'Finding Life Purpose Through Nature, Ritual and Community'
'The Healing Wisdom of Africa' is a fascinating journey through the ritual and spiritual wisdom of the Dagara people who are renowned throughout West Africa for their miraculous healing powers. Malidoma Patrice Some, who is both a shaman and a scholar brings a unique insight into the spiritual life of traditional Africa and explains how this ancient knowledge may be used to heal widespread emotional stress and spiritual hunger in the West.
By adapting the ritual and ceremony of his people to the modern world he shows us how we can find new balance between the self, the spirit, the community and the environment. As he draws us closer to the heart of the indigenous world we come to new understanding of our own life's purpose through a deeper connection to nature and spirit in daily life.
Malidoma literally means 'he who makes friends with the stranger; and, as an initiated medicine man and gifted scholar he has made it his life's worked to become a bridge of understanding between his own African culture and the West. His first book 'Of Water and the Spirit' has become a treasured classic.
