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Of Water and Spirit

Ritual Magic and Initiation in the Life of an African Shaman

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Of Water and Spirit

By: Malidoma Patrice Somé
Narrated by: Malidoma Patrice Somé
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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.

©2012 New World Library (P)2014 New World Library Cultural & Regional Other Religions, Practices & Sacred Texts Spirituality Shamanism Inspiring African Rituals

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this is not a text one can review because it is actually about being able to depart from the western logical analysis approach to life. therefore no review can tell you whether to listen to this!

A text about initiation into other realities.

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This is a must listen!
So naturally read, such intimate insights that confirmed so much, thank you!

What insight 💛

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I have been on my journey for 5 years now. Finally, after darkness there's light. The author has travelled before me, and now it's clear that I haven't taken the wrong steps.

Finally The Road Is Clear

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Sometimes hearing a life story like this is needed to remind us to look at our own path and see if it's the one we really should be walking.

Humbling life story, inspirational.

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Beautifully narrated and an absolute ESSENTIAL message for our times. We must stop belonging to a global agenda and come back to your circles of roots. One word: community

Beautifully narrated

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It was a good book, talking about his life and his experience. Tho it was really not what I was looking for, I was looking for a book about the spiritual aspects of water and stumble upon this one.
Over all it's an very interesting story to say at least.

Good book

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Malidoma tells his story beautifully and I just wish there was more to listen to, this could have been 30 hours and would have kept me interested throughout. I highly recommend !

Loved every last bit *Hidden Gem

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Amazing book, a must read for anyone with an interest in the spirit of things. Lovely narration by the author himself.

Magic is real

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Loved this story.

A personal testimony of how indigenous practise aids in decolonisation.
A hearty reccomend.

An account of being betwixt and between worlds

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I'm so glad the narrator is the author! indescribable but a necessary message for soul.

very necessary!!!!!

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