Post by wolfdaughter on Aug 16, 2016 9:18:53 GMT -6
Thought I would share as these books might be of interest to others. I'm currently reading "The Way of the Shaman" and "Cave and Cosmos: Shamanic Encounters with Another Reality" by Michael Harner. I also picked up "Fools Crow: Wisdom and Power" by Thomas E. Mailes. Frank Fools Crow was a Ceremonial Chief of the Teton Sioux and considered to be a Sioux holy man.
Another good book about Shamanism that I recommend is "Awakening to the Spirit World" by Sandra Ingerman and Hank Wesselman. The book that I'd bought also came with a CD of drumming to assist with the shamanic journeys.
I'm also looking forward to reading "Becoming Animal: An Earthly Cosmology" by David Abram. "For too long we’ve ignored the wild intelligence of our bodies, taking our primary truths from technologies that hold the living world at a distance. Abram’s writing subverts this distance, drawing readers ever closer to their animal senses in order to explore, from within, the elemental kinship between the human body and the breathing Earth. The shape-shifting of ravens, the erotic nature of gravity, the eloquence of thunder, the pleasures of being edible: all have their place in this book."
The following is also from the book, “The final chapters step directly into the natural magic of perception itself, exploring the willed alteration of our senses and the wild transformation of the sensuous, addressing magic and shape-shifting and the metamorphosis of culture.” Also, “The phrase that titles this book, “becoming animal,” carries a range of possible meanings. In this work the phrase speaks first and foremost to the matter of becoming more deeply human by acknowledging, affirming, and growing into our animality.”
Another good book about Shamanism that I recommend is "Awakening to the Spirit World" by Sandra Ingerman and Hank Wesselman. The book that I'd bought also came with a CD of drumming to assist with the shamanic journeys.
I'm also looking forward to reading "Becoming Animal: An Earthly Cosmology" by David Abram. "For too long we’ve ignored the wild intelligence of our bodies, taking our primary truths from technologies that hold the living world at a distance. Abram’s writing subverts this distance, drawing readers ever closer to their animal senses in order to explore, from within, the elemental kinship between the human body and the breathing Earth. The shape-shifting of ravens, the erotic nature of gravity, the eloquence of thunder, the pleasures of being edible: all have their place in this book."
The following is also from the book, “The final chapters step directly into the natural magic of perception itself, exploring the willed alteration of our senses and the wild transformation of the sensuous, addressing magic and shape-shifting and the metamorphosis of culture.” Also, “The phrase that titles this book, “becoming animal,” carries a range of possible meanings. In this work the phrase speaks first and foremost to the matter of becoming more deeply human by acknowledging, affirming, and growing into our animality.”