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Author: Ivy Mae
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Published: 2024-05-17
Total Pages: 0
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKExplore smoke magic with "Sacred Smoke and Mountain Spirits." Learn smudging, create incense, and connect with Appalachian traditions. Perfect for all levels.
Author: Amy Blackthorn
Publisher: Weiser Books
Published: 2019
Total Pages: 176
ISBN-13: 1578636809
DOWNLOAD EBOOKLearn how to create a sacred space free of negativity This clear and contemporary guide explores the ritual use of smoke and scents to cleanse the energies of mind, body, and home. Here, aromatherapist and long-time herbalist Amy Blackthorn offers the essential tools for creating sacred space--a safe space free of negative energies--using herbs, incense, smoke, and other practices. Written in an accessible style, free of jargon, Sacred Smoke has everything you need to know to get started on your practice of purification and cleansing, including: The importance of self-care How to keep your home and family safe How to protect your home while you are away Adding crystals to your cleansing practice Using essential herbs and recipes for creating cleansing smoke Sacred Smoke is an essential guide for anyone seeking to practice the ritual use of cleansing and clearing to protect and heal themselves, their home, and their family.
Author: Harvest McCampbell
Publisher: Native Voices books
Published: 2011-09-10
Total Pages: 142
ISBN-13: 1570679851
DOWNLOAD EBOOKSmudging is the burning of herbs as a spiritual practice. An herbalist and educator, Harvest McCampbell explains and illustrates this integral part of traditional Native American life that she began learning about from her Iroquois Onondaga Oswegatchie grandmother. Learn how to make smudge sticks and identify, collect, and grow a wide range of sacred plants for smudging. Discover how to reclaim your own traditions and find your personal healing rituals. Includes sources to purchase herbs and reference materials.
Author: Neelou Malekpour
Publisher: Penguin
Published: 2022-03-22
Total Pages: 241
ISBN-13: 0593329457
DOWNLOAD EBOOKA gorgeously illustrated, essential guide to the energy rituals that will transform your life. Learn how to cleanse and protect yourself and your space, tap into your intuition, and elevate your frequency through sacred smoke, candle, stone rituals—and more. Neelou Malekpour is here to support you for all occasions, whether that’s: • healing heartache, relieving anxiety, and dispelling bad dreams; • cultivating focus, receiving support during travel, and prepping a space for meditation; or • calling in love, blessing others, and connecting to your highest self. With The Art of Sacred Smoke, Malekpour is ready to share the rituals that are essential to aligning and calibrating your energy. Learn how to use the natural ingredients she employs in her practices—and in her frequency-raising business, SMUDGED—from rose petals to palo santo, and how to source them responsibly. At a time when many of us are looking for mindful solutions to the chaos of modern life, The Art of Sacred Smoke offers an empowering new way to connect to nature and to your best self.
Author: Harvest McCampbell
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Published: 1992
Total Pages: 26
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Martin Ball
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Published: 2012-07-24
Total Pages: 246
ISBN-13: 9781475268959
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis work explores the Mescalero Apache Mountain Spirit tradition of the people of the Mescalero Apache reservation in New Mexico. In 1998 and 1999, graduate student, Martin W. Ball, lived at Mescalero and worked with a number of elder medicine people, ceremonial singers and dancers, and Mescalero tradition keepers to learn about this ceremonial and oral tradition of masked dancers. Using interdisciplinary methodology of oral tradition, ritual studies, enthnomusicology, dance, and myth, and symbol, the Mountain Spirits are described in careful detail from their origin stories to how they feature in contemporary Mescalero ceremonial practice and tradition.
Author: Harvest McCampbell
Publisher:
Published: 2021-11-04
Total Pages: 0
ISBN-13: 9781038763877
DOWNLOAD EBOOKHarvest McCampbell explains the practice of smudging, or the burning of herbs, which has been and is an integral part of traditional Native American culture. Readers are encouraged and shown how to create their own personal healing rituals. Listed are 18 plants commonly used for smudging which are easily available either by purchase or harvesting in the wild. Each plant has information on their spiritual use, medicinal properties, growing pointers, and gathering tips, along with any cautionary notes around their use. Emphasis is also placed on how to communicate with and be respectful to plants.
Author: Joseph C. Winter
Publisher: University of Oklahoma Press
Published: 2000
Total Pages: 494
ISBN-13: 9780806132624
DOWNLOAD EBOOKRecently identified as a killer, tobacco has been the focus of health warnings, lawsuits, and political controversy. Yet many Native Americans continue to view tobacco-when used properly-as a life-affirming and sacramental substance that plays a significant role in Native creation myths and religious ceremonies. This definitive work presents the origins, history, and contemporary use (and misuse) of tobacco by Native Americans. It describes wild and domesticated tobacco species and how their cultivation and use may have led to the domestication of corn, potatoes, beans, and other food plants. It also analyzes many North American Indian practices and beliefs, including the concept that Tobacco is so powerful and sacred that the spirits themselves are addicted to it. The book presents medical data revealing the increasing rates of commercial tobacco use by Native youth and the rising rates of death among Native American elders from lung cancer, heart disease, and other tobacco-related illnesses. Finally, this volume argues for the preservation of traditional tobacco use in a limited, sacramental manner while criticizing the use of commercial tobacco. Contributors are: Mary J. Adair, Karen R. Adams, Carol B. Brandt, Linda Scott Cummings, Glenna Dean, Patricia Diaz-Romo, Jannifer W. Gish, Julia E. Hammett, Robert F. Hill, Richard G. Holloway, Christina M. Pego, Samuel Salinas Alvarez, Lawrence A Shorty, Glenn W. Solomon, Mollie Toll, Suzanne E. Victoria, Alexander von Garnet, Jonathan M. Samet, and Gail E. Wagner.
Author: David Crow
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Published: 2012-12-06
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ISBN-13: 9780988605008
DOWNLOAD EBOOKA mysterious intelligence guides an Italian psychotherapist and an adventuring ethnobotanist into the forests of Ecuador to restore an endangered sacred healing tree to prominence.The sacred scent of Palo Santo smoke has been used for eons by indigenous people in South America, but in recent decades the tree has faced extinction with encroaching metropolis, the human need for fuel, and grazing ground for livestock. Modern societies turn their back on the traditional healing systems of the past in favor of ever changing novelties of technology and entertainment, but a deep intelligence guides the plant world - and the humans that interact with it.Sacred Smoke follows the journey of David Crow - healer, adventurer, visionary entrepreneur - from his introduction to the captivating fragrance of Palo Santo in a South Asian ceremony, through a series of mysterious synchronistic encounters leading to his meeting of Italian psychotherapist turned alchemist Dante Bolcato: El Maestro. David becomes both student and documentarian of El Maestro's unorthodox methods that have created a global demand for Palo Santo essential oil and led to the first successful Palo Santo replanting effort.Sacred Smoke is an ethnobotanical adventure story of lives transformed by the inexplicable power of plant intelligence. The book includes dozens of photos of Dante's home in Ecuador, and online resources for you to continue the adventure with Palo Santo in your own life.
Author: María Cristina Moroles
Publisher: University of Arkansas Press
Published: 2024-01-03
Total Pages: 208
ISBN-13: 1610758072
DOWNLOAD EBOOKIn Águila: The Vision, Life, Death, and Rebirth of a Two-Spirit Shaman in the Ozark Mountains, María Cristina Moroles traces the path of her extraordinary life from the streets of Dallas to the wilderness of the Arkansas Ozarks, where she has resided for fifty years. Hailing from a large Indigenous and Mexican American family in Texas, Moroles apprentices herself to healers and shamans across the Americas as she follows the spiritual vision that leads her to establish a mountaintop sanctuary for women and children of color in a notoriously insular location in the Ozark Mountains. This is a survivor’s tale, and a back-to-the-lander’s tale, unlike any other. From early traumas to countercultural rebellion and profound spiritual awakening, Moroles recounts milestones that earn her the ceremonial names SunHawk and Águila, as she builds a sustainable community off the grid, atop a mountain otherwise uninhabited by human life. Águila tells the truth of one woman’s search for freedom and all women’s quest for dignity as it celebrates the healing powers of nature.
