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Psychosis or Spiritual Awakening: Phil Borges at TEDxUMKC

2014

Phil Borges, filmmaker and photographer, has been documenting indigenous and tribal cultures for over 25 years. See more...

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The Shamanic View of Mental Illness

In the shamanic view, mental illness signals “the birth of a healer,” explains Malidoma Patrice Somé. Thus, mental disorders are spiritual emergencies, spiritual crises, and need to be regarded as such to aid the healer in being born.

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Stephanie Marohn
2014
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Cave and Cosmos: Shamanic Encounters with Another Reality

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.

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Michael Harner
2013
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Essential Psychic Healing: A Complete Guide to Healing Yourself, Healing Others, and Healing the Earth

Author and healer Diane Stein brings to the layperson psychic healing techniques once assumed to be too esoteric to use without highly specialized knowledge, years of training, and a paranormal gift. Essential Psychic Healing helps us tap into the potent healing power of our own psychic energies.

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Diane Stein
2006
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Wisdom of the Shamans: What the Ancient Masters Can Teach Us about Love and Life

For generation after generation, Toltec shamans have passed down their wisdom through teaching stories. The purpose of these stories is to implant a seed of knowledge in the mind of the listener, where it can ultimately sprout and blossom into a new and better way of life.

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don Jose Ruiz
2019
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The Mystical Experience of Shamanism

Susan Mokelke tells of her venture into shamanism and how she helps to heal others.

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Susan Mokelke
2008
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Spirit Walking: A Course in Shamanic Power

In Spirit Walking, shamanic practitioner Evelyn Rysdyk shows how we can all connect with the spirit world to find balance and healing.

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Evelyn C. Rysdyk
2025
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The Nepalese Shamanic Path: Practices for Negotiating the Spirit World

There are few areas of our world where shamanic traditions have been preserved in their original context and form. Nepal is one of these rare and special places.

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Evelyn Rysdyk, Bhola Nath Banstola, Sandra Ingerman
2019
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Doña Julia Julieta Casimiro

The following is a version of an interview I held over several days in September 2006 with my mother, Doña Julia Julieta Casimiro, one of the most distinguished representatives of the traditions of the thousand-year-old Mazatec culture, which is centered in the northern mountains of the state of...

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Jesuita Natalia Pineda Casimiro
2007
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Lessons in Courage: Peruvian Shamanic Wisdom for Everyday Life

“Lessons in Courage” is the biography of an extraordinary man, who has awakened to his own purpose in life as a servant to conscious evolution for all humanity.

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Bonnie Glass-Coffin, don Oscar Miró-Quesada
2013
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The World of Shamanism: New Views of an Ancient Tradition

Fascinating, comprehensive, and eminently readable, this guide explores shamanism―the world's most enduring healing and religious tradition―in the light of modern medicine, psychology, neuroscience, consciousness disciplines, and religious studies.

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Roger Walsh
2007
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