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Zulu Shaman: Dreams, Prophecies, and Mysteries » (Revised)

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Authors: Vusamazulu Credo Mutwa, Stephen Larsen (Editor), Luisah Teish
ISBN-13: 9780892811298, ISBN-10: 0892811293
Format: Paperback
Publisher: Inner Traditions Bear & Company
Date Published: October 2003
Edition: Revised

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Author Biography: Vusamazulu Credo Mutwa

Vusamazulu Credo Mutwa resides in Pretoria, South Africa, near Johannesburg, where he continues to sculpt, paint, and teach Zulu lore. His book Indaba, My Children has become a classic of African literature.

Stephen Larsen, Ph.D, is Psychology Professor Emeritus at SUNY Ulster and the author of The Shaman’s Doorway and The Mythic Imagination and coauthor of Joseph Campbell: A Fire in the Mind. He has been using the LENS clinically since 1996 and biofeedback since 1975 in his psychotherapy practice. He directs the Stone Mountain Center for Counseling and Biofeedback near New Paltz, New York.

Book Synopsis

In this rare window into Zulu mysticism, Vusamazulu Credo Mutwa breaks the bonds of traditional silence to share his personal experience as a Zulu shaman. Set against the backdrop of post-colonial South Africa, Zulu Shaman relays the first-person accounts of an African healer and reveals the cosmology of the Zulu.

Table of Contents

Foreword
Acknowledgments
Editor's introduction
1The way of the witch doctor1
2The great goddess33
3Of goddesses and gods61
4Tales of the trickster77
5The song of the stars121
6The common origin of all humanity153
7Dreams, prophecies, and mysteries173
Notes211
Index220

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