North American Indian Medicine Powers

Author : William S. Lyon (Ph. D.)
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780984854608
Total Pages : 544 pages
Book Rating : 4.06/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Spirit Talkers written by William S. Lyon (Ph. D.) and published by . This book was released on 2012-10-01 with total page 544 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Provides an in-depth overview of American Indian medicine powers and challenges the current notion that a belief in medicine powers is merely the result of primitive superstition by explaining how quantum mechanics principles can be used to better explain why shamans do what they do during ceremonies.

Author : William Lyon
Publisher : Cambridge Scholars Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1527553949
Total Pages : 720 pages
Book Rating : 4.41/5 ( download)

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Download or read book North American Indian Medicine Powers written by William Lyon and published by Cambridge Scholars Publishing. This book was released on 2020-06-01 with total page 720 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is the first-ever publication to provide an in-depth overview of American Indian medicine powers. More importantly, it challenges the current notion that a belief in medicine powers is merely the result of primitive superstition. Utilizing a recent discovery in quantum mechanics, hailed by some physicists as “the greatest discovery in the history of science,” it explains how quantum mechanics principles can be used to better explain why shamans do what they do during ceremony. This results in the book taking the point of view that there is now more evidence to assume Indian medicine powers are real than to assume they are not.

Author : WILLIAM S. LYON
Publisher : Cambridge Scholars Publishing
ISBN 13 : 9781527545564
Total Pages : 735 pages
Book Rating : 4.63/5 ( download)

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Download or read book North American Indian Medicine Powers written by WILLIAM S. LYON and published by Cambridge Scholars Publishing. This book was released on 2020-04 with total page 735 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is the first-ever publication to provide an in-depth overview of American Indian medicine powers. More importantly, it challenges the current notion that a belief in medicine powers is merely the result of primitive superstition. Utilizing a recent discovery in quantum mechanics, hailed by some physicists as â oethe greatest discovery in the history of science, â it explains how quantum mechanics principles can be used to better explain why shamans do what they do during ceremony. This results in the book taking the point of view that there is now more evidence to assume Indian medicine powers are real than to assume they are not.

Author : Lyon
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780984854646
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.49/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Spirit Talkers written by Lyon and published by . This book was released on 2012-12-15 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Vine Deloria Jr.
Publisher : Fulcrum Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1555918476
Total Pages : 272 pages
Book Rating : 4.77/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The World We Used to Live In written by Vine Deloria Jr. and published by Fulcrum Publishing. This book was released on 2016-01-01 with total page 272 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In his final work, the great and beloved Native American scholar Vine Deloria Jr. takes us into the realm of the spiritual and reveals through eyewitness accounts the immense power of medicine men. The World We Used To Live In, a fascinating collection of anecdotes from tribes across the country, explores everything from healing miracles and scared rituals to Navajos who could move the sun. In this compelling work, which draws upon a lifetime of scholarship, Deloria shows us how ancient powers fit into our modern understanding of science and the cosmos, and how future generations may draw strength from the old ways.

Author : Virgil J. Vogel
Publisher : University of Oklahoma Press
ISBN 13 : 0806189770
Total Pages : 120 pages
Book Rating : 4.72/5 ( download)

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Download or read book American Indian Medicine written by Virgil J. Vogel and published by University of Oklahoma Press. This book was released on 2013-05-01 with total page 120 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The purpose of this book, says the author, is to show the effect of Indian medicinal practices on white civilization. Actually it achieves far more. It discusses Indian theories of disease and methods of combating disease and even goes into the question of which diseases were indigenous and which were brought to the Indian by the white man. It also lists Indian drugs that have won acceptance in the Pharmacopeia of the United States and the National Formulary. The influence of American Indian healing arts on the medicine and healing and pharmacology of the white man was considerable. For example, such drugs as insulin and penicillin were anticipated in rudimentary form by the aborigines. Coca leaves were used as narcotics by Peruvian Indians hundreds of years before Carl Koller first used cocaine as a local anesthetic in 1884. All together, about 170 medicines, mostly botanical, were contributed to the official compendia by Indians north of the Rio Grande, about 50 more coming from natives of the Latin-American and Caribbean regions. Impressions and attitudes of early explorers, settlers, physicians, botanists, and others regarding Indian curative practices are reported by geographical regions, with British, French, and Spanish colonies and the young United States separately treated. Indian theories of disease—sorcery, taboo violation, spirit intrusion, soul loss, unfulfilled dreams and desires, and so on -and shamanistic practices used to combat them are described. Methods of treating all kinds of injuries-from fractures to snakebite-and even surgery are included. The influence of Indian healing lore upon folk or domestic medicine, as well as on the "Indian doctors" and patent medicines, are discussed. For the convenience of the reader, an index of botanical names is provided, together with a wide variety of illustrations. The disproportionate attention that has been given to the superstitious and unscientific features of aboriginal medicine has tended to obscure its real contributions to American civilization.

Author : Karen Liptak
Publisher : Franklin Watts
ISBN 13 : 9780531108680
Total Pages : 64 pages
Book Rating : 4.86/5 ( download)

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Download or read book North American Indian Medicine People written by Karen Liptak and published by Franklin Watts. This book was released on 1990 with total page 64 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Describes the healing techniques used by various American Indian tribes and explains the theories and beliefs behind these practices.

Author : Clifford E. Trafzer
Publisher : University of Arizona Press
ISBN 13 : 0816537178
Total Pages : 321 pages
Book Rating : 4.74/5 ( download)

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Download or read book American Indian Medicine Ways written by Clifford E. Trafzer and published by University of Arizona Press. This book was released on 2017-10-17 with total page 321 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The book highlights American Indian spiritual leaders, miracle healings, and ceremonies that have influenced American history and shows their continued significance--Provided by publisher.

Author : Nancy Bonvillain
Publisher : Chelsea House Publications
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 104 pages
Book Rating : 4.36/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Native American Medicine written by Nancy Bonvillain and published by Chelsea House Publications. This book was released on 1997 with total page 104 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Surveys the Native American healing and health care practices from the time of first European contact up to the present. Includes a chapter profiling some Native American healers.

Author : G. W. Mullins
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781640077164
Total Pages : 278 pages
Book Rating : 4.62/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Medicine Man - Shamanism, Natural Healing, Remedies and Stories of the Native American Indians written by G. W. Mullins and published by . This book was released on 2017-03-21 with total page 278 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The legend of the Native American Medicine Man goes back for thousands of years. Many of the Native Americans turned to the Medicine Man for the knowledge of mixing herbs, roots and other natural plants that helped to heal various medical conditions. But remedies were not the only part of the healing process. Healing practices varied from tribe to tribe. Many involved ceremonies, and rituals that healed the spirit and mind as well as the body. The end goals was to find a complete harmony within themselves, their creator, the environment and the people around them. Only when harmony was in place, could good health resume. Herbs played a large process in the healing process. The remedies made from natural herbs and plants gathered from the local environment resulted in a variety of cures. These herbs and plants were considered sacred. As was the way of the Native American Indians, these practices were handed down from generation to generation by word of mouth. They were never documented in writing. Many tribes had no written language, except for the Cherokee. They in later years documented some of their practices for their preservation and history. Sadly the knowledge of some of those tribes who had no written language has been lost over the years. When no one was left to pass down their customs, the heritage of those tribes disappeared. When the early Europeans arrived in North America, they were surprised to see that the Indians used herbs to heal medical situations that in some cases they had thought to be terminal. Sadly for the Indians, they had no cures for the diseases that the Europeans brought with them. White man's diseases, such as measles and small pox, wiped out thousands of the natives over the next few centuries. Not only were these Native Americans lost, but in many cases the knowledge of history and medicine went with them. Today many modern medicines are based on plants and herbs that were used by the Indians. Many of the remaining tribes continue to guard the knowledge of their medicine people and the subject will not be discussed with non-Native Americans. Many believe that sharing of the healing knowledge will weaken the spiritual power of the medicine. In this book you will learn of the medicine man, medicine wheels, herbal treatments, songs for healing and the ways of Body, Mind and Spirit. You will learn to channel the power of the universe and use it to be in better health and achieve life goals. You will learn the ways of Native Americans and a forgotten path to inner harmony.