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The Tantric Shamanism Institute
Here is a list of books that we recommend to those of you who are interested in futher learning regarding the subjects of Tantra, Shamanism, Healing and the relationship between art and spirituality.
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Sylvia Brallier
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 Dancing in the Eye of Transformation: 10 Keys to Creative Consciousness
Sylvia Brallier
This beautifully illustrated book takes you to a place where spirituality, quantum theory, creativity and healing meet and merge to awaken your highest potential. It will give you a means to integrate all aspects of yourself in order to achieve a state of wholeness. With creative consciousness comes a greater sense of well-being, and a flowering of the authentic self. Dancing in the Eye of Transformation is a real-world user’s manual that gives practical tools for the enrichment of your mind, body and spirit. It is a guidebook that will help the reader to perceive metaphysical reality and actualize personal and planetary transformation from a unique holistic perspective.
Shamanism
Shamanic Journeying
Sandra Ingerman
Shamanic journeying is the inner art of traveling to the "invisible worlds" beyond ordinary reality to retrieve information for change in any area of our lives—from spirituality and health to work and relationships. On The Beginner’s Guide to Shamanic Journeying, Sandra Ingerman shares the core teachings of this transformative practice, including the original role of the shaman in indigenous societies, how to meet and work with your "power animal" and other spirit teachers, and the keys to successful journeying in our modern culture. Complete with authentic drumming and guidance for three shamanic journeys
Soul Retrieval
Sandra Ingerman
Over 40,000 years ago the first shamans ventured into the spirit realms in search of wisdom and healing. What they found, teaches Sandra Ingerman, was a secret world of teachers, animal spirits, and the soul fragments of those suffering in the ordinary world. The Soul Retrieval Journey reveals a stunning insight understood by those first shamans: that when lost parts of the soul return to the body, the mind, body, and spirit heal. This "soul loss," Ingerman says, is epidemic in today's world. Soul loss can result from personal tragedy, physical injury, the negative emotions of those around you, or even isolation from nature. Now you can learn from a modern day practitioner how to access the knowledge and tools of the shaman to retrieve the wholeness and power that are rightfully yours with The Soul Retrieval Journey.
Medicine for the Earth
Sandra Ingerman
Ingerman, a therapist and well-known practitioner of soul retrieval, provides a thorough, thoughtful treatise on personal and planetary healing through the spiritual transmutation of environmental toxins. Motivated by her near-death experiences, she contemplates unconditional love through respect for sacred space, divine power, and nature's elements. Key chapters cover the development of a personal creation story as well as releasing and calling-down ceremonies. First-person accounts (Ingerman chronicles healing chemically polluted water through spiritual applications), mystics' narratives, and "consciousness-raising" exercises help to clarify the lessons. Written as if she were walking with us on a daily journey, but one that is essentially ours, this text presents a "bringing heaven to earth" philosophy that will appeal to both motivated newcomers and advanced searchers of the psyche. Some psychotherapy rhetoric is included, but the thrust is fresh and original: spirit in action yields measurable results.
Welcome Home
Sandra Ingerman
Ingerman is a strong voice against psychic fragmentation--a woman here introduces herself as "myself, my thirteen-year-old, and my five-year-old"--as well as for strong personal integration and integrity. A sort of shamanic Wendy Kaminer (I'm Dysfunctional, You're Dysfunctional, 1992), Ingerman pushes her readers to question New Age orthodoxy and to find their own routes to wholeness. Although not as polished as her earlier Soul Retrieval (1991), this book is still meaty enough to appeal to readers interested in contemporary shamanism. Especially interesting are chapters on wholeness in the business world and dealing with enmeshed relationships. Pat Monaghan
The Way of the Shaman
Michael Harner
This classic on shamanism pioneered the modern shamanic renaissance. It is the foremost resource and reference on understanding shamanism. Now, with a new introduction and a guide to current resources, anthropologist and shamanic practitioner Michael Harner provides the definitive handbook on practical shamanism—what it is, where it came from, how you can participate.
Maps to Ecstasy:
A Healing Journey for the Untamed Spirit
Gabrielle Roth
In this classic exploration of the psyche, internationally renowned artist and healer Gabrielle Roth takes us on a healing journey through the terrain of the body, heart, mind, soul, and spirit - moving us from the limits of the ego to the expanses of the soul.
This revised edition initiates us into the five sacred powers: being, loving, knowing, seeing, and healing. On this journey we undertake five specific tasks that move us from inertia to ecstasy and catalyze our most essential selves. In the end, Gabrielle Roth shows us how to turn our lives and art into healing.
Huna
Enid Hoffman
Centuries ago, the Kahuna, the ancient Hawaiian miracle workers, discovered the fundamental pattern of energy-flow in the Universe. Their secrets of psychic and intra-psychic communication, refined and enriched by modern scientific research, are now revealed in this practical, readable book. Learn to talk directly to your own unconscious selves and others'. It could change your life.
Medicine Cards
Jamie Sams
"A potent yet refreshingly simple divination tool that can help up reconnect to the sources of life's natural guidance...extraordinarily well crafted. This work is plentiful, overflowing with the richness of the Native American way of life." --Yoga Journal
The Four Agreements
Don Miguel Ruiz
Sit at the foot of a native elder and listen as great wisdom of days long past is passed down. In The Four Agreements shamanic teacher and healer Don Miguel Ruiz exposes self-limiting beliefs and presents a simple yet effective code of personal conduct learned from his Toltec ancestors. Full of grace and simple truth, this handsomely designed book makes a lovely gift for anyone making an elementary change in life, and it reads in a voice that you would expect from an indigenous shaman. The four agreements are these: Be impeccable with your word. Don't take anything personally. Don't make assumptions. Always do your best. It's the how and why one should do these things that make The Four Agreements worth reading and remembering. --P. Randall Cohan
Healing
Love Is in the Earth
Melody
This is THE BIBLE of New Age crystal information. It is absolutely definitive and authoritative. Well, almost definitive, considering that Melody has written 4 accompanying volumes so far. This comprehensive book contains NO PICTURES, it's all information channelled from -- well, who knows. However, just about everyone in the field of crystal healing quotes this book. Melody, who has a BS and MA in mathematics, includes extensive information regarding the uses of each stone (and each color of each stone), its numerological vibration, its associated astrological signs, and the maladies for which each crystals should be used.
Heal Your Body
Louise Hay
This book offers positive new thought patterns to replace negative emotions. It includes an alphabetical chart of physical ailments, the probable causes, and healing affirmations to help you eliminate old patterns.
You Can Heal Your Life
Louise Hay
If you haven't seen Hay House's Lifestyles series of gorgeous gift books, there is no better way to acquaint yourself than with publisher/author Louise Hay's You Can Heal Your Life. A bestseller for many years, You Can Heal Your Life has been republished with bright, beautiful illustrations in full, living color and exquisite typography--each and every page is a work of art by artist Joan Perrin Falquet. The timeless message of the book is that we are each responsible for our own reality and "dis-ease." Hay believes we make ourselves ill by having thoughts of self-hatred. She includes a directory of ailments and emotional causes for each with a corresponding affirmation to help overcome the illness. For example, the probable cause of multiple sclerosis is "mental hardness, hard-heartedness, iron will, and inflexibility." The healing "thought pattern" would be: "By choosing loving, joyous thoughts, I created a loving joyous world. I am safe and free." --P. Randall Cohan
The Spirit of Reiki
W. Luebeck
This is a handbook that reports on all of the major aspects of Reiki in a concentrated and extensive manner, including the latest information, developments and traditional knowledge. Beginning with definitions of Reiki associations, traditions, and representatives like Usui, Hayashi, Takata, and many others, and teaching methods, application techniques, and symbols like the Reiki Kanji, it covers a large variety of themes-even the latest rediscovery of Japanese healing techniques.
The Original Reiki Handbook
of Dr. Mikao Usui
Mikao Usui, Frank Arjava Petter
Dr. Mikao Usui developed the Reiki System and founded the original Japanese Usui Reiki Ryoho Gakkai organization. This book shows you the original hand positions of Dr. Usui's Reiki Handbook. It has been illustrated with 100 photos to make it easier to understand. The hand positions for a great variety of health complaints have been listed in detail, making it a valuable reference work for anyone who practices reiki. Now that the original handbook has been translated into English, Dr. Usui's hand positions and healing techniques can be studied directly for the first time. Whether you are an initiate or a master, if you practice Reiki you can expand your knowledge dramatically as you follow in the footsteps of a great healer.
The Hidden Messages in Water
Masaru Emoto
Dr. Mikao Usui developed the Reiki System and founded the original Japanese Usui Reiki Ryoho Gakkai organization. This book shows you the original hand positions of Dr. Usui's Reiki Handbook. It has been illustrated with 100 photos to make it easier to understand. The hand positions for a great variety of health complaints have been listed in detail, making it a valuable reference work for anyone who practices reiki. Now that the original handbook has been translated into English, Dr. Usui's hand positions and healing techniques can be studied directly for the first time. Whether you are an initiate or a master, if you practice Reiki you can expand your knowledge dramatically as you follow in the footsteps of a great healer.
The Mastery of Love
Miguel Ruiz
In a refreshingly honest investigation of the true nature of love, don Miguel Ruiz brings to light the commonly held fallacies and misplaced expectations about love that permeate most relationships. In the tradition of Carlos Castaneda, he uses inspirational stories to impart the wisdom of three fundamental Toltec masteries (Awareness, Transformation, and Love). The themes explored include the Toltec wisdom of the heart, the track of love, and the war of control.
The Healing Power of Gemstones
Harish Johari
This is the most comprehensive guide to the chemical and subtle nature of gemstones and their use throughout history. Johari includes detailed instructions for the creation of gem talismans and the rituals surrounding the use of gems to obtain desired effects. He also uses Hindu astrology to explain the gems you should wear to maximize your physical and psychological well-being.
Getting Unstuck: Breaking your Habitual Patterns and Encountering Naked Reality
Pema Chodron
An urge comes up, we succumb to it, and it becomes stronger. We reinforce our cravings, habits, and addictions by giving in to them repeatedly. Pema Chödrön guides us through this "sticky feeling" and offers us tools for learning to stay with our uneasiness, soften our hearts toward others, and ourselves and live a more peaceful life in the fullness of the present moment.
When Things Fall Apart
Heart Advice for Difficult Times
Pema Chodron
Drawn from traditional Buddhist wisdom, Pema Chödrön's radical and compassionate advice for what to do when things fall apart in our lives goes against the grain of our usual habits and expectations. There is only one approach to suffering that is of lasting benefit, she teaches, and that approach involves moving toward painful situations with friendliness and curiosity, relaxing into the essential groundlessness of our entire situation. It is there, in the midst of chaos, that we can discover the truth and love that are indestructible.
The Places That Scare You: A Guide to Fearlessness in Difficult Times
Pema Chodron
In The Places That Scare You, Chödrön introduces a host of the compassionate warriors' tools and concepts for transforming anxieties and negative emotions into positive living. Rather than steeling ourselves against hardship, she suggests we open ourselves to vulnerability; from this comes the loving kindness and compassion that are the wellsprings of joy. How do we achieve it? Through meditation, mindfulness, slogans, aspiration, and several other practices, such as tonglen, which is taking in the pain and suffering of others while sending out happiness to all--emphasis on the all. Chödrön introduces each of these practices in turn, backing them up with succinct practical reasoning and a framework of ideas that offers fresh interpretations of familiar words like strength, laziness, and groundlessness. Chödrön is the type of person you'd like to have with you in an emergency, and to deal with the extremes of daily life. In her absence, The Places That Scare You will do nicely. --Brian Bruya
Tantra and Yogic Practices
 The Jewel in the Lotus
Sunyata Saraswati and
Bodhi Avinasha
The definitive text for Ipsalu Tantra Kriya Yoga by Sunyata Saraswati and Bodhi Avinasha. This classic text is a step-by-step guide to tantric practice that is fully illustrated, with clearly explained techiques and processes designed for home practice. Learn to generate sexual energy to clear away blocks, open your heart, and expand your consciousness. This is a great book that changed my life! Real techniques, not just ideas. Highly recommended!!
The Ipsalu Formula
A Method for Tantra Bliss
Bodhi Avinasha
The Ipsalu Formula; A Method for Tantra Bliss presents a practical approach for achieving bliss in the body. The magic of the Ipsalu Formula is in the synergy of the principles, practices, traditions, and scientifically based techniques it draws upon. From ancient wisdom to cutting edge research into consciousness breakthroughs, the Formula weaves a cohesive, repeatable approach to producing bliss, not as a lovely theory to hope for, but as a living experience to enjoy-now. This book is a companion to Bodhi Avinasha's Jewel in the Lotus; The Tantric Path to Higher Consciousness.
Kali's Odiyya
Amarananda Bhairavan
A rare and exciting true story of worship and initiation in an culture that still exists today. Bhairavan writes of his experience of initiation into the world of Kali's odiyyas shamans of the goddess. We learn the goddess tradition first-hand and experience and exorcism, Kundalini training, astral travel, shape-shifting, healing, how to deal with the death of a shaman, and how this matriarchal society governs the devotees.
Tantric Yoga and the Wisdom Goddesses
David Frawley
"Tantric Yoga and the Wisdom Goddesses is an excellent introduction to the essence of Hindu Tantrism. The author discusses all the major concepts and offers valuable corrections for many existing misconceptions. He also introduces the reader to the core Tantric practices of meditation and mantra recitation, focusing on the ten Wisdom Goddesses"
Mudras
Gertrud Hirschi
Yoga for the hands--sounds too good to be true. Do it at the office, on an airplane, lying in bed. Seasoned yoga teacher Gertrud Hirschi has used these hand postures to ease asthma, relieve flu symptoms, think more effectively, relieve tension, even have a bowel movement. The possibilities she attributes to these ancient Indian techniques are endless. Join the tips of the index finger and thumb: this clears the mind. Switch the thumb to the little finger: this restores the body's fluid balance. It's not quite that easy, of course. Hirschi is careful to lay out exercise regimens, related herbal remedies, and associated affirmations. Like a classroom instructor, she guides with simultaneous breathing advice and conjures up helpful images. From building character to healing emotional pain, from bringing luck to connecting with the divine, mudras can work wonders. Now limber up those digits and lets get into spiritual shape. --Brian Bruya
Sounds of the Chakras
Harish Johari
“Johari. . . has impeccable enunciation and he both educates and elevates listeners with this invaluable pronunciation guide for the 50 Sanskrit letters. . . . The sounds on this CD are so enthralling it’s easy to see why many people find recitation so powerfully transformative.”
Breath, Mind & Consciousness
Harish Johari
Modern scientists are just now beginning to understand what yogis have known for centuries--that the life force animating our physical bodies is regulated by breath, and that the breath energy is controlled by the mind. The esoteric and practical science of Swar Yoga--presented in this book for the first time in English--teaches conscious observation and control of breathing patterns to maximize energy and vitality.
Tantric Scholar and author of Tools for Tantra, Chakras, and The Healing Power of Gemstones, HARISH JOHARI brings an in-depth knowledge of ancient Hindu sciences to this discussion of breath and the yoga of balanced living. His is the first guidebook for Westerners to offer a comprehensive treatment of the subject, providing information from Sanskrit texts otherwise unavailable in the English Language. He explains the sensory network of the nose and its effect on the subtle channels of energy throughout the body, showing the direct link between the practice of conscious breathing and the electrochemical balance of the brain and nervous system. He also shows how the breath, alternating between left and right nostrils, is influenced by solar and lunar forces and how one can attune to these natural rhythms and universal laws for greater health and well-being.
Chakra & Kundalini Workbook
Jonn Mumford
Spend just a few minutes each day on the remarkable psycho-physiological techniques in this book and you will quickly build a solid experience of drugless inner relaxation that will lead towards better health, a longer life, and greater control over your personal destiny. A Chakra & Kundalini Workbook is one of the clearest, most approachable books on Yoga there is. Tailored for the Western mind, this is a practical system of personal training suited for anyone in today's active and complex world.
Ecstacy Through Tantra
Jonn Mumford
Dr. Jonn Mumford makes the occult dimension of the sexual dynamic accessible to everyone. One need not go up to the mountaintop to commune with Divinity: its temple is the body, its sacrament the communion between lovers. Ecstasy Through Tantra traces the ancient practices of sex magick through the Egyptian, Greek and Hebrew forms, where the sexual act is viewed as symbolic of the highest union, to the highest expression of Western sex magick.
Modern Sex Magick
Donald Michael Kraig
The book is packed with solid information about sex, bodies, rituals and magick, most of which is readily available elsewhere. Its original contributions come principally in tying together disparate traditions and in presenting an interesting perspective on the recent history of sex magick.
Tantric Visions of the Divine Feminine
David Kinsley
The Hindu pantheon is rich in images of the divine femininedeities representing a wide range of symbolic, social, and meditative meanings. David Kinsley's new book documents a highly unusual group of ten Hindu tantric goddesses, the Mahavidyas, many of whom are strongly associated with sexuality and violence. What is one to make of a goddess who cuts her own head off, or one who prefers sex with a corpse? The Mahavidyas embody habits, attributes, or identities usually considered repulsive or socially subversive and can be viewed as "antimodels" for women. Yet it is within the context of tantric worship that devotees seek to identify themselves with these forbidding goddesses. The Mahavidyas seem to function as "awakeners"symbols which help to project one's consciousness beyond the socially acceptable or predictable. Drawing on a broad range of Sanskrit and vernacular texts as well as extensive research in India, including written and oral interpretations of contemporary Hindu practitioners, Kinsley describes the unusual qualities of each of the Mahavidyas and traces the parallels between their underlying themes. Especially valuable are the many rare and fascinating images he presentseach important to grasping the significance of the goddesses. Written in an accessible, engaging style, Kinsley's book provides a comprehensive understanding of the Mahavidyas and is also an overview of Hindu tantric practice.
Wheels of Life
Anodea Judith
Discover the amazing secrets of how you can work with your chakras to bring healing, spiritual development, and more in Wheels of Life by Anodea Judith. The chakras are the sacred architecture of your body and psyche. They function as portals between the physical and spiritual planes. This classic introduction to the chakras has sold over 125,000 copies. Wheels of Life has now been completely revised, updated, and expanded, making this the most valuable version of this book ever.
Illuminated Chakras - Your Inner Worlds
Anodea Judith
This 28-minute, open-eyed meditation is a multi-sensory journey into the transformative beauty of the inner world. Follow Kundalini-Shakti, the mystical serpent of awakening, who drives the vital force that opens each chakra. As you journey from base to crown in this fantastic sound and light extravaganza, you will see and experience the elemental reality of each chakra as Earth, Water, Fire, Air, Sound, Light, and Transcendent Consciousness. Animated art by Alex Wayne, original soundtrack by Robin Silver. *NEW* Illuminated Chakra DVD is now available with voiceovers in French, German, Italian, and Spanish.
The Practice of Mindfulness
The Wisdom of No Escape
And the Path of Loving-Kindness
Pema Chodron
This book is about saying yes to life, about making friends with ourselves and our world, about accepting the delightful and painful situation of "no-exit." It exhorts us to wake up wholeheartedly and to use the abundant richly textured fabric of everyday life as our primary spiritual teacher and guide.
Comfortable With Uncertainty
108 Teachings on Cultivating Fearlessness and Compassion
Pema Chodron
Drawn from Chödrön's previously published books, this anthology leads the reader through essential concepts, themes, and practices on the Buddhist path, such as loving-kindness, meditation, mindfulness, and letting go. Comfortable with Uncertainty does not assume prior knowledge of Buddhist thought or practice, making it a perfect introduction to Chödrön's teaching. Through the course of this book, readers will learn practical methods for heightening awareness and overcoming habitual patterns that block compassion.
Start Where You Are
Pema Chodron
From Publishers Weekly
"This book is about awakening the heart," writes the American Tibetan Buddhist teacher Chodron. "If you have every wondered how to awaken your genuine compassionate heart, this book will serve you as a guide." This is a broad and simple statement, and those unfamiliar with When Things Fall Apart or other titles by Chodron may rightfully fear that a volley of nonsensical fuzzballs is on the way. Good bedtime reading, perhaps, but in the decade since its original 1994 publication, there seems to be even less grounds to claim that all humans are innately capable of openness, clarity and compassion (or "bodhichitta"). What follows, however, is a savvy, down-to-earth contemporary version of an old Tibetan Buddhist technique for mind training, or "lojong," supported by instructions in basic sitting meditation practice (to cultivate tranquility and insight) and "tonglen"—a meditative technique that involves taking in the dark, heavy, negative emotions and sending out an attitude of light, compassionate embrace, a warm spaciousness, in its place. Chodron supplies a pithy contemporary analysis for each of 59 "slogans" that make up the teaching behind this practice. "There is a saying that is the underlying principle of tonglen and slogan practice: ‘Gain and victory to others, loss and defeat to myself,’" she writes. Far from being as masochistic as this may sound to Western ears, however, the aim is get people to unclench the heart and mind, to dare to taste defeat. Although far from easy, Chodron’s humane, incisive approach can help any sincere reader learn to relate to fear and pain and pleasure and joy in a way that will open their hearts to the richness of their own lives and all life.
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