Drumming To Journey By

Kay Cordell Whitaker | Format: Audio CD

Product Details

• Audio CD (March 18, 2011)
• Original Release Date: December 15, 1999
• Number of Discs: 1
• Label: A World In Balance
• ASIN: B00004U2JF
• In-Print Editions: MP3 Download
• Average Customer Review: 4.2 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (17 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #217,072 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)

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49 of 50 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Excellent support for the solo-journeyer, August 9, 2001

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"[e-mail]" (Ames, Iowa United States) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Drumming To Journey By (Audio CD)

With the help of an excellent shamanic teacher, I discovered (or more accurately, reconnected with past-life experience) the joy of trance journeying aided by steady drumming. But then it was time to go back home where I had no one to drum for me. Then one day, up pops an Amazon recommendation for Drumming to Journey By---and it's designed by the author of The Reluctant Shaman, a book of which I am very fond. This CD quickly became an invaluable tool for my self-discovery.

In the liner notes, Kay mentions that crystal singing bowls were activated by the drumming as the CD was recorded. My conscious self tried to hear the bowls and couldn't, but on my very first journey, I entered a cavern lined in crystals which began to vibrate with the drum-beats; THEN I could hear the crystals singing. So much subtle texture to the rhythm!

36 of 37 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars excellent starting point for journeying, June 14, 2002

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Annie (Wales, UK) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Drumming To Journey By (Audio CD)

My first journey while listening to drums was with this CD. I am hooked. Listening with headphones, there is definitely a haunting spiritual quality. It took me a while to 'get' how the different lengths of time (the tracks selections) worked. The CD is one long continuous drumming, ending with the 'call back', but you can enter the drumming at various points so that your journey can be any length of time from 10 minutes to 71 minutes. I am hooked now, I listen to the CD nearly every day! Depending on how much time I've got, or what my intention for the journey is, I set the CD for the track of that length of time. This CD feels 'safe' to start drumming journeys with. Soon, I'll be looking for something more, but I am sure I will always come back to this one regularly!

26 of 27 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars A superb vehicle for drumming journeys, May 15, 2004

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kahokualohi - See all my reviews

This review is from: Drumming To Journey By (Audio CD)

I have been a sojourner on the inner spirit pathway for more than 40 years, and have met many teachers and learned to use many tools. I am familiar with all Kay Cordell Whitaker's CDs, as well as with her two wonderful books, *The Reluctant Shaman* and *Sacred Link*, wherein she tells the story of her training with the Amazonian shamans who taught her, and shares some of their teachings. I have also attended some of her personal training sessions. She is not conveniently located for me; otherwise I would do more face-to-face training with her. She has developed a high level of expertise and is an excellent teacher and healer and a wonderful, lively, glowing person. For those who are unable to attend her private workshops, and for those who want to repeat for themselves some of the processes they have used in live trainings, Kay has graciously made some of her basic guided journeys available on CD. I am familiar with and have used them all, with excellent results. Mostly, I have used and continue to use *Drumming to Journey By*, because it is just that--drumming to journey by--and nothing more. It is not a guided process. It is a vehicle, a superb vehicle, which I have used to facilitate a great many inner journeys over the past several years. It takes me where I want to go, if I know that in advance, and sometimes takes me to surprising and wonderful places I could not have imagined in my normal waking state. I have never found a better mode of transportation along inner pathways and to such destinations. I have never failed to make a safe and successful journey when I have set out to make one using this CD, and unlike any other drumming tape I have come across, it lets me choose the length of the journey beforehand so that I don't have to cling to consciousness so I can rise up and punch a button to skip to a callback when I need to return to this reality sooner than the full length of the CD. I safely can go as deep and as far as I like, knowing that the callback will come as I have programmed it to do before setting out on my journey. Its moderate pace allows me to float along and pushes me gently onward without making me rush on in a frenzy. The very rapid beat of many common drumming CDs doesn't suit me at all. *Drumming to Journey By* is the best. The low chant in the background is a mite distracting when I use headphones, as it holds my attention, but I can effectively tune it out by reducing the volume so as to make it unnoticeable. It doesn't impair or impede the success of my journey.

When I read the review here written by moomintroll2000, I didn't know whether to laugh or cry. On the one hand, what he describes is so alien to my experience with this drumming CD that it appears to be a spoof and a very funny one. One the other hand, taking it seriously, it is sad that potential beneficiaries of this wonderful tool might be put off by his bitter diatribe. But even sadder is his apparently real fear and the negativity it has caused to wash over his experience of this superb drumming. I scanned through moomintroll2000s prior reviews. He is a rather prolific reviewer and his tastes are certainly eclectic. Many of his reviews are negative. I can understand his wanting to know what the chant is about. I wanted to know, too. So I asked. I dropped an e-mail note to Kay and her husband-partner Helmut, and they answered right back. Their website, www.worldbalance.com has contact information as well as lots of interesting information about Kay's work. Kay and Helmut are completely approachable. If you want to know anything about the tapes or the books or the workshops, just ask. Don't jump into negative assumptions like poor moomintroll2000 did then poison the thinking of others who might want to use the tool. I strongly recommend that moomintroll2000 contact the Whitakers and attend Kay's basic training workshop if at all possible. I have never met more kindly, dedicated and helpful spiritual teachers than these. I understand and respect that because of his own fears and lack of understanding of the process, moomintroll2000 had an experience that he does not care to repeat, but I cannot state too strongly, that such was not the fault of the vehicle he chose. There is great good to be gained through use of all the CDs in this series. I hope moomintroll2000 will make further efforts to avail himself of these benefits, after taking appropriate steps to assuage his fear and other concerns by contacting the producers of the CDs. I further hope that his sour review will not deter others from taking many wonderful journeys using this excellent drumming CD.