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Shakti Woman: Feeling Our Fire, Healing Our World - The New Female Shamanism

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this book, while absolutely articulate and compelling, is essentially Noble's memoir of goddess-conciousness. The commentary on the medical industry's stances on issues such as childbirth and gynecology were one of the highlights of the text. However, the constant referencing and hyping of the author's tarot system, The Motherpeace Tarot deck, while expectable, gets tedious, especially to those who, like I, aren't really "spoken to" by the system. Highly reccomended to those who are interested in politico-spiritual issues, especially those regarding women.

This book is a true guide to womens power and passion. It presents a little known view of life on Mother Earth as it was (pre patriarchal control), and as it could be if we were all prepared to listen to our hearts song. In the process of distributing it among women friends (and my husband who it would appear is one of the rare men who want to know what a real woman is) they have all felt it to be essential reading for women. They have requested that I get copies for their individual use and as a library source.

This book effectively illustrates the basic principles of female shamanism. It is easy to read, engaging and packed full of interesting research on women's spirituality.

I found this book to be a refreshing look at a women's journey on her spiritual path with the Goddess. This book not only validates your 'untraditional' experience with SHE, but it also encourages you to complete the journey with suggestions on other areas to research and encounter with your journey towards the Goddess!

this book, while absolutely articulate and compelling, is essentially Noble's memoir of goddess-conciousness. The commentary on the medical industry's stances on issues such as childbirth and gynecology were one of the highlights of the text. However, the constant referencing and hyping of the author's tarot system, The Motherpeace Tarot deck, while expectable, gets tedious, especially to those who, like I, aren't really "spoken to" by the system. Highly reccomended to those who are interested in politico-spiritual issues, especially those regarding women.

i was captivated from the first page on. There is so much in this book that helps me understand my being a woman! Reading this will help you feel less crazy.

Granted, I could not get through the whole book. But I found it to be abrasive, repetitive, and aggressively feminist. I thought I would learn some interesting tidbits about women through history... but found them few and far in between.

A shoddy, psuedo-spiritual attempt at shamanism, it's shallow feminist agenda clearly overpowering any kind of real history or practice. When I read this book, I thought I would bust a gut laughing. This was one of the funniest things I've ever read, fluffier even than $ilver Ravenwolf.

Buy it if you're having a bad day and need a laugh: this book is great for that. If you want to read about real shamanism, start with Caitlin Matthews, Emma Restal Orr or, if you're feeling ambitious, Eliade's "Shamanism".

Yet another white woman who says she's a "shaman," this one because she had some sort of psychotic break while sitting in the bathtub one day. She also says Filipino shamans "reach between molecules" to pull tumors out of people. Um, no, Honey, they use sleight-of-hand and chicken parts. Period.

This book contains a truckload of bad history about universal goddess worship, how all the shamans were once women, and other utter tripe.

I also don't have anything nice to say about anyone whose full-grown boa constrictor is under 3 feet long. She blames the former owner, but admits to feeding the animal only when it moves around a lot and "acts hungry," rather than keeping it on a regular feeding schedule. (She also can't distinguish between "acting hungry" and "predicting an earthquake" on the snake's part.) Boas are not "cool Goddessy Witchy woman accesories;" they grow to be ten plus feet long when cared for properly, and they need to be fed as soon as they have passed their last meal.

read this book it is amazin