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Cargando... Where the Spirits Ride the Wind: Trance Journeys and Other Ecstatic Experiences (A Midland Book) (1990)por Felicitas D. Goodman
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""The book is clearly written for the general reader and includes many descriptions of trance experiences. It may serve as a good introduction to the nature and appeal of the shamanic revival in modern Western cultures."" -Theological Book Review""... a case study in experiential anthropology that offers a unique mix of autobiography, mythology, experiential research, and archaeological data to support a challenging thesis-that certain body postures may help induce specific trance states."" -Shaman's Drum""This is a spellbinding and exceptionally readable book by an extraordin No se han encontrado descripciones de biblioteca. |
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Goodman has found that each posture produces a predictable experience or journey, generally falling into one of ten categories. For example, she has discovered four postures that take the meditator on a spirit journey. The first posture she ever worked with was of this type, and was found in one o the famous Stone Age cave paintings in Lascaux, France. The second spirit journey posture hails from the nomadic reindeer herders of northern Europe, and the third from South America. The fourth artifact whose posture produces this kind of trance was found in a seventh-century grave site in Georgia.
Goodman describes the spirit journeys like this: "People fly away on birds' wings, peacock clouds spread their shimmering tail feathers, a woman with stars in her hair guards the entrance to the world below, and humans turned into albatrosses alight on the waves of the ocean." The experience produced by the Lascaux posture seems to raise the kundalini; people describe intense orgasmic energy surging up through their bodies before flying off into the wild blue yonder