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TITLES
BY
BELINDA GORE, President of the Cuyamungue Institute
Ecstatic
Body Postures: An Alternate
Specific body postures reappear in the art and artifacts of world cultures, even those widely separated by time and distance. What are these images of unusual postures telling us? Anthropologist Felicitas Goodman discovered that people who assume these postures while in trance report strikingly similar meditative experiences. The results from this research are astonishing, proving that certain body gestures and movements, when properly worked with, actually trigger us into accessing altered states of consciousness.
With clear instructions and illustrations, Belinda Gore, one of Dr. Goodman's prominent students, reveals to us these shamanic postures and how to work with them. Ecstatic Body Postures is a "must read" for anyone interested in meditation, shamanic practice, yoga, and body work.
The Ecstatic Experience
Healing Postures for Spirit Journeys $20.00
Trance-inducing postures for shamanic journeying, initiation, healing, divination, and transformation of the soul
- Provides practices from Mayan, Egyptian, African, Native American, Sumerian, and other ancient and indigenous traditions
- Shows how these practices can detoxify the energy body
- Includes 60-minute CD of trance rhythms to accompany the shamanic journeying exercises
The human need for ecstasy--the ability to be free of the limitations of ordinary consciousness--is as imperative as the need for food. Renowned anthropologist Felicitas Goodman claimed that being deprived of ecstasy was the fundamental cause of all forms of addiction. Indigenous cultures and the civilizations of antiquity were aware of this and developed specific rituals to induce and channel trance energies to detoxify and nourish the subtle body in order to experience the ecstatic reality that gives life to matter.
The body postures seen in ancient art from Mayan, Egyptian, African, Native American, Sumerian, and other ancient and indigenous traditions are a doorway to inducing this kind of ecstatic trance. People who assume these postures in a ritual context are able to experience expanded and transformative states of consciousness.
Following up on the groundbreaking introduction of this practice in her first book, Ecstatic Body Postures, Belinda Gore provides a new series of 20 sacred postures and exercises that allow for a deeper understanding and utilization of these shamanic practices. She shows how to use the energy awakened by these practices for healing, shapeshifting, initiations into the mysteries of death and rebirth, divination, spirit journeying, and restoring balance to the cosmic patterns disrupted by destructive human activity. To help reach these deep, ecstatic trance states, the author also provides a 60-minute CD of shamanic trance rhythms to accompany the journeys.
By SUSAN JOSEPHSON
Buffalo
Seed Woman $19.00
The
true story (in graphic novel form, with some of the names changed)
about spirit encounters and Native American religion in the
Southwest. Buffalo Seed Woman is based on the life of the
internationally known anthropologist Dr. Felicitas D. Goodman. Dr.
Goodman is famous for her research on altered states of
consciousness, and her discoveries of body postures that help people
achieve trance experiences of an alternate reality. She is the
founder of the Cuyamungue Institute and she is also my mother.
Buffalo
Seed Woman tells the story of Dr. Goodman's quest for contact with
ancient Pueblo Indian spirits in New Mexico and how that quest nearly
cost her life. of Felicitas D. Goodman ( A graphic story)
BY FELICITAS GOODMAN
The
Exorcism of Anneliese Michel
$21.95
(+ 5.00 Shipping & Handling in US for newly published paperback version)
This
is, quite simply, a remarkable book about a clash of world views. In
1978 a young German woman named Anneliese Michel died. The German
courts found her parents and the priests who attended her guilty of
negligent homicide. The courts concluded that Anneliese died because
she had been subjected to extensive and severe Exorcism rites, rather
than continuing the medications she had been given for epileptic
seizures. The paradigm that guided the court's decision was a
medical/ psychological one that views reality as a uniform
phenomenon, and digressions from that reality as manifestations of pathology.
The
movie "The Exorcism of Emily Rose" is based on this book
by Dr. Goodman. Click
here
to read more about the true story behind the movie.
How About Demons? $11.95 +
$ 5.00 S & H in US
Rich in detail derived from the author's fieldwork and the anthropological literature, this work paints a picture of possession as one of the usually positive and most widespread of human religious experiences. It also details the ritual of exorcism, which is applied when things go wrong.
PURCHASE BOTH
"The Exorcism of Anneleise
Michel" & "How About Demons" for just $34.00 (includes
shipping and handling in US)
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Where
the Spirits Ride the Wind: Journeys and Other Ecstatic Experiences $16.95
Felicitas
documents the effects of body posture on trance experience.
Intrigued by the physical changes that take place during trance
states, she began to record the observations of students who entered
a trance-like condition while concentrating on the sound of Goodman's
rattle for 15 minutes. Whenever she led a workshop in trance journeys--whether
in Berlin, Vienna, New Mexico or Ohio--her subjects' journeys always
lasted for 15 minutes, but where they went and what they saw, heard
and learned, maintains Goodman, depended on the particular body
posture they had assumed. One position conjured up sensations of
flying; others took subjects into an underground realm; in some the
journeyer was transformed into an animal. From the "Tennessee
diviner" to the "healing Bear," the postures are
derived, according to Goodman, from ancient, even prehistoric
traditions, known to us through cave drawings, anthropological
description and other sources. Yet much of what the trance journeyers
have to say about their experiences often sounds the same, calling
into question Goodman's basic thesis.
Speaking
in Tongues: A Cross-Cultural Study
of Glossolalia $10.95
(reprinted, spiral bound)
Glossolalia
is not a phenomenon unique to Christianity. It has been observed in
vast array of nonchristian cultures and religions from Eskimoes to
Africans, Indonesian, Borneo, Malaysian, Spanish, Haitian, Iraqi,
Chinese, Japanese, Aborigines, Ethiopians, etc.; representing a
variety of religion from Voodoo, Buddhism, dervishes, Islam,
Mormonism, Shamanism, Peyote cult, etc. It even goes as far back in
the literature as Herodotus who spoke of an inspired priest in Greece
who suddenly spoke in a barbarian language, and Virgil who tells in
the Aeneid of a Cumaean sibyl who spoke strangely while possessed.
Ecstasy,
Ritual and Alternate Reality: Religion in a Pluralistic World $14.95
Felicitas
traces the origins of religion to the dawn of human history, when
religious behavior was accompanied by gesture rather than
full-fledged modern speech. She also does a systematic comparison
that shows that religion vary according to whether people are hunter
gatherers, horticulturalists, agriculturalists, nomadic pastoralists,
or city dwellers. Felicitas offers a "unified field theory"
of religion as human behavior. She examines ritual, the religious
trance, alternate reality, ethics and moral code, and the named
category designating religion.
My Last Forty Days $9.95
An
"ethnography of the imagination" and a heart-warming
celebration of the immortality of the human soul, My Last Forty Days
is an adventure story with a rather unusual protagonist -- a ghost.
Celebrated anthropologist Felicitas Goodman combines the fruit of
many years of research among the Pueblos with her own visionary
experiences to fashion a moving tale of death and dying that remains
buoyant with life and hope. The ghostly heroine narrates her
quest for a spiritual home in the alternate reality of Pueblo Indian
mythology. She is accompanied by myriad guides and animal spirits who
help her attain self-knowledge. There are Old Man Coyote, Grandfather
Bear, Sister Snake, and Spider Woman. Cricket and Rattle Sister,
companions from her past, lend support during the forty day journey
into an unfamiliar yet enchanting place. Finally there is Buffalo,
the mighty Spirit Guide, who patiently instructs her in the ways of
this alien world. In a magically transposed landscape of the American
Southwest, they all play a pivotal role in bringing the story to its
surprising and joyful conclusion.
Maya Apocalypse $21.95
Maya
Apolcalypse is the record of fieldwork that, as often happens, ended
up quite differently from the way it was originally planned. In
conducting a research project about speaking in tongues
(glossolalia), Felicitas Goodman recorded this non-ordinary behavior
among English- and Spanish-speaking members of Pentecostal
congregations. A Mexican Apostolic Pentecostoal minister introduced
Goodman to the preacher in a Maya village in Yucatan. The
congregation she came to know in 1969 experienced a "crisis
cult" in response to a prediction of the end of the world, which
was to take place on September 1, 1970. Goodman subsequently spent a
part of every year until 1986 with the women of the congregation.
Maya Apocalypse is a record of that fieldwork, which eventually
covered not only the events in the temple, both ordinary and
extraordinary, but also the lives of the women who acted as
informants, especially Doņa Eus, to whom this work is
affectionately dedicated.
By Daniel Statnekov
Animated Earth: A Story of Peruvian Whistles and Transformation $19.00
In 1972, Daniel Statnekov discovered a Pre-Columbian psycho-acoustical whistle made of clay at an auction in Pennsylvania. He spent the next 15 years researching the objects which are known as the "Peruvian Whistling Vessels."
He wrote about these experiences in his book, Animated Earth, published in 1987 by North Atlantic Books. August, 2003 - the second edition of the book is now available here.
"From an auction barn in Pennsylvania to museums and research labs at UCLA, from New Mexico to Peru, Daniel Statnekov traces his heart-opening journey in rediscovering the psycho-acoustic effects of ancient Peruvian whistling vessels. I am glad I was able to share a bit of that journey with him and hope that Animated Earth will inspire you to follow your dream."
- Andrew T. Weil, M.D.
Jewels on the Path: A Spirit Notebook
-
Volume 1 $7.95
Volume 2 $10.00
CDs:
"Rattling
and Drumming CD"
by Felicitas
D. Goodman & Belinda Gore
$12.00
Four 15 minute sequences of rattling and drumming to use with a posture creating the auditory stimulation for trance journeying.
AUDIO AND VIDEO TAPES
Rattling and Drumming tape (audio) $8.95
Videotape:Robinette Kennedy Interviews Felicitas Goodman $29.95
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