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Shamanism: An A-Z Reference Guide
Discover the history and core elements of Shamanism
Shamanism is a widely used term for a broad range of spiritual practices across time, continents, and cultures. Shamanism is your all-in-one reference guide to shamanic traditions and healing modalities around the world.
Entertaining and easy to navigate, Shamanism is a rich collection of unique facts and stories from shamanic cultures. You'll find engaging entries on cultural beliefs, spiritual motifs, sacred objects, and rituals, like Vibrational Medicine and Soul Retrieval (recovering lost souls or soul parts).
Shamanism
Discover the magic, mythology, and healing history of Shamanism with this introductory guide.
Shamanism is a widely used term for a broad range of spiritual practices across time, continents, and cultures. Shamanism is your all-in-one reference guide to shamanic traditions and healing modalities around the world.
Entertaining and easy to navigate, Shamanism is a rich collection of unique facts and stories from shamanic cultures. You'll find engaging entries on cultural beliefs, spiritual motifs, sacred objects, and rituals, like Vibrational Medicine and Soul Retrieval (recovering lost souls or soul parts).
Shamanism
Discover the magic, mythology, and healing history of Shamanism with this introductory guide.
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176 pages, Paperback
Published March 17, 2020
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April 13, 2020
Cultural beliefs and spiritual motifs of Shamanism
Shamanism is a practice of reaching altered states of consciousness in order to perceive and interact with the spirit world and channel these energies into this world. Shamanic practitioners, during rituals, travel between these two worlds through dreams, visionary experience, and waking consciousness. These two worlds are treated as a single reality.
Shamanism offers healing ceremonies that seeks wholeness; the harmony to body, mind and soul. When ancestral laws or environmental boundaries have been violated, the shaman will seek to re-harmonize the relations between people and land with tribal ancestors. When an individual falls into sickness, the shaman will journey to that person's spiritual guardians to take away illness and restore wholeness. When sickness comes to domestic animals, the shaman may commune with the spirits to find healing and renewal. Shamanism doesn’t have sacred scriptures or worship a god or deity, but the faith and belief system is largely focused on the power of spirits and animals, healing and shamanic drumming and entering trance, a state of profound abstraction or absorption.
I was looking for detailed discussion of ritual practices, altered states of consciousness, spirit animals, ancestral spirits, native peoples of Siberia, dreams and signs, healing ceremonies, drums, and entering trance. Many of these terms are defined cryptically in one or two paragraphs. Many terms that are not key to the Shamanic practices are described in relative detail. If you are looking for a book to understand Shamanism as a belief system, then this is not the book you are looking for.
Shamanism is a practice of reaching altered states of consciousness in order to perceive and interact with the spirit world and channel these energies into this world. Shamanic practitioners, during rituals, travel between these two worlds through dreams, visionary experience, and waking consciousness. These two worlds are treated as a single reality.
Shamanism offers healing ceremonies that seeks wholeness; the harmony to body, mind and soul. When ancestral laws or environmental boundaries have been violated, the shaman will seek to re-harmonize the relations between people and land with tribal ancestors. When an individual falls into sickness, the shaman will journey to that person's spiritual guardians to take away illness and restore wholeness. When sickness comes to domestic animals, the shaman may commune with the spirits to find healing and renewal. Shamanism doesn’t have sacred scriptures or worship a god or deity, but the faith and belief system is largely focused on the power of spirits and animals, healing and shamanic drumming and entering trance, a state of profound abstraction or absorption.
I was looking for detailed discussion of ritual practices, altered states of consciousness, spirit animals, ancestral spirits, native peoples of Siberia, dreams and signs, healing ceremonies, drums, and entering trance. Many of these terms are defined cryptically in one or two paragraphs. Many terms that are not key to the Shamanic practices are described in relative detail. If you are looking for a book to understand Shamanism as a belief system, then this is not the book you are looking for.
July 15, 2020
This is a wonderful book on Shamanic practices from around the world. It is very informative and educational. It is well researched and I would recommend it for anyone interested in Shamanism.
I would like to thank Netgalley and the publisher for providing me with a copy free of charge. This is my honest and unbiased opinion of it.
I would like to thank Netgalley and the publisher for providing me with a copy free of charge. This is my honest and unbiased opinion of it.
May 14, 2022
the PowerPoint presentation
Not impressed by the cheap knock off A to Z list. Gets a D for effort.
But the content is surprisingly good.
Lots of detailed knowledge.
Good for a quick read. But given the authors obvious expertise this quickly produced slide card show is not worthy of her.
Not impressed by the cheap knock off A to Z list. Gets a D for effort.
But the content is surprisingly good.
Lots of detailed knowledge.
Good for a quick read. But given the authors obvious expertise this quickly produced slide card show is not worthy of her.
March 22, 2020
An excellent reference guide that made me learned a lot of new things about shamanism.
It's well researched, well written and I liked how the author explains topics.
I strongly recommend it.
I received this ARC from the publisher via Netgalley in exchange for a honest review.
It's well researched, well written and I liked how the author explains topics.
I strongly recommend it.
I received this ARC from the publisher via Netgalley in exchange for a honest review.
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