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Horizons of Shamanism

Author : Peter Jackson
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781013286704
Total Pages : 142 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (867 download)

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Download or read book Horizons of Shamanism written by Peter Jackson and published by . This book was released on 2020-10-09 with total page 142 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "The multifarious and sometimes contested concept of "shamanism" has aroused intense popular and scholarly interest since its initial coinage by the Russian scholar V. M. Mikhailovsky in the late 19th century. In this book, three leading scholars, representing different branches of the humanities, dwell on the current status of shamanic practices and conceptions of the soul, both as 'etic' scholarly categories in historical research and as foci of spiritual revitalization among the indigenous populations of post-Soviet Siberia. Framed by an introduction and a critical afterword by historian of religions Ulf Drobin, the three essays address issues crucial to the understanding of cultural history and the history of religions. Marjorie Mandelstam Balzer, Research Professor in CERES, and the Department of Anthropology at the University of Georgetown, Jan N. Bremmer, professor emeritus and former Chair of Religious Studies at the Faculty of Theology and Religious Studies of the University of Groningen and Carlo Ginzburg at Scuola Normale Superiore di Pisa. The editor Peter Jackson, is Professor at the Department of Ethnology, History of Religions and Gender Studies at Stockholm University." This work was published by Saint Philip Street Press pursuant to a Creative Commons license permitting commercial use. All rights not granted by the work's license are retained by the author or authors.

Horizons of Shamanism

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ISBN 13 : 9789176350249
Total Pages : 142 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (52 download)

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Download or read book Horizons of Shamanism written by and published by . This book was released on 2016 with total page 142 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "The multifarious and sometimes contested concept of "shamanism" has aroused intense popular and scholarly interest since its initial coinage by the Russian scholar V.M. Mikhailovsky in the late 19th century. In this book, three leading scholars, representing different branches of the humanities, dwell on the current status of shamanic practices and conceptions of the soul, both as 'etic' scholarly categories in historical research and as foci of spiritual revitalization among the indigenous populations of post-Soviet Siberia. Framed by an introduction and a critical afterword by historian of religions Ulf Drobin, the three essays address issues crucial to the understanding of cultural history and the history of religions. Marjorie Mandelstam Balzer, Research Professor in CERES, and the Department of Anthropology at the University of Georgetown, Jan N. Bremmer, professor emeritus and former Chair of Religious Studies at the Faculty of Theology and Religious Studies of the University of Groningen and Carlo Ginzburg at Scuola Normale Superiore di Pisa. The editor Peter Jackson, is Professor at the Department of Ethnology, History of Religions and Gender Studies at Stockholm University

Horizons of Shamanism

Author : Prof Peter Jackson
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9789176350270
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (52 download)

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Download or read book Horizons of Shamanism written by Prof Peter Jackson and published by . This book was released on 2016-10-24 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this book, three leading scholars, representing different branches of the humanities, dwell on the current status of shamanic practices and conceptions of the soul, both as 'etic' scholarly categories in historical research and as foci of spiritual revitalization among the indigenous populations of post-Soviet Siberia.

Horizons of Shamanism

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ISBN 13 : 9789176350263
Total Pages : 142 pages
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Shamanism for Every Day

Author : Mara Bishop
Publisher : Citadel
ISBN 13 : 0806541067
Total Pages : 466 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (65 download)

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Download or read book Shamanism for Every Day written by Mara Bishop and published by Citadel. This book was released on 2021-03-30 with total page 466 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Shamanism for Every Day: 365 Journeys, shamanic practitioner and intuitive consultant Mara Bishop offers readers profound yet simple tools for weaving spirituality and healing into their busy lives. DISCOVER YOUR UNIQUE PATH For thousands of years, practitioners of shamanism have found healing and wisdom by connecting to their own spirits and the spirit that lives in all things. Shamanism can be practiced by anyone. Wherever we are, the powers within the web of life and the keys to our personal evolution are available. In these pages, longtime shamanic practitioner and intuitive consultant Mara Bishop introduces the simple yet profound method of shamanic journeying. On this path you will: Connect to your innate knowing, for calm and confidence in intense times. Develop meaningful relationships with nature for healing and guidance. Explore spiritual realms with the aid of compassionate spirits. Learn to manifest your goals and visions through ceremony. With 365 unique journey topics that can be used in any order, or as meditations, Shamanism for Every Day offers an invaluable guide to anyone searching for a daily connection to the sacred.

Weather Shamanism

Author : Nan Moss
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 1591439213
Total Pages : 218 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (914 download)

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Download or read book Weather Shamanism written by Nan Moss and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2008-01-24 with total page 218 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Creating an alliance and working partnership with the spirits of weather to restore well-being and harmony to Earth and ourselves • Reveals that, intentionally or not, we affect the weather not only through our actions but also through our thoughts and emotions • Explains shamanic techniques for working with the spiritual nature of weather • Special section on “weather dancing” details both its ceremonial and therapeutic aspects With the growing consensus that global warming is a fact comes the realization that the increasingly violent weather we are experiencing is its chief manifestation. Each storm, each flood, each blizzard seems to break 100-year-old records for both intensity and damage. Reducing emissions of greenhouse gases may be too little, too late. Through a unique blend of anthropological research, shamanic journeys, and personal stories and anecdotes, Moss and Corbin show how humans and weather have always affected each other, and how it is possible to influence the weather. They present teachings directly from the spirits of weather that show how our thoughts and emotions affect weather energetics. They also reveal the ceremonial and therapeutic aspects of “weather dancing,” a practice used to communicate with the weather spirits. Weather Shamanism is about transformation--of ourselves, and thus our world. It is about how we can develop an expanded worldview that honors spiritual realities in order to create a working partnership with the spirits of weather and thereby help to restore well-being and harmony to Earth.

Shamanism As a Spiritual Practice for Daily Life

Author : Tom Cowan
Publisher : Crossing Press
ISBN 13 : 0804152357
Total Pages : 225 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (41 download)

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Download or read book Shamanism As a Spiritual Practice for Daily Life written by Tom Cowan and published by Crossing Press. This book was released on 2014-06-11 with total page 225 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This inspirational book blends elements of shamanism with inherited traditions and contemporary religious commitments. Drawing on shamanic practices from the world over, SHAMANISM AS A SPIRITUAL PRACTICE FOR DAILY LIFE addresses the needs of contemporary people who yearn to deepen their own innate mystical sensibilities. This inspirational book shows how to develop a personal spiritual practice by blending elements of shamanism with inherited traditions and current religious commitments. Contents include: The central role of power animals and spirit teachers. Visionary techniques for exploring the extraordinary in everyday life. Elements of childhood spirituality including songs, secret hiding places, power spots, and imaginary power figures. A journey to an ancestral shaman to recover lost knowledge.

Healing Secrets of the Shamans of Mu

Author : George Schwimmer, PhD
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 260 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (971 download)

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Download or read book Healing Secrets of the Shamans of Mu written by George Schwimmer, PhD and published by . This book was released on 2016-08-21 with total page 260 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Shamanism is thought to have existed for 100,000 years-but it did not come from Siberia! It developed on the lost Pacific continent of Mu. If you don't know about Mu, read MU: The First Great Civilization by George Schwimmer PhD. In that Kindle e-book, Dr. Schwimmer not only establishes the existence of Mu but also shows that Mu's sacred teachings were passed on to shamans of Peru.The purest and most profound shamanic healing techniques of Mu were kept secret by the Q'ero mountain shamans of Peru for thousands of years and were only revealed to anthropologist Alberto Villoldo PhD in the 1980s, with the request that he pass these teachings on to Westerners. Dr. Villoldo created The Four Winds Society, where he and others have been teaching these Q'ero shamanic techniques, which are energy based.George Schwimmer PhD, a metaphysical practitioner and writer for more than forty-two years, is one of those who received this ancient shamanic training. He also was given the nine sacred Munay-Ki rites-three of them from Q'ero shamans-which connect him with a lineage of luminous healers. While receiving the rites he perceived and 'heard' both men and women spirit shamans giving him these energy transmissions. This book is his exact account of both what he was taught and his non-physical experiences during his trainings from 2005 to 2007. The teachings Dr. Schwimmer received were not held in Peru, up on mountains, or around campfires. These are formal, structured trainings, designed for Westerners by Dr. Villoldo, and have been given in both North and South America, in Europe, and in the U.K. More than 10,000 persons have participated in these trainings since they were begun.The book details only Dr. Schwimmer's personal experiences during these trainings - it is not a mystical memoir, or an instructional manual, nor academic research - does not delve into the practices of other shamanic lineages, which have different teachings. Should you want to know about Q'ero shamanic energetic healing techniques - such as illuminations, spirit release, soul retrieval, and more - then read this book. You will learn about things which skeptics and modern science say are impossible. READERS' COMMENTS: "If you are looking into the sacred teachings of Shamanism of the Q'ero tradition-- this book is a must read. Events are described so vividly as if to be sitting in those physical places both rejoicing and being engulfed with the thoughts and experiences the author had at the time. Great read!!!" - "Interesting, insightful read. A great learning experience and a means to opening up new horizons. A good introduction to shamanism and spiritual journeying."

Bushman Shaman

Author : Bradford Keeney
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 1594776202
Total Pages : 196 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (947 download)

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Download or read book Bushman Shaman written by Bradford Keeney and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2004-11-09 with total page 196 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The author’s journey to becoming a Bushman shaman and healer and how this tradition relates to shamanic practices around the world • Explores the Bushmen’s ecstatic shaking and dancing practices • Written by the first non-Bushman to become fully initiated into their healing and spiritual ways In Bushman Shaman, Bradford Keeney details his initiation into the shamanic tradition of the Kalahari Bushmen, regarded by some scholars as the oldest living culture on earth. Keeney sought out the Bushmen while in South Africa as a visiting professor of psychotherapy. He had known of the Kalahari “trance dance,” wherein the dancers’ bodies shake uncontrollably as part of the healing ceremony. Keeney was drawn to this tradition in the hope that it might explain and provide a forum for his own ecstatic “shaking,” which he had first experienced at the age of 19 and had tried to suppress and hide throughout his adult life. For more than a dozen years Keeney danced with Bushmen shamans in communities throughout Botswana and Namibia, until finally becoming fully initiated into their doctoring and spiritual ways. Through his rediscovery of the “rope to God” in a Bushman shaman dream, he offers readers accounts of his shamanic world travels and the secrets of the soul he learned along the way. In Bushman Shaman Keeney also reveals his work with shamans from Japan, Tibet, Bali, Thailand, Australia, and North and South America, providing new understandings of other forms of shamanic spiritual expression and integrating the practices of all these traditions into a sacred circle of one truth.

Shamanic Christianity

Author : Bradford Keeney
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 159477627X
Total Pages : 190 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (947 download)

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Download or read book Shamanic Christianity written by Bradford Keeney and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2006-03-13 with total page 190 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A guide to reconnecting with Jesus, Mary, and the saints as shamanic teachers of divine mysteries • Contains meditations, contemplations, parables, and active ritual tasks that help bring forth a shamanic understanding and practice of Christianity • Shows shamanic experience to be the root of mystical communion When the missionaries came to North America to “save” the American Indians, they were perplexed to discover that while they talked about Jesus, some of the Indians claimed to talk directly with him. Among Christians there is almost complete silence on the subject of the place of shamanism in experiencing the divine, yet shamanic experience is at the root of all mystical communion. Shamanic Christianity offers a chance to rekindle the shamanic practices of Christianity to those who wish to restore their direct connection to the spirit world. In the tradition of contemplative practice, this reconnection takes the form of devotions. Presented in four forms, these devotions begin with a specific contemplation, followed by a meditative focus, then a parable from the author’s own visionary experiences, and finally an active mystical practice to help ground the meditations and contemplations in a ritual or ceremony that involves active participation. These four forms serve to reintroduce Jesus, Mary, and the historically renowned saints as shamanic teachers of divine mysteries whose spiritual presence is readily available to contemporary lives. The author also presents specific directives for handling everyday challenges in a shamanic-inspired manner, drawing upon creative activities and resources that encourage approaching the world with the imaginative and playful spirit of a child, whose personal freedom and creative expression is always wide open to possibilities.

Post-Tribal Shamanism

Author : Kenn Day
Publisher : John Hunt Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1780996209
Total Pages : 133 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (89 download)

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Download or read book Post-Tribal Shamanism written by Kenn Day and published by John Hunt Publishing. This book was released on 2014-01-31 with total page 133 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Modern life is lived cut off from our souls, our ancestors, the earth and other elements of what once made life worth living. Our souls still yearn for these missing pieces, causing what the author calls the Invisible Wound. This wound is responsible for much of the grief of modern life – through soul hungers displaced onto addictions and self-destructive behavior. Post-Tribal Shamanism offers a means of reclaiming many of these pieces, not by a return to the past, but by moving forward into a deeper understanding of our place in the universe. ,

The Accidental Shaman

Author : Howard G. Charing
Publisher : Destiny Books
ISBN 13 : 9781620556092
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (56 download)

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Download or read book The Accidental Shaman written by Howard G. Charing and published by Destiny Books. This book was released on 2017-02-25 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A story of awakening to remarkable shamanic powers, teachings, and techniques • Describes the author’s work with plant spirits, entheogens such as ayahuasca, and indigenous shamans during his 20 years of fieldwork in the Peruvian Amazon • Explores the practice of soul retrieval and shamanic work with feathers, stones, and sound • Includes techniques for exploring non-ordinary reality, exercises for expanding sensory perception, and practices to open your creative artistic visionary potential After surviving a serious elevator crash in London, Howard G. Charing found he had developed healing touch as well as the ability to hear voices and experience visions--just as a healer in Italy had predicted only a week before the accident. He began using his abilities to heal but felt he needed more guidance and training. He first connected with a national spiritual healing organization, only to be told he was doing everything wrong. Then, through a friend, he discovered shamanism. Sharing profound teachings and extraordinary experiences from his more than 30 years of shamanic healing work, Charing explains how he accidentally became a shaman and completely changed the course of his life. He describes his work with plant spirits, entheogens such as ayahuasca, and indigenous shamans during his 20 years of fieldwork in the Peruvian Amazon, including his studies with the late visionary artist Pablo Amaringo. Investigating altered states of perception, he provides visionary techniques for exploring non-ordinary reality, exercises for expanding sensory perception, and practices to open your creative artistic visionary potential. Detailing the practice of soul retrieval, the author discusses why it is one of the most effective and profound spiritual healing practices and shares emotionally charged stories of successful shamanic healings he has attended. He also includes shamanic wisdom on working with feathers, stones, and sound and compares current research in physics with the vast body of experiential knowledge from indigenous spiritual traditions. From the accident that started his journey to the many remarkable spiritwork encounters that have happened since, Charing’s story will empower readers to begin exploring the realms of consciousness and energy that surround us and welcome the dissolution of the boundary between the physical and the spiritual.

An Encyclopedia of Shamanism Volume 2

Author : Christina Pratt
Publisher : The Rosen Publishing Group, Inc
ISBN 13 : 9781404211414
Total Pages : 312 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (114 download)

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Download or read book An Encyclopedia of Shamanism Volume 2 written by Christina Pratt and published by The Rosen Publishing Group, Inc. This book was released on 2007-08-01 with total page 312 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Shamanism can be defined as the practice of initiated shamans who are distinguished by their mastery of a range of altered states of consciousness. Shamanism arises from the actions the shaman takes in non-ordinary reality and the results of those actions in ordinary reality. It is not a religion, yet it demands spiritual discipline and personal sacrifice from the mature shaman who seeks the highest stages of mystical development.

Genealogies of Shamanism

Author : Jeroen W Boekhoven
Publisher : Barkhuis
ISBN 13 : 907792292X
Total Pages : 396 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (779 download)

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Download or read book Genealogies of Shamanism written by Jeroen W Boekhoven and published by Barkhuis. This book was released on 2011 with total page 396 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Cover -- Table of contents -- Acknowledgements -- 1 Approaching shamanism -- 2 Eighteenth and nineteenth-century interpretations -- 3 Early twentieth-century American interpretations -- 4 Twentieth-century European constructions -- 5 The Bollingen connection, 1930s-1960s -- 6 Post-war American visions -- 7 The genesis of a field of shamanism, America 1960s-1990s -- 8 A Case Study: Shamanisms in the Netherlands -- 9 Struggles for power, charisma and authority: a balance -- Bibliography -- Index

Shamans, Nostalgias, and the IMF

Author : Laurel Kendall
Publisher : University of Hawaii Press
ISBN 13 : 0824833430
Total Pages : 282 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (248 download)

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Download or read book Shamans, Nostalgias, and the IMF written by Laurel Kendall and published by University of Hawaii Press. This book was released on 2009-09-01 with total page 282 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Thirty years ago, anthropologist Laurel Kendall did intensive fieldwork among South Korea’s (mostly female) shamans and their clients as a reflection of village women’s lives. In the intervening decades, South Korea experienced an unprecedented economic, social, political, and material transformation and Korean villages all but disappeared. And the shamans? Kendall attests that they not only persist but are very much a part of South Korean modernity. This enlightening and entertaining study of contemporary Korean shamanism makes the case for the dynamism of popular religious practice, the creativity of those we call shamans, and the necessity of writing about them in the present tense. Shamans thrive in South Korea’s high-rise cities, working with clients who are largely middle class and technologically sophisticated. Emphasizing the shaman’s work as open and mutable, Kendall describes how gods and ancestors articulate the changing concerns of clients and how the ritual fame of these transactions has itself been transformed by urban sprawl, private cars, and zealous Christian proselytizing. For most of the last century Korean shamans were reviled as practitioners of antimodern superstition; today they are nostalgically celebrated icons of a vanished rural world. Such superstition and tradition occupy flip sides of modernity’s coin—the one by confuting, the other by obscuring, the beating heart of shamanic practice. Kendall offers a lively account of shamans, who once ministered to the domestic crises of farmers, as they address the anxieties of entrepreneurs whose dreams of wealth are matched by their omnipresent fears of ruin. Money and access to foreign goods provoke moral dilemmas about getting and spending; shamanic rituals express these through the longings of the dead and the playful antics of greedy gods, some of whom have acquired a taste for imported whiskey. No other book-length study captures the tension between contemporary South Korean life and the contemporary South Korean shamans’ work. Kendall’s familiarity with the country and long association with her subjects permit nuanced comparisons between a 1970s "then" and recent encounters—some with the same shamans and clients—as South Korea moved through the 1990s, endured the Asian Financial Crisis, and entered the new millennium. She approaches her subject through multiple anthropological lenses such that readers interested in religion, ritual performance, healing, gender, landscape, material culture, modernity, and consumption will find much of interest here.

The World of Shamanism

Author : Roger Walsh
Publisher : Llewellyn Worldwide
ISBN 13 : 0738726133
Total Pages : 337 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (387 download)

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Download or read book The World of Shamanism written by Roger Walsh and published by Llewellyn Worldwide. This book was released on 2014-05-08 with total page 337 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Fascinating, comprehensive, and eminently readable, this guide explores shamanism—the world's most enduring healing and religious tradition—in the light of modern medicine, psychology, neuroscience, consciousness disciplines, and religious studies. Praise: "As if on cue, just when I am beginning to think that shamanism is the ground from which all religions spring, along comes this book. I cannot imagine a book that would be more helpful to me in thinking through this important subject."—Huston Smith, author of The World's Religions "...Unquestionably the most rounded compact introduction to shamanism, particularly the inner world of shamans, available today. A door-opening book for students of consciousness and spirituality."—Georg Feuerstein, PhD, M.Litt, author of The Yoga Tradition "A splendidly clear and timely survey of shamanism."—Jean Achterberg, PhD, author of Imagery in Healing "Quite simply, this book is a major step forward in understanding the vital phenomenon of shamanism. I recommend it highly."—Charles Tart, PhD, Professor Emeritus of Psychology, University of California at Davis, author of States of Consciousness "...Eminently useful and inspiring. A brilliant integrative work that pushes the frontiers of consciousness in insightful, practical, and powerful ways."—Angeles Arrien, PhD, Cultural Anthropologist, author of The Four-Fold Way and The Second Half of Life"... Unique in bringing together the full range of anthropological, psychological, and psychiatric literature on this vital subject. It does so with admirable scholarship yet still manages to be sensitive and clear."—Christie W. Kiefer, PhD, Professor Emeritus of Anthropology, University of California at San Francisco

The Shamanic Witch

Author : Gail Wood
Publisher : Weiser Books
ISBN 13 : 1609255062
Total Pages : 266 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (92 download)

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Download or read book The Shamanic Witch written by Gail Wood and published by Weiser Books. This book was released on 2008-11-01 with total page 266 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Shamanic practice seeks healing and wisdom from realms that overlap the everyday world. The use of plant and animal medicines, vision quests, trance work, and ceremonies to heal one's self and others are the foundations of shamanism. So too, Wicca and witchcraft use the magic and medicine of plants, animals, and other realms. By learning to incorporate the practices of shamanism, the witch can enhance his or her natural abilities as healer and creator of positive change. The Shamanic Witch outlines the many similarities between the art of shamanism and the craft of the Witch and explores how the overlapping of these two traditions can be used to enhance one's practice. Where witchcraft brings the belief and religion, Shamanism brings the skills. Sections include: Understanding the World of the shaman, Creatures and Spirits of Other Realms, Developing a Shamanic Practice, The Toolkit of the Shamanic Practitioner, The Realms of the Witch, and Melding Worlds: Becoming the Witch-Shaman.