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Vodou Shaman: The Haitian Way of Healing and Power

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Manufacturer: Destiny Books
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Goes beyond the stereotypes to restore Vodou to its proper place as a powerful shamanic tradition

• Provides practical exercises and techniques from the Vodou tradition that can be used as safe and effective means of spiritual healing and personal transformation

• Shows how to remove evil spirits and negative energies sent by others

• Written by a fully initiated Houngan (Vodou shaman)

Providing practical exercises drawn from all aspects and stages of the Vodou tradition, Vodou Shaman shows readers how to contact the spirit world and communicate with the loa (the angel-like inhabitants of the Other World), the ghede (the spirits of the ancestors), and djabs (nature spirits for healing purposes). The author examines soul journeying and warrior-path work in the Vodou tradition and looks at the psychological principles that make them effective. The book also includes exercises to protect the spiritual self by empowering the soul, with techniques of soul retrieval, removing evil spirits and negative energies, overcoming curses, and using the powers of herbs and magical baths.

DESCRIPTION:

Binding: Paperback
Dewey Decimal Number: 299.675
EAN: 9780892811342
ISBN: 089281134X
Label: Destiny Books
Manufacturer: Destiny Books
Number Of Items: 1
Number Of Pages: 296
Publication Date: 2003-11-10
Publisher: Destiny Books
Release Date: 2003-11-10
Studio: Destiny Books


SIMILAR ITEMS:

• Secrets of Voodoo
• The Haitian Vodou Handbook: Protocols for Riding with the Lwa
• Dr. Snake's Voodoo Spellbook
• Voodoo in Haiti
• Hoodoo Herb and Root Magic: A Materia Magica of African-American Conjure


CUSTOMER REVIEWS:

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Summary: I doubt he went to Haiti at all
Comment: Where to start? Since my family was in Haiti many times during and after the revolution working with the religious underground, we know our Vodou. This jerk doesn't and he's ripping you off. He's a Wiccan or trying to sell Vodou to the huge Wiccan market. Check out how many times Celt or Anglo-Saxon pops up in relation to magic. Somehow he thinks that zombis are made by having parents who dictate your whole life, and so you lose your ashe (personal power). Has he not even glanced at Serpent and the Rainbow? Or is this more of his "let me save you for I am the first ever white Priest(!)" pop psychology? If Madam Racine exists she'd be furious. Uh, who said Vodou is about self expression, being an individual, with no gurus, etc? No, it is a highly communal religion and you better know that the Mambo is your mother, you are a mere child, and she is in charge at all times. Vodou has a strict heirarchy - which sometimes you don't have to know about if you are a rich Westerner. My mother, a religious scholar (ie she has a masters of divinity, not a lame book deal), kept mumbling, "Where are your footnotes?" when she read it. There are long passages with no footnotes as well as "facts" just thrown out, again with no footnotes. Personal experience is one thing, but when you claim to speak for a religion - and by calling himself a Houndan, he is claiming to speak for the religion - you need footnotes. Oh, and all his personal experiences are in January 2000 according to his journal entries. Yeah. In a month or less Mambo Racine made him a PRIEST? No. She took his money, and now he's taking yours. You cannot become a Vodou Houngan in a month - but my Mom tells stories of Westerners who thought they had and of the Houngan or Mambo who used their money for the community as the outsider flew home. The rituals are Wiccan spells, I have seen them all with small detail changes in most current Wicca books. You can't pathwork (Wiccan term for visualization) a meeting with Erzuli and call it Vodou. Vodou means the ves-ves, the possession, the animals and perfume sacrificed, and if you are rich, and almost all Westerners are rich compared to Haitians (poorest country in the Western hemisphere), keeping a room for her to live in at all times - yes, her own room. Also "shaman"? I wanted to hope it was the editorial staff at Destiny Books choosing today's most trendy word to move titles. But he dares use it himself! He is mixing Harner's core shamanism with Celtic Wicca and Heathen Anglo-Saxon lore and pop psychology inm a terribly written nightmare of a book. The back has only two tiny reviews - one from Madame Racine and the other from Prediction mag (I've been in occult circles for over 20 years and haven't heard of this) saying this guy does for Vodou what Castaneda did for shamanism. Ummm, wasn't it all figured out that Castaneda made it up? Beautiful books, but fiction? Prediction mag is then correct. This is pan-Pagan fiction but nowhere near as well written as Castaneda. The only Vodou here is that the names of the lwa are correct - but you don't treat lwa like Pagan Gods. I can barely count how many cultures he's ripping off. Oh. And how DARE he call himself the first white Hougan? Has he lived in Haitian communities in London or any other large city? There are men and women of all cultures who honor the lwa, many as Priests and Priestesses, around the world. Some even study in Haiti for years and are REAL Hougan, not Hougan-in-a-vacation like him. His ego is so huge, maybe someone ought to kick his ashe.
Customer Rating:
Summary: Crap
Comment: This book is a joke to the Haitian religon.I take this book as an offense,as someone of Hatian descent.I am close to a real Haitian mambo and she said this book is a slap in the face to the religion.I hope the author is proud of himself for making a joke out of Vodou.
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Summary: mish-mash
Comment: I guess I should have been warned by the title. I'm surprised to see how high other people rate this book. I guess there are still people who enjoy this kind of mixing of spiritual traditions, popular psychology, philosofical thinking and quasi-sciense. I was searching for a book about haitian vodou. About who the Lwa are, and how they are served. This book does not tell you this. The writer seems to have surprisingly little knowledge about the vodou religion. He has a little to say about a whole lot of diffrent spiritual thinking, and seems to find it amusing to make pagan/esoteric stuff as "mystical" as possible. If you want to learn about shamanism a good book would be "way of the shaman" by Michael Harner. If you like to know about vodou you might like "the Haitian vodou Handbook" by Kenaz Filan.
Customer Rating:
Summary: great book
Comment: This book is great for those readers who would like to know more about the real Vodou as opposed to the typical Hollywood movie style of Vodou, and especially for those who would have some interest in practical instructions in techniques and use of plants. For those whose knowledge of Vodou is solely consistent of the input from the media this book will be an eye opener. For those that are on the shamanic path of acquiring wisdom it will be a treasure.
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Summary: A Spiritual Journey by Kalifa Akkebala
Comment: This book was written for a reader that is wondering about spriituality, It's meaning and how to find it. It was written for descendents of African Slaves longs to communicate with them and vice versa.

It was also most importantly written for a reader who is seeking a connection with their cosmic ancestors and is seeking power and guidance from them and the elemental forces which is our relative whom we have diconnected from and lost sight of.

The book is remarkable just as insightful as the Meta Netar and the Tree of life which I will be cross referencing with to get even deeper insight.

It was surprising to know this was a caucasion writer giving accurate and infromative information of the Nubian Cosmic Man, telling the ebonic race of their relationship with their god and spiritual origin from wence they come from but yet have no knowedge of because of their religious thinking which is only leading them into darkness and an indepth metamorphesis, the opposite of their creator and all creation treading along a lost and wrong path.

Wake up my people and love and adore nature and God's creation for it too in dying and being weakin from the lack there of.

Wonderful book recommed it to every truth seeker

Hotep

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