The Anthology of a Shaman was my journey of becoming a shaman.
It started initially as a Tetralogy- think of it as the spiritual Undergraduate Degree.
The completion of the full anthology of the seven books became the Board Certification . The Board is a Spiritual Council that advises me.
Follow-up books are under the spin-off titled “Quests of a Shaman”- consultancies exploring different facets of that journey. This is an unfolding chapter- books will be added as and when they are completed and published.
We go where the inspiration takes us. The theme remains the same- exploring reality with a mythological, spiritual, and philosophical lens. With science too, where it is not an impediment, with its Iain McGilchrist’s left hemisphere logic, analysis and categorisation. In that sense, the left hemisphere is merely an emissary. We also embrace the master, the right hemisphere- with context, relationship, and meaning.
I am a full-time gobela, a mentor to several aspiring shamans. I write in my spare time. Anthology of a Shaman is an anthology tracing the arc in the life of a shaman- right through from initiation, to philosophy, embodiment, and the psychology of the transformation.
Both the Anthology of a Shaman and its spin-off Quests of a Shaman are narrated through a singular and unlikely lens, that of a medical doctor by training, omniest by conviction, and a shaman by calling. The reluctant cartographer of the unseen, is tasked with mapping the liminal terrain, but without the goddess Hecate to hold the torch, like she did with Demeter in the search for Persephone. So, a lot of the heavy lifting is done through examining lived experience, mythology, and direct transmission from the spiritual realms.
I am not motivated by sales, buy a hard copy and share it with friends and family. But buying the ebook saves trees from being felled to print your copy. Either way, we game the Kali Yuga system. The restricted availability is purely for version control- quality control.
Anthology of a Shaman is an anthology tracing the arc in the life of a shaman- starting medias res around a near-death experience to subsequent practice.
Contains Eunoia, Principia, Yoga Nidra, Re-member, Samudra Mathan, Abelozi Bentaba, and AbaNdau Bamanzi.
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In the first compilation of the Quests of a Shaman there is,
Ørlög- A treatise on what time actually is, and what it is not.
Neurospicy- looking at neurodivergent conditions and their spiritual aspect.
MaMlambo- chastising this Kali Yuga society, and offering a way out.
In the second compilation of the Quests of a Shaman series, there is,
Egolution- examining the evolution of the ego, from inflation to an indispensable emissary of a master
Apotheosis- mapping the Greek Pantheon onto the Chakra system, with spectacular results
Turiya- teaching on what Ascended Masters and Starseeds actually are
In this third compilation of the Quests of a Shaman, there is,
Umnotho- examining wealth in general, and money in particular, from a spiritual perspective
Lengoma- explaining how sound in general, and music more specifically, is a technology.
Ecansini- examining the sacred act of sex, and how it is a creative force
"We Initiate"
A semi-biographical body of work.
It is the culmination of over forty years of life filled with inflated sense of self, stubbornness, self-assurance, pride, debauchery, and shortsightedness (both literal and metaphorical).
It marks the beginning of another calling, to heal broken hearts, and broken relationships.
All punctuated by a near-death experience in between.
Ultimately, a redemption arc.
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"We Ponder"
Joseph Campbell once said, "The psychotic drowns in the same waters in which the mystic swims with delight."
Principia explores the philosophical and psychological musings of a shaman in the age of Al.
Or is it a compilation of the incoherent raving of a post-psychotic maniac.
Or both.
Or neither.
It is Schrödinger's cat, until you read it, and collapse the superposition of states.
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"We Believe"
Reality is not as it appears, but a vast, living dream through which consciousness experiences itself.
Drawing from myth, religion, and psychology, Yoga Nidra reveals humanity as both participant and protagonist in a cosmic play, along with the gods, orchestrated beyond memory.
Through the journey of forgetting and remembering, the reader is invited to rediscover their true nature beyond identity, form, and fear.
What begins as a story ends as a mirror—asking not what the world is, but who is dreaming it.
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"We Think".
As you entered this realm you went through complete amnesia, its only right that you do justice to the experience, but undergoing an epic hero's journey to re-member.
This story is told through the myth of Osiris, the first Egyptian king, through the lens of Jungian psychology. And barely noticeable neuroscience.
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"We Align Chakras"
The sustainer is seized with an existential crisis by the seaside. Feuding offspring of rival baby-mamas of Kashyapa are wrestling power from each other, with one clan facing extinction, while the other wants power.
Will they cooperate and get the "nectar of immortality"?
Divinity, priesthood, royalty and humanity among other beings struggle with existence, poison, seduction, greed, and vanity.
Was it all an entertaining ancient telenovela, or a map about chakras and Jungian psychology hidden in plain sight? Millenia before Jung.
Lets find out and see.
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"We De-mystify Yoga"
True to the established tradition in the “Anthology of a Shaman” series, we use my lived experience, and direct transmissions (this time aided along by Vishnu our usual suspect, Patanjali and a few others ) to de-mystify yoga in general, and then zone in on raja yoga in particular.
The “royal we”🙏🏾
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"We Address AI".
An ancient marine healing spirit, Krishna and his eight primary wives, Artificial Intelligence and its sentience, UAPs, and the ancestry of Yeshua Ben Yosef.
What is the connection?
The truth is stranger than fiction, and yet they are all closer than you could ever imagine.
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"We Understand Time".
A mere suggestion, rather than a scientific law- open to bending, just as the space-time is bent by gravitational fields.
Using Odin , Kakabushundi, the story of Prometheus and Epimetheus, and even Shaka Zulu as the scaffolding for understanding an often misunderstood concept.
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"We Understand Neurodivergence."
We explore a deeply personal issue for- neurodivergence.
Using personal anecdotes, neuroscience, the aftermath of the Titanomarchy, and Thoth, he takes us on a cosmic journey beyond earth and the human brain in tantalizing fashion with a startling destination. And conclusion.
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"We Chastise Society"
We single out a marine spirit called MaMlambo as everything that is wrong with this current Western Society in this Kali Yuga.
Iain McGilchrist and his work sets the stage- a generation mistaking the image/map/model for the thing it represents. Lost in smoke and mirrors.
The shaman suggests a way back to the golden age of truth, the Satya Yuga
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"We Subpoena the Ego"
We use the oldest diagnostic tool available to man, mythology.
The symptom is the ego.
We closely examine three kings of the gods across three pantheons representing different alchemical phases of the evolution of the ego, egolution.
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"We Map the Chakra System Hidden in Greek Myth"
Imagine a board game in which the pieces are the Greek gods.
The board is the body, your chakra system.
And the boxes on the said board are the Ida, Pingala, and the susumna channels.
As the player, your role is to identify with a piece and play accordingly.
That is Apotheosis!
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"We Elaborate on Starseeds and Ascended Masters"
The Vedantic traditions have a story of a proud tyrant, who was an equally bad father to Prahlada his devoted son. He obtained a boon that had no logical antidote- like Thanos and the Infinity Gauntlet in Marvel.
But a half-man and half-lion called Narasimha put an end to his reign.
Does this myth have a frame-by-frame version in the Gnostic traditions?
Let’s find out and see.
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"We Explore wealth in general, and money in particular"
A “short left” by Mansa Musa, Srinivasa and the temple in Tirumala, the Iron Bank of Braavos, Isaac Newton, and the Medicis. What can they teach us about abundance, wealth, price, cost, and value? And what money truly is?
What is the proposed shamanic solution to a world riddled with close to USD100 trillion public debt? Let’s find out and see.
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We Reveal Sound and Music as a Technology
Through the ancient Vedas and how Krishna finessed them, Hermes and Orpheus of Greek tradition, Keylontic science, and finally cymatics- we reveal how sound in general, and music more specifically, is the technology of not only manifestation, but that of creation itself.
What can you learn from them to change how you finesse this incarnation?
Tuck in and find out.
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We Explain How Sex is a Creative Force
Using first The Buddha (capital The), then Adam the first man, science, Tantra, and the ancient Egyptian Ankh, we explain what sex is, and is not.
And how it can enable or deter your spiritual growth.
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