SHAMANS, HEALERS AND MEDICINE MEN (Holger Walweit)

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A fascinating look at Shamanic healing methods from around the world. Examines shaman training methods and consciousness developing techniques, rituals and ceremonies, heroic feasts and magical powers, psychological insights and spiritual wisdom. Shows that Western medicine and psychology have much to learn from primal healing methods. From the author of Dreamtime and Inner Space This remarkable book shows that healing is not merely the alleviation of symptoms for these extraordinary men and women, but entails a change in consciousness and a transformation of one's relationship to life. Kalweit surveys the shamanic methods of healing and altered consciousness and draws comparisons between accounts of shamans and those of Western researchers into near-death experiences, 'spiritual emergencies' and other altered states. Shamans, Healers, and Medicine Men is a fascinating account showing Western Medicine has much to learn from primal healing methods.

PUBLICATION DATE: Dec 2000