Shamanisme, paganisme og druidernes lære

Discover the complex mythology of the legendary Nordic people who inspired Hollywood films, epic novels, and more.

This book is the documentation of a poetic ceremonial process practiced over decades, which has been the making of a world, a creative context in which She could be expressed and heard. This ceremonial practice is based in the Seasonal Moments of Earth-Sun relationship: that is, specifically the Solstices, Equinoxes and cross-quarter transitions of the Old European indigenous traditions. This has been synthesized with a scientific understanding of the unfolding Cosmos, and with female metaphor for the sacred: named as a "PaGaian" cosmology. The poetic process of ceremony described, over the year long cycle of Earth-Sun creativity is a Geo-therapy, a placing of self within a womb of creativity, a microcosm of the Womb of the Cosmos, the habitat of all being, in which we dwell. This documentation was enabled and enhanced by the author's academic doctoral work which allowed organic and transpersonal research methods, wherein ceremony, meditations, and intuitive cognitions were part of the learning. The circle of stones on the front cover represents this devotional practice and is reminiscent of the great stone circles built by ancestral peoples, which were ceremonial sites celebrating relationship with the beauty and terror of being alive in this awesome universe.

Are you facing circumstances that seem impossible? Perhaps you're concerned about your future during these uncertain times. Perhaps you need healing in your body or a financial break-through. Maybe you just need a fresh touch from God to regain your focus. You've been searching and seeking help...and God has the answer. He has the one word that can turn your situation around! In this powerful book you will discover God's plan for every area of your life. Just one word in these inspiring articles could be the catalyst to launch you over the edge to victory.

Looking for a fascinating exploration of one of the most intriguing spiritual practices in the world? Look no further than this captivating book that delves into the rich history and unique traditions of voodoo in one of America's most iconic cities. Written by a leading expert in voodoo studies, this book offers a comprehensive overview of the origins and evolution of voodoo in New Orleans, from its African roots to its modern-day manifestations. You'll discover the unique blend of African, European, and Native American influences that have shaped this vibrant spiritual practice, and learn about the rituals, beliefs, and practices that make it so distinctive. So what sets this book apart from other books on the subject? Here are just a few of the standout features that make it a must-read: Deep research: This book draws on years of meticulous research and firsthand accounts to offer a comprehensive and nuanced understanding of voodoo in New Orleans.Compelling storytelling: Whether you're a seasoned scholar or a curious newcomer, you'll be captivated by the author's engaging writing style and skillful storytelling.In-depth analysis: With chapters that delve into topics like the role of gender in voodoo rituals and the relationship between voodoo and Catholicism, this book offers a deep and nuanced analysis of this complex spiritual practice.Timeliness: With the current cultural interest in alternative spiritual practices and the ongoing debate around cultural appropriation, "The Voodoo of New Orleans" is a timely and important addition to the conversation. So whether you are a curious novice or an experienced voodoo scholar, this book is a must-have work that will deepen your understanding and appreciation of this fascinating spiritual practice. Order Your Copy Today!

Rhonda McCrimmon brings the ancient, healing wisdom of Celtic shamanism to life so we can break free from the chains of past traumas, hurts, and heartaches and live a whole, connected, and more meaningful life. Celtic shamanism is a spiritual tradition whose origins predate the arrival of Christianity in northern Europe. According to this ancient tradition, the root of a person's physical, spiritual, and emotional health comes from the balancing the body's three energy centers called the "three cauldrons," the Cauldron of Warming, the Cauldron of Motion, and the Cauldron of Wisdom. The Celts believed a person must activate, nurture, and maintain all three cauldrons to live a whole, connected, meaningful life. Now, Rhonda McCrimmon--a beloved shamanic teacher-- takes readers on a spiritual journey from the lowest of the three energetic cauldrons to the highest, sharing practices to cultivate each cauldron's unique potential. The Cauldron of Warming, the wellspring of our innate knowledge, can be drained by past traumas, leaving us anxious and fearful. McCrimmon teaches you how to replenish this cauldron and restore your birthright of inner peace and security. The Cauldron of Motion is on its side at birth but fills as we experience deep grief or joy. It is the source of our capacity to love and nurture. Learn how to balance this cauldron, establish healthy boundaries, and protect yourself from emotional drain. The Cauldron of Wisdom is upside down at birth. When it is righted, we receive one of the most sublime gifts of Celtic spirituality--a profoundly felt connection with nature. In each chapter, McCrimmon provides self-reflections and other exercises designed to help readers: Activate and balance your inner cauldrons. Dispel fear by tapping into your innate wisdom. Work through past traumas, foster love, and nurture emotional resilience. Manifest creative potential through rituals and meditations. The book also explores the tradition of Celtic fire festivals and the sacred practice of saining. Regardless of your ancestral roots, Rhonda McCrimmon invites you to explore this ancient wisdom and begin your journey down the shaman's path. The book includes a foreword by HeatherAsh Amara, author of Warrior Goddess Training.

In this groundbreaking book, medical doctor and energy healer Dr. Marie Mbouni shows us how to identify the five wounds of the heart, recover from the trauma they create, and live a full, wholehearted life. Marie Mbouni grew up in Cameroon, Africa, and always felt a calling to be a healer. "My journey," writes Marie, "began with Western medicine, and I built a career many would be proud of--but inside, I felt dead. My quest for self-discovery saved me. I embraced a new calling as a shaman and energy healer." After working with hundreds of clients, Mbouni noticed a strong pattern emerging. Nearly everyone had been wounded by experiencing one or more of five emotional traumas: abandonment, betrayal, separation, denial, and judgment. "Although we receive these wounds as children," writes Mbouni, "they continue to play out in our adult lives, causing us to unconsciously seek out endless variations on the original painful experience." While we cannot time travel to the past and change things, we can heal the past by responding to our present situation in new ways. In Healing the Five Wounds of the Heart, the author gives you the tools to do precisely that. By bringing our awareness, imagination, creativity, and courage to these practices, we can heal our heart wounds and achieve wholeness, ease, and good health.

Humanity is in crisis. War, poverty, environmental disasters, and more have brought the planet to a tipping point. In our personal lives, many of us carry deep-seated fear, resentment, anger, and even hatred for others and ourselves. Since ancient times, Toltec shamans have taught that the root of all this discord can be found in the human mind and what they called its addiction to suffering. They have also taught that the time will come when we must choose to either break free from this addiction or pay the ultimate price. According to Toltec Shaman don Jose Ruiz, that time is now, and the change that is needed can only come from within. In The Shaman's Path to Freedom, Ruiz will teach you how to find and claim your own personal freedom, one based on unconditional love for yourself and others, and in doing so break your mind's addiction to suffering. By walking this path, you can live a life of peace and harmony within yourself, which is the most important thing you can do to bring about the change that is needed in the world.Filled with Toltec practices for establishing personal freedom, The Shaman's Path to Freedom is don Jose Ruiz's most personal and radical book yet, guaranteed to thrill both new readers and longtime fans.

The herbana witch is a green witch who uses the power of nature and the wisdom of the forest and who has a deep understanding of herbs, barks, mushrooms, roots, flowers, and woodland plants. This beautifully illustrated book from the author of Backyard Witchcraft is an almanac, designed to travel with the herbana witch throughout an entire year, exploring the seasons, the plants of each period, magical and healing recipes, and animal guides. It will help you get in touch with the forest and its subtle energy. Herbana Witch begins at the winter solstice and presents magical and healing practices, spirit animals, and subtle energies that change with the seasons. Each chapter begins with a suggestive description of the forest in a particular season. From there, the author includes meditations, visualizations, and rituals and a seasonal recipe that can be prepared with the available ingredients from the forest. Instructions are included on how to select and use woodland herbs, how to transform them for personal use, and how to make such crafts as incense, soaps, and candles--and much more. Let us welcome the wild wisdom of those who dwell at the edge of the forest, listening every day, in a way that opens the door to magic. Herbana Witch: A Year in the Forest contains: An introduction to what it means to be an herbana witch along with guides on how to follow the path of herbs and connect with the plants of the forestChapters on each of the seasons with an almanac of information on the animals, trees, and plants of each seasonActivity tips for how to make soup, lotions, incense, and dried herbs, and moreSecret seasonal recipesRituals and meditationsBeautiful illustrations that bring to life the magic of each season

"This companion guide for the Wanderer's Tarot deck has in-depth interpretations for each card, including reversals; suggestions for card spreads; and a brief history of the tarot"--

In 'Decoding the Shaman Within' international author Omni (O.M. Kelly) shares her Shamanic metaphysical journey. It would be termed a contemporary Shamanic initiation journey.

Steve Blamires' Celtic Tree Mysteries serves as an incredible guidebook into the magical world of the trees that make up the Ogham. Within these pages, the reader is given a solid foundation upon which to build an engaging practice that utilizes the myth and lore of each of the twenty trees and is also shown how to connect with the power of each tree on a practical, spiritual, and mental level. If you find yourself drawn to a magical tradition inspired by Celtic mythology, or even the Celtic landscape itself, this book will be a valuable resource that will inspire your practice for years to come.

As a folklorist, philologist, and cultural scholar, Joseph Otto Plassmann devoted his life to researching and elucidating the origins, history, and folkways of his people. During Germany's National Socialist era, he continued his work under the auspices of the Ahnenerbe, an organization devoted to uncovering the past of what at the time were called the Aryan peoples. While the terminology has changed, and some of the ideas have proven inaccurate or outdated, many others have withstood the test of time, vindicated by modern linguistic, archeological, and genetic research.Chronicling and interpreting the customs, festivals, and folktales of Germanic peoples throughout the yearly cycle, Ancestral Inheritance is as much an ode to the cultural heritage and wisdom of the author's forebears as it is an analysis of their cultural practices. Even more so, it is an exhortation to remember, to honor, and to carry the torch handed down by one's ancestors. While the details documented in this work are mostly specific to the Germanic peoples, many of the broader cultural currents are similar among all European peoples and their descendants around the world.Antelope Hill is proud to present Ancestral Inheritance: The Yearly Cycle of Germanic Customs and Festivals by Joseph Otto Plassmann, translated and annotated by C.J. Miller. This fascinating window into the history of Germanic culture is vital to understanding this proud people.

Die Abhandlungen des Medizinhistorikers und Reiseschriftstellers Anton Quitzmann (1809 - 1879) über die Abstammung der Bajuwaren waren für die Erforschung der bayerischen Frühgeschichte von nicht unerheblicher Bedeutung. Mit dem hier vorliegenden Werk lieferte der Autor den seinen Meinung nach "ersten faktischen Beweis". Nachdruck der Originalausgabe aus dem Jahr 1860.

This beautiful hardback guide introduces the ancient tradition of Druidry and its modern day practices. Druidry is a spiritual movement of Celtic tradition which offers a spiritual path through reconnection with the green Earth. Their teachings seek above all the cultivation of wisdom, creativity and love, and embrace the connection between every living creature on earth. This book introduces its practices with hands-on rites and rituals that you can do yourself. It is elegantly presented with a gold-embossed cover design and full-color illustrations, making a perfect gift. ABOUT THE SERIES: Elements is a series of spiritual development titles, each focusing on different aspects of healing and divination. Written by a variety of experts, these beautifully illustrated hardbacks are the perfect entryway into ancient spiritual practices.

The veneration of a divine or quasi-divine feminine figure is a virtually omnipresent phenomenon in the various spiritual traditions of humankind, deriving from the complex archetype of a mystical woman: a Magna Mater. She is vested with both power and compassion; she serves as the complement, refuge, and telos of masculinity, and the speculum, idealization, or apotheosis of femininity. This archetype is so primal as to transcend all the more particularized mythological systems and finds a multitude of different expressions within each of them.Collected here are several stories of her manifested miracles in the Catholic tradition originally written by Pope Celestine V, the late 13th century monk who founded the Celestine branch of the Benedictine order. His stories speak to the compassionate nature of the Celestial mother Mary, as well as her powers of intercession and to defend against evil. The collection continues with tales by Ippolito Marracci of the 'Noble Daughters of Mary', those queens, princesses, and saints who devoted themselves to the Blessed Mother. Interspersed throughout are quotes that show how widespread the adoration of this figure is, by whatever name She is known.

Midgard is the fifth of nine books of the Yggdrasil Training Program (YTP). It was compiled by the members of the Erulian Council of the Folk Faith of Balder Rising (FFOBR) and is a massive, comprehensive exploration into the secrets of Germanic Rune Magic (GRM), mythology and lore. Within its volumes you will explore every aspect of traditional Germanic Rune Magic including galdr, seidr and discover new secrets and understanding of GRM and how it is related to quantum physics. This synthesis of the old and new ways to practice GRM is referred to as Vrilology by the FFOBR. This amalgamation of traditional and modern introduces you to new discoveries by the Erulian Council. The YTP was first compiled by Robert Blumetti who has been practicing Germanic Rune Magic since 1984. Blumetti founded the FFOBR in 2004 and its members have spent the last 18 years discovering the mysteries behind traditional Germanic Rune Magic and discovering new ways to apply its secrets for the modern Germanic heathen community

An around-the-world tour of ancient Christmas celebrations, Pagan Solstice customs, and magical seasonal plants.

A guide to connecting with your ancestors and healing your lineage

In 2001, Sage Wind Dancer, a sixteen-year-old girl, desires to learn about spiritual sexuality from her adopted Native Metis Grandmother, Spinning Winds. Sage travels through time, visiting past lives, looking for threads of knowledge and wisdom to assist in her calling to learn about sacred sexuality. She visits herself in the 1500s, where she lives a tribal life as Dreams with the Wind, a young Native American woman. Here she finds the strongest connections to her current life.To help Sage discover sensuality with herself, Grandmother Spinning Winds teaches her how to breathe her body into a heightened intense sensual energy state. This path of Spiritual Sexuality demands maturity. Sage is invited to participate in ceremonies that will guide her-each one powerful, life changing, and leading to the next.She and her family attend the annual Ceremonial Dance, where she serves as an apprentice and witnesses several sacred ceremonies. She meets Josh, a young man studying the shamanic path and the ancient ways of sacred sexuality. They discover the power of the energy breath while in separate tents and are curious-will it be that intense if they embrace and breathe together? Sage's journey offers a rare look into ancient practices still active in today's culture.

Randy Chung Gonzales was leading an ordinary life in his hometown of Lamas, Peru, when his employer, anthropologist Frédérique Apffel-Marglin, asked him to accompany her to an ayahuasca ceremony led by a local shaman. There, to everyone's great surprise, Randy was initiated by discarnate entities, who instructed him and gave him healing powers. In this unique book, Randy tells his story to Frédérique, who offers cultural context and describes how she herself has been transformed from an academic anthropologist into an advocate for the sharing of indigenous wisdom and ecospirituality. Drawing on history, cultural studies and anthropology, Frédérique offers a penetrating analysis of Western science-based modernity, which has made the systematic eradication of shamanism a priority. Initiated by the Spirits argues powerfully that shamanic sacred plants can heal the epidemics of mental illness in Western societies, as well as the global ecological crisis. Randy's shamanic initiation serves as a beacon for new ways of conceiving of the human relationship to science, spirit and our planetary home.