An original LitRPG fantasy from one of the fathers of LitRPG. #1 bestseller in audiobooks. The unrelenting #1 LitRPG bestseller. Translated into English, German, Polish, Czech and Korean languages. Barliona is a brand-new virtual world which offers everyone the chance to start a new life as a valiant knight, a hero or a beautiful princess. Many people have come here in search of a new identity. Still, for some users Barliona has become their biggest nightmare. They are convicts sentenced to serving their term in virtual reality with their sensory filters disabled. They can feel everything that happens to their character whether it's pleasure or pain, strain or fatigue. For them, the difference between the real and virtual worlds is so slim that some of the inmates lose all sense of reality. Daniel Mahan is one such convict, tried and sentenced for hacking the city sewage network. He's assigned the class of Shaman which can become his blessing or his curse. Will he fail - or will he rise to unthinkable heights, founding the greatest clan ever, winning the most amazing woman and going on the most incredible escapades? The seven books of the series tell the story of the Shaman's virtual adventures in Barliona: his ups and downs, his treacherous allies and trusty friends. Because there's no other path if you want to become a player capable of taking the Way of the Shaman.

Barliona. A virtual world jam-packed with monsters, battles - and predictably, players. Millions of them come to Barliona, looking forward to the things they can't get in real life: elves and magic, dragons and princesses, and unforgettable combat. The game has become so popular that players now choose to spend months online without returning home. In Barliona, anything goes: you can assault fellow players, level up, become a mythical hero, a wizard or a legendary thief. The only rule that attempted to regulate the game demanded that no player was allowed to feel actual pain. But there's an exception to every rule. For a certain bunch of players, Barliona has become their personal hell. They are criminals sent to Barliona to serve their time. They aren't in it for the dragons' gold or the abundant loot. All they want is to survive the virtual inferno. They face the ultimate survival quest.

A product of the latest technologies, Barliona is a virtual world brimming with fun and entertainment. The government has become the guarantor for the in-game currency, allowing its free circulation. As a result, the population floods Barliona in pursuit of easy money. It doesn't take long for the game developers to discover a source of free labor: real-world prison convicts. While their bodies are locked in special auto-maintenance virtual capsules, the prisoners' minds are released into Barliona's vitual mines. Dmitry Mahan has been through it all. Sentenced to eight years hard labor, he now struggles with an unpopular class - the Shaman - and an equally unpopular profession of a Jeweler. His fight for survival becomes anything but virtual.

In the Shadow of the Shaman is about the importance of connection to the deepest power of Nature. It tells you how to use natural objects from the shamanic worlds -- Plant, Mineral, Animal, and Human -- to help make this personal connection with Earth energies. In doing this, you are able to reconnect with the center of your own power. Because the shamanic path is such a personal one, often not able to be shared, this book has been designed so that it has the experiential quality of the shamanic journey traditions. The author is also careful to present the information in a clear, organized manner. In doing so, she blends the deeply personal wisdom of a shamanic path with the shared, community wisdom of a medicine path. This represents an ideal for Aquarian shamanism. But this book is not simply about shamanism -- it shows, through techniques, exercises, meditations, and rituals, how anyone can become a shaman. You will learn how to attune yourself with the shamanic worlds of Nature, and with the Higher Self, for self-healing and self-empowerment. You will learn to develop shamanic balance, to become the living tree, and you will do this by using such tools as stones, crystals, feathers, masks, drums, and incense. Book jacket.

Joanne Walker has three days to learn to use her shamanic powers and save the world from the unleashed Wild Hunt. No worries. No pressure. Never mind the lack of sleep, the perplexing new talent for healing herself from fatal wounds, or the cryptic, talking coyote who appears in her dreams. And, as if all thats not bad enough, in the three years Joannes been a cop shes never seen a dead body–yet shes just come across her second in three days. Its been a bitch of a week. And it isn't over yet.

This classic on shamanism pioneered the modern shamanic renaissance. It is the foremost resource and reference on shamanism. Now, with a new introduction and a guide to current resources, anthropologist Michael Harner provides the definitive handbook on practical shamanism – what it is, where it came from, how you can participate. "Wonderful, fascinating… Harner really knows what he's talking about." CARLOS CASTANEDA "An intimate and practical guide to the art of shamanic healing and the technology of the sacred. Michael Harner is not just an anthropologist who has studied shamanism; he is an authentic white shaman." STANILAV GROF, author of 'The Adventure Of Self Discovery' "Harner has impeccable credentials, both as an academic and as a practising shaman. Without doubt (since the recent death of Mircea Eliade) the world's leading authority on shamanism." NEVILL DRURY, author of 'The Elements of Shamanism' Michael Harner, Ph.D., has practised shamanism and shamanic healing for more than a quarter of a century. He is the founder and director of the Foundation for Shamanic Studies in Norwalk, Connecticut.

The First Book In A Brand New Trilogy From The Author Of The Farseer, Liveship Traders And Tawny Man Trilogies. Young Nevare Burvelle Is The Second Son Of A Second Son. Traditionally In Gernia, The Firstborn Son Is Heir To The Family Fortunes, The Second Son Bears A Sword And The Third Son Is Consecrated To The Priesthood. Nevare Will Follow His Father Newly Made A Lord By The King Into The Cavalry; To The Frontier And Thence To An Advantageous Marriage, To Carry On The Burvelle Name. It Is A Golden Future, And Nevare Looks Forward To It With Relish. For Twenty Years King Troven'S Cavalry Have Pushed The Frontiers Of Gernia Out Across The Grasslands, Subduing The Fierce Tribes Of The Plain On Its Way. Now They Have Driven The Frontier As Far As The Barrier Mountains, Home To The Enigmatic Speck People. The Specks A Dapple-Skinned, Forest-Dwelling Folk Retain The Last Vestiges Of Magic In A World Which Is Becoming Progressive And Technologised. The 'Civilised' Peoples Base Their Beliefs On A Rational Philosophy Founded On Scientific Principle And A Belief In The Good God, Who Displaced The Older Deities Of Their World. To Them, The Specks Are Primeval Savages, Little Better Than Beasts. Superstitions Abound; It Is Said That They Harbour Strange Diseases And Worship Trees. Sexual Congress With Them Is Regarded As Both Filthy And Foolhardy: The Speck Plague Which Has Ravaged The Frontier Has Decimated Entire Regiments. All These Beliefs Will Touch Nevare'S Training At The Academy; But His Progress There Is Not As Simple As He Would Wish. He Will Experience Prejudice From The Old Aristocracy: As The Son Of A 'New Noble' He Is Segregated Into A Patrol Comprising Other New Nobles' Sons, All Of Whom Will Encounter Injustice, Discrimination And Foul Play In That Hostile And Deeply Competitive Environment. In Addition, His World View Will Be Challenged By His Unconventional Girl-Cousin Epiny; And By The Bizarre Dreams Which Visit Him At Night. And Then, On Dark Evening, The Circus Comes To Old Thares, Bringing With It The First Specks Nevare Has Ever Seen&

"Shaman of Oberstdorf tells the fascinating story of a sixteenth-century mountain village caught in a panic of its own making. Four hundred years ago the Bavarian alpine town of Oberstdorf, surrounded by the towering peaks of the Vorarlberg, was awash in legends and rumors of prophets and healers, of spirits and specters, of witches and soothsayers. The book focuses on the life of a horse wrangler named Chonrad Stoeckhlin [1549-1587], whose extraordinary visions of the afterlife and enthusiastic practice of the occult eventually led to his death-and to the death of a number of village women-for crimes of witchcraft. Wolfgang Behringer is one of the premier historians of German witchcraft, not only because of his mastery of the subject at the regional level, but because he also writes movingly, forcefully, and with an eye for the telling anecdote."--Amazon.ca.

Charlie Moon is no stranger to the mysterious ways of the spirit world. But why is prize livestock being ritualistically butchered in the Canyon of the Spirit? That's what Granite Creek's chief of police Scott Parish wants to find out...before human blood begins to spill. Enter Moon's aunt and aging Ute shaman Daisy Perika. For only she who communes with the ancient spirits can truly comprehend the events that have happened upon Native American lands—and the even greater evil that is yet to be unleashed... In The Shaman Laughs, James D. Doss delivers another fascinating Charlie Moon mystery.

Quantum Hughes' life is stuck on repeat. While trapped in The LOOP, he struggles to free himself from a glitch that forces him to re-live the same day over and over.