Shamanic Journeys Through Daghestan
Title | Shamanic Journeys Through Daghestan PDF eBook |
Author | Michael Berman |
Publisher | John Hunt Publishing |
Pages | 149 |
Release | 2009 |
Genre | Social Science |
ISBN | 184694225X |
Known as the land of the mountains, Dagestan lies immediately north of the Caucasus Mountains, and stretches for approximately 250 miles along the west shore of the Caspian Sea. With its mountainous terrain making travel and communication difficult, Daghestan is still largely tribal. Despite over a century of Tsarist control followed by seventy years of repressive Soviet rule, there are still 32 distinct ethnic groups in Daghestan, each with its own language, making it unquestionably the most complex of the Caucasian republics. Shamanic practices are still prevalent in this country, where one of the ten lost tribes of Israel can be found. In Daghestan, as in the neighbouring countries of Georgia, Chechnya, and Azerbaijan, these roots lie in shamanism. This book, one of only a handful available in English on the country, contains the texts of some of these stories as well as commentaries on them.
Shamanic Journeys Through the Caucasus
Title | Shamanic Journeys Through the Caucasus PDF eBook |
Author | Michael Berman |
Publisher | John Hunt Publishing |
Pages | 239 |
Release | 2009-12-01 |
Genre | Body, Mind & Spirit |
ISBN | 1846942535 |
What were the religious beliefs and practices of the early inhabitants of the Caucasus? Some of the answers can be found by looking at the folktales from the region, which is what this book does.
Journeys Outside Time: Shamanic Ballads, Shamanic Stories
Title | Journeys Outside Time: Shamanic Ballads, Shamanic Stories PDF eBook |
Author | Michael Berman |
Publisher | |
Pages | 148 |
Release | 2010-08 |
Genre | Body, Mind & Spirit |
ISBN | 9780984330270 |
A collection of stories and ballads that comprise a corpus of shamanic storytelling and praxis, as told by Michael Berman, a leading expert on storytelling as a tool and as an artform. Michael Berman BA, MPhil, PhD, works as a teacher and a writer. Publications include A Multiple Intelligences Road to an ELT Classroom and The Power of Metaphor for Crown House, and The Nature of Shamanism and the Shamanic Story for Cambridge Scholars Publishing. Shamanic Journeys through Daghestan and Shamanic Journeys through the Caucasus are both due to be published in paperback by O-Books in 2009, and resource book for teachers on storytelling in 2010. Michael has been involved in teaching and teacher training for over thirty years, has given presentations at Conferences in more than twenty countries, and hopes to have the opportunity to visit many more yet. Although Michael originally trained as a Core Shamanic Counsellor with the Scandinavian Centre for Shamanic Studies under Jonathan Horwitz, these days his focus is more on the academic side of shamanism, with a particular interest in the folktales with shamanic themes told by and collected from the peoples of the Caucasus. His MPhil is in Religious Studies from Lampeter University, and his PhD, submitted to the Indian Board of Alternative Medicines, explores the concept of soul loss and the way it is dealt with in the shamanic story - a story based on or inspired by a shamanic journey, or one that contains a number of the elements typical of such a journey. For more information please visit www.Thestoryteller.org.uk The shaman was traditionally a wounded healer, someone who had been through a near death experience and who was thus considered to be well suited to helping others through traumatic times in their lives. Having survived addiction to tranquillisers, a nervous breakdown, a major heart attack, triple by-pass surgery, a serious motorbike accident, and two divorces, I suppose I could be said to provide a good illustration of the term. However, as to whether what I have learnt along the way can be of help to others, that is for you the reader to decide!
Shamanic Journeys, Shamanic Stories
Title | Shamanic Journeys, Shamanic Stories PDF eBook |
Author | Michael P. Berman |
Publisher | John Hunt Publishing |
Pages | 175 |
Release | 2011-03-16 |
Genre | Body, Mind & Spirit |
ISBN | 1846947847 |
Michael Berman shows how healing can be brought about through shamanic journeying, through shamanic stories, through shamanic poetry, and through shamanic counselling. ,
Shamanic Journeys
Title | Shamanic Journeys PDF eBook |
Author | Michael Berman |
Publisher | |
Pages | 38 |
Release | 1994 |
Genre | Shamanism |
ISBN | 9780951696354 |
Tattooed Mountain Women and Spoon Boxes of Daghestan
Title | Tattooed Mountain Women and Spoon Boxes of Daghestan PDF eBook |
Author | Robert Chenciner |
Publisher | |
Pages | 100 |
Release | 2006 |
Genre | Art |
ISBN |
Beneath the rural Islamic society in ancient villages perched among the Great Causasus Mountains, animist tattoos on women and decorations on ritual spoon boxes share symbols that are believed to protect the heart and the family. Three experts have recorded this system of folk medicine.
Shamanic Journeying
Title | Shamanic Journeying PDF eBook |
Author | Sandra Ingerman, MA |
Publisher | Sounds True |
Pages | 112 |
Release | 2008-06-01 |
Genre | Body, Mind & Spirit |
ISBN | 1591798191 |
Shamanic journeying is the inner art of traveling to the invisible worlds beyond ordinary reality to retrieve information for change in every area of our lives from spirituality and health to work and relationships. With Shamanic Journeying, readers join world-renowned teacher Sandra Ingerman to learn the core teachings of this ancient practice and apply these skills in their own journey. Includes drumming for three shamanic journeys.