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Author | : Wolf Moondance |
Publisher | : Sterling Publishing Company Incorporated |
Total Pages | : 176 |
Release | : 2004 |
Genre | : Body, Mind & Spirit |
ISBN | : 9780806972077 |
A vision quest is a spiritual journey, a period of solitude and reflection during which one searches for inner revelations that will provide meaning and direction for life. Noted Native American shaman Wolf Moondance helps spiritual seekers reach their fullest potential through this traditional ritual. Moondance guides the way to magical healing, answering frequently asked questions, sharing her wisdom, and providing instructions for rituals and meditations. Find out how to make and use tools such as a medicine bundle, vision prayer stick, altar, and prayer ties that help you to achieve and interpret your vision. Case studies of four students demonstrate the healing, transformative powers of the vision quest, while artist Sky Starhawk’s exquisite paintings enhance the experience.
Author | : Kathleen Margaret Dugan |
Publisher | : Lewiston, N.Y. ; Queenston, Ont. : Edwin Mellen Press |
Total Pages | : 280 |
Release | : 1985 |
Genre | : Religion |
ISBN | : |
This text serves as an introduction to Plains Indians history and a general overview of Sioux/Cheyenne religious thought, with a description of their major ceremonies. It shows how the vision quest was as essential to the relatively simple, peaceful Cheyenne as it was to the more systematized, sacrificially violent Sioux.
Author | : Steven Charleston |
Publisher | : Church Publishing, Inc. |
Total Pages | : 177 |
Release | : 2015-05-01 |
Genre | : Religion |
ISBN | : 0819231746 |
A unique look at Christian biblical interpretation and theology from the perspective of Native American tradition. This book focuses on four specific experiences of Jesus as portrayed in the synoptic gospels. It examines each story as a “vision quest,” a universal spiritual phenomenon, but one of particular importance within North American indigenous communities. Jesus’ experience in the wilderness is the first quest. It speaks to a foundational Native American value: the need to enter into the “we” rather than the “I.” The Transfiguration is the second quest, describing the Native theology of transcendent spirituality that impacts reality and shapes mission. Gethsemane is the third quest. It embodies the Native tradition of the holy men or women, who find their freedom through discipline and concerns for justice, compassion, and human dignity. Golgotha is the final quest. It represents the Native sacrament of sacrifice (e.g., the Sun Dance). The chapter on Golgotha is a discussion of kinship, balance, and harmony: all primary to Native tradition and integral to Christian thought.
Author | : Lee Irwin |
Publisher | : University of Oklahoma Press |
Total Pages | : 326 |
Release | : 1996-09-01 |
Genre | : Social Science |
ISBN | : 9780806128931 |
In The Dream Seekers, Lee Irwin demonstrates the central importance of visionary dreams as sources of empowerment and innovation in Plains Indian religion. Irwin draws on 350 visionary dreams from published and unpublished sources that span 150 years to describe the shared features of cosmology for twenty-three groups of Plains Indians. This comprehensive work is not a recital but an understandable exploration of the religious world of Plains Indians. The different means of acquiring visions that are described include the spontaneous vision experience common among Plains Indian women and means such as stress, illness, social conflict, and mourning used by both men and women to obtain visions. Irwin describes the various stages of the structured male vision quest as well as the central issues of unsuccessful or abandoned quests, threshold experiences during a vision, and the means by which religious empowerment is attained and transferred.
Author | : Steven Foster |
Publisher | : Simon and Schuster |
Total Pages | : 260 |
Release | : 2011-10-18 |
Genre | : Body, Mind & Spirit |
ISBN | : 1451672403 |
Blending numerous heritages, wisdoms, and teachings, this powerfully wrought book encourages people to take charge of their lives, heal themselves, and grow. Movingly rendered, The Book of the Vision Quest is for all who long for renewal and personal transformation. In this revised edition—with two new chapters and added tales from vision questers—Steven Foster recounts his experiences guiding contemporary seekers. He recreates an ancient rite of passage—that of “dying,” “passing through,” and “being reborn”—known as a vision quest. A sacred ceremony that culminates in a three-day, three-night fast, alone, in a place of natural power, the vision quest is a mystical, practical, and intensely personal journey of self-knowledge.
Author | : John S. Dunne |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 160 |
Release | : 2022-01-15 |
Genre | : |
ISBN | : 9780268160166 |
This book represents Dunne's most sustained engagement with modern scientific materialism and the great circle of love
Author | : David Campbell |
Publisher | : ACCESS NETWORK |
Total Pages | : 42 |
Release | : 1993 |
Genre | : Indians of North America |
ISBN | : 9781895350111 |
Author | : Denise Linn |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 227 |
Release | : 2000-05-04 |
Genre | : Vision quests |
ISBN | : 9780712670715 |
Retreats and pilgrimages are becoming increasingly popular in today's modern, technological society. The Native Americans, though, have always known the value of withdrawing from everyday routine - and used a special ritual called the Vision Quest to do this. They fasted for four days and nights, alone, in a wilderness area - and used the visions and insights they received to understand themselves and reorient their lives. In this fascinating and bestselling book Denise Linn shows how we too can use this ritual for our own benefit, how to prepare for a Quest, what to do while on it, how to 'call for a vison' and how to integrate the experience into our daily lives.
Author | : |
Publisher | : Crown |
Total Pages | : 168 |
Release | : 1994 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : |
A photographic documentary capturing members of the contemporary Sioux Indian Nation, with personal testimonies.
Author | : Bill Plotkin |
Publisher | : New World Library |
Total Pages | : 528 |
Release | : 2010-10-04 |
Genre | : Self-Help |
ISBN | : 1577313542 |
Addressing the pervasive longing for meaning and fulfillment in this time of crisis, Nature and the Human Soul introduces a visionary ecopsychology of human development that reveals how fully and creatively we can mature when soul and wild nature guide us. Depth psychologist and wilderness guide Bill Plotkin presents a model for a human life span rooted in the cycles and qualities of the natural world, a blueprint for individual development that ultimately yields a strategy for cultural transformation. If it is true, as Plotkin and others observe, that we live in a culture dominated by adolescent habits and desires, then the enduring societal changes we so desperately need won’t happen until we individually and collectively evolve into an engaged, authentic adulthood. With evocative language and personal stories, including those of elders Thomas Berry and Joanna Macy, this book defines eight stages of human life — Innocent, Explorer, Thespian, Wanderer, Soul Apprentice, Artisan, Master, and Sage — and describes the challenges and benefits of each. Plotkin offers a way of progressing from our current egocentric, aggressively competitive, consumer society to an ecocentric, soul-based one that is sustainable, cooperative, and compassionate. At once a primer on human development and a manifesto for change, Nature and the Human Soul fashions a template for a more mature, fulfilling, and purposeful life — and a better world.