Bushman Shaman - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Bushman Shaman write by Bradford Keeney. This book was released on 2004-11-09. Bushman Shaman available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. 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.
Way of the Bushman
Way of the Bushman - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Way of the Bushman write by Bradford Keeney. This book was released on 2015-05-29. Way of the Bushman available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. The first comprehensive presentation of the core teachings of the Kalahari Bushmen as told by the Tribal Elders • Reveals how the Bushmen are able to receive direct transmissions of God’s love for healing and spiritual transformation • Explores tribal legends and teaching tales, the importance of dreams and animals, and the origins of their dances, rituals, and ceremonies Step into the imaginative realm of one of the oldest continuous cultures on Earth, the Kalahari Ju/’hoansi Bushmen. Translated by Beesa Boo, a Bushman, and interspersed with detailed commentary from Bradford and Hillary Keeney, this book presents the core teachings of the Kalahari Bushmen as told by the tribal elders themselves. Decades in the making, it constitutes the first comprehensive work on the world’s oldest tradition of healing and spiritual experience. Told in their own words, these teachings reveal how the Bushmen are able to receive direct transmissions of God’s love in the form of the universal life force, n/om. The individuals who are filled with this force describe it as an awakened, energized feeling of love that inspires a spontaneous and heightened ecstatic awareness that opens mystical perception. Having your heart transfixed by this force enables true healing and spiritual growth to occur. Experiencing the force in your entire being, through a vision of “God’s egg”, awakens deep spiritual wisdom and extraordinary healing gifts. Those who “own the egg” are blessed with the ability to have direct communication with the Divine, a “rope to God,” and can communicate with others for all “ropes” are connected. Conveying the deep love that is the dominant emotion of Bushman spirituality, the book explores tribal legends and teaching tales, the importance of dreams and encounters with animals, the origins of their dances, such as the giraffe dance, and specific rituals and ceremonies, including puberty rites for boys and girls. “As the elder teachers of the Ju’/hoan Bushman (San) people, we hold the most enduring traditional wisdom concerning healing and spiritual experience. This book is a testimony of our ecstatic ways. We happily share our basic teachings about spirituality and healing with those whose hearts are sincerely open.”
Ropes to God
Ropes to God - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Ropes to God write by Bradford Keeney. This book was released on 2003. Ropes to God available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Accompanying DVD contains a videorecording of 2 healing dances: Giraffe dance (Men's healing dance) and !Gwa dance (Women's healing dance).
Tricksters and Trancers
Tricksters and Trancers - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Tricksters and Trancers write by Mathias Georg Guenther. This book was released on 1999. Tricksters and Trancers available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. .."". a first-rate piece of scholarship... an invaluable summary and commentary on the multilingual literature on [Bushman] people."" -- Choice The trickster and trance dancer are the guides through Bushman (or San) religion, a world of ambiguity and contradiction, and of enchantment. The two figures, who in Bushman belief are symbolically equivalent and mystically linked, embody these antistructural traits.
American Shaman
American Shaman - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook American Shaman write by Jeffrey A. Kottler. This book was released on 2004. American Shaman available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. In addition to telling the story of Bradford Keeney, the first non-African to be inducted as a shaman in both the Kung Bushman and Zulu cultures, the authors present applications of indigenous shamanistic concepts to the practice of helping and healing.
