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10 best books like Secrets of the Talking Jaguar (Martin Prechtel): Travels with Lizbeth: Three Years on the Road and on the Streets, A Language Older Than Words, No Nature: New and Selected Poems, Call Me by My True Names: The Collected Poems, گلشن راز, The Glance: Songs of Soul-Meeting, Master Dogen's Shobogenzo, Archeology of Violence, The Rebel's Silhouette: Selected Poems, The Pleasantries of the Incredible Mulla Nasrudin

Travels with Lizbeth: Three Years on the Road and on the Streets
AuthorLars Eighner
ISBN0449909433
"When I began writing this account I was living under a shower curtain in a stand of bamboo in a public park. I did not undertake to write about homelessness, but wrote what I knew, as an artist paints a still life, not because he is especially fond of fruit, but because the subject is readily at hand." A beautifully...
A Language Older Than Words
AuthorDerrick Jensen
ISBN1931498555
At once a beautifully poetic memoir and an exploration of the various ways we live in the world, A Language Older Than Words explains violence as a pathology that touches every aspect of our lives and indeed affects all aspects of life on Earth. This chronicle of a young man's drive to transcend domestic...
No Nature: New and Selected Poems
AuthorGary Snyder
ISBN0679742522
Snyder is great, and this represents him quite well. However, I think his body of work will remain just a hair's breadth away from full illumination until a devoted editor annotates many of his very particular regional, botanical, anthropological and non-English references. It's somewhat astounding...
Call Me by My True Names: The Collected Poems
AuthorThich Nhat Hanh
ISBN1888375167
Here is the impermanent
and yet continuously flowing world.

And, complicated. . . don't forget complicated world.

These poems, written by Thich Nhat Hanh, are divided up into two sections in this collection: Historical Dimension (written primarily during the '60s, during...
گلشن راز
AuthorMahmud Shabistari
کتاب گلشن راز اثر مشهور سعدالدّین محمودبن امین‌الدّین عبدالکریم‌بن یحیی شبستری، معروف به شیخ محمود شبستری، کتابی است عرفانی که در سال 717 هجری قمری به نظم...
The Glance: Songs of Soul-Meeting
AuthorRumi
In 1244, the brilliant poet Rumi and the wandering dervish Shams of Tabriz met and immediately fell into a deep spiritual connection. The Glance taps a major, yet little explored theme in Rumi's poetry-the mystical experience that occurs in the meeting of the eyes of the lover and the beloved, parent...
Master Dogen's Shobogenzo
AuthorGudo Wafu Nishijima
ISBN1419638203
This translation, supported by the Japan Foundation, makes a strong claim to be the definitive translation of the 95 chapter edition of Shobogenzo, the essential Japanese Buddhist text, written in the 13th century by Zen Master Dogen. The translation adheres closely to the original Japanese, with...
Archeology of Violence
AuthorPierre Clastres
ISBN0936756950
Pierre Clastres broke up with his mentor Claude Levi-Strauss to collaborate with Gilles Deleuze and Felix Gattari on their "Anti-Oedipus." He is the rare breed of political anthropologist--a Nietzschean--and his work presents us with a generalogy of power in a native state. For him, tribal societies...
The Rebel's Silhouette: Selected Poems
AuthorFaiz Ahmad Faiz
ISBN0870239759
The Rebel's Silhouette is a collection of poems by Faiz Ahmed Faiz, one of the most famous Urdu poets, translated by Agha Shahid Ali, many of them written while Mr. Faiz was in prison.

The word "Beloved" is often used in poetry and ghazals to refer to either a lover or to God. What the brilliant Mr....
The Pleasantries of the Incredible Mulla Nasrudin
AuthorIdries Shah
Today we find him in a high-level physics report, illustrating phenomena that can't be described in ordinary technical terms. He appears in psychology textbooks, illuminating the workings of the mind in a way no straightforward explanation can. In three definitive volumes (The Exploits of the Incomparable...
Grandmothers Counsel the World: Women Elders Offer Their Vision for Our Planet
AuthorCarol Schaefer
ISBN1590302931


We are thirteen indigenous grandmothers. . . . We are deeply concerned with the unprecedented destruction of our Mother Earth, the atrocities of war, the global scourge of poverty, the prevailing culture of materialism, the epidemics that threaten the health of the Earth’s peoples, and...
Grandfather
AuthorTom Brown Jr.
i close the little book with a sigh, at once feeling both lost and inspired. grandfather existed only a couple of generations ago but i do not believe there are any men or women so stealth and intelligent to live a life solely by the laws of nature any more. his message gives me hope even while today’s culture...
Healing with Form, Energy, and Light: The Five Elements in Tibetan Shamanism, Tantra, and Dzogchen
AuthorTenzin Wangyal
ISBN1559391766
In the shamanic worldview of Tibet, the five elements of earth, water, fire, air, and space are accessed through the raw powers of nature and through non-physical beings associated with the natural world. In the Tibetan tantric view the elements are recognized as five kinds of energy in the body and...
The Answer & La Respuesta
AuthorJuana Inés de la Cruz
ISBN1558610774
Espíritu Indómito

Only a century ago the gentler sex was encouraged to lead more simple and elegant lives free from study and occupation where they were expected to devote themselves to beauty, grace, family, and home. In seventeenth century New Spain, Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz sought enlightenment...
Earth Quest - Earth Medicine: Revealing Hidden Treasures of the Native American Medicine Wheel - a Shamanic Way to Self-discovery
AuthorKenneth Meadows
ISBN1852306688
Kenneth Meadows is my aunt's father-in-law. Sadly, I met him for the first and only time at my grandfather's funeral two decades ago. I had been previously given and read his book via my father and was very excited to meet him. Kenneth was very kind and gave a lot of his time to answer my questions and curiosities...
The Temple of Man: Apet of the South at Luxor
AuthorR.A. Schwaller de Lubicz
ISBN0892815701
Two 544-page volumes, cloth with slipcase The monumental Temple of Man represents the most important breakthrough in our understanding of Ancient Egypt since the discovery of the Rosetta stone. This exhaustive and authoritative study reveals the depths of the mathematical, medical, and metaphysical...
Shamanism, Colonialism, and the Wild Man: A Study in Terror and Healing
AuthorMichael Taussig
ISBN0226790134
Working with the image of the Indian shaman as Wild Man, Taussig reveals not the magic of the shaman but that of the politicizing fictions creating the effect of the real.

"This extraordinary book . . . will encourage ever more critical and creative explorations."—Fernando Coronil, [I]American...
Wizard of the Upper Amazon
AuthorFrank Bruce Lamb
ISBN0938190806
Wizard of the Upper Amazon is an extraordinary document of the life among a tribe of South American Indians at the beginning of the 20th century. For many readers, the most compelling sections of the book will be the descriptions of the use of Banisteriopsis caapi, the ayahuasca of the Amazon forests....
Of Water and the Spirit: Ritual, Magic, and Initiation in the Life of an African Shaman
AuthorMalidoma Patrice Somé
ISBN0140194967
Malidoma 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...
Spontaneous Mind: Selected Interviews 1958-1996
AuthorAllen Ginsberg
ISBN0060930829
From his conversation with the conservative William F. Buckley on PBS to his testimony at the Chicago Seven trial to his passionate riffs on Cezanne, Blake, Whitman, and Pound, the interviews collected in Spontaneous Mind, chronologically arranged and in some cases previously unpublished, were...
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