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Mystical Shaman Oracle
Legends say that before there was time, before there was language, there were the sacred symbols. The Medicine Wheel, the Curse, the Eagle, the Jaguar, and others spoke to us intimately. In their countless manifestations, they offered hope, expressed caution, illuminated opportunity, inspired creation, courted power, and shared knowledge. The sacred symbols belong to the realm of archetypes and the collective unconscious, the spiritual common ground shared by peoples modern and ancient.
Now, three master teachers and healers—Alberto Villoldo, Colette Baron-Reid, and Marcela Lobos—have brought their wisdom and talents together to offer a doorway into the realm of the sacred symbols with the Mystical Shaman Oracle. When you consult the oracle, you summon power and insight that can help you understand the present, heal the past, and influence the course of your future.
We can become our own prophets and visionaries. We can converse directly with Spirit, dialogue with the forces of nature, speak with the great archetypes—the ancient gods—without intermediaries. No one needs to stand between the Creator and you, or between you and the great powers of nature.
Now, three master teachers and healers—Alberto Villoldo, Colette Baron-Reid, and Marcela Lobos—have brought their wisdom and talents together to offer a doorway into the realm of the sacred symbols with the Mystical Shaman Oracle. When you consult the oracle, you summon power and insight that can help you understand the present, heal the past, and influence the course of your future.
We can become our own prophets and visionaries. We can converse directly with Spirit, dialogue with the forces of nature, speak with the great archetypes—the ancient gods—without intermediaries. No one needs to stand between the Creator and you, or between you and the great powers of nature.
160 pages, Cards
First published March 27, 2018
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About the author
Alberto Villoldo
109 books349 followersBy his mid-20s Alberto Villoldo was the youngest clinical professor at San Francisco State University. He was directing his own laboratory, the Biological Self-Regulation Lab, investigating how energy medicine and visualization could change the chemistry of the brain.
One day in his biology laboratory, Alberto realized that his investigation had to get bigger instead of smaller; Alberto needed to find a system larger than the neural networks of the brain. The microscope was the wrong instrument to answer the questions he was asking. Many others were already studying the hardware – Alberto Villoldo wanted to learn to re-program the SYSTEM. Anthropological stories hinted that there were people around the globe who claimed to know such things, including the Inka in Peru, the few remaining “shamans” in today’s modern civilization.
As he did initial research into the Inka, Alberto decided that he needed to personally investigate the roots of the Inka civilization itself to collect the vestiges of a 5,000-year-old energy medicine known for healing through Spirit and light.
A few weeks later, knowing this investigation was not going to be a “part time” pastime or a brief sabbatical for a few weeks’ time, Alberto Villoldo resigned his post at the university.
University colleagues thought Alberto Villoldo was absolutely mad.
Not to be dissuaded, Alberto Villoldo traded his laboratory for a pair of hiking boots and a ticket to the Amazon. He was determined to learn from researchers whose vision had not been confined to the lens of a microscope, from people whose body of knowledge encompassed more than the measurable, material world that Alberto had been taught was the ONLY reality. He wanted to meet the people who sensed the spaces between things and perceived the luminous strands that animate all life.
Scattered throughout the remnants of this ancient Amazonian empire were a number of sages or “Earth Keepers” who remembered the ancient ways. Alberto traveled through countless villages and hamlets and met with scores of medicine men and women. The lack of a written body of knowledge meant that every village had brought its own flavor and style to the healing practices that still survived.
For more than 10 years, Alberto Villoldo trained with the jungle medicine people. Along the way, he discovered that his journey into shamanism had actually been guided by his personal desire to become whole.
In healing his own soul wounds, Alberto Villoldo walked the path of the wounded healer and learned to transform old pain, grief, anger and shame to sources of strength and compassion.
From the Amazon, Alberto Villoldo trekked the coast of Peru, from Nazca, the site of gigantic markings on the desert floor that depict power animals and geometric figures, to the fabled Shimbe lagoons in the north, home to the country’s most renowned sorcerers. Then, in Lake Titicaca – the Sea on Top of the World – Alberto Villoldo collected the stories and healing practices of the people from which, the legends say, the Inka were born.
Through it all, Alberto Villoldo discovered a set of sacred technologies that transform the body, heal the soul, and can change the way we live and the way we die.
These ancient teachings and understandings explain that a Luminous Energy Field (LEF), whose source is located in infinity, surrounds us. The LEF acts as a matrix that maintains the health and vibrancy of the physical body.
Today, Alberto Villoldo is a best-selling author and founder in the world-renowned Institute of Energy Medicine, The Four Winds Society. In all of his teachings and writings, Alberto shares the experience of infinity’s easy ability to heal and transform us, to free us from the temporal chains that keep us fettered to illness, old age and disease.
Over the course of two decades with the shamans in the jungles and high mountains of the Andes, Alberto Villoldo would discover that we are more than flesh and bone, that we are a
One day in his biology laboratory, Alberto realized that his investigation had to get bigger instead of smaller; Alberto needed to find a system larger than the neural networks of the brain. The microscope was the wrong instrument to answer the questions he was asking. Many others were already studying the hardware – Alberto Villoldo wanted to learn to re-program the SYSTEM. Anthropological stories hinted that there were people around the globe who claimed to know such things, including the Inka in Peru, the few remaining “shamans” in today’s modern civilization.
As he did initial research into the Inka, Alberto decided that he needed to personally investigate the roots of the Inka civilization itself to collect the vestiges of a 5,000-year-old energy medicine known for healing through Spirit and light.
A few weeks later, knowing this investigation was not going to be a “part time” pastime or a brief sabbatical for a few weeks’ time, Alberto Villoldo resigned his post at the university.
University colleagues thought Alberto Villoldo was absolutely mad.
Not to be dissuaded, Alberto Villoldo traded his laboratory for a pair of hiking boots and a ticket to the Amazon. He was determined to learn from researchers whose vision had not been confined to the lens of a microscope, from people whose body of knowledge encompassed more than the measurable, material world that Alberto had been taught was the ONLY reality. He wanted to meet the people who sensed the spaces between things and perceived the luminous strands that animate all life.
Scattered throughout the remnants of this ancient Amazonian empire were a number of sages or “Earth Keepers” who remembered the ancient ways. Alberto traveled through countless villages and hamlets and met with scores of medicine men and women. The lack of a written body of knowledge meant that every village had brought its own flavor and style to the healing practices that still survived.
For more than 10 years, Alberto Villoldo trained with the jungle medicine people. Along the way, he discovered that his journey into shamanism had actually been guided by his personal desire to become whole.
In healing his own soul wounds, Alberto Villoldo walked the path of the wounded healer and learned to transform old pain, grief, anger and shame to sources of strength and compassion.
From the Amazon, Alberto Villoldo trekked the coast of Peru, from Nazca, the site of gigantic markings on the desert floor that depict power animals and geometric figures, to the fabled Shimbe lagoons in the north, home to the country’s most renowned sorcerers. Then, in Lake Titicaca – the Sea on Top of the World – Alberto Villoldo collected the stories and healing practices of the people from which, the legends say, the Inka were born.
Through it all, Alberto Villoldo discovered a set of sacred technologies that transform the body, heal the soul, and can change the way we live and the way we die.
These ancient teachings and understandings explain that a Luminous Energy Field (LEF), whose source is located in infinity, surrounds us. The LEF acts as a matrix that maintains the health and vibrancy of the physical body.
Today, Alberto Villoldo is a best-selling author and founder in the world-renowned Institute of Energy Medicine, The Four Winds Society. In all of his teachings and writings, Alberto shares the experience of infinity’s easy ability to heal and transform us, to free us from the temporal chains that keep us fettered to illness, old age and disease.
Over the course of two decades with the shamans in the jungles and high mountains of the Andes, Alberto Villoldo would discover that we are more than flesh and bone, that we are a
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December 1, 2018
The photomanipulations on the cards are nice, richly colored and detailed to mimic visionary art, though some are silly. The first card, "The Ancient Ones," is obviously a modern portrait of an elderly Western woman, in a collared shirt and nice earrings, with a bunch of turquoise and orange feather-barf photoshopped onto her head and torso to make her look exotic. That sort of goofiness is more the exception than the rule, though.
Reversals are built in to the structure of the divination system outlined in the guidebook... but the backs of the cards reveal their orientation. Whoops?
Of course, the writing is full of psychologically limiting (closed minded) second-person "you" messages, which must have been deliberately created to override the contexts of spread structures and surrounding cards. How can a card that only gives advice stay meaningful in the 'past' position in a spread? How can a card whose description is solely directed at the seeker stay meaningful in a spread position representing a friend or enemy? Did the creators not test their design?
Sometimes the writing is nothing more than a ridiculous jumble of nonsensical self-contradicting word salad, and the rest of the time it pushes a sort of slave ethic, evidently aimed at people who are really just looking for an excuse to sit back and do nothing about their problems. Reading this text, I experience a writer's attempt to hypnotize me into a dreamy, drugged, helpless, relativistic, unthinking, meaningless passivity. At every turn, the summaries implore me to do nothing. Descriptions are spun with such phony vagueness that few obscacles are made clear, while each symbol melds into the next. "Everything will be fine if you just embrace the true wisdom of doing nothing about anything," it repeats with varying phrasing. "Ambition is toxic. Judgement is poisonous. Vulnerability is strength. Big Chief says, 'Just lie down and die already!'"
It's called the "Mystical Shaman Oracle," but there's nothing truly mystical about it. The concepts are too amateur, the vocabulary too limited, the spirituality too shallow, the symbols too unpoetically defined. I will be whiting-out and stickering-over the entire contents of this booklet, and rewriting the meanings of every card. The pages are mostly empty space (to artifically inflate the amount of content to justify the high price?), so I'll fortunately have a lot of room to turn this into a useable tool -- maybe a dark deck full of enemies, with a foundation actually sturdy enough to bounce my head off it, instead of sinking into a deep foam pillow and suffocating until unconscious, so to speak.
This deck is over-priced and over-packaged. It came in a box inside a box inside a box, and still after all that, one of the cards came damaged, with a chunk of the image flaked or torn from one of the corners. This is the first time I've ever received a damaged card in a brand new factory-sealed deck, and it is what brought my rating down from two stars to one.
Reversals are built in to the structure of the divination system outlined in the guidebook... but the backs of the cards reveal their orientation. Whoops?
Of course, the writing is full of psychologically limiting (closed minded) second-person "you" messages, which must have been deliberately created to override the contexts of spread structures and surrounding cards. How can a card that only gives advice stay meaningful in the 'past' position in a spread? How can a card whose description is solely directed at the seeker stay meaningful in a spread position representing a friend or enemy? Did the creators not test their design?
Sometimes the writing is nothing more than a ridiculous jumble of nonsensical self-contradicting word salad, and the rest of the time it pushes a sort of slave ethic, evidently aimed at people who are really just looking for an excuse to sit back and do nothing about their problems. Reading this text, I experience a writer's attempt to hypnotize me into a dreamy, drugged, helpless, relativistic, unthinking, meaningless passivity. At every turn, the summaries implore me to do nothing. Descriptions are spun with such phony vagueness that few obscacles are made clear, while each symbol melds into the next. "Everything will be fine if you just embrace the true wisdom of doing nothing about anything," it repeats with varying phrasing. "Ambition is toxic. Judgement is poisonous. Vulnerability is strength. Big Chief says, 'Just lie down and die already!'"
It's called the "Mystical Shaman Oracle," but there's nothing truly mystical about it. The concepts are too amateur, the vocabulary too limited, the spirituality too shallow, the symbols too unpoetically defined. I will be whiting-out and stickering-over the entire contents of this booklet, and rewriting the meanings of every card. The pages are mostly empty space (to artifically inflate the amount of content to justify the high price?), so I'll fortunately have a lot of room to turn this into a useable tool -- maybe a dark deck full of enemies, with a foundation actually sturdy enough to bounce my head off it, instead of sinking into a deep foam pillow and suffocating until unconscious, so to speak.
This deck is over-priced and over-packaged. It came in a box inside a box inside a box, and still after all that, one of the cards came damaged, with a chunk of the image flaked or torn from one of the corners. This is the first time I've ever received a damaged card in a brand new factory-sealed deck, and it is what brought my rating down from two stars to one.
March 27, 2018
Book and deck.
Exquisite imagery on the deck and a lovely read on the book
Exquisite imagery on the deck and a lovely read on the book
May 11, 2020
These cards are deeply connected. They help me learn things about myself I have been avoiding and challenge me to be my best self. They are shockingly in tune. I've had lots of decks and this is in the top 2. Pushing one but I've had the other so much longer that I need a bit more time with these to be sure.
August 18, 2020
Krásně zpracované a zajímavé, ač se výklady trochu opakovaly.
March 16, 2021
Very informative and the pictures are beautiful! Very nice
May 24, 2021
In depth oracle cards about shamanistic guidance.
December 2, 2021
Beautiful set. I bought the larger version and I think there was a smaller set. I’d prefer smaller now to fit with the rest of my cards and travel with. This is book size.
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