The World of Shamanism: New Views of an Ancient Tradition
10 best books like The World of Shamanism: New Views of an Ancient Tradition (Roger Walsh): Shamans Through Time, The Woman in the Shaman's Body: Reclaiming the Feminine in Religion and Medicine, By Oak, Ash, & Thorn: Modern Celtic Shamanism, Whispers from the Woods: The Lore & Magic of Trees, Animism: Respecting the Living World, Traveling between the Worlds: Conversations with Contemporary Shamans, The Medicine Way: A Shamanic Path to Self Mastery (The "Earth Quest" Series), Fire in the Head: Shamanism and the Celtic Spirit, Shamanism: Archaic Techniques of Ecstasy, Shamanism, Colonialism, and the Wild Man: A Study in Terror and Healing
| Author | Jeremy Narby |
| ISBN | 1585423629 |
A survey of five centuries of writings on the world's great shamans-the tricksters, sorcerers, conjurers, and healers who have fascinated observers for centuries.
This collection of essays traces Western civilization's struggle to interpret and understand the ancient knowledge of...
| Author | Barbara Tedlock |
| ISBN | 0553379712 |
A distinguished anthropologist–who is also an initiated shaman–reveals the long-hidden female roots of the world’s oldest form of religion and medicine. Here is a fascinating expedition into this ancient tradition, from its prehistoric beginnings to the work of women shamans across the...
My main problem with this book, and most books about Celtic spirituality in general, is that it's all on speculation. Very little is known about how the Celts practiced their religion, and it varied between regions and tribes. Modern people love to try and lump things into catagories, and so to them,...
Whispers from the Woods: The Lore & Magic of Trees
| Author | Sandra Kynes |
| ISBN | 0738707813 |
A walk in the woods makes it easy to understand the awe and reverence our ancestors had for trees. It speaks to something deep and primal within us-something we don't hear as often as we should.
By exploring a variety of mysteries and traditions of trees, Whispers from the Woods helps readers...
How have human cultures engaged with and thought about animals, plants, rocks, clouds, and other elements in their natural surroundings? Do animals and other natural objects have a spirit or soul? What is their relationship to humans? In this new study, Graham Harvey explores current and past animistic...
| Author | Hillary S. Webb |
| ISBN | 1571744037 |
This book was required reading for a course I took, and I wasn't excited about having to read it. The murky waters of neoshamanism are often challenging to tread and I wasn't sure what to expect. I come from a reconstructionist tradition on several fronts, and most often find that modern shamans who claim...
| Author | Kenneth Meadows |
| ISBN | 1862040222 |
To the North American Indian, medicine meant more than just a substance to restore health and vitality to a sick body. Medicine was energy - a vital force and source of knowledge that was inherent in nature itself. This book introduces the practical workings of this means of self-development, which...
| Author | Tom Cowan |
| ISBN | 0062501747 |
In 'The Song of Wandering Aengus' William Butler Yeats refers to the ‘fire in the head’ that characterises the visionary experience. Tom Cowan has pursued this theme in a lyrical cross-cultural exploration of shamanism and the Celtic imagination that examines the myths and tales of the ancient...
| Author | Mircea Eliade |
| ISBN | 0691119422 |
First published in 1951, "Shamanism" soon became the standard work in the study of this mysterious & fascinating phenomenon. Writing as the founder of the modern study of the history of religion, Romanian emigre--scholar Mircea Eliade (1907-86) surveys the practice of Shamanism over two &...
Shamanism, Colonialism, and the Wild Man: A Study in Terror and Healing
| Author | Michael Taussig |
| ISBN | 0226790134 |
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...
The Future of the Body: Explorations into the Further Evolution of Human Nature
| Author | Michael Murphy |
| ISBN | 0874777305 |
In the oral and written histories of every culture, there are countless records of men and women who have displayed extraordinary physical, mental, and spiritual capacities. In modern times, those records have been supplemented by scientific studies of exceptional functioning.
Are the...
| Author | Sandra Ingerman |
| ISBN | 1591791510 |
Shamanic journeying is the inner art of traveling to the "invisible worlds" beyond ordinary reality to retrieve information for change in any area of your life -- from spirituality and health to work and relationships. In Shamanic Journeying, Sandra Ingerman draws from over 20 years' experience...
In the Shadow of the Shaman: Connecting with Self, Nature, and Spirit
| Author | Amber Wolfe |
| ISBN | 0875428886 |
Blending ancient shamanistic wisdom with modern spiritual traditions, Amber Wolfe helps readers forge their own personal connection to shamanic worlds. This guide to shamanism--filled with examples of guided journeys, secrets of shamanic divination, visualization techniques, healing practices,...
Singing the Soul Back Home: Shamanic Wisdom for Every Day
| Author | Caitlín Matthews |
| ISBN | 1859061036 |
Do you feel alientated from the natural world, trapped in a material society, searching for meaning and purpose, disconnected from the mainspring of life? Thousands of people are now discovering an answer in shamanic wisdom, where respect and wonder for nature combine with spiritual joy and healing...
Plant Spirit Shamanism: Traditional Techniques for Healing the Soul
| Author | Howard G. Charing |
| ISBN | 1594771189 |
An in-depth look at the role of plant spirits in shamanic rituals from around the world
• Shows how shamans heal using their knowledge of plant spirits as well as the plant’s “medical properties”
• Explores the core methods of plant shamanism--soul retrieval, spirit extraction,...
The Celtic Shaman: A Handbook (Earth Quest)
| Author | John Matthews |
| ISBN | 1852302453 |
I've got a couple of John Matthews' books and while he certainly seems passionate about his subjects, I'm not convinced of the actual content. I bought this, thinking it was going to be fairly in-depth. I do realise that there's scant actual knowledge of Druidry, as practised in ancient times, so I reckoned...
Mending the Past and Healing the Future with Soul Retrieval
| Author | Alberto Villoldo |
| ISBN | 1401906257 |
This fascinating book by psychologist and medical anthropologist Alberto Villoldo, Ph.D., explains the practices for healing outside of ordinary time and space. It shows how to enter the timeless now to heal events that occurred in the past, and to correct the course of destiny. Dr. Villoldo discusses...
Cave and Cosmos: Shamanic Encounters with Another Reality
| Author | Michael Harner |
| ISBN | 1583945466 |
In 1980, Michael Harner blazed the trail for the worldwide revival of shamanism with his seminal classic The Way of the Shaman. In this long-awaited sequel, he provides new evidence of the reality of heavens.
Drawing from a lifetime of personal shamanic experiences and more than 2,500 reports...
| Author | Piers Vitebsky |
| ISBN | 0806133287 |
The shaman occupies a key role as a healer mediating between the world of the living and the world of spirits and is a potent figure in alternative medicine. Shamanism, a richly illustrated guide, looks at both historic and present-day manifestations, from the snowscaps of Siberia to the jungles of...
Spiritwalker: Messages from the Future
| Author | Hank Wesselman |
| ISBN | 0553378376 |
"I am about to tell you a most unusual story, a chronicle of something that happened to me while I was living on the flank of an active volcano on the island of Hawai'i. I'm a scientist. I mention this because I do not feel that I was in any way predisposed for what was about to occur. In fact, my scientific...
