traditional labelled in Western thought as transcendent or metaphysical. This anthology is a valuable source of information relevant for any theories of knowledge and a solid challenge for reductionist models of consciousness. The essays enhance our recognition and appreciation of fundamental similarities as well as differences in world views and cultural perspectives related to knowledge claims. This anthology illustrates unplumbed depths of human consciousness, reveals experiential understandings beyond linguistic thought, and stands aside from the view that behaviour and intelligence can be understood by deterministic principles. This volume of essays should be read with stereoscopic vision: one lens focusing on the rich ethnographic material of folk societies, the other focusing on the wider awareness of how we come to know what we know. It features specialists in philosophy, ethnology and comparative sociology, comparative religion, cross-cultural psychology, physical anthropology, environmental and marine scientists, Indian affairs, anthropology, comparative literature, shamanism and theoretical biology. These contributors explore issues including individuality in relational cultures, Maori epistemology, shamanistic knowledge and cosmology and images of conduct, character and personhood in the Native American tradition.
Download or read book The Shaman written by John A. Grim and published by University of Oklahoma Press. This book was released on 1987 with total page 276 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Tribal peoples believe that the shaman experiences, absorbs, and communicates a special mode of power, sustaining and healing. This book discusses American Indian shamanic traditions, particularly those of the Woodland Ojibway, in terms drawn from the classical shamanism of Siberian peoples. Using a cultural-historical method, John A. Grim describes the spiritual formation of shamans, male and female, and elucidates the special religious experience that they transmit to their tribes. Writing as a historian of religion well acquainted with ethnological materials, Grim identifies four patterns in the shamanic experience: cosmology, tribal sanction, ritual reenactment, and trance experience. Relating those concepts to the Siberian and Ojibway experiences, he draws on mythology, sociology, anthropology, and psychology to paint a picture of shamanism that is both particularized and interpretative. As religious personalities, shamans are important today because of their singular ability to express symbolically the forces that animate the tribal cosmology. Often identifying themselves with primordial earth processes, shamans develop symbol systems drawn from the archetypal earth images that are vital to their psychic healing technique. This particular ability to resonate with the natural world is felt as an important need in our time. Those readers who identify with American Indians as they confront modern technological society will value this introduction to our native shamanic traditions and to the religious experience itself. The author's discussion of Ojibway practices is the most comprehensive short treatment available, written with a fine poetic feeling that reflects the literary expressiveness inherent in American Indian religion and thought.
Book Synopsis Finding New Cosmologies by : Florian Gredig
Download or read book Finding New Cosmologies written by Florian Gredig and published by LIT Verlag Münster. This book was released on 2009 with total page 167 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book deals with a broad range of shamanic activities in contemporary Europe. Based on fieldwork in France, Germany, Sweden and Switzerland, it provides a comprehensive overview of European neo-shamanism and its various directions and currents. The study does not focus on casual practitioners but on neo-shamanic healers with many years of experience. Their work, ritual techniques, worldviews, social networks and relations to shamans outside of Europe are analysed - as well as the transformation of shamanic techniques and cosmologies in an increasingly globalised world.
Book Synopsis The Living Ancestors by : Zeljko Jokic
Download or read book The Living Ancestors written by Zeljko Jokic and published by Berghahn Books. This book was released on 2015-09-01 with total page 296 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This phenomenologically oriented ethnography focuses on experiential aspects of Yanomami shamanism, including shamanistic activities in the context of cultural change. The author interweaves ethnographic material with theoretical components of a holographic principle, or the idea that the “part is equal to the whole,” which is embedded in the nature of the Yanomami macrocosm, human dwelling, multiple-soul components, and shamans’ relationships with embodied spirit-helpers. This book fills an important gap in the regional study of Yanomami people, and, on a broader scale, enriches understanding of this ancient phenomenon by focusing on the consciousness involved in shamanism through firsthand experiential involvement.
Book Synopsis Shamanism and Spirituality in Therapeutic Practice by : Christa Mackinnon
Download or read book Shamanism and Spirituality in Therapeutic Practice written by Christa Mackinnon and published by Singing Dragon. This book was released on 2012-06-15 with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Increasing numbers of professionals in the fields of psychology and therapy are seeking to incorporate elements of spirituality into their therapeutic oeuvre, addressing not only mental and emotional issues, but also the soul. This book discloses how indigenous traditions can be adapted to offer practitioners a highly effective repertoire of insights, psycho-spiritual approaches and therapeutic tools. The underlying concepts and world-views of indigenous and contemporary shamanism are explained and tied in with current developments in psychology and science. After clarifying altered states of perception, concepts of integrative wholeness of mind, body, soul and spirit and transformative shamanic 'healing' approaches, the book goes on to outline concrete contemporary tools and techniques that can be applied directly to work with clients. It presents research, examples and case studies throughout. This will be enlightening and compelling reading for psychologists, therapists, counsellors and coaches looking for profound insights and innovative methods of practice that cater for the whole human psyche, reaching beyond contemporary Western mind and body approaches.
Download or read book Shamanism written by Nevill Drury and published by Element Books, Limited. This book was released on 2000 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Shamanism is a visionary tradition, an ancient practice of altering states of consciousness to contact the gods and spirits of the natural world. At a time when we are all becoming increasingly aware of our environment and the fragility of ecological balance, Shamanism has a clear message - we should respect the sanctity of nature. Providing an introduction to Shamanism, this guide looks at: the history and practice of this ancient discipline; what it is, how it works and what it can do for the reader; where Shananism can be found today; and how to understand the cosmology, rituals and inner world of Shamanism.
Book Synopsis Cosmology and Shamanism by : Mariano Aupilaarjuk
Download or read book Cosmology and Shamanism written by Mariano Aupilaarjuk and published by Iqaluit, Nunavut : Nunavut Arctic College. This book was released on 2001 with total page 284 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Examines two important aspects of Inuit culture, cosmology and shamanism, that were in large part suppressed following the introduction of Christianity. It is based on interviews of elders conducted in 1998 by students at Nunavut Arctic College's Inuit Studies Program at Nunatta Campus in Iqaluit.
Book Synopsis Inuit Shamanism and Christianity by : Frédéric B. Laugrand
Download or read book Inuit Shamanism and Christianity written by Frédéric B. Laugrand and published by McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP. This book was released on 2010-01-01 with total page 488 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Using archival material and oral testimony collected during workshops in Nunavut between 1996 and 2008, Frédéric Laugrand and Jarich Oosten provide a nuanced look at Inuit religion, offering a strong counter narrative to the idea that traditional Inuit culture declined post-contact. They show that setting up a dichotomy between a past identified with traditional culture and a present involving Christianity obscures the continuity and dynamics of Inuit society, which has long borrowed and adapted "outside" elements. They argue that both Shamanism and Christianity are continually changing in the Arctic and ideas of transformation and transition are necessary to understand both how the ideology of a hunting society shaped Inuit Christian cosmology and how Christianity changed Inuit shamanic traditions.
Book Synopsis Cosmology and Shamanism by : Nunavut Arctic College
Download or read book Cosmology and Shamanism written by Nunavut Arctic College and published by . This book was released on 2021-09-05 with total page 200 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume examines two important aspects of Inuit culture - cosmology and shamanism - that were in large part suppressed following the introduction of Christianity. Unique to this volume is that the book is based on two different sets of interviews. In addition to the elders interviewed in Iqaluit, the book draws on interviews that the editor conducted in Igloolik in 1972 among elders who had more direct personal experience with shamanism.
Download or read book Cosmic Xing written by Kor Gable and published by Trafford Publishing. This book was released on 2010-03-05 with total page 364 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This may be one of the strangest books youll ever read. A veritable smorgasbord of food for the soul, it covers a mind-boggling array of topics as its author artfully blends science, art, history, culture, philosophy, technology, geology, archaeology, psychology, theology, mysticism and quantum physics to elegantly paint a larger picture of who we are, where we came from, and where we are going. The book opens with a collection of short stories (mysteries) that are sure to make you go Hmmm and progressively moves into the central theme shamanism and why it may be our last hope to save ourselves and this planet. Kor Gable re-veals some of shamanisms best kept secrets unknown and mysterious quantum principles that explain miracles and magic. It climaxes with Kor sharing his own shamanic initiation and the revelation of a greater Vision of what this New Millennium is about if we can pass the final test and survive our own folly. That is the Cosmic Xing! Despite the seriousness of the subject, the book is easy reading thanks to Kor Gables simple and entertaining style. It is full of light and love. Once you start read-ing it, you wont want to stop.
Book Synopsis Courageous Dreaming by : Alberto Villoldo
Download or read book Courageous Dreaming written by Alberto Villoldo and published by Hay House, Inc. This book was released on 2009-03-01 with total page 205 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Modern physics tells us that we’re dreaming the world into being with every thought. Courageous Dreaming tells us how to dream our world with power and grace. The ancient shamans of the Americas understood that we’re not only creating our experience of the world, but are dreaming up the very nature of reality itself—that is, "life is but a dream." When you don’t dream your life, you have to settle for the nightmare being dreamed by others. This book shows how to wake up from the collective nightmare and begin to dream a life of courage and grace, a sacred dream that shamans throughout time have known and served.Alberto Villoldo reveals ancient wisdom teachings that explain how to birth reality from the invisible matrix of creation; and reveals how we can interact with this matrix to dream a life of peace, health, and abundance. He shows us that courage is all that is required to create the joy we desire!
Book Synopsis The Archaeology of Shamanism by : Neil S. Price
Download or read book The Archaeology of Shamanism written by Neil S. Price and published by Psychology Press. This book was released on 2001 with total page 260 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: No Australian Aboriginal content.
