Can anyone please point me in the direction of some books with high quality information about shamanism? Or does anyone have any experience with shamanism or know anything about it?
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The god remembering, llyn roberts Soul retrieval, Sandra ingerman Medicine for the earth, Sandra ingerman Fool's crow, wisdom and power, Thomas mails Shapeshifting, John perkins The world is as you dream it, John Perkins The way of the shaman, Michael garner Singing the soul back home, Caitlin Matthews Shamanic Guide to death and dying, Kristin madden Boom of shamanic healing, Kristin madden Shamanic reiki - Llyn Roberts The woman in a shaman's body, reclaiming the feminine in religion and medicine, barbara tedlock "The Medicine Will Always Be There For Those Who Seek It"
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Singing to the Plants - Steven Beyer Ayahuasca in the Blood - Peter Gorman The Journey to the Sacred Garden - Hank Wesselman Awakening to the Spirit World - Sandra Ingerman, Hank Wesselman Plant Spirit Medicine - Tom Cowan Being and Vibration - Joseph Rael The Visionary - Kurt Wilt (about Joseph Rael and his teachings. Not much about pshycoactive plants but some really useful earth based mystical practices from a true native american shaman. As Within, So Without.
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Thanks for the book ideas, but does anyone actually have any personal experience with shamanism? I think that would be interesting to read.
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where is one I have the way of the shaman is also very good (better i'd say) but I don't have it on the computer. We live in illusion and the appearance of things. There is a reality. We are that reality. When you understand this, you see that you are nothing, and being nothing, you are everything.
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here is the second Phil Hine shamanism book... and what do you know I found The Way of The Shaman on one of my exteral hard drives *EDIT - Couldn't get The Way of The Shaman to upload. sorry  Maybe I'll try again some other time We live in illusion and the appearance of things. There is a reality. We are that reality. When you understand this, you see that you are nothing, and being nothing, you are everything.
Cogito Ergo Sum
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Al Dimentiz wrote:
The way of the shaman, Michael garner
Essential bassmethod wrote: There are also a lot of works by Terence McKenna
and many other popular speakers in the psychedelic community who talk a great deal on the
subject. You can probably find more about them in the "Files" section of the Nexus website. Thank you for the quality links on shamanism. The Hollow Bone: A Field Guide to Shamanism Shaman, Healer, Sage: How to Heal Yourself and Others with the Energy Medicine of the Americas Secrets of Shamanism: Tapping the Spirit Power Within You Breaking Open the Head: A Psychedelic Journey into the Heart of Contemporary Shamanism Sacred Drumming – Steven Ash Plant Spirit Shamanism: Traditional Techniques for Healing the Soul Creating Healing Relationships: Professional Standards for Energy Therapy Practitioners LSD Psychotherapy – 123-129, 136-149, 245-301 Food of the Gods – Terence McKenna ॐ Shamanic Yogi ❤
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If you're interested in the history of shamanism, I would highly recommend both of these books: Shamanism: Archaic Techniques of Ecstasy - Mircea Eliade Pretty much the standard when it comes to traditional shamanism across multiple cultures and time periods. My one gripe about it is that Eliade summarily dismisses any shamanism that incorporates drugs as being "decadent" and essentially only pseudo-shamanism: "“Intoxication is a mechanical and corrupt method of reproducing “ecstasy,” being “carried out by oneself”; it tries to imitate a model that is earlier and that belongs to another plane of reference.” To just outright dismiss this aspect of shamanism really shows either an extreme cultural/societal bias or a mind-boggling naivety on Eliade's part. Possibly even both. Hallucinogens and Shamanism - Michael J. Harner Harner's Hallucinogens and Shamanism makes for a near-perfect companion to Eliade. He covers the use of hallucinogens by various cultures, even devoting a chapter to European witchcraft.
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fractaloctopus wrote:If you're interested in the history of shamanism, I would highly recommend both of these books: Shamanism: Archaic Techniques of Ecstasy - Mircea Eliade Pretty much the standard when it comes to traditional shamanism across multiple cultures and time periods. My one gripe about it is that Eliade summarily dismisses any shamanism that incorporates drugs as being "decadent" and essentially only pseudo-shamanism: "“Intoxication is a mechanical and corrupt method of reproducing “ecstasy,” being “carried out by oneself”; it tries to imitate a model that is earlier and that belongs to another plane of reference.” To just outright dismiss this aspect of shamanism really shows either an extreme cultural/societal bias or a mind-boggling naivety on Eliade's part. Possibly even both. Yes, those are words of an inexperienced and biased person. (There are connections among Mircea Eliade and the far right and nationalism.) The ayahuasca and similar entheogenic ceremonies are often misunderstood, especially by Western scholarly people who were not born out of an indigenous culture. A Western author as such has no room to make a statement as such. Yet, no need to judge the man's limited understanding of the world. fractaloctopus wrote:Hallucinogens and Shamanism - Michael J. Harner Harner's Hallucinogens and Shamanism makes for a near-perfect companion to Eliade. He covers the use of hallucinogens by various cultures, even devoting a chapter to European witchcraft. I am reading Harner's The Way of the Shaman now. I am curious to know why he chooses the word hallucinogens, as say to entheogen or psychedelic. Shamans know that the entheogenic experience does not produce hallucinations per se; in a shamanic state of consciousness, we are able to experience and interpret other frequencies that we are unable to perceive during an ordinary state of consciousness. While experiencing a shamanic state of consciousness, we are experiencing realities that we are unable to tap into without a shamanic induction into that state. McKenna and Strassman sometimes use the word, hallucinogen. I am skeptical when I hear it used though. Deliriants produce hallucinations; psychedelics and entheogens are doorways into higher dimensions of reality. In the book, does he talk about deliriants and dissociatives? ॐ Shamanic Yogi ❤
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singing to the plants by Stephan Beyer is a great book about mestizo shamanism in peru very thouroughly expains all aspects of their tools ad pratices
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MysticYogi wrote:Yes, those are words of an inexperienced and biased person. (There are connections among Mircea Eliade and the far right and nationalism.) The ayahuasca and similar entheogenic ceremonies are often misunderstood, especially by Western scholarly people who were not born out of an indigenous culture. A Western author as such has no room to make a statement as such. Yet, no need to judge the man's limited understanding of the world. I would say his bias is more grounded in politics than inexperience. Plus it was first published in 1951 so the worldly knowledge of certain shamanic techniques would have not been known at that time. MysticYogi wrote:I am reading Harner's The Way of the Shaman now. I am curious to know why he chooses the word hallucinogens, as say to entheogen or psychedelic. Shamans know that the entheogenic experience does not produce hallucinations per se; in a shamanic state of consciousness, we are able to experience and interpret other frequencies that we are unable to perceive during an ordinary state of consciousness. While experiencing a shamanic state of consciousness, we are experiencing realities that we are unable to tap into without a shamanic induction into that state. McKenna and Strassman sometimes use the word, hallucinogen. I am skeptical when I hear it used though.
Deliriants produce hallucinations; psychedelics and entheogens are doorways into higher dimensions of reality.
In the book, does he talk about deliriants and dissociatives? Hallucinogens and Shamanism was written in 1972. The term entheogen didn't even exist at that time. I would assume that Harner chose not to use "psychedelic" due to the negative associations of Leary and his cohorts. Along with the expected writings on ayahuasca, peyote, and mushrooms, he does go into the use of various tropane containing plants by European witches, namely deadly nightshade, henbane, mandrake, thorn apple, and belladonna. Personally I found this chapter the most interesting as I hadn't read about witches much previously. For example, the image of a witch riding a broomstick? It comes from them rubbing a stick with an ointment of these various plants, then "riding" the stick (with no undergarments of course) thus putting the ointment in direct contact with a rather sensitive, moist area of flesh.
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Ayahuasca Shamanism in the Amazon Basin and Beyond: Quote:"This book presents the encounter between Amazonian and modern worlds through the account of the recent phenomenon of expansion of shamanistic rituals based on the consumption of ayahuasca." —Renato Sztutman, Professor of Anthropology, University of São Paulo  'What's going to happen?' 'Something wonderful.'
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