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Of Water and Spirit
- Ritual Magic and Initiation in the Life of an African Shaman
- Narrated by: Malidoma Patrice Somé
- Length: 3 hrs
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Born in West Africa in the early 1950s, Somé was kidnapped at age four by a French Jesuit missionary to be trained as a priest, for the next 15 years enduring the harsh regimen of a seminary where his native language and tribal traditions were systematically suppressed. At age 20 he escaped, but when he returned to his Dugara people in Upper Volta (now Burkina Faso) they rejected him as an outsider. To reconnect with his native culture, Somé underwent a month-long initiation into shamanism during which he reports that he journeyed to the underworld, became a bird, then a porcupine, and was buried alive.
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- Dora Kamau
- 2021-04-12
Favourite book!
This was my 3rd time listening to this book! An all-time favourite. Highly recommend!
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- Anonymous User
- 2024-04-06
Water and the Spirt by Malidoma Patrice Somé
Excellent and well narration. Truly worth reading sorry we missed him when he was in Toronto.
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- Tal
- 2023-06-29
First hand account on African Shamanism
If you’re genuinely curious behind the deep but brief spiritual matters, history, and stories behind this man and his experiences, I’d highly recommend this book. He details his tribes values and perspectives and also give you some of the wildest stories from his initiation. I do believe he tells the truth of a world most people in the west can only imagine in the movies.
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- Samantha
- 2018-11-10
Eye Opening
I love when books are narrated by the Author. This story was beautifully told. I appreciated his personal and cultural perspective of the white missionaries. I especially loved his matter of fact attitude toward the mysteries he experienced.
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- Amazon Customer
- 2021-08-14
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Thanks for your message Malidoma. This was an amazing story of rebirth. Your story of initiation has me yearning for more opportunities to connect to my Ancestors and their children.
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- Akeem Pierre
- 2020-06-11
Legendary book!
Malidoma is a legend! This book is so epic I’ve listened to it over 3 time!
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- Arnaud Segla
- 2022-04-21
Inspiring testimony
This audiobook help me understand how "obtacles" in ou lifepath are modern initiation to overcome our weakness and fulfill our mission as a guidance of the World of Spirits. Surrending (Compassion, Pardon, Taslim, Acceptance etc.) to these experience are the most know tools to personnal achievement taught previously by Religion before it has lost it sens nowadays within the cultural entropy of globalisation.
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