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Crossing into Medicine Country: A Journey in Native American Healing
by David Carson
from Council Oak Books

Customer Reviews:

• Avg. Customer Rating: 5.0 / 5.0

• NAtive American Healing
  Great book. Not very much ceremonial information. Seems to be based more on storyline than facts.

• Choctaw conjuring
  In this book, Carson, an ex-marine, describes his apprenticeship in Oklahoma's Kiamchis mountains with an old Choctaw "conjure" (medicine woman) named Mary Gardener. The process included a prolonged purification (diet, smudges, tobacco, fasting), ceremonies, vision quests, all of which are fairly typical of NDN medicine practices. Towards the end, he helped Mary treat people afflicted with some of the many diseases encountered by the conjure: spirit -of-war disease,... more info

• Astonishing book takes you deep into the power of transformation
  This is one of the wisest books to come down the pike in a long while in my humble opinion. Mr. Carson is a great story teller, Medicine Man, who understands the power of humility and transformation. This book is a wide ranging exploration of events in the authors life working with some powerful healers, elders, and medicine people. He documents the road of the healer and what is required to advance on this path of solitary intent, finding pain and suffering along the way, but also openning one to some... more info

• David Carson's Journey
  I love this book. It was so exciting to be reading his journey into Native American Medicine. My sister, Debby Cody, is a reader of the Medicine Cards and I admire David's expertise and his boundaries of what is best for him.

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