Badger helps us helps us see below the surface of things and boldly express ourselves with the clarity of inner knowing. Click on the following link to download Badger Medicine at Archive. After reading Kit Wright's poem "The Song of the Whale," I felt inspired to record this musical tribute to the whales, which is also the soundtrack to my video Song for the Whales.
The poem is a about a sympathetic boy who believes we're killing whales for unnecessary things. Click on the following link to play or download Song for the Whales at Archive. Listen to all of my albums on SoundCloud. Judith Thomson gave a two hour lecture on drum making at Woodland Chapel in Salem, Oregon in the summer of Judith and her husband, Lloyd studied about the healing power of sound with Jonathan Goldman.
She studied the healing ways of the Native Americans who live in the states of Oregon and Washington. This included learning how they crafted drums and used their sounds for healing. Judith taught many people across the United States how to make drums and how to use drumming to heal.
Judith crossed over into the spirit world on March 25, Hers was an authentic life well lived and she will be deeply missed. Click on the following link to play or download Judith Thomson Lecture at Archive.
Maria A. Czaplicka was a Polish anthropologist who is best known for her ethnography of Siberian shamanism. First published in , Shamanism in Siberia is still relevant, because many of its Uralic, Altaic, and Paleosiberian peoples continue to practice shamanism even in modern times. This comprehensive study provides an in-depth analysis of the most important object in Siberian shamanism--the shamanic drum. It may be said that all over Siberia, where there is a shaman there is also a drum.
Czaplicka establishes a universal framework describing how the drum as a symbol transmits symbolic meanings among shamans, people and the spirit world. Among the Neo-Siberians all their philosophy of life is represented symbolically in the drum.
Click on the following link to download Shamanism in Siberia. This free eBook is a reprint of the classic ethnographic study of Cherokee shamanic practice by the gifted anthropologist James Mooney. Based on several manuscripts written by Cherokee shamans, it includes the actual text of the rituals to treat various diseases, information on herbs used, love spells, hunting rituals, weather spells etc.
The original manuscripts were written by the shamans of the tribe, for their own use, in the Cherokee characters invented by Sikwa'ya Sequoyah in , and were obtained, with the explanations, either from the writers themselves or from their surviving relatives. Click on the following link to download The Sacred Formulas of the Cherokees. I began making rawhide frame drums in after attending my first shamanic drum circle.
Birthing shamanic drums became a passion that continues to this day. Crafting and playing a drum that you have made yourself is eminently more satisfying than playing any other. A drum of your own creation will be imbued with your own unique essence. It will become a powerful extension of your essential self. Moreover, the spirit of a drum will pass through your hands into the drum as you make it. As master drummaker Judith Thompson put it, "Making a drum is like pulling your heart together and giving birth to a new part of yourself.
He gives detailed practical instructions on how to craft frame drums, from processing the rawhide to bending wooden slats into hoops. This classic edition is now a free public domain eBook. Click on the following link to play or download 15 Minute Berimbau and Rain Stick.
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