Shaman Fiction

In The Wisdom of the Shamans: What the Ancient Masters Can Teach Us about Love and Life, Toltec shaman and master storyteller Don Jose Ruiz shares some of the most popular stories from his family's oral tradition and offers corresponding lessons that illustrate the larger ideas within each story. According to Ruiz, their teachings are not primitive or reserved for a chosen few initiates but are instead a powerful series of lessons on love and life that are available us all.

Dr. Robert Judson Cole travels from his ravaged Scotland homeland, through the operating rooms of Boston, to the cabins of frontier Illinois. In the wilderness he befriends the starving remnants of the Sauk tribe, who have fled their reservation. In the process, he absorbs their culture and learns native remedies that enrich the classical medical education he received at Edinburgh University. He marries a remarkable settler woman he had saved from illness.

Located deep in the Canadian wilderness, Snowfields Academy is the premiere school for equestrians from around the globe. With only a handful of students admitted every year, only riders who have the potential to win world-class tournaments are invited to attend. Shaman, a stallion new to Snowfields, has proven to be too much for the school. He’s too wild, too dangerous, and too unpredictable for even the most experienced riders on campus. Unexpectedly, the one person who can calm him is the girl least likely to become a student at Snowfields.

Daniel Mahan, the legendary Shaman of the Barliona game world, has served his sentence in virtual reality. Eleven months of adventures and battles in exchange for eight years in prison isn't a bad trade-off. And yet Barliona refuses to relinquish its grip on the Shaman so easily, erasing the boundary between his two realities. It turns out that it's not so simple to leave the capsule - the Way must be completed....

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 modern approach to an ancient tradition, The Ultimate Guide to Shamanism teaches you how to incorporate shamanic practices and ceremonies into your everyday life. A popular spiritual practice today, shamanic practice spans civilizations, continents, and countries. Indeed, it can be traced as...

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.

A product of the latest technologies, Barliona is a virtual world brimming with fun and entertainment. The government has become the guarantor for the in-game currency, allowing its free circulation. As a result the population floods Barliona in pursuit of easy money. It doesn't take long for the game developers to discover a source of free labor: real-world prison convicts. While their bodies are locked in special auto-maintenance virtual capsules, the prisoners' minds are released into Barliona's virtual mines.

Barliona: a virtual world jam-packed with monsters, battles - and, predictably, players. Millions of them come to Barliona, looking forward to the things they can't get in real life: elves and magic, dragons and princesses, and unforgettable combat. The game has become so popular that players now choose to spend months online without returning home. In Barliona, anything goes: You can assault fellow players, level up, become a mythical hero, a wizard, or a legendary thief.

Captain Pausert just can’t catch a break! First, he became the mortal enemy of his fiancée, his home planet, the Empire - and even the Worm World, the darkest threat to mankind in all of space. All because he helped rescue three slave children from their masters. Of course, these three young women were the universally feared Witches of Karres - but how was he to know that?! And after he defeated the Worm World (with the help of the witches, of course), the Empress herself had sent him on a secret mission to stop a nanite plague that was raging across the galaxy.

In this novella set in the World of the Five Gods and four years after the events in Penric's Demon, Penric is a divine of the Bastard's Order as well as a sorcerer and scholar, living in the palace where the Princess-Archdivine holds court. His scholarly work is interrupted when the Archdivine agrees to send Penric, in his role as sorcerer, to accompany a "Locator" of the Father's Order, assigned to capture Inglis, a runaway shaman charged with the murder of his best friend.

Novoe pogruzhenie v mir Barliony - odnogo iz luchshih mirov proekta LitRPG! Chto mozhet sdelat' igrovoj klan bez zamka? Otvet ocheviden - nichego, pojetomu glavnoj zadachej ljubogo lidera v igrovom mire javljaetsja poluchenie sobstvennogo mesta obitanija. Ishodja imenno iz takoj pozicii, Mahan - Verhovnyj Shaman, glava klana "Legendy Barliony", prinjal predlozhenie Imperatora i Vlastelina po unichtozheniju armii Prizrakov, poselivshihsja v Al'tamede - Prizrachnom zamke.

Novoe pogruzhenie v mir Barliony - odnogo iz luchshih mirov proekta LitRPG! Prikljuchenija Shamana prodolzhajutsja! Dmitrij Mahan, legendarnyj Shaman igrovogo mira Barliony, blagopoluchno otbyl srok zakljuchenija v virtual'noj real'nosti. Odinnadcat' mesjacev prikljuchenij i bitv vzachet vos'miletnej otsidki v tjur'me - ves'ma neplohaja zamena. Vot tol'ko Barliona ne speshila otpuskat' Shamana, stiraja gran' mezhdu dvumja real'nostjami.

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.

Virtual'nyj mir Barliony daleko ne dlja vseh stal mestom otdyha i razvlechenij. Dlja Dmitrija Mahana, poluchivshego vosem' let, ona prevratilas' v arenu vyzhivanija. Mahan proshel rudnik, podstavy drugih zakljuchennyh, proverku i smog popast' v obshhij mir. Kazalos' by, zamri, sprjach'sja, naslazhdajsja ostatok sroka otnositel'noj svobodoj, no… Shaman ne mozhet zhit' spokojno.

Novoe pogruzhenie v mir Barliony - odnogo iz luchshih mirov proekta LitRPG! Prikljuchenija Shamana prodolzhajutsja! Utih veter v Temnom lesu, Al'tameda priznala svoego novogo vladel'ca, Geranika prodolzhaet vynashivat' plany unichtozhenija vsego zhivogo - igrovoj mir Barliony nachal vhodit' v privychnuju koleju obydennosti i povsednevnosti. No takaja zhizn' ne dlja Mahana! Novye scenarii, novye monstry, novye Podzemel'ja, novyj status - Verhovnyj Shaman ne znaet slova "privychno".

Barliona. Virtual'nyj mir, napolnennyj prikljuchenijami, bitvami, monstrami i konechno zhe igrokami. Dlja mnogih Barliona zamenila soboj real'nost', ved' v nej sbyvajutsja ljubye zhelanija cheloveka: magija, jel'fy, drakony. V mire sushhestvuet tol'ko odno pravilo - igrok ne chuvstvuet boli. No u kazhdogo pravila est' iskljuchenija, i dlja chasti igrokov Barliona stala adom. Ved' oni - prestupniki, igrajushhie v samom tjazhelom rezhime s vkljuchennymi oshhushhenijami.

Novejshie tehnologii pozvolili sozdat' Barlionu – virtual'nyj mir razvlechenij, otdyha i obshhenija. Pravitel'stvo vystupilo garantom legitimnosti igrovyh deneg i ih svobodnogo obmena na real'nye kredity. Naselenie pochuvstvovalo "haljavu" i hlynulo v Barlionu. I kto-to, razumeetsja, dodumalsja prevratit' Barlionu v mesto nakazanija prestupnikov. Telo osuzhdennogo pomeshhali v kapsulu dlitel'nogo soderzhanija, a soznanie otpravljalos' na rudniki.

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?

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....