'Shamans, Healers, and Medicine Men' explores the primal healing methods of shamans all over the world. The author shows that for these extraordinary men and women, healing is not merely the alleviation of symptoms but entails a transformation of one's relationship to life.
Holger Kalweit is a German ethnologist who has studied shamanism in Hawaii, the American Southwest, Mexico, and Tibet. He is the author of 'Dreamtime and Inner Space: The World of the Shaman'.
Author(s): Holger Kalweit
Publisher: Shambhala
Year: 1992
Language: English
Commentary: scantailor optimized
Pages: 324
City: Boston & London
Tags: ethnopsychology;shamanism;consciousness;anthropology
Shamans, healers, and medicine men
Contents
Illustrations
José Panco, Papago medicine specialist, treating a sick man with rattle and deer tail
Massett shamans, Northwest Coast of Canada
Gitskan shaman, Northwest Coast of Canada
Portrait of Kingiuna, Agiamiut shaman, Copper Eskimo, Canada
Siberian Yakut shaman performing without his shaman costume
Siberian shaman of the Nanay, Amun River, ca. 1895
Siberian shaman holding a séance, Sachalin, late 1800s
Burjat shamaness, East Mongolia
Burjat shamaness performing a purification ritual, East Mongolia
Burjat shamaness, East Mongolia
Shamaness initiating her apprentice, Western Tibet
INTRODUCTION: Holy Medicine
PART ONE: THE BIRTH OF THE HEALER
1. The First Shamans of the Golden Age
2. Shamanic Schools and Medical Societies
3. Healing Powers from the Realm of Death
4. Lightning Shamans
5. White Shamans
PART TWO: VISION OF KNOWLEDGE
6. The Trance of Healing and the Logic of Trance
7. The God-Man from Aglin
8. The Vision Quest
9. Inner Eyes, Double Vision
PART THREE: SACRED JOURNEYS THROUGH SPACE AND TIME
10. The Mouth of the Dead
11. Spirit-Conjurers of the Arctic
12. The Shaking Tent
13. Ceremonies of Healing
PART FOUR: WAYS OF POWER
14. May Your Spirit Be Crazy Like Bursting Cliffs
15. Shamanic Battles: Spiritual Duels
PART FIVE: THE SHADOWS OF EVERYTHING EXISTING
16. The Greatest Blessing Comes to Us on the Way to Madness
17. Inverted Worlds: Shamanic Paradoxes
18. Vital Energies, Forces of the Universe
19. Transtherapeutic Philosophy
Epilogue
The White Man Has, the Black Man Is
Bibliography
Appendix: Location of Tribes
Index
