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Sharing the wisdom of shamanic healing, Nicholas Brink creates an accessible link between psychotherapy and the ritualized use of ecstatic trance postures. He explains how ecstatic trance triggers the imagery that allows us to override negative beliefs and retrieve the lost innocence of the soul. He shows us how to broaden healing beyond the resolution of individual emotional and behavioral issues to create harmony in family, community, society, and the world around us. Integrating cognitive b...

In Shamanic Mysteries of Egypt, Nicki Scully and Linda Star Wolf renew humanity's connection to the ancient gods of Egypt, the neteru. Voices from these divine ancestors remind us of the healing power of the heart, and call us to bring their consciousness into the present to help us remember our true nature as divine humans with sacred purpose. The authors provide rituals, meditations, and rites of passage to help us meet our personal and planetary challenges with grace, wisdom, and love. The sh...

Over the millennia, shamanic trance journeying has been used as a way of healing, of providing answers to questions and of offering solutions to individual, family and community problems. Though traditionally it was the shaman of the community who went on such journeys, the revolutionary work of the late anthropologist, Felicitas Goodman, shows that we all have these shamanic powers. Her research on the body postures found in ancient primitive art and in the practices of contemporary shamans off...

A comprehensive exploration of familiars and their many forms and powers Exploring the history and creation of a "witch's familiar," also known as a spirit double or guardian spirit, Maja D'Aoust shows how there is much more to these supernatural servant spirits and guardians than meets the eye. She reveals how witches are not the only ones to lay claim to this magician's "assistant" and examines how the many forms of witch's familiars are well known in folklore throughout Europe and America a...

From cross-cultural legends recounting shamanic cures to the biblical accounts of the parting of the Red Sea and Jesus multiplying the loaves and fishes, many spiritual traditions are rich in stories about seemingly inexplicable transformations of the natural world. The ancient healing art of transmutation, in which toxic substances are transformed into "safe" substances, is mentioned in all the world's great spiritual traditions, including Hinduism and Taoism. And while many have tapped this bo...

Once upon a time, women practiced their own methods of shamanism, witchcraft, magick and divination. But they lost much of this knowledge hundreds of years ago, when their practice was forbidden by patriarchal systems.Now you can regain those long-forgotten secrets and learn new ways to celebrate your femaleness as a source of undreamed of strength. This book draws on women's mysteries from all traditions -- Celtic, Greek, Egyptian, Indian, Norse, and Middle Eastern. These simple exercises, ritu...

This is the long-awaited companion to the best-selling "Druid Animal Oracle", created by the same authors and artist team. Will Worthington's stunning card images depict the herbs, flowers and mushrooms considered sacred in the Druid tradition, and the Carr-Gomm's text describes their special meanings and the ancient folklore and mythology associated with them. The virtues and qualities of each plant are used as an oracle from which wisdom, guidance and inspiration can be sought. This is a must-...

The Four Insights are the wisdom teachings that have been protected by secret societies of Earthkeepers, the medicine men and women of the Americas. The Insights state that all creation—humans, whales, and even stars—is made from light manifest through the power of intention. The Earthkeepers mastered the Insights, and used them to heal disease, eliminate emotional suffering, and even grow new bodies that age and heal differently. Mastery of the Insights allows you to reinform your DNA and part...

Combining traditional research on folklore and the Eddas with trancework and meditation techniques, Alice Karlsdottirr was able to rediscover the feminine side of the Norse pantheon and assemble working knowledge of 13 Norse goddesses for both group ritual and personal spirit work. Detailing her trancework journeys to connect with the goddesses, the author reveals the long-lost personalities and powers of each deity. She explores the Norse goddess Frigg the Allmother, wife of Odin, along with...

Invoke the power of the Wildwood, of the Green Man and Green Woman, and of the living archetypes of the forest such as Robin-in-the-Hood, with this new companion to the bestselling Wildwood Tarot. Authors Mark Ryan and John Matthews take us across time, to the pre-Celtic world of the forest that once cloaked much of the world, where primal forces roamed free and opened doorways into the otherworld of the Ancestors. With chapters on the Lore of the Wild, ways to work around the archetypal Wheel...