Gifts from the Indigenous: Six Awarenesses & Six Doings
About this audiobook
This work exposes us to the Amerindian world view, offering six awarenesses and six practices. Awarenesses, such as being in touch with the "shamanic bone soul" and actions such as "mandalic walking" can gift us with an enriching and complimentary world view. Drawing upon the author's own symbolic experiences and after years of study, he presents the essence of what he has learned. This work especially draws upon two recent projects, interpreting markings on a stone tablet found by the Shenandoah River in Virginia, as well as from a stone formation at Penn Bluff, Alabama, both of which resonate with Eastern Woodland symbolism. We are invited to enter into an Indigenous worldview, so we may gain a more expansive sense possibilities in the universe and live a fuller life.
About the author
The author, an independent scholar, has degrees in Philosophy and Counseling Psychology. For many years, he taught a college course on Indigenous symbolism with an emphasis on imagery found on stone and in the landscape. Having experienced gifts from the Indigenous related to sites that Native Americans inhabited, and having studied their narratives, he offers this work.
