Author : David Carson
Publisher : Skyhorse
Page : 336 pages
File Size : 15,69 MB
Release : 2011-10-21
Category : 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
Page : 336 pages
File Size : 42,31 MB
Release : 2011
Category : 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
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 44,42 MB
Release : 1999-07-30
Category : 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
Page : 354 pages
File Size : 49,60 MB
Release : 2017-09-05
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 1101904380
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
Page : 482 pages
File Size : 50,25 MB
Release : 2016-08-16
Category : 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 : Anita Runyan
Publisher : Balboa Press
Page : 294 pages
File Size : 32,7 MB
Release : 2014-05-01
Category : Religion
ISBN : 1452582580
Journey into the Great Mystery is the true story of Anita Runyans midlife foray into mystical realms as she transforms from skeptic to spiritual seeker. Her journey begins with the study of core teachings from mystics of all the great religions and continues with various encounters with sacred energies. This fascinating book describes Runyans major kundalini opening and its ensuing effect on her life. Her inner search for truth led her to adventures with light bodies, shamans, spiritual guides, orbs, and more. She traveled around the world to sacred sites, including those in Egypt, Brazil, Africa, Chile, Easter Island, Hawaii, and the Aleutian Islands; and these outer explorations served to illuminate and deepen her knowledge of her complex inner world and inspired life-changing revelations.
Author : David Carson
Publisher : Council Oak Books
Page : 212 pages
File Size : 27,68 MB
Release : 2006-11
Category : 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 : Paul S. Auerbach
Publisher : Elsevier Health Sciences
Page : 2931 pages
File Size : 17,90 MB
Release : 2011-10-31
Category : Medical
ISBN : 1455733563
Quickly and decisively manage any medical emergency you encounter in the great outdoors with Wilderness Medicine! World-renowned authority and author, Dr. Paul Auerbach, and a team of experts offer proven, practical, visual guidance for effectively diagnosing and treating the full range of emergencies and health problems encountered in situations where time and resources are scarce. Every day, more and more people are venturing into the wilderness and extreme environments, or are victims of horrific natural disasters...and many are unprepared for the dangers and aftermath that come with these episodes. Whether these victims are stranded on mountaintops, lost in the desert, injured on a remote bike path, or ill far out at sea, this indispensable resource--now with online access at www.expertconsult.com for greater accessibility and portability-- equips rescuers and health care professionals to effectively address and prevent injury and illness in the wilderness! This textbook is widely referred to as "The Bible of Wilderness Medicine." Be able to practice emergency medicine outside of the traditional hospital/clinical setting whether you are in remote environments, underdeveloped but highly populated areas, or disaster areas, are part of search and rescue operations, or dealing with casualties from episodes of extreme sports and active lifestyle activities. Face any medical challenge in the wilderness with expert guidance: Dr. Auerbach is a noted author and the world's leading authority on wilderness medicine. He is a founder and Past President of the Wilderness Medical Society, consultant to the Divers Alert Network and many other agencies and organizations, and a member of the National Medical Committee for the National Ski Patrol System. Handle everything from frostbite to infection by marine microbes, not to mention other diverse injuries, bites, stings, poisonous plant exposures, animal attacks, and natural disasters. Grasp the essential aspects of search and rescue. Respond quickly and effectively by improvising with available materials. Improve your competency and readiness with the latest guidance on volcanic eruptions, extreme sports, splints and slings, wilderness cardiology, living off the land, aerospace medicine, mental health in the wilderness, tactical combat casualty care, and much more. Meet the needs and special considerations of specific patient populations such as children, women, elders, persons with chronic medical conditions, and the disabled. Make smart decisions about gear, navigation, nutrition, and survival. Be prepared for everything with expanded coverage on topics such as high altitude, cold water immersion, and poisonous and venomous plants and animals. Get the skills you need now with new information on global humanitarian relief and expedition medicine, plus expanded coverage of injury prevention and environmental preservation. Get guidance on the go with fully searchable online text, plus bonus images, tables and video clips - all available on ExpertConsult.com.
Author : Deborah L. Madsen
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 719 pages
File Size : 39,80 MB
Release : 2015-10-05
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 1317693183
The Routledge Companion to Native American Literature engages the multiple scenes of tension — historical, political, cultural, and aesthetic — that constitutes a problematic legacy in terms of community identity, ethnicity, gender and sexuality, language, and sovereignty in the study of Native American literature. This important and timely addition to the field provides context for issues that enter into Native American literary texts through allusions, references, and language use. The volume presents over forty essays by leading and emerging international scholars and analyses: regional, cultural, racial and sexual identities in Native American literature key historical moments from the earliest period of colonial contact to the present worldviews in relation to issues such as health, spirituality, animals, and physical environments traditions of cultural creation that are key to understanding the styles, allusions, and language of Native American Literature the impact of differing literary forms of Native American literature. This collection provides a map of the critical issues central to the discipline, as well as uncovering new perspectives and new directions for the development of the field. It supports academic study and also assists general readers who require a comprehensive yet manageable introduction to the contexts essential to approaching Native American Literature. It is essential reading for anyone interested in the past, present and future of this literary culture. Contributors: Joseph Bauerkemper, Susan Bernardin, Susan Berry Brill de Ramírez, Kirby Brown, David J. Carlson, Cari M. Carpenter, Eric Cheyfitz, Tova Cooper, Alicia Cox, Birgit Däwes, Janet Fiskio, Earl E. Fitz, John Gamber, Kathryn N. Gray, Sarah Henzi, Susannah Hopson, Hsinya Huang, Brian K. Hudson, Bruce E. Johansen, Judit Ágnes Kádár, Amelia V. Katanski, Susan Kollin, Chris LaLonde, A. Robert Lee, Iping Liang, Drew Lopenzina, Brandy Nālani McDougall, Deborah Madsen, Diveena Seshetta Marcus, Sabine N. Meyer, Carol Miller, David L. Moore, Birgit Brander Rasmussen, Mark Rifkin, Kenneth M. Roemer, Oliver Scheiding, Lee Schweninger, Stephanie A. Sellers, Kathryn W. Shanley, Leah Sneider, David Stirrup, Theodore C. Van Alst, Jr., Tammy Wahpeconiah
Author : Chuck Sambuchino
Publisher : Penguin
Page : 337 pages
File Size : 40,87 MB
Release : 2008-07-01
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 1582976600
Now, more than ever, in a market glutted with aspiring writers and a shrinking number of publishing houses, writers need someone familiar with the publishing scene to shepherd their manuscript to the right person. Completely updated annually, Guide to Literary Agents provides names and specialties for more than 800 individual agents around the United States and the world. The 2009 edition includes more than 85 pages of original articles on everything you need to know including how to submit to agents, how to avoid scams and what an agent can do for their clients.
