Feel the Universe: An Online Unity Experience

Feel the Universe is a "color energy flip book" by American multimedia artist Frances Ward and Italian film director Angelo Giammarresi. This simple book is a great tool. The book's creators invite you to imagine something new. Suspend old beliefs. Enter a realm of new possibilities. Connect with both your inner spirit and the collective spirit of our cosmos. True enlightenment means feeling and recognizing our true oneness with everything else - reaching a state of "unity consciousness." Try it: Experience release. Allow change. Receive clarity. Accept transformation. Believe! Click here to browse this online experiential book.

Drums, Not Guns

Drums Not Guns is a non-profit membership organization devoted to promoting peace and non-violence through the power of percussion; to provide at-risk youth with creative ways to diffuse anger and re-channel negative energy; and to promote team spirit, self-esteem and self-expression through "Instruments of Mass Percussion." They believe that when people come together to enjoy and play music, greater communication and understanding are fostered and we are reminded of our common humanity and inter-reliance. Research has demonstrated that group drumming alleviates self-centeredness, isolation, and alienation, moving people from the fear of self-expression to a more creative state where they can serve as true human resources for both themselves and their communities. Drums Not Guns hosts workshops and community drum circles, and maintains the networking site drums.org.

"The Universal Drumming"

by Jonathan Merritt 

There is a recurring image that often wakes me and returns in my daydreaming. In the place of the gods there is a large central fire, and around the fire, arrayed in ever increasing concentric circles, the gods are drumming. In the innermost circle the great drums of essence, light, darkness, emptiness, fullness and form reverberate into the world. They animate the elements of wind, rain, growth and burning whose drums in turn bring forward the drums of ocean, mountain, lake, forest, stream, plains and deserts. Read more.

Seven Principles of Huna Shamanism

Serge Kahili King, Ph.D. is the author of many works on Huna and Hawaiian shamanism, including Urban Shaman and Instant Healing. He has a doctorate in psychology and was trained in shamanism by the Kahili family of Kauai. Today he teaches people how to use shamanic healing techniques and uses his knowledge of Huna to help others discover their own creative power. Huna refers to a way of life, a way of being, that brings healing to the self and to the world at large. Uniquely suited for use in today's world, Hawaiian shamanism follows the way of the adventurer, which produces change through love and cooperation - in contrast to the widely known way of the warrior, which emphasizes solitary quests and conquest by power. Read Seven Principles of Huna Shamanism by Serge Kahili King. 

Free eBook: The Sacred Formulas of the Cherokees

This eBook is a reprint of the classic 1891 ethnographic study of Cherokee shamanic practice by the gifted anthropologist James Mooney. Based on several manuscripts written by Cherokee shamans, it includes the actual text of the rituals to treat various diseases, information on herbs used, love spells, hunting rituals, weather spells etc., and, in fact, embodying almost the whole of the sacred rites of Cherokee shamanism. The original manuscripts were written by the shamans of the tribe, for their own use, in the Cherokee characters invented by Sikwa'ya (Sequoyah) in 1821, and were obtained, with the explanations, either from the writers themselves or from their surviving relatives. 

 

Originally published as two separate volumes by the U.S. Bureau of Ethnology, James Mooney's History, Myths, and Sacred Formulas of the Cherokees has enduring significance for both Native Americans and non-Indian people. The book contains the full texts of James Mooney's Myths of the Cherokee (1900) and The Sacred Formulas of the Cherokees (1891), with an exclusive biographical introduction by George Ellison, James Mooney and the Eastern Cherokees. Mooney's exhaustive research preserved essential Cherokee history, lore, and rituals in a time when such knowledge was dying because younger Cherokees were accepting Western education, commerce, and medicine. The first section of this text covers Cherokee history from the time of DeSoto's search for gold in the 1600s to the late 1800s when the tribal consciousness nearly came to an end.

The second section reveals the rich Cherokee mythology, detailing how the earth was made, how all "people" (both two-and four-footed) came about, and how they could all converse with each other. The third section of the book provides 28 sacred formulas from a mass of over 600 prayers, formulas, and songs. These formulas are centered on such things as medicine, hunting, love, finding lost articles, and frightening away storms. Exclusive to this edition, George Ellison's biographical portrait of James Mooney emphasizes the ethnologist's timeliness and his empathy for the Cherokees and their rich heritage. Completing this book are photographs of many of the chiefs and shamans, a glossary of terms, an index, and an immense section on notes and parallels to the Cherokee myths. Download The Sacred Formulas of the Cherokees.