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Of Water and the Spirit: Ritual, Magic and Initiation in the Life of an African Shaman (Compass) |  | Author: Malidoma Patrice Some
Publisher: Penguin (Non-Classics)
Category: Book
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Rating:  40 reviews
Sales Rank: 67432
Media: Paperback
Pages: 320
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Dimensions (in): 8.3 x 5.5 x 0.7
ISBN: 0140194967
Dewey Decimal Number: 291
EAN: 9780140194968
ASIN: 0140194967
Publication Date: May 1, 1995
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One of the most astonishing and intimate accounts of spiritual transformation ever written, this is the true story of an African's shaman's initiation--a remarkable sharing of living African traditions, offered with compassion for those struggling with our contemporary crisis of spirit. Author media.
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 Everyone show acknowledge the possibilities February 14, 2010
Grandma (Frederick, MD)
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
I loved this book. It is very powerful and engaging. I recommend it to anyone with an open mind or a sense of adventure. A wonderful story of overcoming personal challenges and returning to ones' roots.
I have not even red the book but I agree with the spiritual foundation. February 3, 2010
Steve Messi
I myself is African, albeit from a time when the grip of forced christianism was receding quite a bit and we were able to engage in discussion upon the merits and sins of christianism or any other messianic religion. Like the author, I have attended a christian school from early age and was rather a faithful christian even if I could still feel a certain emptiness in me in regard to the merits of that spiritual path. I have come to realize, through diverse inquiries that most of the christian religious foundations are mere borrowing of African spirituality. From such a perspective, it was therefore important for me to return to the core teachings of African religious practices and garner as much wisdom as possible! I was not ready to be faced with so much knowledge ranging for sciences, to arts, to philosophy, aesthetic...etc. I grew extremely angry for I realized that all these "sciences" have been painted to me as foreign were well alive in our cultures, yet like many other young Africans, I have ignored them. My embracing of my African spirituality has made me a complete person, confident, proud and ambitious. Indeed, knowledge is a weapon and we African must re-arm ourselves with our million years legacy and diverse civilization and try to incorporate them into today's technological age.
One of a kind, as in uniquely unbelievable! April 20, 2009
Ty Clement (Missoula, Montana, USA)
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
What an amazing writer Malidoma is! He writes with so much first hand and eloquently expressed insight into the disparities between the Western mindset and the consciousness of African village life with its inconceivable mysteries and traditions. This book makes books of questionable authenticity such as Mutant Down Under and the Don Juan books seem silly and mundane; the magical unfoldings witnessed by Malidoma are beyond even the wildest events in Harry Potter, and yet you can feel the authenticity of Malidoma's experience in his rich and heartfelt language.
I wish I could get to one of his workshops!
Life Changing April 18, 2009
L. A. Speer
This book is filled with metaphors and wisdom which would benefit anyone
on a spiritual journey whether it be shamanic or otherwise. Instead of
allowing the traumas of life stop him, Malidoma used them as the fuel and
inspiration to move forward. Not only is this a true story but it is a
well written account of Malidoma's life.
Without repeating others September 2, 2008
Mario Charles
1 out of 2 found this review helpful
This book is a transformative agent that releases the Western mind of all false concepts of spirituality and the spiritual world. I highly recommend this book. Recognize that you will not be the same after completing this journey in the form of literature. Bless!
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