The sacred heritage

Trade paperback, xx + 277 pp. including bibliographies following some chapters and index. Contents: Foreword / Linda Schierse Leonard Editors’ preface PART ONE: Beginnings and Meanings: The Shamanic Archetype 1. Introduction: Analytical psychology and shamanism / Donald F. Sandner 2. “What was all that rustling in the woods?” / Meredith Sabini 3. Eliade, Jung, and shamanism / Bradley A. TePaske 4. C.G. Jung and the shaman’s vision / C. Jess Groesbeck 5. The “Book of Knowledge” in shamanism and mysticism / Meredith Sabini PART TWO: Shamanic Medicine: Explorations in Healing 6. An integrated approach to soul possession: Applying shamanistic and Jungian techniques / Steven H. Wong 7. Shamanic states in our lives and in analytic practice / Patricia Damery 8. The felt vision / Jeffrey A. Raff 9. The clinical use of animals in dreams / June Kounin 10. Serpent fire arousal: Its clinical relevance / Louis Vuksinick 11. The ally / Jeffrey A. Raff PART THREE: Dark Encounters: Personal Transformations 12. Pain and surgery: The shamanic experience / Arthur D. Colman 13. Cancer, new age guilt, and the Dark Feminine / Dyane Neilson Sherwood 14. Learning to listen: A snake calls me to a shamanic path / Carol McRae 15. Shamanic dismemberment / Steven H. Wong 16. Coyote attends my surgery / Norma Churchill 17. The Dark Feminine: Death in childbirth and entry into the shamanic realm / Janet Spencer Robinson 18. Trapped souls: A passage to the spirit world / Lori Cromer PART FOUR: The Numinous Web: Cultural Connections 19. Lakota teachings: Inipi, Humbleciya, and Yuwipi ceremonies / Pansy Hawk Wing 20. Buffalo vision / Norma Churchill 21. The Sun Dance: Wiwayang Wacipi / Steven H. Wong 22. Renewal of the world tree: Direct experience of the sacred as a fundamental source of healing in shamanism, psychology, and religion / Margaret Laurel Allen and Meredith Sabini 23. Beyond tourism: Travel with shamanic intent / Pilar Montero and Arthur D. Colman 24. Firework: A Hawaiian guidebook to the goddess / Sara Spaulding-Phillips Editors and contributors