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 |
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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 |
Notes |
Master and use copy. Digital master created according to Benchmark for Faithful Digital Reproductions of Monographs and Serials, Version 1. Digital Library Federation, December 2002. http://purl.oclc.org/DLF/benchrepro0212 MiAaHDL |
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Astral projection.
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Trance.
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Shamanism.
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Posture -- Miscellanea
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Astral projection -- Case studies
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Shamanism -- Case studies
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Trance -- Case studies
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Religion.
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Shamanism
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Religion
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shamanism.
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religion (discipline)
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BODY, MIND & SPIRIT -- Parapsychology -- General.
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Religion
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Astral projection
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Posture
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Shamanism
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Trance
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Ekstase
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Trance
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Geister
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Parapsicologia.
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Espiritismo.
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Religioes.
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Genre/Form |
Case studies
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Trivia and miscellanea
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Form |
Electronic book
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LC no. |
2021695165 |
ISBN |
9780253014641 |
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0253014646 |
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9781461957652 |
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1461957656 |
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