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Ritual

Power, Healing and Community

By: Malidoma Patrice Some

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Power, Healing and Community

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The stories within these books have the poignancy of new discoveries as well as the unworn imagination of the ancestors. The commentary has the sharp edge of modern thought and the intricacy which results from the intellect being woven through the ritual complexities of tribal life. The purpose of constructing thresholds that bring this world together is to find the powers that can heal the rends in tribal as well as modern communities.? --Michael Meade, from the Introduction Versed in the languages of psychology, comparative literature, as well as ancient mythology, healing, and divination, Malidoma Patrice Some bridges paths between the ancient tribal world of the West African Dagara culture and modern Western society. Ritual is written with wild imagination, careful critical reflection, and intuitive insights that will force the reader to encounter the world anew.

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Of Water and the Spirit

Ritual, Magic, and Initiation in the Life of an African Shaman

By: Malidoma Patrice Some

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Ritual, Magic, and Initiation in the Life of an African Shaman

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Maliodoma Patrice Some was born in a Dagara Village, however he was soon to be abducted to a Jesuit school, where he remained for the next fifteen years, being harshly indoctrinated into european ways of thought and worship. The story tells of his return to his people, his hard initiation back into those people, which lead to his desire to convey their knowledge to the world. Of Water and the Spirit is the result of that desire; it is a sharing of living African traditions, offered in compassion for those struggling with our contemporary crisis of the spirit.

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0140194967

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The Healing Wisdom of Africa

Finding Life Purpose Through Nature, Ritual, and Community

By: Malidoma Patrice Some

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The Healing Wisdom of Africa

Finding Life Purpose Through Nature, Ritual, and Community

By: Malidoma Patrice Some

Through The Healing Wisdom of Africa, readers can come to understand that the life of indigenous and traditional people is a paradigm for an intimate relationship with the natural world that both surrounds us and is within us. The book is the most complete study of the role ritual plays in the lives of African people--and the role it can play for seekers in the West.

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Ritual

Power, Healing and Community

By: Malidoma Patrice Somé

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Power, Healing and Community

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RITUAL is the first book in the AFRICAN SHAMAN SERIES: ECHOES OF THE ANCESTORS - THE DAGARA TEACHINGS. RITUAL describes the uses & dangers of traditional ritual practice, how it is performed, & the kinds of expected interactions between the ancestral spiritual world & this one. The grief rituals are used as an example of communal ritual & its healing power for us today in the West. The Dagara of West Africa are a people who live in two worlds: the traditional world of villages, land & water, as well as the Otherworld of the Ancestors with its magic & spiritual powers. Initiations, rituals, divination & a special relationship with the elements in nature is what unites these worlds for the Dagara. Malidoma Some, spokesman for the Dagara Ancestors, lives in three worlds: The world of his village, the world of the Ancestors & the modern Western world. Holder of two Ph.D.s, he considers his traditional initiation into ancestral knowledge his true education. Told by the elders of his village that the Ancestors wanted him to go to the West, he immersed himself in Western culture. Malidoma now acts as a bridge between these three worlds, to echo the teaching of the Ancestors to us.

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Swan Raven & Company

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0963231022

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The Healing Wisdom of Africa

Finding Life Purpose Through Nature, Ritual, and Community

By: Malidoma Patrice Some

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Of Water and the Spirit

Ritual, Magic, and Initiation in the Life of an African Shaman

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