Dynamic Energy Healing: Integrating Core Shamanic Practices With Energy Psychology Applications And Processwork Principles

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Fire in the Head: Shamanism and the Celtic Spirit

A lyrical, cross cultural exploration of shamanism and Celtic consciousness that examines the myths and tales of the ancient Celtic poets and storytellers, and describes the world and work of the shaman. A comprehensive introduction for those who seek their European spiritual roots and the ancestral wisdom of the Celtic mystical traditions.

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Shamanism as a Spiritual Practice for Daily Life

A guidebook for contemporary people who yearn to create a viable spiritual practice based on core shamanic methods and techniques and their own inherited or current religious commitments. An introduction to shamanism for newcomers, as well as a program for deepening an established shamanic practice.

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Yearning for the Wind:
Celtic Reflections on Nature and the Soul

A collection of forty essays, anecdotes, personal stories, and teachings about the soul's relationship with the world around it. An inspirational book to instill wonder at the powers and mysteries of nature and to entice readers to find in their own lives the many ways the elements, seasons, and landscapes help us in "soul-making."

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Wending Your Way:
A New Version of the Old English Rune Poem

The Old English rune poem, written around 700 C.E., has been used for divination for centuries. These short intriquing verses elucidate the various meanings of the 29 runes.

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The Way of the Saints:
Prayers, Reflections, Practices and Meditation

Brief biographical essays of over 200 saints with devotional prayers and practices to enrich one's spiritual life and deepen one's mystical sensibilities.

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House Call: How Ordinary People Have Extraordinary Health

In pain? Overweight? Fatigued? Stressed and depressed? Sick of treating symptoms with drugs that don't help? In this book you'll find natural solutions to all of these health problems and more. The book contains a four part approach to achieving health and wellness. It's so simple, anyone can do it!

The theory of the book is that a human being is like a house with four rooms: a physical room, a mental room, an emotional room, and a spiritual room. If you go into each room on a daily basis and do some light housecleaning, you can achieve optimal health and wellness naturally without medications.

With this complete health system, you get detailed help with the entire process. You learn the secrets of health transformation and how healthy people live as well as how to heal physical pain and disease, have more energy, heal mental illness and pain, end depression and stress, heal emotional pain and baggage, release excess weight, heal spiritual suffering and pain, and feel balanced and connected.

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SEEING IN THE DARK: Claim Your Own Shamanic power now and in the Coming Age.
 
The word "shaman" means "one who sees in the dark." Shamans consciously choose to live in two different worlds at the same time. They have one foot here in the everyday world and one foot in the world of the spirits. The fact is, we all live in these two different worlds, but are commonly not aware of the other, less visible one. This world does not exist in some other place, but is right beside us, just outside of our usual perceptions.

In times when stress, tension, and the fast pace of life overwhelm us, this path shows us how to slow down, reconnect to the sacred, and harness our personal power -- skills that will be needed for the uncertain days ahead. Included in this book are over 100 easy-to-follow exercises that teach important survival skills for the coming changes of 2012 and beyond. The powerful shamanic path has weathered the cataclysmic changes of over 50,000 years of human history and is even more vital and relevant today.

It teaches us how to live in both worlds at once. Deatsman and Bowersox present the wisdom tradition and shamanic way of life.

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INNER POWER Six techniques for Increased Energy and Self-Healing

"Colleen Deatsman did a brilliant job in writing Inner Power. It is
clearly written and is a gift to readers looking for methods of self healing. It's filled with easy to follow meditations that will help to manifest good health and well being. Inner Power is an important book to help us deal with the stress of our times." ~ Sandra Ingerman

Countless people worldwide are afflicted with chronic diseases for which there is no known medical cure. For ten years, Colleen Deatsman suffered from such an illness that sapped her strength, life force, and spirit. Determined to revitalize her life, she tested dozens of alternative therapies and miraculously found her way back to health.

Inner Power presents Deatsman's proven program for self-healing that ignited her remarkable recovery. It includes methods for developing self-awareness, reducing tension, clearing energy blockages, and replenishing ones life force, which helps to protect against viruses, harmful bacteria, and allergens. These powerful techniques - involving meditation, visualization, self-hypnosis, and journeying - can help readers uncover the roots of their illness and ultimately restore physical and spiritual harmony.

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ENERGY FOR LIFE: Connect with the Source
Coalition of Visionary Resources Award Winner

THERE IS NO MAGIC IF THERE IS NO ENERGY.
Lightning. Water. Sunshine. Apples. All matter is composed of energy, even ourselves. So what happens when our energy dissipates, becomes stagnant, or blocked? Imbalanced energy can jeopardize our quality of life and health-leading to fatigue, depression, or chronic illness. Colleen Deatsman's proven program for energy harmony demonstrates how to reignite and fortify one's vital life force energy.

This guide to energy work is full of easy energizing techniques to clear blockages, seal energy leaks, access universal life energy, and strengthen your energy field. Guided journeys, meditations, and other exercises can help you relax, de-stress, boost your energy, improve flow, and connect with spirit guides and other divine energies. Energy for Life also includes a handy audio CD of guided meditations.

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Animal Spirit Guides Book
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Steven D. Farmer, PhD

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Sacred Ceremony: How to Create Ceremonies for Healing, Transistions, and Celebrations Book
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Steven D. Farmer, PhD

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Power Animal Oracle Cards
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Steven D. Farmer, PhD

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Earth Magic: Ancient Shamanic Wisdom for Healing Yourself, Others, & the Planet Book
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Steven D. Farmer, PhD

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Messages From Your Animal Spirit Guides Oracle Cards
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Steven D. Farmer, PhD
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Messages From Your Animal Spirit Guide: A Meditation Journey CD
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Steven D. Farmer, PhD

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POWER ANIMALS - How to Connect
with your Animal Spirit Guide
Book & CD $17.95
Steven D. Farmer, PhD

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TRANSFORMING THE SOUL: Beyond Soul Retrieval and Integration

Maryphyllis’s book adds Spirit’s insights to the lore on soul loss and soul retrieval.  Primarily, though, it’s about the needs of the soul during the integration process.  Her Spirit Teacher guided her in unique journeying intentions to attain deeper communication and integration with soul parts.  Intentions are designed in a way that deepens your trance level within the upper and lower worlds, while also deepening your trust in Spirit, self and your soul part’s unique wisdom.  You not only perceive the soul part’s communication, you also feel and experience it from the soul part’s perspective.
 
        All of this (1) transcends resistance and skepticism you may have; (2) heals dysfunctional beliefs quickly; (3) helps you know beyond a shadow of doubt that you can and will think/feel/behave in new, functional ways; (4) transforms the core of your being to be your true self more purely; (5) brings permanent improvement in issues addressed by the soul retrieval.

         Maryphyllis cites “Principles” behind the intentions so that you can easily translate them to your own style of work.  She includes as well, many case histories that illustrate intention methods, insights, principles and after-effects.

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HOW TO THRIVE IN CHANGING TIMES: Simple Tools to Create True Health, Wealth, Peace, and Joy for Yourself and the Earth by Sandra Ingerman (Weiser)

There has been a quite bit written about how to use different methods to manifest what you want for yourself. In How to Thrive In Changing Times Sandra Ingerman encourages us to use spiritual methods of creation to gather our energies together as a global community to create positive change for the planet and all of life.

She teaches us how to release blocking beliefs that impact our ability to truly tap into our creative potential. She shares with us how to focus our thoughts in a way that weave together a fabric of reality for the life we want to live and for a healthy planet. Sandra shares with us different ways to work with creation and manifestation and how to release disappointment when things just don’t work out the way we had envisioned.

In this book she encourage readers to think of themselves as members of a growing global community of conscious change agents. It involves setting an intention to be part of an incredible adventure – an adventure in working together with millions of others to put our vision for a healthy, beautiful, vibrant planet into action.

This is a book that points you toward a new way of being in the world, with practices that support that change. This is a call to action!

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SHAMANIC MEDITATIONS: Guided Journeys for Insight, Vision, and Healing (Audio CD) by Sandra Ingerman

The first meditators in history were the shamans, whose practices for contemplation and connecting with the divine are echoed in virtually every spiritual tradition today. On “Shamanic Meditations”, Sandra Ingerman invites you to return to the source of human spirituality—and experience for yourself the enduring power of these ancient practices for healing, guidance, and awakening. With seven guided meditations—called “journeys” in the shamanic tradition—from a renowned author and teacher, this two-hour program features:

• An overview of shamanic principles—understanding journeys, the three spiritual realms, and your helping guides
• Encountering your Power Animals—companion spirits from the Lower World that offer healing, protection, and support
• Meeting your Upper World Teacher—a spirit in human form who provides insights and higher wisdom
• The shamanic initiation into oneness, connecting to nature through the Middle World, learning to see through “spirit eyes,” and more

As Sandra Ingerman explains, the surging interest in shamanism in the West arises from the personal, intimate relationship with spirit that these practices offer. “An increasing number of people feel a deep need to connect directly to the web of life,” she explains. With “Shamanic Meditations”, listeners now have a complete guided program for beginning their own exploration of the shamanic path—and tapping into the spiritual field of awareness that unites all living beings.

“Soul Journeys: Music for Shamanic Practice” (Sounds True Summer 2010)

This CD was made by the Shamanic Transmissions Band – with Sandra Ingerman, Sylvia Edwards, Gail Mesplay, John Mullen, Kappy Strahan and Woods Shoemaker. 

This 2 set CD includes different tracks with different instruments for shamanic journeying. CD 1 includes:
A short 5 minute track to welcome the spirits.
A 15 minute track of drumming and rattling
A 15 minute track of the berimbau, rattling, and click sticks
A 25 minute track of three people drumming.

CD 2 includes journeys that were created with different intentions. Sandra Ingerman had journeyed for different intentions for listeners to journey on and the Shamanic Transmissions Band used a variety of instruments to support the journeys with each intention.

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SOUL RETRIEVAL
Sandra Ingerman

Sandra Ingerman describes results of combining soul retrieval with contemporary psychological concepts in this visionary work that revives the ancient shamanic tradition of soul retrieval for healing emotional and physical illness. The revised and updated edition includes a new afterword by the author.

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MIRACLES FOR THE EARTH (Audio CD)
Sandra Ingerman

In this 2-CD package, the first CD includes a lecture on the Medicine for the Earth principles. The second CD contains guided visualizations, meditations and exercises to use as spiritual practices to bring the work into your life. Included in this CD is a guided visualization for transfiguration. This can also be ordered directly from www.soundstrue.com or (800)333-9185.


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AWAKENING TO THE SPIRIT WORLD: The Shamanic Path of Direct Revelation (Sounds True February 28)
Sandra Ingerman & Hank Wesselman

The word “shaman” means “the one who sees in the dark.” To practice shamanism is to open your vision to a world that is hidden from normal view so that you may enter the deeper reality of the unseen universe. With Awakening to the Spirit World, teachers Sandra Ingerman and Hank Wesselman join a circle of renowned Western shamanic elders to present a comprehensive manual on the oldest and most reliable human technology for accessing the realms of spirit. The core of shamanism is the experience of direct revelation—to communicate first-hand with your spiritual allies and discover your own power.

 Awakening to the Spirit World takes you through each step of developing a personal connection to your helping spirits to receive wisdom, insight, and healing energy. From an overview of shamanism, to your first journeys and encounters with your power animals, to expanding your skills and insight through long-term practice, here is an in-depth resource for the shamanic arts that includes:        

-Creating rituals and ceremonies for healing and transformation.        
-Reconnecting with nature to heal ourselves and the planet.        
-Working with your dreams, songs, and artistic vision to strengthen your practice.        
-Traditional wisdom for children—healthy rites of passage for each phase of a child’s journey to adulthood.
-Honoring the cycle of life and death—shamanic practices to prepare for and celebrate our final transition in this life.
-Building a shamanic community based on support and shared purpose.        
- Insights and practices from renowned shamanic teachers Sandra Ingerman, Hank Wesselman, Tom Cowan, Carol Proudfoot-Edgar, José Stevens, and Alberto Villoldo.       
 -A CD of drumming as well as other shamanic instruments to facilitate your shamanic journeys.

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THE SOUL RETRIEVAL JOURNEY: Seeing In The Dark (Audio CD)
Sandra Ingerman

This lecture by Sandra Ingerman includes a general discussion on shamanism, illness from a shamanic perspective as well as a talk on the information in Soul Retrieval and Welcome Home. This is available in either a cassette tape or a CD.

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BEGINNER'S SERIES: The Beginner's Guide to 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 CD, 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.

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SHAMANIC JOURNEYING
A Beginner's Guide
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 your life - from spirituality and health to work and relationships. In this book, Sandra Ingerman draws from over 20 years experience as a student and teacher of shamanism to share the core insights of this transformative practice. Includes a 60 minute practice CD with three drumming tracks for shamanic journeying.

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MEDICINE FOR THE EARTH
How to Transform Personal and Environmental Toxins
Sandra Ingerman

From cross-cultural legends recounting shamanic cures to the biblical accounts of the parting of the Red Sea and Jesus multiplying the loaves and fishes, many spiritual traditions are rich in stories about seemingly inexplicable transformations of the natural world. The ancient healing art of transmutation, in which toxic substances are transformed into "safe" substances, is mentioned in all the world's great spiritual traditions, including Hinduism and Taoism. And while many have tapped this body of work to heal the self, it has yet to be used to heal our environment.

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WELCOME HOME: Life After Healing
Following Your Soul's Journey Home
Sandra Ingerman

This book is the second part of Soul Retrieval. Sandra focuses on life after healing. After we have worked with what happened to us in the past, it is now time for us to see that we have new options to create a positive present and future. Sandra shows some steps to walk down this new path.

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HOW TO HEAL TOXIC THOUGHTS
Simple Tools For Personal Transformation
Sandra Ingerman

Sandra Ingerman's latest book presents a profound method of healing that is based on ancient principes. We all need to learn how to work with the negative thoughts that arise as we react to other people and the conditions of the world. For these thoughts have power to effect our personal health, the health of others and the planet. Sandra gives pragmatic tools that teach how to deal with our anger, fear, frustration, and feelings of hopelessness. The book examines how to appropriately process and transform the energy behind problematic thoughts and emotions. The book also addresses how to protect yourself in a hostile environment.

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A FALL TO GRACE
Sandra Ingerman

Follow the spiritual journey of C Alexandra as a stress-related illness catapults her into worlds beyond space and time. Here teachers in animal and human form help her remember who she truly is and how to bring harmony, balance, and meaning back into her life. This allegorical soul journey will appeal to enthusiasts of ancient shamanic traditions as well as readers seeking to embrace every inch of their humanity.

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TAROT: Intuition Through Interpretation
Virginia Santini

Through a short story format, the reader walks through difficult life situations and indicates how the Tarot can serve as our guide through the maze of life. As we gather information about the characters' situations, we learn from their mistakes. And by transmuting those negative concepts we can shift our perceptions, thereby manifesting magic in each and every situation that presents itself.

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THE SPIRITUAL FLOWER: THE OPENING UP OF YOUR INTUITIVE POWERS
Virginia Santini

Interpretations and comparisons for various divination tools including: Tarot cards, stones, crystals, numbers and the use of a pendulum. There is a section on the Chakra system, meditations and visualizations, how to use psychometry, which when acknowledged, will allow us to open to a higher intuitive vibration where we can gather awareness on a grander scale.

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THE POWER PATH: The Shaman's Way to Success in Business and Life
Jose Luis Stevens, PhD with Lena Stevens

On the basis of years of study with shamans, José & Lena share a new way of thinking about the nature of power. By applying shamanic traditions of power to the workplace, readers learn how to improve work relationships, to understand employees' strengths.

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SECRETS OF SHAMANISM: Tapping the Spirit Power Within You
Jose Luis Stevens, PhD and Lena Stevens

A book teaching you how to identify and communicate with your inner spiritual guides—and how to achieve professional success, psychological enlightenment and personal fulfillment.

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PRAYING WITH POWER: How To Use Ancient Shamanic Techniques to Gain Maximum Spiritual Benefit and Extraordinary Results
Jose Luis Stevens, PhD

When the chips are down, everybody prays even if they don’t want to admit it. Shamans, mystics, and saints the world over pray freely, without reservation, and with total abandonment. For shamans prayer is the technique of intentionally gathering helping forces, directing the field of intent, and co-creating the mystery. In this book you will learn the seven stages of prayer ranging from least productive to most effective. You will discover the unique techniques used by shamans all over the world to make their prayers powerful and extraordinarily potent. We cover the importance of completing the energetic circuit, adopting stances, gestures, and sounds, listening for responses, and completing the action steps for excellent results.

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THE WOMAN IN THE SHAMAN'S BODY
Reclaiming the Feminine in Religion and Medicine
ISBN: 0553108530

A distinguished anthropologist-who is also an initiated shaman-reveals the long-hidden female roots of the world's oldest form of religion and medicine. Here is a fascinating expedition into this ancient tradition, from its prehistoric beginnings to the work of women shamans across the globe today.

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DREAMING:
Anthropological and Psychological Interpretations

"This is a collection of essays on dreaming in many cultures written by anthropologists and psychologists. The introduction sets out the history of the study of dreaming and the ten individual essays follow. It is the best collection available for anyone interested in dreaming across cultures."
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TEACHING FROM THE AMERICAN EARTH:
Indian Religion and Philosophy

"This is the best collection of essays on Native American Religion & Philosophy. The introduction by the Tedlocks is a classic statement that has been cited often."
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TIME AND THE HIGHLAND MAYA

"This ethnography was written by a woman professor who undertook an apprenticeship among the Maya during the 1970s. It shows in that it has the type of detailed information that only a person who had entered into this system and had learned it from the inside out would know. The material on Maya astronomy is totally new and very important! The information on priest-shamans and shaman-priests I found particularly useful in understanding the debates about shamans, shamanhood, priests, and priesthood."
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THE BEAUTIFUL AND THE DANGEROUS
Dialogues with the Zuni

"This book is an example of the new attention ethnographers are paying to writing. Not only is it wonderfully written but it is an honest account of Zuni lives today. Tedlock went to the pueblo with her husband Dennis Tedlock (author of the "Popol Vuh" and the "Rabinal Achi") as a painter and after a number of visits and encouragement from Zuni women she decided to become an ethnographer. All her books are must reads for young documentary writers and spiritually alive women and men today!"
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HEALING STORIES
The Use Of Narrative In Counseling and Psychotherapy
Stanley Krippner, Michael Bova, Leslie Gray

A distinguished group of counselors and psychotherapists who have incorporated the use of story telling and personal mythology into their practices. With an introduction by Susan Powers, chapters have been penned by such well-known clinicians as David Feinstein, Susan Schwartz, Corydon Hammond, Alan E. Stewart, Arthur Frank, Rachel Remen, Robert Rosenbaum and Harold Ellis. The approach to narrative ranges from personal mythology to action therapy to the use of drama and writing, to the importance of narrative in promoting healing in deep illness, and more. Aimed at clinicians, counselors, psychotherapists and other helping professionals.

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HEALING TALES
The Narrative Arts in Spiritual Tradition
Stanley Krippner, Michael Bova, Leslie Gray, Adam Kay

This volume brings together spiritual narratives from a wide variety of psychotherapeutic, religious and cultural traditions to illustrate the healing power of personal narrative, cultural narrative, art and theater, spirituality and prayer. Authors span a variety of traditions and cultural experiences among them Asian, European, Native American, New Age, to contemporary American, and more.

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EXTRAORDINARY DREAMS AND HOW TO WORK WITH THEM
Stanley Krippner, Fariba Bogzaran, and André Percia de Carvalho

From visions of a past life to glimpses of the future, history is full of accounts of unusual dreams. This fascinating book explores historical, scientific, and cross-cultural research on these sorts of extraordinary dreams, and offers practical suggestions on how to work with them-either individually or as a member of a dream group. Specific categories of dreams discussed include creative, lucid, out-of-body, healing, collective, telepathic, clairvoyant, precognitive, past-life, initiation, and spiritual visitation dreams, as well as dreams within dreams.

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SPIRITUAL DIMENSIONS OF HEALING: From Tribal Shamanism to Contemporary Health Care
(Book and Cassette)
Stanley Krippner and Patrick Welch

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DREAMTIME AND DREAMWORK:
Decoding the Language of the Night
Stanley Krippner

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PERSONAL MYTHOLOGY:
The Psychology of Your Evolving Self
Stanley Krippner and David Feinstein

Embracing a new approach to classic spiritual themes, Personal Mythology blends elements of modern psychology and ancient mythology to provide a new setting for the discovery of our "personal myths," the unconscious stories we tell ourselves about who we are and who we can become.

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HEALING STATES
Stanley Krippner with Alberto Villoldo

Blending the further reaches of science with ancient traditions of healing, Alberto Villoldo and Stanley Krippner provide a compelling examination of the mind's ability to heal. Although the authors of this provocative exploration into the spiritual realms of healing are trained in the orthodoxies of Western medicine and psychology (both have doctorates and are researchers and scientists), their inquiries into ``mind over matter'' phenomena have led them to consider the question put to them by a Peruvian shaman: ``In the training of your healers, what steps do they take to attune Mother Earth and the Great Spirit?''

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BECOMING PSYCHIC: Spiritual Lessons for
Focusing Your Hidden Abilities
Stephen Kierulff and Stanley Krippner

Becoming Psychic provides a lively dialogue between a clinical psychologist who believes that he has had a number of psychic (or "paranormal") experiences and a research psychologist and parapsychologist who attempts to put these reports in a scientific framework. The anecdotes make for fascinating reading and the scientific responses are relayed in a reader-friendly manner. Readers who have had similar experiences can begin to understand their own glimpses of future events, remarkable recoveries from major or minor illnesses, or knowledge of what is happening to a loved one hundreds of miles away.

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THE REALMS OF HEALING
Stanley Krippner and Alberto Villoldo

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