Of Water and Spirit: Ritual Magic and Initiation in the Life of an African Shaman Audiobook (Free)

Born in West Africa in the first 1950s Somé was kidnapped at age group four with a People from france Jesuit missionary to learn as a priest, for another 15 years enduring the harsh regimen of a seminary where his local vocabulary and tribal customs were systematically suppressed. At age group 20 he escaped, however when he came back to his Dugara people in Upper Volta (now Burkina Faso) they turned down him as an outsider. To reconnect along with his indigenous tradition, Some underwent a month-long initiation into shamanism during which he reports that he journeyed to the underworld, became a bird, a porcupine and was buried alive.