Seven Sacred Stories + Eliot Cowan + Kinship: A Matter of Life and Death + Interview with a Lone Leopard + Clifford Duncan + Healing 500 Years of Oppression + The Necessity of Ego + Woody Morrison’s Canoe Wisdom + Dam-Nation + Laugh Your Way Home
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Contents
FEATURES
The Lone Leopard
An Interview with John Lockley, Xhosa Sangoma
Years of dreams and unexplained illness lead a white South African to his calling as a traditional healer.
By Jeff Baker
The Huichol and the Sacred Land
Living in good relationship with the world is not just a noble sentiment; it’s a matter of life and death.
By Eliot Cowan
The Visionary: The Sacred Art of Cristobal Gonzalez
With vivid colors and precise lines, the Huichol artist brings to life the stories of his people and the visions of his dreams.
By Rosette Royale
Forgiving Columbus
When wounds to our bodies and psyches correspond to wounds in our cultures and in nature herself, how can a 500 years of oppression be healed?
By Deanna Jenné
Still
In the busyness of modern life, is it even possible to sit still for four hours?
By Zan Jarvis
POETRY
Laugh Your Way Home
By Mokasiya
Earth Song
By Katharine Dancing Heart Gregg
COLUMNS
Out of the Frying Pan
The Dammed
By Larry Messerman
Light and Shadow
Ego: Friend or Foe
By Rob Preece
Dreams of the Holy: Whale Dreaming
By Barry Williams and Renata Ritzman
Logs for the Fire
The Oarlock
By Kawan Sangaa “Woody” Morrison
Final Flicker
Weaving Kin
By Kim Stafford
DEPARTMENTS
Publisher’s Note
Mysterious Evidence
Flares from Our Readers
A Little Help for Our Friends + Delicious Frosting + Your Liberal Agenda + Grabbing with Gusto
Our Contributors
Editor’s Note
The Universal Drumming
Flint and Tinder
The Drowning Island
The Crows at the Ashram
Not Just Howling at the Moon
The Wolf at Twilight by Kent Nerburn
Born into the Chaos of Change
Children of the Amazon, A Film by Denise Zmekhol