Spirits of the Jaguar - 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 Spirits of the Jaguar write by Paul Reddish. This book was released on 1996. Spirits of the Jaguar available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Provides a dramatic account of the creation of the Caribbean Islands and Central America, the wildlife of these two regions, and the history of their early peoples.
Jaguars of the Dawn
Jaguars of the Dawn - 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 Jaguars of the Dawn write by Emily Pierini. This book was released on 2020-01-01. Jaguars of the Dawn available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. The Brazilian Spiritualist Christian Order Vale do Amanhecer (Valley of the Dawn) is the place where the worlds of the living and the spirits merge and the boundaries between lives are regularly crossed. Drawing upon over a decade of extensive fieldwork in temples of the Amanhecer in Brazil and Europe, the author explores how mediums understand their experiences and how they learn to establish relationships with their spirit guides. She sheds light on the ways in which mediumistic development in the Vale do Amanhecer is used for therapeutic purposes and informs notions of body and self, of illness and wellbeing.
The Jaguar that Roams the Mind
The Jaguar that Roams the Mind - 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 The Jaguar that Roams the Mind write by Robert Tindall. This book was released on 2008-09-02. The Jaguar that Roams the Mind available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. A journey into the deeper workings of indigenous healing in the Amazon • Explores the three pillars of Amazonian shamanism: purging, psychoactive plants, and diet • Shares the experiences of apprenticing with an Ashaninca master shaman • Reveals the intimate relationship between shamans and plant spirits The Jaguar that Roams the Mind is a journey into the vanishing world of Amazonian shamanism--an adventure of initiation and return--that explores the unique reality at the heart of the Amazonian healing system. Robert Tindall shares his journeys through the inner and outer landscape of the churches of ayahuasca and with the Kaxinawa Indians in Brazil; his experiences at the pioneering center for the treatment of addiction, Takiwasi, in Peru; and his studies with an Ashaninca master shaman deep in the rainforest jungle. Moving beyond the scientific approach to medicinal plants, which seeks to reduce them to their chemical constituents, Tindall illustrates the shamans’ intimate relationships with plant spirits. He explores the three pillars of Amazonian shamanism: purging (drawing disease out of the body), psychoactive plants (including the ritual use of ayahuasca), and diet (communing with the innate intelligence of teacher plants). Through trials and revelations, the subtle inner logic of indigenous healing unfolds for him, including the “miraculous” healing of a woman suffering from a brain tumor. Culminating in a ceremony fraught with terror yet ultimately enlightening, Tindall’s journey reveals the crucial component missing from the metaphysics of the West: the understanding and appreciation of the sentience of nature itself.
Spirit of the Jaguar
Spirit of the Jaguar - 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 Spirit of the Jaguar write by Thomas Atkins. This book was released on 2020-10-10. Spirit of the Jaguar available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. When sixteen-year-old Danny Martin travels for the first time to his father's banana plantation deep in the jungles of British Honduras, he encounters a host of exotic creatures from poisonous snakes, wild hogs, huge tarantulas to howler monkeys with roars that carry for miles. His life is changed when he meets a new friend Annie O'Bannon who manages a refuge for wounded animals. Together he and Annie venture far into the jungle where they have a startling encounter with a black jaguar, a creature that the local Maya regard as "un espiritu"-a spirit. Atkins is also the author of the novels "The Midnight Tapestries" and "The Bay Road," both available on Amazon.
Icons of Power
Icons of Power - 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 Icons of Power write by Nicholas J. Saunders. This book was released on 2013-04-15. Icons of Power available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Icons of Power investigates why the image of the cat has been such a potent symbol in the art, religion and mythology of indigenous American cultures for three thousand years. The jaguar and the puma epitomize ideas of sacrifice, cannibalism, war, and status in a startling array of graphic and enduring images. Natural and supernatural felines inhabit a shape-shifting world of sorcery and spiritual power, revealing the shamanic nature of Amerindian world views. This pioneering collection offers a unique pan-American assessment of the feline icon through the diversity of cultural interpretations, but also striking parallels in its associations with hunters, warriors, kingship, fertility, and the sacred nature of political power. Evidence is drawn from the pre-Columbian Aztec and Maya of Mexico, Peruvian, and Panamanian civilizations, through recent pueblo and Iroquois cultures of North America, to current Amazonian and Andean societies. This well-illustrated volume is essential reading for all who are interested in the symbolic construction of animal icons, their variable meanings, and their place in a natural world conceived through the lens of culture. The cross-disciplinary approach embraces archaeology, anthropology, and art history.
