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Shamanic Mysteries of Egypt: Awakening the Healing Power of the Heart
A book of wisdom teachings and rituals that invoke ancient Egyptian deities to awaken human consciousness • Provides guided shamanic visualizations to invoke 26 of the most significant gods • Takes the reader through shamanic portals of death, rebirth, and illumination • Reconciles internal conflict through a sacred marriage of heart and mind In Shamanic Mysteries of Egypt, Nicki Scully and Linda Star Wolf renew humanity’s connection to the ancient gods of Egypt, the neteru. Voices from these divine ancestors remind us of the healing power of the heart, and call us to bring their consciousness into the present to help us remember our true nature as divine humans with sacred purpose. The authors provide rituals, meditations, and rites of passage to help us meet our personal and planetary challenges with grace, wisdom, and love. The shamanic initiations provided are invoked, directly experienced, and transformed into embodied wisdom that awakens consciousness and illumines the intelligence of the heart. Scully and Star Wolf focus their rituals on 26 of the primary divine entities that preside over the ancient mysteries whose roots are in Old Kingdom and pre-historic Egypt. This fresh interpretation of ancient mysteries unites the energies of Thoth and Anubis to guide us through the current cycle of Earth changes and to help us remember who we really are at heart. Through these passages, Anubis lives up to his ancient title as the Opener of the Way, and Thoth as the Architect of Higher Learning. Together they evoke their power to unite heart and mind in the sacred marriage that brings transformation, renewal, and the awakening of consciousness.
- GenresSpiritualityEgypt
307 pages, Kindle Edition
First published March 20, 2007
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About the author
Nicki Scully
21 books31 followersNicki Scully has been teaching healing, shamanic arts, and the Egyptian Mysteries since 1983 . During her first visit to Egypt with the Grateful Dead in 1978, Nicki experienced an epiphany that transformed her life. She deepened her focus on healing and began delving into the hidden shamanic arts of Egypt. She is now a lineage holder in the Hermetic tradition of Thoth⎯her teacher and mentor. With Thoth, she developed Alchemical Healing, a comprehensive healing form that is practiced by thousands of practitioners internationally. In the late '80s, Nicki founded Shamanic Journeys, Ltd., and continues to guide inner journeys and spiritual pilgrimages to Egypt and other sacred sites. Nicki lives in Eugene, OR, where she maintains a healing and shamanic consulting practice. She welcomes you to study with her in her beautiful garden center.
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September 6, 2008
A waste of tree.
June 1, 2011
I loved the meditations in this book! They dramatically changed how I view myself and the world around me. Can't recommend this enough!
May 4, 2021
I think from looking at the reviews of this book, people think this is a book about the history of shamanic Egypt. It’s not. It’s a companion book to the Anubis oracle. When you realise that it reads well.
March 29, 2021
I wanted so badly to enjoy this book. I kept picking it up and putting it down thinking, "Maybe I'm just not in the right head space. I'll try reading it in the morning instead of at night... Maybe I'll put on some music to set a more magical mood... I'll read ahead and try the mediations after I've let the chapter settle for a minute..." But no. Nothing I did could help me to glean anything useful from this book. I found parts of it genuinely interesting, but for the most part I felt like I was not just not getting out of it what the authors clearly intended for me to get.
Have you ever had a friend that did mushrooms and then wanted to explain in detail their revelations in an attempt to transmit to you their sense of paradigm shift? Did you experience that shift from hearing them explain it? Yeah, me neither.
I think this might have been very cool as some kind of multimedia project. If I could see video footage of the Sphinx at sunrise and the temples under the stars, maybe I could have felt some impact. Similarly, an audio element would have been cool. Having someone walk me through these mediations for the first time would have meant I could experience them as a journey rather than reading it and having the time to think so much about it before I tried to enact it. I think as a multimedia project this would have been more fulfilling. As just a book, I felt a sense of constant questioning, of wondering why I should or would connect to the imagery and interpretations presented. I just didn't feel a spiritual connection to this work and struggled to suspend my disbelief as I read. The authors present this idea that we can all experience this "Inner Egypt", this archetypal landscape, without ever having seen it. But I just didn't feel a part of the world they create in these mediations.
It's hard to articulate this element of my critique, but this book threw a lot of information out while lacking a feeling of transmitting vital information. It was like jumping into a class halfway through the quarter. They casually drop a bunch of words that are explained in the footnotes, some of which are only used a single time, which felt jarring to me. For example:
"At this moment you must trust in that which you cannot see. Go to your mind's eye and ask yourself the question, "Can I trust in that which I know but do not see?" Sit with this koan* by the river's edge and mediate upon it to see what comes . . . [Pause.]" (forgot to write down the page #, sorry)
In the middle of a mediation exercise, this random vocabulary is just dropped in never to be seen again. So I stop reading the meditation, go down to the bottom of the page, read that it's a Zen Buddhism concept about paradoxes that help you achieve enlightenment, and then wonder what exactly that means for this situation I'm supposed to be crafting in my imaginary journey, and then by the time I got back to reading the mediation itself I just couldn't really get back into it. That just kept happening.
"The gods spin the balls of energy at different times and change the axis by degrees to the earth. The most direct hit is taken by the seraphim (see Glossary of Terms for more information); it passes through them like golden rays of sun. Seraphim are capable of handling radiance far too bright for us to commune with directly; yet it makes celestial tones." (94)
Oh, ok, seraphim. Sure. Did the Egyptians believe in seraphim? I haven't read that anywhere else. But this is just a New Agey mix of whatever spiritual concepts we want to put in a basket and shake up. I don't even really have a problem with that as a concept, but I guess I was just kind of disappointed because I specifically picked this book up because I'm interested in Egyptian beliefs and deities and realized halfway through that this was a very loose, very modern interpretation of everything and I couldn't really take any of it at face value. I felt like important things were glossed over and taken for granted, in favor of time spent on rich descriptions of experiences that felt like "well, ya had to be there."
They quote a lot of Normandi Ellis, and I honestly felt more of a spiritual awakening in the first chapter of Imagining the World into Existence: An Ancient Egyptian Manual of Consciousness than I did in my entire time reading these "shamanic mysteries". Nothing felt grounded in reality or research in this book. It just felt like two friends telling me about their vision quest, and trying to convince me that if I would just take them seriously I too could experience in my imagination what they experienced by going to Egypt dozens of time for both group and solitary rituals in the 70s and later! Like, I got the impression that they knew a lot of things about ancient Egypt, but I didn't feel like that knowledge was transmitted to me in a way that helped me make those connections and feel those strong emotions.
Anyway, take this review with a grain of salt because I'm honestly just kind of bitter because I hyped this book way up in my mind while it was on hold at the library. Guess I should have had more realistic expectations.
Have you ever had a friend that did mushrooms and then wanted to explain in detail their revelations in an attempt to transmit to you their sense of paradigm shift? Did you experience that shift from hearing them explain it? Yeah, me neither.
I think this might have been very cool as some kind of multimedia project. If I could see video footage of the Sphinx at sunrise and the temples under the stars, maybe I could have felt some impact. Similarly, an audio element would have been cool. Having someone walk me through these mediations for the first time would have meant I could experience them as a journey rather than reading it and having the time to think so much about it before I tried to enact it. I think as a multimedia project this would have been more fulfilling. As just a book, I felt a sense of constant questioning, of wondering why I should or would connect to the imagery and interpretations presented. I just didn't feel a spiritual connection to this work and struggled to suspend my disbelief as I read. The authors present this idea that we can all experience this "Inner Egypt", this archetypal landscape, without ever having seen it. But I just didn't feel a part of the world they create in these mediations.
It's hard to articulate this element of my critique, but this book threw a lot of information out while lacking a feeling of transmitting vital information. It was like jumping into a class halfway through the quarter. They casually drop a bunch of words that are explained in the footnotes, some of which are only used a single time, which felt jarring to me. For example:
"At this moment you must trust in that which you cannot see. Go to your mind's eye and ask yourself the question, "Can I trust in that which I know but do not see?" Sit with this koan* by the river's edge and mediate upon it to see what comes . . . [Pause.]" (forgot to write down the page #, sorry)
In the middle of a mediation exercise, this random vocabulary is just dropped in never to be seen again. So I stop reading the meditation, go down to the bottom of the page, read that it's a Zen Buddhism concept about paradoxes that help you achieve enlightenment, and then wonder what exactly that means for this situation I'm supposed to be crafting in my imaginary journey, and then by the time I got back to reading the mediation itself I just couldn't really get back into it. That just kept happening.
"The gods spin the balls of energy at different times and change the axis by degrees to the earth. The most direct hit is taken by the seraphim (see Glossary of Terms for more information); it passes through them like golden rays of sun. Seraphim are capable of handling radiance far too bright for us to commune with directly; yet it makes celestial tones." (94)
Oh, ok, seraphim. Sure. Did the Egyptians believe in seraphim? I haven't read that anywhere else. But this is just a New Agey mix of whatever spiritual concepts we want to put in a basket and shake up. I don't even really have a problem with that as a concept, but I guess I was just kind of disappointed because I specifically picked this book up because I'm interested in Egyptian beliefs and deities and realized halfway through that this was a very loose, very modern interpretation of everything and I couldn't really take any of it at face value. I felt like important things were glossed over and taken for granted, in favor of time spent on rich descriptions of experiences that felt like "well, ya had to be there."
They quote a lot of Normandi Ellis, and I honestly felt more of a spiritual awakening in the first chapter of Imagining the World into Existence: An Ancient Egyptian Manual of Consciousness than I did in my entire time reading these "shamanic mysteries". Nothing felt grounded in reality or research in this book. It just felt like two friends telling me about their vision quest, and trying to convince me that if I would just take them seriously I too could experience in my imagination what they experienced by going to Egypt dozens of time for both group and solitary rituals in the 70s and later! Like, I got the impression that they knew a lot of things about ancient Egypt, but I didn't feel like that knowledge was transmitted to me in a way that helped me make those connections and feel those strong emotions.
Anyway, take this review with a grain of salt because I'm honestly just kind of bitter because I hyped this book way up in my mind while it was on hold at the library. Guess I should have had more realistic expectations.
August 11, 2016
Utter crap. How anyone can think it's based on historical fact or tradition is deluded. C U L T U R A L A P P R O P R I A T I O N.
June 28, 2014
This.Changes.Everything.
May 30, 2021
The writers take us on a journey into our heart, spirit and inner self by harnessing the teachings of Anubis, Toth, Nesbyth, Isis, Ma’at, and many other Ancient Egyptian deities. Each chapter offers an explanation and a meditation with a deity to take us deeper and deeper into the spiritual journey.
June 28, 2023
transformative, impressive
how are the mysteries of egypt to be recovered, given the severing of teaching lineages in late antiquity? reading original or translated egyptian texts cannot, absent a superb teacher, open the door very widely. but in the path of direct revelation, perhaps there is a portal, and this book is an opener of the way
how are the mysteries of egypt to be recovered, given the severing of teaching lineages in late antiquity? reading original or translated egyptian texts cannot, absent a superb teacher, open the door very widely. but in the path of direct revelation, perhaps there is a portal, and this book is an opener of the way
May 6, 2024
Fascinating book. Very well researched. My only issue is the meditations during the first half of the book. Impossible to read and do at the same time. You would have to do it as a group with someone reading. But beautiful meditations. I ended up just reading them and enjoying the journey they take you on. It would be amazing if you could purchase a CD/download of them to accompany the book.
September 26, 2021
My New Journey into the Mysteries
Egypt is a world of the deepest sacred mysteries I’ve ever read about. I’m so grateful for the way this book guided me to connecting with the Dieties of Egypt. I adore Isis and very much Anubis. Thank you.
Egypt is a world of the deepest sacred mysteries I’ve ever read about. I’m so grateful for the way this book guided me to connecting with the Dieties of Egypt. I adore Isis and very much Anubis. Thank you.
September 25, 2024
I enjoyed getting to know 22 of the Neteru/Egyptian gods and goddesses in this book. There are more than 22 exercises and meditations to finish in this book, so it took me a while to get through them all. Plan on journaling and meditating a lot!
February 16, 2012
The meditations in this book were most spiritually illuminating. They definitely had a very positive effect on my spiritual life, changing me into a more positive and more intuitive and perceptive person.
Gratitude to Anubis and the other Neteru who are aiding me in this journey.
Gratitude to Anubis and the other Neteru who are aiding me in this journey.
April 4, 2012
I liked this book. It is full of guided meditations for the elements and each of the major gods of the Egyptian Religion. I may revise my rating after I do each of the meditations, but for now I will say that it is a pretty good book.
December 19, 2024
A very immersing journey through an incredibly richly historical culture and great nation.
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