Nordic Magic Healing by Yves Kodratoff

Nordic Magic Healing by Yves Kodratoff

Galdr is a song or howling by which a poem written in runes is made active. Anthropological texts will often describe a healing ritual where the healer has been seen to mutter some indistinct words over the patient. This book gives these 'mutterings' back their true meaning and importance. It will also explain their rational value by clearly stating the root causes of the sickness, and explore their religious meaning. The poetry and creativity of these chants combine to form a very effective healing technique, albeit a very difficult one. Many of you will be familiar with karate's 'scream that kills', that came to us from the East. We will explore the 'scream (or song) that heals' called galdr by the Norse. In this book, galdr will be explored in two ways: by looking at a new interpretation of the famous Finish epic, Kalevala; and by considering pagan charms from various parts of the world, including two unexpected sources, those from Lithuania (not yet published) and those from Hildegard von Bingen (a German Christian visionary of the early twelfth century, whose charms were not considered to be Pagan). The Kalevala teaches us the twelve steps for physical healing, and the nine steps for healing mental illness. Old charms are used as a model for buidling new ones.

Kodratoff, Yves: - I am a scientist who spent 45 years of his life as researcher in the French Center for Scientific Research (CNRS) working on the still very new topics of Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning. This long practice of the scientific approach, instead of ossifying my mind patterns, prompted me towards nonconventional attitudes. Somewhat awkwardly, all this drove me to associate my personal life experiences with a stubborn study of the Old Norse texts containing the original sources of the Northern myths.

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ISBN 13	9781581125733
ISBN 10	1581125739
Titel	Nordic Magic Healing
Autor	Yves Kodratoff
Buchzustand	Nicht verfügbar
Bindungsart	Paperback
Verlag	Universal Publishers
Erscheinungsjahr	2003-06-01
Seitenanzahl	304
Hinweis auf dem Einband	Die Abbildung des Buches dient nur Illustrationszwecken, die tatsächliche Bindung, das Cover und die Auflage können sich davon unterscheiden.