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Bushman Shaman: Awakening the Spirit through Ecstatic Dance

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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.



DESCRIPTION:

Binding: Paperback
Dewey Decimal Number: 299.681
EAN: 9780892816989
ISBN: 0892816988
Label: Destiny Books
Manufacturer: Destiny Books
Number Of Items: 1
Number Of Pages: 240
Publication Date: 2004-11-09
Publisher: Destiny Books
Release Date: 2004-11-09
Studio: Destiny Books


SIMILAR ITEMS:

• Shaking Medicine: The Healing Power of Ecstatic Movement
• Shamanic Christianity: The Direct Experience of Mystical Communion
• Ropes to God: Experiencing the Bushman Spiritual Universe (Profiles in Healing series)
• Aesthetics of Change
• Shaking Out the Spirits: A Psychotherapist's Entry into the Healing Mysteries of Global Shamanism


CUSTOMER REVIEWS:

Customer Rating:
Summary: The spiritual comes at a price
Comment: I bought this book immediately after seeing him speak at an ACA conference and got it signed at the same time. He is charismatic and engaging. Reading the book though, he started to come across as self-important and bragging how shamans that never would talk to other white people were quick to embrace and teach him. Still, his expeiences seem real in his descriptions in this book and I wanted to delve deeper into the subject to perhaps personally explore it myself. I googled Bradford Keeney and found his site. Besides seeming a little too new-agey for my taste, it brings to light the cottage industry of Keeney. Whereas the people that he studied under did not charge him, he will sell you a 12 cd "home study course" for $250. I have no problem with peoples' rights to earn a living but $250 strikes me as an expensive price. He makes his points about how he has been called upon to share shamanism with the west. I feel that the book misled me about the nature of his selflesness after coming across his website.
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Summary: Ready, Set, Open Up!
Comment: Ready to move beyond the mundane, dead, western world view of deus ex machina? Continuing along your spiritual pursuits? Either place or any other that you may be at, this book will knock your socks off and get you dancing! Layers of background information interwoven with eyewitness and "bodywitnessing" experience. What a profound group of people the Bushman shaman are and what a blessing to take a peek into their world!
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Summary: The BIG Love.
Comment: Join Brad Keeney as he shakes his way around the world for one of the most exiting spiritual journeys ever recorded.

Brad's adventure takes us from the Bushman of Africa to the Shakers of Saint Vincent and Healers of Japan.

Also, one gets a very intimate glimpse of how the Bushman of Africa live, some of their past history and what they may face in the future.

Being one of the most fascinating books on God, religion and the Human Energy Field I have ever read, I would highly recommend adding it to your library.

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