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Shaman Wisdom, Shaman Healing is a guide for anyone who wants to use spiritual and visionary tools to expand their own ability to heal It is a guidebook for both the lay person and the professional healer. If you are a person who is ill and wants to heal herself, if you have always known you are a healer, if you are a caregiver to someone who is ill, if you are a simply a person interested in healing, this book will teach you to maximize your ability to heal by adding a dimension of deep spiritual healing to your life. If you are a physician, a medical student, a nurse, a nursing student, a massage therapist, a body worker, an acupuncturist, or student, this book will change the way you practice healing by giving you the mystical and intuitive tools to become a more powerful and effective healer.

Shaman Wisdom, Shaman Healing applies to any healing you do even if it is not usually called healing. If you heal neighborhoods, the earth, your community, it will change the way you work. If you are an artist, writer, musician, dancer, architect, community planner, designer, land developer or environmentalist, this book will teach you ways to make your work meaningful, sacred, and in harmony with your community and the earth.

A major goal of this book is to open you up to your visionary life, to allow spirit to flow through you. This book is a guide to hearing the voice of the living earth. The spirit of the earth is inclusive of any spiritual belief. You can be of any religion do shamanic work.

Through beautifully written stories of laypeople and professionals alike who became shaman healers—from doctors and nurses to body workers, from architects and city planners to artists—Shaman Wisdom, Shaman Healing shows how anyone can learn to use mystical and intuitive tools to help loved ones heal from illness.

The authors explain and explore visionary techniques including prayer, meditation, and altered states of consciousness and provide detailed guided imagery exercises that readers can use to cultivate and deepen their healing abilities. Instructing readers in the actual practice of shaman healing, the book shows readers how to:

Use one’s natural abilities to empower intent and to discover one’s own rituals for healing, whether through art, music, dance or other expressive forms

· Cleanse the body and spirit, release negative emotions, and use one’s body as a vortex to healing

· Understand the power and guidance of “spirit animals” and how to find and invoke the one that resonates most powerfully

· Make a medicine wheel that can be used to create a sacred place for ritual and prayer, increase visionary abilities, and manifest healing

Bringing new hope and practical help to anyone coping with illness—whether their own or others’—this powerful guide makes the spiritual and visual tools of the shaman available to modern healers. Shaman Wisdom, Shaman Healing brings ancient healing wisdom to the twenty-first century.

Spirit-Body Healing:  Using Your Mind’s Eye to Unlock the Medicine Within

The First Book on Spiritual Healing Based on a Research Study at a Major University Healthcare Center

By Michael Samuels, M.D. and Mary Rockwood Lane, R.N., Ph.D.

Wiley, October, 2000

Spirit Body Healing is a revolutionary program designed to heal and inspire.

     A pioneer in the field of mind-body medicine, Dr. Michael Samuels has joined forces with a major authority on creativity and healing, Mary Rockwood Lane, to explore the power of the spirit-mind-body connection.  Based on a landmark university study, Spirit Body Healing is the first book on spiritual healing to emerge from a research study in a major university healthcare center.  By showing us how to deepen the spiritual dimension in our daily lives while doing easy visualizations and meditations, Drs. Samuels and Lane teach us how to help heal physical, emotional, and spiritual illness. With Spirit Body Healing, we go to a place of healing, beauty, and grace where we get in touch with our own spirits and the higher power that has meaning for us. Filled with inspiring, beautifully written stories, Spirit Body Healing reveals the eight steps of spiritual healing:

1.   Go into Darkness
2.   Go Elsewhere
3.   Find Your Turning Point
4.   Slip Through the Veil
5.   Know the Truth
6.   Embody Your Spirit
7.   Feel the Healing Energy
8. Experience Transcendence

Spirit-Body Healing as a prescriptive book.  It tells how to use the Spirit-Body Healing method with illnesses including life threatening illness such as cancer, AIDS, and heart disease.  We have also used the techniques in Spirit-Body Healing with people with depression, with trauma, with problems in relationships,  and with life crises of personal growth.  The method helps people reconnect with the core of what people believe in their spirituality.  It helps them  become a more complete person and have the strength to carry on when things become difficult.

Inspirational stories from real patient experiences and their teachings from the edge show each of us how to heal with the spirit.  Our patient’s advice gives us a way to live and a way to heal that is revolutionary and futuristic.  Spirit-Body Healing is the framework for spiritual healing for the new millenia.   From seven years of research, it is the best roadmap for you on how to heal with the spirit.

     Whatever your spiritual orientation, Spirit Body Healing offers practical,  prescriptive methods that show us and our loved ones how to create immediate changes in our lives

The Path of the Feather: A Handbook and kit for Making Medicine Wheels and Calling in the Spirit Animals

By Michael Samuels, M.D.and Mary Rockwood Lane, R.N., Ph.D.

                        Tap the Power of the Ancient Shamans Seek the Wisdom of the Spirit Animals Manifest the Love of the Living Earth

                        Introduction by Ralph Blum                 author of The Book of Runes

                              Putnam, October, 2000

                         The Path of the Feather is an atlas to the sacred space which surrounds you.  In the box you will find everything you need to become a contemporary shaman, harnessing the power of the Ancient Ones and the strength of the living earth.  By making medicine wheels and  following the spirit animals, you honor your world, heal your life, and find answers to your questions.  The Path of the Feather makes your life a personal vision quest, initiating you into the ways of the shamans.

                         You are welcome here.  Your spirit animal guides bid you enter.  Owl greets you.  Lion greets you.  Bear greets you. Turtle greets you.  All the animals of the living earth call to you and thank you for listening to their voices again.

                        The Path of the Feather is a true path to become a shaman.  Each medicine wheel you will make takes you one step farther on the path.  By making medicine wheels, you embody sacred space in your life. The spirit animals will come to you and help you see who you are and what you are to do. The vision quest oracle will answer questions and guide you in the decisions of your life.  You will be connected to your spirit animals and your life will be transformed into a life that is shamanic.  By making sacred medicine wheels, you will be able to change your life to manifest what you desire.