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• ISBN: 0877734321 :
• ISBN: 9780877734321
• Physical Description: xii, 236 pages ; 23 cm.
• Edition: 1st ed.
• Publisher: Boston : Shambhala : 1988.

Content descriptions

Bibliography, etc. Note:

Includes bibliographies and index.

Formatted Contents Note:

pt. 1. Shamans and neo-shamans: What is a shaman? / Michael Harner ; Ecstasy and sacrifice / Rowena Pattee ; Shamanism : a religious phenomenon? / Åke Hultkrantz ; Seeing is believing : the four worlds of the shaman / Serge King ; Shamanic trance postures / Felicitas D. Goodman ; The bridge, an essential implement of Hmong and Yao shamanism / Jacques Lemoine ; Neo-shamanism and the modern mystical movement / Joan B. Townsend -- pt. 2. Shamanism and healing: The inner life of the healer : the importance of shamanism for modern medicine / Larry Dossey ; Shamans : the first healers / Stanley Krippner ; The wounded healer : transformational journeys in modern medicine / Jeanne Achterberg ; Modern shamanism : integration of biomedicine with traditional world views / Lewis E. Mehl ; Shamanic approaches in a hospital pain clinic / Frank Lawlis ; Sacred places in nature : one tool in the shaman's medicine bag / Jim Swan ; The shamanic journey : observations from holotropic therapy / Stanislav Grof -- pt. 3. Shamanism and personal empowerment: Shamanic counseling / Michael Harner ; Shamanic tales as ways of personal empowerment / Jürgen W. Kremer ; Shaman's journey, Buddhist path / Joan Halifax ; To paint ourselves red / Brooke Medicine Eagle ; Shamans, yogis, and bodhisattvas / Gary Doore.

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Shamanism.
Shamans.
Healing > Religious aspects.