Shaman: The Wounded Healer (The Illustrated Library of Sacred Imagination)

Summarizes forms of shamanism in various cultures, looks at its origin, and compares the methods shamans use to gain a vision of other realities. A summary of the various forms of shamanism, and a generalized model based on the psychosymbolic structures emerging from the ground of many shamanic cultures. Long quotations from shamans are woven into the text which is well illustrated with drawings and photographs. Joan Halifax. Includes Bibliographical References (p. 96).