The Shaman’s Daughter By: Ingrid Merkel In 2007, in a water cave on the peninsula of Yucatan, divers discovered the skull and skeleton of a teenage girl who died there some 13,000 years ago. The bones were moved to a museum. Ancient piety forbade the disturbance of the remains of the dead. In the novel, during the late Ice Age a shaman in Beringia divines this future sacrilege and sends his daughter on a journey to rectify the crime. As she traverses dozens of centuries on her journey through the American West, she encounters events and people in historical time. She recognizes the abyss between ancient and modern mentalities, and the conflict between scientific and her own spiritual understanding of nature. In the end, she resolves the conflict for herself, is liberated from the ancient laws, and emerges as a free woman whose freedom, however, demands a heavy price.
The Shaman’s Daughter By: Ingrid Merkel In 2007, in a water cave on the peninsula of Yucatan, divers discovered the skull and skeleton of a teenage girl who died there some 13,000 years ago. The bones were moved to a museum. Ancient piety forbade the disturbance of the remains of the dead. In the novel, during the late Ice Age a shaman in Beringia divines this future sacrilege and sends his daughter on a journey to rectify the crime. As she traverses dozens of centuries on her journey through the American West, she encounters events and people in historical time. She recognizes the abyss between ancient and modern mentalities, and the conflict between scientific and her own spiritual understanding of nature. In the end, she resolves the conflict for herself, is liberated from the ancient laws, and emerges as a free woman whose freedom, however, demands a heavy price.
Destined to be a healer herself, the daughter of a shaman is the last of her people blessed with a vision and struggles to survive as her world collapses
The shaman's daughter, a memoir of how one can embrace their light and darkness to awaken into their most authentic self. Dana, the shaman's daughter, was a warrior, conquering one struggle after another, collapsing into the darkness yet always rising again like the phoenix from the ashes. Unbeknownst to her, one day she too, would be a shaman like her father. As her destiny was being revealed to her, her soul was unraveling, creating chaos around her which was breaking her down, almost to the point of losing her life. She realized that the breakdown was also the journey to the breakthrough. Slowly she was allowing her wounded child to be seen, which allowed the warrior to awaken. As a well-known Shaman and Psychotherapist today, Dana Massat, teaches how to embrace the darkness to brighten the Light. This journey of breakdown to breakthrough speaks to those that are seeking an authentic and purposeful life. Life was no longer three dimensional to Dana, life was quickly becoming fifth dimensional. The veils lifted and Dana was seeing the unseen, fairies, angels, spirits, and entities in her awake life. These were guides from Divine and Mother Earth, revealing its ancient teachings and wisdom to her that one day, she world share with the world. With her ancient-self waking up, Dana could no longer ignore her path as a Shaman, a healer, and a high priestess. DANA MASSAT, Founder of Ascend Your Soul, well-known Shaman and Psychotherapist. Dana journeys beyond ordinary to work with the multi-dimensional trauma and its effects on human behavior. Dana Massat is a Licensed Psychotherapist and an Integrative Shamanic Energy Healer. Dana has studied Shamanism for the past 15 years and continues to be a pioneer in the field of energy medicine using a Shamanic and Intuitive approach to healing bringing her clients mind-body-soul. Dana Massat's work has been endorsed by many well-known health professionals, authors, artists, psychologists, and peers. Dana see's clients in-person at her Chicagoland office in Willowbrook, IL and remotely; she has long-time clients all over the World.
From a Pulitzer Prize finalist and author of The House of Broken Angels and Good Night, Irene, discover the epic historical novel following the journey of a young saint fighting for her survival. This historical novel is based on Urrea's real great-aunt Teresita, who had healing powers and was acclaimed as a saint. Urrea has researched historical accounts and family records for years to get an accurate story.
Thirty years ago, anthropologist Laurel Kendall did intensive fieldwork among South Korea’s (mostly female) shamans and their clients as a reflection of village women’s lives. In the intervening decades, South Korea experienced an unprecedented economic, social, political, and material transformation and Korean villages all but disappeared. And the shamans? Kendall attests that they not only persist but are very much a part of South Korean modernity. This enlightening and entertaining study of contemporary Korean shamanism makes the case for the dynamism of popular religious practice, the creativity of those we call shamans, and the necessity of writing about them in the present tense. Shamans thrive in South Korea’s high-rise cities, working with clients who are largely middle class and technologically sophisticated. Emphasizing the shaman’s work as open and mutable, Kendall describes how gods and ancestors articulate the changing concerns of clients and how the ritual fame of these transactions has itself been transformed by urban sprawl, private cars, and zealous Christian proselytizing. For most of the last century Korean shamans were reviled as practitioners of antimodern superstition; today they are nostalgically celebrated icons of a vanished rural world. Such superstition and tradition occupy flip sides of modernity’s coin—the one by confuting, the other by obscuring, the beating heart of shamanic practice. Kendall offers a lively account of shamans, who once ministered to the domestic crises of farmers, as they address the anxieties of entrepreneurs whose dreams of wealth are matched by their omnipresent fears of ruin. Money and access to foreign goods provoke moral dilemmas about getting and spending; shamanic rituals express these through the longings of the dead and the playful antics of greedy gods, some of whom have acquired a taste for imported whiskey. No other book-length study captures the tension between contemporary South Korean life and the contemporary South Korean shamans’ work. Kendall’s familiarity with the country and long association with her subjects permit nuanced comparisons between a 1970s "then" and recent encounters—some with the same shamans and clients—as South Korea moved through the 1990s, endured the Asian Financial Crisis, and entered the new millennium. She approaches her subject through multiple anthropological lenses such that readers interested in religion, ritual performance, healing, gender, landscape, material culture, modernity, and consumption will find much of interest here.
We Are The Daughters Of The Witches They Couldn't Burn. Pay homage to your Ancestors with this 6x9 soft matte cover journal. Great gift for any Shaman, Witch, Bruja, or Lightworker. 6x9 120 blank lined pages
Winner of the National Book Critics Circle Award for Nonfiction, this brilliantly reported and beautifully crafted book explores the clash between a medical center in California and a Laotian refugee family over their care of a child.
“This exceptionally well-written book is good reading, not only for specialists but also for beginning students interested in women, Korean culture, and shamanism.” —Journal of Asian Studies “Kendall maintains a closeness with and respect for her subject that keeps away the chill of academic distance and yet avoids sentimentality.” —Korean Quarterly, Spring 2001
"A beautiful ethnographic work. Schaefer deftly relates mythology, cosmology, family life, and economics within the spiritual practice and mechanics of weaving. There is clearly a preservation ethos underlying Schaefer's work, yet her depiction is not mournful, it is celebratory."--Ethnohistory
