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House of shattering light : life as an American Indian mystic / Joseph Rael.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Rael, Joseph.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Rael, Joseph.
- Ute Indians--Biography.
- Ute Indians.
- Mystics--New Mexico--Biography.
- Mystics.
- Shamans--New Mexico--Biography.
- Shamans.
- Indians of North America--Religion.
- Indians of North America.
- Mysticism--United States.
- Mysticism.
- United States.
- New Mexico.
- Genre:
- Biographies.
- Autobiographies.
- Physical Description:
- 200 pages ; 18 cm
- Edition:
- First edition.
- Place of Publication:
- Tulsa, Okla. : Council Oak Books, [2003]
- Summary:
- "My experience is emblematic of what all of humanity is experiencing at this moment in our history. As diverse cultures come together and different ways of thinking clash, there's more capacity for the visionary to come forth out of that tension and to take the front of the world stage. The very tension of the masses of people in turmoil creates new insights for the overall population. Out of these insights new determinations are made as to how -- socially and politically -- we are going to develop in the next twenty-five or thirty years on the planet."
- Contents:
- I. The House at La Boca
- Birthplace 15
- Learning to Listen 20
- A Man with Six Names 27
- II. Crossing to Picuris
- The River 33
- A New Language 37
- My Mother's Death 44
- Living with Lucia and Agapito 46
- Learning from Grandfather 50
- Beginnings as a Medicine Person 63
- III. School
- Day School 73
- Santa Fe Indian School 76
- Penasco High 86
- College and Marriage 88
- IV. Working
- Making Peace 99
- Work, Effort, Sacrifice, and Inspiration 101
- Bringing in Traditional Medicine 104
- The Vision of the Map 107
- Becoming a Being of Holism 111
- V. Seeking
- A Shift in Direction 119
- Alternate Realities 120
- The Tiwa Stories, Language, and Perceptual Reality 123
- VI. Living the Visions
- The Peace Chambers 129
- A Place in Colorado 135
- Finding Oil 137
- Purifying the Oceans 138
- Paying Back the Lions 141
- VII. Sharing the Ceremonies
- Giving and Receiving 147
- Origins of the Picuris 154
- Turning Visions into Art 158
- Conversing with the Dead 162
- Calling in the Thunder 171
- War Gods 180
- The Man of Peace 184
- VIII. Returning
- Being Healed 189
- Doing What I'm Told 191
- Following My Visions 195
- Self and Vast Self 197.
- ISBN:
- 1571781277
- OCLC:
- 51779794
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