The Woman in the Shaman's Body: Reclaiming the Feminine in Religion and Medicine Barbara Tedlock
Publisher: Random House Publishing Group

If you saw a shaman crossing into another dimension, all you would see is his body prone on the floor looking like someone who's asleep — except for the occasional twitch as power surges through him. During these trance contacts, shamans may communicate with spirits of the dead or other spirits and learn what they need to know to help heal the body, mind, or soul of a patient, to locate game, or to predict the future. Oct 1, 2002 - As American Indians emerged during the past century from the controlling influence of Christian missionaries on the reservations, they have fought to reclaim their religious heritage and to guard it from distortion by the dominant white culture of North America. To have is painfully expressed yet again in a form which is recorded by anthropology professor Barbara Tedlock's research for her 2005 book Woman in the Shaman's Body: Reclaiming the Feminine in Religion & Medicine. Jun 27, 2012 - Reclaim your true masculinity, your wholeness, your heart! Jun 2, 2010 - The medicine men of the Kamsa and Inga tribes of the Valley of Sibundoy have unusually extensive knowledge of medicinal and toxic plants and Salvador Chindoy (shaman) insists that his knowledge of the medicinal use of plants has been taught to him by the plants As we mentioned in Part Two, the nine Gods of the Ennead historically came from the Primordial Waters, the God Nun and the Goddess Naunet (Nanet), the male and female aspect denoting balance. Nov 1, 2012 - The Woman in the Shaman's Body: Reclaiming the Feminine in Religion and Medicine. To those of Only if you Men Unite with us as ONE body! We The Women" is a gathering of Shaman, Priestess, and Medicine Women who collectively work for the Cosmic and Earthly tribe of one. Mar 7, 2014 - Shamanism eventually morphed into the Mystery religions and then was driven completely underground by the Roman Emperor Constantine in the 4th century CE where it remained hidden, until the last decade or so. We gather together in a sacred lodge, a Circle of the Sacred Feminine unbroken and always open with no boundaries, to unify and add our collective energetic flow to the world and beyond the sacred web of life. But there are a range of names and culturally-defined meanings, including shaman, medicine woman, diviner, spirit-medium, oracle, sibyl and wisewoman. Countless ethnic titles such as machi, sangoma, Over centuries, male authorities carefully selected and edited the religious canon so as to erase traditions of female leadership (such as the Gnostic scriptures naming Mary Magdalene as the foremost Christian disciple).