Singing the Soul Back Home: Shamanism in Daily Life

by Caitlin Matthews, Diane Barker, Dru-Gu Choegyal Rinpoche

Overview

If you feel distanced from the natural world, trapped within a material society, and you are searching for meaning and purpose in your life, shamanic wisdom can offer you an answer. Caitlin Matthews shows how respect and wonder for nature, combined with spiritual joy and healing, are the essence of the shaman's holistic, vital world. Follow her exercises throughout the book and you will experience practical shamanic journeying. In this way, you will become 'a walker between the worlds' and aware not just of physical reality, but also of the subtle reality of the shaman's spiritual world.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781859061039
Publisher:	Connections Book Publishing, Limited
Publication date:	01/28/2003
Edition description:	Revised
Pages:	272
Product dimensions:	6.78(w) x 8.74(h) x 0.81(d)

Table of Contents

	Preface to the New Edition	7
	Foreword: Re-membering	8
	Introduction: Approaching the Threshold	14
	How to Use This Book	17
Chapter 1	The Shamanic Universe
1.	Shamans and Shamanism	21
2.	The Spirit of the Universe	32
3.	The Power of the Universe	39
4.	The Dance of Ecstasy	42
5.	The Cosmic Web	45
Chapter 2	The Shamanic Journey
1.	Other Dimensions	57
2.	Riding the Spirit Wind	63
3.	The Mirrored Message	73
Chapter 3	Spirit Helpers
1.	Keepers of Memory	89
2.	The Green World	94
3.	Stone People	102
4.	Faeries, Gods and Unicorns	106
Chapter 4	The Middleworld
1.	The Mother Place	117
2.	Earth Cycles	127
Chapter 5	The Underworld
1.	In the House of Memory	143
2.	In the House of the Ancestors	149
3.	In the House of Souls	159
Chapter 6	The Upperworld
1.	The Song of Inner Space	169
2.	The Song that Sounds in the Silence	183
Chapter 7	Divination
1.	Mapping the Three Worlds	193
2.	Everyday Mythology	206
Chapter 8	Healing
1.	Singing the Soul Back Home	219
2.	The Circle of Life	236
3.	A Sacred Trust	243
	Notes	255
	Glossary	256
	Bibliography	259
	Resources	263
	Index	267