The Healing Wisdom of Africa - 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 Healing Wisdom of Africa write by Malidoma Patrice Some. This book was released on 1999-09-13. The Healing Wisdom of Africa available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Through The Healing Wisdom of Africa, readers can come to understand that the life of indigenous and traditional people is a paradigm for an intimate relationship with the natural world that both surrounds us and is within us. The book is the most complete study of the role ritual plays in the lives of African people--and the role it can play for seekers in the West.
Ritual
Ritual - 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 Ritual write by Malidoma Patrice Some. This book was released on 1997-12-01. Ritual available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. The stories within these books have the poignancy of new discoveries as well as the unworn imagination of the ancestors. The commentary has the sharp edge of modern thought and the intricacy which results from the intellect being woven through the ritual complexities of tribal life. The purpose of constructing thresholds that bring this world together is to find the powers that can heal the rends in tribal as well as modern communities.? --Michael Meade, from the Introduction Versed in the languages of psychology, comparative literature, as well as ancient mythology, healing, and divination, Malidoma Patrice Some bridges paths between the ancient tribal world of the West African Dagara culture and modern Western society. Ritual is written with wild imagination, careful critical reflection, and intuitive insights that will force the reader to encounter the world anew.
The Healing Drum
The Healing Drum - 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 Healing Drum write by Yaya Diallo. This book was released on 1989-12. The Healing Drum available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. In the personal story of internationally acclaimed drummer Yaya Diallo we see the power of music as a sacred, healing force in West African culture.
Of Water and the Spirit
Of Water and the Spirit - 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 Of Water and the Spirit write by Malidoma Patrice Some. This book was released on 1995-05-01. Of Water and the Spirit available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Maliodoma Patrice Some was born in a Dagara Village, however he was soon to be abducted to a Jesuit school, where he remained for the next fifteen years, being harshly indoctrinated into european ways of thought and worship. The story tells of his return to his people, his hard initiation back into those people, which lead to his desire to convey their knowledge to the world. Of Water and the Spirit is the result of that desire; it is a sharing of living African traditions, offered in compassion for those struggling with our contemporary crisis of the spirit.
Experiencing Ritual
Experiencing Ritual - 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 Experiencing Ritual write by Edith Turner. This book was released on 2011-06-03. Experiencing Ritual available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Experiencing Ritual is Edith Turner's account of how she sighted a spirit form while participating in the Ihamba ritual of the Ndembu. Through her analysis, she presents a view not common in anthropological writings—the view of millions of Africans—that ritual is the harnessing of spiritual power.
