New Suggestions...

Listening to the Heartbeat of God: A Celtic Spirituality  J. Philip Newell

The Fall  Steve Taylor (a must read!)

Last Child in the Woods: Saving our children from Nature-Deficit Disorder  Richard Louv

Of Water and the Spirit    Malidoma Patrice Some

The Healing Wisdom of Africa  Malidoma Patrice Some

The Horse Boy     Rupert Isaacson

Chosen By the Spirits/Riding Windhorses     Sarangerel

Shanar     Virlana Tkacz with Sayan Zhambalov & Wanda Phipps

Corvus: A Life with Birds     Esther Woolfson

Endless Forms Most Beautiful    Sean B. Carroll

Reading List for Basic Shamanism

Harner, Michael           The Way of the Shaman / Hallucinogens and Shamanism /                             The Jivaro

Ingerman, Sandra            Soul Retrieval / Welcome Home  

Castaneda, Carlos           A Separate Reality  

Halifax, Joan                  Shaman, The Wounded Healer/ Shamanic Voices  

Cloutier, David                Spirit, Spirit Shaman Song

Cowan, Tom         Shamanism as a Spiritual Practice for Daily Life /Fire in the                    Head / Pocket Guide to Shamanism  

Cowan, Eliot                  Plant Spirit Medicine  

Narby, Jeremy, & Francis Huxley, Ed.    Shamans Through Time/The Cosmic Serpent

Eliade, Mircea                    Shamanism: Archaic Techniques of Ecstasy  

Matthews, John                The Celtic Shaman  

Mason, Bernard                How to Make Drums, Tom-toms and Rattles  

Lamb, F. Bruce                  Wizard of the Upper Amazon  

Plotkin, Mark J.                 Tales of a Shaman's Apprentice  

Speck, Frank G.                Naskapi: The Savage Hunters of the Labrador Peninsula

Greene, Brian                   The Elegant Universe  

King, Serge Kahili              Kahuna Healing / Urban Shaman  

Prechtel, Martin                Secrets of the Talking Jaguar  

Mehl-Madrona, Lewis          Coyote Medicine  

Various Animal Interpretive Systems:

Andrews, Ted                Animal Speak / Animal Wise

Carr-Gomm, Philip & Stephanie                The Druid Animal Oracle

Gray, Miranda                Beasts of Albion

Hartman, Lew                Wolf Song Cards

Sams, Jamie                  Medicine Cards

Saunders, Nicholas         Animal Spirits

Steiger, Brad                 Totems, The Transformative Power of Your Personal Animal Totem

*****Dying and Beyond*****

1. Forever Ours     Janis Amatuzio     Midwest Forensic Pathology, 2002

2. How Can I Help?    Ram Dass & Paul Gorman    Knofp, 1985

3. Who Dies?     Stephen Levine     Anchor Books, 1982

4. Journey of the Heart     Andrew Todd     Vanderbilt University Medical Center, 1995

5. Journey of Souls    Michael Newton  Llewellyn, 2002

6. Life Before Life   Jim Tucker, MD  1997

7. Heaven and Hell  Emanuel Swedenborg

8. Graceful Exits   Sushila Blackman 1997

(also see the Depossession reading list)

*****Spirits of Nature*****

1. Last Chance to See     Douglas Adams

2. Nature-Speak/Enchantment of the Faerie Realms     Ted Andrews

3. The Secret Teachings of Plants     Stephen Buhner

4. Plant Spirit Shamanism     Howard Charing & Ross Heaven

5.  The Songlines     Bruce Chatwin

6. Plant Spirit Medicine     Eliot Cowan

7. Encyclopedia of Magical Herbs     Scott Cunningham

8. Places of Power     Paul Devereux

9. The Faery Teachings/The Tree of Enchantment     Orion Foxwood

10. Green Was the Earth on the Seventh Day     Thor Heyerdahl

11. Mother Earth Spirituality/Native Wisdom     Ed "Eagleman" McGaa

12. Journey of the Pink Dolphin     Sy Montgomery

13. Nature Spirits and Elemental Beings     Marko Pogacnik

14. Tales of a Shaman's Apprentice/Medicine Quest     Mark Plotkin

15. Pale Blue Dot     Carl Sagan

16. Kamongo or, The Lungfish and the Padre     Homer Smith

17. Aroma: The cultural history of smell  by Constance Classen, David Howes and Anthony Synnott

18. Reading the Rocks   Bjornerud

Dreamwork Workshop

The Dreaming Universe                Fred Alan Wolf

Healing Dreams                          Marc Ian Barasch

Dreamkeepers                            Harvey Arden

Aboriginal Men of High Degree       A. P. Elkin

Dreamways of the Iroquois           Robert Moss

The World is as You Dream It        John Perkins

******Spirit Mate *******

Shamanism: Archaic Techniques of Ecstacy  by Mircea Eliade (1964)

pg. 71              Goldi              
pg. 74              Yakut 
pg. 76              Teleut
pg. 77              Uriankhai      
pg. 79-81         discussion of celestial wives
pg. 133            Maori             
pg. 421            Saora/Savara           
pg. 463            Japan 

Shamans Through Time ed. By Jeremy Narby (2001)
Pg. 115 Saora

Dreamtime & Inner Space by Holger Kalweit (1988)
Chapter 11 - Sacred Weddings, Spirit Marriages, and Dream Sexuality
pp. 127 - 143

The Faery Teachings by Orion Foxwood (2004)
Chapter 14 - The Faery Gifts and the Faery Lover pp. 189 - 194

Dreams and Reverie: Images of Otherworld Mates by Philip L. Ravenhill (1996) Among the Baule, West Africa

*******Depossession Workshop*******

Highly Recommended (listed in order of priority)

1. Healing Lost Souls       William J. Baldwin, Ph.D.
Hampton Roads (2003)

2. The Unquiet Dead                  Dr. Edith Fiore
 Ballantine Books (1987)

3. The Bright Light of Death     Annabel Chaplin
 DeVross & Company (1977)

4. Remarkable Healings                 Shakuntala Modi, MD      
Hampton Roads (1997)
 
5.  Entity Possession            Samuel Sagin
Destiny Books (1997)               

Optional and Interesting (listed in order of priority)

6. The Spirits’ Book         Allan Kardec
Brotherhood of Life, Inc.  (1989)

7. Thirty Years Among the Dead          Carl A. Wickland, MD
Spiritualist Press (1968)

8. Burmese Supernaturalism   Melford Spiro
 Prentice-Hall (1967) Chapters 10 & 11

9. Phantoms Afoot; Journeys into the Night      Mary Summer Rain
Whitford Press (1989)

10. Ecstatic Religion: A Study of Shamanism and Spirit Possession   I.M. Lewis     (3rd Edition)  Routlege Press (2003)

11. The Magus of Strovolos (1985), Homage to the Sun (1987)  Kyriacos C. Markides  Arkana

12. People of the Lie  M. Scott Peck  Touchstone Books (1983)

13. Diabolical Possession and Exorcism   Rev. John J. Nicola  Tan Books and Publishing (1974)

14. Encounters   Edith Fiore, Ph.D.  Doubleday (1989)  Chapters 12 and 13

Films:

       Black Orpheus

       Macumba, Trance and Spirit Healing   Dir. Madeline Richeport  1984

*******Reading List for Soul Restoration********



1. Shamanism: Archaic Techniques of Ecstasy, Mircea Eliade

pg. 60 Australia
pg. 217 Buryat
pg. 219 Tatars/Chuckchee
pg. 219 Kazak-Kirgaz
pg. 220 Tremyugans
pg. 221 Ostyak-Vasyugan
pg. 223 Yenisei-Ostyak
pg. 224 Lapps
pg. 227 Samoyed
pg. 228 Yakut & Dolgan
pg. 238 Tungus
pg. 289 Eskimo
pg. 300 N. America
pg. 327 S. America
pg. 348 Sumatra
pg. 350 Dyak, Sea Dyak
pg. 414 India
pg. 433 Tibet
pg. 442 Burma, China
 

2. Introduction to Shamanism, Stutley
pg. 84 - 87 C. & N. Asia, Buryat, Tatar, Mongolia, Chulum Turks, Duar

3. Boiling Energy, Richard Katz (1982), pg. 86

4. Burmese Supernaturalism, Melford Spiro (1967)

5. The Jivaro, Michael Harner (1972), Chapter IV

6. Hallucinogens and Shamanism, Michael Harner, Ed. (1973), Chapter 7

7. Soul Retrieval/Welcome Home, Sandra Ingerman (1991, 1993)

8. Soul Recovery and Extraction, Ai Gvhdi Waya (1992)

9. Remarkable Healings, Shakuntala Modi, MD (1997) Introduction, Chapter VI

*******Reading List for Rites of Rebirth*******

Labyrinths: Ancient Myths & Modern Uses                                   Sig Lonegren
Gothic Image (1991)

                 Optional Reading regarding Labyrinths

Walking a Sacred Path                     Lauren Artress
Riverhead Books (1995)

The Way of the Labyrinth               Helen Curry
Penguin Books (2000)

Mazes & Labyrinths: Their History & Development                      W. H. Matthews
Dover (1970)

               Optional Reading regarding Rites of Passage and Ritual

The Rites of Passage                        Arnold van Gennep
University of Chicago Press (1960)

Rites and Symbols of Initiation      Mircea Eliade
Spring Publications (1958)

The Healing Wisdom of Africa   Malidoma Patrice Some
(Chapter 7)

                      Web sites re: Labyrinths

                  www.labyrinthos.net

                  www.labyrinthsociety.org

                  www.waterlabyrinths.com

********Ancestor Time Reading List*******

                        Ghost Dance

Mooney, James                     The Ghost-Dance Religion and Wounded Knee

Kalweit, Holger                      Dreamtime & Inner Space (pgs. 36 - 38)

Eaton, Evelyn                        I Send A Voice (pgs. 149 - 154)

Howells, William                      The Heathens (pgs. 259 - 272)

Laubin, Reginald & Gladys         Indian Dances of North America (pgs. 52 - 71)

Spencer, Robert F. and
Jesse Jennings, ed.                 The Native Americans (pgs. 509 - 511)
 
Mary Crow Dog and
Richard Erdoes                        Lakota Woman (pgs. 144 - 153)

Magneson, James                    Ghost Dancing

Miller, David                            Ghost Dance

                           Ancestors

Cowan, Tom                             Shamanism: As a Spiritual Practice for Daily Life
                                               (Chapter 8)

Doumbia, Adama & Naomi            The Way of the Elders

Foxwood, Orion                         The Faery Teachings (Chapter 7)

MacEowen, Frank                      The Spiral of Memory and Belonging (Chapter 12)

Metzner, Ralph                          The Well of Remembrance


*******The Way of the Spiral*******

The mystic spiral                   Jill Purce
Thames and Hudson (1974)


*******Journey into the Impossible*******

Francis, Anne Voices from Home: An Inner Journey (1982)
                                    (order from www.annefrancis.net)

Braden, Gregg            The Spontaneous Healing of Belief

Boyd, Doug                 Rolling Thunder

Castaneda, Carlos        A Separate Reality

Michael, Todd             The Twelve Conditions of a Miracle: The Miracle                                                             Worker's Handbook (2004)

Perkins, John              Shape Shifting: Shamanic Techniques for Global and Personal Transformation (1997)

The Healing Wisdom of Africa   Malidoma Patrice Some
(Chapter 1)