Awakening to the Spirit World: The Shamanic Path of Direct Revelation |  | Authors: Sandra Ingerman, Hank Wesselman
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Today, practicing shamanism doesn't mean you have to live in a rain forest or a desert. Thanks to a modern renaissance of shamanic spirituality, practitioners from all walks of life now use powerful indigenous techniques for healing, insight, and spiritual growth. With Awakening to the Spirit World, teachers Sandra Ingerman and Hank Wesselman bring together a circle of renowned Western shamanic elders to present a comprehensive manual for making these practices accessible and available in our daily lives, including: - How the original practice of shamanism shaped the world's spiritual traditions and why it is still relevant today
- The art of the shamanic journey--a time-tested meditative method for experiencing important spiritual lessons and truths
- Guidance for avoiding common pitfalls of shamanic practice
- Instruction for working with your dreams, connecting to your spirit guides, healing yourself and your environment
- A CD of drumming to facilitate your shamanic journeys
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 Remember your true origins....... March 4, 2010
Kiwi (The Land of Enchantment)
31 out of 32 found this review helpful
This is a lovely book.....inside and out. I particularly love the crow on the cover; I have a murder of crows which live on my land and I just adore their silly-ness and their sense of humor.... But enough about the cover..
Shamanism is an ancient study/awareness of the Universe in my opinion. There are many indigenous peoples who hold these sacred practices from their ancestors, in high esteem. This book helps to allow some of these special ceremonies and magic to surface. It gives us knowledge and ways to communicate with the energy and the spirits who surround us. There is also a drumming CD included, which is a very nice touch.
I was drawn to the chapters on Dreaming and Death because these two subjects are pertinent to me. These are such important topics for healing and for release. I believe humans should be more informed with end of life issues and to embrace this time as a special journey, rather than shunning it, out of fear. Everyone should be allowed the dignity of dying with grace. These chapters help greatly in explaining this powerful rite of passage.
The Dreaming chapter is just as revealing and should be read by everyone. Our dreams are so important to our *knowing.* Our Spirit Guides are here to help with our questions and they love nothing more than to help us. Learning from them and honouring them should be part of our daily thanks. The paranormal is normal, the supernatural is natural. Nature is the way back to ourselves.
I wouldn't call this book a manual, it's more of an eye opener or an overview. But it is a journey worth taking and a way to learn how to relax and spend time with the unknown. Highly recommended and I feel it would make a very thoughtful gift.
Should be top of the list for Shamanic Studies March 15, 2010
Kristi G., mom of Sage (Rome, GA)
12 out of 13 found this review helpful
Very well written, easy to read book with a lot of thought and insight and research put into it.
I was delighted when I saw it - it is a gorgeous book with a really gorgeous cover - I LOVE that art - but I was pleasantly suprised that it came with Shamanic tracts on a CD. I had not realized the book came with a cd! I had no problem finishing this book. I read it in sections, and looked forward to my time alone with it.
What I liked might be hard to put into words....as one that's been on a Shamanic pagan path for many years, this book coincided very well with my beliefs and the ritual elements that it discussed, they are already my own, and I will vouch for their effectiveness. But it wasn't THAT... There's tidbits in this book, especially some of the words from the shamans interviewed for this book, that sort of flipped some switches I didn't know I had. I gathered some very AHA! insights from this book, which are well worth the cost in time and effort put into reading it. I felt PUSHED along on my current path, perhaps saving me unknown amounts of time and meditation on certain things. It's a bit surreal, it is by it's nature hard to express.
The CD tracks are also very effective - the author(s) have studied beats from many cultures, many Shamans, and have found that they have a lot in common, and that is what the trance drumming is based on.
I do think that Wiccans and Neopagans would enjoy this book as well. Some of the ritual elements certainly overlap.
This book was recently featured on a Coast to Coast radio show. If you read it, and like it, you might catch that on the web or something. One of the authors talked more about his personal journey and the effort of research that went into this. This book was well researched by a well educated scientist.
Tapping into your own wisdom March 9, 2010
L. Maupin (zapperville)
8 out of 9 found this review helpful
I really enjoyed this book It is about being who you are , here right now and not going to live in a cave to seek wisdom. Thee are ideas and practices that we can fit into our every day lives.
Such chapters as
Dreams
Instruction for working with your dreams,
connecting to your spirit guides,
healing yourself and your environment
It even includes a cd at the back of the book to help achieve the alpha state
Very well done
Exploring the Mystical Life June 7, 2010
Alejandra Vernon (Long Beach, California)
3 out of 3 found this review helpful
"Awakening to the Spirit World" is an excellent overview that covers a lot of ground, giving us a bit of history of the beginnings of shamanism, the indigenous cultures that have nurtured the teachings, and how their spiritual leaders, whether they be called shamans, medicine men, or something else, have tapped into the supernatural and touched the unknown, become acquainted with their spirit animals, wandered the inner worlds, and received revelation. Sandra Ingerman and Hank Wesselman have brought us other voices to join them in this volume: Tom Cowan, Carol Proudfoot-Edgar, Jose Luis Stevens, and Alberto Villoldo. All of them have their own experience to add to this wide-ranging teaching, and if you read this book with an open mind, I have no doubt that you will get nuggets of pure wisdom from it.
I have some favorite sections: Carol Proudfoot-Edgar on working with our animal companions in Chapter 2, "The Shamanic Journey," a chapter where we learn exercises to prepare and travel on our own personal journey. Chapter 7, "Creative Art as a Bridge," which talks of the power of words, and how we can heal and bless with what we say. Chapter 11, "All Change Involves Death," and the erasing of personal history to remove the emotion out of past events that prevent us from moving forward. Among the things that blessed me most in the book was Hank Wesselman's respectful version of the Lord's Prayer in Chapter 5. Saying it aloud is transformative.
The book includes a CD with 4 pieces of drumming and other instruments, specifically made for journeying, that is most helpful. Total time is 62.21, enough time to journey and to relax (this is especially useful for city-dwellers, to drown out any extraneous noises).
Walking the Shamanic Path May 3, 2010
Story Circle Book Reviews
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
Sandra Ingerman is widely acclaimed for bringing ancient cross-cultural healing methods into modern culture. She teaches workshops internationally on shamanic journeying, healing, and reversing environmental pollution. Her co-author, Hank Wesselman, is a paleoanthropologist and shamanic teacher. Both have woven their teachings and insight with the contributions of other shamanic practitioners to create a very accessible and enlightening book, complete with CD. The CD of drumming, rattling and whistling invites shamanic journeying to the Lower World where you might encounter the spirits of animals; the Upper World and a dreaming of gods, goddesses and ancestors; and the Middle World, where you can encounter the "hidden folk": faeries and elves.
Does that sound frightening? Think of this shamanic journeying as a form of meditation that opens you to personal growth, healing and an interconnectedness to all that is. As Ingerman describes it, shamanism is "a way of life in which we honor and respect the spirit that lives in all things. This way considers how you live to be more important than what you do."
This doesn't mean you will become a shaman if you follow the practices described in the book. Shamanism is a calling and the term "shaman" is "a mantle bestowed upon the practitioner by his or her community and is based upon the individual's abilities to stand and deliver the goods as a healer or as a diviner of information on behalf of others."
In some ways, the authors point out, "the way of the shaman is the way of the child." As children, many of us had "imaginary friends" who, as Wesselman points out, "were actually real spirits who were looking after us." Isn't it unfortunate that we were probably discouraged from keeping such comforting friends at around the age of eight or ten? We can connect to them again and in fact, children can be encouraged to maintain their connection to their visionary abilities by keeping the conversations going between them and their parents. That's one way "to keep the imaginal realms alive for the children of today's world," as Ingerman points out.
The book includes guidelines for creating rituals and ceremonies; reconnecting with nature by connecting with place and the ancestors of that place; working with dreams, songs and artistic vision; honoring the cycles of life and death; and building a shamanic community based on support and shared purpose.
by Mary Ann Moore
for Story Circle Book Reviews
reviewing books by, for, and about women
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