Powerful medicine. A rare glimpse into sacred sexuality, gender, and identity. Honouring an often-hidden beautiful cultural landscape. Instructive, accessible, scholarly, relevant and practical. An insightful contribution to sexuality and gender, gay and lesbian, Native North American, and Indigenous studies. An integral textbook for courses in education, counselling, psychotherapy, psychology, social work, medicine, nursing, and health. Welcoming and empowering for youth, adults, and family. Dr Joseph Randolph Bowers is an Australian-Canadian Counsellor Psychotherapist and author of The Practice of Counselling, Sacred Teachings from the Medicine Lodge, and On the Threshold: Personal Transformation and Spiritual Awakening. Mi'kmaq Elder Dr Daniel N. Paul is a Canadian Historian and celebrated author of We Were Not the Savages: First Nations History. The authors reveal how Two Spirit and Traditional Medicine have always existed and are being rekindled in our times.

A rare window into the often mysterious, sacred, and hidden world of First Nation, Native Canadian, and North American Indian culture and spiritual teachings. Arising from Ancient Springs. First published by the Mi'kmaq community in a regional periodical, and later carefully adapted for a wider audience. Now in Second Edition. Sacred Teachings from the Mi'kmaq Medicine Lodge is a Sacred Medicine Bundle rich in traditional teachings and contemporary reflections. Based on the mystical teachings of the age-old seasonal moon cycles, the Sacred Circle of Readings provides a Liturgy of Creation around the major traditional Ceremonies. A source of great wealth and power in spirituality, wisdom, and psychosocial healing. Readers will be given heart. Indian spirituality comes alive. New pathways open up. A way forward appears through living a more sacred, balanced, and honourable life.

Mystic, teacher, and therapist Dr Joseph Randolph Bowers reveals the secrets of solitary life, contemplation, and enlightenment. Like a master weaver and guru Dr Bowers teaches the reader how to experience relief from suffering and how to attain awakening in freedom, mindfulness, and true joy. Seekers on the way will want to learn how to create your own 'rule of life' and how to nurture life-long vow practices that grow with you and that match your values and aspirations. Be forewarned, this knowledge of the ages can change you forever. Made for the western mind this is a modern secular synergy of Christian, Franciscan, Buddhist, Hindu, Mi'kmaq First Nation, Science, and Zen traditions. 'Solitude Awakens: The Heart Forest Mountain Way' is like a modern Lotus Flower Sutra of the Bodhisattva of Compassion in a clear and practical wisdom.

With the help of a Native American shaman, the author of Rainbow Medicine draws on her Osage and Cherokee heritages to create a book that helps readers reach beyond their physical limitations and achieve a wonderful wholeness by following the path of spirit medicine. 16 illustrations.

In this delightful book, Laurie Lacey’s reflections on the magical world of plant life and the gathering of remedies chronicles more than 70 plants used by the Mi’kmaq as medicines. Since the Mi’kmaq healing process begins with the gathering and preparation of medicines, Lacey takes us into swamps and bogs, the barrens and woods, to explore the habitats of plants with healing properties. He then illustrates each medicinal plant and describes its traditional use or uses. Whether one is hiking through a field listening for the sound of the “sacred plant,” the yellow rattle, exploring bogs in the hope of finding the elusive blue flag, or simply interested in the Mi’kmaq approach to health and healing, Mi’kmaq Medicines will prove a helpful and enjoyable companion.This new edition includes a fully revised text and a new preface from the author on current perspectives in Mi’kmaq medicines.

History of the Micmac Indians of northeastern North America. Includes descriptions of traditinal social and political systems but focuses primarily on the post-colonization period.