The Tao of Books Native American 2

DON JUAN & THE POWER OF MEDICINE DREAMING Ref: BW36

Merilyn Tunneshende

Merilyn Tunneshende learned the secrets of Dream Power, energetic healing, and sorcery from don Juan Matus, the Toltec shaman who mentored Carlos Castaneda. This book is her personal story of over 30 years of interaction with the mystical guides, dreams, and prophecies of the Maya. Through her journey we learn of the power of transmutational energies and how they might be applied to heal and transform our world. Like many in the 1970s, Tunneshende had plans to travel the world beatnik-style, beginning with Mexico. Traumatized by the sudden death of her fiance after a series of premonitions, Merilyn found her adventurous trip transformed into a path of spiritual awakening, which took her into an intense apprenticeship with Toltec shaman don Juan Matus. After becoming a fully initiated Toltec sorceress and Nagual Dreaming Woman, she experienced a second trauma that threw her from the path of mystical study back into the everyday world of the West. For years she pursued her career as a teacher and linguist - all but dismissing her former mystical experiences as madness. When a series of dreams begin to pervade her consciousness and she received a heart-breaking diagnosis that she had AIDS, Merilyn returned to the world of Mayan prophecy and nagualist training in order to unleash the powers of transmutative energies in healing her own body and actualizing transcendent liberation.

232pp, 8½x5½ ... Paperback

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EARTH MEDICINE: The Shamanic Way to Self-Discovery Ref: BXR0115

Kenneth Meadows

Earth Medicine, derived from the N American Indian Medicine Wheel, is a remarkable system of psychological profiling and self-development which reveals your inner potentials & enables you to find purpose, direction & fulfilment in your life. RARE, out of print.

288pp, 9x6, illus. ... Paperback
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GRANDFATHER: A Native American’s Lifelong Search for Truth and Harmony with Nature Ref: B2E18

Tom Brown, Jr.

Here is the incredible true story of a Native American whose tribe roamed free, far from the chaos we call “civilisation.” His wisdom is a remarkable integration of different philosophies, of different peoples, tribes, and religions. Tom Brown, Jr., shares the insights of his beloved teacher - insights that speak to the eternal spirit within us all. “Grandfather was an anachronism. Modern time and place had no value in his world, for his world was without limits or time. His world was that of nature and eternity. He was truly one of the ancients, part man, part animal, and almost entirely spirit. His home was the wilderness, and in wilderness he tested all things. Most of all, he was a searcher for truth. His was a life of grand simplicity that few would ever know, where true riches were defined in beauty...” Tom Brown, Jr.

208pp, 8.25x6 ... Paperback

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ISLAND OF THE SUN: Mastering the Inca Medicine Wheel Ref: 2719

Alberto Villoldo & Erik Jendresen

Island of the Sun recounts the American psychologist Alberto Volloldo’s return to Peru in search of the Quechua Indian shaman Don Jicaram. The authors’ earlier book, Dance of the Four Winds, described Villoldo’s first initiation, under Don Jicaram, into the secrets of the Inca Medicine Wheel and the spiritual journey of the Four Winds. Villoldo had begun that journey in the South, “where one goes to confront and shed the past.” With use of the powerful mind-altering plant ayahuasca, he had continued to the West, a direction inhabited by fear and death. Now in Island of the Sun he prepares himself for the journey to the North, where lies the wisdom of the ancient Inca shamans. Travelling from Machu Picchu to the “Island of the Sun,” a sacred site in Bolivia, Villoldo uncovers a profound secret about the journey to the East - the journey home.

224pp, 9x6 ... ISBN 0892815205 ... Paperback

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THE LAKOTA SWEAT LODGE CARDS: Spritual Teachings of the Sioux Ref: A2A46

Chief Archie Fire Lame Deer & Helene Sarkis

This book and full colour forty-eight-card deck are inspired by the ancient Lakota ritual of healing and purification known as the sacred Inipi, or sweat lodge ceremony. Sitting in the sweat lodge, an improvised womb of Mother Earth, you may experience an expanded vision of your being and purpose as well as an intimate sense of walking in balance between the conscious world and the world of spirit. In a variety of spreads the Lakota Sweat Lodge Cards access the powerful symbols and teachings of the Inipi and capture the spirit of this ancient ceremony, directing your consciousness toward inner growth and self-knowledge. Includes 160 page book.

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LAME DEER: Seeker of Visions Ref: B915

John (Fire) Lame Deer & Richard Erdoes

Storyteller, rebel, medicine man, Lame Deer was born eighty years ago on the Rosebud Reservation in South Dakota. A full-blooded Sioux, he has been many things in the white man's world - rodeo clown, painter, prisoner. But, above all, he is a holy man of the Lakota tribe. The story he tells is one of harsh youth and reckless manhood, shotgun marriage and divorce, and of his fierce struggle to keep pride alive, though living as a stranger in his own ancestral land. A great classic. Highly recommended.

352pp, 7x4¼, illus. ... Paperback

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LEFT HANDED, SON OF OLD MAN HAT: A Navajo Autobiography Ref: M446

Recorded by Walter Dyk

With a simplicity as disarming as it is frank, Left Handed tells of his birth in the spring ‘when the cottonwood leaves were about the size of my thumbnail,’ of family chores such as guarding the sheep near the hogan, and of his sexual awakening. As he grows older, his account turns to life in the open, nomadic cattle raising, farming, trading, communal enterprises, tribal dances and ceremonies, lovemaking, and marriage. As Left Handed develops in understanding and stature the accumulated wisdom of his peoples is made known to him. He learns the Navajo life founded upon principles: the necessity of honesty, foresightedness, self-discipline. The style of the narrative is almost biblical in its rhythms, but biblical too, in many respects, is the traditional way of life it recounts.

392pp, 8.5x5.5 ... Paperback

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MAD BEAR: Spirit Healing & the Sacred in the Life of a Native American Medicine Man Ref: 1995

Doug Boyd

Once again Doug Boyd’s storytelling skills have found a subject to match in the larger-than-life character of Mad Bear. At first meeting, with his great love of food, he might be mistaken for a gourmet chef, but he was a medicine man and a leader with great power and influence both among his own people and cross culturally through his friendship with the Dalai Lama and other spiritual leaders. In this personal and captivating narrative, Doug Boyd recreates Mad Bear’s tales of magic, his healing powers, and Native American legends. Mad Bear creates a rich and colourful portrait of the fascinating life of this vibrant, spiritual man. “An outstanding book, possibly the best that has been written on Medicineman Magick...” - Elmer Green, Director Emeritus, The Menninger Foundation

368pp, 9x6 ... Paperback

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MEDICINE OF THE CHEROKEE: The Way of Right Relationship Ref: 2679

J T Garrett & Michael Garrett

This is the story of the physical, mental, spiritual, and natural aspects of humans as told through many generations of elder teachers of Native American Medicine. With stories that tell about the four directions and the universal circle, these ancient and secret Cherokee teachings also offer wisdom on circle gatherings, herbs, healing, and ways to reduce stress and find harmony and balance in all our relationships. These teachings, which have always connected family, clan, and tribe with the Universal Spirit, are finally available to assist all of us in how to discover our own medicine and return to health, harmony, and peace.

240pp, 8.5x5.5, illus. ... Paperback

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MOTHER EARTH SPIRITUALITY: Native American Paths to Healing Ourselves & Our World Ref: B636

Ed (Eagle Man) McGaa

Mixing natural spirituality, a belief that humannity is rooted in a living, feeling earth, and an awareness of scientific ecological principles, Eagle Man draws on centuries of Native American wisdom to offer practices and ceremonies that reestablish a nurturing relationship with nature.

256pp, 9x6 ... Paperback

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THE NATIVE AMERICAN SWEAT LODGE Ref: AW75

Joseph Bruchac

"Bruchac presents a thrifty and cogent explanation of the function and role of sweat lodges both historically and in the present. Sweat lodges are part of nearly every native North American culture and have always played an important role in rituals of healing, preparation, and prayer. Bruchac discusses the repression of sweats, first by the Spaniards and later by the U.S. government, and notes the hypocrisy of these bans, since saunas and other therapeutic steam baths were popular across Europe for centuries... To deepen our understanding of the significance of sweat lodges within Native American cultures, Bruchac shares 25 relevant traditional tales from the Lakota, Blackfeet, Nez Perce, Seneca, Navajo, Hopi, Huron, and others.

146pp, 9x6 ... Paperback

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NATIVE HEALER: Initiation into an Ancient Art Ref: 1340

Medicine Grizzlybear Lake

Trained by numerous teachers, including Rolling Thunder, Lake explains the process by which a person is called to be a medicine man or woman and the trials and tests of a candidate. He gives an intimate portrait of the world of the Native American medicine man, explaining the spiritual laws for healing and the role of psychic abilities in diagnosing and treating illness. “A rare opportunity to learn about shamanism from somebody who has been taught, trained, studied in both worlds and societies. I therefore recommend it highly.” - Rolling Thunder

200pp, 8.5x5.5 ... Paperback

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POWER ANIMAL MEDITATIONS: Shamanic Journeys with Your Spirit Allies Ref: BW39

Nicky Scully

What can the hawk teach you about your life purpose? What does the salmon know of fertile dreams, goal setting, and self actualization? Calling upon the magical wisdom of nature, Nicki Scully guides us into the spirit world of sacred totems, oracles, and animal teachings from many cultures, including Africa, Egypt, and North America. Encounter the archetypal wisdom teachings of Cobra, Eagle, Dolphin, Lioness, White Buffalo, Coyote, Cedar Tree, and many others. Each totem is exquisitely illustrated by Angela Werneke, the award-winning illustrator of Medicine Cards. Includes 50 unique power animal and spirit guide meditations.

280pp, 9x6 ... Paperback

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ROAD TO THE SUNDANCE: My Journey into Native Spirituality Ref: 2373A

Manny Twofeathers

A casual account of intensely painful ceremonial rituals that provide pathways to the spiritual world of the Shoshoni and Lakota peoples. The usual picture of religious self-flagellation pales compared with what Twofeathers, a Native spiritual leader and craftsman, undergoes to achieve a higher understanding. Writing in a relaxed conversational prose, Twofeathers describes how, at urgings from the spirit world, he began to immerse himself in the yearly Sundance rituals held throughout the West. At first, his participation in the Shoshoni ritual merely required him to dance nearly continuously under a hot sun for four days, whthout food or water. Graduating to the Lakota ceremony, Twofeathers has his chest pierced with bones to which ropes are affixed, tying Twofeathers to a sacred tree; running backwards at full speed is the painful means of seaparating from the tree. But there's more. Twofeathers also has his back piereced to enable him to drag up to eight buffalo skulls four times around a sacred arbor. As a veteran of these practices, Twofeathers comes to regard himself as a healer (to the amazement of doctors, he dissolves his agonizing gallstones and somewhat alleviates his high blood pressure and diabetic problems through spiritual medicine), a seer, and a counselor, whose services are sought after within the Native American community. Paralleling his account of these rites is the tale of his success as a craftsman of ``medicine wheels'' and ``dream catchers,'' which are eagerly snapped up at craft fairs and New Age gatherings, and the saga of his unhappy family life, which is finally stabilized, thanks in large part to his flesh sacrifices. A modest and likeable narrator, Twofeathers avoids the self- righteous polemics sometimes found in this genre, and while the gorier sections are initially jolting, his aplomb in withstanding pain and coming back for more lends a certain normalcy to this ritual." - Kirkus Reviews

228pp, 8.5x5.5 ... Paperback

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