Malidoma Patrice Somé: African Ritual & Initiation — Thinking Allowed DVD W/ Jeffrey Mishlove

Somé describes his childhood among the Dagara people, focusing on their use of ritual as a means of establishing an ongoing relationship with the worlds of their ancestors and of the spirits. He also describes his own shamanic initiation. He suggests that the elders of the Dagara community were skilled in creating doorways through which practitioners could pass into other dimensions of reality.