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Author Goodman, Felicitas D

Title Where the spirits ride the wind : trance journeys and other ecstatic experiences / Felicitas D. Goodman ; with drawings by Gerhard Binder
Published Bloomington : Indiana University Press, c1990

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Description 1 online resource (xii, 242 p.)
Contents Cover; Title; Copyright; Contents; Prologue; I: The Search for the Spirits; ONE The Call of the Old People; TWO Getting in Touch with the Spirits: The First Discoveries; THREE The Old Ones Remember; FOUR A New Path Opens; FIVE The Way of the Spirits; II: The Postures and What They Have to Offer; SIX Going on a Spirit Journey; SEVEN The Many Faces of Divination; EIGHT The Gift of Healing; NINE Female Powers of Healing; TEN Changing Shape-The Shimmering Game; ELEVEN Celebrations; TWELVE The Pit of Death and the Psychopomp; THIRTEEN Life Everlasting; III: Myths of the Etemal Present
INTRODUCTIONThe Emergence Story; Coyote Comes Calling; The Man of Cuautla; A Maya Whistle; The Story of Kats and His Bear Wife; The Spirits and the Wounded Tree of Life; In the Land of Centaurs and Mermaids; CONCLUSION: The Twilight of the Spirits; Appendix: Some Practical Points; Notes; Bibliography; Index
Summary ""The book is clearly written for the general reader and includes many descriptions of trance experiences. It may serve as a good introduction to the nature and appeal of the shamanic revival in modern Western cultures.""--Theological Book Review"" ... a case study in experiential anthropology that offers a unique mix of autobiography, mythology, experiential research, and archaeological data to support a challenging thesis-that certain body postures may help induce specific trance states."" -Shaman's Drum""This is a spellbinding and exceptionally readable book by an extraordin
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (p. [232]-235) and index
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Subject Astral projection.
Trance.
Shamanism.
Posture -- Miscellanea
Astral projection -- Case studies
Shamanism -- Case studies
Trance -- Case studies
Religion.
Shamanism
Religion
shamanism.
religion (discipline)
BODY, MIND & SPIRIT -- Parapsychology -- General.
Religion
Astral projection
Posture
Shamanism
Trance
Ekstase
Trance
Geister
Parapsicologia.
Espiritismo.
Religioes.
Genre/Form Case studies
Trivia and miscellanea
Form Electronic book
LC no. 2021695165
ISBN 9780253014641
0253014646
9781461957652
1461957656