- Examines the complexities of Indigenous legends and creation myths and reveals common oral traditions across much of North America

- Explores the history of Cahokia, the Mississippian Mound Builder Empire of 1050-1300 CE, told through the voice of Honga, a Native leader of the time

- Presents an Indigenous revisionist history regarding Thomas Jefferson, expansionist doctrine, and Manifest Destiny

While Western accounts of North American history traditionally start with European colonization, Indigenous histories of North America--or Turtle Island--stretch back millennia. Drawing on comparative analysis, firsthand Indigenous accounts, extensive historical writings, and his own experience, Omaha Tribal member, Cherokee citizen, and teacher Taylor Keen presents a comprehensive re-imagining of the ancient and more recent history of this continent's oldest cultures. Keen reveals shared oral traditions across much of North America, including among the Algonquin, Athabascan, Sioux, Omaha, Ponca, Osage, Quapaw, and Kaw tribes. He explores the history of Cahokia, the Mississippian Mound Builder Empire of 1050-1300 CE. And he examines ancient earthen works and ceremonial sites of Turtle Island, revealing the Indigenous cosmology, sacred mathematics, and archaeoastronomy encoded in these places that artfully blend the movements of the sun, moon, and stars into the physical landscape.

Challenging the mainstream historical consensus, Keen presents an Indigenous revisionist history regarding Thomas Jefferson, expansionist doctrine, and Manifest Destiny. He reveals how, despite being displaced as the United States colonized westward, the Native peoples maintained their vision of an intrinsically shared humanity and the environmental responsibility found at the core of Indigenous mythology.

Building off a deep personal connection to the history and mythology of the First Peoples of the Americas, Taylor Keen gives renewed voice to the cultures of Turtle Island, revealing an alternative vision of the significance of our past and future presence here.

A healthy brain is the foundation for a healthier and more fulfilling life, and in Grow A New Brain, modern shamanic practitioner Alberto Villoldo reveals research and introduces protocols for readers to improve their brain function, right now. It combines ancient and modern science to eliminate old senescent cells, detoxify your brain and body, reduce inflammation, increase the growth of brain cells that support neuroplasticity, and more. Readers will learn:

• How to turn your kitchen into a shaman's laboratory to make your own probiotics that repair that gut and produce neurotransmitters that balance the brain.
• How to use shamanic meditative techniques to switch on genes for health and turn off genes for illness and disease, and drawing on the science of epigenetics how to avoid being trapped in the destiny inherent in your genetic coding
• How to reverse damage to the brain caused by free radicals and restore the functioning of our mitochondria (or power centers) in our cells.
• How to increase the amount of BDNF (brain-derived neurotrophic factor) you produce, allowing you to grow new brain cells (neurogenesis) that will support neuroplasticity.

Have you ever had any of these thoughts:
How much ceremony is too much ceremony?
When is ceremony not the best next step?
If your shaman is not from your culture or local to you, what can you do to integrate after a ceremony?
What do you do when ceremony reveals trauma?
How can you ground your work with visionary plants and walk the teachings in your daily life?

After the Ceremony Ends helps you understand how you can embrace your work with visionary plants much more fully so that you can heal more profoundly and grow from the place of your deepest authenticity.

The ceremony is only the beginning: Integrating your experiences is critical to your transformation and, without it, you risk becoming more fractured and destabilized. Learn how to work with visionary plants more consciously to find the wholeness and freedom that you seek

Through journaling exercises and expanded-awareness practices, many of which involve working with and in nature, and which are influenced by Jungian and shamanic traditions, anyone can tap into hidden resources for healing and work with them effectively. Whether gaining insights and balancing energies outdoors, dialoguing and interacting with the earth or a river or lake, or working with dreams, an inner healer, or a symbol encountered on a shamanic journey, readers will find they are able to learn why they have struggled to change their habits and will be empowered to experience greater wellness within a satisfying health story. Change the Story of Your Health focuses on four key chapters of a person's health story:

- Eating and drinking, and weight
- Movement/exercise, flexibility, balance, stamina, and strength
- Sexuality, body image and acceptance, and changes due to midlife hormonal shifts (commonly known as menopause and andropause)
- Management of an acute ailment or symptoms of a chronic condition

It also helps readers revise their health stories as their health changes as a result of aging or unexpected challenges. Gaining insights into their health, letting go of what is standing in the way of optimal health and well-being, and bringing in what is needed to make a preferred new health story a reality--all are possible when readers take on the challenge of Change the Story of Your Health and begin using the practices regularly.

Now, in this exciting and practical book, Toltec shaman and New York Times best-selling author don Jose Ruiz introduces and explains a wealth of these shamanic rituals and ceremonies, and provides a detailed and accessible guide to performing them on your own.

This book will teach you how to:::

• Choose and create power objects
• Build a personal altar and medicine wheel
• Align your life with the cycles of nature
• Find and work with your spirit animals
• Honor your ancestors, undertake power journeys, and much more

Fear is the source of all the negative agreements we've made with life. It can alienate us from the joy that is our birthright. When we are able to look at our lives and our worlds without fear or judgments, we realize that this dream we are dreaming--reality--can be whatever we want it to be.

Don Miguel Ruiz is a nagual initiated as a Master of Intent in the Toltec tradition. Seekers of the Toltec way to freedom and joy follow a ritual procession along the main passageway in Teotihuacan as they move beyond fear into a state of empowerment. This comprehensive guide to the teachings of don Miguel Ruiz includes:

- the basic elements of Toltec wisdom and the spiritual practice that is the basis of The Four Agreements
- exercises and ceremonies to walk readers through the process of shedding fear, judgment, and guilt
- biographical information on don Miguel Ruiz and his training with his curandera mother, the famous healer, Mother Sarita

The knowledge contained in this life-changing volume has the power to replace fear with joy.

Celtic shamanism is a spiritual tradition whose origins predate the arrival of Christianity in northern Europe. According to this ancient tradition, the root of a person's physical, spiritual, and emotional health comes from the balancing the body's three energy centers called the three cauldrons, the Cauldron of Warming, the Cauldron of Motion, and the Cauldron of Wisdom. The Celts believed a person must activate, nurture, and maintain all three cauldrons to live a whole, connected, meaningful life.

Now, Rhonda McCrimmon--a beloved shamanic teacher-- takes readers on a spiritual journey from the lowest of the three energetic cauldrons to the highest, sharing practices to cultivate each cauldron's unique potential.

• The Cauldron of Warming, the wellspring of our innate knowledge, can be drained by past traumas, leaving us anxious and fearful. McCrimmon teaches you how to replenish this cauldron and restore your birthright of inner peace and security.
• The Cauldron of Motion is on its side at birth but fills as we experience deep grief or joy. It is the source of our capacity to love and nurture. Learn how to balance this cauldron, establish healthy boundaries, and protect yourself from emotional drain.
• The Cauldron of Wisdom is upside down at birth. When it is righted, we receive one of the most sublime gifts of Celtic spirituality--a profoundly felt connection with nature.

• Activate and balance your inner cauldrons.
• Dispel fear by tapping into your innate wisdom.
• Work through past traumas, foster love, and nurture emotional resilience.
• Manifest creative potential through rituals and meditations.

In My Good Friend the Rattlesnake, Ruiz, now a bestselling author and spiritual teacher, reveals the dramatic twists and turns he experienced on his own path to personal freedom and inner transformation.

Through this series of deeply intimate stories, Ruiz explains how he overcame his addiction to suffering and embraced a life of love, clarity, and self-awareness. In one example, he recounts his unexpected journey with temporary blindness, which paradoxically allowed him to see what truly mattered. In another, he celebrates individuality in spiritual practice, challenging the idea that it must look or sound a particular way to be authentic.

Throughout, Ruiz incorporates the teachings of his father, don Miguel Ruiz (author of The Four Agreements). The lessons he shares are practical, profound, and accessible, making this book an essential companion for anyone seeking spiritual growth and emotional healing.

Honest, vulnerable, and rich with exercises and meditations, My Good Friend the Rattlesnake redefines what it means to heal, grow, and live authentically.

- Offers step-by-step instructions for the practice of limpias, shamanic cleansing rituals to heal, purify, and revitalize people as well as physical spaces

- Examines different types of limpia ceremonies, such as fire rites for transformation, water rites for cleansing and influencing, and sweeping rites for divination

- Explores the sacred stories behind limpia rituals and traces these curanderismo practices to their indigenous roots

Exploring the essential tools and practices of Mesoamerican shamans and curanderos, specifically the ancient Yukatek Maya and Mexica (Aztec), Erika Buenaflor, M.A., J.D., provides a step-by-step guide for conducting the most common practice within curanderismo: limpias. These practical and incredibly effective shamanic cleanses heal, purify, and revitalize people and spaces with herbs, flowers, eggs, feathers, fire, and water. They are also powerful tools for self-empowerment, spiritual growth, soul retrieval, rebirth, and gracefully opening up pathways for new beginnings.

Drawing on her 20 years' experience as a curandera and her graduate studies focused on Mesoamerican shamanism, the author traces modern curanderismo practices to their indigenous roots. She explores the sacred stories behind limpia rituals and examines different types of limpia ceremonies in depth, such as fire rites for transformation, water rites for cleansing and influencing, and sweeping rites for divination. She outlines how limpias work holistically to enable one to let go and cleanse the body, mind, and spirit of limiting beliefs, traumas, and broken stories; heal acute and chronic illnesses such as depression, insomnia, and anxiety; and revitalize and activate sacred spaces by renewing their essence and clearing negative energies. She explains the healing properties of the plants used in limpia rites and how to perform the medicinal chants used by the curanderos. In addition, the author details how the practice of platicas, heart-straightening talks, supports limpia rites by encouraging one to vocalize their needs as they eject traumas and unwanted energies from the body, setting the stage for self-awareness and healing.

Sharing the story of her own complete healing from a catastrophic injury with limpias as well as inspirational testimonies from others who have experienced limpias, the author provides a personal and thoroughly practical guide to the ancient shamanic method of limpias to promote healing and personal transformation in our times.

We perform ceremonies to mark important events and celebrate holidays--yet our modern approach to ceremony only scratches the surface of its true potential. With The Book of Ceremony, shamanic teacher Sandra Ingerman presents a rich and practical resource for creating ceremonies filled with joy, purpose, and magic. We are hungry to connect with more than what we experience with our ordinary senses in the material world, writes Sandra. By performing ceremonies, you will find yourself stepping into a beautiful and creative power you might never have imagined.

Weaving shamanic teachings together with stories, examples, and guiding insights, The Book of Ceremony explores:

- The elements of a powerful ceremony--including setting strong intentions, choosing your space, preparing ceremonial items, and dealing gracefully with the unexpected
- Stepping into the sacred--key practices for leaving behind your everyday concerns and creating a space where magic can happen
- Guidance for working alone, in community, and across distances with virtual ceremonies
- Invoking spiritual allies--the power of working with the elements, the natural world, ancestor spirits, and the creative energy of the divine
- Sacred transitions--including ceremonies for weddings, births, rites of passage to adulthood, funerals, honorable closure, and new beginnings
- Ceremonies for energetic balance--healing and blessing, resolving sacred contracts, getting rid of limiting beliefs, creating Prayer Trees, and more
- Life as a ceremony--how to infuse your entire life with ceremonial practice, from planting a garden to revitalizing your home or office to helping heal our planet

The Book of Ceremony is more than a how-to guide--it will inspire you to create original ceremonies tailored to your own needs and the needs of your community. When you invoke the sacred power of ceremony, you tap into one of the oldest and most effective tools for transforming both yourself and the world. As Sandra writes, If you perform one powerful and successful ceremony for yourself, the principle of oneness ensures that all of life heals and evolves.

- Details how to work with Sekhmet to transform your negative behavior patterns and character flaws into creative impulses and higher energies

- Leads you through guided visualizations, illustrated with photographs, to Sekhmet's chapel at the Temple of Karnak and through her shamanic ritual of transformation

- Includes initiations, rites of passage, and transmissions from Sekhmet to release your fears and anger and rejuvenate your body, mind, and spirit

Sekhmet is the lioness goddess of the Egyptian Pantheon, a fierce protector of truth, balance, and the Cosmic order of Ma'at. Known and feared as the goddess of war and destruction, she also represents the transformative power of kundalini energy, or sekhem, and is the main goddess to harness this power for healing. As She Who Comes in Times of Chaos, she takes offerings of fear, rage, and weakness and transforms them into alchemical gold, the universal medicine for physical, emotional, and soul healing.

In this book you are guided through a shamanic ritual of alchemical transformation and initiation with Sekhmet, working with this powerful goddess to release your most deeply rooted negative behavior patterns and be reborn into a more purified state of consciousness. Using intensive self-examination exercises to help you prepare to meet the goddess, the author leads you through a guided visualization, illustrated with photographs, to an ancient statue of Sekhmet in her chapel at the Temple of Karnak. There, you will be shamanistically devoured by the goddess, directly experiencing the alchemical process of transformation in the belly of Sekhmet until you are rebirthed as a fully realized adult child of the goddess. You will experience how your offering of pain, fear, rage, and self-sabotage is digested, absorbed, and assimilated by Sekhmet while you are initiated into the alchemy of total transformation. The initiations, rites of passage, and transmissions from Sekhmet included in the journey restructure the most important aspects of your body, mind, spirit, and soul.

This journey of shamanic death, illumination, and rebirth in the belly of Sekhmet provides an opportunity to heal on all levels and allows you to release your rage, anger, and fear as you transform the energies that maintained them into creative and constructive solutions that benefit yourself, your community, and the planet.

If you don't love and honor yourself with every fiber of your being, writes HeatherAsh Amara, if you struggle with owning your power and passion, if you could use a more joy and simple presence in your life, then it is time for the inner revolution. It is time to claim your Warrior Goddess energy.

All too often, our focus and attention are trapped by what we and others think we should be. Because of this, our energy becomes scattered, and we struggle to see our authentic selves clearly. But when we bring our attention back to who we are on the inside--not who we wish we were or who we think we ought to be--we begin a sacred path toward realizing our innate, authentic, embodied power.

In this book, you will learn the ten key lessons of the Warrior Goddess:

• The first three Warrior Goddess lessons lay a solid foundation, designed to help you commit, align, and purify your being.
• The next six lessons are transformational, a guided journey to renew and revitalize the main aspects of yourself.
• The final lesson is inspirational, encouraging you to bring your light more fully into the world.
• Each lesson offers exercises and practices to continue the transformation in your inner and outer worlds.

In Warrior Goddess Training, HeatherAsh Amara, draws on the ancient wisdom of Earth-based goddess spirituality, Toltec shamanism, and Buddhism. The book includes her personal stories as well as rituals and extensive practical exercises that will encourage and inspire you to become the true warrior goddess you are meant to be.

Don Juan concludes the instruction of Castaneda with his most powerful and mysterious lesson in the sorcerer's art--a dazzling series of visions that are at once an initiation and a deeply moving farewell.

The Shaman's Book of Extraordinary Practices is a treasure chest of time-tested shamanic practices to help you achieve radical personal transformation. Building on his decades of experience as a shamanic practitioner and spiritual teacher, author José Luis Stevens offers fifty-eight simple but extraordinarily effective practices to bring about spiritual growth.

The practices in this book are organized into six categories:

• Preparatory--Establish a foundation of essential basic skills
• Energetic--Unblock and redirect stuck energy
• Relational--Deepen your relationships with others, nature, and yourself
• Physical--Use your body as a portal to the divine
• Creative--Harness the power of the imagination for spiritual growth
• Perceptual--Learn to perceive things in fresh new ways

The foundational work on shamanism now available as a Princeton Classics paperback

Shamanism is an essential work on the study of this mysterious and fascinating phenomenon. The founder of the modern study of the history of religion, Mircea Eliade surveys the tradition through two and a half millennia of human history, moving from the shamanic traditions of Siberia and Central Asia--where shamanism was first observed--to North and South America, Indonesia, Tibet, China, and beyond. In this authoritative survey, Eliade illuminates the magico-religious life of societies that give primacy of place to the figure of the shaman--at once magician and medicine man, healer and miracle-doer, priest, mystic, and poet. Synthesizing the approaches of psychology, sociology, and ethnology, Shamanism remains the reference book of choice for those interested in this practice.