CD, Poster
The Ancestralization CD, which is a talk by Malidoma Some´, and the Medicine Wheel Poster, “Herein Lies Our Medicine,” featured on our website are available for purchase.
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Books
You may also purchase the following titles by Malidoma Some´ and Sobonfu Some´: (You will be taken to Amazon's website while purchasing books. Press the browser "back" button to return to iw4da.org website.)
 The Healing Wisdom of Africa
“Individuality, not individualism, is the cornerstone of community. . . . This means that a person and his or her unique gifts are irreplaceable. The community loves to see all of its members flourish and function at optimum potential. . . . To honor and support its members is in the self-interest of any community,” writes Malidoma Patrice Some, the author of the book “Of Water and the Spirit.”
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 Of Water and the Spirit
This is a portrait of an African shaman who was kidnapped by Christian missionaries as a child and his subsequent story of escape and self-realization. Author Malidoma Some´ (a shaman who was later educated in Europe and America) manages to elude his captors and walk back to his family's tribe 100 miles away. From there, Some´ describes his extraordinary spiritual visions when he undergoes physically challenging shamanistic rituals that last well over a month. This tale of finding a place again within his ancestors' heritage results in an adventurous coming-of-age. |
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 Ritual: Power, Healing and Community
In what Robert Bly calls, “the greatest and most detailed book about ritual that I have ever read”, Malidoma Patrice Some´—who is well-versed in the languages of psychology and comparative literature, as well as ancient mythology, healing and divination—bridges paths between the ancient tribal world of the West African Dagara culture and modern Western society. |
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 The Spirit of Intimacy: Ancient African Teachings in the Ways of Relationships
Distilling the ancient teachings of her native West African village, Some´ reveals the role of spirit in every marriage, friendship, relationship and community and shares ways to make our intimate lives more fulfilling and secure. |
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 Women’s Wisdom from the Heart of Africa
Sobonfu Some´ is the sole woman from her tribe—the Dagara people of West Africa—empowered by the tribal elders to bring the traditional teachings on women's spirituality to the West. Now, for the first time, Sobonfu shares the essential principles and practices of African feminine wisdom in a complete audio learning course—Women’s Wisdom from the Heart of Africa. In 12 intimate sessions, listeners will learn universally applicable teachings to claim their unique gift; engage their dreams; honor transitions; reclaim their ancestral lineage; identify power places in nature and in their body; and open the gateways to intimacy. |
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 Welcoming Spirit Home: Ancient African Teachings to Celebrate Children and Community
In the West, many children grow up feeling that they are unwanted intruders in the busy schedules of their parents and invisible strangers in the ongoing activity around them in their communities. They don’t seem to have any purpose, and their existence is considered insignificant. Sobonfu Somé, author of The Spirit of Intimacy, is an initiated member of the Dagara tribe of West Africa. In this soul-stirring book filled with indigenous wisdom, she explains the all-important role of children in her tribe: They are “the life-givers, the healers, the messengers of the ancestors. They bring out the spirit of the community — they bring spirit home.” |
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 Falling Out of Grace: Meditations on Loss, Healing and Wisdom
Somé believes that the state of grace is “that holy and contented way of being that each of us strives for. It is that state, auspicious in the spiritual realm, in which we work out all our difficulties with care, and function peacefully in connection with other people in the flow of life.” But again and again, we experience a fall from grace that brings suffering, loss, and feelings of failure. Somé writes: “In the Dagara tradition, Spirit brings the lessons of life through falls from grace. Crisis comes as an instigator of change; it takes you to somewhere new, where you find a higher meaning and purpose. If you are going to learn and grow, you can't just be stuck in a particular place. Crisis breaks you out and creates the space for Spirit to teach you. This breaking away from a place of stagnation, a place of comfort, and moving forward to a more perfect way is what we call a spiritual life.” |
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