Mi Kmaq Puoinaq Two Spirit Medicine

Author : Joseph Randolph Bowers
Publisher : Lulu.com
Page : 252 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 2019-06-25
Category : Alternative medicine
ISBN : 9781925034080

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Mi'kmaq Puoinaq Two Spirit Medicine by Joseph Randolph Bowers Pdf

Powerful medicine. A rare glimpse into sacred sexuality, gender, and identity. Honouring an often-hidden beautiful cultural landscape. Instructive, accessible, scholarly, relevant and practical. An insightful contribution to sexuality and gender, gay and lesbian, Native North American, and Indigenous studies. An integral textbook for courses in education, counselling, psychotherapy, psychology, social work, medicine, nursing, and health. Welcoming and empowering for youth, adults, and family. Dr Joseph Randolph Bowers is an Australian-Canadian Counsellor Psychotherapist and author of The Practice of Counselling, Sacred Teachings from the Medicine Lodge, and On the Threshold: Personal Transformation and Spiritual Awakening. Mi'kmaq Elder Dr Daniel N. Paul is a Canadian Historian and celebrated author of We Were Not the Savages: First Nations History. The authors reveal how Two Spirit and Traditional Medicine have always existed and are being rekindled in our times.

Author : Joseph Randolph Bowers
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 2023-01-06
Category : Body, Mind & Spirit
ISBN : 1925034216

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Sacred Teachings from the Mi'kmaq Medicine Lodge by Joseph Randolph Bowers Pdf

A rare window into the often mysterious, sacred, and hidden world of First Nation, Native Canadian, and North American Indian culture and spiritual teachings. Arising from Ancient Springs. First published by the Mi'kmaq community in a regional periodical, and later carefully adapted for a wider audience. Now in Second Edition. Sacred Teachings from the Mi'kmaq Medicine Lodge is a Sacred Medicine Bundle rich in traditional teachings and contemporary reflections. Based on the mystical teachings of the age-old seasonal moon cycles, the Sacred Circle of Readings provides a Liturgy of Creation around the major traditional Ceremonies. A source of great wealth and power in spirituality, wisdom, and psychosocial healing. Readers will be given heart. Indian spirituality comes alive. New pathways open up. A way forward appears through living a more sacred, balanced, and honourable life.

Author : Joseph Randolph Bowers
Publisher : Lulu.com
Page : 264 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 2019-08
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781925034110

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Solitude Awakens: The Heart Forest Mountain Way by Joseph Randolph Bowers Pdf

Mystic, teacher, and therapist Dr Joseph Randolph Bowers reveals the secrets of solitary life, contemplation, and enlightenment. Like a master weaver and guru Dr Bowers teaches the reader how to experience relief from suffering and how to attain awakening in freedom, mindfulness, and true joy. Seekers on the way will want to learn how to create your own 'rule of life' and how to nurture life-long vow practices that grow with you and that match your values and aspirations. Be forewarned, this knowledge of the ages can change you forever. Made for the western mind this is a modern secular synergy of Christian, Franciscan, Buddhist, Hindu, Mi'kmaq First Nation, Science, and Zen traditions. 'Solitude Awakens: The Heart Forest Mountain Way' is like a modern Lotus Flower Sutra of the Bodhisattva of Compassion in a clear and practical wisdom.

Author : Laurie Lacey
Publisher : Nimbus Publishing (CN)
Page : 125 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 2012-01-01
Category : Materia medica, Vegetable
ISBN : 1551099179

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Miḱmaq Medicines by Laurie Lacey Pdf

In this delightful book, Laurie Lacey’s reflections on the magical world of plant life and the gathering of remedies chronicles more than 70 plants used by the Mi’kmaq as medicines. Since the Mi’kmaq healing process begins with the gathering and preparation of medicines, Lacey takes us into swamps and bogs, the barrens and woods, to explore the habitats of plants with healing properties. He then illustrates each medicinal plant and describes its traditional use or uses. Whether one is hiking through a field listening for the sound of the “sacred plant,” the yellow rattle, exploring bogs in the hope of finding the elusive blue flag, or simply interested in the Mi’kmaq approach to health and healing, Mi’kmaq Medicines will prove a helpful and enjoyable companion.This new edition includes a fully revised text and a new preface from the author on current perspectives in Mi’kmaq medicines.

Author : Daniel N. Paul
Publisher : Nimbus Publishing (CN)
Page : 376 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 1993
Category : History
ISBN : UOM:39015032834585

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We Were Not the Savages by Daniel N. Paul Pdf

History of the Micmac Indians of northeastern North America. Includes descriptions of traditinal social and political systems but focuses primarily on the post-colonization period.

Author : Joseph Randolph Bowers
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 242 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 2020-07-14
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1925034062

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Stardust Awakens by Joseph Randolph Bowers Pdf

A guidebook for the soul. Learn to develop your spiritual strengths. Activate your experiential learning. Integrate your knowledge into practice. An experiential eightfold path follows the sacred wisdom of native and western mysticism. Learn hidden secrets of personal potential and spiritual power. Actively become conscious. Make decisions about growth and life. Regain the spirit of youth. Enkindle the Elder. Acknowledge personal strength. Attend to weakness with compassion. Come to terms with identity and place. Exercise pathwork to discover inner purpose. Define transformation. Come to terms with destiny. With over thirty-five years of intensive searching, the author shares many ancient secrets of the mystical life woven into a modern and balanced psychology. Now in second edition. Completely accessible. Profoundly life changing for people new to personal growth. Inspiring. A touchstone for those further along the path of enlightenment.

Author : Brian Joseph Gilley
Publisher : U of Nebraska Press
Page : 228 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 2006-10-01
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780803271265

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Becoming Two-spirit by Brian Joseph Gilley Pdf

An intimate glimpse of how Two-Spirit (gay) Native men in Colorado and Oklahoma work to build cross-tribal networks of support as they search for acceptance within their own communities.

Author : Joseph Randolph Bowers
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 286 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 2020-07-03
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 192503416X

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Homophobia and Healing by Joseph Randolph Bowers Pdf

With over thirty years of dedication and twenty years of published research Homophobia and Healing: Psychotherapy and the Psychology of Prejudice, is a provocative, timeless, scholarly, and professional work. A comprehensive analysis maps one-thousand-years of bias against same gender love; then details the literature from the 1970s representing the most pivotal fifty years for LGBTIQ2S+ health and psychology. The author engages the controversial debates on homosexuality, gender, sexual difference, race, and Indigenous issues. Modern narratives of clients and therapists help examine the cold war impacts of chronic homophobia, violence, racism, and prejudice. Therapeutic modelling in the mechanisms of prejudice reveals the origins of trauma, and sketches pathways for healing, self- development, and counseling therapy. At this critical juncture in global politics, this reflection on the polarization of entrenched attitudes provides clear thinking, rational debate, and de-escalating strategies. Built for helping professionals, counsellors, psychologists, social workers, ministers, educators, nurses, and health practitioners. This is your how-to and go-to text for gaining minority infused and informed skills to address prejudicial patterns and post-trauma recovery in homophobia, racism, and other forms of prejudice. Inspiring and powerful reading during these troubling times when basic human rights cannot be taken for granted.

Author : Joseph Randolph Bowers
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 2020-08-16
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1925034208

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The Book of the Minims by Joseph Randolph Bowers Pdf

The Minim Way is a Way of Life and Guide for the Soul's Journey. The Eremitas Familia Minima, the Smallest Family of Solitaries, or the Minims, is anyone who identifies with this Ancient Way of Living in the Now. This little Book holds the secrets of many lifetimes. You will find a renewed vision of the ancient Franciscan and Bodhisattva vows, with profound reflections on the spiritual path. The Way and Life are presented in an ontopoetics of soulful listening. The Poetry of Soulful Awakening is followed by the foundation's Constitution as a gift for those who would live in the Minim Way into the future. Included is an original amplified translation of Francis of Assisi's Canticle of the Sun. References and footnotes are provided. Based on 45 years of work, this scholarly and scripturally based reflection provides an integral vision for sacred living in a secular age.

Author : Joseph Randolph Bowers
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 2023-02-02
Category : Art
ISBN : 1925034194

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Clay Art Therapy and Spirituality by Joseph Randolph Bowers Pdf

Clay art therapy inspires awakening. Earth-infused and experiential methods are relational, self-reflective, and transformational. Clay therapy provides documented outcomes in healing, anxiety and stress reduction, trauma and recovery, as well as in reframing beliefs and identity. The approach builds skills in daily living and relationships. Seeking a holistic perspective to inform clay therapy, this project follows decades of research into the healing of trauma in minority cultures revealing the hidden power of spirituality as meaning making. A person-centred method reframes minority identity within a postmodern psychotherapy. Experiential methods in therapeutic art-as-life and life-as-art embraces scientific evolutionary theories of development, cooperation, ascent, and convergence. Clay-based psychotherapy is informed by culturally infused methods reflecting on western, minority, and disability experiences. We explore our therapy studio productions as well as the works of contemporary sculptor Andrea Martini, and the 15th century works in terracotta by Andrea della Robbia. Our approach provides for opportunities to reflect on the nature of clay art therapy in healing, capacity and skill building, identity formation, and in facilitating transcendent outcomes.

Author : Wolf Moondance
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 164 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 1995
Category : Medical
ISBN : UCAL:B3396086

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Spirit Medicine by Wolf Moondance Pdf

With the help of a Native American shaman, the author of Rainbow Medicine draws on her Osage and Cherokee heritages to create a book that helps readers reach beyond their physical limitations and achieve a wonderful wholeness by following the path of spirit medicine. 16 illustrations.

Author : Sandra Slater,Fay A. Yarbrough
Publisher : Univ of South Carolina Press
Page : 218 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 2022-11-10
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781643363691

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Gender and Sexuality in Indigenous North America, 1400-1850 by Sandra Slater,Fay A. Yarbrough Pdf

Groundbreaking historical scholarship on the complex attitudes toward gender and sexual roles in Native American culture, with a new preface and supplemental bibliography Prior to the arrival of Europeans in the New World, Native Americans across the continent had developed richly complex attitudes and forms of expression concerning gender and sexual roles. The role of the "berdache," a man living as a woman or a woman living as a man in native societies, has received recent scholarly attention but represents just one of many such occurrences of alternative gender identification in these cultures. Editors Sandra Slater and Fay A. Yarbrough have brought together scholars who explore the historical implications of these variations in the meanings of gender, sexuality, and marriage among indigenous communities in North America. Essays that span from the colonial period through the nineteenth century illustrate how these aspects of Native American life were altered through interactions with Europeans. Organized chronologically, Gender and Sexuality in Indigenous North America, 1400–1850 probes gender identification, labor roles, and political authority within Native American societies. The essays are linked by overarching examinations of how Europeans manipulated native ideas about gender for their own ends and how indigenous people responded to European attempts to impose gendered cultural practices at odds with established traditions. Many of the essays also address how indigenous people made meaning of gender and how these meanings developed over time within their own communities. Several contributors also consider sexual practice as a mode of cultural articulation, as well as a vehicle for the expression of gender roles. Representing groundbreaking scholarship in the field of Native American studies, these insightful discussions of gender, sexuality, and identity advance our understanding of cultural traditions and clashes that continue to resonate in native communities today as well as in the larger societies those communities exist within.

Author : Qwo-Li Driskill,Daniel Heath Justice,Deborah Miranda,Lisa Tatonetti
Publisher : University of Arizona Press
Page : 234 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 2011-10-01
Category : Literary Collections
ISBN : 9780816502424

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Sovereign Erotics by Qwo-Li Driskill,Daniel Heath Justice,Deborah Miranda,Lisa Tatonetti Pdf

Two-Spirit people, identified by many different tribally specific names and standings within their communities, have been living, loving, and creating art since time immemorial. It wasn’t until the 1970s, however, that contemporary queer Native literature gained any public notice. Even now, only a handful of books address it specifically, most notably the 1988 collection Living the Spirit: A Gay American Indian Anthology. Since that book’s publication twenty-three years ago, there has not been another collection published that focuses explicitly on the writing and art of Indigenous Two-Spirit and Queer people. This landmark collection strives to reflect the complexity of identities within Native Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual, Transgender, Queer, and Two-Spirit (GLBTQ2) communities. Gathering together the work of established writers and talented new voices, this anthology spans genres (fiction, nonfiction, poetry, and essay) and themes (memory, history, sexuality, indigeneity, friendship, family, love, and loss) and represents a watershed moment in Native American and Indigenous literatures, Queer studies, and the intersections between the two. Collaboratively, the pieces in Sovereign Erotics demonstrate not only the radical diversity among the voices of today’s Indigenous GLBTQ2 writers but also the beauty, strength, and resilience of Indigenous GLBTQ2 people in the twenty-first century. Contributors: Indira Allegra, Louise Esme Cruz, Paula Gunn Allen, Qwo-Li Driskill, Laura Furlan, Janice Gould, Carrie House, Daniel Heath Justice, Maurice Kenny, Michael Koby, M. Carmen Lane, Jaynie Lara, Chip Livingston, Luna Maia, Janet McAdams, Deborah Miranda, Daniel David Moses, D. M. O’Brien, Malea Powell, Cheryl Savageau, Kim Shuck, Sarah Tsigeyu Sharp, James Thomas Stevens, Dan Taulapapa McMullin, William Raymond Taylor, Joel Waters, and Craig Womack

Author : Anne-Christine Hornborg
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 338 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 2001
Category : Social Science
ISBN : WISC:89076972827

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A Landscape of Left-overs by Anne-Christine Hornborg Pdf

Author : Marie Battiste,James Youngblood (Sa'ke'j) Henderson
Publisher : UBC Press
Page : 329 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 2000-04-01
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781895830576

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Protecting Indigenous Knowledge and Heritage by Marie Battiste,James Youngblood (Sa'ke'j) Henderson Pdf

Whether in Canada, the United States, Australia, India, Peru, or Russia, the approximately 500 million Indigenous Peoples in the world have faced a similar fate at the hands of colonizing powers. Assaults on language and culture, commercialization of art, and use of plant knowledge in the development of medicine have taken place all without consent, acknowledgement, or benefit to these Indigenous groups worldwide. Battiste and Henderson passionately detail the devastation these assaults have wrought on Indigenous peoples, why current legal regimes are inadequate to protect Indigenous knowledge, and put forward ideas for reform. Looking at the issues from an international perspective, this book explores developments in various countries including Canada, the United States, Australia, New Zealand, and also the work of the United Nations and relevant international agreements.