Gifts from the Indigenous: Six Awarenesses & Six Doings (Shenandoan Stone Explorations, #4)

This work exposes us to the Amerindian world view, offering six awarenesses and six practices. An awareness, such as being in touch with the "shamanic bone soul" and actions such as "mandalic walking" can gift us with an enriching and complimentary world view. Drawing upon the author's own symbolic experiences and after years of study, he presents the essence of what he has learned. This work also draws upon two recent projects, interpreting markings on a stone tablet found near the Shenandoah River in Virginia, as well as a stone formation at Penn Bluff, Alabama, which resonates with Eastern Woodland symbolism. We are invited to enter into the Indigenous worldview, so that we may expand our sense of possibilities in the universe and live a fuller life.

The author, an independent scholar, has degrees in Philosophy and Counseling Psychology. For many years, he taught a college course on Indigenous symbolism with an emphasis on imagery found on stone and in the landscape. Having experienced gifts from the Indigenous related to sites that Native Americans inhabited, and having studied their narratives, he offers this work.