EARTH MEDICINE, by Kenneth Meadows - more about
Here's more from the book EARTH MEDICINE, by Kenneth Meadows (Element Books, c1989) (also published in 1996 by Barnes and Noble, New York):
From page 3:
"What IS Earth Medicine?"
"Your EARTH WALK is the way you live your life. It is the way you express your personality. The way you live out your dreams. Your aspirations. Your hopes. Your fears.
Is your EARTH WALK an aimless stroll, or a weary trudge? Does it show the flounce of impatience or the stiff step of anger? Or is it the brisk, determined stride of ambition which will let nothing stand in its way? Whatever the mood of your EARTH WALK, where are you on this Earth journey? Where are you situated now? Where have you come from? And where are you headed? Is life an exciting adventure, or just a bore? If you are bewildered through frustration and disappointment, if you are confused, is it not because you have no clear directions? You have been given no map of the territory, and you can see no signposts to guide you. You have no co-ordinates by which to plot your position, nor any chart on which to locate it. Is it, then, any wonder if life to you is an unanswerable puzzle?
EARTH MEDICINE provides you with a chart, and the means, to guide your way. It is a unique life science based upon North American Indian Medicine teachings, which has their origins in an even more ancient wisdom and thought once lost, can now be regained. These teachings are not those of a particular tribe or group of tribes, but are the essence of a knowledge that impregnated them all.
This knowledge, though tempered in the Red Indian mind, is structured here into a complete system, and has been fashioned for modern times and adapted to the needs and circumstances of men and women living in a materialistic, consumer-orientated society which has lost its contact with Earth and with Nature.
The American Indian Medicine Wheel had many uses, including methods of self-knowledge and self-realisation. Earth Medicine develops those methods and sets out to explain how the soul puts on a garment of a physical body in order to experience matter and how, according to its position or perception point on the Wheel of Life, it connects with Earth influences and forces that can further, through experience, its spiritual development.
This system is not concerned with how the movement of the heavens might affect what happens to us in the future here on Earth, but with how our Earth connections may be used so that we can take hold of the present - in which our future is largely fashioned - and so assume responsibility for our own lives, and thereby attain mastery of our own destiny."
See the book and read on. You might also want to see other books in the EARTH QUEST series which are listed in the book as well.
Take Care, John H.