Experienced shamans venture into some weighty, dark and scary places in the non-ordinary reality on behalf of their clients. These books offer guidance on mending broken souls, psychopomp work (helping the dead pass over), extraction, depossession, and other advanced shamanic techniques. | ||
Soul Retrieval: Mending the Fragmented Self Through Shamanic Practice
Sandra Ingerman This classic book details the shamanic technique for recovering lost soul parts and restoring wholeness. | Welcome Home: Following Your Soul's Journey Home
Sandra Ingerman Followup to Soul Retrieval offers broader guidance on how to proceed on your healing journey. | Shamanic Guide to Death and Dying
Kristin Madden Meditations, exercises, and rituals for a shamanic approach to death. |
Shapeshifting: Techniques for Global and Personal Transformation
John Perkins Teacher and activist Perkins describes shapeshifting and other advanced shsmanic techniques and how they can be used to effect change. | Hallucinogens and Shamanism
Michael Harner A scholarly cross-cultural survey of shamans' use of psychotropics to access the spirit world. | Psychedelic Shamanism: The Cultivation, Preparation and Shamanic Use of Psychotropic Plants
Jim DeKorne A detailed, practical guide to psychotropic plants used by shamans. |
Medicine for the Earth: How to Transform Personal and Environmental Toxins
Sandra Ingerman A call for using shamanic techniques and spiritual energy to heal the earth. | Dancing in the Flames
Marion Woodman A guide to transformation by working constructively with the Dark Goddess, the seemingly destructive and irrational side of female divinity. From a Jungian psychology perspective. | Hostage to the Devil: The Possession and Exorcism of Five Contemporary Americans
Malachi Martin Case studies of people possessed by spirits and intervention by exorcists trained in the Catholic tradition. |
Fang and Fur, Blood and Bone: A Primal Guide to Animal Magic
Lupa In-depth book on working with your animal spirit guides. |
Advanced Topics in Shamanism |