Journey To You : A Shaman's Path To Empowerment Book

Most people think of shamanism as an ancient and primitive spiritual practice, still to be found in remote South American or Siberian villages. In fact, it's one of the fastest growing spiritual paths in the WestIn The Journey To You, Ross Heaven starts by showing that spirituality and science are not incompatible; the "New Physics", as Fritjof Capra showed as far back as 1975, contains as many mysteries as any religious faith. The model Heaven uses is that of the world being like a hologram, so that every fragment (including ourselves) contains the whole.The great religious scholar Mircea Eliade called shamans "walkers between worlds". Heaven's extremely practical book explains how we can do just that: with "one foot in the 'real' world and one in the spirit world ... the shaman's challenge is to harness this power, to integrate it and to use it positively..."To harness the power for knowledge or healing the shaman travels into the three domains: the lower world, "a place of instinct, where our animal-like powers reside", the upper world, "the home of more philosophically-inclined spirit teachers and guides", and the middle world, which parallels our own world, and so should only be travelled by very experienced shamans. The author explains how to enter a shamanic trance, and what one might expect to find on entering these worlds, giving many examples from his own and others' experiences.This is a very well-written book, drawing on many authorities; both theory and practice are superbly presented; and it is full of warmth and wisdom. For the complete newcomer or for the experienced shaman, this is probably the most important book on shamanism to be published in years. --David V. BarrettRead More