He also says that everyone has the ability to become a shaman, just with varying degrees of skill and power. During my lifetime in some wide ranging travels through SE Asia I have come across shaman in various cultures in Bali, Malaya, Thailand Laos, Vietnam and Cambodia. Unfortunately, I found the rest of the book not so interesting. In this experimentation it is often difficult for the layman or even the health professional to distinguish the spurious from the effective. The Way of the Shaman Summary & Study Guide Description.
I find it interesting how various religious practices and occult teachings mix, blend, and borrow from each other. In other words, such an argument might go, we perceive reality the way we usually do because that is always the best way in terms of survival. Ships in a box directly from our store in Santa Barbara, California. However, as a basic read on core shamanism and for a read on a classic which helped begin it all, its not a bad book to add to a list to start off with though its certainly not the best stand alone book. It is unlikely, therefore, that following Harner's techniques will kill anyone. Is it THE shamanism book? His first exercise is designed to take you on a "Shamanic rough the Tunnel into the Lower World. " Your life's purpose is to awaken him as as the foundation for. Contemporary shamanism, like that in most tribal cultures, typically utilizes monotonous percussion sound to enter an altered state of consciousness.
The best part is, apart from the time and devotion you'll have to invest to wake him up, he comes free of charge! I'd like to check out the newer edition to see how it compares. Examples of students' first shamanic journeys, coupled with some basic exercises for beginners and background information on shamanistic practices in other parts of the world, provided an interesting and informative introduction. I'm just not entirely confident of the framework that Harner provides. Cover shows wear and creasing, small pen doodle on front fly, pages are foxed. Also find Hardcover. Now, with a new introduction and a guide to current resources, anthropologist Michael Harner provides the definitive handbook on practical shamanism – what it is, where it came from, how you can participate. "
At any rate, the book gets a bit wilder as it goes along. These so-called primitive peoples lacked our advanced level of medical technology, so they had excellent reason to be motivated to develop the nontechnological capacities of the human mind for health and healing. Despite that assertion, the cosmology presented in his core shamanism is very Abrahamic and most definitely culturally influenced. I'm grateful that he left a Foundation and this text to point the way. A scooch appropriative, but interesting. I valued this book most for its discussions of shamanistic consciousness rather than the practices, but I could see both being of value for the proper audience. Mass Market Paperback.
As I was reading the section on spirit animals, I had a magical experience. Published by Bantam New Age Books, U. S. A., 1982. Roger Walsh and Charles S. Grob, authors of Higher Wisdom. I took out several books on Shamanism, but there's a reason this is considered a classic. Today we are discovering that even the near-miracles of modern Western medicine are not always adequate in themselves to solve completely all the problems of those who are ill or who wish to avoid illness. He stared at me for a few long seconds, and then he climbed up a tree in the yard and sprung himself towards the empty land out back. Also described are rituals such as a "spirit quest" to find your "power animal, " and once found, how to keep this spiritual guide by regularly "exercising your animal. " Michael Harner can be legitimately credited with launching the Western neo-shaman movement. Harner argues that advances in the medical field have spurred near-death experiences which provide a window into another reality. If one is at all curious about shamanism, this is a great place to get started.
Possible ex library copy, will have the markings and stickers associated from the library. CHAPTER 4: Power Animals. Our ancient hunting and gathering ancestors recognized that their environment held the power of life and death over them, and considered such communication essential for their survival. Either way, those entering this altered state of consciousness show different brain functions and patterns.
Yet despite these shortcomings, Harner's approach to shamanic work is particularly resonant for the archetypes and minds of our modern society. I would add that Albert Hoffman's synthesis of lysergic acid diethylamide in the late 1930s sparked an interest in other worlds, the notorious chemical had been used for thousands of years in visionary ceremonies of indigenous tribes (usually in the form of lysergic acid amine, present in morning glory seeds) but was re-introduced by science. Increasingly, health professionals and their patients are seeking supplementary healing methods, and many healthy individuals are also engaged in personal experimentation to discover workable alternative approaches to achieving well-being. Published by Harper & Row, 1980. The book discusses shamanism as much as it gives instruction in certain practices. Preface to the Third Edition. Although he gives instructions for experimenting with basic shamanic principles, Harner clearly advocates for any real exploration to take place under the tutelage of an experienced shaman.
Chapter four describes the concept of power animals and the role that they have in health and illness. If you want insight into the many cultures of shamanism, how to tread respectfully on your broken path, or the understanding of how we are all hardwired to experience awe, read the work of Karen Vogel, Roma Morris, and Robert Wallis. This might be termed cognicentrism, the analogue in consciousness of ethnocentrism. It should be pointed out that not all Shaman use psychedelics and Harner describes in detail alternative approaches to achieve altered states of conscious that involve a combination of drumming and meditative practices. Look, I have an interest in healing, and cross-cultural natural methods. I can understand why the Hopi consider that all life is one. I should note that I read the 3rd edition of this book. Archaeological and ethnological evidence suggests that shamanic methods are at least twenty or thirty thousand years old... One of the remarkable things about shamanic assumptions and methods is that they are very similar in widely separated and remote parts of the planet, including such regions as aboriginal Australia, native North and South American, Siberia and central Asia, eastern and northernmost Europe, and southern Africa. " They also report surprisingly similar images and experiences, regardless of where on earth they are or the culture through which they are practicing their shamanic arts. Yes, as stated before, I do believe in Shamans. So, if I'd stopped reading where he implied I should stop, I would still be stuck exploring the tunnel to the lower world.
We will add a custom fitted mylar cover, bubble-wrap the book and ship it in a BOX with delivery confirmation/tracking. If the group does healing work for others, it does the work without charge as a spiritual service. Civilized world have called. It describes the "hand game" practiced by several American Indian tribes. To the author's further credit, he encourages people to make full use of modern medicine, with shamanic healing being an addition rather than a replacement.
As healing is fundamental to shamans, I would have liked to have learned more about the lives and experiences of well-known North American healers, however only one was mentioned in any detail. What Western shamans can try to create, to some degree, is cognitive relativism. This book is a distillation of firsthand research of North and South American Indian spiritual traditions and ethnographic literature from scholars about shamanism in tribes and cultures worldwide. The shamanic work is the same, the human mind, heart, and body are the same; only the cultures are different. While referencing appropriate scholarship, Harner's treatment is phenomenological rather than explanatory. ⁴ Indeed, I would add that they are the last ones able to talk with all of Nature, including the plants, the streams, the air, and the rocks.
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