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SHAMANS |
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Introduction |
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YOU ARE |
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Biography |
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Enter Shamans |
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Discoveries |
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Farewells |
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Generations |
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Dedication iii Author's Bio iv Thanks v Prologue ix
02 Groundwork 20 03 Enter the Bear 31 04 Dream Worlds 59 05 Shamans of Old 63 06 The Apprentice 81 07 Discoveries 91 08 The Arrival of Spring 103 09 Šipa·puli·ma Found 115 10 Sacred Offerings 133 11 The Messenger 149 12
Zuń 13 Encounters 195 14 The Pilgrimage 211 15 Powerful Medicine 227 16 After the Fact 245 Shamans' Genealogy 252 "Dancing With Sunsets"
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J. Lamah Walker
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Copyright
© 2001 by: All
rights reserved under International Library
of Congress Printed
in the United States of American Cover
image by Lawrence W. Lee |
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The
ailing And
the lonely who
are too often in a
hopeless search for
healing and love
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John
for his enduring love Diann
for her loving friendship Barbara
for always being my sister Lawrence
w. lee for his artistry Marsena,
My spiritual mother Joanne,
for her shoulder David
for wanting me to live Dennis
for his friendship Bob,
my brother Loving,
Caring Friends NONA,
don, Jan, Doris, Rita, RONA
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We
all subsist in this often-crazy world of ours that is all too recklessly
full of innumerable illusions that we have come to accept and too easily
believe that they are all actually established and well-founded realities.
This present bit of intriguing and inspiring oral history has been
in the careful formulation for some sixteen years before it was ever
committed to the written page. This
otherwise extended and previously unexplained passage of time was due in
large part to the indispensable manifestation of many of the story’s
more contemporary events that serendipitously needed to have ultimately
and inevitably manifested themselves as well as the self-imposed necessity
for the author to have conclusively resolved his ethical/moral struggle
dealing with the possible appearance of serious incongruence between that
of relating a story with such authoritative certainty on the one hand and
at the same time having no real source that may actually substantiate or
authentic the historical elements of this tale.
One might easily suspect that there has been entirely too much
literary license employed in certain portions of this story; I can only
assure you that those particular incidences that are often reported so
dramatically and may even appear to have no true-life historical basis,
may in fact, be far more compelling in their essence than many of those
more convincing but often totally unsubstantiated illusions that all of us
are repeatedly subjected to on such a demanding and consistent basis.
What is reality? And, are we all not guilty of simply choosing the path of
least resistance just so that we won’t “rock the boat’ or possibly
disappoint some loved one?
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Prologue ix
02 Groundwork 20 03 Enter the Bear 31 04 Dream Worlds 59 05 Shamans of Old 63 06 The Apprentice 81 07 Discoveries 91 08 The Arrival of Spring 103 09 Šipa·puli·ma Found 115 10 Sacred Offerings 133 11 The Messenger 149 12 Zuńi Bound 165 13 Encounters 195 14 The Pilgrimage 211 15 Powerful Medicine 227 16 After the Fact 245 Shamans' Genealogy 252 "Dancing With Sunsets"
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This beautiful and intriguing
Land of Enchantment has for many many years drawn to its intuitively
perceived mystical province, peoples in search of a unique and often
unconventional spiritual milieu. It
is a distinctive land that is so naturally diverse in both its indigenous
and immigrant human inhabitants, as well as possessing every ecological
biome level with the singular exception of artic tundra; what a wonderful
and miraculous diversity! The
spiritual fabric of this compelling story is equally diverse and most
dramatically illustrates that at the very core of every human being is a
common quintessence that recognizes nothing of the multiplicity of
labeled-differences that are too persistently and often unjustly placed
upon on every human, whether they be in regards to one’s race, color,
ethnicity, national origin, religion, personal appearance, gender, sexual
orientation, disability or age in their origin.
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