Ecstatic Trance: New Ritual Body Postures

Description

Ecstatic Trance contains in-depth information on 60 ritual body postures and describes them in precise, accurate detail, with clear illustrations. The first complete manual on this subject, presented here are age-old postures (one dates back 32,000 years and was inspired by a cave painting) along with newly-researched postures, published here for the first time. Learn these postures and access, energize, and integrate your creative potential. Practicing these postures also leads to new insights into healing, inner development, and rebirth. And combined with appropriate rhythmic stimulation--music and dance, for example--the postures can engender a profound change in consciousness, leading the participant to experience altered states of reality including visions and ecstatic trance states. The postures themselves do not promote any one belief system or dogma but are elements in an overall shamanic worldview. Contents Foreword 1. Ritual Trance - The Experience of Altered Realities 2 . The Adventure Continues 3 . Advice for the Practice... 4 . The Alternate Reality and Our Daily Life 5 . The Golden Bridge 6 . The Main Categories of Experience 7 . Recently Researched Body Postures 8 . Ritual Body Postures Section 1 - Spirit Journeys Section 2 - Initiation : Death and Rebirth Section 3 - Healing Section 4 - Metamorphosis Section 5 - Living Myths Section 6 - Divination Section 7 - Hunte r Postures Index of postures Bibliography