African Spirits Speak

Author : Nicky Arden
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 272 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 1999-02-01
Category : Body, Mind & Spirit
ISBN : 9781620553497

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African Spirits Speak by Nicky Arden Pdf

The moving story of an expatriate coming to terms with her country's history, and her joyous spiritual and emotional rebirth as an African healer. • One of the first accounts of the mysterious sangomas, the healers of South Africa's black population. • A mystical journey that will appeal to those wishing to reunite with their roots and a more spiritual life. Set against the stirring backdrop of a crumbling apartheid regime, African Spirits Speak is the lyrical account of white South African Nicky Arden's journey into the world of the sangomas, the diviners, doctors, psychologists, and priests of South Africa's black population. While in her early twenties Nicky fled South Africa with her husband as the stranglehold of apartheid tightened on her native land. For twenty-two years they lived in California as expatriates--never once returning to their homeland--until a deep depression, followed by a spiritual awakening in the California desert, compelled Nicky to return to South Africa. During her visit, while exploring deep in the bush, she unexpectedly met an old black medicine woman--a sangoma. This meeting would change her life. Few white South Africans are even aware of the world of the sangomas, but this prophetic old woman saw in Nicky the spirit of a fellow healer and set the author on a mystical journey that would reunite her soul with its African roots. Thus began her astonishing and complex initiation into a nearly unknown world and her quest to discover the truth about herself and her heritage.

Author : Nicky Arden
Publisher : Henry Holt & Company
Page : 255 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 1996
Category : Religion
ISBN : 0805042075

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The Spirits Speak by Nicky Arden Pdf

The compelling and inspirational tale of the spiritual awakening of a white South African woman details her training as a medicine woman and her spiritual and emotional rebirth as an African and a healer.

Author : Nicky Arden
Publisher : Inner Traditions / Bear & Co
Page : 280 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 1999-02
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 0892817526

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African Spirits Speak by Nicky Arden Pdf

Set against the stirring backdrop of the crumbling South African apartheid regime, African Spirits Speak is the lyrical account of a white South African woman's journey into the world of the sangomas, the indigenous diviners and priests of South Africa, and a mystical journey that changed her life.

Author : Peter Stepan
Publisher : Prestel Publishing
Page : 196 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 2005
Category : Art
ISBN : UOM:39015062846780

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Spirits Speak by Peter Stepan Pdf

"Spirits Speak presents a selection of the most important African masks found in major museums and renowned private collections around the globe: an overview such as has never been compiled in this way before. Artistic mastery, charisma, age and authenticity were paramount selection criteria with only the very best examples representing each well-known mask type. An introductory essay elucidates the conceptual intricacies and varying functions of the masks and sweeps away deep-rooted misunderstandings. Enlightening commentaries offer background information about the function and origins of each mask's use within the ethnic groups from which they originate, and a foldout map places them in their original geographical context."--BOOK JACKET.

Author : Prestel Publishing
Publisher : Prestel Pub
Page : 59 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 2006-01
Category : Art
ISBN : 3791335855

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Spirits Speak by Prestel Publishing Pdf

These miniature versions are packed with color, yet small enough to fit into a pocket. They're as inviting to the eye as they are to the wallet. And there are titles to suit every occasion, taste, and interest. These 'Minis' feature amazing artwork of all kinds, elegantly designed and packaged.

Author : Ras Michael Brown
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 321 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 2012-08-27
Category : History
ISBN : 9781139561044

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African-Atlantic Cultures and the South Carolina Lowcountry by Ras Michael Brown Pdf

African-Atlantic Cultures and the South Carolina Lowcountry examines perceptions of the natural world revealed by the religious ideas and practices of African-descended communities in South Carolina from the colonial period into the twentieth century. Focusing on Kongo nature spirits known as the simbi, Ras Michael Brown describes the essential role religion played in key historical processes, such as establishing new communities and incorporating American forms of Christianity into an African-based spirituality. This book illuminates how people of African descent engaged the spiritual landscape of the Lowcountry through their subsistence practices, religious experiences and political discourse.

Author : Vanessa K. Valdés
Publisher : SUNY Press
Page : 164 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 2012-06-01
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781438442174

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Let Spirit Speak! by Vanessa K. Valdés Pdf

Interdisciplinary celebration of the cultural contributions of members of the African Diaspora in the Western hemisphere.

Author : Joseph M. Murphy
Publisher : Beacon Press
Page : 282 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 1995-01-30
Category : Religion
ISBN : 0807012211

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Working the Spirit by Joseph M. Murphy Pdf

"An appreciative and user-friendly book on religion in the African diaspora. Murphy's skillfully drawn portraits offer an inviting introduction to the religious worlds of Vodou, Candomble, Santeria, Revival Zion, and the Black Church" – David W. Wills, Amherst College

Author : John Beattie,John Middleton
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 354 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 2013-11-05
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781136527722

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Spirit Mediumship and Society in Africa by John Beattie,John Middleton Pdf

Gathering together under a single cover material from a wide range of African societies, this volume allows similarities and differences to be easily perceived and suggests social correlates of these in terms of age, sex, marital status, social grading and wealth. It includes material on both traditional and modern cults.

Author : Ruy Blanes,Diana Espírito Santo
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Page : 312 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 2013-11-22
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780226081809

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The Social Life of Spirits by Ruy Blanes,Diana Espírito Santo Pdf

Spirits can be haunters, informants, possessors, and transformers of the living, but more than anything anthropologists have understood them as representations of something else—symbols that articulate facets of human experience in much the same way works of art do. The Social Life of Spirits challenges this notion. By stripping symbolism from the way we think about the spirit world, the contributors of this book uncover a livelier, more diverse environment of entities—with their own histories, motivations, and social interactions—providing a new understanding of spirits not as symbols, but as agents. The contributors tour the spiritual globe—the globe of nonthings—in essays on topics ranging from the Holy Ghost in southern Africa to spirits of the “people of the streets” in Rio de Janeiro to dragons and magic in Britain. Avoiding a reliance on religion and belief systems to explain the significance of spirits, they reimagine spirits in a rich network of social trajectories, ultimately arguing for a new ontological ground upon which to examine the intangible world and its interactions with the tangible one.

Author : James Hall
Publisher : Touchstone
Page : 284 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 1995
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 0684815060

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Sangoma by James Hall Pdf

When James Hall was working in Africa with legendary singer Miriam Makeba, she perceived he had the rare gift to see both into the future and into people's souls. She urged Hall to consult a Sangoma, a traditional healer, who told him he was possessed by ancestral spirits who could give him the power to heal others and to become a Sangoma himself. He underwent a 2-year initiation into the mysteries of psychic possession and traditional healing. He also learned how to read meanings and messages in his set of divination bones, and began his education in the collection and preparation of plants and roots used as traditional medicines. Photos.

Author : New Greenwood,Phetote Mshairi
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 2021-05-14
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1735687200

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RELEASE ME, the Spirits of Greenwood Speak by New Greenwood,Phetote Mshairi Pdf

Author : Jo Thobeka Wreford
Publisher : Berghahn Books
Page : 274 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 2008-05-01
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780857450159

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Working with Spirit by Jo Thobeka Wreford Pdf

In the current model of health dispensation in South Africa there are two major paradigms, the spirit-inspired tradition of izangoma sinyanga and biomedicine. These operate at best in parallel, but more often than not are at odds with one another. This book, based on the author’s personal experience as a practitioner of traditional African medicine, considers the effects of the absence of spirit in biomedicine on collaborative relationships. Given the unprecedented challenge of the HIV/AIDS epidemic in the country, the author suggests that more cooperation is vital. Taking a critical look at the role of anthropology in this endeavor, she proposes the development of a “language of spirit” by means of which the spirit-inspired aetiology of izangoma sinyanga may be made comprehensible to academic scientists and applicable to medical interventions. The author discusses white izangoma in the context of current debates on healing and hybridity and insists that there exists a powerful role for izangoma in the realm of societal healing. Above all, the book constitutes a start in what the author hopes will develop into an ongoing intellectual conversation between traditional African healing, academe, and biomedicine in South Africa.

Author : Andrew Newman,Conscious Stories
Publisher : Conscious Stories
Page : 32 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 2017-02-24
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1943750165

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How Diablo Became Spirit by Andrew Newman,Conscious Stories Pdf

Based on a true story, this wonderful bedtime tale for kids ages 3 through 8 tells of the difficult journey of Spirit the black leopard, told from his own point of view. Anna Breytenbach, an animal communicator helps Spirit to change his life, which also changes the life of those who care for him. Spirit's amazing story has been viewed over 10 million times on YouTube. Beautifully illustrated, this book, which is part of the Conscious Bedtime Story Club collection, is a sure-fire winner for parents seeking conscious parenting tools. This book will help children recognize and appreciate all life forms, including animals, as the sentient beings that they are. How Diablo Became Spirit ends with Spirit's Secret Steps for communicating with animals.

Author : Karen Njeri King
Publisher : AuthorHouse
Page : 250 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 2019-01-14
Category : Body, Mind & Spirit
ISBN : 9781546272151

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Divine Spirits Speak by Karen Njeri King Pdf

Divine Spirits Speak: A Guide for the Bended Ear is a tool that defines the steps that it takes to develop oneself spiritually. It can be used for individual growth based on ancient African tradition. Learn how to live an introspective life. This is a guide on raising children, friendship, love, marriage, patience, gratitude, and much more. This book is for those who will dare to take the journey on the road to a more developed spiritual life. These are divine teachings for those of you who have a bended ear.