Shamanism

[Nick]

Hi The Seeker,

The Welcome to Members Book Recommendations & Reviews forum is set aside for people who have already read a book and want to review and/or recommend it. []

What I have done is to move the topic into our Welcome to General Metaphysics forum as that may be a good place for replies on the book topic you seek. You may also want to use our search engine and type in the word 'shamanism' and 'books' for example, to see what's been posted already.

Very best,

[Nagual]

I heard this one was a good start:

Shamanism: Archaic Techniques of Ecstasy
by Mircea Eliade

http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0691119422/qid=1071742892/sr=1-1/ref=sr_1_1/103-2412663-1995025?v=glance&s=books

Book Description
"Writing as a historian of religion, Eliade synthesizes the approaches of psychology, sociology, and ethnology to study the figure of the shaman, at once magician and medicine man, healer and miracle-doer, psychopomp, priest, mystic, and poet."

But it might be a little bit too historical maybe...?

[shaman]

You might want to try here too:

http://www.deoxy.org/shaover.htm

They do refer to many books, then you are left to make a book search on amazon.com .

Shaman The Dreamer

[TheSeeker]

Does anyone have any suggestions on books regarding Shamanism?  I am looking to purchase one.