A renowned healer and shaman's life-changing journey of discovery, healing, and wisdom
""Malidoma has kept faith with the ancestors and with his own heart. His journey is a shimmering 'missing piece' in the story of the earth."" -Alice Walker
When he was a young boy growing up in Burkina Faso, Malidoma Some was taken from his village and brought to a Jesuit mission school, where he spent years being harshly indoctrinated in European ways of thought and worship. In this vivid and paradigm-shifting memoir, Malidoma recounts his journey home-and his initiation into the healing traditions of the Dagara culture, where the natural and supernatural blend together, and every person is encircled by family, community, and the wisdom of ancestors.
By turns humbling, harrowing, magical, and transcendent, Malidoma's spiritual awakening imparted ancient wisdom that he would spend the rest of his life sharing with others around the world-as an antidote to alienation, a tool for self-transformation, and a bridge between cultures and worlds.
By:
Malidoma Some
Imprint: Penguin Books Ltd
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
Dimensions:
Height: 215mm,
Width: 138mm,
Spine: 14mm
Weight: 259g
ISBN: 9780140194968
ISBN 10: 0140194967
Pages: 320
Publication Date: 28 September 1995
Audience:
General/trade
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ELT Advanced
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active
Of Water and the Spirit Introduction Chapter 1: Slowly Becoming Chapter 2: A Grandfather's Farewell Chapter 3: Grandfather's Funeral Chapter 4: A Sudden Farewell Chapter 5: In the White Man's World Chapter 6: Life Begins at Nansi Chapter 7: The Rebellion Begins Chapter 8: New Awakenings Chapter 9: The Long Journey Begins Chapter 10: The Voyage Home Chapter 11: Hard Beginnings Chapter 12: Trying to Fit Back into Village Life Chapter 13: The Meeting at the Earth Shrine Chapter 14: My First Night at the Initiation Camp Chapter 15: Trying to See Chapter 16: The World of the Fire, the Song of the Stars Chapter 17: In the Arms of the Green Lady Chapter 18: Returning to the Source Chapter 19: Opening the Portal Chapter 20: Through the Light Hole Chapter 21: The World at the Bottom of the Pool Chapter 22: Burials, Lessons, and Journeys Chapter 23: Journey into the Underworld Chapter 24: A Mission in the Underworld Chapter 25: Returning from the Underworld Chapter 26: Homecoming and Celebration Epilogue: The Fearful Return
Malidoma Patrice Some was a renowned diviner, healer, and teacher in the spiritual traditions of his African ancestors and was the author of The Healing Wisdom of Africa. After his initiation as a shaman in the Dagara culture, he went on to earn several graduate degrees from the Sorbonne and Brandeis University and established a teaching and training community in the United States.
Reviews for Of Water and the Spirit: Ritual, Magic, and Initiation in the Life of an African Shaman
In Lithuania: Stepping Westward, Lane, an historian, has put together a sound and informative survey of not only the Lithuanian role in the stunning events of 1988-1992 but of the Lithuanian experience as a whole, ranging from the Middle Ages through to the developments, political, economic and strategic, of the last decade, as Lithuania has adopted democratic conventions and a free market, and sought simultaneously to join both NATO and the European Union.. <br>-Canadian Journal of History <br>
