Meditate Like a Mystic: Eight Simple Tips
For seven years I spent much of my life in silent meditation in a remote nunnery in the Himalayas....
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In Search of Ancestral Wisdom
What is the preserving shrine? Níansa (not hard). The preserving shrine is memory and what is...
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You Are My Teacher
Today at the store I refused a plastic bag, saying to the young man at the register, “They...
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Women Are the First Environment: Interview with Mohawk elder Katsi Cook
Tekatsi’ tsiah:khwa Katsi Cook (Wolf Clan) is an Elder Mohawk grandmother and midwife who has led...
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Native American Spirituality: How Wide is The River of Life?
Long ago, I worked as an assistant to a burly manual laborer and truck driver I’ll call EarthMan....
Read MoreThe Braided Way
The Braided Way is a framework to see every faith tradition as a strand, braided into a larger whole of spiritual awareness. In the Braided Way, combining spiritual practice from various faiths allow us to explore sacred experience and wonder in forms that resonate with our personal spiritual needs and sacred intuitions. In today’s culture, many people shun religious dogma, but yearn for spiritual connection. The Braided Way allows the ceremonies and practices of multiple faiths to be available without the confinements of cultural dogma.