New books!

[shadesong]

I joined the One Spirit book club again.

Yes, again. Shut up.

The enrollment package arrived today! I got:

The Vegetarian Times cookbook (food porn for yendi

"The Healing Path" by Jacqueline Young - "The practical guide to the holistic traditions of China, Tibet, and Japan"

"Inner Reiki" by Tanmaya Honervogt

"Shaman, Healer, Sage" by Alberto Villoldo and "The Lakota Way" by Joseph M. Marshall (two-pack)

"The Complete Book of Essential Oils and Aromatherapies" by Valerie Ann Worwood

"Animal-Speak - The Spiritual & Magical Powers of Creatures Great and Small", by Ted Andrews.

So yeah, you don't really have to wonder what path I'm on...

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[wolvy]

haha - "food porn" - I love it!

[shadesong.livejournal.com]

That's what it is! Pictures of and recipes for lavish dishes that he'll never cook.... he has his food porn, and I have my floorplan porn. I'm addicted to books of floorplans. :)

[voltbang.livejournal.com]

I think maps are part of why I am a gamer. I love maps and floorplans are just another kind of map. I love going through those big books of floorplans and thinking baout the houses they represent and how if you move this wall two feet to the right you could connect the master bedroom to the study via a secret passage....

[shadesong.livejournal.com]

Yes, exactly!

[amberfox.livejournal.com]

Let me know if any of those are particularly good, especially "Inner Reiki"; I've got quite a stack of Reiki books, but I'm always looking for more good ones. So many of the ones out there are junk. =/

[shadesong.livejournal.com]

Which ones have you found to be good? I'm a beginner...

[nomadmwe.livejournal.com]

Hon, I had you pegged as a healer, and I barely know ya. :)

One of the people I camp with at Pennsic is a big-time Reiki person... if you want, I can try and get titles of decent books on it out of him.

[shadesong.livejournal.com]

*hugs*

Book recommendations would be great - thanks!

[catalyxt.livejournal.com]

Another thought-provoking shamanistic book you might like is Dancing the Dream by Jamie Sams....but it sounds like you have enough to read for now *grin*

[shadesong.livejournal.com]

Hey, I'll see if they have it - I do need to buy four more books within the next two years. :)

[iroshi.livejournal.com]

Let me know how those two in the two-pack work out. They sound interesting. ^_^

[shadesong.livejournal.com]

Will do! :)


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[iroshi.livejournal.com]

Actually, you evil woman you, I had to sign up for the book club myself. I went to browse, and got thwacked in the back of the head with, "You need THAT one. And THAT one. NOW." So I bought. *g* And then I bought two more from Amazon, one that I had found but was the cheapest of the list, so when I went over my five, I took it off, and when I pulled it up on Amazon, it came up with another one by the same author that looks more practical "how to deal with a shamanic calling" book than the general overviews one usually finds.

So I spent $30 at Amazon and joined the book club. Bad woman. ^_^

[shadesong.livejournal.com]

Yes, I'm quite bad... but dammit, no one will spank me. :(

What was the other shamanic-calling one?

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[iroshi.livejournal.com]

The two I ordered from Amazon were: Riding Windhorses: A Journey into the Heart of Mongolian Shamanism, which is the one I found on One Spirit, and Chosen by the Spirits: Following Your Shamanic Calling, which seems more of a practical teaching book than I've *ever* found for shamanism. :)

Don't know how to go check which ones I ordered from One Spirit...they haven't processed it yet, which means I can't log in. Okay, I can look through all the ones I looked at, and see if I can remember which ones I ordered. ^_^ I know one of them was Sacred Woman, Sacred Dance. Oh, here's another one I bought: Vibrational Medicine for the 21st Century, because I have this fabulous book that shows the connections between quantum physics and shamanism, and it's *all* about vibrations. I want to read this one, see if I can't finally wrap my mind around the concept and develop it into a personally working model. And a two-book set of Buffalo Woman Comes Singing and The Last Ghost Dance: A Guide for Earth Mages, mainly because I wanted that second one, and there *was* a two-book set for it, so I don't mind getting the other. :) The last one I got (the dance book counted as 2) might have been The Healing Path, but I'm not sure...

[shadesong.livejournal.com]

Wishlisted "Chosen by the Spirits" - thanks for the tip!

[skylion.livejournal.com]

:Animal-Speak - The Spiritual & Magical Powers of Creatures Great and Small", by Ted Andrews.--good book. I need to get another copy, however, lost my "reading" copy in the divorce.

[elorie.livejournal.com]

Hmmm.

If you read my journal, you will find much whining about my knee. I strained the ligaments by hiking too much and it isn't healing very quickly...it's been six weeks, in fact.

I will be doing panels on Tarot at D*Con

Want to reiki my knee in trade for a Tarot reading?

[shadesong.livejournal.com]

Ooh, these are my first books on the subject - I can *try*, but I have no experience!

[piratejenny.livejournal.com]

They sound great! Let me know about the Reiki book--I'm actually learning right now too (through an offshoot of rock and renegade reiki, aka someone who doesn't charge obscene amounts of money to teach). I wish I knew you were interested in The Lakota Way (good book, btw) cause that is one of the books I keep finding on the free shelves! But now that I know what sort of books, I'll keep my eyes out. Oh, and the author has a web site now. Of course, I can't seem to find it, but if you remind me Monday, I should be able to find it.

[shadesong.livejournal.com]

Rock and renegade? I *love* it! Yeah, the only reason I haven't learned reiki yet is that I haven't found a practicioner who won't charge an arm and a leg to teach it. The Lakota Way I got mostly because of the other book it was in the two-pack with, but I'm glad to know that it's good! iroshi was interested, though, so if you see it again, can you send me a copy so I can send it to her? Just if you see it on the free tables. :) And yes, I'd love anything remotely metaphysical that you find there. :)

[piratejenny.livejournal.com]

Yeah, it's the term for people who teach reiki without charging thousands of dollars. If the woman I'm learning from decides to expand at all, I'll definitely recommend you (she's trying doing much of it by email, though I live close enough to her to see her for attunements and such). And I'll grab the copy of The Lakota Way that's on the free shelf near my office. :-) btw, you guys should be getting some books this week . . .

[iroshi.livejournal.com]

I got my first and second degrees in one weekend, for a special price...the woman charged X amount for one person, but anyone else after that was only 1/2X, so when someone I knew (vaguely, through a local pagan email list) was going, she asked if anyone wanted to go in with her and split the costs, so amberfox and I went. (I never thought it was an extraordinary amount in the first place, just a few hundred, since that was the woman's only source of income.) We didn't learn anything, really, any of the three of us, except the symbols (and I'd *really* like to know why *they* work), being all pagans quite used to energy work (the rest of the students, AND the teacher, were Christians, if you can believe that!), but the attunements...I tell you true, I don't know *what* they did, but they did *something*, because all four of my guides were there during each of them, doing *something* right along with the woman giving the attunement.

I got my third level attunement from someone for free, long-distance. And since I have no desire to reach Master (what for? I don't want to teach the stuff; I suck as a teacher), I've gone as far as I want to go.

Tell you what, though, 'song. I'll give you the attunements when I come visit, if you like, and answer any questions you might have on using the system. (You *can* use it before the attunements; I did, but believe me it gets a lot *clearer* and easier and flows better after the attunements.)

[shadesong.livejournal.com]

Yay! I can be your Padawan. :)



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[iroshi.livejournal.com]

LOL! Oh, gads...I never intended to take a Padawan. 'Tis one of the reasons I didn't mind the fact that it took Master James so long to agree to Knight me. I liked *being* a Padawan... *giggle*

Speaking of which, that's one of the people I have to meet while I'm in Atlanta: zortified = Master James Walkswithwind. She's tres cool, and I must meet her. ^_^

[shadesong.livejournal.com]

Master James Walkswithwind... Iroshi Windwalker... did I ever tell you that I had a Shadowrun character (Native American elven shaman) simply named Windwalker?


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[iroshi.livejournal.com]

Umm...whoa...scary there.

(And believe it or not, I never realized the similarity between James' name and mine until *after* I changed it legally.)

[shadesong.livejournal.com]

Heh. We're a clan of some sort. And I haven't played Windwalker in about 10 years....no one to play Shadowrun with! *pout*


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[shadesong.livejournal.com]

Yay for books - thanks, Jenny! :)

The Worwood book

[maida-mac.livejournal.com]

Is great, even though I haven't gotten to play with it as much as I'd like. I actually bought it for my mother on her birthday.

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[shadesong.livejournal.com]

Oh, good! Being as it's a book club, I bought these sight unseen... good to get reviews. :)


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