Belinda Gore

The Ecstatic Experience (eBook, ePUB)

Healing Postures for Spirit Journeys

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

Trance-inducing postures for shamanic journeying, initiation, healing, divination, and transformation of the soul • Provides practices from Mayan, Egyptian, African, Native American, Sumerian, and other ancient and indigenous traditions • Shows how these practices can detoxify the energy body The human need for ecstasy--the ability to be free of the limitations of ordinary consciousness--is as imperative as the need for food. Renowned anthropologist Felicitas Goodman claimed that being deprived of ecstasy was the fundamental cause of all forms of addiction. Indigenous cultures and the civilizations of antiquity were aware of this and developed specific rituals to induce and channel trance energies to detoxify and nourish the subtle body in order to experience the ecstatic reality that gives life to matter. The body postures seen in ancient art from Mayan, Egyptian, African, Native American, Sumerian, and other ancient and indigenous traditions are a doorway to inducing this kind of ecstatic trance. People who assume these postures in a ritual context are able to experience expanded and transformative states of consciousness. Following up on the groundbreaking introduction of this practice in her first book, Ecstatic Body Postures, Belinda Gore provides a new series of 20 sacred postures and exercises that allow for a deeper understanding and utilization of these shamanic practices. She shows how to use the energy awakened by these practices for healing, shapeshifting, initiations into the mysteries of death and rebirth, divination, spirit journeying, and restoring balance to the cosmic patterns disrupted by destructive human activity.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Simon + Schuster LLC
• Seitenzahl: 160
• Erscheinungstermin: 27. März 2009
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781591439721
• Artikelnr.: 49185065

Autorenporträt

Belinda Gore, who holds a Ph.D. in Counseling Psychology, has been teaching workshops on ecstatic trance throughout the world since 1987. She is the president of the Cuyamungue Institute in Santa Fe, New Mexico, where she carries on the lifework of her mentor, Felicitas Goodman. Author of Ecstatic Body Postures: An Alternate Reality Workbook and The Ecstatic Experience, she lives in Columbus, Ohio.

Inhaltsangabe

Acknowledgments
Introduction
Part 1
Longing for Ecstasy
1 Living Ecstasy
2 Defining Ecstatic Trance
3 Why We Use Ecstatic Body Postures
4 The Basic Method for Entering Ecstatic Trance
Preparing Oneself
Establishing Sacred Space
Quieting the Mind
Stimulating the Nervous System
Using a Ritual Posture
Part 2
Experiencing Ecstatic Trance through Ritual Body Postures
5 Healing Postures
The African Healer Posture
The Couple from Jenne Posture
The Lady of Atotonilco Posture
The Standing Woman of Jalisco Posture
6 Divination Postures
The Egyptian Diviner Posture
The Horned Man from Colima Posture
The Mayan Oracle Posture
The Tala Diviner Posture
7 Metamorphosis Postures
The Cernunnos Posture
The Chichén Itzá Posture
The Fish Woman Posture
The Olmec Medicine Man Posture
8 Spirit Journey Postures
The Bird Woman of Egypt Posture
The Sleeping Lady of Malta Posture
The Poppy Pod Woman Posture
The Tsimshian Shamaness Posture
9 Initiation Postures
The Inanna Posture
The Ishtar Posture
The Sekhmet Posture
The Shawabty Posture
Notes
Bibliography
How to Use the CD and Ritual Postures to Enter Ecstatic Trance