Vodou Shaman

Goes beyond the stereotypes to restore Vodou to its proper place as a powerful shamanic tradition

• Provides practical exercises and techniques from the Vodou tradition that can be used as safe and effective means of spiritual healing and personal transformation

• Shows how to remove evil spirits and negative energies sent by others

• Written by a fully initiated Houngan (Vodou shaman)

Providing practical exercises drawn from all aspects and stages of the Vodou tradition, Vodou Shaman shows readers how to contact the spirit world and communicate with the loa (the angel-like inhabitants of the Other World), the ghede (the spirits of the ancestors), and djabs (nature spirits for healing purposes). The author examines soul journeying and warrior-path work in the Vodou tradition and looks at the psychological principles that make them effective. The book also includes exercises to protect the spiritual self by empowering the soul, with techniques of soul retrieval, removing evil spirits and negative energies, overcoming curses, and using the powers of herbs and magical baths.

Auteur

Ross Heaven (1960-2018) was a psychologist and healer with extensive training in the shamanic, transpersonal, and psychospiritual traditions. The author of more than 10 books, including Plant Spirit Shamanism, Vodou Shaman, and Darkness Visible, he taught workshops on plant medicines and coordinated trips to Peru to work with indigenous shamans.

Contenu

Foreward 'Do You Vodou'

Introduction Feel the Fear and Read it Anyway

1 - BETWEEN TWO WORLDS

Dreaming the Road of Gine
The Vodou Lessons: 1
Opening to the Sacred

2 - THE QUEST FOR POWER

Becoming Bon Houngan
The Vodou Lessons: 2
Connecting to the Energies of the Universe

3 - ACTS OF FAITH & POWER

Spiritual Strength Versus Material Gain
The Vodou Lessons: 3
Journey for Ecstatic Communion

4 - BECOMING GOD'S FOOLS

Journeying for Ashe
The Vodou Lessons: 4
The Affirmation of Self

5 - THE POWER TO HEAL

Creating New Realities of Health and Well-being
The Vodou Lessons: 5
Conducting a Vodou Healing: Removing Unhealthy Energy and Restoring Ashe

6 - THE TREE OF WEEPING SOULS

Soul loss and Retrieval--Advanced Techniques of Power Return
The Vodou Lesson: 6
Making Yourself Whole

7 - DREAMING THE NEW WORLD

Changing Your Faith, Healing Your World
The Vodou Lessons: 7
Creating the Way Ahead

Appendix The Marketplace

Workshops, Tapes, and Books by Ross Heaven

Notes

Glossary

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