Download or read book The Lakota Sweat Lodge Cards written by Chief Archie Fire Lame Deer and published by Destiny Books. This book was released on 1993-10-01 with total page 192 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book and beautifully illustrated deck draw on the ancient Lakota ritual of healing and purification known as the sacred Inipi, or sweat lodge ceremony, which has existed in the Lakota culture for thousands of years. The cards and accompanying book comprise a self-contained and highly original system that will help you harness creative energies to deal with issues that are of concern in your life. Used for self-discovery rather than divination, the cards gently guide you toward inner growth and self-knowledge in the time-honored tradition of the Lakota people. Fifty cards, illustrated in vibrant color, access the powerful symbols and teachings of the Inipi, capturing the spirit of this ancient ceremony. In a variety of spreads the authors show you how the cards can provide you with an expanded vision of your being and purpose, offering an intimate sense of walking in balance between the conscious world and the world of spirit. Publication coincides with the U.N. Year of Indigenous People. Archie Fire Lame Deer is one of the leaders of the Native American spirituality movement.
Download or read book The Lakota Ritual of the Sweat Lodge written by Raymond A. Bucko and published by U of Nebraska Press. This book was released on 1998-04-01 with total page 352 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For centuries, a persistent and important component of Lakota religious life has been the Inipi, the ritual of the sweat lodge. The sweat lodge has changed little in appearance since its first recorded description in the late seventeenth century. The ritual itself consists of songs, prayers, and other actions conducted in a tightly enclosed, dark, and extremely hot environment. Participants who “sweat” together experience moral strengthening, physical healing, and the renewal of social and cultural bonds. Today, the sweat lodge ritual continues to be a vital part of Lakota religion. It has also been open to use, often controversial, by non-Indians. The ritual has recently become popular among Lakotas recovering from alcohol and drug addiction. This study is the first in-depth look at the history and significance of the Lakota sweat lodge. Bringing together data culled from historical sources and fieldwork on Pine Ridge Reservation, Raymond A. Bucko provides a detailed discussion of continuity and changes in the “sweat” ritual over time. He offers convincing explanations for the longevity of the ceremony and its continuing popularity.
Download or read book Healing Logics written by Erika Brady and published by University Press of Colorado. This book was released on 2001-04-01 with total page 297 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Scholars in folklore and anthropology are more directly involved in various aspects of medicine—such as medical education, clinical pastoral care, and negotiation of transcultural issues—than ever before. Old models of investigation that artificially isolated "folk medicine," "complementary and alternative medicine," and "biomedicine" as mutually exclusive have proven too limited in exploring the real-life complexities of health belief systems as they observably exist and are applied by contemporary Americans. Recent research strongly suggests that individuals construct their health belief systmes from diverse sources of authority, including community and ethnic tradition, education, spiritual beliefs, personal experience, the influence of popular media, and perception of the goals and means of formal medicine. Healing Logics explores the diversity of these belief systems and how they interact—in competing, conflicting, and sometimes remarkably congruent ways. This book contains essays by leading scholars in the field and a comprehensive bibliography of folklore and medicine.
Download or read book Tarot and Other Meditation Decks written by Emily E. Auger and published by McFarland. This book was released on 2023-03-20 with total page 277 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Arthur E. Waite and artist Pamela Colman Smith's Rider-Waite Tarot (1909) is the most popular Tarot in the world. Today, it is affectionately referred to as the Rider-Waite-Smith Tarot in recognition of the high quality of Smith's contributions. Waite and Smith's deck has become the gold standard for identifying and analyzing contemporary Tarot and other meditation decks based on archetypes. Developments in both visual and literary history and theory have influenced Tarot since its fifteenth-century invention as a game and subsequent adaptations for esotericism, cartomancy, and meditation. This analysis consider Tarot in relation to established modern and postmodern art movements, such as Symbolism, Surrealism, and Pattern and Decoration Art, as well as the concepts and theories informing both the dominance and the dissolution of the modernist "grid" and hierarchical priorities. This work also explores the close connection between Tarot and the invention of the literary novel and includes new material on the representation of Tarot in film and fiction. A new chapter addresses the growing influence of the archetypal "shadow" and "shadow work" on Tarot as an artistic form, narrative genre, and practice in the new millennium.
Download or read book The Guilt of Nations written by Elazar Barkan and published by JHU Press. This book was released on 2001-10-09 with total page 468 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The author takes a sweeping look at the idea of restitution and its impact on the concept of human rights and the practice of politics. She confronts the difficulties of determining victims and assigning blame.
Download or read book Gift of Power written by Archie Fire Lame Deer and published by Bear. This book was released on 1992 with total page 280 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A modern Dakota Indian medicine man recounts his life and spiritual experiences.
Download or read book Healing Quest written by Marie Herbert and published by Random House. This book was released on 2012-05-31 with total page 187 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When her two daughters were approaching the finish of their education Marie Herbert felt the need to mark the end of the child-rearing phase of her life by a rite of passage, a way to find herself a new place in the grand scheme of things. Long drawn to the Native American spiritual tradition, she planned a visit to the United States and an extraordinary journey of personal transformation under the guidance of Native American Healers. However, the end of her time of motherhood coincided tragically with the sudden death of one of her daughters and so her odyssey was to become far sadder and more urgent than she could have imagined. HEALING QUEST is the fascinating description of Marie Herbert's inner and outer journey of the heart. Vivid portraits of the people she met along the way are combined with honest accounts of the change in her feelings - together with ideas about how the readers, too, may learn from what she experienced and so gain insights into his or own life, whether in practical, emotional or spiritual terms.
Download or read book Booker T Washington written by Louis R. Harlan and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 1986-12-04 with total page 562 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The most powerful black American of his time, this book captures him at his zenith and reveals his complex personality.
Download or read book Sacred Drumming written by Steven Ash and published by Sterling Publishing Company, Inc.. This book was released on 2004-08 with total page 148 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Take a guided tour from a writer who grew up and studied on Native American reservations and join those throughout the world—from Siberia to South America, Australia to Africa—who venerate the drum for its healing and celebratory powers. Through painting, cleansing, blessing, smudging, dedicating, chanting, and performing, you’ll find your own special beat, transforming the drum into a medicinal tool. Become one with a purchased or homemade instrument. Draw on the knowledge of Native American and other cultures to drum away fear, purify, establish a sacred space, and reach into areas of the consciousness that would otherwise be inaccessible. Extra special bonus: a CD with more than an hour’s worth of music for a Sacred Directions ceremony, meditation, trance, and more.
Download or read book Dream Catchers written by Philip Jenkins and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2005-12-01 with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In books such as Mystics and Messiahs, Hidden Gospels, and The Next Christendom, Philip Jenkins has established himself as a leading commentator on religion and society. Now, in Dream Catchers, Jenkins offers a brilliant account of the changing mainstream attitudes towards Native American spirituality, once seen as degraded spectacle, now hailed as New Age salvation. Jenkins charts this remarkable change by highlighting the complex history of white American attitudes towards Native religions, considering everything from the 19th-century American obsession with "Hebrew Indians" and Lost Tribes, to the early 20th-century cult of the Maya as bearers of the wisdom of ancient Atlantis. He looks at the popularity of the Carlos Castaneda books, the writings of Lynn Andrews and Frank Waters, and explores New Age paraphernalia including dream-catchers, crystals, medicine bags, and Native-themed Tarot cards. He also examines the controversial New Age appropriation of Native sacred places and notes that many "white indians" see mainstream society as religiously empty. An engrossing account of our changing attitudes towards Native spirituality, Dream Catchers offers a fascinating introduction to one of the more interesting aspects of contemporary American religion.
Download or read book Sun Dancing written by Michael Hull and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2000-10-01 with total page 232 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A powerful story of one man's redemption through the Lakota Sun Dance ceremony. • Written by the only white man to be confirmed as a Sundance Chief by traditional Lakota elders. • Includes forewords by prominent Lakota spiritual leaders Leonard Crow Dog, Charles Chipps, Mary Thunder, and Jamie Sams. The Sun Dance is the largest and most important ceremony in the Lakota spiritual tradition, the one that ensures the life of the people for another year. In 1988 Michael Hull was extended an invitation to join in a Sun Dance by Lakota elder Leonard Crow Dog-- a controversial action because Hull is white. This was the beginning of a spiritual journey that increasingly interwove the life of the author with the people, process, and elements of Lakota spirituality. On this journey on the Red Road, Michael Hull confronted firsthand the transformational power of Lakota spiritual practice and the deep ambivalence many Indians had about opening their ceremonies to a white man. Sun Dancing presents a profound look at the elements of traditional Lakota ceremonial practice and the ways in which ceremony is regarded as life-giving by the Lakota. Through his commitment to following the Red Road, Michael Hull gradually won acceptance in a community that has rejected other attempts by white America to absorb its spiritual practices, leading to the extraordinary step of his confirmation as a Sun Dance Chief by Leonard Crow Dog and other Lakota spiritual leaders.
Download or read book Spare the Rod Love the Child written by Anne B. Gielisse and published by AuthorHouse. This book was released on 2015-01-24 with total page 124 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Spare the Rod Love the Child shows you a path into the domain of unconditional loving. The adventure begins with learning to love and respect yourself and your spouse. Next, you will discover the mental, emotional, and spiritual needs of children and learn how to meet them, set limits, and discipline with unconditional love through every stage of development. Starting before conception, this book will guide you through the ups and downs of childhood into the phase that parents dread: the letting go of their children when they are grown and into the new world of creating and maintaining loving, healthy relationships with your adult offspring. Every page reflects compassionate understanding for those who have the important task of raising and guiding children in todays world. Written with love and a sense of humor, Spare the Rod Love the Child is a highly readable workbook. The topics are broken down into easily identified segments to facilitate looking them up. Helpful, practical activities and exercises show how to implement unconditional love. Dedicated to parents, grandparents, teachers, child care and health professionals, and everyone who cares about children, this book will show you how to teach children to accept and love themselves so that they may grow into caring, balanced adults.
Download or read book Sacred Earth written by Arthur Versluis and published by Inner Traditions / Bear & Co. This book was released on 1992-06 with total page 180 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Placing Native American spirituality in the context of the world's great religions, Sacred Earth contrasts contemporary society's arrogant belief in its own power with native traditions of reverence for the earth. This eye-opening journey through the terrain of Native American spirituality is an urgent call to rediscover and become firmly grounded on the sacred earth again.
Download or read book Crossroads to Destiny written by Tora Moon and published by Lunar Alchemy Publishing Company. This book was released on 2022-07-01 with total page 291 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Hecate Calls… A life-changing choice… a dangerous destiny. Catlyn Hennessey struggles to survive as an energy healer and tarot reader. All her life she’s longed for the magic to make fire dance on her palm…until she comes face to face with it. Now, her fate is entwined with a mysterious magical creature—and the Goddess Hecate. Catching the Iron Maiden Serial Killer consumes Detective Sean McLarkin. His suspect, the son of the wealthiest man in California, always has an alibi. Sean’s path crosses with Catlyn’s when the Iron Maiden Killer sets his sights on her. Thrown into a world of witches, demons, and Gods, the unlikely pair must choose: join the ancient battle or return to their normal lives. Turning away could spell doom for humanity. Get Crossroads to Destiny, the first book in the Sentinel Witches series, today. If you love Dresden Files, Charmed, and Supernatural, you’ll enjoy this edgy, dark urban fantasy.
Download or read book Handbook of Racial and Ethnic Minority Psychology written by Guillermo Bernal and published by SAGE. This book was released on 2003 with total page 733 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Leading authorities in the field of racial and ethnic minority psychology have contributed to this handbook. It offers a thorough, scholarly overview of the psychology of racial, ethnic and minority issues in the U.S.A.
Download or read book Primal Awareness written by Don Trent Jacobs and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 1998-09-01 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The remarkable story of one man's rediscovery of his primordial mandate and of the strange journey that took him there • Explores the innate knowledge that exists within us all, a "primal awareness," that can help us to live in harmony with our world • Shows how we can rediscover this unseeable realm In 1983, caught in a violent rainstorm while kayaking the Rio Urique in Mexico's Copper Canyon, Don Trent Jacobs was swept into an impassable catacomb of underwater tunnels toward what he believed was certain death. But instead of panic, Jacobs found himself filled with a strange consciousness that left him feeling at peace and invigorated with a confidence he had never before known. Moments later he was spit from the tunnel alive--not at the end of his journey, but only at its beginning. Primal Awareness tells the story of Don Trent Jacobs's remarkable vision of the human mind and heart and the compelling spiritual quest that brought him to it. Through his experiences with the Raramuri people of Mexico and his research of other indigenous societies, Jacobs identifies what he calls our "primal awareness," an innate knowledge that exists within us all. Jacobs shows how we can rediscover this primordial mandate that unites all things and that helps us to find our own inner strength an harmony.
Download or read book We Are a People in This World written by Conger Beasley Jr. and published by University of Arkansas Press. This book was released on 1995-07-01 with total page 176 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this compelling book, the author alternately recounts the events and details of the 1890 massacre of the Lakota Sioux at Wounded Knee and his participation, one hundred years later, in the commemorative Big Foot Memorial Ride. The counterpoint and contrast between the two events produces a powerful effect; the oral accounts of the survivors of the slaughter are sometimes so brutal that the reader needs to be taken away, if only into the cold and wind of a century later.
