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The Ceremonial Circle: Practice, Ritual, and Renewal for Personal and Community Healing
: :Here is practical information about shamanic practice and how to create ceremonies and rituals by working with the tools and techniques of the Sacred. Includes interviews with such well-known ceremonialists as Starhawk, Anna Halprin, Brooke Medicine Eagle, Vicki Noble, and others.
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Healing and Mental Health for Native Americans: Speaking in Red (Contemporary Native American Communities)
: :In this book, the authors highlight the importance of eliminating health disparities and increasing the access of Native Americans to critical substance abuse and mental health services. While most chapters are framed in scientific terms, they are concerned with promoting healing through changes in the way we treat our sick-spiritually, traditionally, ceremonially, and scientifically-whether in rural areas, on reservations, and in cities. The book will be a valuable resource for medical and mental health professionals, medical anthropologists, and the Native health community. Visit our website for sample chapters!
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Walk in Peace
: :A collection of over 100 writings with a Native American perspective of every day topics. Whispered from the woods of West Virginia, this collection is colorful and appealing. Some are humorous, some are spiritual, all are unique. The author is a voice for the forest and allows it's timeless lessons to be heard. Come listen to the whisper of the wind.... ( over 400 pages, 10 illustrations by Peaceful Wind)
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El camino tolteca de la recapitulacion (Hombre y Sus Ideas)
: :El autor comparte ocn los lectores aqui, tanto la filosofia como las aplicaciones practicas de una tecncia que, basada en los estilos tradicionales de vivir y pensar de los antiguos toltecas, ha sido desarrollada y perfeccionada por una organizacion creada al efecto, llamada el Arte de Vivir a Proposito (AVP). La recapitulacion -alternativa chamanica a las terapias con fundamento psicoanalitico-, hace posible que podamos realmente revivir y resolver acontecimietnos dolorosos tales como fijaciones emocionales traumatizantes, rompimientos de relaciones, abusos sexuales o una infancia en un ambiente familiar amenazador y conflictivo.
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The Hands Feel It: Healing and Spirit Presence Among a Northern Alaskan People
: :A journal of a year in far northern Alaska, The Hands Feel It captures Turner's experiences with healing, spirit manifestation, and premonition among the I$upiat. She illuminates I$upiat spiritual beliefs and rituals as expressed in daily life.
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Beyond the Lodge of the Sun: Inner Mysteries of the Native American Way
: :In Native American tradition, the purified essence of all things is Light, and the purpose of our lives is to generate that Light. Here for the first time, a native teacher goes beyond the trappings of ritual and ceremony to reveal the core philosophies behind this sacred wisdom. Raised in the traditions of the Native American Way, author and educator Chokecherry Gall Eagle has been granted permission to share the secrets of the Fire Teachings and the Stone Dreams, and he does so through revealing anecdotes and remarkable tales of ...
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Shadowcatchers: A Journey in Search of the Teachings of Native American Healers
: :Crowning a 15-year quest for insight, Steve Wall has once again journeyed deep into the heart of Native American spiritual life to learn about the philosophy and traditions of our continent's indigenous people. Wall encounters wise men and women, tribal leaders, healers, and high priests. This is a moving, eloquent story of a modern man's encounter with an ancient but vital culture. Photos.
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Voices From the Earth: Practical Shamanism
: :Shamans possess a special knowledge of healing and a vast awareness of how the spirit world works-they are technicians of the sacred, animists who understand that everything is alive and use this wisdom to help others: Empower yourself with this sumptuously illustrated guide by doing practical and spiritual acts that deepen your relationship with the forces of the universe. Chanting, smudging with smoke and sage, and even crafting all further the mystical journey and enable you to see the wonder of life. Take what the earth so generously gives--feathers beads, ...
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The Night Has a Naked Soul: Witchcraft and Sorcery Among the Western Cherokee
: :This exploration of the occult world of the Western Cherokee translates 40 shamanistic texts which deal with such esoteric matters as: divining the future; protecting oneself from enemies; destroying the power of witches; and purifying one's soul from all forms of supernatural harm.
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Magic Lake: Mystical Healing Lake of the Cherokee
: :This exploration of the occult world of the Western Cherokee translates 40 shamanistic texts which deal with such esoteric matters as: divining the future; protecting oneself from enemies; destroying the power of witches; and purifying one's soul from all forms of supernatural harm.
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