The Beginner's Guide to Shamanic Journeying [Unabridged] [Audio CD]

Sandra Ingerman (Author)

Book Description

Series: Beginner's | Publication Date: November 2003

Shamanic journeying is the inner art of traveling to the "invisible worlds" beyond ordinary reality to retrieve information for change in any area of our lives-from spirituality and health to work and relationships. On The Beginner's Guide to Shamanic Journeying, Sandra Ingerman shares the core teachings of this transformative practice, including the original role of the shaman in indigenous societies, how to meet and work with your "power animal" and other spirit teachers, and the keys to successful journeying in our modern culture. Complete with authentic drumming and guidance for three shamanic journeys.

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From the Publisher

Sandra Ingerman is one of the principle trainers in the Harner Method of shamanistic technique, taught by bestselling author and leading world authority on shamanism, Michael Harner (The Way of the Shaman). She holds more than 40 workshops a year.

About the Author

Sandra Ingerman is a psychotherapist and shamanic practitioner who teaches workshops on shamanism around the world. She is the educational director for the Foundation for Shamanic Studies. Ingerman received her M.A. in Counseling Psychology from the California Institute of Integral Studies and is a licensed therapist and counselor in the state of New Mexico.

Product Details

• Audio CD
• Publisher: Sounds True, Incorporated; Unabridged edition (November 2003)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 1591791111
• ISBN-13: 978-1591791119
• Product Dimensions: 7.6 x 6.2 x 0.8 inches
• Shipping Weight: 6.4 ounces (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 4.4 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (7 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #247,711 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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More About the Author

Sandra Ingerman is devoted to teaching people how we can work together as a global community to bring about positive change. The spiritual work we do together does make a difference and is where we have to the power to be conscious positive changemakers!

She is the author of eight books and five audio programs that are all sold on Amazon.

Sandra Ingerman is one of the most highly regarded teachers of shamanism today. She teaches workshops internationally on shamanic journeying, healing, and reversing environmental pollution using spiritual methods. She has trained and founded an international alliance of Medicine for the Earth teachers and shamanic teachers. Sandra is recognized for bridging ancient cross cultural healing methods into our modern culture addressing the needs of our times.

Sandra is a licensed Marriage and Family therapist and Professional Mental Health Counselor. She is also a board certified expert on traumatic stress as well as certified in acute traumatic stress management.

To read articles written by Sandra, to listen to interviews, and to read her monthly column The Transmutation News please visit www.sandraingerman.com. Her training schedule is also posted on this site.

To find a local shamanic practitioner or teacher in your area who trained with Sandra please visit www.shamanicteachers com.

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44 of 44 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars INSIGHTFUL GUIDANCE FOR BEGINNERS, December 31, 2003

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Laura De Giorgio "hypnotherapist" (Canada) - See all my reviews
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I was highly impressed with insights and suggestions on this recording. One can put only so much information on one CD and for what you can learn and experience as a newcomer to Shamanic journeying in a little bit more than ONE HOUR, I have found this CD awesome.

I particularly liked suggestions relating how to ask good questions and set an intent for a journey. One particular suggestion would apply to any form of divination.

For example, if you ask your spirit helper (power animal, etc.) "Should I marry so and so?", the spirit helper may say "Sure, go ahead". Then when you get married to that person, you find out that the marriage was a complete disaster and start to wonder about the effectiveness of Shamanic journeying.

Sandra points out that spirit helpers view everything as a "learning experience", so the most appropriate question would be "What will I learn if I marry so and so?" The answer may be "betrayal" and you may decide that you don't really care much to learn about betrayal, to which your spirit helper answers, "OK, then, don't marry that person".

The quality of the questions we ask greatly influences the quality of helpful information we get.

This CD has contains about one hour of information consisting of introduction to shamanic journeying and a lot of good key points for successful journeying and then about 10 minutes or drumming and rattling for the actual journeying experience. I think it is a wonderful gift for someone who wants to get a taste of shamanic journeying.

27 of 29 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars good overview and practice for beginners and westerners, November 12, 2003

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baphomette de medici (blue state of pennsylvania) - See all my reviews

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This review is from: The Beginner's Guide to Shamanic Journeying (Audio CD)

and what i mean by that is: if you are unfamiliar with shamanism or know it only from a technical, readerly aspect, this would certainly be a good choice. if you already have her SEEING IN THE DARK cassettes, there will be some repetition. and then if you have some of her books, again, it will be info you are familiar with. this CD though does have a 12-minute drumming track...of course, you may rather get a drumming-only cd or tape from harner or martin duffy (ireland) and then get sandra's cassettes. so, that's the deal. fish around. but for the price amazon has this, it is a worthy gift for someone you think would get something from this practice. another thing is sandra's voice. it is earthy, natural and calming but in a grounding, not flighty way. and her drumming/rattling is nice. it works. ok, one other thing. other fine scholar-practitioners of cultural (and not "core") shamanism like christian ratsch (Shamanism and Tantra in the Himalayas) believe that this fundamentally recent wave of Core journeying is NOT effective. he is not too fond of harner and co. but i think what sandra is offering IS genuine...and she obviously HAS the gift...but many perhaps DO need entheogenic propulsion in addition to drumming etc. to each his own. some of us can function in both of those dynamics. i think too many shy away from the psychoactively charged realms...and TOO MANY spend too much time and rely on peyote/DMT/nutmeg/etc too much. so there. find YOUR balance. all said, this is a fine CD and intro. like it says, this IS "The Beginner's Guide"...

15 of 15 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars great guide, July 3, 2006

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D. Lee (california) - See all my reviews
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great cd-I liked that it broke up the chapters and left the journey track at the end. the information is very easy to understand. I really like Sandra Ingermans work. She gives you all the info you need to start taking journey's with confidence. the journey drumming is great. In fantasy I wish the drumming track could have been an hour long. but for beginning it is fine. I would recommend the cd to any one wanting to learn about Shamanism.