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Vodou Visions: An Encounter with Divine Mystery
A completely accessible guide to practicing Vodou and deepening your connection with this bountiful life force
"Vodou" is the spelling preferred by practitioners who revere this powerful, ancient tradition--and Vodou Visions is the first book to provide an inspirational and authentic guide to its history, practices, and creative applications. It describes the tools and techniques for developing the magical mind and honoring the soul, while revealing how Vodou can release creative spirituality and open doors to self-awareness.
Comprehensive and inviting, this book introduces readers to Vodou's rich history, powerful ancestors, and vibrant spirits, known as Lwa. With more than one hundred breathtaking illustrations, Vodou Visions reveals how to honor and invoke the Lwa with specific ceremonial offerings and litanies. Using methods drawn from more than twenty years of practice, Vodou priestess Sallie Ann Glassman shares purification and empowerment rituals for individuals, communities, homes, and spiritual spaces. For more advanced practitioners, Glassman describes ways to deepen communication with the Lwa and to give thanks for an ongoing spiritual relationship. The visions of the Lwa bring a living experience of the Spirit into daily life.
Glassman welcomes readers to a community of faith and--above all--to a journey toward a creative spirituality that will enrich and affirm their lives.
"Vodou" is the spelling preferred by practitioners who revere this powerful, ancient tradition--and Vodou Visions is the first book to provide an inspirational and authentic guide to its history, practices, and creative applications. It describes the tools and techniques for developing the magical mind and honoring the soul, while revealing how Vodou can release creative spirituality and open doors to self-awareness.
Comprehensive and inviting, this book introduces readers to Vodou's rich history, powerful ancestors, and vibrant spirits, known as Lwa. With more than one hundred breathtaking illustrations, Vodou Visions reveals how to honor and invoke the Lwa with specific ceremonial offerings and litanies. Using methods drawn from more than twenty years of practice, Vodou priestess Sallie Ann Glassman shares purification and empowerment rituals for individuals, communities, homes, and spiritual spaces. For more advanced practitioners, Glassman describes ways to deepen communication with the Lwa and to give thanks for an ongoing spiritual relationship. The visions of the Lwa bring a living experience of the Spirit into daily life.
Glassman welcomes readers to a community of faith and--above all--to a journey toward a creative spirituality that will enrich and affirm their lives.
256 pages, Paperback
First published May 1, 2000
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February 8, 2010
This is quite an excellent work on the topic. A fantastic introduction to Vodou: history, what it is, what it isn't, beliefs, cosmology, the Lwa, working with the Lwa, etc.
Glassman is open that this book is written from her personal experiential point of view, and that other experiences may differ as Vodou is a religion of experience.
While the book is wonderful, due to the experiential nature of Vodou, Glassman encourages one to seek out their own experiences as well as those shred in the works of others. I'd recommend the same!
Glassman is open that this book is written from her personal experiential point of view, and that other experiences may differ as Vodou is a religion of experience.
While the book is wonderful, due to the experiential nature of Vodou, Glassman encourages one to seek out their own experiences as well as those shred in the works of others. I'd recommend the same!
September 30, 2019
Amazing!
This was exactly what I needed to get started into a Vodou practice. I needed to understand the foundations and this book helped me a lot. I took many hand written notes to process it all.
This was exactly what I needed to get started into a Vodou practice. I needed to understand the foundations and this book helped me a lot. I took many hand written notes to process it all.
August 26, 2021
I dug this.
October 12, 2021
Great book, explains the art of voodoo/Hoodoo/Vodou a must in any Witches Book collection
August 5, 2024
I lived near NOLA for a few years and quickly fell in love with it's weird, witchy, vibrant, historically and culturally rich atmosphere -- it truly is like nowhere else on Earth. So naturally, I adopted some New Orleans Voodoo into my Craft.
But it was a struggle finding reputable sources that didn't perpetuate racist, xenophobic, or other negative stereotypes. Thankfully, Vodou Visions by Sallie Ann Glassman provided much needed authentic, well-researched, and comprehensive insights. She also created The New Orleans Voodoo Tarot.
Sallie Ann Glassman is ethnically Jewish, and is one of very few non-Afro-Caribbean people initiated in Haiti as a Manbo in Haitian Vodou. Contrary to the negative reviewers here who I've not seen do anything for the Voodoo community, Glassman is an active healer and helper in NOLA through her New Orleans Healing Center, where she hosts various events, plus Vodou Rituals every Saturday open to all, and her Island of Salvation Botanica store, where I personally spoke with her and she signed my book.
Glassman emphasizes that those who are called to the various forms of Voodoo are welcome as long as proper research and respect are given, and I've witnessed this first-hand in NOLA -- I was never turned away from any Voodoo or Hoodoo space.
Voodoo is older and wiser than the divisions we wall around ourselves. Voodoo rejects dogma and celebrates community. Voodoo is deeply personal but meant to be shared.
This book is a piece of that community shared for all to learn and enjoy.
But it was a struggle finding reputable sources that didn't perpetuate racist, xenophobic, or other negative stereotypes. Thankfully, Vodou Visions by Sallie Ann Glassman provided much needed authentic, well-researched, and comprehensive insights. She also created The New Orleans Voodoo Tarot.
Sallie Ann Glassman is ethnically Jewish, and is one of very few non-Afro-Caribbean people initiated in Haiti as a Manbo in Haitian Vodou. Contrary to the negative reviewers here who I've not seen do anything for the Voodoo community, Glassman is an active healer and helper in NOLA through her New Orleans Healing Center, where she hosts various events, plus Vodou Rituals every Saturday open to all, and her Island of Salvation Botanica store, where I personally spoke with her and she signed my book.
Glassman emphasizes that those who are called to the various forms of Voodoo are welcome as long as proper research and respect are given, and I've witnessed this first-hand in NOLA -- I was never turned away from any Voodoo or Hoodoo space.
Voodoo is older and wiser than the divisions we wall around ourselves. Voodoo rejects dogma and celebrates community. Voodoo is deeply personal but meant to be shared.
This book is a piece of that community shared for all to learn and enjoy.
August 5, 2014
A wonderfully written book that anyone can read to learn all the basics of New Orleans Voodoo (this is different from the Haitian Voodoo most people are familiar with, for the record). Many years of research and experience went into writing this book and it shows. Recommended for anyone who wants to learn about Voodoo.
April 30, 2008
a really good book that goes with the tarot, no v tarot. a intelligent,passionate writer and unique artist.
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August 14, 2010received as a gift several years ago and have not finished reading it yet.
May 19, 2012
Excellent!
January 26, 2013
Intuitive and well researched/written. A recommended resource for study and service!
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