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V roce 1980 Michael Harner otevřel cestu pro celosvětové vzkříšení šamanismu svou přínosnou, dnes již klasickou knihou The Way of the Shaman (Cesta šamana). V tomto dlouho očekávaném pokračování předkládá nové důkazy o existenci jiné reality. Harner, vycházející z celoživotních osobních šamanských zkušeností a z více než 2500 zpráv lidí ze Západu o prožitcích v průběhu šamanských cest vzhůru, zde upozorňuje na zarážející podobnosti mezi objevy cestovatelů ukazující, že nebesa a duchové, s nimiž se setkali, skutečně existují....

Only one tribe of American Indians is known ever to have successfully revolted against the empire of Spain and to have thwarted all subsequent attempts by the Spaniards to reconquer them: the Jivaro (hee'-va-ro), the untsuri suarii of eastern Ecuador. From 1599 onward they remained unconquered in their forest fastness east of the Andes, despite the fact that they were known to occupy one of the richest placer gold deposit regions in all of South America. Tales of their fierceness became part of the folklore of Latin America, and their warlike reputation spread in the late nineteenth and early...

Mysteries of the Jaguar Shamans of the Northwest Amazon tells the life story of Mandu da Silva, the last living jaguar shaman among the Baniwa people in the Northwest Amazon. In this original and engaging work, Robin M. Wright, who has known and worked with Silva for more than thirty years, weaves the story of Silva's life together with the Baniwas' broader society, history, mythology, cosmology, and jaguar shaman traditions. The jaguar shamans are key players in what Wright calls "a nexus of religious power and knowledge" in which healers, sorcerers, priestly chanters,...