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.

Comprehensive Training in Shamanic Techniques for Insight and Transformation Everything is alive, everything has a spirit—and wisdom to share. Shamans throughout history have known that we all have the capacity to connect with plants, animals, natural forces, and helping spirits for guidance...

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.

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...

The first meditators in history were the shamans whose practices for contemplation and connecting with the divine are echoed in virtually every spiritual tradition today. On Shamanic Meditations, Sandra Ingerman invites you to return to the source of human spirituality—and experience for...

Shamanic journeying is the inner art of traveling to the invisible worlds beyond ordinary reality in order to retrieve information for change in any area of our lives, from spirituality and health to work and relationships. On The Beginner's Guide to Shamanic Journeying, Sandra Ingerman shares...

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.

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....

After he was killed and unceremoniously dumped into what he thought was a digital world, life has thrown Frank one curve after another. Now, he is starting to have questions about what is real and what isn't. He will have to walk his way between the worlds of adventurers and monsters, both of whom want things from him. His feelings run amok as he tries to figure out what hybrid intelligences dream about. Hopefully, along the way he can figure out what is happening, and learn to resist integration into the system by a mysterious AI (...which may not even be an AI at all).

A women of the Tohono O'otam tribe has been savagely - and ritually - murdered in Wyoming, outside the jurisdictions of Granite Creek, Colorado, Police Chief Scott Parris and Ute tribal policeman Charlie Moon. But a brutal, unprovoked assault by the suspected killer on one of Parris's detectives - and the dark, unsettling visions of Charlie's shaman aunt, Daisy Perika - are pulling two dedicated lawmen and an aging Native American mystic into the hunt.

The morning after the aged Ute shaman receives a perplexing visit from a silent, disheveled matukach "magician," Daisy's neighbor, Nathan McFain, discovers something astonishing buried in the dirt on his foundering Colorado dude ranch: The bones of gargantuan beast from a prehistoric age. It is a find of enormous scientific importance that attracts the attention of a wide variety of individuals.