Voices of Our Ancestors: Cherokee Teachings from the Wisdom Fire

by Dhyani Ywahoo

Book Overview

Dhyani Ywahoo is a member of the traditional Etowah Band of the Eastern Tsalagi (Cherokee) Nation. Trained by her grandparents, she is the twenty-seventh generation to carry the ancestral wisdom of... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0877734100
• ISBN13: 9780877734109
• Release Date: November 1987
• Publisher: Shambhala
• Length: 312 Pages
• Weight: 0.93 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 5.5" x 8.5"

Customer Reviews

Cherokee Teachings From the Wisdom Fire

I was having some very hard times and this book found it's way to me. It held some great wisdom, and provided me with some spiritual healing, a strength and answers that I despirately needed. I have read it several times and have kept it as my "bible" of life. I have recommended it to others. I would like to thank the author.

Excellent reading material

I have only read half of this book however, I find it beautifully written and easy to understand. I think if all of us followed the advice on creating our own clear mind, the world would look quite different. I would recommend this book to anyone who is looking for a way to better their lives and the world in which we live.

Knowledge full of Wisdom for ALL Peacekeepers of Earth...

In the union of Mother Earth and Father Sky (the Cosmic Creator, Father in Heaven), man was given a gift - the gift of light, the soul, the breathe... Believe in the unity of our human relations, beyond religious dogma, political institutions and race. Your opennesss of the mind and heart will tune into the teachings of many - through Dhyani Ywahoo as she weaves the teachings of Cherokee, Buddhism and our cosmic relatives. It is vain to think we are the only creations of God in this infinite universe. So isn't it nice to know we have good relations beyond Earth? Through wisdom knowledge and practices of meditation given in this book, the Sacred fire in each of us will truly spark as she sings these words into your heart, mind and spirit - For all of us can learn the mindful ways of the Peacekeeper of good relations - for our home is the Earth and the Stars beyond.

Information that provides a path to reconnect and live.

The invasion of the Western Hemisphere in the 16th century is for many the beginning of history here as well - history is written by the victor and this is the most readily accessible knowledge in our society. So the first benefit of reading this book is its eye-opening presentation of views rooted in another history - the one that was already well under way in 1492 and which is kept alive in songs, habits and traditions handed down though the years of genocide to this day.Ywahoo & Du Bois have provided a treasure - a book capable of aiding the off-axis "Western" mind in the journey back from a hell created by the "White" or Western world view which views nature and the material world as abstractions to be owned, used and disposed of. What we have forgotten is what the First Nations have always known. The book is medicine against the malaise of debilitating falsehoods that arise in the historic conflict between Western and Native peoples. People, of whatever "race", have the choice to make a life that resonates in harmony with nature - or to identify easily and without reflection with the world of the conquerors (i.e. "the world has always been like this..." -- "Progress is Good, Growth is Good, Man is Destined to Rule the Earth"). But this choice is not "racial" at all -the book drew me away from "us and them" conundrums that confuse through false divisions of race, ethnicity etc. The identity of a person is determined partly by circumstance but ultimately the truth is that the world is literally what we imagine it to be - in the case of "White" culture, a world of scarcity, competition and souless "inanimate raw materials" to be endlessly hunted down and exploited for their "value". The point is that with information such as is found in 'Voices of Our Ancestors' one can further the process of finding within one's self the root identity beneath the victor's false veneer of "historic" identity. One can struggle to remove the blinds and refuse to be identified by one's masters (the victors definately won something) as "White", "Black", "Red", "Brown". This is the path away from the precipice, the collapse of the web of life which is the legacy of a culture whose dreams are lies and in whose thrall I find myself less and less thanks to books like 'Voices of Our Ancestors'P.S. - I have lent two copies which have not returned... if you who reads this find an extra, send it my way :-)

A most powerful, life-changing book; Full of Native wisdom;

By learning to apply the Teachings contained in this book, I have learned how to be a happy human being. I have also learned that I have many relations, and that I can make a choice to be in harmony with them. To those of us who have forgotten our original instructions, the Teachings contained in this book show us the way back home to our hearts. I give thanks to the wise Elders who have given their permission for these Teachings to be shared in this time of great planetary transformation. These Teachings on right relationship are so needed in the world today.