The Last Shaman

Author: William Whitecloud
Publisher: Animal Dreaming Publishing
ISBN: 0648182061
Category : Body, Mind & Spirit
Languages : en
Pages : 209

Book Description
The Last Shaman is a captivating ride through the jungles of war-torn Africa. Mark Vale, who represents any of us struggling to take consistent ownership of our personal power, takes an unwanted journey to find the last shaman who is responsible for ending the war and saving thousands of lives. All throughout, Mark learns from a colourful array of characters – including a Doctor of Philosophy exiled in the swamps, a shape-shifting sorceress, and the widow of a tribal scout – who teach him to commit completely to the desires of his soul. We see how that commitment enables him to create in a way that uplifts not only himself, but also the whole world that he is a part of. ‘Like The Alchemist and The Celestine Prophecy, The Last Shaman is poised to take its rightful place among the spiritual classics of our time’. – Doreen Banaszak, author of ‘Excuse Me, Your Life is Now’. Click the play button below the book image, and watch William Whitecloud talk about this book, “The Last Shaman”.

The Last Shaman

Author: Andrew Gray
Publisher: Berghahn Books
ISBN: 9781571818362
Category : Body, Mind & Spirit
Languages : en
Pages : 326

Book Description
The Arakmbut are an indigenous people who live in the Madre de Dios region of the southeastern Peruvian rain forest. Since their first encounters with missionaries in the 1950s, they have shown resilience and a determination to affirm their identity in the face of many difficulties. During the last fifteen years, Arakmbut survival has been under threat from a goldrush that has attracted hundreds of colonists onto their territories. This trilogy of books traces the ways in which the Arakmbut overcome the dangers that surround them: their mythology and cultural strength; their social flexibility; and their capacity to incorporate non-indigenous concepts and activities into their defence strategies. Each area is punctuated by the constant presence of the invisible spirit, which provides a seamless theme connecting the books to each other. The death of a shaman in 1980 had an enormous spiritual and political consequences for one of the Arakmbut communities, resulting in a shift in its social organization from comparative hierarchy to a more egalitarian system. The author uses this case as an illustration to challenge the idea that indigenous peoples live in fossilized, static worlds. He shows that political activities in conjunction with shamanic communication with the spirit world provide the impetus and context for change. Buy all three volumes for 20% discount

The Chukchi Bible

Author: Yuri Rytkheu
Publisher: Archipelago
ISBN: 1935744364
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 377

Book Description
By the celebrated author of A Dream in Polar Fog, a collection of the myths and stories of Yuri Rytkheu’s own family that is at once a moving history of the Chukchi people who inhabit the northern shores of the Bering Sea and a beautiful cautionary tale rife with conflict, human drama, and humor. We meet fantastic characters: Nau, the mother of the human race; Rau, her half-whale husband; and Rytkheu’s own grandfather, fated to be an intrepid traveler, far-ranging whaler, living ethnographic exhibit, and the last shaman of Uelen. The Chukchi Bible moves through vast Arctic tundra, sea, and sky – and to places deep within ourselves—introducing readers, in vivid prose, to an extraordinary mythology and a resilient people.

ZZYZX and the Last Shaman of the Desert

Author: C. E. Campbell
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780990416142
Category : Quacks and quackery
Languages : en
Pages : 199

Book Description
This book chronicles the exploits of a charismatic, old-time medicine man, snake-oil salesman, con man and medical and religious "quack;" who spent more than thirty years squatting on government land.

Shamans and Healers

Author: Andrew Osta
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781078223096
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 276

Book Description
A stream of consciousness book based on a day by day diary of a spontaneous 8 month-long journey to the Peruvian Amazon undertaken by a somewhat naive young westerner in order to study shamanism, followed by a three month journey through Mexico. Entirely based on actual diary entries, it's a vivid and unpredictable trip. Read this before drinking ayahuasca to avoid making the same mistakes.

Urban Shaman

Author: C.E. Murphy
Publisher: HarperCollins Australia
ISBN: 1742927904
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 442

Book Description
Joanne Walker has three days to learn to use her shamanic powers and save the world from the unleashed Wild Hunt. No worries. No pressure. Never mind the lack of sleep, the perplexing new talent for healing herself from fatal wounds, or the cryptic, talking coyote who appears in her dreams. And, as if all thats not bad enough, in the three years Joannes been a cop shes never seen a dead body–yet shes just come across her second in three days. Its been a bitch of a week. And it isn't over yet.

The Shaman and Ayahuasca

Author: Don Jose Campos
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781611250039
Category : Body, Mind & Spirit
Languages : en
Pages : 0

Book Description
More and more Ayahuasca has come to the attention of the Western media. Used by the shamans of Peru, the rituals and practices around this psychoactive plant-based brew date back 50-70,000 years as evidenced by rock and cave paintings found the world over. Through their use of Ayahuasca, Shamans establish contact with the spirit world which they call upon to aid them in their healing practices, understanding of the cosmos, and how to live well in the world. In "The Shaman & Ayahuasca," internationally respected Peruvian shaman Don Jose Campos illuminates the practices and benefits of Ayahuasca with grace and gentleness, while expressing respect and gratitude for the gifts Ayahuasca has bestowed on him throughout the 25 years he has been a practicing shaman. He takes the reader on a journey through his own discovery of other worlds, other dimensions, alien entities and plant teachers. "The Shaman & Ayahuasca" gives an overview of an entire cosmology with the potential to benefit all of mankind. It is the perfect book to introduce readers to the profound experiences of Ayahuasca."

The Magician's Way

Author: William Whitecloud
Publisher: New World Library
ISBN: 1577316886
Category : Self-Help
Languages : en
Pages : 256

Book Description
Mark Vale is besieged by financial and marital turmoil when he meets a group of contemporary alchemists. They take him on an astonishing journey and teach him to transform difficult situations into golden opportunities. Mark learns from wonderfully unlikely characters, from a billionaire to a beautiful topless waitress, and manifests an enormous financial windfall. But can his material success hold his family together? Mark embarks on the ultimate quest to understand how our values influence events. Author William Whitecloud brings a dazzling range of knowledge and experience — from a childhood in Swaziland immersed in supernatural worldviews to hermetic philosophy and esoteric speculation on the financial markets — to bear on this practical and magical look at what we really want, and how to get it.

Mysteries of the Jaguar Shamans of the Northwest Amazon

Author: Robin M. Wright
Publisher: U of Nebraska Press
ISBN: 0803246811
Category : Body, Mind & Spirit
Languages : en
Pages : 407

Book Description
Mysteries of the Jaguar Shamans of the Northwest Amazon tells the life story of Mandu da Silva, the last living jaguar shaman among the Baniwa people in the northwest Amazon. In this original and engaging work, Robin M. Wright, who has known and worked with da Silva for more than thirty years, weaves the story of da Silva’s life together with the Baniwas’ society, history, mythology, cosmology, and jaguar shaman traditions. The jaguar shamans are key players in what Wright calls “a nexus of religious power and knowledge” in which healers, sorcerers, priestly chanters, and dance-leaders exercise complementary functions that link living specialists with the deities and great spirits of the cosmos. By exploring in depth the apprenticeship of the shaman, Wright shows how jaguar shamans acquire the knowledge and power of the deities in several stages of instruction and practice. This volume is the first mapping of the sacred geography (“mythscape”) of the Northern Arawak–speaking people of the northwest Amazon, demonstrating direct connections between petroglyphs and other inscriptions and Baniwa sacred narratives as a whole. In eloquent and inviting analytic prose, Wright links biographic and ethnographic elements in elevating anthropological writing to a new standard of theoretically aware storytelling and analytic power.

Taliesin

Author: John Matthews
Publisher: Inner Traditions / Bear & Co
ISBN: 9780892818693
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 378

Book Description
Taliesin, Chief Bard of Britain and Celtic shaman, was a historical figure who lived in Wales during the latter half of the sixth century. His verse is established as a direct precursor to the Arthurian Legends--and Taliesin himself, is said to be the direct forebear to Merlin. The author presents completely new translations of Taliesin's major poems in their entirety, uncovering the meanings behind these great works for the first time.