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Index
Cover Image
Title Page
Dedication
Epigraph
Acknowledgments
Table of Contents
Foreword By Sandra Ingerman
Our Prefaces
Introduction. The Shamanic State of Consciousness
JOURNEYING BASICS FOR BEGINNERS: THE SHAMANIC BRIDGE BETWEEN WORLDS
Part 1. Awakening
Chapter 1. Everything Has a Beginning
TAKEN BY BANJHANKRI
VISITING THE DIVINE SHAMANIC COUPLE
Chapter 2. Shamanic Awakening Is a Continual Process
Chapter 3. Dedicating Yourself to the Spirits
LAYERS OF PROTECTION
AS WITHOUT, SO WITHIN
A MORE ACCESSIBLE DEDICATION CEREMONY
Chapter 4. The Four Aspects of the Human Soul
Part 2. Flowering
Chapter 5. Shamanic Sacred Tools and Ritual Objects
PLANTS AND SEEDS USED ON SHAMAN ALTARS FOR CEREMONIES
Chapter 6. The Khurpa/Phurba
VAJRAKILAYA/DORJE PHURBA
CHOOSING A KHURPA
Chapter 7. Using Your Khurpa
Chapter 8. The Dhyangro
Chapter 9. Aina: The Shaman’s Mirror
Chapter 10. The Mala
SHAMANIC USES OF PRAYER BEADS
Chapter 11. The Trishula or Trident
OBTAINING YOUR TRISHULA
Chapter 12. Consecrating Shamanic Tools and Creating the Dhami/Jhankri Altar
THE BASIC STRUCTURE OF A NEPALESE DHAMI/JHANKRI ALTAR
BHOLA’S METHOD FOR BUILDING AND AWAKENING THE ALTAR
BINDING AND PROTECTING THE ALTAR AND SACRED OBJECTS
CEREMONY FOR AWAKENING AND CONSECRATING YOUR SHAMANIC ALTAR
Chapter 13. The Dhami/Jhankri’s Costume
Chapter 14. Working within the Nepalese Cosmology
DRUMMING TO HONOR THE ELEMENTS
HONORING THE FIVE ELEMENTS
Chapter 15. Ritual of Spring and Renewal
PERFORMING YOUR OWN CEREMONY OF RENEWAL
Chapter 16. Using Your Voice as a Shamanic Tool
Part 3. Bountiful Harvest
Chapter 17. The Cosmic Plan
BALANCING THE DIVINE PILLAR
Chapter 18. Primary Feminine Deities
OUT OF ONE, MANY
THE GODDESS DURGA
KALI: THE WRATHFUL ASPECT OF THE GODDESS
PEACEFUL FORMS OF THE GODDESS
THE TARAS
Chapter 19. Primary Masculine Deities
GANNYAP
LORD SHIVA
KAAL BHAIRUNG
VAJRAKILAYA: THE LIVING KHURPA
Chapter 20. Hanuman the Monkey God
HANUMAN MANTRA
Chapter 21. The Nagas
NAGAS AND CREATION
HONORING THE NAGAS
NAGAKANYA
Chapter 22. Garuda
THE GARUDA MANTRA
Chapter 23. Local Deities, Protectors, Ancestral Guardians
MASTO GOD
Part 4. Healing through Our Connections to All That Is
Chapter 24. The Eight Fetters
THE EIGHT FETTERS
Chapter 25. Healing and Empowerment through Ceremony
THE KHARDGA PUJA
Chapter 26. Other Purifying Rituals
THE CHOKHYAUNU/SUDDHA GARNU CEREMONY
THE PUCHNU CEREMONY
Chapter 27. The Shamanic Ransom Ritual
Chapter 28. Honoring Our Relationship with the Cosmos
THE NINE GRAHAS
HEALING DISHARMONIOUS PLANETARY EFFECTS
Conclusion. Spiritual and Emotional Unification
Appendix. Celebrating Durga and the Customs of Dashain
THE MOST SIGNIFICANT DAYS
Glossary
Footnotes
About the Authors
About Inner Traditions • Bear & Company
Books of Related Interest
Copyright & Permissions
Index
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