[PDF] The Shamans Apprentice eBook

Author : Mark J. Plotkin
Publisher : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Page : 40 pages
File Size : 20,36 MB
Release : 1998-04-01
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 054754491X

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In a Tirio village deep in the heart of the Amazon rain forest, the shaman Nahtahlah has a place of honor in his tribe. Young Kamanya wants to learn the healing secrets of the forest plants--he hopes that he, too, will become the tribe’s shaman, so that he can cure his people. When the villagers fall sick with an illness that Nahtahlah cannot cure, many lose faith in the shaman’s wisdom--until a foreign woman helps them understand its value while giving Kamanya an opportunity to realize his dream. Lynne Cherry returns to the rain forest with ethnobotanist Mark J. Plotkin to tell an important story about the healing plants of the earth-and why we must protect them.

Author : Lynne Cherry
Publisher : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Page : 36 pages
File Size : 21,10 MB
Release : 2001
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 9780152024864

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Kamanya believes in the shaman's wisdom about the healing properties of plants found in the Amazon rain forest and hopes one day to be a healer for his people.

Author : Mark J. Plotkin
Publisher : Penguin
Page : 352 pages
File Size : 18,85 MB
Release : 1994-08-01
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 1101644699

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The fascinating account of a pioneering ethnobotanist’s travels in the Amazon—at once a gripping adventure story, a passionate argument for conservationism, and an investigation into the healing power of plants, by the author of The Amazon: What Everyone Needs to Know For thousands of years, healers have used plants to cure illness. Aspirin, the world's most widely used drug, is based on compounds originally extracted from the bark of a willow tree, and more than a quarter of medicines found on pharmacy shelves contain plant compounds. Now Western medicine, faced with health crises such as AIDS, Alzheimer's disease, and cancer, has begun to look to the healing plants used by indigenous peoples to develop powerful new medicines. Nowhere is the search more promising than in the Amazon, the world's largest tropical forest, home to a quarter of all botanical species on this planet—as well as hundreds of Indian tribes whose medicinal plants have never been studied by Western scientists. In Tales of a Shaman's Apprentice, ethnobotanist Mark J. Plotkin recounts his travels and studies with some of the most powerful Amazonian shamans, who taught him the plant lore their tribes have spent thousands of years gleaning from the rain forest. For more than a decade, Dr. Plotkin raced against time to harvest and record new plants before the rain forests' fragile ecosystems succumb to overdevelopment—and before the Indians abandon their own culture and learning for the seductive appeal of Western material culture. Tales of a Shaman's Apprentice relates nine of the author's quests, taking the reader along on a wild odyssey as he participates in healing rituals; discovers the secret of curare, the lethal arrow poison that kills in minutes; tries the hallucinogenic snuff epena that enables the Indians to speak with their spirit world; and earns the respect and fellowship of the mysterious shamans as he proves that he shares both their endurance and their reverence for the rain forest.

Author : Zacharias Kunuk
Publisher : Inhabit Media
Page : 32 pages
File Size : 12,81 MB
Release : 2021-04-13
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 9781772272680

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A young shaman in training must face her first test--a trip to the underground to visit Kannaaluk, The One Below, who holds the answers to why a community member has become ill.

Author : Harvey Neil Stidston II
Publisher : Archway Publishing
Page : 246 pages
File Size : 12,36 MB
Release : 2017-02-02
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 148084215X

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As a young man runs through the forest, he looks back to see the blood red eyes of the Indian Devil coming after him. A few moments later, he passes through a portal and is sent into the pastthe first step of his Awakening. As the young man reflects on a childhood filled with more illness than good times, he remembers the Shaman, an Indian medicine man, who eventually healed him and named him Fire Hawk. After Fire Hawk decides he too wants to become a Shaman, he must ask the Shaman Council, Shakawl, for approval before he can become an Apprentice, and then pass a sacred test to demonstrate he is worthy of learning the Shakawls secrets. Unfortunately there are many Indian Devils who will do anything to steal powersincluding kill. As his destiny to become the most powerful Shaman in the world rises up to meet him, the young man must follow his Heart and rely on help from his friends to evade the one who tirelessly hunts him before he can realize his purpose and learn forgiveness. In this engaging tale, a young man facing significant challenges embarks on a spiritual journey to greatness where he discovers that his most important power in life is believing in himself.

Author : Basil Riverdale
Publisher : iUniverse
Page : 246 pages
File Size : 23,8 MB
Release : 2001-01-20
Category : Body, Mind & Spirit
ISBN : 0595161375

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The tribal people of Ao-tea-roa confront the arrival of the pakehas, the strange, pale invaders from across the sea. The shaman warns his people not to be seduced by new material wealth and proselytizing by Christian missionaries. The tribe finds itself hard pressed to maintain its culture and tradition. The new world confronts the old as white settlers begin to push the native people off their ancestral lands. In the midst of war and chaos, a young shaman emerges to lead his people. He is recognized as a man of great mana. Defeat seems inevitable, but the shaman will rise up above it all, showing both whites and tribesmen alike a transcendent vision and a destiny for humanity written in the stars.

Author : Michael L. McKinney
Publisher : Jones & Bartlett Learning
Page : 168 pages
File Size : 24,50 MB
Release : 2004
Category : Environmental management
ISBN : 9780763732806

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Outlooks: Readings for Environmental Literacy, Second Edition is an anthology of recent articles covering diverse viewpoints on environmental issues and solutions. The organization is the same sequence used in Environmental Science: Systems and Solutions, Third Edition, written by Michael L. McKinney and Robert M. Schoch;however, Outlooks provides tangible examples for the breadth of material students typically encounter when using any environmental science text.

Author : Michael R. Hall
Publisher : WestBow Press
Page : 213 pages
File Size : 18,47 MB
Release : 2014-06-13
Category : Comics & Graphic Novels
ISBN : 1490737057

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Long before any European ever set foot in North America, a young boy was about to enter manhood in his powerful tribe located in the Ohio Valley. It was 250 A.D. There was only one problem: the boy had been determined by tribal members to be the cause of bad luck. His efforts to redeem himself by participating in dangerous tribal ceremonies ultimately backfire making matters much much worse. With his very life now at stake, he is magically reborn and transformed against his will into a shaman's apprentice. He starts the process of learning his new role with his new family and gradually begins to understand the magic in all of nature and in the parallel universe of the spirit world. He is acquiring the profound and crucial powers of a shaman of a mighty people; but also the humility and responsibility that comes with such power. The story is replete with descriptions of the daily activities of an early eastern woodland culture together with the native plant and wild animal interactions that often occurred to a people living in such close proximity to nature on a daily basis.

Author : Mariko Namba Walter
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Page : 1088 pages
File Size : 34,70 MB
Release : 2004-12-15
Category : Religion
ISBN : 1576076466

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A guide to worldwide shamanism and shamanistic practices, emphasizing historical and current cultural adaptations. This two-volume reference is the first international survey of shamanistic beliefs from prehistory to the present day. In nearly 200 detailed, readable entries, leading ethnographers, psychologists, archaeologists, historians, and scholars of religion and folk literature explain the general principles of shamanism as well as the details of widely varied practices. What is it like to be a shaman? Entries describe, region by region, the traits, such as sicknesses and dreams, that mark a person as a shaman, as well as the training undertaken by initiates. They detail the costumes, music, rituals, artifacts, and drugs that shamans use to achieve altered states of consciousness, communicate with spirits, travel in the spirit world, and retrieve souls. Unlike most Western books on shamanism, which focus narrowly on the individual's experience of healing and trance, Shamanism also examines the function of shamanism in society from social, political, and historical perspectives and identifies the ancient, continuous thread that connects shamanistic beliefs and rituals across cultures and millennia.