Bonus

#1 Resource
Your own journeys and journal notes! Because ... Shamanism is a path of knowledge [and] ... To acquire that knowledge, ... it is necessary to step through the shaman's doorway and acquire empirical evidence. (Michael Harner, Foundation for Shamanic Studies)

The Shamanic Journey

• The Beginner's Guide to Shamanic Journeying: All You Need to Enter the Visionary World of the Shaman [CD], by Sandra Ingerman. 2003. Sounds True.
• Shamanic Journey: A Beginner's Guide [Book and 1 CD], by Sandra Ingerman. Sounds True, 2004. 80 p.

Shamanic Healing for Yourself

• How to Heal Toxic Thoughts [Book], by Sandra Ingerman.
• How to Thrive in Changing Times. [Book], by Sandra Ingerman. 2000, 171 pp.

Shamanic Healing for the Environment

• Medicine for the Earth: How to Transform Personal and Environmental Toxins [Book], by Sandra Ingerman. 2000, 291 pp.
• Miracles for the Earth [CD], by Sandra Ingerman. (CD of excerpts from the book, Medicine for the Earth.)

Shamanism - General: Free Online Resources
Foundation for Shamanic Studies

• about 2 dozen free articles
• about a dozen free video clip shorts; a few are workshop ads, but most are on topic
  
  

Sacred Hoop

• 53 free articles
• 34 free articles
• free 128-page issue of Sacred Hoop’s Guide to Shamanism
• 50+ podcasts by Sacred Hoop editor Nick Breeze Wood

 
Society for Shamanic Practice

• free articles; also posts a new free article each month
• free audio library

 
Susan  Grimaldi, Field Associate for the Foundation for Shamanic Studies and born a Choctaw

• about a dozen articles 
  
  

Why Shamanism Now?, Christina Pratt

• Betsy Bergstrom interviews on WSN
• all Why Shamanism Now podcasts (hundreds) with archives

Shamanism - General: Journal Subscriptions

• Sacred Hoop - journal, 4x/year, digitial subscriptions: one year for about $12.50; two-, three-, and five-year subscriptions also available
• Shaman's Drum Foundation
• Society for Shamanic Practice - Journal of Shamanic Practice
  
  

Shamanism - General: Websites

• Betsy Bergstrom's Spirit Wise (Betsy is one of my primary teachers)
• Foundation for Shamanic Studies
• Journeys to the Soul - Celtic Shamanism, Jane Burns

Shamanism - General: Books

1. Awakening to the Spirit World. [Book w/ CD], by Sandra Ingerman and Hank Wesselman. 2010. Sounds True: Boulder, CO. 329 pp.
2. Shamanism as a Spiritual Practice for Daily Life [Book], by Tom Cowan. 1996. Crossing Press: Freedom, California. 214 pp.
3. Shamanism: A Reader, edited by Graham Harvey. 2003. Routledge: London and New York. 461 pp.
4. The Way of the Shaman [Book], by Michael Harner. 1980. Harper: San Francisco. 171 pp.
5. Shamanism: Archaic Techniques of Ecstasy [Book], by Mircea Eliade. 1972 (originally published in French in 1951). Bollingen: Princeton. 610 pp.
6. I also recommend anything by Angeles Arrien (East European folklorist). For an intro, see her 2013 TEDx talk.

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About Your Teacher, Mary "Tyrtle" Rooker

• is a member of Betsy Bergstrom's Compassionate Depossession Teachers Alliance,
• has studied with world-renowned shamans and healers, and
• is a licensed minister with the Circle of the Sacred Earth.

See full details about her training and credentials.

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