Product Description

Dhyani Ywahoo is a member of the traditional Etowah Band of the Eastern Tsalagi (Cherokee) Nation. Trained by her grandparents, she is the twenty-seventh generation to carry the ancestral wisdom of the Ywahoo lineage. Charged with the duty to rekindle the fire of clear mind and right relationship in these changing times, she is a guide to all who walk the Beauty Road. In her first book she shares with readers these precious oral teachings of her people. Voices of Our Ancestors teaches practical ways of transforming obstacles to happiness and good relationships, fulfilling one's life purpose, manifesting peace and abundance, and renewing the planet. It includes meditations; healing rituals; instructions for working with crystals; and teachings on how to practice generosity and harmony. According to the ancient Native American calendar, we have recently entered a new cycle of Thirteen Heavens, a new age in which we have the opportunity to let go of aggression and fear and begin to live a life of enlightened consciousness. With a voice that is powerful, prophetic, and compassionate, Dhyani Ywahoo calls on us to become "Peacekeepers" in our hearts and in the world.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #361405 in Books
• Published on: 1987-11-12
• Released on: 1987-11-12
• Number of items: 1
• Binding: Paperback
• 294 pages

From Publishers Weekly
In her first book, Ywahoo seeks to show that her native Cherokee tradition of respect for the Earth, for human beings and for a Great Spirit can help modern America find strength during a time when many fear nuclear war, crime, pollution, loneliness and disease. She points out universal elements in Cherokee customs. Cherokee mythology, for example, includes a creation story, 12 tribes, a virgin birth and a divine trinity. Moreover, the Cherokees practiced meditation and used crystals for healing and guidance. Unfortunately, Ywahoo has not found an appealing voiceher writing often lapses into New Age jargon, political rhetoric or dry academic prose ("Desire to manifest Peacekeeping Mind sets one on a course of conflict resolution"). It leaves one wondering how much of the material is Cherokee and how much is California.
Copyright 1987 Reed Business Information, Inc.

Inside Flap Copy
Teaches practical ways of transforming obstacles to happiness and good relationships, fulfilling one's life pupose, manifesting peace and abundance and renewing the planet. Wisdom of the Ywahoo lineage.

About the Author
The founder and head of Sunray Meditation Society in Bristol, Vermont, Dhyani Ywahoo gives lectures and workshops, and directs a training program called the Peacekeeper Mission.

Customer Reviews

voices of our ancestors
Almost like being in class, around the sacred fire. hearing the wisdom of my indigenous ancestors.

WOW
Dhyani Ywahoo' s teachings in this book cover it all. It's a combination of east and west, quantum physics, Malayan. It's the best book I've ever read which gives hope for our future.
She does have a Native American way of speaking and it's not easily understood at first. However if one keeps picking it up at different times in their life, you'll get what you need.
It's a bible.

Makes You Sicker than the Flu.........
The novel (and I mean novel as in a fictional story) Voices of Ancestors will make you sick to your stomach if you know anything about Cherokee, or any "Native American," teachings. The author's constant generalizations, like the "Indian voice can bring rain" -or something to that effect, is really weird. Gee, I'm half "Indian" and I can't go outside and make it rain, too bad. But really, the mixture of buddhism, "newage" crystal magic, and minute elements of Cherokee teachings mislead readers into thinking that all the information presented in this book is Cherokee practice. I could not read this entire story because most of it is false and it just made me sad and angry. I can't believe that people can be so gullable and misinformed that they believe that anything that claims to be "Indian" really is. This book should not even be allowed to be sold, that's how false it is. Maybe it is because of books like these that people do not have any clue who the Cherokee, and the hundreds of other nations, really are. So, this author's broad generalizations that all "Indians" are the same, that we are all in harmony with nature, that we all can do this magical stuff just naturally, are sickening and in no way do they represent anyone but the author. I am an individual with free will (in other words I am human), nature does not rule my life (Indians have difficulty finding time to recycle too), and I do not have special magical powers that allow me to control my environment or the natural world. Ywahoo is a fruad, and you can find proof of this. I am not going to say thank you, just regretfully a reader. P.S. -It is impossible to rate this book as zero stars, but if I could I would.