This is an excellent work which reveals the real world of Sioux life -- one which changed radically with the advent of the Europeans. He describes a saga of how his family, with his people, found ways to survive in a new world that was thrust upon them.
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Books - Wisdom Traditions

10/12/2006

Using the wisdom culled from the world's greatest civilizations as a foundation, social psychologist Haidt comes to terms with 10 Great Ideas, viewing them through a contemporary filter to learn which of their lessons may still apply to modern lives. He first discusses how the mind works and then examines the Golden Rule ("Reciprocity is the most important
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8/19/2006

John David Ebert's Celluloid Heroes & Mechanical Dragons - Film as the Mythology of Electronic Society examines how movies since the late 1960s have developed a "myth of the machine" for our contemporary society. Modern technology, Ebert argues, has created a new environment which raises problems that our modern myths, in celluloid form, attempt to resolve
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4/13/2006

Man vs. the Machine, Technology, the Big City is a surprisingly long-standing theme in mythology, and Ebert examines some popular movies and icons against this backdrop. John David Ebert is the author of Twilight of the Clockwork God and Celluloid Heroes & Mechanical
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Audio on Demand - Wisdom Traditions

4/13/2006

FROM THE PUBLISHER The arc of land and water forming the North Pacific Rim is a cut lace work of rivers running to the great ocean. The salmon, sacred to people who lived along the pathways of its journey, once engorged these rivers, but no more. Thirteen writers from cultures profoundly connected to salmon were asked to write about "the fish
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2/13/2006

An epic on an intimate scale, Memoirs of a Geisha takes the reader behind the rice-paper screens of the geisha house to a vanished floating world of beauty and cruelty, from a poor fishing village in 1929 to the decadence of 1940s Kyoto, through the chaos of World War II to the towers of the Waldorf Astoria Hotel, where the gray-eyed geisha Sayuri unfolds
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12/25/2005

According to Arthur Golden's absorbing first novel, the word "geisha" does not mean "prostitute," as Westerners ignorantly assume--it means "artisan" or "artist." To capture the geisha experience in the art of fiction, Golden trained as long and hard as any geisha who must master the arts of music, dance, clever conversation, crafty battle with rival
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12/25/2005

FROM THE PUBLISHER Whether based on the Buddhist vision of the Bodhisattva or the Christian concept of service, the mystic's journey is one taken on behalf of all humanity, and this is the message that Andrew Harvey - one of the nation's most celebrated authorities on mysticism - has succeeded in communicating in The Essential Mystics, a brilliant
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12/7/2005

FROM THE AUTHOR At last comes a novel revealing the forbidden truth of the life and times of Mary Magdalene. The story features two American women, one a research lawyer and the other a teacher on sabbatical, hiking in the Pyrenees Mountains of southern France, who discover by accident an unknown cave containing never before known scrolls written by
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12/5/2005

Scheduled for release in March, 2006. "A family friend said the book is complete and will be published. The book gave him the chance to explore how Native people once commonly existed in both a physical and spiritual world. He told the story of a man who had a vision from the Elk Nation. In those days, you just couldn't say you had a vision,
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11/25/2005

Vine Deloria, a Native American scholar, cites intriguing anomalies - such as petroglyphs of dinosaurs - and describes Native American astronomy. He suggests the indigenous world view may turn out to be the correct one. In hour 2, Vine compares the western and indigenous world views, and shares stories medicine men have told him. Says Vine "A
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Audio Books - Wisdom Traditions

11/24/2005

In this work by the prominent historian, Deloria turns his audacious intellect and fiery indignation to an examination of modern science as it relates to Native American oral history and exposes the myth of scientific fact, defending Indian mythology as the more truthful account of the history of the earth. Deloria grew up in South Dakota, in a small border
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11/24/2005

It seems that each generation of whites and Indians will have to read and reread Vine Deloria's Manifesto for some time to come, before we absorb his special, ironic Indian point of view and what he tells us, with a great deal of humor, about U.S. race relations, federal bureaucracies, Christian churches, and social scientists. This book continues to be
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11/24/2005

First published in 1972 during a resurgence in Native American activism, this work critiqued the Western spiritual worldview and its effect on Native Americans and the society as a whole, promoting an alternative Indian conception of religion (most succinctly summed up by the bumper sticker seen on Indian reservations, reading "Hey—God is Red—She isn't
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Books - Wisdom Traditions

11/24/2005

Steve shares personal stories of Vine, along with highlights from his long career as activist, professor, and author, detailing his most important work. Steve Pavlik (left) with Vine Deloria
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Audio on Demand - Wisdom Traditions

11/23/2005

Drawing on shamanic practices from around the world, Shamanism As A Spiritual Practice For Everyday Life addresses the needs of contemporary people who yearn to deepen their own innate mystical sensibilities. This inspirational book shows how to develop a personal spiritual practice by blending elements of shamanism with inherited traditions and current
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Books - Wisdom Traditions

11/2/2005

First published in 1951, Shamanism soon became the standard work in the study of this mysterious and fascinating phenomenon. Writing as the founder of the modern study of the history of religion, Romanian émigré--scholar Mircea Eliade (1907-1986) surveys the practice of Shamanism over two and a half millennia of human history, moving from the Shamanic
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11/2/2005

In The Sacred Power of Huna, author Rima Morrell reveals knowledge that has not previously been available about this sacred tradition: the role of emotion in gaining true wisdom, the magical elements of Hawaiian language, the sophisticated system of lunar astrology, and the hula as a system of
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11/2/2005

BooklistThe religion of African slaves sustained itself in the Caribbean by hiding in plain sight, by melding with dominant Christianity to form Santeria, "the religion of the saints." Like vodun, from neighboring Haiti, this new world religion has been demonized and sensationalized, but today, some 75 million are thought to be practicing Santeria's
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8/30/2005

BUFFALO WOMAN COMES SINGING explores fascinating uses of traditions like the Medicine Wheel; healing through ritual action; dreamtime; and the moon lodge -- the woman's place of retreat and visioning. These powerful personal tools integrate ancient wisdom with contemporary experience, as Buffalo Woman calls each spiritual warrior to her own true place in
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Books - Wisdom Traditions

8/30/2005