Alvord, Lori Arviso and Elizabeth Cohen Van Pelt. The Scalpel and the Silver Bear; NY: Bantam Books, 2000 (Biography of a Navaho Surgeon combining traditional healing and western medicine)
Avila, Elena with Joy Parker Woman Who Glows in the Dark; NY Putnam, 1999 (Biography of an Aztec curandara who is also an RN and MSN.)
Bruchac, Joseph. The Native American Sweat Lodge: History and Legends; California: Crossing Press, 1993 (Includes the construction and protocol of a sweat lodge, and the stories that go with it to form an earth-centered worldview.)
Cowan, Eliot. Plant Spirit Medicine; Oregon: Blue Water Publishing, 1995 (A personal account of the author’s shamanic experience and interviews with shamanic elders in native traditions.)
Cowan, Tom Fire in the Head: Shamanism and the Celtic Spirit; San Francisco: Harper, 1993 (A cross-cultural exploration of Celtic myth and legend and of shamanic practices.)
Craven, Margaret I Heard the Owl Call My Name; NY: Dell Publishing, 1973 (A fiction title set in the northwest, theme of developing an earth consciousness.)
Eaton, Edith I Send a Voice; Wheaton, IL: Theosophical Publishing House, 1982 (Personal account of her life with Native Americans and their teachings.)
The Shaman and the Medicine Wheel; Wheaton, IL: theosophical Publishing House, 1982
Gray, Miranda Beasts of Albion; London: Aquarian Press, 1994
Harner, Michael The Way of the Shaman; San Francisco: Harper, 1990 (The best beginning textbook from organizers of the Foundation of Shamanic Studies.)
Ingerman, Sandra Shamanic Journeying: A Beginner’s Guide; Boulder, Co.: Sounds True, 2004
Marshal, Joseph M Walking with Grandfather: The Wisdom of Lakota Elders; Sounds True, 2004
Meadows, Kenneth Earth Medicine; NJ: Castle Books, 2002
Shamanic Experience
The Medicine Way
Mehl-Madrona, Lewis Coyote Medicine; NY: Scribner, 1997 (Biographical account of a medical students journey into his own ethnic roots of healing and on into his vision and mission as a shaman healer.)
Narby, Jeremy The Cosmic Serpent: DNA and the Origins of Knowledge; NY: Putnam, 1998 (Anthropological examination of South American shamanic practices and ethno pharmacology from fieldwork.)
Narby, Jeremy & Francis Huxley, editors Shamans through Time: 500 Years on the Path to Knowledge; NY: Putnam, 2001 (Compilation of original writings showing the Western ideological shift in its evaluation of the practices as devil worship, as hocus pocus, as psychosis to acknowledgement as a path of Spirit.)
Neihardt, John G. Black Elk Speaks: Being the Life Story of a Holy Man of the Oglala Sioux; NY: Washington Square Press, 1932, 1959
Pinkson, Tom Soloway The Powers of Wiricuta: A Journey to Shamanic Power with the Huichol Indians in Mexico; Rochester, VT: Destiny Books, 1995
Sams, Jamie Earth Medicine
Sams, Jamie & David Carson. Medicine Cards: The Discovery of Power Through the Ways of Animals; Santa Fe: Bear & Co., 1988 (44 animal cards of North American forest culture, with commentary on the lessons, meanings and symbolism.)
Sarangerel Riding Windhorses: A Journey into the Heart of Mongolian Shamanism; Vermont: Destiny Books, 2000
Chosen by the Spirits
Sun Bear and Wabun The Medicine Wheel: Earth Astrology; NY: Prentice Hall Press, 1980
The Path of Power
Thanksgiving Address: Greetings to the Natural World Ohen:ton Krihwatehkwen: Worlds Before All Else. Native Self-Sufficiency Center, Six Nations Museum, & The Tracking Project: New Mexico, 1993
Villoldo, Alberto Shaman Healer Sage; NY: Harmony Books, 2000 (Anthropological account of healing with energy medicine of North and South America. )
Dance of the Four Winds
Mending the Past and Healing the Future with Soul Retrieval; Carlsbad, CA: Hay House, Inc., 2005
Vitebsky, Piers Shamanism; University of Oklahoma Press, 1995 (Anthropology as shamanism.)
Walsh, Roger The World of Shamanism: New Views of Ancient Tradition; Woodbury, MN: Llewellyn Publications, 2007
Wesselman, Hank Medicinemaker: Mystic Encounters on the Shaman’s Path; NY: Bantam Books, 1998
Spiritwalker: Messages from the Future
Vision Seeker: Shared Wisdom from the Place of Refuge; Carlsbad, CA: Hay House, 2001)
The Journey to the Sacred Garden: A Guide to Traveling in the Spiritual Realms; Carlsbad, CA: Hay House, 2003
