Product Description

Advice and step-by-step guidelines for those seeking to recover from addictive relationships.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #28884 in Books
• Published on: 1993-05-14
• Released on: 1993-05-14
• Number of items: 1
• Binding: Paperback
• 240 pages

-- Sandra Ingerman, author of Soul Retrieval: Mending the Fragmented Self
"A remarkable exploration of shamanism [using] cross-cultural myths to explain the history and roots of the Celtic spirit."

-- Serge Kahili King, author of Urban Shaman
"An important and fascinating work on Celtic shamanism. Highly recommended."

About the Author
Tom Cowan is the author of How to Tap Into Your Own Genius and the coauthor of Power of the Witch and Love Magic.

Customer Reviews

A classic of the field
Despite debate, if one approaches this book with an open mind, one finds alot of evidence supporting the idea of Celtic Shamanism. This is a remarkable cross cultural survey as well of shamanism. It's well researched and presented. I love it so much, I am on my third copy. It's a classic of this admittedly narrow field.

More history than instructional...
...but that doesn't mean that this isn't a top notch book. I found it to be an exceptional source of information about shamanism in general and celtic shamanic beliefs in particular. I highly recommended it to all with an interest in such subjects. IF, however, you are looking for a "how to" book, this is not what you are looking for.

The Metaphor in the Humanity
On my shelf of shamanist titles, this one sits prominently figured. Cowan presents the traditional fantastic experiences of the shaman in an amazingly receivable framework. His experience of archetypes in well-known myths and legends opens one to the ability to read all things symbolically, thus, as the dynamic spiritual presences that they are. To that end I regard Cowan as a shapeshifter of symbols, not an interpreter of them. His telling of olde tales connects their spirit with a modern audience.

In this book his love and connection to the Celtic path is evident, though it is not necessarily rooted in what we know of Celtic history, itself. I feel it is important to make that distinction, as Cowan is cultivating the opening of the shamanic experience of metaphor in a Celtic context. He is not a Reconstructionist, thus this work offers, rather, an experiential opportunity in a Celtic framework.