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    Crossing into Medicine Country: A Journey in Native American Healing
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    Crossing into Medicine Country: A Journey in Native American Healing

    By David Carson

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    “Part Mark Twain, part Carlos Castenada . . . a rich broth of enchantment, wisdom, and holy mischief” (Julia Cameron, author of The Artist’s Way).
     
    As a child of Choctaw descent growing up in Oklahoma Indian country, David Carson knew that his mother and aunts took part in native women’s circles devoted to preserving the unwritten traditions of their ancestors. But it was only later that Carson realized his desire to learn and understand the ancient ways of his people.
     
    With “lively style, quiet wit, and sharp perceptions,” he describes how he first encountered and studied under his greatest teacher, Choctaw medicine woman Mary Gardener (Paula Gunn Allen, author of The Sacred Hoop). Over the course of three years, Carson immersed himself in a world of alternative medicine and alternate realities, of plants and animals, and methods of influencing the energy that surrounds all human beings. Only then was he able to be fully initiated as a ceremonial healer.
     
    In Crossing into Medicine Country, Carson recounts Gardener’s teachings as he learned them, offering a glimpse into his own mind-awakening experiences and the potential for healing within, without, and with all things.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherOpen Road Integrated Media
    Release dateOct 21, 2011
    ISBN9781628723694
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    Crossing into Medicine Country: A Journey in Native American Healing
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    David Carson

    David Carson was raised in Oklahoma Indian country and lived on Crow, Sioux, and Cheyenne reservations in Montana and Manitoba. A novelist and coauthor of "Medicine Cards: The Discovery of Power Through the Ways of Animals," he has lectured and given animal consultations and medicine card readings to thousands of people worldwide and worked with shamans from Siberia to Hawaii. He lives with his wife and twin daughters in Santa Fe, New Mexico.  

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