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With their ability to enter trances, to change into the bodies of other creatures, and to fly through the northern skies, shamans are the subject of both popular and scholarly fascination. In "Shamans: Siberian Spirituality and the Western Imagination", Ronald Hutton looks at what is really known about both the shamans of Siberia and about others spread throughout the world. He traces the growth of knowledge of shamans in Imperial and Stalinist Russia, describes local variations and different types of shamanism, and explores more r... read more
Millions of people worldwide have been introduced to Reiki, the Japanese 'hands on' form of healing; and shamanism has been practiced by indigenous cultures around the world for thousands of years. In this book, shaman and Reiki Master Jim PathFinder Ewing (Nvnehi Awatisgi in Cherokee) combines both traditions to demonstrate step by step how anyone with rudimentary knowledge of Reiki or shamanism can heal people, places and things at hand or from a distance.This is a 'hands on' book for an out-of-body experience, a manual for actua... read more
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Interest in shamanism is on the rise and people are eager to integrate this intriguing tradition into their own lives. "Shamanism for Beginners" introduces the spiritual beliefs and customs of the shaman - a spiritual leader, visionary, healer, diviner, walker between worlds, and so much more. How is one called to be a shaman? How is a shaman initiated? Where does a shaman's power come from? Exploring the practices and beliefs of tribes around the world, James Endredy sheds light on the entire shamanic experience. The fascinating o... read more
This is the commission given to me by the mystic medicine chief 'silver bear'. When you walk in darkness it is no use carrying a lantern, whose light cannot be seen. For, then, every step you take will be a hesitation into the unknown, where any tiny pebble on the Path may cause you to trip or stumble, or the slightest impediment, a cause for you to give up and abandon the journey to try, perhaps, another path. So make a lantern, lit from the Red Indian fire and whose light shines clear for the way you've come to be seen and marked... read more
"A man of knowledge is free...he has no honor, no dignity, no family, no home, no country, but only life to be lived." --don Juan In 1961 a young anthropologist subjected himself to an extraordinary apprenticeship to bring back a fascinating glimpse of a Yaqui Indian's world of "non-ordinary reality" and the difficult and dangerous road a man must travel to become "a man of knowledge." Yet on the bring of that world, challenging to all that we believe, he drew back. Then in 1968, Carlos Castaneda returned to Mexico, to don Juan and... read more
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Translated literally, "upanishad" means "sitting near devotedly, " conjuring images of the contemplating student listening with rapt attention to the teachings of a spiritual master. The principal Upanishads offered in this edition have been recognized throughout the centuries by Hindu believers and great Western thinkers such as Goethe, Schopenhauer, and Emerson as philosophical and spiritual meditations of the highest order.
The first book in Carlos Castaneda's astounding journey into the world of sorcery. In 1960 Carlos Castaneda first met don Juan, a Yaqui Indian feared and shunned by the ordinary folk of the American South West because of his unnatural powers. During the next five years don Juan's arcane knowledge led him into a world of beauty and terror, ruled by concepts far beyond those of western civilization. Using psychedelic drugs - peyote, jimson weed and a mushroom called 'humito' - Castaneda lived through encounters with disembodied sp... read more
Filled with hundreds of specific examples and organized into a coherent framework of practical concepts that can be applied by managers and entrepreneurs at all levels, Built to Last provides a master blueprint for building organizations that will prosper in the 21st century and beyond. In Good to Great, the most widely anticipated management book of the year, Jim Collins presents nothing less than a recipe book on how to make a good company great. Following the success of his international blockbuster Built to Last, where he and c... read more