The Shamanic Wisdom Of The Huichol

Author : Tom Soloway Pinkson
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 1594779554
Total Pages : 304 pages
Book Rating : 4.58/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Shamanic Wisdom of the Huichol written by Tom Soloway Pinkson and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2010-01-29 with total page 304 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: True account of a decade-long apprenticeship with Huichol shamans in the Mexican Sierra Madre • Contains an insider’s view of the Huichol’s shamanic spiritual practices, including their ritual use of peyote • Offers the Huichol path to sustainable healing for individuals and our planet Never conquered by Europeans, the Huichol--known for their use of peyote in spiritual ceremonies--have thoroughly retained their ancient way of life. Growing from a deeply rooted respect and reverence for the natural world, the Huichol’s shamanic spiritual practices focus on living life in harmony with all living things and offer a path to a truly sustainable future. The Shamanic Wisdom of the Huichol is the autobiographical account of Pinkson’s decade-long immersion in the shamanic traditions of the Huichol tribes of the Sierra Madre in Mexico. From his first Huichol pilgrimage to Wiricuta (their sacred homeland) in 1981 to searching the desert for the heart medicine of peyote, Pinkson’s account of his initiation into the medicine teachings of the Huichol brings new life to this ancient eco-centric tradition. Providing a guiding light for those who seek to become part of the solution to our planet’s ecological challenges, Pinkson empowers readers to choose their own path toward healing both on a personal and a planetary level.

Author : Tom Soloway Pinkson
Publisher : Inner Traditions / Bear & Co
ISBN 13 : 1594773491
Total Pages : 308 pages
Book Rating : 4.95/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Shamanic Wisdom of the Huichol written by Tom Soloway Pinkson and published by Inner Traditions / Bear & Co. This book was released on 2010-01-29 with total page 308 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Huichol tribes of the Sierra Madre in Mexico have thoroughly retained their ancient way of life. Their shamanic spiritual practices focus on living life in harmony with all things and offer a path path to healing both on a personal and a planetary level.

Author : Robert M. Zingg
Publisher : University of Arizona Press
ISBN 13 : 0816532036
Total Pages : 353 pages
Book Rating : 4.32/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Huichol Mythology written by Robert M. Zingg and published by University of Arizona Press. This book was released on 2015-08 with total page 353 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Best known for their ritual use of peyote, the Huichol people of west-central Mexico carried much of their original belief system into the twentieth century unadulterated by the influence of Christian missionaries. Among the Huichol, reciting myths and performing rituals pleases the ancestors and helps maintain a world in which abundant subsistence and good health are assured. This volume is a collection of myths recorded by Robert Zingg in 1934 in the village of Tuxpan and is the most comprehensive record of Huichol mythology ever published. Zingg was the first professional anthropologist to study the Huichol, and his generosity toward them and political advocacy on their behalf allowed him to overcome tribal sanctions against divulging secrets to outsiders. He is fondly remembered today by some Huichols who were children when he lived among them. Zingg recognized that the alternation between dry and wet seasons pervades Huichol myth and ritual as it does their subsistence activities, and his arrangement of the texts sheds much light on Huichol tradition. The volume contains both aboriginal myths that attest to the abiding Huichol obligation to serve ancestors who control nature and its processes, and Christian-inspired myths that document the traumatic effect that silver mining and Franciscan missions had on Huichol society. First published in 1998 in a Spanish-language edition, Huichol Mythology is presented here for the first time in English, with more than 40 original photographs by Zingg accompanying the text. For this volume, the editors provide a meticulous historical account of Huichol society from about 200 A.D. through the colonial era, enabling readers to fully grasp the significance of the myths free of the sensationalized interpretations found in popular accounts of the Huichol. Zingg’s compilation is a landmark work, indispensable to the study of mythology, Mexican Indians, and comparative religion.

Author : Tom Pinkson
Publisher : Inner Traditions / Bear & Co
ISBN 13 : 9780892816590
Total Pages : 308 pages
Book Rating : 4.97/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Flowers of Wiricuta written by Tom Pinkson and published by Inner Traditions / Bear & Co. This book was released on 1997 with total page 308 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Flowers of Wiricuta is the gripping autobiographical account of Tom Pinkson's immersion in the shamanic traditions of the Huichol tribe of northern Mexico. Pinkson successfully integrates their teachings into his work with terminally ill children, and shares a heart-felt account of his personal search for a clearer understanding of the true self.

Author : Barbara G. Myerhoff
Publisher : Cornell University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780801491375
Total Pages : 292 pages
Book Rating : 4.71/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Peyote Hunt written by Barbara G. Myerhoff and published by Cornell University Press. This book was released on 1976 with total page 292 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Ramón Medina Silva, a Huichol Indian shaman priest or mara'akame, instructed me in many of his culture's myths, rituals, and symbols, particularly those pertaining to the sacred untiy of deer, maize, and peyote. The significance of this constellation of symbols was revealed to me most vividly when I accompanied Ramón on the Huichol's annual ritual return to hunt the peyote in the sacred land of Wirikuta, in myth and probably in history the place from which the Ancient Ones (ancestors and deities of the present-day Indians) came before settling in their present home in the mountains of the Sierra Madre Occidental in north-central Mexico. My work with Ramón preceded and followed our journey, but it was this peyote hunt that held the key to, and constituted the climax of, his teachings."--from the Preface

Author : Peter T. Furst
Publisher : UPenn Museum of Archaeology
ISBN 13 : 9781931707978
Total Pages : 124 pages
Book Rating : 4.79/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Visions of a Huichol Shaman written by Peter T. Furst and published by UPenn Museum of Archaeology. This book was released on 2007-01-12 with total page 124 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The brilliant visionary yarn paintings of the shaman-artist Jose Benitez Sanchez emerge transformed into two-dimensional form from fleeting, sublime visionary experiences triggered by the complex chemistry of the divine peyote cactus. Benitez's visions are of the Huichol universe in Mexico's rugged Sierra Madre Occidental, as that world came into being in the First Times of creation and transformation and in the ongoing magic of a natural environment that is alive and without firm boundaries between the here and now and the ancestral past. Modern yarn paintings—more than 30 in the University of Pennsylvania Museum's collection are illustrated here—have their roots in the sacred art of communication with numberless male and female ancestors and native deities, related in the two remarkable Huichol origin myths also presented here to shed some light on Native American culture and provide some understanding of the religious experience that informs it.

Author : Stacy B. Schaefer
Publisher : UNM Press
ISBN 13 : 9780826319050
Total Pages : 580 pages
Book Rating : 4.5X/5 ( download)

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Download or read book People of the Peyote written by Stacy B. Schaefer and published by UNM Press. This book was released on 1996 with total page 580 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The first substantial study of a Mexican Indian society that more than any other has preserved much of its ancient way of life and religion.

Author : Tom Pinkson
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780998415611
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.18/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Walking a Sacred Road written by Tom Pinkson and published by . This book was released on 2018-06-27 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A pictorial look at the ancient spiritual practice of the Huichol people of Mexico to pilgrimage to the desert area they call Wiricuta in search of the medicine plant Peyote.

Author : José Stevens
Publisher : New World Library
ISBN 13 : 1577318005
Total Pages : 306 pages
Book Rating : 4.02/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Power Path written by José Stevens and published by New World Library. This book was released on 2010-11-17 with total page 306 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: According to José Stevens and Lena Stevens, business leaders and shamans share many important traits: the abilities to solve problems, to achieve goals, to see the big picture, and to forecast events. What their previous book, Secrets of Shamanism, did for the growth of the individual, The Power Path does for the growth of business managers and entrepreneurs. On the basis of years of study with shamans, the authors share a new way of thinking about the nature of power. By applying shamanic traditions of power to the workplace, readers learn how to improve work relationships, to understand employees' strengths and limitations, and to inspire effective teamwork — techniques aimed ultimately toward increasing business success.

Author : Hope MacLean
Publisher : University of Texas Press
ISBN 13 : 0292742509
Total Pages : 313 pages
Book Rating : 4.05/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Shaman’s Mirror written by Hope MacLean and published by University of Texas Press. This book was released on 2012-08-24 with total page 313 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Huichol Indian yarn paintings are one of the world's great indigenous arts, sold around the world and advertised as authentic records of dreams and visions of the shamans. Using glowing colored yarns, the Huichol Indians of Mexico paint the mystical symbols of their culture—the hallucinogenic peyote cactus, the blue deer-spirit who appears to the shamans as they croon their songs around the fire in all-night ceremonies deep in the Sierra Madre mountains, and the pilgrimages to sacred sites, high in the central Mexican desert of Wirikuta. Hope MacLean provides the first comprehensive study of Huichol yarn paintings, from their origins as sacred offerings to their transformation into commercial art. Drawing on twenty years of ethnographic fieldwork, she interviews Huichol artists who have innovated important themes and styles. She compares the artists' views with those of art dealers and government officials to show how yarn painters respond to market influences while still keeping their religious beliefs. Most innovative is her exploration of what it means to say a tourist art is based on dreams and visions of the shamans. She explains what visionary experience means in Huichol culture and discusses the influence of the hallucinogenic peyote cactus on the Huichol's remarkable use of color. She uncovers a deep structure of visionary experience, rooted in Huichol concepts of soul-energy, and shows how this remarkable conception may be linked to visionary experiences as described by other Uto-Aztecan and Meso-American cultures.