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Dead Sea Scrolls:The Untold Story by Kenneth Hanson
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Writing another such record, Wesselman details his shamanic encounters with a descendant named Nainoa, a mystically inclined man living 5,000 years from now. In Nainoa's world, global warming has turned North America into a tropical jungle inhabited by the offspring of zoo animals gone wild. Tribal again, North Americans have reclaimed their ancestral shamanic knowledge but have sacrificed technology utterly. As a document of shamanic knowledge and vision, this book is substantial and well wrought. Medicinemaker: Mystic Encounters on the Shaman's Path
Ever since the American reading public met Carlos Castenada's Don Juan more than two decades ago, there has been a special place in spiritual literature for what might be called the near-novel: the record of a spiritual journey, presented in novelistic fashion, in which truth is more important than facts.
Patricia Monaghan
Spiritwalker: Messages from the Future
Hank Wesselman's incredible true story begins with a series of vivid dreams he had while living on the flank of an active volcano in Hawaii. Eventually Wesselman became convinced that what he'd experienced were not merely dreams, but a vision encounter with what shamans have long called the "spirit world". In this world Wesselman met a fellow traveler, a Hawaiian Kahuna mystic named Nainoa.What did Nainoa seek from Wesselman? What did the anthropologist have to learn from this exotic traveler from another time and place? Maintaining his scientific objectivity, Wesselman embarked on a mystical journey beyond the boundaries of ordinary consciousness. The result is a fascinating adventure, an exciting discovery, and the story of how a hardheaded scientific realist may have stumbled on an important piece in the puzzle of human evolution. Spiritwalker is an engaging, fascinating work that is on par with the writings of Carols Castaneda. Spiritwalker is highly recommended for the non-specialist general reader, and "must" reading for any serious student of contemporary metaphysics.
Third in a series that began with Spiritwalker and continued with Medicinemaker, this chronicle of Wesselman's experiences as a modern-day shaman with an anthropology Ph.D. will appeal to followers of such New Age leaders as Michael Harner and Sandra Ingerman (who both blurbed the book). Fans of Carlos Casteneda and Dan Millman will also enjoy the novelistic feel of this story, which the author insists contains no fiction whatsoever.Wesselman describes visits with his fellow shaman and possible descendant or future (reincarnated) self, Nainoa, who lives somewhere on the West Coast of North America 5,000 years from now, after the complete demise of the Western world. Through shamanic journeying, the author enters Nainoa's mind, describing nature walks, visions and lessons from Hawaiian kahunas or mystics in detail. Claiming to have "looked into the face of God," to have been joined by Jesus in a shamanic healing practice, and to have been "chosen" to teach spiritual truths, the author sometimes appears more self-important than shamanic.
Meanwhile, his habit of entering the spirit world through sexual ecstasy seems an easy target for ridicule. Wesselman's final warnings of environmental catastrophe and his hope for a better outcome through "an evolution of spirit" will be familiar to any reader of New Age literature. Still, Wesselman's delivery is a cut above the rest of the genre vastly superior to, for example, The Celestine Prophecy. Agents, Candice Fuhrman and Linda Michaels. (Apr.)Forecast: The popularity of New Age narratives bodes well for this book; a 10-city-radio satellite tour and ads in Yoga Journal and NAPRA will help catch the attention of die-hard fans of the genre, though others will be immediately turned off by the title.
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