Where the Spirits Ride the Wind: Journeys and Other Ecstatic Experiences $16.95
Felicitas documents the effects of body posture on trance experience. Intrigued by the physical changes that take place during trance states, she began to record the observations of students who entered a trance-like condition while concentrating on the sound of Goodman's rattle for 15 minutes. Whenever she led a workshop in trance journeys--whether in Berlin, Vienna, New Mexico or Ohio--her subjects' journeys always lasted for 15 minutes, but where they went and what they saw, heard and learned, maintains Goodman, depended on the particular body posture they had assumed. One position conjured up sensations of flying; others took subjects into an underground realm; in some the journeyer was transformed into an animal. From the "Tennessee diviner" to the "healing Bear," the postures are derived, according to Goodman, from ancient, even prehistoric traditions, known to us through cave drawings, anthropological description and other sources. Yet much of what the trance journeyers have to say about their experiences often sounds the same, calling into question Goodman's basic thesis.

Speaking in Tongues: A Cross-Cultural Study of Glossolalia  $10.95 (reprinted, spiral bound) 
Glossolalia is not a phenomenon unique to Christianity. It has been observed in vast array of nonchristian cultures and religions from Eskimoes to Africans, Indonesian, Borneo, Malaysian, Spanish, Haitian, Iraqi, Chinese, Japanese, Aborigines, Ethiopians, etc.; representing a variety of religion from Voodoo, Buddhism, dervishes, Islam, Mormonism, Shamanism, Peyote cult, etc. It even goes as far back in the literature as Herodotus who spoke of an inspired priest in Greece who suddenly spoke in a barbarian language, and Virgil who tells in the Aeneid of a Cumaean sibyl who spoke strangely while possessed.

Ecstasy, Ritual and Alternate Reality: Religion in a Pluralistic World  $14.95
Felicitas traces the origins of religion to the dawn of human history, when religious behavior was accompanied by gesture rather than full-fledged modern speech. She also does a systematic comparison that shows that religion vary according to whether people are hunter gatherers, horticulturalists, agriculturalists, nomadic pastoralists, or city dwellers. Felicitas offers a "unified field theory" of religion as human behavior. She examines ritual, the religious trance, alternate reality, ethics and moral code, and the named category designating religion.

  My Last Forty Days    $9.95 
An "ethnography of the imagination" and a heart-warming celebration of the immortality of the human soul, My Last Forty Days is an adventure story with a rather unusual protagonist -- a ghost. Celebrated anthropologist Felicitas Goodman combines the fruit of many years of research among the Pueblos with her own visionary experiences to fashion a moving tale of death and dying that remains buoyant with life and hope.  The ghostly heroine narrates her quest for a spiritual home in the alternate reality of Pueblo Indian mythology. She is accompanied by myriad guides and animal spirits who help her attain self-knowledge. There are Old Man Coyote, Grandfather Bear, Sister Snake, and Spider Woman. Cricket and Rattle Sister, companions from her past, lend support during the forty day journey into an unfamiliar yet enchanting place. Finally there is Buffalo, the mighty Spirit Guide, who patiently instructs her in the ways of this alien world. In a magically transposed landscape of the American Southwest, they all play a pivotal role in bringing the story to its surprising and joyful conclusion.

Maya Apocalypse    $21.95 
Maya Apolcalypse is the record of fieldwork that, as often happens, ended up quite differently from the way it was originally planned. In conducting a research project about speaking in tongues (glossolalia), Felicitas Goodman recorded this non-ordinary behavior among English- and Spanish-speaking members of Pentecostal congregations. A Mexican Apostolic Pentecostoal minister introduced Goodman to the preacher in a Maya village in Yucatan. The congregation she came to know in 1969 experienced a "crisis cult" in response to a prediction of the end of the world, which was to take place on September 1, 1970. Goodman subsequently spent a part of every year until 1986 with the women of the congregation. Maya Apocalypse is a record of that fieldwork, which eventually covered not only the events in the temple, both ordinary and extraordinary, but also the lives of the women who acted as informants, especially Doña Eus, to whom this work is affectionately dedicated.

Ecstatic Trance: New Ritual Body Postures: A Workbook (by Felicitas D. Goodman & S. Nana Nauwald) $16.95

Ecstatic Trance contains in-depth information on 60 ritual body postures and describes them in precise, accurate detail, with clear illustrations. The first complete manual on this subject, presented here are age-old postures (one dates back 32,000 years and was inspired by a cave painting) along with newly-researched postures, published here for the first time. Learn these postures and access, energize, and integrate your creative potential.

Jewels on the Path: A Spirit Notebook

•  Volume 1     $7.95
  

•  Volume 2     $10.00 

BY BELINDA GORE, President of the Cuyamungue Institute

Specific body postures reappear in the art and artifacts of world cultures, even those widely separated by time and distance.  What are these images of unusual postures telling us?  Anthropologist Felicitas Goodman discovered that people who assume these postures while in trance report strikingly similar meditative experiences.  The results from this research are astonishing, proving that certain body gestures and movements, when properly worked with, actually trigger us into accessing altered states of consciousness.

With clear instructions and illustrations, Belinda Gore, one of Dr. Goodman's prominent students, reveals to us these shamanic postures and how to work with them. Ecstatic Body Postures is a "must read" for anyone interested in meditation, shamanic practice, yoga, and body work.

By SUSAN JOSEPHSON

Buffalo Seed Woman   $19.00
The true story (in graphic novel form, with some of the names changed) about spirit encounters and Native American religion in the Southwest. Buffalo Seed Woman is based on the life of the internationally known anthropologist Dr. Felicitas D. Goodman. Dr. Goodman is famous for her research on altered states of consciousness, and her discoveries of body postures that help people achieve trance experiences of an alternate reality. She is the founder of the Cuyamungue Institute and she is also my mother.

Buffalo Seed Woman tells the story of Dr. Goodman's quest for contact with ancient Pueblo Indian spirits in New Mexico and how that quest nearly cost her life. of Felicitas D. Goodman ( A graphic story)

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