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| Chosen by the Spirits: Following Your Shamanic Calling | 
 enlarge | Author: Sarangerel
Publisher: Destiny Books
Category: Book
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Avg. Customer Rating:  (9 reviews)
Sales Rank: 393668
Media: Paperback
Number Of Items: 1
Pages: 224
Shipping Weight (lbs): 1.2
Dimensions (in): 9 x 6 x 0.8
ISBN: 0892818611
Dewey Decimal Number: 291.144
EAN: 9780892818617
ASIN: 0892818611
Publication Date: May 15, 2001
Release Date: June 1, 2001
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Product Description
? Mongolian shamaness Sarangerel provides a hands-on guide for serious students of the shamanic path.
? Includes complete directions for traditional Siberian rituals, meditations, and divination techniques never before published.
? Shows how to recognize and acknowledge a call from the spirits.
? Offers traditional wisdom for nurturing a working relationship with personal spirit helpers to promote healing and balance in a community.
The shaman's purpose is to heal and restore balance to his or her community by developing a working relationship with the spirit world. Mongolian shamanic tradition maintains that all true shamans are called by the spirits--but those who are not from shamanic cultures may have difficulty recognizing the call or nurturing the essential shamanic relationship with their helper spirits.
Buryat shamaness Sarangerel has written Chosen by the Spirits as a guide for both the beginning shaman and the advanced practitioner. Although raised in the United States, she was drawn to the shamanic tradition, and in 1991 returned to her ancestral homeland in the Tunken region of southern Siberia to study with traditional Buryat shamans. Her first book, Riding Windhorses, provided an introduction to the shamanic world of Siberia. Chosen by the Spirits delves more deeply into the personal relationship between the shamanic student and his or her "spirit family." Sarangerel recounts her own journey into shamanic practice and provides the serious student with practical advice and hands-on techniques for recognizing and acknowledging a shamanic calling, welcoming and embodying the spirits, journeying to the spirit world, and healing both people and places.
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What I was looking for. April 26, 2008
I was looking for a foundation of Tibetan/Siberian shamanism, more specifically Buryat. I never thought that this book even existed. I was surprised with validation of certain things and learning many things by reading this book. I haven't had the time to read it uninterrupted yet. This book backs up some of the things that I was already aware of. This book has good information on Buryat shamanism for someone that is a true shaman or has shamanistic beliefs.
 She's not Mongolian or Native Siberian January 5, 2008
2 out of 4 found this review helpful
The author has adopted a Mongolian name but she is NOT Mongolian. Neither is she one of the native Siberian peoples.
Tread cautiously - I thought her first book was terrible and self-serving. Like a "recipe" book with no rhyme or reason. Like all stories written by people who have "gone native" you really need to take this with a grain of salt.
There is a dark side June 25, 2007
4 out of 9 found this review helpful
She gives lots of warnings and teaches a Russian kind of shamanism. First of all if you were not raised in the belief system, these gods and goddesses are not going to work for you. Second she totally ignores the 75% of the material she learned that has to do with black magic. It is not that it is not there in that belief system, It is very much there! She just doesn't teach about it. And to me that is like handing someone a gun and bullets and not telling them how to load the gun. They will end up with a loaded gun eventually. so yes it is scary and I am sorry to see it published. It will cause a lot of trouble in the world.
 Excellent June 20, 2007
2 out of 2 found this review helpful
I absolutely love this book. It has some excellent rituals, it is rather different from the common Shamanic books out there and gives you more of the cultural aspect of Shamanism, which is not necessary but it has a certain beauty to it which to me adds a certain sacredness to what you are practicing. When sacredness is added to what you practice and experience it creates a sense of honor, love and respect. And it appears to me that I don't sense this in the other books on Shamanism that I've read.
But I highly recommend this book.
This is it! October 1, 2006
3 out of 3 found this review helpful
If you are looking for the truth in Shamanic studies, this is it. While difficult to read, it sums up many secrets that are not easily given out; by masters, who teach real shamanism. This is not for the beginner, one has to have a background and be very clear and grounded to practice these skills.
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