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
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
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
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
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
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)
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
“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
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
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
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
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
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
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)
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 mystic spiral Jill Purce
Thames and Hudson (1974)
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