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Ritual: Power, Healing and Community
by Malidoma Patrice Some
from Penguin (Non-Classics)

Customer Reviews:

• Avg. Customer Rating: 5.0 / 5.0

• Interesting
  If you are serious about understanding power, and healing in community. This is a good book to read.

• What we can learn from the indigenous world...
  An absolutely fabulous book, which reads like a novel. Malidoma brings a lot of wisdom, and really get's you thinking. The contents of the book has it's application to life, but certainly also to leadership and the corporate world. If you only want to read one of his books, I definitely recommend this one.

• A book to be savored
  Malidoma Patrice Somé, author of Of Water and the Spirit, describes a broad spectrum of ways in which rituals can be helpful. His perspective is that of a shaman trained in the West African Dagara cultural tradition, now living and teaching in the US. He eloquently shares his experiences of powerful shamanic healing practices.
  For Somé, rituals are potent interventions on many levels. At the social level they are forms for expression of religious beliefs, or communal celebrations. Rituals... more info

• Profoundity of experience coupled with very skillful writing
  This man has considerably more skill both as a thinker and as a writer than the average philosopher, or anthropologist, or even 'New Age prophet'. He really lays everything bare, like it or not, about the advantages of living in a subsistence community (as against our modern society). And further, he explains how the rituals work which those folks use to maintain links with the spirits of their ancestors, as well as with the earth and with each other.

  Malidoma's brief but cogent exposition on the reasons... more info

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