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Fire in the Head: Shamanism and the Celtic Spirit
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Product Description
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Product Details
- Amazon Sales Rank: #237697 in Books
- Published on: 1993-05-14
- Released on: 1993-05-14
- Original language: English
- Number of items: 1
- Binding: Paperback
- 240 pages
Editorial Reviews
-- 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 poorly written work
I first came across this book in the mid-90's and just recently bought it in a used book store for about five dollars. I wish I had kept the receipt. This work distorts its source materials to fit into the author's deluded notions of a European Shamanism. The writing is erratic, and disconnected from one point to the other. The author makes a point about paleolithic cultures of Europe, and then seeks to extend same ideas to much later Gaulish invaders. Bad scholarship, distortion of sources, and a whole lot of "core shamanism" crap all in one binding.
Mr. Cowan... if you ever read these reviews, please send me my money back.
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.
