The American Indian Medicine Dreambook

The American Indian Medicine Dreambook
Author: Brad Steiger
Publisher: Red Feather
Total Pages: 260
Release: 1993
Genre: Body, Mind & Spirit
ISBN:

In this remarkable book, Brad Steiger shows how to enter a dimension of reality between the physical and the nonphysical, between the world of spirits and the world of humans. Drawing upon information relayed to him by shamans from many tribes during thirty years of research and study, Steiger teaches easy-to-master techniques of entering Dreamtime and receiving valuable personal guidance. He explains how to identify one's totem animal and spirit guide, how to project healing energy in dreams, how to travel in astral dreamscapes, how to guard against disruptive entities, and how to receive prophetic glimpses of the future.

The World Dream Book

The World Dream Book
Author: Sarvananda Bluestone
Publisher: Inner Traditions / Bear & Co
Total Pages: 268
Release: 2002-12
Genre: Body, Mind & Spirit
ISBN: 9780892819027

A unique self-help guide to dream interpretation using techniques and icons from cultures around the world. • Challenges the assumption that all symbols universally signify the same thing to all dreamers. • Includes numerous stories, games, and exercises for inducing, recalling, interpreting, and utilizing dreams. • Extends beyond Jung and Freud to include dream theory from numerous world cultures, including the Temiar of Malaya, the African Ibans, the Lepchka of the Himalayas, and the Ute of North America. Dreaming can be used as a tool for understanding our own consciousness, enhancing creativity, receiving visions, conquering fears, interpreting recent events, healing the body, and evolving the soul. Tapping into the vast dreaming experiences and lore of the world's cultures--from the Siwa people of the Libyan desert to the Naskapi Indians of Labrador--Sarvananda Bluestone challenges the assumption that all symbols universally signify the same thing to all dreamers. The World Dream Book encourages readers to develop their own, personalized symbols for understanding their consciousness and provides a series of stories, multicultural techniques, and games to help them do so. Playful explorations, such as the aboriginal "Sipping the Water of the Moon," teach how to induce, recall, interpret, and utilize the power of dreams. Readers will discover how a stone under a pillow can help us remember a dream and will explore their own dormant artist and writer as they reclaim the power of their sleeping consciousness. Sarvananda Bluestone applies his uniquely engaging style to demonstrate that, with a few simple tools, everybody has the capacity to unleash their full dreaming potential.

Going Native Or Going Naive?

Going Native Or Going Naive?
Author: Dagmar Wernitznig
Publisher: University Press of America
Total Pages: 150
Release: 2003
Genre: Body, Mind & Spirit
ISBN: 9780761824954

Going Native or Going Naïve? is a critical analysis of an esoteric-Indian movement, called white shamanism. This movement, originating from the 1980's New Age boom, redefines the phenomenon of playing Indian. For white shamans and their followers, Indianness turns into a signifier for cultural cloning. By generating a neo-primitivistic bias, white shamanism utilizes esoteric reconceptualizations of ethnicity and identity. In Going Native or Going Naïve?, a retrospective view on psychohistorical and sociopolitical implications of Indianness and (ig)noble savage metaphors should clarify the prefix neo within postmodern adaptations of primitivism. The appropriation of an Indian simulacrum by white shamans as well as white shamanic disciplines connotes a subtle, yet hazardous form of ethnocentrism. Transcending mere market trends and profit margins, white shamanism epitomizes synthetic/cybernetic acculturations. Through investigating the white shamanic matrix, Going Native or Going Naïve? is intended to make these synthesizing processes more transparent.

Shadow Path

Shadow Path
Author: C. T. Shooting Star
Publisher: iUniverse
Total Pages: 185
Release: 2012-03-09
Genre: Body, Mind & Spirit
ISBN: 1462052533

Anyone who requires an "eclectic protective advantage" in harmony with universal law, in order to counter increased paranormal negativity will appreciate the clarity that Shooting Star uses to explain his techniques. Whether you have encountered a negative energy force which is difficult to eliminate; or whether you are looking for a sustainable defensive approach to discourage or resist paranormal intruders, Shooting Star's methods and techniques can be used on their own; or they can be used in conjunction with a diversity of other related practices.

Shadow Place

Shadow Place
Author: C.T. Shooting Star
Publisher: iUniverse
Total Pages: 309
Release: 2011-12-06
Genre: Body, Mind & Spirit
ISBN: 1450286011

Shooting Star shows us how negative entities can create difficulties at home and in the community. Paranormal investigators who have concerns should benefit from the practical advice given on how to build awareness of various paranormal phenomena.

Cumulative Book Index

Cumulative Book Index
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Total Pages: 2264
Release: 1995
Genre: American literature
ISBN:

A world list of books in the English language.

Quack Medicine

Quack Medicine
Author: Eric W. Boyle
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Total Pages: 265
Release: 2013-01-09
Genre: Health & Fitness
ISBN: 0313385688

This timely volume illustrates how and why the fight against quackery in modern America has largely failed, laying the blame on an unlikely confluence of scientific advances, regulatory reforms, changes in the medical profession, and the politics of consumption. Throughout the 20th century, anti-quackery crusaders investigated, exposed, and attempted to regulate allegedly fraudulent therapeutic approaches to health and healing under the banner of consumer protection and a commitment to medical science. Quack Medicine: A History of Combating Health Fraud in Twentieth-Century America reveals how efforts to establish an exact border between quackery and legitimate therapeutic practices and medications have largely failed, and details the reasons for this failure. Digging beneath the surface, the book uncovers the history of allegedly fraudulent therapies including pain medications, obesity and asthma cures, gastrointestinal remedies, virility treatments, and panaceas for diseases such as arthritis, asthma, diabetes, and HIV/AIDS. It shows how efforts to combat alleged medical quackery have been connected to broader debates among medical professionals, scientists, legislators, businesses, and consumers, and it exposes the competing professional, economic, and political priorities that have encouraged the drawing of arbitrary, vaguely defined boundaries between good medicine and "quack medicine."

Mabel McKay

Mabel McKay
Author: Greg Sarris
Publisher: Univ of California Press
Total Pages: 184
Release: 2013-02-04
Genre: Art
ISBN: 0520275888

A world-renowned Pomo basket weaver and medicine woman, Mabel McKay expressed her genius through her celebrated baskets, her Dreams, her cures, and the stories with which she kept her culture alive. She spent her life teaching others how the spirit speaks through the Dream, how the spirit heals, and how the spirit demands to be heard. Greg Sarris weaves together stories from Mabel McKay's life with an account of how he tried, and she resisted, telling her story straight—the white people's way. Sarris, an Indian of mixed-blood heritage, finds his own story in his search for Mabel McKay's. Beautifully narrated, Weaving the Dream initiates the reader into Pomo culture and demonstrates how a woman who worked most of her life in a cannery could become a great healer and an artist whose baskets were collected by the Smithsonian. Hearing Mabel McKay's life story, we see that distinctions between material and spiritual and between mundane and magical disappear. What remains is a timeless way of healing, of making art, and of being in the world. Sarris’s new preface, written expressly for this edition, meditates on Mabel McKay’s enduring legacy and the continued importance of her teachings.

Painting the Dream

Painting the Dream
Author: David Chethlahe Paladin
Publisher: Inner Traditions / Bear & Co
Total Pages: 126
Release: 2003-07-11
Genre: Art
ISBN: 9781591430131

A shaman as well as the leading Navajo modern artist, Paladin is one of the first Native American painters to move beyond traditional themes and styles. Praised by the renowned artist Marc Chagall, Paladin's brilliant and evocative paintings are admired for their exuberance, eclecticism, spirituality, and original use of symbols.