Author : Zachary Alexander Jezek
Publisher :
Page : 56 pages
File Size : 12,43 MB
Release : 2002-07-01
Category : Body, Mind & Spirit
ISBN : 9781880534151
A wonderful look into the life of a small boy with big dreams to heal the world... Written by a 10 year old boy, who has traveled from the Mayan ruins of Belize to the jungles of Costa Rica. This is a remarkable coming of age story of a young boy who works daily with a Mayan Shaman learning about the power of healing.
Author : Gabriela Jurosz-Landa
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 276 pages
File Size : 36,90 MB
Release : 2019-03-26
Category : Body, Mind & Spirit
ISBN : 1591433355
An initiate’s inside account of ancient Maya spiritual practices alive today • Includes a Foreword by José Luis Tigüilá NABÉ kaxbaltzij, spokesperson of the Maya municipality • Details the initiation process the author went through to become a Maya shaman-priestess, including rituals, prayers, and ceremonies • Explains the foundational spiritual wisdom of the Maya calendar as a living entity, its cycles of time, and the significance of “the counting of the days”, which helps keep time itself alive • Examines the power of dance and Maya ceremonies, Maya future-telling, and communication with ancestors through the sacred fire Offering an insider’s experiential account of ancient Maya spiritual wisdom and practices, initiated Maya shaman-priestess Gabriela Jurosz-Landa opens up the mysterious world of the Maya, dispelling the rampant misinformation about their beliefs and traditions, sharing the transcendent beauty of their ceremonies, and explaining the Maya understanding of time, foundational to their spiritual worldview and cosmology. The author, an anthropologist, details the initiation process she went through to become a Maya shaman-priestess in Guatemala, including rituals, prayers, the presence of numinous forces, and the transmission of sacred knowledge. She explains the spiritual wisdom of the Maya calendar as a living entity, its cycles of time, and the significance of “the counting of the days,” which helps keep time itself alive. She examines Maya spiritual and cosmological concepts such as how the universe is shaped like a triangle over a square. She reveals the profound power of dance in Maya tradition, explaining how ritual dance halts the flow of time, reactivates primordial events, and captures vital energies that keep the Maya spiritual tradition vital and alive. Exploring other Maya secret knowledge, she also details Maya ritual attire, Maya future-telling with the calendar, the reading of the Tzi’te beans, and how the Maya communicate with ancestors through the sacred fire. Illustrating how contemporary Maya life is suffused with spiritual tradition and celebration, the author shares the teachings of the Maya from her initiate and anthropologist point of view in order to help us all learn from the ancient wisdom of their beliefs and worldview. Because, to truly understand the Maya, one must think like the Maya.
Author : David Freidel
Publisher : William Morrow Paperbacks
Page : 544 pages
File Size : 45,74 MB
Release : 1995-02-27
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780688140694
A Masterful blend of archaeology, anthropology, astronomy, and lively personal reportage, Maya Comos tells a constellation of stories, from the historical to the mythological, and envokes the awesome power of one of the richest civilizations ever to grace the earth.
Author : Barbara Tedlock, Ph.D.
Publisher : Bantam
Page : 370 pages
File Size : 18,45 MB
Release : 2009-09-02
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 0307571637
A distinguished anthropologist–who is also an initiated shaman–reveals the long-hidden female roots of the world’s oldest form of religion and medicine. Here is a fascinating expedition into this ancient tradition, from its prehistoric beginnings to the work of women shamans across the globe today. Shamanism was not only humankind’s first spiritual and healing practice, it was originally the domain of women. This is the claim of Barbara Tedlock’s provocative and myth-shattering book. Reinterpreting generations of scholarship, Tedlock–herself an expert in dreamwork, divination, and healing–explains how and why the role of women in shamanism was misinterpreted and suppressed, and offers a dazzling array of evidence, from prehistoric African rock art to modern Mongolian ceremonies, for women’s shamanic powers. Tedlock combines firsthand accounts of her own training among the Maya of Guatemala with the rich record of women warriors and hunters, spiritual guides, and prophets from many cultures and times. Probing the practices that distinguish female shamanism from the much better known male traditions, she reveals: • The key role of body wisdom and women’s eroticism in shamanic trance and ecstasy • The female forms of dream witnessing, vision questing, and use of hallucinogenic drugs • Shamanic midwifery and the spiritual powers released in childbirth and monthly female cycles • Shamanic symbolism in weaving and other feminine arts • Gender shifting and male-female partnership in shamanic practice Filled with illuminating stories and illustrations, The Woman in the Shaman’s Body restores women to their essential place in the history of spirituality and celebrates their continuing role in the worldwide resurgence of shamanism today.
Author : Thomas Hart
Publisher : UNM Press
Page : 287 pages
File Size : 50,92 MB
Release : 2008
Category : Religion
ISBN : 0826343503
The myth and ceremony of Maya beliefs have been sustained for over five hundred years in spite of massacres, persecution, and discrimination.
Author : Radhaa Nilia
Publisher : Radhaa Publishing House
Page : 271 pages
File Size : 16,62 MB
Release : 2020-08-17
Category : Body, Mind & Spirit
ISBN :
Awakening Starseeds: Shattering Illusions, Volume 1 We are in a time of great change. One where we must make a choice that will shape our collective destiny. We must choose to either wake up or continue to be a sleepwalker in the slumber of mundane life. Awakening Starseeds is filled with mystical experiences, abrupt awakenings, and real-life stories shared by nineteen Starseeds worldwide. The authors offer their inner strength, vulnerability, and visions of an old and new paradigm. These stories are a bridge to other Starseeds looking for inspiration and guidance during these turbulent times. Raw and revealing experiences, real-life stories shared by authors who openly recognize they are in the process of shedding the old paradigm. Each author offers their inner strength, courage, vulnerability. Collectively, these authors creating a light grid, offering healing by speaking truths that would not have been readily embraced just a few years ago. One of the most unusual books on the market today because it is a collaborative effort from our international community. Authors come from Asia, Europe, the Middle East, Canada, and, of course, the United States of America. Awakening Starseeds encompasses diversity, brilliance, precious knowledge, wisdom, and gifts of healing. The Starseed Authors for this first edition collaboration include: Radhaa Nilia, Michael Pestano, Maya The Shaman, Michelle Kearney Lopez, Lyn Pacificar, Stasia Bliss, Joshua Hathaway, Captain Cosmic, Robert Rubin, Susan Hassen, Raziel Arcega, Cristal Ortiz, Arrameia Auraire Araiss, Byron Bradley Carrier, Teza Zialcita, Lillie Love, Karuna Chinchkhede, Lalitah Sunra, Abigail Diaz Juan
Author : Silvia Tomášková
Publisher : University of California Press
Page : 288 pages
File Size : 12,69 MB
Release : 2013-05-03
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 0520275322
Wayward Shamans tells the story of an idea that humanity’s first expression of art, religion and creativity found form in the figure of a proto-priest known as a shaman. Tracing this classic category of the history of anthropology back to the emergence of the term in Siberia, the work follows the trajectory of European knowledge about the continent’s eastern frontier. The ethnographic record left by German natural historians engaged in the Russian colonial expansion project in the 18th century includes a range of shamanic practitioners, varied by gender and age. Later accounts by exiled Russian revolutionaries noted transgendered shamans. This variation vanished, however, in the translation of shamanism into archaeology theory, where a male sorcerer emerged as the key agent of prehistoric art. More recent efforts to provide a universal shamanic explanation for rock art via South Africa and neurobiology likewise gloss over historical evidence of diversity. By contrast this book argues for recognizing indeterminacy in the categories we use, and reopening them by recalling their complex history.
Author : Rebecca Stone
Publisher : University of Texas Press
Page : 249 pages
File Size : 44,68 MB
Release : 2011-07-01
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 0292726260
Shamanism—the practice of entering a trance state to experience visions of a reality beyond the ordinary and to gain esoteric knowledge—has been an important part of life for indigenous societies throughout the Americas from prehistoric times until the present. Much has been written about shamanism in both scholarly and popular literature, but few authors have linked it to another significant visual realm—art. In this pioneering study, Rebecca R. Stone considers how deep familiarity with, and profound respect for, the extra-ordinary visionary experiences of shamanism profoundly affected the artistic output of indigenous cultures in Central and South America before the European invasions of the sixteenth century. Using ethnographic accounts of shamanic trance experiences, Stone defines a core set of trance vision characteristics, including enhanced senses, ego dissolution, bodily distortions, flying, spinning and undulating sensations, synaesthesia, and physical transformation from the human self into animal and other states of being. Stone then traces these visionary characteristics in ancient artworks from Costa Rica and Peru. She makes a convincing case that these works, especially those of the Moche, depict shamans in a trance state or else convey the perceptual experience of visions by creating deliberately chaotic and distorted conglomerations of partial, inverted, and incoherent images.
Author : James E. Brady
Publisher : University of Texas Press
Page : 449 pages
File Size : 47,16 MB
Release : 2013-04-01
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 0292756151
As portals to the supernatural realm that creates and animates the universe, caves have always been held sacred by the peoples of Mesoamerica. From ancient times to the present, Mesoamericans have made pilgrimages to caves for ceremonies ranging from rituals of passage to petitions for rain and a plentiful harvest. So important were caves to the pre-Hispanic peoples that they are mentioned in Maya hieroglyphic writing and portrayed in the Central Mexican and Oaxacan pictorial codices. Many ancient settlements were located in proximity to caves. This volume gathers papers from twenty prominent Mesoamerican archaeologists, linguists, and ethnographers to present a state-of-the-art survey of ritual cave use in Mesoamerica from Pre-Columbian times to the present. Organized geographically, the book examines cave use in Central Mexico, Oaxaca, and the Maya region. Some reports present detailed site studies, while others offer new theoretical understandings of cave rituals. As a whole, the collection validates cave study as the cutting edge of scientific investigation of indigenous ritual and belief. It confirms that the indigenous religious system of Mesoamerica was and still is much more terrestrially focused that has been generally appreciated.
Author : Omar W. Rosales
Publisher : Llewellyn Worldwide
Page : 144 pages
File Size : 45,42 MB
Release : 2009
Category : Shamanism
ISBN : 0738715018
This fascinating true story chronicles one man's journey into the mysteries of spiritual consciousness and the indigenous healing practices of four shamanistic traditions: Toltec, Cherokee, Maya, and Buddhist. In his travels around the globe, Rosales witnesses the powerful channeled spirit Niño Fidencio, receives messages and healing from a Toltec shaman, and experiences a dramatic soul retrieval from a Cherokee spiritwalker. Rosales travels to Guatemala, where he meets a Mayan high priestess, or a'j' r'ij, and the secret brotherhoods called cofradias, whose mission is to guard Maximón, the last living Mayan god. Rosales's last journey is to Bhutan, the Land of the Thunder Dragon, where he spends time with a holy lama. Praise: "Beautifully written, intriguing and mysterious, a work both of adventure and of serious research."--Graham Hancock, international bestselling author of Fingerprints of the Gods "Omar's adventures in Elemental Shaman are inspiring and lively, with a lot of useful insight and inspiration."-- Robert A. F. Thurman, professor of Buddhist studies at Columbia University and author of Why the Dalai Lama Matters "Superb. A real thriller!"--Carmen Harra, Ph.D., author of Everyday Karma
