Singing the Soul Back Home

by Matthews, Caitlin

• ISBN13: 9781859061039
• ISBN10: 1859061036
• Edition: Revised
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2003-02-01
• Publisher: Eddison Books

Summary

If you feel distanced from the natural world, trapped within a material society, and you are searching for meaning and purpose in your life, shamanic wisdom can offer you an answer. Caitlin Matthews shows how respect and wonder for nature, combined with spiritual joy and healing, are the essence of the shaman's holistic, vital world. Follow her exercises throughout the book and you will experience practical shamanic journeying. In this way, you will become 'a walker between the worlds' and aware not just of physical reality, but also of the subtle reality of the shaman's spiritual world. Book jacket.

Table of Contents

Preface to the New Edition	7	(8)
Foreword: Remembering	8	(6)
Introduction: Approaching the Threshold	14	(3)
How to Use This Book	17	(4)
The Shamanic Universe
Shamans and Shamanism	21	(11)
The Spirit of the Universe	32	(7)
The Power of the Universe	39	(3)
The Dance of Ecstasy	42	(3)
The Cosmic Web	45	(12)
The Shamanic Journey
Other Dimensions	57	(6)
Riding the Spirit Wind	63	(10)
The Mirrored Message	73	(16)
Spirit Helpers
Keepers of Memory	89	(5)
The Green World	94	(8)
Stone People	102	(4)
Faeries, Gods and Unicorns	106	(11)
The Middleworld
The Mother Place	117	(10)
Earth Cycles	127	(16)
The Underworld
In the House of Memory	143	(6)
In the House of the Ancestors	149	(10)
In the House of Souls	159	(10)
The Upperworld
The Song of Inner Space	169	(14)
The Song that Sounds in the Silence	183	(10)
Divination
Mapping the Three Worlds	193	(13)
Everyday Mythology	206	(13)
Healing
Singing the Soul Back Home	219	(17)
The Circle of Life	236	(7)
A Sacred Trust	243	(12)
Notes	255	(1)
Glossary	256	(3)
Bibliography	259	(4)
Resources	263	(4)
Index	267