The Shamanic Odyssey - 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 Shamanic Odyssey write by Robert Tindall. This book was released on 2012-11-16. The Shamanic Odyssey available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Reveals the striking parallels between indigenous cultures of the Americas and the ancient Homeric world as well as Tolkien’s Middle Earth • Explores the shamanic use of healing songs, psychoactive plants, and vision quests at the heart of the Odyssey and the fantasy works of J. R. R. Tolkien • Examines Odysseus’s encounters with plant divinities, altered consciousness, animal shapeshifting, and sacred topography--all concepts vital to shamanism • Reveals how the Odyssey emerged precisely at the rupture between modern and primal consciousness Indigenous, shamanic ways of healing and prophecy are not foreign to the West. The native way of viewing the world--that is, understanding our cosmos as living, sentient, and interconnected--can be found hidden throughout Western literature, beginning with the very origin of the European literary tradition: Homer’s Odyssey. Weaving together the narrative traditions of the ancient Greeks and Celts, the mythopoetic work of J. R. R. Tolkien, and the voices of plant medicine healers in North and South America, the authors explore the use of healing songs, psychoactive plants, and vision quests at the heart of the Odyssey, The Lord of the Rings trilogy, and Tolkien’s final novella, Smith of Wootton Major. The authors examine Odysseus’s encounters with plant divinities, altered consciousness, animal shapeshifting, and sacred topography--all concepts vital to shamanism. They show the deep affinities between the healing powers of ancient bardic song and the icaros of the shamans of the Amazon rain forest, how Odysseus’s battle with Circe--wielder of narcotic plants and Mistress of Animals--follows the traditional method of negotiating with a plant ally, and how Odysseus’s journey to the land of the dead signifies the universal practice of the vision quest, a key part of shamanic initiation. Emerging precisely at the rupture between modern and primal consciousness, Homer’s work represents a window into the lost native mind of the Western world. In this way, the Odyssey as well as Tolkien’s work can be seen as an awakening and healing song to return us to our native minds and bring our disconnected souls back into harmony with the living cosmos.
Ema's Odyssey
Ema's Odyssey - 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 Ema's Odyssey write by Sandra Harner. This book was released on 2014-01-07. Ema's Odyssey available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Follow the fantastic odyssey of one woman as she explores shamanic realms, encountering spirit animals and other teachers who answer her deepest questions and provide her with life-changing guidance and healing. Widowed, childless, and alone, 60-year-old Ema bravely decides to expand her self-knowledge by embarking on a spiritual adventure. She meets with author Sandra Harner, who leads her through five sessions of Harner Shamanic Counseling (HSC), a highly effective system of personal problem-solving in which counselors help clients enter a shamanic state of consciousness using a specific sonic rhythm. While in this state, clients seek out helping spirits, who offer insight, wisdom, and healing. By the end of her sessions with Harner, Ema has discovered her own innate ability to find answers to pervasive personal questions, overcome inhibitory fears, and acquire self-confidence and wisdom. She has found a sense of personal empowerment and a newfound joy in existence--and decides she wants to continue her journeys independently. From 1999 to 2011, Ema ventures on a total of 64 journeys, each one chronicled in this book, thanks to taped recordings of her simultaneous narration. In addition to serving as an invaluable resource for students and practitioners of shamanism, psychology, and alternative modalities of therapy, Ema's Odyssey enchants us with its lyrical poetry and unique wisdom, and inspires us with its demonstration of courage, curiosity, persistence, and humility. Perhaps most importantly, we come away with the added assurance that we are not alone, that there are oft-untapped resources we all can access, given the tools and trust in our own experience.
Aya
Aya - 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 Aya write by Rak Razam. This book was released on 2009-05-01. Aya available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. When experiential journalist Razam sets out to document the booming business of Amazonian shamanism in the 21st century, he quickly finds himself caught up in a culture clash between the old world and the new.
Shamanic Odyssey
Shamanic Odyssey - 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 Shamanic Odyssey write by Jay Miller. This book was released on 1988. Shamanic Odyssey available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle.
The Four Winds
The Four Winds - 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 Four Winds write by Alberto Villoldo. This book was released on 1990. The Four Winds available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Through ritual, ceremony and the use of potions, Villoldo discovers that the four cardinal points of the medicine wheel represents formulas for over-riding the primal response mechanisms that have controlled human behaviour since the birth of the species.
