The Deep TranceForming Basic Shamanic Booklist

This booklist is under construction, so please feel free to ask questions, make recommendations, or describe what should be added and why. Many titles will soon have my brief review of them, also AMAZON.COM has reviews, found by following the links.
For a reasonably balanced education for those interested in ecstatic shamanic journeying, some books in most sections of the larger list are recommended, follow the arrow at the bottom of this page. These will get you started in Shamanism.

Piers Vitebsky

NewShamans
Piers Vitebsky / Hardcover / Published 1998

Best general introduction to Shamanism, balanced overview of various traditions, with good references to them.

Serge Kahili King

Kahuna Healing: Holistic Health and Healing Practices of Polynesia
Serge Kahili King / Paperback / Published 1983

Mastering Your Hidden Self: A Guide to the Huna Way (A Quest Book)
Serge King / Paperback / Published 1985

Excellent coverage of Shamanic philosophy.

Shamanism

Dreamtime and Inner Space: The World of the Shaman
Holger Kalweit, Elisabeth Kubler-Ross / Paperback / Published 1988

The Way of the Shaman
Michael J. Harner / Paperback / Published 1990

Classic of neo-shamanism. Introductory exercises you can do. Plain English overview of Shamanic Voyaging.

Soul Retrieval: Mending the Fragmented Self
Sandra Ingerman / Paperback / Published 1991

It's of limited use enteraining any spiritual or mental practices without your soul present and you body conscious. Very few people have either quality. This book is about having the soul present, see E.J. Gold for the first step in the body being conscious.

Welcome Home: Following Your Soul's Journey Home
Sandra Ingerman / Paperback / Published 1994

Barbara Ann Brennan

Hands of Light: A Guide to Healing Through the Human Energy Field
Barbara Ann Brennan, Joseph A. Smith / Paperback / Published 1993

Best on Aura and energy body basics, needed for healing.

African and Shamanic Drumming

Breath Was the First Drummer: A Treatise on Drums, Drumming and Drummers
Dru Kristel / Paperback

The real thing on drumming. A must Have.

African Drumming
Babatunde Olatunji / VHS Tape / Published 1997

Orishas, Candomble, African Magic

Sacred Leaves of Candomble: African Magic, Medicine and Religion in Brazil
Robert A. Voeks / Hardcover / Published 1997

Sacred Leaves of Candomble: African Magic, Medicine, and Religion in Brazil
Robert A. Voeks / Paperback / Published 1997

How African healing stayed alive in Brazil.

E.J. Gold: the Hi Tech Shaman

The Human Biological Machine As a Transformational Apparatus
E.J. Gold / Hardcover / Published 1996

How to Shamanically bring the body to the waking state. Vital for Shamanism or any spiritual practice to succeed

Life in the Labyrinth (Gold, E. J. Labyrinth Trilogy, Bk. 2.)
E. J. Gold / Paperback / Published 1986

This book has more real information on Shamanic voyaging than anything else. Written in difficult language. You will need to read it with a very good dictionary several times through. Well worth it.

Practical Work on Self
E. J. Gold / Paperback / Published 1989

Transformative exercises you can do.

Stephen Gilligan

The Courage to Love: Principles and Practices of Self-Relations Psychotherapy
Stephen Gilligan / Hardcover / Published 1997

How to make room for all that you are instead of assasinating the parts of yourself you don't want. Stephen doesn't call himself a Shaman, but his book is highly recommended for the purpose.

Milton Erickson

My Voice Will Go With You: The Teaching Tales of Milton H. Erickson, M.D.
Sidney Rosen (Editor) / Paperback / Published 1991

Amit Goswami and Holistic Science

The Self-Aware Universe: How Consciousness Creates the Material World
Maggie Goswami, et al / Paperback / Published 1995

Jane Roberts

The Oversoul Seven Trilogy: The Education of Oversoul Seven, the Further Education of Oversoul Seven, Oversoul Seven and the Museum of Time
Jane Roberts, Robert F. Butts / Paperback / Published 1995

Adventures in Consciousness
Jane Roberts / Audio Cassette / Published 1997

Adventures in Consciousness: An Introduction to Aspect Psychology
Jane Roberts / Paperback / Published 1997

The first description of a multi-dimensional psychology.

Orishas

Powers of the Orishas
Migene Gonzalez Wippler / Published 1992

Exorcism

Entity Possession: Freeing the Energy Body of Negative Influences
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Samuel Sagan / Paperback / Published 1997