The shaman's body : a new shamanism for transforming health, relationships, and community / Arnold Mindell.

By: Mindell, Arnold, 1940- [author].

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BookPublisher: San Francisco : Harper, 1993Description: xvi, 236 pages ; 20 cm.Content type: text Media type: unmediated Carrier type: volumeISBN: 0062506552; 9780062506559.Subject(s): Shamanism

| Spiritual healing

| Mental healing

| Dreams

| Psychology

DDC classification: 291.14 Summary: "Drawing on his shamanic experiences in Africa, Japan and India, the author of this book takes readers on a "death walk" in which our worst fears and most profound emotions are confronted in order to awaken the shaman-warrior within. Through this method, one's own internal sorcery is unleashed and used as a guide in everyday life. Mindell shows us how to walk the shamanic path and avoid the phantoms of unrealistic hopes and desires that limit and control our lives." - Back cover.

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Item type	Current library	Call number	Status	Date due	Barcode	Item holds
General Lending	MTU Crawford College of Art and Design Library Lending	291.14 (Browse shelf(Opens below))	Available		00231003

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Enhanced descriptions from Syndetics:

From the author of Dreambody - a pioneering method of using crisis as a dynamic opportunity for accessing our inner world, confronting our fears, and catalyzing self-discovery.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 225-228) and index.

"Drawing on his shamanic experiences in Africa, Japan and India, the author of this book takes readers on a "death walk" in which our worst fears and most profound emotions are confronted in order to awaken the shaman-warrior within. Through this method, one's own internal sorcery is unleashed and used as a guide in everyday life. Mindell shows us how to walk the shamanic path and avoid the phantoms of unrealistic hopes and desires that limit and control our lives." - Back cover.

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Library Journal Review

Mindell, the author of Dreambody (1982) and an experienced shaman who has encountered African, Native American, Australian aboriginal, and Indian Hindu healers firsthand, outlines the process of accessing one's ``dreambody'' and developing a shamanic approach to everyday life. Each chapter wanders freely from modern psychotherapeutic understandings, enriched by Mindell's experiences, to what he learned from traditional cultures; most conclude with exercises to help the reader personally appropriate the teachings. Mindell is especially adept at putting learning from exotic cultures into accessible terms. Recommended for larger public libraries and academic libraries. (c) Copyright 2010. Library Journals LLC, a wholly owned subsidiary of Media Source, Inc. No redistribution permitted.

Booklist Review

Uh-oh!--you're saying--another voguish book on shamanism, one that applies the religion of ecstasy to everything but the breakup of the Soviet Union? What next? The Shaman's Quick Weight-Loss Diet? The Shaman Investor? Total-Quality Shaman? But no, Mindell's is one of the most sober-minded and informed recent books on the subject. He warns us, for instance, that shamanism is not an individualistic search for peak experience but a form of psychic community service. His is an unsentimental, unsensational view of shamanism that emphasizes its chal~lenges rather than its ego-gratifying power. Using the vocabulary of Carlos Castenada's Don Juan books, Mindell discusses shamanism in many aspects of Western life--for instance, in therapy, medicine, and partnering. His strong, mature voice merits wide hearing. ~--Pat Monaghan