Product Description

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.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #148121 in Books
• Published on: 1987-11-12
• Released on: 1987-11-12
• Original language: English
• 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.

From the Inside Flap
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

roots and runners...
Pleidians! Actually not as "wierd" as this may seem to some, there ARE traditional teachings within the Tsalagi world view suggesting this stellar point of origin.

I see the book has been criticized because it is not a "traditional Cherokee point of view" and it doesn't represent any currently recognized Cherokee "tribe." I have also heard of Dhyani Ywahoo described being described by one of the former "Chiefs" of the Cherokee Nation of Oklahoma as "a thorn in the side of the Nation."

Well, can we really expect that all medicine people in the various Native American traditional streams to be museum pieces who never learn anything new or who have very narrow parameters which within they work? In an age where medicine people from different tribes learn from each other and share information and practices (and my intuition says this has always been the case, even if to a lesser extent in the past) isn't it almost inevitable that things will sometimes appear very differently than the practices of the past, even for those working within a tradition? That Ywahoo is not an Oklahoma Cherokee (and never claims to be in the book) is more of an issue of US/Tsalagi Ayeli politics more than anything else.

The book does not purport to be a teaching of any particular tribe as much as a continuation, a building upon, what Ywahoo claims was taught to her within her family tradition...and that family tradition (which is the Cherokee traditional way of looking at things by the way) identifies itself as Tsalagi...that is good enough for me.

The book presents Dhyani Ywahoos way of understanding the traditions she was taught. I have no way of "checking out" the veracity of those claims. There are a lot of helpful teachings in here though, and certainly it is "one way" of understanding some of the Tsalagi traditional teachings.

If you are hoping to work within the traditions of Tsalagi medicine teachings, this is certainly a helpful book in instruction on her perspectives of that tradition. There are definite exersizes she presents in the book that one can "work" with. If you're looking for a more "canonical" approach to Tsalagi tradition, this might not be the best place to look.

Speak for yourself...
Siyo/Hello!

All I have to say is that while Dhyani Ywahoo may be from one of the various Cherokee bands, she does not represent the Cherokee people in any shape or form. Sure, there are a few grains of traditional Cherokee teachings in her book, but it is not her right to show them off as "traditional/kituwa" teachings. This book is an expression of her own belief system and NOT THE CHEROKEE PEOPLE. There are already too many misconceptions floating around about "authentic" Cherokee culture/religion; this book just adds to the confusion. If you are interested in learning about Cherokee culture, frequent the pow wow's or stomp dances in your area. I hope this discourages anyone from making the same mistake I did.

Wado/Thank you, and Happy New Year 2000!

A most powerful, life-changing book; Full of Native wisdom;
By learning to apply the Teachings contained in this book, I have learned how to be a happy human being. I have also learned that I have many relations, and that I can make a choice to be in harmony with them. To those of us who have forgotten our original instructions, the Teachings contained in this book show us the way back home to our hearts. I give thanks to the wise Elders who have given their permission for these Teachings to be shared in this time of great planetary transformation. These Teachings on right relationship are so needed in the world today.