Get lost in the Rhythms of the Shaman
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This CD has a great musical aspect to it but there are other natural sounds too. The Hemi-Sync signals help you to a natural meditative state where you can go wherever you want. It is fun and interesting to listen to the CD with a specific intention. That can really catapult your experience.

I highly recommend this for anyone who would like a somewhat mystical experience through music.
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All I really need to feel centered, focused and musically satiated all day is to put this CD on looping.  The sensitivity of harmonic flowing sounds are really well suited for visualizing in meditation and healing, releasing and sinking in deep with my intentions.
With Dean's serene flute playing, Scott's creatively masterful guitar phrases and Phil's viola magic, the three braid the flowing harmonies for refreshing journeys with Tibetan bowls as accents and turning points for stillness, surrender and peace. The bowls and sweeping, reaching and pinging guitar sounds on Vital Vibrations is deeply transformative; great for tuning into my body.  Resonant Wave is a sweetly melodic guitar and viola song that sounds to me like a ballad of my heart harmonizing with the elementals of a secret forest, longing for the day to never end.  Rejuvinate Soul transcends time and limitations, great for deep relaxation and letting go.  Shamanic Peace has a fascinating movement of time led by guitar melody that weaves through a Fibonacci series of signature time changes that I am sure was intuitively created.  Scott Huckabay is a creative genius of a guitar shaman with his inventive sonic healing sounds.  It's Dean's attention to meditative qualities brought about through his beautiful flute melodies that help bring about this sweet Harmonic Way, with Phil's diverse musical talents adding rich fullness to each song.
A fabulous CD for massage, meditation, yoga, spas, dreaming, journey work, ambient bliss and harmony, an intimate setting, flowing dance, and healing.
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I second Janet Boyer's reviews of this CDS. While I was excited to receive this as a gift when it first was released the tracks relaxed me but that is all they did. The chanting and singing were soothing but this take on shamanic/boddhisattva suutra energy clearing got a tad unstructured. This is a good set for actual ritualistic work but it echoed of a mish-mash of spiritual woo-woo hymns. Raising vibration is more than metaphysical work ... it is the nuts and bolts or prayer, fasting, and solid grounding in God's words. Nonetheless, this is a CD set that will relax but I disagree that it attunes your vibration. If anything, it will spiritually confuse you and quite possibly attract spirits into your energy system that may tamper with you. Choqette's is crossing a line calling on "Mother/Father God" and Holy Spirit outside the proper context of prayer and reverance and mixing it into a pagan practice of calling in spirits who may not be of God. That is my bias so ... just be aware that if this material makes you uncomfortable, it's YOUR intuition telling you something.

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Harner's work has been eclipsed by many authentic ethnical and tribal sources.  The reading here is very dated.  What he presents is a stripped down version (antiseptic) of some techniques for journeying. But Harner's philosophy is pretty locked into what drum-beat rhythms work and this is simply not true, not required to do shamanic journeys.  You will get a very slanted almost confined view.  And that is the antithesis to shamanism in general.

Shamanism is best accessed, especially for the beginner, within some cultural context and Harner has cleansed his techniques away from their cultures.  Even his views (and his disciples Ingerman) on soul retrieval are still changing due to lack of root within cultural context.

If you are new to shamanism then start instead with The Book of the Shaman by Nicholas Wood.  If you are into some healing aspects then goto Shaman, Healer, Sage by Villoldo or Woman who glows in the dark by Elena Avila.
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This is a great way to learn Odinist runic chants. Good for any one studying Norse Shamanism. It is a lot easier than reading chants out of a book. An Asatru must!  Wyatt Kaldenberg
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The full title of this book is Following the Deer Trods: a practical guide to working with Elen of the Ways. It is written as part of Moon Books Shaman Pathways series, and is positioned as a stand-alone introduction to its topic, which includes working methods for the aspiring practitioner. As such this book certainly meets its criteria.

I personally think it works best in tandem with Elen Sentiers other book on the topic, also a Shaman Pathways book, Elen of the Ways; following the deer trods  the ancient Shamanism of Britain, which I reviewed in July 2014. This earlier book establishes the overall context much better and for me they belong together.

Following the Deer Trods begins with a summary of the ideas offered in Elen of the Ways. This works well, even magically, in the opening pages  but I was saddened by a seeming loss of perspective when we get to the Romans and beyond. The author shows no recognition of Christianity as a diverse, complex and internally contested path, not least in the Celtic lands; or of the effects which holding political power can have on religious traditions, regardless of the actual faith. Theres also no clear flagging of the extent to which the positive, Pagan side of the story is necessarily reliant on intuitive reconstruction, relevant records being sparse and problematic, oral traditions highly mutable over time, and material remains providing only limited insight into hearts and minds. There is so much we don't know, and will never know, about our ancestors, their traditions and what it was like to be them. When talking about them, we do best to avoid the language of certainty.

For me the book picks up from that point, providing the promised guide to working in a series of well-organised practice chapters. The main areas covered (in my language) are meditation, energy work, service, shamanic journeying, relationships with familiar spirits (power animals), and working with trickster figures. The author also discusses the journey horse or method of trance induction  and the relative merits for this purpose of drumming, the sound of waves, rain, or a flowing stream; the steady roaring of wind; the recorded purring of cats. That bit of the discussion is a true gem, reflecting a lot of playful trial and experience.

These chapters also lay out a basic cosmology for the work  a cosmology of three worlds (middle, lower, and upper) on the vertical axis and four elements radiating out from the middle world on the horizontal, with the nigh universal notion of the world tree/tree of life very much in mind. Elen describes the image of the six armed cross as a means of bringing them together. She talks about her understanding of the inner world of the journey as a place of interface, the portal which she, as awenydd, and the Otherworld co-create as a meeting place between them.

The instructions for practice are highly specific and directive and therefore best-suited to people who are new to this kind of work, who don't have access to hands-on teaching or established learning communities, and who need nonetheless to be strongly held as they begin their exploration. Other readers will look to the offerings provided as a source of new or variant ideas, or information about a specific way of working.

My heart didn't sing, when I read this book, as it had when I read its predecessor. But it makes its contribution and, with the one significant reservation about the presentation of history, Im happy to recommend it.
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This is probably my favorite introduction into shamanism. If you're into European shamanism (Celtic), instead of Native American shamanism, this book is for you.

I'm about 3/4 through it. There are numerous exercises, and one can adapt this to their specific area of interest. A little truth is found in all areas.
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I began my journey more than thirty years ago.  Over the years, I have used New Age music, but this time I began branching out as my personal study of Shamanism began.  This music quiets my mind and stirs my heart as well, and makes me feel connected to Humanity.
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Colleen Deatsman's fifth book, "The Hollow Bone: A Field Guide to Shamanism" is just that, a field guide in the traditional sense.  She provides the reader with a solid, general understanding of the natural history of shamanism, where it is found around the globe (range), its habits and decor, its rituals and healing properties.  We are living in a world of tremendous change and chaos amidst the breathtaking beauty of our natural world, and this book helps give direction to the wanderer looking for a path to harmony and balance.  For the beginner or the advanced student/practitioner, this book is a must read.
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I bought this book not too long ago and thoroughly enjoyed reading it. I loved the different exercises included in the book to help you with your personal progress. This definitely made me feel more involved and kept me interested. It's very easy to read and follow along. I highly recommend this book if shamanism is something you're interested in.
2964538
GREAT Book!  If you are into Shamanism at all you'll love this book!
Wonderful photos and writing, very grounded and real...
I'm buying multiple copies!
3880777
I read through this in a few hours, eager to get some insight into shamanism in the modern world, especially in the americas and in australia, and this book delivers the goods, diving quickly into the depths of rites through the personal words of various healers from hawaii, the aboriginees, and from those indigenous native americans, actually providing exercises you can do to enhance your visual skills.  I was especially impressed various techniques the different shamans mentioned that are actually universal around the world, like sitting in the woods alone and watching without blinking. Of course, honoring the aniimal and nature spirits is always fundamental, but to really attune to them, that is what these healers have done, breaking through the limitations of our hypermodern world and glimpsing the other side, if only for a moment.  Caution.  Don't try this at home unless you have a spiritual leader to check on you.  Some of the techniques mentioned in this book can be dangerous!
2769073
Simply written yet even those who are not lay people to shamanism do not get bored. Great insights and suggestions on deepening your work, even if you have being consciously doing it for a long time
4149115
As you turn on Elders & Ancestor, you can feel the soothing melodies embrace you. Before long you can feel the stress of your day drift away. Beautiful in sound and equally beautiful in its message. A spiritual and healing journey wrapped inside of some gorgeous music.
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There are six tracks on this CD.

In the first one, "Pineal Dimensional Attunement", you should focus on the central area of your brain and imagine that the sounds are emanating from the pineal gland. This should have the effect of stimulating your pineal to "respond to the higher realms of spiritual light".

I found the second track, "El Ka Leem Om (Chant of the Elements)" challenging. You have to identify certain sounds, which was the challenging part (or perhaps I didn't listen carefully enough), and then send feelings of gratitude to the outer element in question and then to the inner element in your body, and so on. (The sounds are fine, it's only what you have to do while listening that's challenging.

The third, fourth and fifth tracks ("Heart Mending Song", "Manna" and "Heart Dimensional Attunement" I found delicious. In "Heart Mending Song", which is for emotional healing, you focus on the heart chakra, or the physical heart, feel the arising emotions and let the sounds vibrate through the areas of your body where you feel the emotion/s most strongly. When listening to this track, it seemed to me that time slowed down or stopped.

Tom K. states that Track Four, "Manna", has "potent healing and regenerative properties". Since energy follows awareness, "the nourishing and regenerative properties" of manna will come to those places where your attention is focused. The heart chakra is stated to be a good place, or areas or organs in need of healing. This is a lovely track with gentle, loving sounds in a simple "refrain", if this term can be used, that cleansed my heart chakra. I found this track, like the preceding track, to be addictive, and I listen to them both again and again.

In Track Five, you should imagine that the sounds are coming from your heart chakra, Both this track and the "Pineal Dimensional Attunement" track can cause psycho-spiritual cleansing reactions if listened to for too long. See Tom K's web site to read about this phenomenon.

The final track, "Worlds Ascending", was created as a "sonic background for the Holon of Ascension". Again, see Tom K's site for information about this. But you can just listen to the track, focus on it, and thereby "travel into your own inner worlds". These are, again, gentle, loving "refrains".

I strongly recommend that you get hold of this wonderful CD.
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Most new age music is so unbearably cheesy that it makes me cringe out of embarrassment, while the non-cheesy remainder often feels fluffy and insubstantial. Sometimes a new age song will be so beautiful, and then it will change key for no reason, destroying the composition. It has been very difficult for me to find new age music suitable for meditational/spiritual practices. Fortunately, a local new age book store had a section set up where I was able to listen to dozens of the most popular new age CDs. One album, "Reiki - The Light Touch", instantly captured my heart with its soft and beautiful composition. It is essentially one song with a ten or fifteen minute cycle. This song repeats itself, with the occasional minor variation, for about an hour. It is far better than anything else from Merlin's Magic (Andreas Mock) with the exception of "The Heart of Reiki", and perhaps "Elements of Rejuvenation".
"Reiki - The Light Touch" is especially suitable for enhancing practices such as Qi Gong, which become boring as soon as the novelty of doing something new has worn off. The music easily blends into the background, subtly modifying the atmosphere, while not demanding too much attention from the listener. The song itself feels very deep and mystical, almost crystalline in its perfection. I often feel sanctified by simply listening to it. It's that beautiful! I would also recommend "The Heart of Reiki", which follows a similar song structure.
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I was talking to a friend of mine about this concert. He felt that as you move away from Celtic music towards Enya and such, you migrate towards "new age".  I absolutely loved this video. I would propose that it is not new age but it has a celtic base that dips and crosses into some interesting old Spanish sounds, transporting you to anotherbtime and place. This is what is so appealing to me about the Mummer's Dance.