Feather Medicine: Walking in Shoshone Dreamtime

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Book Description Feather Medicine chronicles the journey of a contemporary, bi-cultural Shoshone woman who has inherited her maternal grandmother’s gift of dream and knowing. Through the character, Annie, the reader shares youth, adulthood, the death of a child, the support and humor of Native American extended family, and introduction to the ground breaking work of Bert Hellinger: Human & Family Systems Constellation. Francesca Mason Boring, in her introduction of Feather Medicine, provides a poignant look at the contrast of the indigenous world of visions, and the western mode of thinking, which knows only of delusions. The differences in texture of one culture, which deifies linear time, and the timeless pace of the Native tradition of story are beautifully woven together. Grief, dance, the resilience of family and the presence and support of the ancestors are a source of encouragement for anyone who opens their soul to this testament to the interconnectedness of all family and community. Family & Human System Constellation, developed by Bert Hellinger of Germany is introduced in Feather Medicine for the first time in the context of a culturally rich, engaging, fictional story. The book is a song in celebration of one aboriginal culture that has long understood the humility of “knowing,” and we have the suggestion of promise in the appearance of Systems Constellation, which embraces a “knowing field” in contemporary time.

subjects: Shoshoni Indians,  Fiction,  Native American,  Grief,  Humor,  Healing,  Family Constellation,  Family Systems Constellation,  Constellation as Ceremony,  Extended Family,  Native American Culture