Win Das Geheime Wissen Der Schamanen: Wie Wir Uns Selbst Und Andere Mit Energiemedizin Heilen Können Curated By Alberto Villoldo Presented In Ebook
Villoldo's Journey to find an authentic Shaman in Peru is written with such verve, knowledge amp certainty I was spellbound from page one.
Being long fascinated by Shamanism amp having employed some of its' elemental Healing practices, I found this book inspirational, insightful and transcending.
Its complicated for me. I believe that this is possible, I desperately want to believe that he can do these things, but simultaneously I scroll all the faces on the website of those that are trained and have been trained and its quite white.
The training is expensive, and therefore exclusionary,
Is energy healing only for rich people who can afford it Is dismantling power and privilege not an important aspect of healing the spirit and healing spirits
Where is the out reach Where is putting that healing in marginalized communitiesthose baring the brunt of a shadow because people cannot look themselves in the mirror.
I am from North America so thats what I think of,
No energy healing for the queers For the immigrants For the blacks Doesnt seem right, Doesnt seem to be for the highest good if its excluding based on money thats very capitalist of you,
The book was good, roused my curiosity, increase my desire to know what can be done but I question its authenticity of its author and therefore it getsstars.
All I can do in this existence is filter through my own discernment, A technical book about shamanistic method and practice, Interestingly detailed in its recounting of process,
Villoldo is a classically trained medical anthropologist and brings a detailed procedural eye to some very ephemeral concepts.
The reader may not succeed in using the text as a guide to selftrain as a Shaman but there are a number of detailed explanations of practices the reader could experiment with to see what happens at the basic foundation of
these ideas.
I have substantial skepticism concerning these types of activities but it is obvious some of the basic tenets have weight.
Many are worth consideration.
Though I recommend this book one of the difficulties the reader will face is reconciling some philosophical underpinnings with what, in the west, we call 'science.
' Most of 'western' culture resides more than a few steps away from the realm of mysticism, Aceasta carte este rezultatul calatoriilor mele si al pregatirii cu samanii incasi, Una dintre marile civilizatii ale Americii si constructori ai impunatorului Machu Picchu, incasii, au trait in orase ridicate printre nori, cu strazi din piatra, care erau curatate in fiecare noapte, prin eliberarea apei din sistemul de canale al orasului.
samanii incasi au practicat medicina energetica vreme de mai bine de cinci mii de ani, transmitand aceasta cunoastere de la o generatie la alta, prin intermediul traditiei orale.
Vreme de douazeci si cinci de ani, am studiat impreuna cu cei mai buni vindecatori incasi, barbati si femei, Ritualurile carora mam supus in muntii Anzi si in Amazon izvorau din traditia antica si, uneori, necesitau luni intregi de pregatire.
Acestea eliminau din viata ucenicului frica, lacomia, violenta si sexualitatea de tip animalic, In cautarile mele, am fost ghidat de un incas batran, pe nume Antonio Morales, Aventurile pe care leam trait in Amazon si pe inaltimile Anzilor, impreuna cu Don Antonio sunt prezentate in cartile mele precedente, Dance of the Four Winds Dansul celorPatru Vanturi si Island of the Sun Insula Soarelui.
Tehnicile pentru vindecarea cu ajutorul Spiritului si a Luminii din aceasta carte sunt propriile mele reinterpretari contemporane, ale practicilor stravechi de vindecare.
Versiuni ale felului de a vedea al samanilor pe care eu le numesc a Doua Constienta si Procesul de Extragere sunt inca folosite in America de Nord si America de Sud.
Riturile mortii isi au originea in Amazon si fac parte dintro suma de cunostinte descoperite de barbati si femei care au depasit notiunile noastre de timp si moarte.
It is one of my favorite books on Shamanism,
The book documents Dr, Alberto Villoldo's journey to locate the MIND, He first became a Brain Surgeon to look for the MIND, It was not until later that he turned to Shamanism in his search, He could not find the MIND anywhere in the physical body,
In his search he finds a Peru Shaman that is willing to teach him but he had to find his teacher some decent new TEETH.
It is a very human story with humor and serious life lessons, Where the teacher plays a trick on him and he gets back at his teacher by hiding the teacher's new false teeth.
Having to deal with a drunk shaman, Another time his teacher sends him and another student to observe a elder that was on his death bed, When they returned to their teacher after observing the person passing from this physical world they discover that the spirit of the elder has followed them back to the teacher.
The teacher is upset with his students and has to separate the Spirit of the elder from his students and send it on its proper path.
A well written book with lots of lessons and is a joy to read, Well worth reading more than once, Die Inkas, eine der größten Zivilisationen des amerikanischen Kontinents, waren nicht nur berühmte Städtebauer, sondern besaßen auch ein außergewöhnliches Medizinsystem.
Ihre Schamanen entwickelten vor mehr alsJahren eine Technik, Krankheiten mit Geist und Licht zu heilen, Alberto Villoldo studierteJahre lang die heilende Macht dieser energiemedizinischen Tradition, Aufbauend auf dem alten Heilsweg, stellte er ein praktikables Programm zusammen, das es ermöglicht, sich selbst und andere zu heilen und Krankheiten zu vermeiden.
Kernstück seines Konzepts sind die lichtvollen Energiefelder, die den materiellen Körper umgeben und sich im Krankheitsfall verändern.
Schritt für Schritt macht Villoldo den Leser mit den Techniken vertraut, die Aura zu sehen und das Energiefeld zu harmonisieren.
A mustread for those wish to go deeper in their spirituality, by practicing ancient energy healing techniques.
Profound and Important. For spirits having a "human experience" as they say, A slow read due to the amount of information being given, I would also recommend watching the movie "Thrive" as a complement, . It gives a visual to the torus, chakras and energy fields Villoldo speaks of, Just got his nextbooks from the library, This book takes you a different time which is within you
Alberto villaldo wisely brings ancient healing rituals to the west as we adjust to a new age of Light.
I am struck by his openness in sharing this valuable information, It merges the Americas and offers truth and honesty to healing and the death process, It takes the blind fold off so we can really see, Favorite quote: I have grown to believe in the metaphor that we have nine lives, like cats, When we reach the end of one of these lifetimes other people call them stages or phases in one's life, it is important to give the old self a decent burial, and then leap like a jaguar into who we are becoming.
Otherwise, we can spend years patching and fixing an old self that we have outgrown, Everything by Alberto Villodo is perfect, As an author he stands back and allow the fabric to enter your blanket, You choose how to wrap yourself, The first book I read by him, This book inspired me to leave my career and train with the Four Winds, I am now a Shamanic practitioner thanks to Alberto, His combination of practical psychology, historical anthropology and spiritual healing speaks to my soul, . . thank you! I got boggeddown in the middle of the book when he goes into detail about his practice so thick with information, every sentence caused my brain to go off on a tangent and I would forget I was reading a book.
It's also discussion of a practice I'm told this is a text book for his students in The Light Body School too meaning you'll never fully understand it until you begin to practice it.
But it's worth the read and I can't wait to read this book again! Based in Incan Shamanism, the similarities to my own path learning the Apache made this a fascinating read for me.
It was beautifully written and almost poetic at times, He shares some of his journal entries from traveling in Peru and the Amazon mostly about his training with indigenous Shamans.
Most of the time I thoroughly enjoyed it but there were moments when I was truly skeptical, His story about being able to feel an invisible dagger in a client's body left over from some kind of altercation and then pulling the invisible dagger out really left me feeling duped.
There is a decent amount of howto information as well, I enjoyed this book more than I thought I would, I borrowed it in the quest of shedding a bit of light on the chakrasystem, I've always been a bit cynical to the concept of chakras since it is so widely availed by all these new ages hippies, who i will not comment further.
Chakras is one of the Das geheime Wissen der Schamanen's central motifs, I have readbooks on shamanism and never came across the term, but Villoldo claims that it is used by some shamanic tribes.
The author studied anthropology and has subsequently lived with a bunch of indigenous tribes who practice shamanism in a way that one will probably not find in western civilization.
I think of Carlos Castaneda, who also spent great stretches of time with accomplished medicine men and shamans, As such, Villoldo has first hand experience on the subject, which should be a prerequisite when writing a book of this sort.
The book deals with the shamanic way of looking at things and explains some basic concepts for healing, as well as some of the author's personal methods.
It also describes the process of performing healing rituals that some shamans use, It draws many parallels with physics as well as psychology, and contains many personal anectodes of spiritual experiences to make its points.
I recall two points that captured my interest more than others, One being that psychology more often than not deals with identifying the causes of mental suffering, but doesn't do much to treat the problem at its roots.
Psychology and the psychiatry is presented as being more interested in subduing the symptoms, whereas the shamanic perspective is more about healing the very core of the problem.
The other point being that facts are not as important as we often make them out to be, One anecdote is followed by a passage explaining that wether or not the experience a person has actually happened in the factual sense is not crucial at all.
Rather, the important thing is that the person BELIEVED it happened, making healing possible where otherwise it would not be.
I also liked the concepts of the four winds and the concept of the snake, hummingbird, eagle, and jaguar, The Jaguar is presented as a recurring animal of spiritual power,
The book is filled with terms such as chakras, energies, light bodies and so on, I get the impression that these things are just another way of describing what science could explain with other words.
So the shamanic practice is, the way i perceived it, a language, Another way of looking at things, that may be more efficient for the human psyche, Clinical terms are dead and far from as exciting as the spiritual realms are, I cannot, however, avoid a certain level of skepticism here, All of the examples seem to be centered around a persons receptibility, If they believe something is possible, then that something could very well happen to them, If they were to use the most adamant of nihilists for shamanic healing, then perhaps not much could be done.
Villoldo does imply that this is not the case, but that these practices can be dangerous because they can have consequences we as humans are not aware of.
Most books on rituals and esoteric practices that I have read touch upon the risks of performing rituals without fully knowing what one is doing, and following all its steps.
Regardless of which, i was never bored by reading the book, It doesn't dwell on one subject for too long, while at the same time, most concepts get a thorough description, and many times also has instructions for how to apply them in practice.
Among the easiest is a method for "clearing one's perception" or something like that, It has to do with closing one's eyes and moving them about in different patterns and repeating the process once or twice.
A simple process that doesn't take more than a minute at most, Anyone can try this.
I think the rituals described in this book are best practiced by people who have years of experience with them, rather than being something to be "tried out".
The common denominators seem to be great concentration and mental control, as well as believing it can work, The support for the claims are personal experience, and the experience of shamanic peoples, Which seems rather thin for me, being an academically inclined kind of person, Of course, shamanism isn't made out to be appropriately understood by facts, Much like music. Even Nietzsche thought of music as being something that cannot be measured, and trying to do so would make us miss the point.
The shamanic way is expressed as a way of viewing the world that has been lost to modern man, and that to triumph in the spiritual realms, one must unlearn much of what has been learned during the course of one's life.
In other words: the aspiring shamanic adept has a long way to go if he or she happens to be born in western civilization.
The book ends with a rather beautiful passage concerning the subject of death, I think the author did a great job with this book, Detailed, but not too much so, thorough, easy to grasp, and never gets boring, The version i have is a little overpages in length, I seem to enjoy books that are aroundpages, since i usually finish them inordays from starting, I recommend this book to those who want to know more about the basic concepts of shamanism and chakras, though i feel that it is somewhat tainted by the author's own beliefs.
I don't have a problem with that per se, but perhaps emphasizing that it is HIS way of viewing reality rather than some absolute truth a bit more could help.
That is my opinion, of course, All in all, i think the book succeeds in doing what the author tried to do with it, It is not a necronomicon or a book of instructions, Rather, it is a summary of the most important concepts, beliefs and practices the author has learned during his extensive journey of the worldly and otherworldly dimensions.
Maybe next time i'll read a book on astrology or something,
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