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Cellphoney
With a smirk I have to admit I'm beginning to become the Old Fart that I've spent my life despising. You know who I'm talking about; the guy/person who says stuff like, "I just don't understand the things people do these days."Well, I don't.More -
Healing Arts: The Most Revealing Interview of Ram Dass You'll Ever Read
At wits end about any number of my personal life dysfunctions, one Friday night I decided to go see a video at Maui Booksellers, a tiny little bookstore in Wailuku, on Maui. That night, they were showing a movie called Fierce Grace, a documentary about Ram Dass, an icon of American spirituality for my generation, the Baby-Boomers.With about 10 people in the store and about a half-hour before show time, the door opens and a wheelchair comes through.More -
The Healing Arts: A Firetender's Lesson, Part Three - Holding A Sacred Trust
Nobody knows how far back the Chips' lineage goes. It's fair to surmise that it went way back, perhaps thousands of unbroken years along with the Sioux. The records start in the early 1800s with two boys from different families who were orphaned at an early age.More -
The Healing Arts: A Firetender's Lesson, Part One - Surrender and the Sweat Lodge
"Will we see you at Sundance this year?"The words took me by surprise. I had neither anticipated nor sought them out.More -
The Healing Arts: A Firetender's Lesson, Part Two - Of One Mind and One Heart
On the second day of my Inipis, I began pitching in to help with the fire for the ceremony. I worked with a man named Richard, who I just assumed to be Native American. He was certainly weathered and dark enough.More -
The Healing Arts: A Firetender's Lesson, Part Four - Becoming Ready To Die
At that first Sundance, I was thrust into an alternate reality. A brutal reality. The three counties that compose the Pine Ridge Reservation are the poorest in the nation.More -
The Healing Arts: A Firetender's Lesson, Part Five - Power Used, and Abused
As each year went by, and the family became a bit more splintered, I witnessed much loss of tradition.At my first Sundance all of the family members worked in unison--as I had witnessed in the Yuwipi Ceremonies--to get the specifics down as they had been passed on to them. Each successive Sundance--as Godfrey was unable to be present and took Unci with him, and then Phillip was killed in a car crash--seemed to have lost so many of the details that I had once thought were essential.More -
The Healing Arts: Exploring Heart-Consciousness, Part 8; Heart-consciousness and the Healer
The word healer, to me, is a catch-all term, much like the word God.If you go back and look at its origins in action you will find story-tellers, music-makers, artists, herbalists, gardeners – anyone in the community or tribe whose intent was to have healing energy move through them. From generation to generation different people of different lineages of different societal functions would take on the role of simply being available for the needs of others.More -
The Healing Arts: Head, Hands and Heart: Part One, A Paramedic's Journey
I’ve had a simple concept grip me with such power that I’ve spent more than thirty years of my life exploring its many facets. Oddly enough, I didn’t know how to put words to it until just a few years ago. It has to do with learning how to be a Healer as opposed to what I call being a Flesh Mechanic.More -
The Healing Arts: Head, Hands and Heart: Part Two, The Path To the Heart
Fast forward thirteen years. I had shifted away from allopathic orientation into “alternative” and Spiritual forms of healing, as I supported myself in marketing while working on a book and a screenplay seeking to articulate my experiences as a medic. A central question continued to live inside of me: “How could a person experience the heart of healing without having to go through what I’ve gone through?More