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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 Spirit Catches You and You Fall Down: A Hmong Child, Her American Doctors, and the Collision of Two Cultures

The Spirit Catches You and You Fall Down explores the clash between a small county hospital in California and a refugee family from Laos over the care of Lia Lee, a Hmong child diagnosed with severe epilepsy.

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Anne Fadiman
2012
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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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Plant Spirit Healing: A Guide to Working with Plant Consciousness

Indigenous healers and shamans have known since antiquity that plants possess a spirit essence that can communicate through light, sound, and vibration. Now scientific studies are verifying this understanding.

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Pam Montgomery
2008
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Plant Spirit Medicine: A Journey into the Healing Wisdom of Plants

Whether you live in a mountain cabin or a city loft, plant spirits present themselves to us everywhere. Since its first printing in 1995, Plant Spirit Medicine has passed hand-to-hand among countless readers drawn to indigenous spirituality and all things alive and green.

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Eliot Cowan
2025
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An Introduction to Neoshamanism

The term “neoshamanism,” or “new shamanism,” refers to just that—newer forms of shamanism that have been adapted from traditional indigenous practices in order to meet the needs of the modern world.

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2022
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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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Shamans Through Time: 500 Years on the Path to Knowledge

A survey of five centuries of writings on the world's great shamans-the tricksters, sorcerers, conjurers, and healers who have fascinated observers for centuries.

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Jeremy Narby (editor), Francis Huxley (editor)
2025
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