… According to Khanna Madhu in Tantric: The Tantric Symbol of Cosmic Unity (1979), “Yantras function as revelatory symbols of cosmic truths and as instructional charts of the spiritual aspect of human experience.” Although the yantra is usually depicted in two dimensions, it is often conceived of as being multi-dimensional.
The Chakras in Shamanic Practice by Susan Wright
Susan Wright’s, The Chakras in Shamanic Practice, Eight Stages of Healing and Transformation takes you on a journey to heal your past, and empowers you in the present.
As you travel through her book, you will encounter exercises to bring healing and balance back to your chakra system. I felt that Susan’s approach and techniques had a very strong feminine energy to them. They are soft and nurturing in nature. I found the exercises that Susan offers simple and easy to follow; powerful in they’re simplicity. I noticed that as you progress through her book, Susan takes the reader deeper into the world of spirit. The progression is slow, but methodical. She doesn’t ask you to take a “leap of faith” before your prepared for it through her exercises. I found, The Chakras in Shamanic Practice, an easy read and couldn’t put it down. I read through her book once and then re-read it again, slowly and methodically to really delve deep, discovering my hidden gifts.
* Translated from the French by Willard R. Trask
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First published in 1951, Shamanism soon became the standard work in the study of this mysterious and fascinating phenomenon. Writing as the founder of the modern study of the history of religion, Romanian émigré–scholar Mircea Eliade (1907-1986) surveys the practice of Shamanism over two and a half millennia of human history, moving from the Shamanic traditions of Siberia and Central Asia–where Shamanism was first observed–to North and South America, Indonesia, Tibet, China, and beyond. In this authoritative survey, Eliade illuminates the magico-religious life of societies that give primacy of place to the figure of the Shaman–at once magician and medicine man, healer and miracle-doer, priest, mystic, and poet. Synthesizing the approaches of psychology, sociology, and ethnology, Shamanism will remain for years to come the reference book of choice for those intrigued by this practice.
“Eliade writes of the shamans with that masterly combination of sympathy and detachment. . . . . [His] findings will almost certainly be echoed by great voices of the future.”—New York Times Book Review
“Eliade is the most informative guide to the modern mythologies.”–Frank Kermode, New Statesman
“[A] close and detailed yet comparative study of shamanism. . . . [It] has become the standard work on the subject and justifies its claim to be the first book to study the phenomenon over a wide field and in a properly religious context.”—Times Literary Supplement
“Clearly the best work on Shamanism published so far.”—The Review of Religion
