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Recent Reads...

David Kowalewski           Death Walkers     

Orion Foxwood                    The Candle and the Crossroads

Sharon Paice MacLeod       Celtic Myth and Religion

Sandra Ingerman                 How to Heal Toxic Thoughts

Don Miguel Ruiz, Jr.           The Five Levels of Attachment

Joan Parisi Wilcox               Keepers of the Ancient Knowledge: The Mystical World of the Q'ero

David Kowalewski               Destiny Retrieval: Shamanic Mentoring in the Age of Whatever

 

Even Newer Titles...

 

David Abram       Spell of the Sensuous

 

Freya Aswynn     Northern Mysteries & Magick   

 

Christian F. Brunner    Mountain Magic: Celtic Shamanism in the Austrian Alps

 

Steven Farmer       Earth Magic: Ancient Shamanic Wisdom for Healing...

 

Bernd Heinrich     Mind of the Raven

 

Helen Macdonald    H is for Hawk

 

Ralph Metzner     The Well of Remembrance

 

Sy Montgomery    The Soul of an Octopus

 

Ruiz & Ruiz    The Fifth Agreement/The Four Agreements/The Five Levels of Attachment

 

Laura Silvana      Plant Spirit Journey

 

Peter Wohlleben    The Hidden Life of Trees

 

New Titles...

 

Charles Foster     Being the Beast

 

Thomas Thwaites   GoatMan: How I Took a Holiday From Being Human

 

Sharyn Davies     Challenging Gender Norms: Five Genders Among Bugis in Indonesia

 

Kevin Turner       Sky Shamans of Mongolia: Meetings with Remarkable Healers

 

Dick Russell      My Mysterious Son: A Life-Changing Passage Between Schizophrenia and Shamanism

 

Emma Wilby    Cunning Folk and Familiar Spirits: Shamanistic Visionary Traditions in Early Modern British Witchcraft and Magic

 

Sandra Harner            Ema's Odyssey

 

William S. Lyon          Spirit Talkers

 

Rogan P. Taylor         The Death and Resurrection Show

 

Ngaanyatjarra Pitjantjatjare Yankunytjatjara Women's Council Aboriginal Corporation

                        Ngangkari Work - Anangu Way

 

Robin Wright    Mysteries of the Jaguar Shamans of the Northwest Amazon

 

Caroline Humphrey    Shamans and Elders


The Way of the Shaman: Basic Workshop


Harner, Michael           The Way of the Shaman / Hallucinogens and Shamanism /                                               The Jivaro/Cave and Cosmos

Castaneda, Carlos           A Separate Reality   

Cloutier, David                Spirit, Spirit Shaman Song

Cowan, Tom         Shamanism as a Spiritual Practice for Daily Life /Fire in the Head /                                  Pocket Guide to Shamanism   

Cowan, Eliot                  Plant Spirit Medicine   

Eliade, Mircea                    Shamanism: Archaic Techniques of Ecstasy   

 

Farmer, Steven                Earth Magic

Greene, Brian                   The Elegant Universe   

 

Halifax, Joan                  Shaman, The Wounded Healer/ Shamanic Voices 

 

King, Serge Kahili              Kahuna Healing / Urban Shaman  

 

Lamb, F. Bruce                  Wizard of the Upper Amazon   

 

Matthews, John                The Celtic Shaman   

Mason, Bernard                How to Make Drums, Tom-toms and Rattles   

Mehl-Madrona, Lewis          Coyote Medicine   

 

Narby, Jeremy, & Francis Huxley, Ed.    Shamans Through Time/The Cosmic Serpent

 

Perkins, John                    Shape Shifting

 

Plotkin, Mark J.                 Tales of a Shaman's Apprentice

  

Prechtel, Martin                Secrets of the Talking Jaguar 

Sarangerel                       Chosen by the Spirits/Riding Windhorses

 

Some, Malidoma Patrice     Of Water and the Spirit/The Healing Wisdom of Africa

 

Speck, Frank G.                Naskapi: The Savage Hunters of the Labrador Peninsula
 

Various Animal Interpretive Systems

 

NOTE: These are included only as a place to begin understanding the nature of helping animal spirits. Journey to your helpers, study their relations in ordinary reality, support conservation efforts on their behalf in ordinary reality. Do not rely on the "take" of others to the exclusion of your own experience.


Andrews, Ted                Animal Speak / Animal Wise 

Carr-Gomm, Philip & Stephanie                The Druid Animal Oracle

Gray, Miranda                Beasts of Albion

Hartman, Lew                Wolf Song Cards

Sams, Jamie                  Medicine Cards

Saunders, Nicholas         Animal Spirits

Steiger, Brad                 Totems, The Transformative Power of Your Personal Animal                                                Totem
 

Creativity


Sandra Harner, Shamanism and Creativity, Shamanism, Fall/Winter 1999, Vol. 12, No. 2,  http://www.shamanism.org/articles/article12.html  

David Bohm         On Creativity, Routledge 1998 

Nancy Slonim Aronie         Writing from the Heart, Hyperion 1998  

E. J. Barber                       Women's Work, The First 20,000 Years: Women, Cloth,                                                    and Society in Early Times, Norton 1994 

Ray Bradbury                      Zen in the Art of Writing, Essays on Creativity, Capra Press,                                                 1990 

Julia Cameron                 The Writer's Life, Jeremy P. Tarcher/Putnam, 2001                                                              The Artist's Way, Jeremy P. Tarcher/Putnam, 1992   

Betty Edwards                   Drawing on the Artist Within, Simon & Schuster, 1986  

Steven Lonsdale                  Animals and the Origins of Dance, Thames & Hudson, 1981  

Sark                                 A Creative Companion, How to free your creative spirit,                                                      Celestial Arts, 1991  

Brenda Ueland                     If You Want to Write, Greywolf Press, 1987 
 

Divination 
  

Joseph McMoneagle   Remote Viewing Secrets (pp. 184 - 191 pendulum and scrying)

 

Eugene Maury             Exorcism (for his use of the pendulum and charts)  

 

Raymon Grace            Techniques That Work for Me (for his use of the pendulum)  

 

Christopher Bird         The Divining Hand   Enid Hoffman     

       

Huna: A Beginner's Guide (Chapter 5, pp. 209 - 212, pendulum) 


Dreamwork Workshop

 

The Dreaming Universe                Fred Alan Wolf

Healing Dreams                          Marc Ian Barasch

Dreamkeepers                            Harvey Arden

Aboriginal Men of High Degree       A. P. Elkin

The World is as You Dream It        John Perkins

 

"Senoi Dream Theory: Myth, Scientific Method, and the Dreamwork Movement"

          G. William Domhoff, http://psych.ucsc.edu/dreams/Library/senoi.html 

 

Healing Sounds from the Malaysian Rainforest    Marina Roseman

 

Performing Dreams     Laura R. Graham

 

Shamanism, Dying & Beyond

 

“Death is our eternal companion …. It is always to our left, an arm’s length behind us… Death is the only wise adviser that we have…Whenever you feel…that everything is going wrong and you’re about to be annihilated, turn to your death and ask if that is so. Your death will tell you that you are wrong, that nothing really matters outside its touch. Your death will tell you, ‘I haven’t touched you yet.’” – Don Juan to Carlos Castaneda, Journey to Ixtlan, pgs. 33-34

 

“You are not locked in that body of yours…remember you are the ethereal heavens…”   From the Ethereal Heavens, Stephen K. Hayes, The Cold Moon: Wisdom from the Ninja Village

 

“…our death is ever present…a loving messenger who reminds us of the priceless potential of all our days…” Cutting the Air, Stephen K. Hayes, The Cold Moon

 

Death Walkers           David Kowalewski  iUniverse, 2015


Forever Ours              Janis Amatuzio     Midwest Forensic Pathology, 2002

How Can I Help?         Ram Dass & Paul Gorman    Knofp, 1985

Who Dies?                  Stephen Levine     Anchor Books, 1982

Journey of the Heart    Andrew Todd     Vanderbilt University Medical Center, 1995

Journey of Souls         Michael Newton  Llewellyn, 2002

Life Before Life            Jim Tucker, MD  1997

Heaven and Hell          Emanuel Swedenborg 

Graceful Exits             Sushila Blackman 1997

 

The Tibetan Book of Living and Dying   Sogyal Rinpoche  1992 (pp. 173 - 186)

 

Inner River   Kyriacos Markides  2012   (pp. 123 - 171)

 

Shades, 2000 (This is a mini-series. With Dervla Kirwan, Sally Hurst, Hannah Bridges, Stephen Tompkinson. Meeting as "shades" after their unexpected deaths, Mark and Maeve team up to try influencing the world they can't seem to leave.)

 

"Midwifing Death: An Alternative Method of Working with Death and Dying," Shaman's Drum, Mid-Fall, 1988, pp. 17 - 22. Nanci Shandera, Ph.D. 

 

"The Darkness of God: A Personal Report on Consciousness Transformation Encounter with Death,"Journal of Humanistic Psychology, Vol. 28, No. 2, Spring 1988, pp. 105 - 122. John Wren-Lewis

 

http://iands.org/resources/support-for-others/nde-training-video.html (This is an excellent training film for professionals dealing with the near death experience. Copy and paste in your browser.)

 

(also see the Depossession reading list below)

 

Extraction Healing

 

Shaman Healer - Pomo Shaman (1963) Anthropology Documentary - YouTube

 

Soul Retrieval/Soul Restoration


Shamanism: Archaic Techniques of Ecstasy, Mircea Eliade:

pg. 60 Australia
pg. 217 Buryat
pg. 219 Tatars/Chuckchee
pg. 219 Kazak-Kirgaz
pg. 220 Tremyugans
pg. 221 Ostyak-Vasyugan
pg. 223 Yenisei-Ostyak
pg. 224 Lapps
pg. 227 Samoyed
pg. 228 Yakut & Dolgan
pg. 238 Tungus
pg. 289 Eskimo
pg. 300 N. America
pg. 327 S. America
pg. 348 Sumatra
pg. 350 Dyak, Sea Dyak
pg. 414 India
pg. 433 Tibet
pg. 442 Burma, China 

Introduction to Shamanism, Stutley
pg. 84 - 87 C. & N. Asia, Buryat, Tatar, Mongolia, Chulum Turks, Duar

Boiling Energy, Richard Katz (1982), pg. 86

Burmese Supernaturalism, Melford Spiro (1967)

The Jivaro, Michael Harner (1972), Chapter IV

Hallucinogens and Shamanism, Michael Harner, Ed. (1973), Chapter 7

Soul Retrieval/Welcome Home, Sandra Ingerman (1991, 1993)

Soul Recovery and Extraction, Ai Gvhdi Waya (1992)

Remarkable Healings, Shakuntala Modi, MD (1997) Introduction, Chapter VI

 

 

Shamanism and the Spirits of Nature

 

Your relationships with all things are personal. So while there are texts that others have compiled suggesting uses, meanings and interactions, life is ever changing. Learn the Ordinary Reality aspects of beings and the compositional benefits and banes. Respect your own experiences of the Non-ordinary avoiding discounting your experiences. Always perform due diligence in working with ordinary reality plant ingestion. Wisdom comes with discernment. 

 

Peterson: Field Guid to Medicinal Plants and Herbs    Steven Foster & James A. Duke

 

Encyclopedia of Magical Herbs     Scott Cunningham

 

Flower Essences and Vibrational Healing    Gurudas

 

The New Age Herbalist   Richard Mabey

 

Last Chance to See     Douglas Adams

Nature-Speak/Enchantment of the Faerie Realms     Ted Andrews

The Secret Teachings of Plants     Stephen Buhner

Plant Spirit Shamanism     Howard Charing & Ross Heaven

The Songlines     Bruce Chatwin

Plant Spirit Medicine     Eliot Cowan

Places of Power     Paul Devereux

The Faery Teachings/The Tree of Enchantment     Orion Foxwood

Green Was the Earth on the Seventh Day     Thor Heyerdahl

 

Wizard of the Upper Amazon      F. Bruce Lamb

Mother Earth Spirituality/Native Wisdom     Ed "Eagleman" McGaa

Journey of the Pink Dolphin     Sy Montgomery

Nature Spirits and Elemental Beings     Marko Pogacnik

Tales of a Shaman's Apprentice/Medicine Quest     Mark Plotkin

Pale Blue Dot     Carl Sagan

Kamongo or, The Lungfish and the Padre     Homer Smith

 

The Hidden Life of Trees       Peter Wohllenben

Aroma: The cultural history of smell   Constance Classen, David Howes and Anthony Synnott

Reading the Rocks   Bjornerud

 

 

Spirit Mate


Shamanism & the Spirit Mate    Robinson & Robinson

 

Dreams and Reverie: Images of Otherworld Mates among the Baule, West Africa Philip L. Ravenhill, 1996

 

Shamans of the Foye Tree   Ana Mariella Bacigalupo, 2007

 

In Search of Woman's Passionate Soul   Caitlin Matthews, 1997

 

The Gospel of Philip  Jean-Yves Leloup, 2004

 

Sky Dancer: The Secret Life and Songs of the Lady Yeshe Tsogyel  Keith Dowman, 1996

 

Films:  Down to Earth

         Portrait of Jennie

         The Ghost & Mrs. Muir

 

 

Depossession/Spirit Releasement


Healing Lost Souls       William J. Baldwin, Ph.D. 
Hampton Roads (2003)

The Unquiet Dead                  Dr. Edith Fiore
Ballantine Books (1987)

 

The Bright Light of Death     Annabel Chaplin
 DeVross & Company (1977)

Remarkable Healings                 Shakuntala Modi, MD       
Hampton Roads (1997)
 
Entity Possession            Samuel Sagin
Destiny Books (1997)                

The Spirits’ Book         Allan Kardec
Brotherhood of Life, Inc.  (1989)

Thirty Years Among the Dead          Carl A. Wickland, MD
Spiritualist Press (1968)

 

Psychic Shield: The Personal Handbook fo Psychic Protection

Caitlin Matthews   Ulysses Press (2006)

Burmese Supernaturalism   Melford Spiro
Prentice-Hall (1967) Chapters 10 & 11

 

Phantoms Afoot; Journeys into the Night      Mary Summer Rain
Whitford Press (1989)

 

Ecstatic Religion: A Study of Shamanism and Spirit Possession   I.M. Lewis     (3rd Edition)  Routlege Press (2003)

 

The Magus of Strovolos (1985), Homage to the Sun (1987)  Kyriacos C. Markides  Arkana 

 

People of the Lie  M. Scott Peck  Touchstone Books (1983)

 

Diabolical Possession and Exorcism   Rev. John J. Nicola  Tan Books and Publishing (1974)

 

Encounters   Edith Fiore, Ph.D.  Doubleday (1989)  Chapters 12 and 13

 

Psychic Self-Defense    Dion Fortune 

 

Films:

       Black Orpheus

       Macumba, Trance and Spirit Healing   Dir. Madeline Richeport  1984

 

 

Rites of Rebirth

 

Labyrinths: Ancient Myths & Modern Uses           Sig Lonegren
Gothic Image (1991)

                 Optional Reading regarding Labyrinths

Walking a Sacred Path                     Lauren Artress
Riverhead Books (1995)

The Way of the Labyrinth               Helen Curry
Penguin Books (2000)

Mazes & Labyrinths: Their History & Development                      W. H. Matthews
Dover (1970)

               Optional Reading regarding Rites of Passage and Ritual

The Rites of Passage                        Arnold van Gennep
University of Chicago Press (1960)

Rites and Symbols of Initiation      Mircea Eliade
Spring Publications (1958)

The Healing Wisdom of Africa   Malidoma Patrice Some
(Chapter 7)

                      Web sites re: Labyrinths

                  www.labyrinthos.net

                  www.labyrinthsociety.org

                  www.waterlabyrinths.com 

 

 

Ancestors                    


Cowan, Tom                             Shamanism: As a Spiritual Practice for Daily Life
                                               (Chapter 8)

Doumbia, Adama & Naomi            The Way of the Elders

Foxwood, Orion                         The Faery Teachings (Chapter 7)

MacEowen, Frank                      The Spiral of Memory and Belonging (Chapter 12)

Metzner, Ralph                          The Well of Remembrance

 

Kowalewski, David                   Dances with Ancestors

 

(see also Some in Basic list)

 


The Ghost Dance


Mooney, James                     The Ghost-Dance Religion and Wounded Knee

Kalweit, Holger                      Dreamtime & Inner Space (pgs. 36 - 38)

Eaton, Evelyn                        I Send A Voice (pgs. 149 - 154)

Howells, William                      The Heathens (pgs. 259 - 272)

Laubin, Reginald & Gladys         Indian Dances of North America (pgs. 52 - 71)

Spencer, Robert F. and
Jesse Jennings, ed.                 The Native Americans (pgs. 509 - 511)
 
Mary Crow Dog and
Richard Erdoes                        Lakota Woman (pgs. 144 - 153)

Magneson, James                    Ghost Dancing

Miller, David                            Ghost Dance 

 

The Way of the Spiral


The mystic spiral                   Jill Purce
Thames and Hudson (1974)

 

Journeys to the Impossible


Francis, Anne             Voices from Home: An Inner Journey 
                                    
Braden, Gregg            The Spontaneous Healing of Belief

Boyd, Doug                 Rolling Thunder

Castaneda, Carlos        A Separate Reality

Michael, Todd             The Twelve Conditions of a Miracle: The Miracle                                          Worker's Handbook 

Perkins, John              Shape Shifting: Shamanic Techniques for Global and Personal                                          Transformation 

The Healing Wisdom of Africa   Malidoma Patrice Some (Chapter 1) 

 

Lyons, William            Spirit Talkers 
 

 

Crystals

 

We'd  like to begin with confirmation that some shamans use crystals. Michael Harner in The Way of the Shaman even talks about how crystals are often included in medicine bundles. At the end of his chapter on Power Practice, he talks about methods for cleaning a crystal and waking up its power. Boas in his discussion of Kwakiutl shamans recounts how crystals were thrown into a man to make him a shaman. And, one group of Australian aborigines believe that a shaman’s insides are made of crystal.

 

A book we'd like to recommend for learning how to commune with crystals is that of Laura Silvana called Plant Spirit Journey. While Silvana focuses on plants, the same technique can be used with crystals. The chapter called Preparing for the Journey has several steps useful in making the connection. Of course, you may always journey to find the spirits of the crystals or perhaps a spirit expert in crystals.

 

Steps on the Stone Path: Working with Crystals and Minerals as a Spiritual Practice

Robert Sardello

 

A Course in Crystals

Rose Morningstar

 

The Language of Crystals

Roger Calverley

 

Crystal Personalities: A Quick Reference to Special Forms of Quartz

Patricia Troyer

 

Gemisphere Luminary

Michael Katz

 

Gem Elixirs and Vibrational Healing, Vol. 1 and Vol. 2

Gurudas

 

Gem Stones: The Visual Guide to more than 130 gemstone varieties (a gemologist’s handbook)

Cally Hall

 

Normally, we include only books we have personally read on our list. In the case of crystals, we are adding a few titles from students who have worked with crystals for many years. These are below. 

 

Books by Katrina Raphell

Crystal Enlightenment, The Crystalline Transmission, Crystal Healing

 

Books by Judy Hall

101 Power Crystals, The Crystal Bible 1, 2, & 3, Earth Blessings

 

The Complete Illustrated Guide to Crystal Healing

Simon Lilly 

 

Crystal Decoder

Sue Lilly 

 

Crystal Wisdom

Dolfyn

 

Teach Yourself Crystal Healing

Roger C. Croxson

 

Laying on of Stones

D.J. Conway

 

 

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