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Bingsha Shatabdi
Established in 1956, Bingsha Shatabdi follows two different trends in publication, It brings out direct translations from various European languages like French, Dutch, German into Bangla. It deals with both contemporary and classical literature. Its second goal is to publish collections of essays in Bangla and English, and its area of concentration is Social Science And Ancient Indian Civilization and Culture.
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Mind, Body, SpiritSHAMANISM
Personal Quests of Communion with Nature and Creation
by Oscar Miro-Quesada
Awaken Your Shamanic Soul Respected kamasqa curandero Oscar Miro-Quesada teaches shamanism as a tradition of healing, power, and wisdom that sees all life as interconnected and sacred. Understand the shamanic art of a noble death, becoming a hollow bone, traveling through the three worlds, and how to embrace the imaginal beauty of a living, sentient, and ever-evolving cosmos. Feel soul-animating moments with Creation itself as don Oscar and selected sacred storytellers share their transformative experiences. Cultivate spiritual discernment, learn how to consecrate your shamanic ceremonial space, practice an ancient Andean earth walk ritual, internalize the soul-nurturing beauty of Mother Earth with the Pachamama Renewal Process, work with the five principal animal allies of Universal Shamanism, and discover the loving grace that sparked the emergence of shamanism as a universal path of healing service. You must live the path to understand it. SHAMANISM is the medicine our world needs for seven generations and beyond.
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Picture storybooksJanuary 2016Kaaljayi Kambakth (The Time-Conqueror Wretch)
Diary of a Time-keeper
by Amit Dutta
Sham is a precocious schoolboy who dreams about making sense of the world he inhabits. Shaman, his friend and alter-ego prods him along. They walk together exploring the gullies and outskirts of their suburban hill village. They passionately glean whatever information is available to them through books or people. They make patterns out of this information and scheme to gain control over their reality. The villagers become characters in their scheme and start revealing the cracks in their reality. As fragments of science, philosophy, fairy-tales, folk-legends and history start seeping into their everyday existence, Sham and Shan find themselves deep in an unmanageable world of their own fantasies.
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Mind, Body, SpiritANIMALS
Personal Tales of Encounters with Spirit Animals
by Dr. Steven Farmer
Experience the Magic of Spirit AnimalsSoar with Dr. Steven Farmer and selected sacred storytellers as they share personal tales of spirit animals appearing to them in real life, in dreams, or symbolically, to share their mystical yet practical medicine. Experience how these spiritual allies can guard, aid, heal, and guide you in the most unexpected and delightful ways. Renowned “animal spirit guy” Dr. Steven Farmer explains how these profound encounters affirm our intimacy with the animal world and the realm of Spirit. His wisdom will heighten your understanding of spirit animal symbolism, the five major ways that spirit animals can speak to you, and how to discern their messages for you. Learn how to receive the animals’ gifts in the form of wisdom, guidance, protection, and power, and come to feel their support, trust their keen perception, and appreciate the simple ways in which they appear just when you need guidance the most. ANIMALS will show you how you, too, can fly like an eagle, run like a puma, and reach new heights like the tallest giraffe.
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The ArtsFebruary 2022"I am Jugoslovenka!"
Feminist performance politics during and after Yugoslav Socialism
by Jasmina Tumbas, Amelia Jones, Marsha Meskimmon
"I am Jugoslovenka" argues that queer-feminist artistic and political resistance were paradoxically enabled by socialist Yugoslavia's unique history of patriarchy and women's emancipation. Spanning performance and conceptual art, video works, film and pop music, lesbian activism and press photos of female snipers in the Yugoslav wars, the book analyses feminist resistance in a range of performative actions that manifest the radical embodiment of Yugoslavia's anti-fascist, transnational and feminist legacies. It covers celebrated and lesser-known artists from the 1970s to today, including Marina Abramovic, Sanja Ivekovic, Vlasta Delimar, Tanja Ostojic, Selma Selman and Helena Janecic, along with music legends Lepa Brena and Esma Redzepova. "I am Jugoslovenka" tells a unique story of women's resistance through the intersection of feminism, socialism and nationalism in East European visual culture.
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September 2010The Shaman Speaks
How to use the Power of Shamanism to Heal Your Life Now
by Shaman Elder Maggie Wahls (Author),Lori Lee (Foreword)
If you could ask a Shaman Elder any question, what would you want to know? Forty-five questions are answered through the words of Shaman Elder Maggie who has practiced for over 50 years her centuries-old family lineage of Traditional Shamanism, trained by her own Shaman Grandmother. See your life from a Traditional Shamanic perspective and eliminate the fears and problems that interfere with your own happiness. The questions in this book come from the thousands of emails that Shaman Elder Maggie receives through her Internet course and her free counseling service online. Students of this book will: Discover the truth of your own energy and how to use it to your favor Learn how to stand in your power and be captain of your own ship Practice exercises you can use to bring balance to your life Find the spiritual joy in living Discover ways to practice mental awareness so you never get blindsided again Create physical health for yourself and those you love Improve your own life by adopting ancient Traditional Shamanic principles The Shaman Speaks provides wisdom for every day of your life! "You put all these wonderful things out there for us to look at, ponder on, research, pick up and play with, or to pick up add it to our set of tools and learn to use. So, thank you for this most fabulous tool. Thank you, Thank you, Thank you." --Darill Hall "I don't know how many lives and loves you have saved or helped heal but you have done both here with us. Bless you, namaste!" --Felicia Dale "I realize that your purpose is to show me how to find the answers within myself, which of course you knew all along. I know what it means to be a teacher now. You truly are wise, Shaman Elder Maggie." --John About the Author Shaman Elder Maggie has been providing counseling free of charge for nearly 30 years. She has a Doctorate of Divinity and is a Usui Reiki Master Teacher. She is an artist, a mystic, a visionary, a teacher, a friend to all and a lover of life. She is one of America's most beloved teachers of traditional Shamanism. Learn more at www.ShamanElder.com From the Modern Spirituality Series at Marvelous Spirit Press www.MarvelousSpirit.com OCC036030 Body, Mind & Spirit : Spirituality - Shamanism
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SHAMANS. CHOSEN BY HEAVEN AND SPIRITS
by Rosalia Bravina
This book narrates about the origin and development of shamanism in the Northern region since the emergence of the Lenian petroglyphs up to the 70s of the XX century. The book presents major report on shamans ordained by Heaven and Spirits, the symbolism of ritual vestments and tambourine, the nature of shamanic ecstasy, the biographies of legendary Yakut shamans. There are first published photos of the author's field materials and objects from the funds of local history museums.
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November 2020THE IMAGINAL DRAGON CARDS
The shamanic path to overcome illusion and fear
by SELENE CALLONI WILLIAMS
Each card helps you to improve your future, teaches you a shamanic ritual, helps you overcome obstacles and supports you when taking important decisions. Eachcard is a great act of imaginal life coaching, a living meditation, an ode to life, a poem for the soul able to vanish doubts and fears, a triumph of forces coming from within you as well as from millenary wisdom, narrated by one of the most important and revolutionaryrepresentatives of the imaginal method and of shamanism globally. These cards will empower your freedom as they represent a bridge between you and the world’s soul. They are a revelatory instrument, which answers your questions by intensifying your awareness, amplifying your sight and allowing you to see other perspectives.Moreover, each card will provide you with a “new course” formula, developed by Siberian hereditary shamans as a tool to support personal and social rebirth following the great rite of passage offered by the global pandemic, which has indelibly left its mark on humanity and the life of everyone. This deck of card is a powerful tool to understand more deeply what is happening in the world and how to see beyond it.
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Geography & the EnvironmentThe Liquid Snake
An Amazonian Journey with Shamans and Master Plants
by Alfonso Domingo
The Amazonian shamans are right: all great rivers are initiation journeys. Through the Amazon River basin—which crosses Ecuador, Peru, Colombia and Brazil—multiple voyages can be made. As one descends the longest and mightiest river on the planet, one can listen tothe shaman’s and healers’ jungle wisdom, who diagnose and heal illnesses of the body and soul. The Amazon is an unpredictable world, where nothing is what it seems.This book is an overview of the dreams that these mythical lands have always produced in human beings: from the Amazon Warriors and gold during the Spanish conquest, to the rush for riches in search of precious metals, rubber and oil; or the impact of drug trafficking.
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Medicine: general issuesSuburban Shaman
Tales from Medicine's Frontline
by Cecil Helman
'To be a good doctor you have to be a compassionate chameleon, a shape shifter - a shaman. Even if your adaptation to your patients' world happens at an unconscious level you should always work within their system of ideas, never against it...' So writes Cecil Helman after 27 years as a family practitioner in the suburbs of North London interlaced with training and research as a medical anthropologist, comparing a wide variety of health systems. This unique combination of frontline health worker and detached academic informs the many stories that make up this fascinating book. It also informs the author's shared insights into what these stories can teach us about ourselves and our own attitudes to health and illness, whether we are deliverers or recipients of health care. With humour and gentle humaneness, Helman's colourful stories take the reader on a journey from apartheid South Africa, where he did his initial training, to the London of the early 1970s, where for a short time he foreswore medicine to become an anthropologist and poet; from ship's doctor on a Mediterranean cruise to family practitioner in London; from observer of curative trance dances in the favelas of Brazil to consulting with sangomas in South Africa. While trained in the Western tradition and with many years of practice in that system, Helman's anthropological insight leads him to view illness in a wider personal, social and cosmic context, considering elements beyond the purely physical, as do shamans and other traditional doctors. In pleading for this age-old holistic approach, he celebrates family medicine which 'in its quiet and unassuming way, and every day of the week, is still at the very frontline of human suffering'.
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Mind, Body, SpiritSuburban Shaman
Tales from Medicine's Front Line
by Multiple Authors
'To be a good doctor you have to be a compassionate chameleon, a shape shifter - a shaman. Even if your adaptation to your patients' world happens at an unconscious level you should always work within their system of ideas, never against it...' So writes Cecil Helman after 27 years as a family practitioner in the suburbs of North London interlaced with training and research as a medical anthropologist, comparing a wide variety of health systems. This unique combination of frontline health worker and detached academic informs the many stories that make up this fascinating book. It also informs the author's shared insights into what these stories can teach us about ourselves and our own attitudes to health and illness, whether we are deliverers or recipients of health care. With humour and gentle humaneness, Helman's colourful stories take the reader on a journey from apartheid South Africa, where he did his initial training, to the London of the early 1970s, where for a short time he foreswore medicine to become an anthropologist and poet; from ship's doctor on a Mediterranean cruise to family practitioner in London; from observer of curative trance dances in the favelas of Brazil to consulting with sangomas in South Africa. While trained in the Western tradition and with many years of practice in that system, Helman's anthropological insight leads him to view illness in a wider personal, social and cosmic context, considering elements beyond the purely physical, as do shamans and other traditional doctors. In pleading for this age-old holistic approach, he celebrates family medicine which 'in its quiet and unassuming way, and every day of the week, is still at the very frontline of human suffering'.
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Mysticism, magic & ritualDreams of the Reiki Shaman
Expanding Your Healing Power
by Jim Pathfinder Ewing
Based on more than a decade of the author's successful workshops, this book expands and refines the unique combination of the hands-on healing modality of Reiki with the life-changing shamanic journey. The resulting knowledge is presented clearly and concisely, making it possible for those with no previous background in Reiki or shamanism to understand, appreciate, and enjoy the teachings while those more experienced can glean new insight for their own healing work. Providing generous examples of shamanic journeying beyond ordinary reality and citing hundreds of case studies from the author's own private practice, this reference also lists Internet references for further research. For Reiki practitioners, this book will expand their knowledge and ability exponentially by explaining visualization techniques as applied to the needs of clients; for shamanic practitioners, this opens whole new realms, with the shamanic journey explained in greater, practical detail.For novices of energy medicine, this book offers a wealth of new perspectives and ideas about healing that may not have been considered a possibility in their lives, along with exercises and suggestions to follow.For anyone interested in complementary and alternative medicine (CAM), and energy modalities such as qigong, yoga, and the like, this book gives dramatic examples of both the basics and the frontiers of spiritual practices to effectuate healing
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December 2018The "Ialorixa" and the Shaman
by Mãe Stella de Oxóssi, Enéas Guerra
The “Ialorixá” and the Shaman is a true account of the beautiful memories that Mother Stella of Oxossi had from the time she was a young nurse, in the middle of Asia flue pandemic, at the end of the '50s. The story evokes Mother Stella’s encounter with a Shaman as well as their knowledge exchange about plants, medicinal herbs, roots, seeds, leaves, and rituals. This is an exchange between the “Ialorixá”, whose origin is in the Afro-Brazilian culture, and the Shaman, from the indigenous cultural tradition.
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February 2021Metanoia 2 - Magical coxmos geometry
Find yourself in time and space
by Andrej Korobeijshchikov
Start out on a mystical journey to the secrets of the Altai shamans and to a knowledge kept secret for centuries. Become aware of the dark sides of our reality and the mysterious beings lurking in the shadows around us … Light against darkness. Ancient knowledge against an ancient power. This book is a true revelation describing the world in a way only the shamans have been able to see … those shamans who can look behind the ‘ordinary’ … considerably deeper than normal people. Things that were reserved only to adepts is now also available to you as a reader. Plunge into the depths of a real mystery … Our world is becoming narrower which is why we have to take the route inwards – the paths of conscience leading deep into our souls.
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Mind, Body, Spirit8 KEYS TO WHOLENESS
Tools for Hope-Filled Healing
by Donna DeNomme
A seasoned spiritual teacher, shamanic healer, and Master Success coach shares dynamic healing strategies using the chakra system as a container for our personal stories, drawing on inner resilience, and accessing enduring strength. Ultimate truth is not found in our stories of wounding, but rather in the discovery of how to heal those wounds. 8 Keys to Wholeness exposes powerful tools for greater self-assurance, a deeper sense of satisfaction, hope-filled healing, transformation, and joyful personal growth. 8 Keys to Wholeness uncovers remarkable tools for true and lasting healing. A licensed Spiritual Coach shares an ancient and powerful path found by utilizing the human chakra system as a container for our personal stories. Donna DeNomme reminds us that the ultimate truth is not found in our wounding but rather in the discovery of the ways in which we can heal those wounds. Donna provides us with a glimpse of her own sexual abuse within the Catholic Church, a brutal betrayal she kept publically hidden for over 50 years. She also weaves practical and profound healing insights gleaned from over 25 years as a spiritual teacher and shamanic facilitator. Whether or not you have been abused, accessing and utilizing the 8 Keys is a dynamic method for drawing forth your inner resilience and enduring strength. An award-winning, internationally published author, Donna DeNomme is a visionary who sees meaning in even the worst of our wounding, accepting its value for our greater collective healing and human evolution. o Discover the 8 keys to unlock the empowering connection to your Essential Self.o Access the wisdom and insight found right inside of you.o Observe life s Great Mystery, as brutally broken fragments weave into hope-filled wholeness.o Celebrate your inherent resiliency it s part of what makes you human.o Discover your vast potential through the energy of a triad of synergistic chakras in Key #8.This triad can help you claim a more dynamic and fulfilling life.o Experience greater self-assurance and a deeper sense of satisfaction and joy.o Live from Wholeness and love your life!The most powerful forces for healing are found right inside of you!
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MOTHER MANTRA
Tradition and secret practices of mystical marriage and revival
by SELENE CALLONI WILLIAMS
This book reveals the heart of an ancient spiritual universal and natural revival and healing. This has reached us thanks to the oral transmission of passing down frommaestro to disciple through the centuries, but for the first time in this book the main points are in a written form.All great esoteric paths, the path to self-development and personal growth, psychology of the profound and alchemy, if they are truly effective, are so as they preserve in their heart the extraordinary key of the reabsorption of reality. Freeing oneself of the burden of objective matter, from eventual inevitable events of which one can be nothing more than a victim. The tradition of the Mantra Mother is, for excellence, the tradition that conveys such reabsorption of the real (or “withdrawal of projections”) in the purest and original manner, without superstructures, that have traveled in the circuits of shamanic-tantric yoga and alchemy, in the East as well as in the West, for many centuries.
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AGRAPHENA’S ISLAND
by Vladimir Fedorov
All travellers passing by the mysterious island covered with mysterious legends and myths, pay tribute to the great shamaness Agrafena by giving beads, food, etc. “Should you not observe the tradition, wait for troubles to come. She will hit you against the stones and drown you without a trace in the bottomless black pools ...” It is the first time when the writer`s collection includes his stories that combine the modern northern reality with the mysterious mysticism and ancient beliefs of ancestors. The plots of many stories were taken by the author from the past, when he was a young geologist, filled with vivid events and adventures, as well as from the later writers' studies of shamanism and the history of his native Yakutia.
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Health & Personal DevelopmentExperiencing Menopause With Empowerment and Joy
A Shamanic Approach
by Razel Wolf and Karin Linnander
The best kept secret is this: Menopause is a natural phase in a woman’s life, not something to be dreaded. Rather, it is something to look forward to as a time when all kinds of new creativity can be born, bringing joy, satisfaction and meaning to our lives. This book explores a shamanic approach, through connection to all the worlds we live with – the humans, the plants, the animals, spirit, and the minerals, to empower the later phase in a woman’s life — menopause and beyond. By celebrating menopause as a rite of passage, we discover what is ours to do now.What is a rite of passage? A moment when great change is afoot. The value of such a transformation is increased when it is acknowledged and celebrated as we move from one role or phase in our lives into the next. In many societies such “moments” are well-known and recognized in our various birthing, marriage, and death rites.In this book, we approach menopause as a rite of passage — a transition from one stage of life to another. It can be an empowered phase in a woman’s life, a part of our life development that deserves dignity and honor. We focus on the possibilities and fulfillment that can come with menopause.We can all explore menopause as a time of great potential and power within ourselves. We become matriarchs and caretakers for the coming generations, bringing a different kind of joy, satisfaction, and meaning to our lives and the lives of those around us.This book contains common sense and a shamanic approach to a wonderful, though little understood, phase in a woman’s life. We encourage all of you to seek out the knowledge that speaks to you from any source that is valuable for you. We hope you also enjoy this book.
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Children's & YAJanuary 2020Power Tools for Power Kids
Unleash your Super Powers
by Birgit Baader
Power Tools for Power Kids offers practical tools to use intuition and inner guidance efficiently, to find stillness and inner power, to self-manage and to consciously direct energy, within and without, to practice various navigation and interconnection tools that will support and protect young people on their way through the modern-day-life jungle. Many of the tools are based on ancient shamanic or age-old well-tested practices such as Yoga, Qi Gong, TM, and other mindfulness methods. They all help to bring balance and are especially useful in our Western societies with their focus on intellectual and physical development and education. The Power Tools in this book empower (not only) children to balance themselves when they are upset, challenged, bored, hurt, sad, angry, restless, fearful, worried, unhappy, unwell listen to their intuition and receive guidance "from within" focus and concentrate their energies draw strength and inspiration from within themselves gain emotional, mental and physical balance be self-confident cope better with life's challenges improve relationship and social skills be proactive and express themselves in their own unique way access their power center from which creativity and self-management arise Power Tools for Power Kids is more than a meditation, guided imagery or mindfulness manual for young ones. It is an in depths publication that offers a compilation of practical exercises and information for various age groups covering a wide range of topics and media such as breathing, visualisation, extrasensory perception, ritual & energy work, arts & crafts and much more.
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FictionNovember 2004Ao Thampa
by Yeshe Dorjee Thongchi
He chops human corpses for the salvation of their souls. He is the bridge between a man’s life and after-life yet a repulsive figure himself, disowned by the community only until the need for him arises. SYNOPSIS He is Ao Thampa, member of a small tribe called Monpa tucked away in the sub-Himalayan wilderness of the Indian state of Arunachal Pradesh. The Monpas, largely unknown to the rest of the world – much like the world to them – carry along their pristine lifestyle and the same social ethos and taboos that they have been living with for centuries. Despite their strong spiritual attachment to the tenets of Tibetan Buddhism, they still persist with their primordial shamanic social norms – few of which may seem bizarre to an outsider. Dargye Norbu, a wretched person in a lice-infested robe smeared with blood, pus of dead bodies and excreta of his daughter, is often seen in the evenings on the streets of Dirang Village in an inebriated state, cursing and abusing the villagers, and dragging himself towards his secluded hut located on the confluence of two rivers away from the village. To him he does not need a human society, but the people of the society need him because after death, it is only Dargye who can dissect their bodies and throw the hundred and eight pieces into the river as per the funeral customs of the Monpa. However, the story has not always been like this; Dargye Norbu used to be a happy lad leading a regular life with his family and friends in Surbin Village of Tawang. It seemed like only a matter of time before he would marry his cousin Rijomba, but destiny had other plans for him. The peaceful life of the Monpas was shattered when China occupied Tibet and their spiritual authority fled his home via Tawang. A few years later, China attacked India taking over the whole of Tawang, this time forcing the villagers themselves to flee. Rijomba was killed by a stray bullet and Dargye had to be her undertaker by cutting her body and throwing the pieces into the Tawangchu River. Dargye got separated from his family and the cruel twist of circumstances turned him into a thampa – a chopper of corpses – he became known to all as Ao Thampa of a repugnantly squalid disposition. Dargye Norbu began living a solitary life that was a grim struggle to keep himself and his nagging wife Guisengmu, along with their deaf and mute daughter Rinjomba, alive when destiny took another turn and he met a reincarnate Buddhist Nun, Ani Sange Norljom. The venerated nun had come to Dirang along with the Dalai Lama to perform the Kalachakra Puja. Ao Thampa is a story of life, love and hope on one side and a sinister nexus of death, desolation and destiny on the other. It is a tale of immortal love between a pure Buddhist Nun and a wretched, socially outcaste person.
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2019Moccasin Square Gardens
by Richard Van Camp
The characters in Moccasin Square Gardens inhabit Denendeh, the land of the people north of the 60th parallel. These hilarious stories function as a meeting place for an assortment of eccentrics, from shamans and time-travelling goddess warriors to pop-culture-obsessed pencil pushers, to con artists, archivists, and men who just need to grow up, all seeking some form of connection.To learn more about this publisher, click here: http://bit.ly/30U9ssM
