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After shunning our pasts, land, and ancestors, most of us still feel emptiness inside influenced by mixed mythologies and ideologies to loose oneself. Malidoma Somefs, initiation in the life of an African Shaman holds that loss and depicts one of the most intimate accounts of spiritual transformation. As SomeŒ narrates the indigenous sacred ways of his people, he also reveals a vivid picture on his environment, feelings, and state of consciousness. This Autobiography vividly describes not only the authorfs loss and rediscovery of his culture but also portrays his shamanistic initiation through Joseph Campbellfs comparative mythology of a metaphysical journey or quest of a hero and crossing the threshold of an unconscious state.
In his study of the "myth of the hero," Campbell emphasized that there is a single pattern of heroic journey and that all cultures share this essential pattern in their various heroic myths. Somefs passage, gOf Water and the Spirit,h in s...