In The Creative Therapist in Practice Hillary and Bradford Keeney present a radically innovative approach to the practice of therapy. Combining improvisational performing arts, action-oriented cybernetics, and ecstatic healing traditions, therapy is re-imagined as a creative transformative art.
When the missionaries came to North America to "save" the American Indians, they were perplexed to discover that while they talked about Jesus, some of the Indians claimed to talk directly with him. Among Christians there is almost complete silence on the subject of the place of shamanism in experiencing the divine; yet shamanic experience is at the root of all mystical communion
Autor, terapeut a šaman, predstavuje najstaršiu liečivú metódu na Zemi: extatické trasenie tela. Kniha skúma tradície celého sveta, kde sa trasenie využívalo, a ukazuje, aké hlboké účinky môže mať. Podrobne skúma celý cyklus od extatického prebudenia sa až po hlbokú tranzovú relaxáciu. Uvádza aj praktické cvičenia, ako sa triasť, aby to malo liečivé aj duchovné účinky.