Listening to the Spirits

Surviving the Coming Apocalypse with Ecstatic Trance

Nicholas E. Brink, Ph.D.

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978-1-954744-57-8
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August 2022

So much can be learned about how to live a healthy and sustainable life by listening to the spirits of our ancestors and of the Earth. The spirits were a central part of providing direction in how our hunter-gatherer ancestors lived. If we open ourselves to these spirits and listen-through our dreams, and through trance, whether hypnotic or ecstatic-they can again become part of our lives.

In Nicholas Brink's travels to Sweden, Denmark, Ireland, Finland, Peru, California, New York, and New Mexico, he discovered special places where the spirits became alive. While listening through ecstatic trance, these spirits come alive at the deepest level, and have taught him ways we can again live in a sustainable manner.

Chronicling Brink's use of ecstatic trance Listening to the Spirits explores the destruction human beings have imposed upon the Earth and how we can hope to survive this coming apocalypse. In these ecstatic experiences Brink often finds himself as a young boy learning the shamanic ways of his tribe, seeing what is beyond his eyes and hearing what is beyond his ears.

Nicholas Brink, Ph.D., is Board-certified by the American Board of Professional Psychology, past board member of the International Association for the Study of Dreams, a past president of the American Association for the Study of Mental Imagery, a certified instructor of ecstatic trance, and the author of seven books: Grendel and His Mother; The Power of Ecstatic Trance; Baldr's Magic; Beowulf's Ecstatic Trance Magic; Trance Journeys of the Hunter-Gatherers; Ecstatic Soul Retrieval; and Applying the Constructivist Approach to Cognitive Therapy.

“Like a magical diamond needle playing the LP record of the Akashic field, Nicholas Brink’s Listening to the Spirits engages us in listening to his symphonic collection of ritual trance journeys in ancestral daily life and myth, weaving timeless motifs of desires for a peaceful and harmonious existence with the Earth and all its creatures.” —Marianne Carroll, Certified Instructor of Ecstatic Trance

“Over many years, Nick Brink has chronicled the practice of Ecstatic Trance as introduced to the world by my friend and teacher anthropologist Felicitas Goodman. Using and teaching the Cuyamungue Method, he asks for spirit guidance about how to survive these days of global challenge and records ancestral wisdom about living sustainably on Earth. His trust in spirit to
lead the way is inspiring and offers a voice of hope.” —Belinda Gore, former president of the Cuyamungue Institute, and author of Ecstatic Body Postures, The Ecstatic Experience, and Ancient Ritual Postures

“If you seek a deeper understanding of the possibilities of using Ecstatic Trance based on Dr. Felicitas Goodman’s findings, then this book is a must-read. . . . Expressed in the words of Nick in calling to the unknown, ‘May the spirits of the earth become alive to you as they were to your ancestors.’” —Annette Ki Salmen M.A., author of Mohnfrau: Wege zur Hjeilung durch Trance