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By Belinda Gore

Trance-inducing postures for shamanic touring, initiation, therapeutic, divination, and transformation of the soul

• offers practices from Mayan, Egyptian, African, local American, Sumerian, and different historical and indigenous traditions

• exhibits how those practices can detoxify the strength physique

The human want for ecstasy--the skill to be freed from the constraints of standard consciousness--is as primary because the desire for nutrition. well known anthropologist Felicitas Goodman claimed that being disadvantaged of ecstasy was once the basic reason for all kinds of dependancy. Indigenous cultures and the civilizations of antiquity have been conscious of this and constructed particular rituals to urge and channel trance energies to detoxify and nourish the sophisticated physique with a view to adventure the ecstatic fact that offers lifestyles to subject.

The physique postures visible in old artwork from Mayan, Egyptian, African, local American, Sumerian, and different historical and indigenous traditions are a doorway to inducing this sort of ecstatic trance. those who suppose those postures in a ritual context may be able to event accelerated and transformative states of attention.

Following up at the groundbreaking creation of this custom in her first publication, Ecstatic physique Postures, Belinda Gore offers a brand new sequence of 20 sacred postures and routines that permit for a deeper realizing and usage of those shamanic practices. She exhibits the way to use the strength woke up through those practices for therapeutic, shapeshifting, initiations into the mysteries of loss of life and rebirth, divination, spirit visiting, and restoring stability to the cosmic styles disrupted by means of damaging human activity.

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