Shaking Medicine: The Healing Power of Ecstatic Movement »

Bradford Keeney, Ph.D., is an internationally renowned scholar, therapist, and shaman who has led expeditions throughout the world to study cultural healing practices. He is an Honorary Senior Research Fellow at the Rock Art Research Institute, University of Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, South Africa, and is the author of Bushman Shaman: Awakening the Spirit through Ecstatic Dance, Shamanic Christianity: The Direct Experience of Mystical Communion, Shaking Medicine: The Healing Power of Ecstatic Movement, and the editor of the Profiles of Healing series.

Bradford Keeney reintroduces the oldest medicine on earth--the ecstatic shaking of the human body, and shows how shaking can bring forth profound therapeutic effects. The book includes practical exercises in how to shake for both physical and spiritual benefit, as well as a 40-minute CD of ecstatic drumming music to use while shaking.

Foreword
By the Bushman Elders

1 The Shake
Rediscovering the Oldest and Newest Cure on Earth

2 The Cycle of Healing
Ecstatic Arousal and Deep Relaxation

3 The World’s First Shakers
The Kalahari Bushman Shamans

4 The Last Taboo
Why Did the Quakers Stop Quaking and the Shakers Stop Shaking?

5 Experience versus Ideology
Spiritual Dilemmas in the Northwest

6 Harnessing the Shake
Spiritual Traveling in the Caribbean

7 Singing Down the Spirit
The African American Church

8 Seiki Jutsu
The Japanese Shaking Medicine

9 Coiled Wisdom
Shaking Medicine, Shakti, and Kundalini

10 The Life Force Theatre Performances and Testimonies

11 The Ultimate Medicine From Shaken Faith to Shaking Faith

Afterword
The First People Speak about Shaking Medicine

Notes

Bibliography

Index