Encounters with power
Subtitle: adventures and misadventures on the shamanic path of healing
By: Jose Luis Stevens, PhD
Publisher: Sounds True
Published: 2017
Language: eng
Number of pages: 243
ISBN-13: 9781622037933
Subjects: Shamanism
Description: "When you leave the beaten path of civilization, you enter the world of primal and mysterious forces--and encounter wonders you never thought possible. This is the territory of the shaman. To learn the secrets of shamanism, José Luis Stevens has traveled to the remote and wild places where the oldest human spiritual practice still exists in its purest form. With Encounters with Power, this respected teacher invites you to experience his journeys to meet shamans around the globe--and share in the wisdom he received. Join this master storyteller as he recounts his meetings with Spirit in its many guises"--Amazon.com.
Table of contents: title: Part I. Expression : Storyteller-Artist. The Power of Prophecy : India and the Life-Changing Reading; title: The Right Way to Die; title: Lost in Mexico; title: The Guatemala Test and Initiation; title: Encounters with the Power of Aborigines and Songlines Down Under : Or "When the Student Is Not Ready"; title: Part II. Inspiration : Ceremonialist-Healer. Q'eros : Encountering the Power of the Land and Its People; title: Journeys for Power with Medicine : Visions with Ayahuasca; title: The Power of Dieting in the Jungle : Plant Teachings; title: The Power of Communion : A Magical Andes Wedding; title: An Encounter with Power Through a Healing Crisis : The Natural Traveling Pharmacy; title: Part III. Action : Chief-Warrior. An Encounter with Power : Completing a Huichol Apprenticeship with Sacred Peyote; title: A Second Pilgrimage to Regalia : Encounters with the Dark Shaman; title: An Encounter with the Dolphin Brujos; title: Nevado Aconcagua : Pilgrimage to a Sacred Mountain for Power; title: Traversing the Andes and Other Powerful Passages.