Shamanism and Paganism

"This rich study of herbal lore opens up the unfamiliar world of herbal healers around the world, focusing on the tradition of northern European and Anglo-Saxon witches and wortcunners (knowers of ...

In 1980, Michael Harner blazed the trail for the worldwide revival of shamanism with his seminal classic The Way of the Shaman. In this long-awaited sequel, he provides new evidence of the reality of heavens.

A guide to shamanic practices for those seeking to develop psychic powers. • Contains 19 practical exercises based on shamanic practices from around the world. • Includes 47-minute CD of shamanic drumming to induce meditative states of deeper awareness. • Written by the author of Earth Medicine and The Medicine Way.

Those of us who live in our so-called 'advanced' nations of the modern world have been educated to use our minds and encouraged to satisfy our physical needs. But in so doing we have become isolated from the very essence of our existence as individuals - our own spirit.

Twilight Language of the Nagual recounts the author's experiences under the tutelage of don Juan Matus, the Toltec shaman who mentored Carlos Castaneda, and the sorceress dona Celestina.

With the growing consensus that global warming is a fact, comes the realisation that the increasingly violent weather we are experiencing is its chief manifestation. Each storm, each flood, each blizzard seems to break 100-year-old records for both intensity and damage. Reducing emissions of greenhouse gases may be too little, too late.

We no longer have the luxury of learning only from the past. Visionary Shamanism explains how to learn from the future, via the imaginal cells of the energy field, and receive guidance from the ...

Shamanic Breathwork can be used to enter altered states of consciousness, increase paranormal abilities, resolve old traumas and shapeshift unproductive modes of thinking.

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The Womb is the seat of our primal power and intuition--our “wild knowing.” A Spirit Weaver is one who has heard this wild inner voice from within and has followed that call--embarking on a Grail Quest to follow the feminine path of magic, awaken to the depths of their Soul, and embody their true feminine essence.

Banned after promising research in the 1940s, '50s and '60s, the use of psychedelics as therapeutic catalysts is now being rediscovered at prestigious medical schools, such as Harvard, Johns Hopkins, NYU and UCLA.

In the Amazon, shamans do not talk in terms of hallucinogens but of tools for communicating with other life-forms. Ayahuasca, for example, is first and foremost a means of breaking down the barrier that separates humans from other species, allowing us to communicate with them.

Thousands of years ago the immortals, known as the Shining Ones, shipwrecked on the Chinese coast. Passing their shamanic practices - such as ecstatic flight and how to find power animals and spirit guides - on to the indigenous people, they, also, taught them the wisdom of the Medicine Wheel.

Toward the end of his fifties, Christopher Gray took, for the first time in years, a 100-microgram acid trip. So extraordinary, and to his surprise so enjoyable, were the effects that he began to take the same dose in the same way - quietly and on his own - once every two to three weeks.