Honoring the Medicine: The Essential Guide to Native American Healing

Description

By Kenneth Cohen
Trade paperback book
ISBN 9780345435132
429 pages, 6.00 x 9.00″

This book is about far more than “medicine” in the conventional sense of preventing or treating disease. It is about the way of the sacred powers that, in Native American culture, are the source of life, wisdom, and healing. It is a book for healers, which means that it is for everyone, because we are all healers. When you touch someone with your eyes or your hands, you communicate who you are. If you honor the medicine, you inspire honor and wisdom in others. Native American healing is the original holistic medicine of the Americas. This book explores the principles and practices of these traditions, including their underlying philosophy and values. This is a book for all who are committed to improving quality of life for themselves and their human, animal, and plant relations. It expresses the author’s perception of Native American spirituality and healing as learned from elders and medicine people of many nations and from the lessons of vision, dream, and prayer. Here is an abundance of information about every aspect of Native American medicine that will inspire, inform, and illumine.