Publisher's Synopsis
This fabulous resource is for anyone who wants to understand African American spirituality, shamanism, and indigenous spiritual practices and beliefs. It is designed to be informative while providing hands-on recipes, rituals, projects, and resources to help you become an active participant in its wonderfully soulful traditions. It includes a celebration of healing, magic, and the divination traditions of ancient African earth-based spirituality; an explanation of how these practices have evolved in contemporary African American culture; and a potpourri of recipes, rituals, and resources that you can use to heal your life. Among the topics covered are the African spiritual practices of Santeria, Obeah, Lucumi, Orisa, and Quimbois; Hoodoo and how it can be used it to improve your health; ancient healing rituals and magical recipes of Daliluw; talking drums, spiritual dancing, clapping, tapping, singing, and changing; and power objects, tricks and mojo bats, and herbal remedies. This book was previously published as The Big Book of Soul.
