Shaman : the wounded healer

Halifax, Joan. (Author).

Record details

ISBN: 9780500810293
ISBN: 050081029X
Physical Description: print
96 p ; cm.
Publisher: New York : Thames and Hudson, 1982.

Content descriptions

Formatted Contents Note:

Pt 1 The wounded healer -- Patterns of mythic imagination -- The net of power -- Nature-kin and interspecies communication -- The sacred way of the wounded healer -- The reatreat to paradise -- To fly as birds -- The sun door -- The return to the people -- The essence of life -- The end of time -- Pt 2 Plates -- Pt 3 Themes -- Maps -- Paths to the underworld -- Thresholds of the two-light world -- Departure and incubation -- Spirits of the underworld -- Death and skeletonization -- Covenants and animal transforamations -- Life energy force and ally of power -- Equilibrium and compassion -- World tree and axis mundi -- Flight -- Mastery of fire -- Solarization -- Return to the middle world