Follow the fantastic odyssey of one woman as she explores shamanic
realms, encountering spirit animals and other teachers who answer her
deepest questions and provide her with life-changing guidance and
healing. Widowed, childless, and alone, 60-year-old Ema bravely decides
to expand her self-knowledge by embarking on a spiritual adventure. She
meets with author Sandra Harner, who leads her through five sessions of
Harner Shamanic Counseling (HSC), a highly effective system of personal
problem-solving in which counselors help clients enter a shamanic state
of consciousness using a specific sonic rhythm. While in this state,
clients seek out helping spirits, who offer insight, wisdom, and
healing.
By the end of her sessions with Harner, Ema has discovered her own
innate ability to find answers to pervasive personal questions, overcome
inhibitory fears, and acquire self-confidence and wisdom. She has found
a sense of personal empowerment and a newfound joy in existence--and
decides she wants to continue her journeys independently. From 1999 to
2011, Ema ventures on a total of 64 journeys, each one chronicled in
this book, thanks to taped recordings of her simultaneous narration.
In addition to serving as an invaluable resource for students and
practitioners of shamanism, psychology, and alternative modalities of
therapy, Ema's Odyssey enchants us with its lyrical poetry and unique
wisdom, and inspires us with its demonstration of courage, curiosity,
persistence, and humility. Perhaps most importantly, we come away with
the added assurance that we are not alone, that there are oft-untapped
resources we all can access, given the tools and trust in our own
experience.
