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Sacred instructions : indigenous wisdom for living spirit-based change /

Sacred instructions : indigenous wisdom for living spirit-based change / Sherri Mitchell/Weh'na Ha'mu' Kwasset (She Who Brings the Light) ; foreword by Larry Dossey, MD.

By: Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextPublisher: Berkeley, California : North Atlantic Books, [2018]Copyright date: ©2018Description: xx, 234 pages : illustration ; 22 cmContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • unmediated
Carrier type:
  • volume
ISBN:
  • 9781623171957
  • 1623171954
Other title:
  • Indigenous wisdom for living spirit-based change
Subject(s):
Contents:
Part one. Building the foundation -- Creation songs -- The love of thousands -- Part two. Understanding the wayward path -- Where are we now? -- How we got here -- Grief, trauma, and intimacy -- Conflict transformation -- Rights and responsibilities: embracing the balance -- Decolonizing -- Ending our childlike dependence -- Conquest activism -- Women are the water-bearers of the universe -- Part three. Imagining the path forward -- From attraction to conscious co-creation -- Teachers and teachings -- The cultivation of warriors -- Part four. Reaching back and moving forward -- Core cultural values -- The indigenous way of life -- The four foundations of self-determined societies -- Living in the time of prophecy.
Summary: Drawing from ancestral knowledge, as well as her experience as an attorney and activist, Sherri Mitchell addresses some of the most crucial issues of our day, such as environmental protection and human rights. Sharing the gifts she has received from elders around the world, Mitchell urges us to decolonize our language and our stories. For those seeking change, this book offers a set of cultural values that will preserve our collective survival for future generations. --Publisher.
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Enhanced descriptions from Syndetics:

A "profound and inspiring" collection of ancient indigenous wisdom for "anyone wanting the healing of self, society, and of our shared planet" (Peter Levine, author of Waking the Tiger- Healing Trauma ).

A Penobscot Indian draws on the experiences and wisdom of the First Nations to address environmental justice, water protection, generational trauma, and more.

Drawing from ancestral knowledge, as well as her experience as an attorney and activist, Sherri Mitchell addresses some of the most crucial issues of our day-including indigenous land rights, environmental justice, and our collective human survival. Sharing the gifts she has received from the elders of her tribe, the Penobscot Nation, she asks us to look deeply into the illusions we have labeled as truth and which separate us from our higher mind and from one another.

Sacred Instructions explains how our traditional stories set the framework for our belief systems and urges us to decolonize our language and our stories. It reveals how the removal of women from our stories has impacted our thinking and disrupted the natural balance within our communities.

For all those who seek to create change, this book lays out an ancient world view and set of cultural values that provide a way of life that is balanced and humane, that can heal Mother Earth, and that will preserve our communities for future generations.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 229-232).

Part one. Building the foundation -- Creation songs -- The love of thousands -- Part two. Understanding the wayward path -- Where are we now? -- How we got here -- Grief, trauma, and intimacy -- Conflict transformation -- Rights and responsibilities: embracing the balance -- Decolonizing -- Ending our childlike dependence -- Conquest activism -- Women are the water-bearers of the universe -- Part three. Imagining the path forward -- From attraction to conscious co-creation -- Teachers and teachings -- The cultivation of warriors -- Part four. Reaching back and moving forward -- Core cultural values -- The indigenous way of life -- The four foundations of self-determined societies -- Living in the time of prophecy.

Drawing from ancestral knowledge, as well as her experience as an attorney and activist, Sherri Mitchell addresses some of the most crucial issues of our day, such as environmental protection and human rights. Sharing the gifts she has received from elders around the world, Mitchell urges us to decolonize our language and our stories. For those seeking change, this book offers a set of cultural values that will preserve our collective survival for future generations. --Publisher.

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