| Awakening to the Spirit World: The Shamanic Path of Direct Revelation |  | Authors: Sandra Ingerman, Hank Wesselman
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ISBN: 1591797500
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Today, practicing shamanism doesn't mean you have to live in a rain forest or a desert. Thanks to a modern renaissance of shamanic spirituality, practitioners from all walks of life now use powerful indigenous techniques for healing, insight, and spiritual growth. With Awakening to the Spirit World, teachers Sandra Ingerman and Hank Wesselman bring together a circle of renowned Western shamanic elders to present a comprehensive manual for making these practices accessible and available in our daily lives, including: - How the original practice of shamanism shaped the world's spiritual traditions and why it is still relevant today
- The art of the shamanic journey--a time-tested meditative method for experiencing important spiritual lessons and truths
- Guidance for avoiding common pitfalls of shamanic practice
- Instruction for working with your dreams, connecting to your spirit guides, healing yourself and your environment
- A CD of drumming to facilitate your shamanic journeys
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 a great review and open door August 3, 2010
Sylvia Hawley (Springfield, OR USA)
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
What makes this work important to me is that the healing of the planet depends on our renewed ability to merge our consciousness with the natural order. Without that, we are homeless and an offense to the web of life. We need to find our belonging to have the necessary empathy for what is truly sacred, all that is given, not invented by us, that lives on its own, as gifts to us, and for which we, with our big brains and straight spines, are stewards. Collectively, we are miserable stewards and those with empathy must be disappointed in us, heartbroken. One of the most inspiring findings in the journeys that H. Wesselman reports in his trilogy is that technology itself passes away as unsustainable and leaves the natural order, life itself, in place of the awful businesses of extraction and depletion of resources. We really cannot go on this way. Life won't let us. Healing and connecting with what is real and true is the business of the shamanic path. It is the door to remembering our own sacred place in the web of life. Maybe it's too late but I think we ought not betray our potential by giving up or forgetting that we are, ourselves, created and life, itself, supreme. Here's one way to get back to that original garden. For me, another way is described in Vladimir Megre's Ringing Cedar Series, Book IV, Co-Creation. If you can't read all of them, read that one.
 A very good beginners guide to shamanism June 17, 2010
J. Moore (Garden of Earthly Delights)
2 out of 3 found this review helpful
Shamanism means many things to many people, which is why the approach this book has taken is refreshing. This book covers all the basics of shamanism, who they are and what they do, in great depth. The nice part is that, besides the two co-authors, there are four other contributors. Readers will get t understand shamanism from a number of viewpoints. The various authors each come from scholarly and practical backgrounds (at least a couple are anthropologists).
Besides the background information, there is practical information covering shamanic journeying so that readers may take shamanic journeys. The book comes with a free CD of shamanic drumming to facilitate this.
Overall, this is probably the best book introducing the shamanic path I have ever read.
THE SPIRIT WORLD and the inadequacy of words June 7, 2010
Grady Harp (Los Angeles, CA United States)
1 out of 2 found this review helpful
AWAKENING TO THE SPIRIT WORLD is more of an experience than it is reading a book. Not that the writing by Sandra Ingerman and Hank Wesselman is less than excellent: these two spiritualists communicate the road to the Shamanic path with great ease and easy to understand verbiage. It is that the manner in which the information shared so warmly and realistically in this book is of another place, a place the authors are inviting us to explore, to become. Having spent hours with this book and the accompanying CD of drumming, this reader has experienced some transformations that seem to fall out of the field of 'reviewing' a book. And that is hopefully what many people will find if they take the time to enter this sacred space - this oneness with Nature.
As is quoted from the book defining what is necessary to achieve the level of oneness, the following summarizes only one of the issues: 'Three necessary tools are gratitude, or the ability to see through the false ego to the heart; seeing, or cutting through falsity to the true nature of Spirit; and blessing, or recognizing the Spirit flowing through one. Shamans are viewed as hollow bones or empty reeds, people who learn "to move ... ego out of the way so that the power of the universe may work through and within them." Words and critiques of a book of this sort fall short in describing the atmosphere the reader (rather the willing reader!) discovers. Try not to enter this world on the recommendations of others, but commit to the elevation of exploring Shamanism from your own need if not curiosity. It is not new, it has been present since life began, it is a meditation that takes us beyond ourselves and into ourselves all at one time. AWAKENING TO THE SPIRIT WORLD is a gift from Ingerman and Wesselman. Accept their offer. Grady Harp, June 10
Exploring the Mystical Life June 7, 2010
Alejandra Vernon (Long Beach, California)
3 out of 3 found this review helpful
"Awakening to the Spirit World" is an excellent overview that covers a lot of ground, giving us a bit of history of the beginnings of shamanism, the indigenous cultures that have nurtured the teachings, and how their spiritual leaders, whether they be called shamans, medicine men, or something else, have tapped into the supernatural and touched the unknown, become acquainted with their spirit animals, wandered the inner worlds, and received revelation. Sandra Ingerman and Hank Wesselman have brought us other voices to join them in this volume: Tom Cowan, Carol Proudfoot-Edgar, Jose Luis Stevens, and Alberto Villoldo. All of them have their own experience to add to this wide-ranging teaching, and if you read this book with an open mind, I have no doubt that you will get nuggets of pure wisdom from it.
I have some favorite sections: Carol Proudfoot-Edgar on working with our animal companions in Chapter 2, "The Shamanic Journey," a chapter where we learn exercises to prepare and travel on our own personal journey. Chapter 7, "Creative Art as a Bridge," which talks of the power of words, and how we can heal and bless with what we say. Chapter 11, "All Change Involves Death," and the erasing of personal history to remove the emotion out of past events that prevent us from moving forward. Among the things that blessed me most in the book was Hank Wesselman's respectful version of the Lord's Prayer in Chapter 5. Saying it aloud is transformative.
The book includes a CD with 4 pieces of drumming and other instruments, specifically made for journeying, that is most helpful. Total time is 62.21, enough time to journey and to relax (this is especially useful for city-dwellers, to drown out any extraneous noises).
How To book on shamanic journeying for the beginner May 19, 2010
Beverly A. Lawrence (Chandler, Arizona, USA)
2 out of 3 found this review helpful
Sandra Ingerman, a renowned teacher of shamanic practices and author, has added a new book to her body or work on shamanism. The latest addition, "Awakening to the Spirit World, the Shamanic path of Direct Revelation" is a beginners guide to shamanic journeying. It is coauthored by Hank Wesselman, also a well known writer on Hawaiian shamanism.
If you have always been interested in shamanism and were either not able to take a workshop or did not know where to start then this book is for you. It includes a CD one can use for shamanic journeying or even for meditation. Even the advanced practitioner will enjoy the CD.
Sandra Ingerman also published a CD set called "Shamanic Meditations" that will guide the shamanic new comer through various types of journeys. This is a must have for the beginner.
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