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  Shamanism:
As a Spiritual Practice for Daily Life
Drawing on shamanic practices from around the world, Shamanism As A Spiritual
Practice For Everyday Life addresses the needs of contemporary people who yearn
to deepen their own innate mystical sensibilities. This inspirational book shows
how to develop a personal spiritual practice by blending elements of shamanism
with inherited traditions and current religious commitments. Shamanism As A
Spiritual Practice For Everyday Life covers the central role of power animals
and spirit teachers; visionary techniques for exploring the extraordinary in
everyday life; elements of childhood spirituality including songs, secret hiding
places, power spots, and imaginary power figures; and the journey to an
ancestral shaman to recover lost knowledge. Engaging, informative reading.
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Mist-Filled Path
 by
Frank MacEowen, Tom Cowan
In this
book, MacEowen, a teacher of the
spiritual traditions of Scotland and
Ireland, issues a call to readers
longing to live a more authentic life to
wake up from "the land of sleepwalkers."
"Too many of us squander our lives," he
writes, "filling our minds with a crazed
habitual raciness that is hard to throw
off." MacEowen's purpose is to show us
how to break free of our unconscious
habits to place our awareness where it
matters, living from the perspective of
our inner senses and informed by our
souls. The "Mist" he speaks of is a
metaphor for spirituality used by Celtic
peoples. Drawing on his own personal
experiences and myths and poems of the
Celts and Druids, MacEowen introduces
readers conditioned by modern Western
society to a world of mystery and
meaning that is ours to enter into at
any time, were we only to become more
aware of it.
Throughout the book, he also shares
various exercises to help us further
that awareness, and in the process he
makes a compelling argument that the
"good life" that all of us yearn for can
only be found when we live each day with
a sense of "wonderment and wakeful
purpose" that is in tune with our divine
birthright. With The Mist-Filled Path,
MacEowen joins writers such as John
O'Donahue (Anam Cara) and
CaitliI'm pn Mathews (The
Encyclopedia of Celtic Wisdom) in
introducing readers to the ancient
spiritual traditions of "the misty green
isles" of Ireland and Scotland that gave
meaning to their inhabitants for many
centuries, and which still hold value
for us here in the 21st century.
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 The
Spiral of Memory and Belonging
 by
Frank MacEowen, Tom Cowan
The Spiral of
Memory and Belonging is a journey of the
soul, and our connection with the earth and
spirit realms that our ancestors were
attuned to.
There are exercises in here to help you get
in touch with your ancestors, and
explanations as to what a shaman really is.
This book really opened my eyes to the
Otherworld.
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  Fire
in the Head by Tom Cowan
For an
overall introduction to the numinous power
and energy of the shamanic archetype within
the primal Celtic traditions Fire in the
Head, even after ten years, is still the
best introduction. It is a wide-sweeping
flight into the themes and topics, devoid of
the particularities of personal cosmology
one sees in so many other Celtic books.
Cowan gets out of the way so that readers
can have their own experience and make their
own assumptions. Certainly, once a person
has read this it is time to read such works
as Jean Markele's The Druids, Caitlin and
John Matthews' The Encyclopedia of Celtic
Wisdom, etc., but, again, for an
introduction to the core elements of primal
Irish, Welsh, and Scottish animisitic
spirituality this is still the best.
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  Yearning
for the Wind: Celtic Reflections on Nature
and the Soul
by Tom Cowan
Throughout
the ages, shamans and mystics have
recognized that all created things share
some level of consciousness, and that
ordinary and non-ordinary realities interact
at some point. This book by a well-known
Celtic American shaman explores those
interactions and interconnected pathways,
looking at the interdependence of our
material life with our inner life and that
of nature. Each chapter is a small window
into the mysteries of nature and soul as
they infuse daily life. Cowan draws on the
teachings of medieval mystics, fairy
legends, Celtic songs, present-day poets and
seekers, Native American stories, and other
traditions. From these strands he weaves a
Celtic knot of spirit that is both beautiful
and strong.
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  The
Celtic Way of Seeing: Meditations on the
Irish Spirit Wheel
by Frank MacEowen
The Celtic
way of seeing posits a direct link between
the eye and the heart, a link that connects
seekers to forces, energies, and knowledge
that exist beyond the corporeal world. Here,
Frank MacEowen explains this intuitive way
of seeing by retelling a traditional Irish
story, "The Settling of the Manor of Tara."
The story is essential because it introduced
to Irish culture the concept of the four
directions — north, south, east, and west.
For the Irish, just as for Native Americans,
the directions act as guides and protectors.
Once seekers learn to “see” the directions,
spirituality becomes a living thing, making
each seeker not just an observer but a
participant. After retelling the ancient
story in beautiful, prose evocative of
ancient Ireland, MacEowen then places its
wisdom in contemporary terms, and shares
exercises and practices that help readers
incorporate the teachings into daily life.
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