Bushman Shaman by Bradford P Keeney

Bushman Shaman by Bradford P Keeney

The author's journey to becoming a Bushman shaman and healer and how this tradition relates to shamanic practices around the world

- Explores the Bushmen's ecstatic shaking and dancing practices

- Written by the first non-Bushman to become fully initiated into their healing and spiritual ways

In Bushman Shaman, Bradford Keeney details his initiation into the shamanic tradition of the Kalahari Bushmen, regarded by some scholars as the oldest living culture on earth. Keeney sought out the Bushmen while in South Africa as a visiting professor of psychotherapy. He had known of the Kalahari trance dance, wherein the dancers' bodies shake uncontrollably as part of the healing ceremony. Keeney was drawn to this tradition in the hope that it might explain and provide a forum for his own ecstatic shaking, which he had first experienced at the age of 19 and had tried to suppress and hide throughout his adult life.

For more than a dozen years Keeney danced with Bushmen shamans in communities throughout Botswana and Namibia, until finally becoming fully initiated into their doctoring and spiritual ways. Through his rediscovery of the rope to God in a Bushman shaman dream, he offers readers accounts of his shamanic world travels and the secrets of the soul he learned along the way. In Bushman Shaman Keeney also reveals his work with shamans from Japan, Tibet, Bali, Thailand, Australia, and North and South America, providing new understandings of other forms of shamanic spiritual expression and integrating the practices of all these traditions into a sacred circle of one truth.

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ISBN 13	9780892816989
ISBN 10	0892816988
Title	Bushman Shaman
Author	Bradford P Keeney
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Binding Type	Paperback
Publisher	Inner Traditions Bear and Company
Year published	2005-01-28
Number of pages	272
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