 | Medicine of Light: A Shaman's Journey Through Mystic Space-Time by Amarananda Bhairavan
Buy used from: $17.83 The best insider account ever. Namaste. This is the real thing. To learn more, go to www.deepsoulhealing.com.
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 | Kali's Odiyya : A Shaman's True Story of Initiation by Amarananda Bhairavan
Buy used from: $8.99 The author's first book. Excellent background (and high adventure). The second book actually took place about 3/4 of the way through this book, but the publisher pulled it out and made it a separate book. Both books read well independent of each other, but this one is more story, while the second book is mind-bending teachings.
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 | Original Wisdom: Stories of an Ancient Way of Knowing by Robert Wolff
Buy new: $10.17 / Used from: $7.36 The Sing'oi of Malaysia live daily in the dreamtime. Written from first-hand experience. Read the first part to understand the context, but the amazing revelations are in the second half. The author just managed to learn the techniques before he had to return to the west. Well, at least he left a trail . . . Beautiful and gentle.Thank you, Robert Wolff!
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 | Psychonavigation: Techniques for Travel Beyond Time by John Perkins
Buy new: $10.36 / Used from: $7.75 John Perkins lived with Amazon Shuar "headhunters" long enough to have first-hand knowledge of the techniques, and is dedicated to bringing tribal and westerners together to "Change the Dream". He just may. Bravo!
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 | The World Is As You Dream It: Teachings from the Amazon and Andes by John Perkins
Buy new: $10.17 / Used from: $4.90 Excellent, excellent, excellent. Please read this book. All of Perkins' books are good: Spirit of the Shuar and Shapeshifting fill in more background. Learn more about working with Amazon and other shamans at www.dreamchange.org.
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 | The Songlines by Bruce Chatwin
Buy new: $10.88 / Used from: $0.01 More basis: How dreamtime cultures work. Second-hand, but still quite insightful. The Australian aborigines are singing the world into being for the rest of us.
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 | Where the Spirits Ride the Wind: Trance Journeys and Other Ecstatic Experiences (A Midland Book) by Felicitas D. Goodman
Buy used from: $5.74 Introductory to her later books. Studying trance and glossalallia, the author eventually noticed that posture makes a difference in the nature of the trance, and eventually opened a center in New Mexico to teach her techniques.
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 | Ecstatic Trance: New Ritual Body Postures by Felicitas D. Goodman
Buy new: $13.57 / Used from: $12.20 Posture used as a way to guide ecstatic trance. This works.
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 | Wizard of the Upper Amazon by F. Bruce Lamb
Buy new: $11.96 / Used from: $2.31 The story of a man who was kidnapped as a child and trained to become the next chief of this Amazon tribe. An insider view by an outsider, with good information about how this tribe functioned. The best tidbit is how tribe members revert back to the bickering about old feuds during ceremonies and how the chief manages this. Sounds familiar.
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| Wizard of the Four Winds: A Shaman's Story by Sharon
Buy used from: $250.00 I read this a long time ago, and I don't remember much about it, but it was good enough to get a star in my notes. Time to reread. It is first-hand.
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 | Shamanic Voices: A Survey of Visionary Narratives (Arkana) by Joan Halifax
Buy used from: $2.58 First-hand accounts collected.
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 | Sastun: One Woman's Apprenticeship with a Maya Healer and Their Efforts to Save the Vani by Rosita Arvigo
Buy new: $11.55 / Used from: $3.75 Focuses on one Belize shaman's excellent use of plants, how he finds them and learns what to do with them, and more secrets, written by his apprentice, who now has an established practice using his techniques.
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 | American Shaman: An Odyssey of Global Healing Traditions by Jeffrey A. Kottler
Buy new: $20.95 / Used from: $15.18 Very different. The story of Bradford Keeney's connection with Bushmen shamans, and how Keeney applies what he learned from them. He emphasizes excitement, rather than calming. Credo Mutwa is included.
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 | Shamans, Healers, and Medicine Men by Holger Kalweit
Buy new: $18.21 / Used from: $2.05 Second hand, so sometimes the author does not know what he's talking about, but still a lot of interesting information from first-hand accounts has been collected.
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 | Riding Windhorses: A Journey into the Heart of Mongolian Shamanism by Sarangerel
Buy new: $11.53 / Used from: $1.86 First-hand knowledge of Buryat shamanic practice. The author, of Siberian descent, was raised in the United States, but has returned to study with native teachers.
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 | Soul Retrieval: Mending the Fragmented Self by Sandra Ingerman
Buy new: $10.87 / Used from: $6.99 One of the best books on how to do shamanic journeying and how to use it in healing. The author has helped many clients. Yes, she originally studied with Michael Harner, but she seems to have honed her technique through practice, and she describes well what she's learned.
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 | Stone Age Wisdom: The Healing Principles of Shamanism by Tom Crockett
Buy used from: $7.82 Not traditional, but building on it. Lots of interesting ideas for techniques to try.
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 | The Spell of the Sensuous: Perception and Language in a More-Than-Human World by David Abram
Buy new: $10.20 / Used from: $4.00 Trained as a sleight-of-hand magician, Abram spent time in Bali, and for that reason or another, he was able to observe Balinese life closely and with a open mind. Beautifully written, this will shift your consciousness in ways you can't expect. Balinese shamans can't explain how they heal; they just "know", and Abrams picks up very interesting nuances.
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 | Shamanism: Archaic Techniques of Ecstasy (Bollingen Series (General)) by Mircea Eliade
Buy new: $14.64 / Used from: $10.66 Ok, ok . . . not first hand, but at least it got the research started, along with Carlos Castaneda, Michael Harner, and more. There are still grains of wisdom in all of them.
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| Artscanada December 1973/January 1974 Issue Numers 184, 185, 186, 187 Thirtieth Anniversary Issue Stones, Bones & Skin Ritual and Shamanic Art .. Arts Canada by Anne Trueblood Ed. Brodzky
Buy used from: $100.35 Not first hand, but an old favorite. I've always liked the art that's generated by shamanic practices, and this is a great collection. Not necessary for shamanism, but often revealing.
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 | Zulu Shaman: Dreams, Prophecies, and Mysteries (Mutwa, Credo Vusa'mazulu,) by Vusamazulu Credo Mutwa
Buy new: $13.22 / Used from: $6.75 Haven't read this yet.
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 | Vusamazulu Credo Mutwa: Zulu High Sanusi (Profiles in Healing series)
Buy used from: $15.00 This mix sounds very interesting. Bradford Keeney on Credo Mutwa. Hmm. Maybe I should get this one first. Why is it so expensive??!!!
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