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| Author | : David Carson |
| Publisher | : Skyhorse |
| Total Pages | : 336 |
| Release | : 2011-10-21 |
| Genre | : History |
| ISBN | : 1628723696 |
David Carson's personal story of his initiation into the mysterious healing rites of the Choctaw with medicine woman Mary Gardener. Through her teachings and his own mind-bending experiences, he gives us a glimpse into an alternate reality.
| Author | : David Carson |
| Publisher | : Arcade Publishing |
| Total Pages | : 336 |
| Release | : 2011 |
| Genre | : Medical |
| ISBN | : 9781611453959 |
From the coauthor of the million-copy bestselling Medicine Cards comes this riveting account of initiation into ancient wisdom and the healing power of a Native American shaman.Of Choctaw descent, David Carson has absorbed and sought out Native American spiritual knowledge since growing up in Oklahoma Indian country. He distilled some of that knowledge in Medicine Cards, the hugely successful divination system based on traditional animal medicine that became a New Age bestseller in the 1990s. Now, in CROSSING INTO MEDICINE COUNTRY, he tells the story of his initiation as a conjure man-a ceremonial healer-with the Choctaw medicine woman Mary Gardener. For three years, he studied the arts of power plants and medicine animals, how to manipulate the layers of energy surrounding human beings, and how to use sacred tobacco in ritual, curing, and divination. Through Mary+s teachings, often conveyed in folk tales of the primordial healer Yellow Tobacco Boy, and through his own, sometimes mind-bending experiences, he gives us a glimpse into an alternate reality, in which health and illness express the balance between man and nature, and Western notions of physics do not always apply. A fascinating personal narrative, here is a work rich in spirit and Native American lore that will appeal to anyone interested in alternative beliefs.
| Author | : Jamie Sams |
| Publisher | : Macmillan |
| Total Pages | : 256 |
| Release | : 1999-07-30 |
| Genre | : Medical |
| ISBN | : 9780312204914 |
The best-selling divination system--over 1,000,000 copies sold worldwide--revised and expanded for the first time.
| Author | : Jon Kerstetter |
| Publisher | : Crown |
| Total Pages | : 354 |
| Release | : 2018-09-04 |
| Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
| ISBN | : 1101904399 |
A searing, beautifully told memoir by a Native American doctor on the trials of being a doctor-soldier in the Iraq War, and then, after suffering a stroke that left his life irrevocably changed, his struggles to overcome the new limits of his body, mind, and identity. Every juncture in Jon Kerstetter’s life has been marked by a crossing from one world into another: from civilian to doctor to soldier; between healing and waging war; and between compassion and hatred of the enemy. When an injury led to a stroke that ended his careers as a doctor and a soldier, he faced the most difficult crossing of all, a recovery that proved as shattering as war itself. Crossings is a memoir of an improbable, powerfully drawn life, one that began in poverty on the Oneida Reservation in Wisconsin but grew by force of will to encompass a remarkable medical practice. Trained as an emergency physician, Kerstetter’s thirst for intensity led him to volunteer in war-torn Rwanda, Kosovo, and Bosnia, and to join the Army National Guard. His three tours in the Iraq War marked the height of the American struggle there. The story of his work in theater, which involved everything from saving soldiers’ lives to organizing the joint U.S.–Iraqi forensics team tasked with identifying the bodies of Saddam Hussein’s sons, is a bracing, unprecedented evocation of a doctor’s life at war. But war was only the start of Kerstetter’s struggle. The stroke he suffered upon returning from Iraq led to serious cognitive and physical disabilities. His years-long recovery, impeded by near-unbearable pain and complicated by PTSD, meant overcoming the perceived limits of his body and mind and reimagining his own capacity for renewal and change. It led him not only to writing as a vocation but to a deeper understanding of how healing means accepting a new identity, and how that acceptance must be fought for with as much tenacity as any battlefield victory.
| Author | : Ivan Doig |
| Publisher | : Penguin |
| Total Pages | : 482 |
| Release | : 2016-08-16 |
| Genre | : Fiction |
| ISBN | : 110198256X |
Named a Best Book of the Year by the Seattle Times and Kirkus Review The final novel from a great American storyteller. Donal Cameron is being raised by his grandmother, the cook at the legendary Double W ranch in Ivan Doig’s beloved Two Medicine Country of the Montana Rockies, a landscape that gives full rein to an eleven-year-old’s imagination. But when Gram has to have surgery for “female trouble” in the summer of 1951, all she can think to do is to ship Donal off to her sister in faraway Manitowoc, Wisconsin. There Donal is in for a rude surprise: Aunt Kate–bossy, opinionated, argumentative, and tyrannical—is nothing like her sister. She henpecks her good-natured husband, Herman the German, and Donal can’t seem to get on her good side either. After one contretemps too many, Kate packs him back to the authorities in Montana on the next Greyhound. But as it turns out, Donal isn’t traveling solo: Herman the German has decided to fly the coop with him. In the immortal American tradition, the pair light out for the territory together, meeting a classic Doigian ensemble of characters and having rollicking misadventures along the way. Charming, wise, and slyly funny, Last Bus to Wisdom is a last sweet gift from a writer whose books have bestowed untold pleasure on countless readers.
| Author | : Scott Thybony |
| Publisher | : University of Arizona Press |
| Total Pages | : 129 |
| Release | : 1997-01-01 |
| Genre | : History |
| ISBN | : 0816514801 |
In Navajo country, where the land is thick with legends and forgotten histories, a writer sets out to find a place that no longer exists except on a few old maps: Burntwater. The story opens when two friends get stuck in a remote pocket of the desert as a winter storm moves in. They are taking a wandering route across the Four Corners region, curving through Utah, New Mexico, and Arizona on a long arc into the mythic heart of the country. As they travel, the author calls up past experiences in this land where the past flows seamlessly into the present. He remembers a medicine man whose chanting could start the cold engine of a Volkswagen. He describes an act of sabotage against an oil company by two Vietnam vets armed with deer rifles. He recalls how a winter of herding sheep for a Navajo family and a search for a Hopi known as the Sun Chief led him further into a human landscape as strange and compelling as the terrain. This book takes the backroads, crossing the Colorado Plateau from the headwaters of the Virgin River to the mouth of the Dirty Devil, from the badlands below Twin Angels to a remote mesa in Bandelier. As the miles go by and the stories unfold, there is a growing sense of mystery, of words not spoken, of messages carried on the wind. Reaching the Shrine of the Stone Lions, the writer recounts a near-fatal descent into the Grand Canyon where he finds a way to reconnect with the beauty of life. There his journey ends with an emotional punch that goes straight to the mind and the heart.
| Author | : Beth LaDow |
| Publisher | : Psychology Press |
| Total Pages | : 302 |
| Release | : 2002 |
| Genre | : Blaine County (Mont.) |
| ISBN | : 9780415927659 |
First Published in 2001. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.
| Author | : Mary Anne Mercer |
| Publisher | : Simon and Schuster |
| Total Pages | : 307 |
| Release | : 2022-05-02 |
| Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
| ISBN | : 1647423449 |
Beyond the Next Village is Mary Anne Mercer’s memoir of discovery, growth, and awakening in 1978 Nepal, which was then a mysterious country to most of the world. After arriving in Nepal, Mercer, an American nurse, spent a year traveling on foot—often in flip-flops—with a Nepali health team, providing immunizations and clinical care in each village they visited. Communicating in a newly acquired language, she was often called upon to provide the only modern medicine available to the people she and her team were serving. Over time, she learned to recognize and respect the prominence of their cultural beliefs about health and illness. Encounters with life-threatening conditions such as severe malnutrition and ectopic pregnancy gave her an enlightening view of both the limitations and power of modern health care; immersed in villagers’ lives and those of her own team, she realized she was living in not just another country, but another time. This unique story of the joys and perils of one woman’s journey in the shadow of the Himalayas, Beyond the Next Village opens a window into a world where the spirits were as real as the trees, the birds, or the rain—and healing could be as much magic as medicine.
| Author | : David Carson |
| Publisher | : Council Oak Books |
| Total Pages | : 212 |
| Release | : 2006-11 |
| Genre | : Body, Mind & Spirit |
| ISBN | : 9781571781949 |
2013 Oracle looks beyond 2012 with a powerful divination system, including 34 beautiful laminated cards, a colorful printed cenote cloth to contain and focus the oracular energies, and an illustrated book to explain and interpret the guidance of the ancients. In beautiful artwork by visionary artist G. Borri and David Carson's prophetic interpretations, users will find answers to guide them through the uncertainties ahead. Like the Medicine Cards, 2013 Oracle is based on the spiritual wisdom of the Native American ancestors. David Carson introduced us to our power animals through that popular deck; we can now go deeper into the Native American mysteries with the 2013 Oracle. This set, including a beautiful book, deck and cloth, immerses the seeker in the rich lore of the Mayans and mound builders. We access the cosmology around which they built cities of gold where they practiced highly advanced technologies based on mathematical and scientific knowledge beyond that of the Europe of their day, knowledge we are only now beginning to comprehend. 2013 Oracle marries the sacred information these ancient ones inscribed for us with a divination system that is a mirror of our internal truth. The voice of the oracle speaks across the centuries to lead us through the contradictions of our times. A Progression of New Light The coming world will be as different from our current one as day is from night. Ancient American geometricians and metaphysicians left descriptions of these dimensional shifts to help future generations. These learned ones understood that the evolution of the human was incomplete and that our species faced great wars, natural catastrophes and other hardships before humanitydeveloped the consciousness to enter the New Creation. 2013 Oracle is the ancient map left by the ancestors to help us make a leap into infinite possibility. Their knowledge was sculpted into stone and clay and laid out in the design of the cities and calendars. It was hidden within ritual and sacrifice. Clarity Born From The Light Dimensions overlap, one with another, and exist within sacred time. Ancient peoples saw the patterning and ... understood the true measure of time more deeply than any modern culture. Time is a living entity. Waves of time have personality and possibility Over the centuries, the numerical values twenty and thirteen became highly important, a sacred series based on the subtle energies of the cosmos. The sequencing of twenty and thirteen, or 2013, is the first year of the spiritizing of matter and time. 2013 is the dawn of the New Humanity.
| Author | : Kathryn Ferguson |
| Publisher | : University of Arizona Press |
| Total Pages | : 244 |
| Release | : 2010-04-15 |
| Genre | : Social Science |
| ISBN | : 9780816528547 |
Over the past ten years, more than 4,000 people have died while crossing the Arizona desert to find jobs, join families, or start new lives. Other migrants tell of the corpses they pass—bodies that are never recovered or counted. Crossing With the Virgin collects stories heard from migrants about these treacherous treks—firsthand accounts told to volunteers for the Samaritans, a humanitarian group that seeks to prevent such unnecessary deaths by providing these travelers with medical aid, water, and food. Other books have dealt with border crossing; this is the first to share stories of immigrant suffering at its worst told by migrants encountered on desert trails. The Samaritans write about their encounters to show what takes place on a daily basis along the border: confrontations with Border Patrol agents at checkpoints reminiscent of wartime; children who die in their parents’ desperate bid to reunite families; migrants terrorized by bandits; and hovering ghost-like above nearly every crossing, the ever-present threat of death. These thirty-nine stories are about the migrants, but they also tell how each individual author became involved with this work. As such, they offer not only a window into the migrants’ plight but also a look at the challenges faced by volunteers in sometimes compromising situations—and at their own humanizing process. Crossing With the Virgin raises important questions about underlying assumptions and basic operations of border enforcement, helping readers see past political positions to view migrants as human beings. It will touch your heart as surely as it reassures you that there are people who still care about their fellow man.
