Spiritwalker: Messages from the Future [Abridged, Audiobook] [Audio Cassette]

Henry Barnard Wesselman (Author), Michael Tucker (Narrator)

Book Description

Publication Date: October 1995

An anthropologist whose religious skepticism was shattered by a series of journeys into the inner realms of the mind and spirit, Dr. Wesselman learned powerful shamanic practices, met shapeshifting entities, spirit helpers, and guardians. 2 cassettes.

Editorial Reviews

From Publishers Weekly

While living on the flank of an active Hawaiian volcano between 1985 and 1989, anthropologist Wesselman reports, he had a series of visionary experiences. Projected 5000 years into the future, into the consciousness of a Hawaiian kahuna, or shamanic healer, named Nainoa, Wesselman presumably learned firsthand that Western civilization had been destroyed by a sudden rise in the ocean level. Through his paranormal interactions with Nainoa across the millennia, Wesselman has adventures in the spirit world and also watches as a band of Hawaiian natives who survived the cataclysm sail to the former California coast to rediscover the lost, devastated continent of North America. Fans of Carlos Castaneda's books may relate to these detailed premonitory visions, fleshed out with observations of Hawaiian shamanism. Wesselman lectures on shamanism and witchcraft at Sierra College in California. QPB main selection.
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Review

Fans of Carlos Castaneda will relish this anthropologist’s similar probe of the spirit world. Enjoy a spiritual autobiography which recounts life-changing encounters which began as dreams, but grew to take him on visionary journeys and experiences which brought him in touch with spirit helpers and guardians. -- Midwest Book Review --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.

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Product Details

• Audio Cassette
• Publisher: Audio Literature; Abridged edition (October 1995)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 1574530089
• ISBN-13: 978-1574530087
• Product Dimensions: 7 x 4.4 x 0.7 inches
• Shipping Weight: 5.6 ounces
• Average Customer Review: 4.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (31 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #1,262,177 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
  • #40 in Books > Books on Cassette > Reference > General

More About the Author

Hank Wesselman PhD is an anthropologist currently working with an international research team in Ethiopia involved in the search for answers to the mystery of human origins. He is also a shaman in training, now in the 29th year of his apprenticeship. His books include the Spiritwalker Trilogy (Spiritwalker, Medicinemaker, and Visionseeker), the Journey to the Sacred Garden, Spirit Medicine, and Awakening to the Spirit World (with Sandra Ingerman.) His latest book is The Bowl of Light: Ancestral Wisdom from a Hawaiian Shaman. His website is www.sharedwisdom.com

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28 of 29 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Absolutely Fascinating!, June 22, 2005

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Katie "book worm" (PA , USA) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Spiritwalker: Messages from the Future (Paperback)

If you are looking for a real page turner, and are interested in various metaphysical phenomena, then I would highly recommend this book for you.

Spiritwalker is about the true story of a series of visions the author, Hank Wesselman, experienced while living in a home on the edge of an active volcano in Hawaii. Through these visions, Mr. Wesselman realizes that the young man he is seeing is actually himself - 5,000 years into the future!

This book takes you a journey with the author...a journey to find himself, by himself. This is truly a fascinating journey, and it's written in such a way as to pull the reader in every step of the way.

Overall, I found this book to be quite thought provoking, and to be perfectly honest, I literally could not put it down! I definately give this book a 2 thumbs up!

23 of 24 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Nonfiction or imagination - still a great read!, August 31, 2004

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A Reader "Jo-M" (Remsen, NY USA) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Spiritwalker: Messages from the Future (Paperback)

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I read this volume after hearing an interview Hank had given.

Although many of the individuals providing a review of this are Shamans or Shaman-apprentices, I am not. I have the amount of experience that Hank had at the mid point of his story. I am gathering from this story that it might be that neither Nainoa or Hank were in control of the experiences.

I truly valued the mystical aspect of the story in which Pele, the Leopardman, and the guardians provide lessons and assistance. The interactions between the various spirits and Hank or Nainoa is enlightening. Hawaii is truly a place which inspires the mystical experience.

I truly enjoyed the story. I am not here to debate the actual reality of this story. Regardless of the classification of fiction or non-fiction, this book is extremely entertaining and is a very good read. My only complaint is that the version I read was published in 8 pt font so it was straining to read such tiny print. If the print of this volume is as depicted in the Amazon preview, then it is a different edition that the edition that I read. Amazon's version appears to have at least a 10 pt font.

On a personal note, I enjoyed it since I have had random occurrences such as visions of the Leopardman (and of a stern owl), the pulsing when transitioning, the buzzing, the paralysis, some of the geometric visions, etc. I have never tried to control or expand on these. This story comforted me in that I know that I do not have an illness or disorder. It was very enlightening to know that this is a common spiritual occurrence that has been happening throughout the millenia.

I highly recommend this book and I must say that it has inspired me to read additional books written by Hank Wesselman.

15 of 15 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Spiritwalker Participant-Observer, September 26, 2003

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This review is from: Spiritwalker: Messages from the Future (Paperback)

Hank's first book was a journey that perked my interest (in 1996) when his experiences mirrored puzzling sensations of sleep states I was experiencing (minus the sex). If you are open to the messages you can see and experience the wisdom as it unfolds. Reading this book I had a familiarity with a lot of the information he was processing. This book may not be for everyone, or I should say, it is not for the closed mind or "quick to judge", if you refuse to put aside layers of societal brainwashing and criticize at every step, you will not be ready to receive the gift of shared wisdom. I speak from growing up with traditional teachings of a Mohawk Nation, and often times, my formal anthropological education clashed with my cultural beliefs. Spiritwalker allowed me to fill in the gaps that a formal education often tries to dispel over traditional teachings. Thank you Hank for the wisdom shared and gratitude to the Hawaiian Elders and the Ancestors for their validation, also the Descendants who helped the process, and the Divine Spirit who guided.

Not forgetting to mention, in the book the perceptions of "human nature" people experience, often makes people question their own survival in the Human Race. So some people choose therapy, and/or any array of other vices to dull their senses. I like how the "shared wisdom" sheds light on topics such as addictions and other human nature fallacies. In Spiritwalker, I found affirmation in the shared wisdom ... the answers that are attainable if we re-learn "living" without the fear-based mentality and destruction we "pre-set" for ourselves.

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