Welcoming Spirit Home: Ancient African Teachings to Celebrate Children and Community

By Normandy Etats Generaux

Welcoming Spirit Home: Ancient African Teachings to Celebrate Children and Community This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1577310098
• ISBN13: 9781577310099
• Release Date: January 1999
• Publisher: New World Library
• Length: 141 Pages
• Weight: 1.05 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 5.4" x 7.5"

Customer Reviews

Be nourished by this wonderful book

I am deeply grateful to Some for writing Welcoming Spirit Home and sharing how her community prepares for, welcomes, and supports babies and families having babies. I have worked with families for over 30years as an ob nurse, childbirth educator, marriage and family therapist, prenatal and birth therapist for babies and children, graduate school professor and family consultant. In my resesarch and writing a new model of early...

Reading this book will make life better, more meaningful

The people of the Dagara culture relate to us that children have themselves recently re-emerged (via being born) from the world of the spirit, of the ancestors. They are fresh and full of wonder at being here, still very expressive of the spirit of the other world in all its truthfulness and spontaneity.Sobonfu's husband [Malidoma Patrice Some] has covered very incisively the funeral and male initiation ceremonies in his three...

Highly Recommended!

This book is infused with wonderful stories and lessons and the beauty and power of ritual from the West African culture. The writer heightens the readers awareness of the importance of each member of community and their roles and contributions and rituals to strengthen each individual thereby the overall village. She presents rituals in such a way that they can be done in America and by you, the reader. This is a beautiful...

The gift of children truly appreciated!

I loved reading this book! It helped me to understand so much about my life. The since of community and love that is transfused into the children that are cared for by the methods in this book is a story that needs to be told.The rituals sound wonderful and I only wish that I had this knowledge prior to the birth of my children.This is a book about healing as well as love and honor for all of nature.This book gives wonderful...

Sacred New Tools from Ancient Cultures

This book has placed Sobonfu on my list of truly inspirational leaders. I was inspired, impressed and entertained by the concise, vivid and useful information provided in this book. It provides a vision of spiritual community, plus a few simple techniques for those who are ready to make their first steps in that direction. Principles like the ones outlined in this book will help improve our communities, and put spirituality...