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Summary: From A Native American Witch's Point Of View....
Review: Amber Wolfe, by far, did an incredible job on this book! I am a 3rd Degree High Priestess in Witchcraft, and have also practiced Shamanism with various Native American Tribes on their reservations for over 15 years... Amber's rituals were smart and clear, very easy for a beginner to understand. I recommend all of my students and coveners to read this book. Shamanism is the first form of witchcraft in the history of the world, and Amber has brought it to a more modern day stage, without loosing the true meanings and importance of the ancient ways. This book is a must have for any personal library!
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Summary: Excellent!
Review: I find this book a very good book on general Shamanism. The book takes quite a bit from Native American Seneca tradition and offers Celtic, Wiccan, and Aquarian information as well. It is easy to read and understand and could be very useful as an instructional tool or for personal expansion. Recommended!
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Summary: The best introduction available
Review: I have been recommending this book for years. It's a hodge-podge blend of Native American and Celtic influences but it's real and it works. If you are a solitary practitioner or kitchen witch who is just beginning on your spiritual journey then I can't recommend this book highly enough.
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Summary: the book for witches that want to practice shamanism
Review: i notice that one of the reviewers here did not like this book because it was like paganism,well shamanism IS a form of paganism. this book is excellent it covers very many different areas of shamanism,however i feel it is more for the wiccan and witch that wants to learn about shamanism than the Native American
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Summary: A nice read, but NOT a book on shamanism
Review: If you are looking for a guide to Shaminism, this book is not for you. Although it is an interesting book, it is by no means useful to one truly looking to start their path to Shamanism. Amber Wolfe gives some basic ideas of Shamanism and interweaves them throughout the book, but this is, in essence, not a book about the ways of the Shaman- it is a book about the ways of a witch who integrates some Shamanism into her own eclectic style. Too much of this book is celtic and wiccan influenced to truly be a useful guide to Shamanism. Much of it comprises of rather light, useless excersises, mixed in with interesting yet essentially unimportant anecdotes. I am writing this to help whoever truly wants to walk the path of the Shaman-there are many other books that will you serve you much better- don't waste time and money on this one.
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Summary: A nice book, but not very useful to me
Review: The author has a warm, inviting style, and her personal anicdotes are very nice to read, but her information just wasn't very useful to me. I was hoping for more of an educational (how to, if you will) style, but even with the firm assertation in the beginning of this book that she IS WICCAN, not Native American, she doesn't really approach the information from either way. People don't like it because they say she thinks she is teaching Native ways, but she isn't. She just could have organized her information better, and settled on which religious approach she was going to write from. I was interested in studying Shamanic practice for quite a while, but have finally become disgusted with what seems to be the general attitude the Native American shamanic community has towards Wicca and Pagans. Irregardless of if you do or do not have Native American ancestry, if you practice Wicca, you're a wanna be not worth the air you breathe. Please.
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Summary: one of the greatest of all time
Review: This book is a must for anybody, solitary or otherwise, who practices wicca/shamanism/magick and is hungry for a well of information and inspiration. Simple enough for a beginner, however, also advanced enough for the long-time student, this book is adsolutely phenomenal, by far Amber Wolfe at her very best. With its unlimited amout of correspondences on herbs, stones, rays, animals, alphabets, divination, tools, as well as Esbats and Sabbats, if I had to choose only one book out of my entire collection to use exclusively, I'd pick this one. Please buy this book. Not only will you find it an absolutely invaluable source of magick and the practice thereof, but you will also find it to be truly the most treasured book in your collection!
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Summary: Forget my last review
Review: This book is bad,why because native americans have an oral tradition of their beliefs they do not write about it in books.
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Summary: Paganism, but not Shamanism
Review: This book may appeal to those wishing a New Age or Wiccan approach to nature and spirits, but has very little to do with true shamanism. Most of the rituals are far more Wiccan-based than anything, and the book doesn't have much to do with the shamanic principles of ecstacy and journeying (the basis of shamanism) at all. Those wishing to expand upon their general pagan practices may find this book interesting, but for those interested in shamanism there are much better resources out there.
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Summary: Thoroughly repulsive
Review: Wasn't it nice of the Native Americans to "adopt" Ms. Wolfe? I'm sure they regret it. As long as I live, I will never forget the passage about how she reduced herself to tears trying to convince "her Native American family" that, since "nine million" of "her people" were killed during the "Burning Times," European pagans have suffered just as much as Native Americans. "I could not make them understand," she concluded, perhaps pausing to shed a tear for the ignorant savages. Nowhere in the text did I see word one about some of the profits from this tome going back to the people who shared so generously with Ms. Wolfe and taught her so much. She seems to be a cultural pirate as well as a "religion-hopper" who's a Witch one minute, a Shaman the next, and authoress of her own full-blown Wiccan tradition the third. Pass this one by!
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