Seven Sacred Teachings

Seven Sacred Teachings
Author: David Bouchard
Publisher: Crow Cottage Publishing
Total Pages: 37
Release: 2016-12-31
Genre: Juvenile Fiction
ISBN: 1987848306

The Seven Sacred Teachings is a message of traditional values and hope for the future. The Teachings are universal to most First Nation peoples. These Teachings are aboriginal communities from coast to coast. They are a link that ties First Nation, Inuit and Métis communities together.

Mi'kmaq Puoinaq Two Spirit Medicine

Mi'kmaq Puoinaq Two Spirit Medicine
Author: Joseph Randolph Bowers
Publisher: Lulu.com
Total Pages: 252
Release: 2019-06-24
Genre: Psychology
ISBN: 1925034089

​Powerful medicine. A rare glimpse into sacred sexuality, gender, and identity. Honouring an often-hidden beautiful cultural landscape. Instructive, accessible, scholarly, relevant and practical. An insightful contribution to sexuality and gender, gay and lesbian, Native North American, and Indigenous studies. An integral textbook for courses in education, counselling, psychotherapy, psychology, social work, medicine, nursing, and health. Welcoming and empowering for youth, adults, and family. Dr Joseph Randolph Bowers is an Australian-Canadian Counsellor Psychotherapist and author of The Practice of Counselling, Sacred Teachings from the Medicine Lodge, and On the Threshold: Personal Transformation and Spiritual Awakening. Mi'kmaq Elder Dr Daniel N. Paul is a Canadian Historian and celebrated author of We Were Not the Savages: First Nations History. The authors reveal how Two Spirit and Traditional Medicine have always existed and are being rekindled in our times.

Star Medicine

Star Medicine
Author: Wolf Moondance
Publisher: Sterling Publishing Company, Inc.
Total Pages: 196
Release: 1997
Genre: Body, Mind & Spirit
ISBN: 9780806995472

Learn how to heal emotional hurts from a Native American shaman who draws from her Osage and Cherokee heritage, personal mystical visions, and training in modern psychology.

Calling from the Heart

Calling from the Heart
Author: Robin White Star
Publisher:
Total Pages:
Release: 2017-05
Genre:
ISBN: 9780996915670

If you are seeking to more fully engage your heart and soul with a new romantic partner or in your current love relationship, this is the book for you. In this practical guide and spiritual memoir, Robin White Star reveals the intricacies and richness of the shamanic calling ceremony: the power of gratitude that fuels the miraculous calling for your soul companion; making heart requests that are specific without being limiting; sifting through and releasing dozens of beliefs that have obscured your inner truths; reawakening your innate ability to stand in your truth with wholehearted kindness to yourself and your loved ones; and opening your heart to the infinite possibilities of mutual trust, intimacy, love and joy in relationship. The calling ceremony awakens long dormant instincts for sacred relationship, inviting you to safely traverse the inner landscape of your soul consciousness in order to release the fears and limitations that have hindered your ability to manifest your heart's desire for an intimate, authentic, loving relationship with your Soul Companion - whether with a new or existing partner. This calling from the heart starts with your own healing and purification, and leads you through personal empowerment and spiritual understanding until you are crystal clear about who you perceive yourself to be and who you are calling into your life. Upon the culmination of your personal journey, you are ready to sit with the Fire to call your Beloved to you, connecting energetically heart to heart so that you can meet in the physical with grace and ease. White Star outlines the ceremonies and indigenous wisdom she learned through oral tradition as an apprentice for over 17 years to a healer and medicine man of Cherokee descent in the Blue Ridge Mountains of Western North Carolina. Not only does she share these native teachings and traditions in her own words with clarity and simplicity, she also relates her personal journey of calling her Soul Companion into her life using candor and humor. Because the Calling Ceremony is a life-changing and love-enhancing spiritual adventure, White Star has made this sacred Calling Ceremony available to all who are seeking a higher vibration in their relationship. Consciously inviting joy and healing into every aspect of your life and intentionally aligning your heart's desire with the web of co-creation and interconnectedness that has always been present in your life are the true powers of the Calling Ceremony. Embark on this sacred journey if you dare. It is dangerous work - you could end up being happy!

Sacred Fireplace (Oceti Wakan)

Sacred Fireplace (Oceti Wakan)
Author: Pete Catches
Publisher: Clear Light Books
Total Pages: 252
Release: 1999
Genre: Biography & Autobiography
ISBN:

"Oceti Wakan (Sacred Fireplace) is a vision shared by Pete Catches Sr. (Petaga Yuha Mani) and his son Peter V. Catches (Zintkala Oyate), both Spotted Eagle medicine men of the Oglala Lakota. In Pete's words, Oceti Wakan is a response to events that have devastated the Dakota people over the past six generations, and is focused on creating a place "for the healing of the family as a whole by rekindling Lakota spiritual values and culture." Sacred Fireplace is part of Pete Catches' contribution to making his vision a concrete reality. A healer and teacher, Petaga Yuha Mani (He Walks With Hot Coals) was credited with reviving the traditional Sundance ceremony among the Lakota. In 1964 he was named Sundance chief by the Oglala Sioux tribal council, the only such distinction in tribal history. Pete Catches lived on the Pine Ridge Reservation in South Dakota throughout his life, and for decades healed and instructed both Native and non-Natives near his home and off the reservation. This book describes his struggles to embrace the Spotted Eagle medicine way, Lakota legends and ceremonies, and reflections on the history and culture of his people and on his own life. Long awaited by those who knew Pete Catches and his work, Sacred Fireplace is a major legacy of his exemplary life and the essence of his teachings in his own words"--Back cover.

Sacred Medicine of Bee, Butterfly, Earthworm, and Spider

Sacred Medicine of Bee, Butterfly, Earthworm, and Spider
Author: Linda Star Wolf
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
Total Pages: 311
Release: 2013-01-04
Genre: Body, Mind & Spirit
ISBN: 1591438063

Spiritual lessons from insect archetypes of the Medicine Wheel • Reveals the sacred wisdom inherent in Honeybee’s pollinating, Butterfly’s transformation, Spider’s weaving, and Earthworm’s recycling • Provides experiential practices, such as Shamanic Breathwork journeys, to connect with insect teachers and harness their consciousness-activating patterns • Shows how Dragonfly, Cicada, and Cricket connect us with the Great Star Nations, the depths of Mother Earth, and the music of life • Includes access to Cricket Chorus Meditation audio tracks Our insect brothers and sisters are some of the most ancient beings and teachers on planet Earth. Their powerful skills of adaptation and their plight, such as the widespread colony collapse facing honeybees, have brought them to the forefront of collective consciousness, as every being on Earth faces a time of incredible transformation. The archetypal energies of these sacred Wisdomkeepers can guide us through this evolutionary time with new pathways of shamanic healing and transformation to realize the highest potential of humanity. Exploring the insect and arachnid archetypes of the Sacred Instar Medicine Wheel, authors Linda Star Wolf and Anna Cariad-Barrett reveal the consciousness-activating patterns in the pollen flight of Honeybee, the transformative chrysalis of Butterfly, the creative weavings of Spider, and the alchemical recycling of old into new of Earthworm. They show how Dragonfly, Cicada, and Cricket connect us with the Great Star Nations, the depths of Mother Earth, and the music of life, as demonstrated on the accompanying audio tracks. Each chapter includes experiential practices, such as Shamanic Breathwork journeys, to help you embody the strengths of these humble teachers, live within the natural cycles of planet Earth, and discover a higher octave of sacred purpose.

Teaching Spirits

Teaching Spirits
Author: Joseph Epes Brown
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Total Pages: 165
Release: 2010-03-12
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 0199890048

Teaching Spirits offers a thematic approach to Native American religious traditions. Through years of living with and learning about Native traditions across the continent, Joseph Epes Brown learned firsthand of the great diversity of the North American Indian cultures. Yet within this great multiplicity, he also noticed certain common themes that resonate within many Native traditions. These themes include a shared sense of time as cyclical rather than linear, a belief that landscapes are inhabited by spirits, a rich oral tradition, visual arts that emphasize the process of creation, a reciprocal relationship with the natural world, and the rituals that tie these themes together. Brown illustrates each of these themes with in-depth explorations of specific native cultures including Lakota, Navajo, Apache, Koyukon, and Ojibwe. Brown was one of the first scholars to recognize that Native religions-rather than being relics of the past-are vital traditions that tribal members shape and adapt to meet both timeless and contemporary needs. Teaching Spirits reflects this view, using examples from the present as well as the past. For instance, when writing about Plains rituals, he describes not only building an impromptu sweat lodge in a Denver hotel room with Black Elk in the 1940s, but also the struggles of present-day Crow tribal members to balance Sun Dances and vision quests with nine-to-five jobs. In this groundbreaking work, Brown suggests that Native American traditions demonstrate how all components of a culture can be interconnected-how the presence of the sacred can permeate all lifeways to such a degree that what we call religion is integrated into all of life's activities. Throughout the book, Brown draws on his extensive personal experience with Black Elk, who came to symbolize for many the richness of the imperiled native cultures. This volume brings to life the themes that resonate at the heart of Native American religious traditions.

American Indian Cultural Heroes and Teaching Tales

American Indian Cultural Heroes and Teaching Tales
Author: Kurt Kaltreider, Ph.D.
Publisher: Hay House, Inc
Total Pages: 178
Release: 2004-03-01
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 1401932096

The first section of this books tells the tales of three great figures in American Indian culture: two of flesh and bone and one heroine of spirit. These stories give us hope that in a time of disarray and despair, a culture can be turned around to walk a more wholesome path. The second section offers yarns from the Lakota that relate the dire consequences in store for those who choose to live a life of self-centered pursuit. In all of them, we're reminded that only a life lived in integrity and service is a life worth living.