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1 online resource (xii, 242 pages) |
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text file |
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 232-235) and index. |
| Contents |
Cover; Title; Copyright; Contents; Prologue; I: The Search for the Spirits; ONE The Call of the Old People; TWO Getting in Touch with the Spirits: The First Discoveries; THREE The Old Ones Remember; FOUR A New Path Opens; FIVE The Way of the Spirits; II: The Postures and What They Have to Offer; SIX Going on a Spirit Journey; SEVEN The Many Faces of Divination; EIGHT The Gift of Healing; NINE Female Powers of Healing; TEN Changing Shape-The Shimmering Game; ELEVEN Celebrations; TWELVE The Pit of Death and the Psychopomp; THIRTEEN Life Everlasting; III: Myths of the Etemal Present |
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INTRODUCTIONThe Emergence Story; Coyote Comes Calling; The Man of Cuautla; A Maya Whistle; The Story of Kats and His Bear Wife; The Spirits and the Wounded Tree of Life; In the Land of Centaurs and Mermaids; CONCLUSION: The Twilight of the Spirits; Appendix: Some Practical Points; Notes; Bibliography; Index |
| Summary |
""The book is clearly written for the general reader and includes many descriptions of trance experiences. It may serve as a good introduction to the nature and appeal of the shamanic revival in modern Western cultures.""--Theological Book Review"" ... a case study in experiential anthropology that offers a unique mix of autobiography, mythology, experiential research, and archaeological data to support a challenging thesis-that certain body postures may help induce specific trance states."" -Shaman's Drum""This is a spellbinding and exceptionally readable book by an extraordin |
| Reproduction |
Electronic reproduction. [Place of publication not identified] : HathiTrust Digital Library, 2010. MiAaHDL |
| System Details |
Master and use copy. Digital master created according to Benchmark for Faithful Digital Reproductions of Monographs and Serials, Version 1. Digital Library Federation, December 2002. http://purl.oclc.org/DLF/benchrepro0212 MiAaHDL |
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digitized 2010 HathiTrust Digital Library committed to preserve MiAaHDL |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
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Use copy Restrictions unspecified MiAaHDL |
| Subject |
Astral projection.
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Astral projection. |
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Trance.
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Trance. |
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Shamanism.
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Posture -- Miscellanea.
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Shamanism. |
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Posture. |
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Miscellanea. |
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BODY, MIND & SPIRIT -- Parapsychology -- General. |
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Parapsicologia. |
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Espiritismo. |
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Religioes. |
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Electronic books.
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Trivia and miscellanea.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Where the spirits ride the wind Bloomington : Indiana University Press, c1990. 0253327644 (alk. paper) (DLC) 89045567 |
| ISBN |
9780253014641 ebook |
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0253014646 |
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0253327644 alkaline paper |
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0253205662 paperback |
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1461957656 (electronic book) |
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9781461957652 (electronic book) |
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9780253327642 |
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9780253205667 |
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