Download or read book Shared Spirits written by Dennis L. Olson and published by NorthWord Books for Young Readers. This book was released on 1995 with total page 148 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A collection of traditional Native American stories. These stories have often been used to share wisdom and teach lessons on how to live in harmony with the earth. Many of them revolve around animals revered by the tribes - wolf, bear, eagle, deer and buffalo.

Download or read book Encyclopedia of Spirits written by Judika Illes and published by Harper Collins. This book was released on 2010-09-14 with total page 1076 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Enter the World of Spirits! The Encyclopedia of Spirits is a comprehensive and entertaining A to Z of spirits from around this world and the next. Within these pages meet love goddesses and disease demons, guardians of children and guardians of cadavers. Discover Celtic goddesses and goddesses of the Kabbalah, female Buddhas, African Powers, Dragon Ladies, White Ladies, Black Madonnas, the Green Man, the Green Fairy, lots and lots of ghosts, djinn, mermaids, fairies, and more. From the beneficent to the mischievous, working with these spirits can bring good fortune, lasting love, health, fertility, revenge, and relief. Discover: The true identities of over one thousand spirits (as well as their likes and dislikes) How to communicate with specific spirits for your own benefit How to recognize these spirits when they manifest themselves The mythological and historical events associated with specific spirits The colors, days, numbers, and astrological signs associated with specific spirits The Encyclopedia of Spirits also provides an overview of the role of spirit communication throughout history and a general guide to working with spirits. No matter what your life's problems or desires, this book can guide you to the right spirits who can help fulfill your dreams. For the spiritual adept, the amateur, or the simply curious, the Encyclopedia of Spirits will inform, inspire, and delight.

Download or read book Shared Spirits written by Dennis L. Olson and published by NorthWord Books for Young Readers. This book was released on 1999-02 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The spritual bond native Americans feel with all animals is reflected in their traditional, lesson-filled stories. This book focuses on the 12 animals most revered by native Americans and presents their stories as examples of how to live in harmony with the Earth.

Download or read book Spirits and Scientists written by David J. Hess and published by Penn State Press. This book was released on 2010-11-01 with total page 278 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Brazilian Spiritism (espiritismo, kardecismo) is an important middle-class religious movement whose followers believe in communication with the dead via spirit mediums and in healing illnesses by means of spiritual therapies. Unlike Anglo-Saxon Spiritualists, Brazilian Spiritists count among their number a well-developed and institutionalized intellectual elite that has reinterpreted northern hemisphere parapsychology and developed its own alternative medicine and sociology of religion. As a result, the mediation between popular religion (especially Afro-Brazilian religious practices) and the orthodoxies of the universities, the state, and the medical profession. Situating Spiritist intellectual thought in what he calls a broader ideological arena, Hess examines Spiritism in the context of religion, science, political ideology, medicine, and even the social sciences. Hess challenges the legacy of French sociologist Roger Bastide, who saw in Spiritism an elitist, middle-class ideology. In the process, Spirits and Scientists provides a new approach to middle-class religious movements in Latin America.

Download or read book How to Communicate with Spirits written by Elizabeth Owens and published by Llewellyn Worldwide. This book was released on 2001 with total page 220 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Spiritualist mediums share their fascinating experiences with the "other side" No where else will you find such a wealth of anecdotes from noted professional mediums residing within a Spiritualist community. These real-life psychics shed light on spirit entities, spirit guides, relatives who are in spirit, and communication with all of those on the spirit side of life. You will explore the different categories of spirit guidance, and you will hear from the mediums themselves about their first contacts with the spirit world, as well as the various phenomena they have encountered. Noted mediums residing within a Spiritualist community share their innermost experiences, opinions, and advice regarding spirit communicationIncludes instructions for table tipping, automatic writing, and meditating to make contact with spiritsFor anyone interested in developing and understanding spiritual gifts· Winner of the 2001 Coalition of Visionary Resources (COVR) Award for Best Biographical/Personal Book

Download or read book An Anthropological Study of Spirits written by Christine S. VanPool and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on 2023-05-28 with total page 260 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book discusses the cultural importance of spirits, what spirits want, and how humans interact with them, using examples from around the world and through time. Examples range from the vengeful spirits of the Zulu that cast lightning bolts from clear skies to punish wrongdoers, to the benevolent Puebloan Kachina that encourage prosperity, safety, and rain in the arid American Southwest. The case studies illustrate how humans seek to cooperate (or counteract) spirits to heal the physical and spiritual ailments of their people, to divine the truth, or to gain resources. Building from their cross-cultural analyses, the authors further discuss how our physiology and psychology impact our interaction with the spirits. Readers will come away with an appreciation of the beauty and power of the spirits that continue to shape the lives of people around the world.

Download or read book Kindred Spirits Shilombish Ittibachvffa written by Leslie Stall Widener and published by Charlesbridge Publishing. This book was released on 2024-07-09 with total page 36 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A nonfiction picture book about the inspiring true pay-it-forward story that bridges two continents, 175 years, and two events in history--connecting Ireland, Choctaw Nation, Navajo Nation, and the Hopi Tribe. 1845. The Potato Famine devastated Ireland. An ocean away, Choctaw people heard and were moved by the similarities to the injustice they had suffered on the Trail of Tears. Though they had little, they gathered money to donate. 2017. Irish people built a statue to remember their connection to the Choctaw Nation--twenty-foot high feathers in the shape of a bowl. 2020. COVID-19 disproportionately ravished the Navajo Nation and the Hopi Tribe. Irish people remembered the Choctaws' kindness and paid it forward by donating. Empathy creates kindness that lives well beyond a single act and includes more people the bigger it grows.

Download or read book The Thundering Years written by Julie Tallard Johnson and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2001-04-01 with total page 278 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Shows teens how to harness the intense emotions and drives of the late-teen years using wisdom from cultures around the world. • Includes exercises, personal and community rituals, and resources that show how to successfully navigate the Thundering Years without heading toward violence, drug abuse, and other self-destructive behaviors. • Includes inspiring quotations from many spiritual traditions as well as the words and real-life experiences of other young adults. • Presents an honest view of the passions and pain that occur during this major life transition. According to native traditions, the Thundering Years are the time in life to listen to intense feelings, dreams, desires, and goals--to be outrageous and even difficult. The Thundering Years are the teen years, the time when you are journeying into adulthood. They are exciting years, full of potential and creative energy, and they are painful years, full of turmoil and self-examination. Author Julie Tallard Johnson has collected wisdom from cultures around the world to help you survive your Thundering Years with your soul, creativity, and even sense of humor intact. She offers numerous techniques and traditions to help harness the powerful energy released during this time. She shows that when you connect with your thunder in a respectful way, you are given the confidence you need to accomplish all your dreams. Includes: Mindfulness and energizing meditations Vision quests Dream weaving Drum medicine Initiations and rites of passage Rituals for releasing anger and celebrating the seasons Making your own journals and medicine bags Finding your creative community

Download or read book Familiar Spirits written by Alison Lurie and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2002-02-26 with total page 193 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Alison Lurie, one of America's greatest novelists, has written a loving memoir of world-famous poet James Merrill and his longtime partner David Jackson. Drawing on her forty-year friendship with Merrill and Jackson, Lurie reveals the couple's deep involvement with ghosts, gods, and spirits, with whom they communicated through a Ouija board. Among the results of their intense twenty-year preoccupation with the occult is the brilliant book-length poem "The Changing Light at Sandover", which Merrill called his "chronicles of love and loss." Recalling Merrill and Jackson's life together in New York, Athens, and Key West, Familiar Spirits is a poignant memoir infused with great affection and generous amounts of Lurie's signature wit.

Download or read book Goddess of the North written by Lynda C. Welch and published by Weiser Books. This book was released on 2001-04-01 with total page 292 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A thorough, academic look at the past, present, and future of Norse polytheism. Welch highlights many Norse goddesses as well as other divine females of the Norse pantheon - Valkyries, Norns, Giantesses, Disir - and in a straightforward manner, makes a definitive case for the primordial goddess.

Download or read book Spirits of Community written by K. D. M. Snell and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2016-06-16 with total page 356 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Concern about the 'decline of community', and the theme of 'community spirit', are internationally widespread in the modern world. The English past has featured many representations of declining community, expressed by those who lamented its loss in quite different periods and in diverse genres. This book analyses how community spirit and the passing of community have been described in the past – whether for good or ill – with an eye to modern issues, such as the so-called 'loneliness epidemic' or the social consequences of alternative structures of community. It does this through examination of authors such as Thomas Hardy, James Wentworth Day, Adrian Bell and H.E. Bates, by appraising detective fiction writers, analysing parish magazines, considering the letter writing of the parish poor in the 18th and 19th centuries, and through the depictions of realist landscape painters such as George Morland. K. D. M. Snell addresses modern social concerns, showing how many current preoccupations had earlier precedents. In presenting past representations of declining communities, and the way these affected individuals of very different political persuasions, the book draws out lessons and examples from the past about what community has meant hitherto, setting into context modern predicaments and judgements about 'spirits of community' today.

Download or read book The Dragon and the Unicorn written by A. A. Attanasio and published by A. A. Attanasio. This book was released on 2011-05-29 with total page 401 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The demon Lailoken, as old as time, is tricked by angels and trapped in a human body. He becomes Merlinus, a wandering wise man expert in magic, destined to work for good among humans, opposed by the Furor (Odin). An encounter with the unicorn, a spirit similarly earthbound, brings Merlinus to Ygrane, queen of the Celts, and she sets him a task to find her king, a man seen in vision and fated to be her love-match. Merlinus-Lailoken seeks and finds him: Theodosius, a stable worker. But Ygrane has commanded the demon-wizard to bring her a king, so Merlinus sets to work making one.

Download or read book Dancing Spirits written by Iris Laine M. Div. and published by iUniverse. This book was released on 2006-07 with total page 152 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Dancing Spirits brings together our spiritual beliefs accepted by faith and shows how the latest Quantum Physics research unites our faith with fact. It makes subatomic research understandable even to the scientific novice and shows how science now reveals in the laboratory what the religions of the world have asked us to accept by faith since before recorded history. In doing so, Dancing Spirits enhances and reinforces our spiritual faith and guides us in making contact with the everlasting Spirit within us. It encourages and helps our own inner Spirit, which is truly our invisible Soul, to literally dance in hope and joy now and look forward without fear or doubt to the heaven hereafter with those we've loved and lost.

Download or read book Making Spirits Bright written by Susan Magsamen and published by Sterling Publishing Company. This book was released on 2007-10 with total page 62 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Starting with a world view of Christmas anticipation, this book encourages children and adults to look around themand withinto think about simple gifts, greetings, and decorations at this memory-rich time of year. Family activity: make song sheets from a clever book-within-a-book for family sing-alongs or a caroling party. Plus, personalize four keepsake wooden ornaments.

Download or read book When Spirits Touch the Red Path written by Patrick Quirk and published by Dolphin Media. This book was released on 2006-08 with total page 274 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Patrick "Speaking Wind" Quirk, a Native American author, lecturer, and publisher, was raised by his grandfather, a shaman, in the mountains of northern New Mexico. He shares his grandfather's wisdom and teaching in this volume.

Download or read book Spirits and Slaves in Central Sudan written by Susan M. Kenyon and published by Springer. This book was released on 2012-09-13 with total page 304 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This historical ethnography from Central Sudan explores the century-old intertwining of zar , spirit possession, with past lives of ex-slaves and shows that, despite very different social and cultural contexts, zar has continued to be shaped by the experience of slavery.

Download or read book The Prophecy Of Amuntun written by Bill Valiontis and published by Bill Valiontis. This book was released on 2024-01-25 with total page 134 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The wind howled across the desolate plains of Amuntun, carrying with it the whispers of forgotten legends and the mournful sigh of dying dreams. Beneath a sky bruised by the dying embers of dawn, a lone figure trekked onward, shrouded in a tattered cloak as dusty as the earth he trod.