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Bushman Shaman : Awakening the Spirit Through Ecstatic Dance by Bradford Keeney (2004, Trade Paperback)

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PublisherInner Traditions International, The Limited

ISBN-100892816988

ISBN-139780892816989

eBay Product ID (ePID)30769814

Product Key Features

Book TitleBushman Shaman : Awakening the Spirit Through Ecstatic Dance

Number of Pages240 Pages

LanguageEnglish

Publication Year2004

TopicShamanism, Anthropology / Cultural & Social, Customs & Traditions

IllustratorYes

GenreBody, Mind & Spirit, Social Science

AuthorBradford Keeney

FormatTrade Paperback

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Item Height0.7 in

Item Weight10.4 Oz

Item Length9 in

Item Width6 in

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Intended AudienceTrade

LCCN2004-021164

ReviewsKeeney's vision is leading the vanguard in defining and articulating the territory between psychology and spirit., Bushman Shaman is a pleasure to read and will be of great interest to people studying psychotherapy or trance-dance healing., Bradford Keeney invites us to go beyond modernity to the oldest culture on Earth to find true magic and power. May those who take this journey with him surrender to their own ecstatic dance, and in so doing, find their way back home., Brad Keeney may be the closest we have to a genuine American shaman. In Bushman Shaman , he shares his remarkable adventures into the psyche and his equally remarkable sensibility as an explorer of the human spirit. Fascinating., The most striking example of the products, cures, and philosophies being offered that have their origins in practices of primitive cultures is from Bradford Keeney., Probably the most important book in the fields of healing and indigenous spirituality that's been published for many years. Keeney weaves together diverse threads of shamanic wisdom with deceptive ease--easy only because he became a shaman and lived the story on behalf of all of us. Anyone truly interested in the age-old questions of 'What is God' and 'Why are we here?' should read this book., There is no question in the minds of the Bushman healers that Keeney's strength and purposes are coterminous with theirs. I know this from talking myself with some of the Kalahari shamans who danced with him. They affirmed his power as a healer and their enjoyment of dancing with him. . . . He knows whereof he writes, having traveled 'ropes to God' himself for much of his life, in many places in addition to the Kalahari.

Dewey Edition22

Dewey Decimal299.6/81

Table Of ContentAcknowledgments 1 --The Big Love 2 --Rapture in Missouri 3 --Turning Lines into Circles 4 --Starting Over 5- -Meeting the Bushmen 6 --Shooting the Arrows of Love 7- -Surviving the Ordeals of Spirit 8 --Among the Zulu 9- -Guiding Kalahari Star 10 --Working the Spirit 11 --Kalahari Homecoming 12 --Initiation Night 13 --Caribbean Spirit Traveling 14 --Stinging Truth 15 --Tested in Bali 16 --This Little Light of Mine 17 --Ropes to God 18 --The Gods Are Crazy 19 --Trickster Shaman 20 --Mending the Strings 21 --Circles of Love 22 --Seen by the Original Ones 23 --Say Amen, Somebody Afterword Bibliography

SynopsisThe author's journey to becoming a Bushman shaman and healer and how this tradition relates to shamanic practices around the world * Explores the Bushmen's ecstatic shaking and dancing practices * Written by the first non-Bushman to become fully initiated into their healing and spiritual ways In Bushman Shaman, Bradford Keeney details his initiation into the shamanic tradition of the Kalahari Bushmen, regarded by some scholars as the oldest living culture on earth. Keeney sought out the Bushmen while in South Africa as a visiting professor of psychotherapy. He had known of the Kalahari "trance dance," wherein the dancers' bodies shake uncontrollably as part of the healing ceremony. Keeney was drawn to this tradition in the hope that it might explain and provide a forum for his own ecstatic "shaking," which he had first experienced at the age of 19 and had tried to suppress and hide throughout his adult life. For more than a dozen years Keeney danced with Bushmen shamans in communities throughout Botswana and Namibia, until finally becoming fully initiated into their doctoring and spiritual ways. Through his rediscovery of the "rope to God" in a Bushman shaman dream, he offers readers accounts of his shamanic world travels and the secrets of the soul he learned along the way. In Bushman Shaman Keeney also reveals his work with shamans from Japan, Tibet, Bali, Thailand, Australia, and North and South America, providing new understandings of other forms of shamanic spiritual expression and integrating the practices of all these traditions into a sacred circle of one truth., The author's journey to becoming a Bushman shaman and healer and how this tradition relates to shamanic practices around the world - Explores the Bushmen's ecstatic shaking and dancing practices - Written by the first non-Bushman to become fully initiated into their healing and spiritual ways In Bushman Shaman, Bradford Keeney details his initiation into the shamanic tradition of the Kalahari Bushmen, regarded by some scholars as the oldest living culture on earth. Keeney sought out the Bushmen while in South Africa as a visiting professor of psychotherapy. He had known of the Kalahari "trance dance," wherein the dancers' bodies shake uncontrollably as part of the healing ceremony. Keeney was drawn to this tradition in the hope that it might explain and provide a forum for his own ecstatic "shaking," which he had first experienced at the age of 19 and had tried to suppress and hide throughout his adult life. For more than a dozen years Keeney danced with Bushmen shamans in communities throughout Botswana and Namibia, until finally becoming fully initiated into their doctoring and spiritual ways. Through his rediscovery of the "rope to God" in a Bushman shaman dream, he offers readers accounts of his shamanic world travels and the secrets of the soul he learned along the way. In Bushman Shaman Keeney also reveals his work with shamans from Japan, Tibet, Bali, Thailand, Australia, and North and South America, providing new understandings of other forms of shamanic spiritual expression and integrating the practices of all these traditions into a sacred circle of one truth.

LC Classification NumberDT1768.S36K44 2005