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Articles and the Media
NOTE: Several of the full articles
linked to on this page are in .pdf format and will require that you
have
Adobe Acrobat
installed on your computer...
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This is a shortened
version of "Drums of the
Ancestors", a video
project I did in 1995 in
North China and Inner
Mongolia during a field
study by The Foundation
for Shamanic Studies,
offering a rare
opportunity to
experience the living
traditions of shamanism
as practiced by the
Manchu and Mongol
peoples. The film
includes an ancient
harvest festival, a
ceremony for healing,
and interviews with
shamans. To see the
video sample,
CLICK HERE
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2010 Interview with Susan about Asian shamanic
culture conducted by Adam Silver, Executive Director of Asian
Cultural Center of Vermont, Inc.
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an excerpt:
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"...The
shaman knows the nature of suffering and holds the ability to seek a
vision of the healing. This understanding taps into a collective
source of human wisdom. Healing comes from nature. The vision
informs the shaman as the healing is conveyed. This guidance brings
the suffering person back to a state of ease. The shaman can travel
outside of time to when the ‘dis-ease’ first occurred. By
re-dreaming the experience, solutions are experienced, the suffering
is removed and the purity of the soul’s essence is restored.
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Read
The Full Interview
(will open in its own window)
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Observations on Daniel Noel's
The Soul of Shamanism: A Defense of Contemporary Shamanism and
Michael Harner
an excerpt:
"Instead of appropriating
indigenous traditions, as Noel suggests, Harner is actively committed
to helping indigenous people reclaim their shamanic traditions... His
characterization of Harner's training programs is based on attending
one introductory weekend workshop with Harner in 1990..."
Read Full Article
an excerpt:
"(the woman) told me that
a special event would occur, an event she called an 'African Dance'...
the woman said there would be dancing to drums and that the people
were going to 'feed the sea'... She asked if I would like to go with
her. I had no idea that I was going to witness an ancient
healing and sacrificial ceremony... "
Read Full Article
an excerpt:
"We spoke later that week.
She told me that she had a restless night after the healing session
when she dreamed of volcanoes, fire, and floods. When she awoke
the next morning, the hives were gone and she returned to work".
Read Full Article
an excerpt:
"We see everything as
living, seeing and feeling. When a hunter goes into the forest, he
asks forgiveness... The transfer of knowledge from my mother to me
occurred daily. I learned that you never need to think that you are
stronger than nature... (Nadezhda Duvan, Wisdom Keeper")
Read Full Article
a description:
From an amazing trip to
China, I've been able to tell the story of three different Shamans -
in their own words. Read
Full Article
a description:
In July 1998, I joined with four
very special visitors from the Republic of Tuva: Professor Mongush
Kenin Lopsan, Ai-Churek Ouin, Sailyk-ool Kanchyyp-ool, and Rollanda
Kongar. They had traveled from the center of Asia to California to
teach aspects of their traditional shamanism to forty graduates of the
Foundation for Shamanic Studies' Three-Year Programs. My great fortune
was to be there to learn from them, video-record their teachings, and
serve as one of their hosts.
Read Full Article
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I was featured in an article in
the September, 2003 issue of SELF
magazine, titled "A New
Prescription for Happiness"
by Deb Abramson. The section about my practice
is called "Shamanic Healing - The Chanting Cure"
Here is an excerpt where
Deb recalls her session with Susan:
"... her words are what
stay with me. Weeks later, I remember her description of a whole self,
along with her sky blue eyes, her attentiveness to my concerns, her
willingness to travel to the ends of the earth in search of scraps of
ether that are parts of me. In moments of doubt, I summon up her
faith, both in the process and in me, and I feel comforted... "
Click on the cover to
read the entire article
 In
the Fall/Winter 2006 issue of Shamanism, Volume 19, issue No. 2, you
will find my co-authored article, "Good
News Regarding the Tungus Shamans in Northern China: Field Notes from
Changchun and Wulajie in Jilin, China, May 2006"
by Susan Grimaldi and Kun Shi'
Below is a brief excerpt
(and great news about our friends in China)
"...Given the present revival of
shamanic traditions in China, coupled with increasing academic
freedom, Chinese researchers are valuing the shamans as transmitters
of culture and keepers of cultural traditions..."
Read Full Article
(230k PDF)
Susan and Kun with the shamans of
Wulajie
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