Shaman Fiction

Author Mark Plotkin, chief ethnobotanist for Conservation International, has spent much of the past 15 years tracking the shamans of the northeast Amazon. Their knowledge of healing plants may hold the cure to some of today's most devastating diseases. This book is a critically acclaimed account of his apprenticeship to these powerful wise men, a gripping journey into a wild and wonderful world seldom glimpsed by outsiders.

The dimensions are falling one by one. Nothing can stand against Devians. They are the demons beneath the beds, the dark demented ones that are feeding on our souls. The new bodysnatchers, they are here and there's nothing we can do will stop them. The police won’t believe you, your own family will drug and institutionalize you if you tell them. Even though it is hopeless. Even though no one can kill a Devian. Even though they grow more powerful every moment. Even though it is absurd to think about standing against them. One man will.

The stories in this collection were first published in Analog, a science fiction magazine, between 1990 and 2011. They feature the adventures of eccentric kilt-wearing anthropologist, archaeologist, and xenologist Rhys Llewellyn and his able assistants, Yoshi Umeki and Roderick Halfax. Given my fascination with archaeology, first contact…and all things Scottish, I suppose these stories were inevitable.

A year after her husband's sudden death, ceramic artist Tilda Fordwells finally moves into the secluded Welsh cottage that was to be their new home. She hopes that the tranquil surroundings will help ease her grief, and lessen her disturbing visions of Mat's death. Instead, the lake in the...

Lucas Blackfox doesn’t just see dead people; he watches, through the killer’s eyes, as they are being tortured and murdered. He’s tried drowning the visions in copious amounts of alcohol, but nothing will keep them at bay. Now, the visions have grown stronger and he doesn’t just see it; Lucas feels every emotion and sensation the maniac, with whom he has the psychic connection, feels. Not even the whiskey can drown them, and putting a bullet in his own brain seems like his only option. Until he reunites with Emma Reese, a childhood friend.

In The Beginner's Guide to Shamanic Journeying, Sandra Ingerman shares the core teachings of this transformative practice, including the original role of the shaman in indigenous societies, how to meet and work with your power animal and other spirit teachers, and the keys to successful journeying in our modern culture.

Otto is Richard Krugg's only son and heir to the Shaman's gift. Otto doesn't want it. He wants to be a fisherman. When company policies force unwelcome changes onto his life and threaten even the security of the village, Otto discovers that being a shaman isn't optional. Jimmy Pirano is caught between the devil and the deep green sea when new production quotas are handed down from corporate headquarters. Locked into a century of existing practice, Jimmy is forced to find new ways to fish....

Not long ago, Daniel Mahan, known to everyone as Shaman Mahan, thought that he had taken his sixth and final step in the Barliona gameworld. Yet life has other ideas. The Corporation decides to resurrect the Lord of Shadow and his entire host. The Corporation's CEO personally pushes the reset button. Geranika and his Dragon of Shadow spring back to life as, meanwhile, the Corporation makes an offer the Shaman can't refuse.

Sharing profound experiences from his long career as well as his first years growing up on a remote Seminole reservation in the Everglades, renowned herbalist Matthew Wood interweaves practical herbalism and the spiritual potency of Nature to deeply explore the plant teachers, animal medicines, and foundational principles of shamanism as a spiritual path. Wood describes a universal “language of the shamans,” based on direct, sometimes supernatural experiences as well as case studies from his practice.

For over a year, Joanne has been fighting the Master - the world's most abiding evil entity. She's sacrificed family, friendships, even watched potential futures fade away - and now the Master is bringing the final battle to Joanne's beloved Seattle. Lives will be lost as the repercussions of all Joanne's final transformation into her full Shamanic abilities come to her doorstep. Before the end, she'll mourn, rejoice - and surrender everything for the hope of the world's survival. She'll be a warrior and a healer.

In the novel that Billie Dean Shoemate III calls his personal best, he brings you the story of Nick Stanley, a special child who believes he has touched the other side...communing with an ancient Native American spirit. As Nick grows up, he comes to a profound realization. The spirit that visited him as a child left something in him...a mark on his soul. It follows him through life, beckoning his heart into a journey that will redefine the world.

From the acclaimed author of New York 2140 and Red Mars, this NYT bestselling novel tells the story of a future where humanity has populated miraculous new habitats engineered across the solar system -- and the one death that triggers a precarious chain of events that could destroy it all. The...

Gelda is dead. With her death, the mantle of shaman is passed to Fia, her apprentice, and the youngest shaman the Goblins of the Iffell Moors have ever known. Eager to prove her worth and ability, she puts too much trust in a trickster goddess when her clan is threatened by the race of Men. A costly mistake that leads to the annihilation of her clan, and her capture by raiders who force her into bondage and a life of servitude. After she is sold to the wealthy and powerful nobleman, Lord Roshemont, Fia finds little comfort in the other goblin slaves at Roshemont Keep.

आपली संस्कृती नेहमी दमन करायला सांगते! शमनावर तिचा भर नाही. हे वाईट आहे. मनातल्या इच्छा पूर्ण उपभोगान्तीच नष्ट होतात. माणूस स्वच्छ मोकळा होऊन जातो. त्या दडपल्या-कृतीत आणल्या नाहीत, याचा अर्थ, त्या 'नाहीत असा होत नाही. मनाच्या सुप्त पातळीवर त्या वळवळत राहतात. त्या गुपचूपपणे पूर्ण करून घेण्याच्या हेतूनं मेंदू मार्ग शोधत राहतो, आणि ... यातूनच मग विकृतीचा जन्म होतो ! अशाच भारतीय संस्कृतीचा पाईक असणार्‍या मध्यमवर्गीय अप्पा मंडलीक याची कथा.. तो आपल्या इच्छांचे शमन करू शकेल की त्या सुद्धा मध्यमवर्गाच्या ओझ्याखाली दबल्या जातील?

The focus of my life as an urban druid is to stand as a guardian of nature. The focus of my life as Fiona Cumhaill to stand as a guardian of my family. Seriously. Don't screw with my family. It's a no-brainer, drop everything, and take up the fight topic for me—If you need me, I will come. So, when darkness conspires to overtake the light and people I love are sucked into the wake of evil, the Toronto crew grabs the go-bags and answers the call.

Christian Sands, an FBI profiler with unique abilities, is called upon, once again, to investigate the mysterious disappearance of several children from their homes over one night in the small town of Swanton, Vermont. It's been a year since the disappearance, and the town is swamped with media frenzy, law enforcement, and paparazza from every walk of life with their own spin on the disappearance. And as others are discovered mutilated in the nearby forest, the town is a powder keg waiting to explode.

Today, our community is global. Never before have we been more aware of our interdependence and connection - with each other and with the natural world. Is it any wonder shamanism - the oldest spiritual tradition - is now on the rise? For The Power of Shamanism online summit, we gathered top teachers from around the world who are dedicated to sharing their practices and wisdom to help our global community.

When Jimmy Pirano gets called to the home office, his sister, Angela, gets stuck with sorting out the mess he leaves behind. Otto Krugg must find a way to continue after his losses. Can he find happiness on the other end of the South Coast?

When Otto Krugg's daughter follows in his footsteps, he's faced with the task of changing a century-long rule that will force her to make decisions no one should have to make. When Jimmy Pirano gets tasked with enforcing that rule - no matter what - he goes down the rabbit hole to try to find out who established the rule...and why they can't let it go.

Une bonne éducation et le privilège d’intégrer le cercle royal, c’est ce que l’on m’a promis en échange de ma liberté et de mon identité. Cette vie, je ne l’ai pas choisie et je ne m’y sens pas à ma place. Alors que mes camarades quittent le Palais d’Or pour parfaire leur formation, je demeure seule entre ces murs sans la moindre explication jusqu’à l’arrivée d’une affreuse nouvelle. Ce bouleversement remet en cause mes croyances ainsi que mon existence tandis qu’un pouvoir effrayant émerge de mon corps.