Table of Contents

Acknowledgments

1--The Big Love
2--Rapture in Missouri
3--Turning Lines into Circles
4--Starting Over
5--Meeting the Bushmen
6--Shooting the Arrows of Love
7--Surviving the Ordeals of Spirit
8--Among the Zulu
9--Guiding Kalahari Star
10--Working the Spirit
11--Kalahari Homecoming
12--Initiation Night
13--Caribbean Spirit Traveling
14--Stinging Truth
15--Tested in Bali
16--This Little Light of Mine
17--Ropes to God
18--The Gods Are Crazy
19--Trickster Shaman
20--Mending the Strings
21--Circles of Love
22--Seen by the Original Ones
23--Say Amen, Somebody

Afterword

Bibliography

About the Author

For more than a dozen years Keeney danced with Bushmen shamans in communities throughout Botswana and Namibia, until finally becoming fully initiated into their doctoring and spiritual ways. He offers readers accounts of his shamanic world travels and the secrets of the soul he learned along the way. He also reveals his work with shamans from Japan, Tibet, Bali, Thailand, Australia and North and South America, which he integrates into a sacred circle of one truth, encompassing all of these traditions.

Reviews

“Keeney’s vision is leading the vanguard in defining and articulating the territory between psychology and spirit.”
*Eric Utne, founder of The UTNE Reader*

“The most striking example of the products, cures, and philosophies being offered that have their origins in practices of primitive cultures is from Bradford Keeney.”
*TIME magazine*

“Brad Keeney may be the closest we have to a genuine American shaman. In Bushman Shaman, he shares his remarkable adventures into the psyche and his equally remarkable sensibility as an explorer of the human spirit. Fascinating.”
*Daniel Goleman, author of Emotional Intelligence*

“Bradford Keeney invites us to go beyond modernity to the oldest culture on Earth to find true magic and power. May those who take this journey with him surrender to their own ecstatic dance, and in so doing, find their way back home.”
*Malidoma Patrice Somé, author of The Healing Wisdom of Africa and Of Water and the Spirit*

“There is no question in the minds of the Bushman healers that Keeney's strength and purposes are coterminous with theirs. I know this from talking myself with some of the Kalahari shamans who danced with him. They affirmed his power as a healer and their enjoyment of dancing with him. . . . He knows whereof he writes, having traveled ‘ropes to God’ himself for much of his life, in many places in addition to the Kalahari.”
*Megan Biesele, Ph.D., cofounder and coordinator of the Kalahari People's Fund, former member of the*

“Probably the most important book in the fields of healing and indigenous spirituality that's been published for many years. Keeney weaves together diverse threads of shamanic wisdom with deceptive ease--easy only because he became a shaman and lived the story on behalf of all of us. Anyone truly interested in the age-old questions of ‘What is God’ and ‘Why are we here?’ should read this book.”
*Rupert Isaacson, author of The Healing Land: The Bushmen and the Kalahari Desert*

“Bushman Shaman is a pleasure to read and will be of great interest to people studying psychotherapy or trance-dance healing.”
*David Paulsen, New Age Retailer, Fall 2005*