Questo libro è il seguito de "La via dello sciamano", il classico testo che l'autore scrisse nel 1980 e che determinò la nascita dell'interesse per lo sciamanismo in occidente. In esso Harner mostra con la chiarezza che lo caratterizza l'intero cosmo spirituale dello sciamanismo e come si possa lavorare insieme per il bene comune.

Follow the fantastic odyssey of one woman as she explores shamanic realms, encountering spirit animals and other teachers who answer her deepest questions and provide her with life-changing guidance and healing. Widowed, childless, and alone, 60-year-old Ema bravely decides to expand her self-knowledge by embarking on a spiritual adventure. She meets with author Sandra Harner, who leads her through five sessions of Harner Shamanic Counseling (HSC), a highly effective system of personal problem-solving in which counselors help clients enter a shamanic state of consciousness using a specific sonic rhythm. While in this state, clients seek out helping spirits, who offer insight, wisdom, and healing.

By the end of her sessions with Harner, Ema has discovered her own innate ability to find answers to pervasive personal questions, overcome inhibitory fears, and acquire self-confidence and wisdom. She has found a sense of personal empowerment and a newfound joy in existence--and decides she wants to continue her journeys independently. From 1999 to 2011, Ema ventures on a total of 66 journeys, each one chronicled in this book, thanks to taped recordings of her simultaneous narration.

In addition to serving as an invaluable resource for students and practitioners of shamanism, psychology, and alternative modalities of therapy, Ema's Odyssey enchants us with its lyrical poetry and unique wisdom, and inspires us with its demonstration of courage, curiosity, persistence, and humility. Perhaps most importantly, we come away with the added assurance that we are not alone, that there are oft-untapped resources we all can access, given the tools and trust in our own experience.

In 1980, Michael Harner blazed the trail for the worldwide revival of shamanism with his seminal classic The Way of the Shaman. In this long-awaited sequel, he provides new evidence of the reality of heavens.

Drawing from a lifetime of personal shamanic experiences and more than 2,500 reports of Westerners’ experiences during shamanic ascension, Harner highlights the striking similarities between their discoveries, indicating that the heavens and spirits they’ve encountered do indeed exist. He also provides instructions on his innovative core-shamanism techniques, so that readers too can ascend to heavenly realms, seek spirit teachers, and return later at will for additional healing and advice.

Written by the leading authority on shamanism, Cave and Cosmos is a must-read not only for those interested in shamanism, but also for those interested in spirituality, comparative religion, near-death experiences, healing, consciousness, anthropology, and the nature of reality.

Praise for Michael Harner and The Way of the Shaman

“What Yogananda did for Hinduism and D. T. Suzuki did for Zen, Michael Harner has done for shamanism—namely, bring the tradition and its richness to Western awareness.”
—from Higher Wisdom, by Roger Walsh and Charles S. Grob

“Wonderful, fascinating.… Harner really knows what he’s talking about.”
—Carlos Castaneda, best-selling author of The Teachings of Don Juan and The Active Side of Infinity

“An intimate and practical guide to the art of shamanic healing and the technology of the sacred. Michael Harner is not just an anthropologist who has studied shamanism; he is an authentic white shaman.”
—Stanislav Grof, author of The Adventure of Self-Discovery

“Harner has impeccable credentials, both as an academic and as a practicing shaman. Without doubt (since the recent death of Mircea Eliade) the world’s leading authority on shamanism.”
—Nevill Drury, author of The Elements of Shamanism

“Michael Harner is a great shaman. He also proves that a person can be both a scientist and a shaman.”
—Bo Bair Rinchinov, Siberian Buryat shaman

Michael Kuby’s 6^th edition of Human Geography in Action is comprised of 14 stimulating, concept-based chapters. The text aims to develop geographic problem-solving skills that prove valuable to readers. Each chapter begins with an introduction to a concept, followed by a case study tying the concept into the real world and wraps up with an activity. These engaging activities featured throughout the text further its “Do Geography” approach. Human Geography in Action provides the opportunity to: use GIS to investigate ethnic distributions and culture regions, track the AIDS epidemic over space and time, model interstate migration flows, simulate India’s demographic future, add new baseball franchises, animate past urban growth and assess future growth areas.

This text is an unbound, binder-ready edition.

Michael Kuby’s 6th edition of Human Geography in Action is comprised of 14 stimulating, concept-based chapters. The text aims to develop geographic problem-solving skills that prove valuable to readers. Each chapter begins with an introduction to a concept, followed by a case study tying the concept into the real world and wraps up with an activity. These engaging activities featured throughout the text further its “Do Geography” approach. Human Geography in Action provides the opportunity to: use GIS to investigate ethnic distributions and culture regions, track the AIDS epidemic over space and time, model interstate migration flows, simulate India’s demographic future, add new baseball franchises, animate past urban growth and assess future growth areas.

Nel corso dei suoi studi antropologici presso gli indigeni dell'Alta Amazzonia, nel 1956, sperimentando una mistura sacra, l'Autore ebbe rivelazioni e visioni straordinarie. Convinto dell'autenticità di tali esperienze, confermategli da un maestro sciamano, Michael Harner decise di approfondire le sue ricerche. In questo libro egli intende trasmettere l'antica conoscenza degli sciamani a tutti coloro che per secoli ne sono stati esclusi. Senza l'uso di sostanze psicotrope, attraverso semplici metodi ed esercizi messi a punto per raggiungere uno stato alterato di coscienza, il lettore potrà conseguire un profondo equilibrio interiore, il benessere fisico e una piena spiritualità. Queste tecniche di introduzione allo sciamanismo possono essere praticate sia individualmente che in gruppo; già migliaia di persone hanno avuto la possibilità, attraverso di esse, di usare gli straordinari poteri curativi degli sciamani, partecipando alle tecniche olistiche della salute, alla spiritualità e ai tentativi di sanare la crisi ambientale su scala mondiale. I poteri derivanti dalla pratica sciamanica possono aiutare a guarire se stessi, le altre persone e la nostra Terra ferita.

With warmth and compassion, Sandra Ingerman describes the dramatic results of combining soul retrieval with contemporary psychological concepts in this visionary work that revives the ancient shamanic tradition of soul retrieval for healing emotional and physical illness. This revised and updated edition includes a new afterword by the author.

In questo libro l'autore intende trasmettere l'antica conoscenza degli sciamani a tutti coloro che per secoli ne sono stati esclusi. Senza l'uso di sostanze psicotrope, attraverso semplici metodi ed esercizi messi a punto per raggiungere uno stato alterato di coscienza, il lettore potrà conseguire un profondo equilibrio interiore, il benessere fisico e una piena spiritualità. Queste tecniche di introduzione allo sciamanismo possono essere praticate sia individualmente che in gruppo.

<P>Thousands have found renewed health and increased sensory awareness through the Feldenkrais method as explained in <I>Awareness Through Movement.</I> Here is a way for people of every age to integrate physical and mental development into a new, invigorating wholeness. Feldenkrais provides a modern-day, practical program for the perennial ideal of a healthy mind in a healthy body. His down-to-earth method carefully avoids any mystical component and never obliges any pupil to master abstruse theories. Exercises for posture, eyes, imagination, and more will simultaneously build better body habits and focus new dimensions of awareness, self-image, and human potential. </P>

Anthropologists report their findings on the use and importance of hallucinogenic plants in shamanistic practices