Meditations With The Lakota

Author : Paul Steinmetz
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 1591438233
Total Pages : 144 pages
Book Rating : 4.36/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Meditations with the Lakota written by Paul Steinmetz and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2001-04-01 with total page 144 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: • Native American meditations that help the reader find spirit in everyday life. • Intimate meditations offer insight into the symbology of the Lakota religious experience. • Lakota elders present the ancient prayers that weave together psyche and spirit. • New Edition of Meditations with Native Americans. The Lakota, people of the sacred buttes of the Black Hills, hold a rich tradition that connects the world of visible creation to the world of spirit. A century after the battle at Wounded Knee, Lakota elders are beginning to speak their belief that this spirituality is indigenous to every man and woman. By inviting all nations to recognize their interdependence with one another and with the earth, Native Americans can help modern man and woman find a personal relationship with nature and a willingness to view creation as sacred. Many feel that this spirituality is not a luxury but a necessity. From impressions and teachings gathered over decades of living with the Oglala Sioux and participating in their ceremonies, author Paul Steinmetz has compiled a book of provocative meditations centered on creation spirituality. Lakota elders join the author in evoking the essence of the sweat lodge ceremony, the vision quest, yuwipi meetings, and the teachings of Buffalo Calf Woman and the sacred pipe, offering the reader a focus for prayerful intention in finding spirit in everyday life. This insider's view reveals the Lakotas' profound interconnectedness with all matter, a weaving of psyche and spirit that is the call to consciousness so crucial at this time.

Author : Paul B. Steinmetz
Publisher : Bear & Company
ISBN 13 : 9780939680139
Total Pages : 144 pages
Book Rating : 4.30/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Meditations with Native Americans written by Paul B. Steinmetz and published by Bear & Company. This book was released on 1984 with total page 144 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : James R. Walker
Publisher : U of Nebraska Press
ISBN 13 : 9780803298675
Total Pages : 416 pages
Book Rating : 4.76/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Lakota Belief and Ritual written by James R. Walker and published by U of Nebraska Press. This book was released on 1980-01-01 with total page 416 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "The real value of Lakota Belief and Ritual is that it provides raw narratives without any pretension of synthesis or analysis, as well as insightful biographical information on the man who contributed more than any other individual to our understanding of early Oglala ritual and belief." Plains Anthropologist"In the writing of Indian history, historians and other scholars seldom have the opportunity to look at the past through 'native eyes' or to immerse themselves in documents created by Indians. For the Oglala and some of the other divisions of the Lakota, the Walker materials provide this kind of experience in fascinating and rich detail during an important transition period in their history." Minnesota History"This collection of documents is especially remarkable because it preserves individual variations of traditional wisdom from a whole generation of highly developed wicasa wakan (holy men). . . . Lakota Belief and Ritual is a wasicun (container of power) that can make traditional Lakota wisdom assume new life." American Indian Quarterly"A work of prime importance. . . . its publication represents a major addition to our knowledge of the Lakotas' way of life" Journal of American FolkloreRaymond J. DeMallie, director of the American Indian Studies Research Institute and a professor of anthropology at Indiana University, is the editor of James R. Walker's Lakota Society (1982) and of The Sixth Grandfather: Black Elk's Teachings Given to John G. Neihardt (1984, a Bison Book), both published by the University of Nebraska Press. Elaine A. Jahner, a professor of English at Dartmouth College, has edited Walker's Lakota Myth (1983), also a Bison Book.

Author : Gerald Hausman
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 1591438896
Total Pages : 144 pages
Book Rating : 4.92/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Meditations with the Navajo written by Gerald Hausman and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2001-10-01 with total page 144 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A collection of stories, poems, and meditations that illuminate the spiritual world of the Navajo. • Explores the Navajo's fundamental belief in the importance of harmony and balance in the world. • Shares Navajo healing ways that have been handed down for generations. • Includes meditations following each story or poem. Navajo myths are among the most poetic in the world, full of dazzling word imagery. For the Navajo, who call themselves the Dine (literally, "the People"), the story of emergence--their creation myth--lies at the heart of their beliefs. In it, all the world is created together, both gods and human beings, embodying the idea that change comes from within rather than without. Poet and author Gerald Hausman collects this and other stories with meditations that together capture the essence of the Navajo people's way of life and their understanding of the world. Here are myths of the Holy People, of Changing Woman who teaches the People how to live, and of the trickster Coyote; stories of healings performed by stargazers and hand tremblers; and songs of love, marriage, homecoming, and growing old. These and the meditations that follow each story reveal a world--our world--that thrives only on harmony and balance and shares the Dine belief that the most important point on the circle that has no beginning or end is where we stand at the moment.

Author : R. D. Theisz
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780971865822
Total Pages : 107 pages
Book Rating : 4.25/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Sharing the Gift of Lakota Song written by R. D. Theisz and published by . This book was released on 2003 with total page 107 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Don Coyhis
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781605304519
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.14/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Meditations with Native American Elders written by Don Coyhis and published by . This book was released on 2007 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Chronicle Books (Firm)
Publisher : Chronicle Books
ISBN 13 : 9780811804509
Total Pages : 70 pages
Book Rating : 4.0X/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Lakota written by Chronicle Books (Firm) and published by Chronicle Books. This book was released on 1994 with total page 70 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This exquisitely illustrated volume presents a concise account of history of the Lakota and of the practice and fundamental principles of their spiritual and ceremonial life, from the appearance of the White Buffalo Woman and the observance of the Seven Sacred Rites to the Vision quest, the sweat lodge, and an ultimate communion with Wakan-Tanka, the Great Spirit.

Author : Gerald Hausman
Publisher : Inner Traditions / Bear & Co
ISBN 13 : 9780939680269
Total Pages : 142 pages
Book Rating : 4.62/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Meditations with Animals written by Gerald Hausman and published by Inner Traditions / Bear & Co. This book was released on 1986-06 with total page 142 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This first bestiary ever compiled from the Native American tradition brings forth sacred animal spirits and reminds us of our deep connection to Mother Earth. Powerful poems and meditations, legends and stories, show the helping and healing roles animals have played since the beginning.

Author : Don Coyhis
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.81/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Meditations with Native American Elders written by Don Coyhis and published by . This book was released on 1993 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Robert Boissiere
Publisher : Inner Traditions / Bear & Co
ISBN 13 : 9780939680276
Total Pages : 150 pages
Book Rating : 4.70/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Meditations with the Hopi written by Robert Boissiere and published by Inner Traditions / Bear & Co. This book was released on 1986-06 with total page 150 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Meditations with the Hopi is a collection of songs and rituals that impart the essence of the Hopi world view. It is a narrative of creation and change, of prophecy and fulfillment in the midst of koyaanisqatsi, or "world out of balance." Here is a heartfelt view of the Hopi Way as seen by one of the few white men to have lived within this ancient culture.