Bull Lodge's Shield - Taken from "Seven Visions of Bull Lodge", by George Horse Capture, ©1980.
Wisdom & Teachings
This page is dedicated to wisdom and words of wise.
Elders teach us of what they have learned from their elders, who learned before them, and then from each adding their own experienced wisdom. Listen to your elders that are here now, and those that have passed.
There are many types of teachers.
We are each students and each a teacher.
Listen to the Animals, for they are your brothers and
sisters.
Keep your ears open to all that speak for they may have a lesson for you, take the
jewels that they may offer and discard the rest.
Your soul knows the truth. Seek your teachers. Learn.
Bull Lodge's Shield - Taken from "Seven Visions of Bull Lodge", by
George Horse Capture, ©1980.
Many believe the greatest teacher, besides our Elders and Spirit, is a
shaman. The shaman is a healer, knower of medicine and ceremony, for the healing of the
mind, body, and soul through the gained learning and the shaman's connection with Spirit
and the Spirit Worlds. A shaman is said to be able to enter the upper and lower spirit
realms, to walk on the wind and between the worlds. A shaman knows herbs and the uses of
them as medicine and in ceremony, dance, vision quests, and healings. So many of us may be
a shaman of sorts, it is a word, seek a teacher, not a shaman
Encarta Online says: Shaman, religious specialist, originally found in
hunting-gathering cultures. Shamanism in its classical form is found in Siberia, and
several forms have been observed in Central Asian, North American, and Oceanic societies.
The recognition and call of the individual are essential to that person's elevation to
religious status. During initiation, the individual frequently undergoes prolonged fasts,
seclusion, and other ordeals leading to dreams and visions. The shaman becomes a medium, a
mouthpiece of the spirits who became the shaman's familiars at initiation. A shaman's main
religious tasks are healing and divination. Both are achieved either by spirit possession
or by the departure of the shaman's soul to heaven or to the underworld.
Shaman Links http://www.newgaia.com/tshaman/linksham.html
Indian Stories http://paganism.com/ag/articles/indian.html
The following are sites of wisdom.
Search for your jewels
Huichol Indian - Dance of the Dear Foundation
The Institute for Shamanic Synthesis offers cross-cultural shamanism programs
The Path of the Feather: A shamanic journey, medicine wheels and spirit animals
Books on Native American Healing
http://www.healing-arts.org/nativebooks.htm
Native Home Page 
Rainbow Tribe
Sacred Earth Sites Medicine Wheel
Chickasaw Seal and Links Tribes and Research Wisdom, Prophecies, Shamans
Native Links of Interest Art,
Icons, and Graphics Moon Phases Link
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