Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #765301 in Books
• Published on: 1999-09
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 1
• Binding: Paperback
• 109 pages

Customer Reviews

Not Enough Substance
I was looking forward to this book since some of the reviews are so glowing. But I found the book to be of very little substance. It is mostly the author's personal fantasies and anecdotes. The few exercises in the book are infantile and unremarkable. Do not waste money or time on this book. There are better alternatives out there.

The only book I have ever returned to Amazon
My first review was a tad harsh on this little opus. I was angry because I felt that by actually paying money for the thing I automatically had "sucker!" branded on my forehead.

The book alienated me within the first few pages by indicating that the hunter/gatherer mode of existence is so much superior to any other, that the only hope we poor moderns have is to find our "inner hunter/gatherer" to counteract the horrifying fact we live in the pathetic and depressing age of electricity, the internet, antibiotics, soap, and indoor plumbing.

An author has maybe 2 pages to interest you in their premise. I gave the author 6 pages. I felt the tone was condescending and the approach smacked of silver-bullet nonsense. (Just become a "hunter/gatherer" and everything will be just peachy.)

Maybe it gets better after the sixth page of text. Stranger things have happened. Not many, but some.

Shamanism isn't new to me, by the way. I recommend Michael Harner and Thomas Cowen. When I try a new author for a different POV -- which is what I was doing here -- I think I will go with Louise Strongbear.

Not real excited
Ms. Rysdky refers to allot of other books in her writing of this one. So, I'm not too sure how much information is truly of her experience. I recommend this book to someone who is just curious, like I am about Shamanism.