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Title: The Shaman's Body: A New Shamanism for Transforming Health, Relationships, and Community by Arnold Mindell ISBN: 0-06-250655-2 Publisher: HarperSanFrancisco Pub. Date: 01 November, 1993 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $14.00 |
Average Customer Rating: 5 (8 reviews)
Rating: 5
Summary: Transforming Self via the Energy Body/Shaman's Body
Comment: Shamans are highly respected indigenous healers ... who most often have experienced some extraordinairy event that is symbolic of death or which was a true near-death experience ... which they survived. The experience "changed" them energetically to be more in touch and in tune with "the Unknown" or "the Great Principle of Life". Using myth and symbols they help guide people to develop a "double" ... a sense of self that is more in touch with their personal energy and personal path in life but which is independent of society, time and space. The shaman helps the person who is seeking to reclaim their 'energy' find their "path of heart" ... what is meaningful and important to them ... in the midst of chaos and uncontrollable events in life.
A person's 'healing' is intimately connected to their environment and the relationships within that environment ...
In essence ... it is tracking one's energy and source of power ... how it is driven by events and experiences. The seeker on this path ... is on the quest for self-knowledge ... which ends ... only upon physical death.
The author, Arnold Mindell, uses the symbols of shamanism in the manner of a psychologist who is facilitating "process work" in a client to attain personal growth. Personal development is the predecessor of everyone who uses the world "healer" or identifies with the role. Growth and learning can not occur without doubt and feelings of inferiority ... these areas need to be recognized and explored. Everyone who journeys into self - discovery becomes one of the following roles/types depending on their life situation ... "hunter/warrior" .. "average man" .. "seer". They are all ways of being -- none is better than the other. He tells us, "Who becomes which type is not a personal choice ... but who becomes a shaman becomes a matter of dreams and heritage." [Harper San Francisco, c. 1993, p. 78]. This book is about developing the "Shaman's Body" ("Dreaming Body") --- which is the name for energy states or altered states of concsiousness that arise as signals ... body symptoms, feelings, impulses, messages from the environment.
In this book Mindell uses shamansitic terms and experiences from several sources to allow the reader to access more of one's personal energy/power and discover one's personal preferences and develoment for "ways of being". The terms he uses are based on the books by Carlos Casteneda. Mindell uses the words, personal history, path of heart, hunting, dreaming, power, the ally, courage, detachment, sorcery, and path of knowledge ... all of which will guide the reader into become more focused and aware ... there is "everyday attention" and there is the "second attention". This book is about developing the "second attention" which is the access to the dreaming body. The ultimate goal is to become a "seer', a person who has a fluid and flexible life. It is a person who walks a spiritual path in life. Erika Borsos (erikab93)
Rating: 5
Summary: Follow your heart.....
Comment: In THE SHAMAN'S BODY, Arnold Mindell suggests how one might find her path of heart, the path of the dreaming body or shaman. Mindell appears to have spent a good deal of his life to working with patients in comas, and/or near death, and others, and in this book he shares some of the experiences that shaped his "reality" or consciousness. Whether you believe one can be a shaman or not, his story is amazing and a great read.
Mindell suggests most people never leave the world of consensus reality--the 'ordinary' world. In an age when a plethora of amusements and diversions entertain and/or numb reflective consciousness, the path of heart appears (if it appears at all) as a weird activity at best and downright dangerous at worst. Most folks are terribly unhappy if their world view or version of reality is threatened by conflicting information and so they avoid it where possible. And yet, as one moves through life beliefs continue to be challenged. As one approaches death, a new reality begins to form. The way of the shaman involves suffering. Most of us try to avoid suffering, but no one succeeds. To be alive is to experience pain. My philosophy is this--if you are going to feel the pain anyway, why not let it work for you?
Mindell is a Jungian psychologist, physicist, and process-oriented therapist and teacher working in Portland Oregon. He and his wife Amy have traveled all over the world to met and interact with traditional healers in Africa and Latin America, gurus in India, Zen monks in the far East, and other folks who walk the path of heart. Mindell relates how he found his heart path in Zurich Switzerland where he went to do physics but ended up studying psychology. One afternoon in a café, he casually engaged in a conversation with a fellow customer. After several months of encountering the same fellow at the same café and spending a pleasant afternoon chatting with him, Mindell discovered the man was Jung's grandson and the current head of the Jung Institute. From there Mindell was led to the teachings of Jung, Castenada's Don Juan, and to find his own heart path.
Everyone of us has a spirit guide or Ally. Sometimes the guide communicates via an inner voice, as was the case for Joan of Arc. Sometimes another individual enters your life and becomes the voice of the Ally. Sometimes, the Ally visits you in a dream. If you choose to do so, you can find your own heart path. This is a great book and I highly recommend it, especially if you work a 12-step program.
Rating: 5
Summary: Superb Treatment of Secondary Attention & Shamanic Awareness
Comment: Arnold Mindell is truly a master, and The Shaman's Body is a superb treatment of a phenomenon known as Second Attention, or Secondary Awareness. The premise: flowing as an undercurrent beneath our consensual, obvious and ordinary reality is a compelling dimension of energy that we might called non-ordinary reality, non-obvious reality, or the dreambody. This book investigates this dimension of energy and awareness, not as some new-fangled New Age powder puff concept never brought into an embodied state, but precisely as a potent somatic way of knowing. Drawing upon his experiences with shamans from Native America, Asia, India, and Africa, as well as drawing out parallel themes from such contemporary exponents of shamanic awareness such as Carlos Castaneda, The Shaman's Body is a shamanic presentation of Arnold and Amy Mindell's core work, Dreambody Work--which is truly a powerful and transformative way of being. One section in particular, Dreaming in the City, I found to be truly cutting edge, namely, where shamanism has to go as a practice and tradition if it, and we, are to survive. The healing applications, the concentric empowerment potential, and the transformative implications for our society found within this book are immense. Whether you are a shamanic practitioner, a therapist, an artist, or just a human being seeking to know all the parts of yourself, I recommend this book. I personally have read it a number of times, including one cycle where I would read a section and then enter the city at night while listening to a CD on my headphones called Suspended Memories, Forgotten Gods--a MesoAmerican shamanic trance recording by Steve Roach, Jorge Reyes, and Suso Said. The recording felt almost like the soundtrack to Mindell's wonderful book, and in "dropping in" in this way the insights of The Shaman's Body practically began hopping out of the pavement at me. Track your ally.
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Title: Working on Yourself Alone: Inner Dreambody Work by Arnold Mindell ISBN: 188707869X Publisher: Lao Tse Press Pub. Date: May, 2002 List Price(USD): $13.95 |
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Title: Dreambody: The Body's Role in Revealing the Self by Arnold Mindell ISBN: 1887078045 Publisher: Lao Tse Press Pub. Date: 01 April, 1998 List Price(USD): $16.00 |
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Title: Dreaming While Awake: Techniques for 24-Hour Lucid Dreaming by Arnold Mindell ISBN: 1571743596 Publisher: Hampton Roads Pub Co Pub. Date: 01 November, 2002 List Price(USD): $15.95 |
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Title: Working With the Dreaming Body by Arnold Mindell ISBN: 1887078665 Publisher: Lao Tse Press Pub. Date: May, 2002 List Price(USD): $13.95 |
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Title: Riding the Horse Backwards: Process Work in Theory and Practice by Arnold Mindell, Amy Mindell ISBN: 1887078681 Publisher: Lao Tse Press Pub. Date: May, 2002 List Price(USD): $11.95 |
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