The Wind is My Mother: The Life and Teachings of a Native American Shaman

click here for more details, find new or used items	Bear Heart, Molly Larkin Our price £7.12 New from £3.25 Used from £4.99 Pages: 272 (Paperback) ISBN: 0425161609 Pub: Berkley Publishing Group Pub date: 1998-02 Amazon.co.uk Sales Rank: 32678

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I love it (1/1 people found this helpful)

Every time I read a book where a native american speak I am in tears, the beautifulness and simplicity of their speech, and at the same time the deep meaing of their words and they connection with the Earth and all life is so natural for them....Only I can say that I am glad that they have been wise and very coraegous to keep hidden until now their own traditions, maybe not everything, but the most important, their connection with the Creator and the strengh that gives the certeinty that sirituality is not just a word, they live it, and still they can teach us how to reconnect with this part of ourselves that we are cut off, and therefore lost our own path in this materialistic and shelfish way of life.

Enjoyable and thought provoking (1/1 people found this helpful)

I thoroughly enjoyed this book. Highly recommended to anyone interested in exploring a different way of looking at the world. It makes you think!

Dumbed down and plain awful! (6/15 people found this helpful)

This book will appeal to the slow thinking American, or anyone else in need over grossly over simplied common sense. It is like reading a child's book - for an adult it is painfully patronising and SO dumbed down, that I could only manange about half the book!

It is not thought provoking or demanding in any way at all. The silly stories just kill me. The author is clearly targeting a readership of people with IQs in single figures.

I have serious doubts about the authenticity, as I can't believe Native Americans were this stupid - white Americans, yes.

Buy a book on Taoism instead.

'''What an amazing book" (124/125 people found this helpful)

I would recommend this book to everyone whether they are interested in Native American wisdom or not. It's a book about life. It's humility, humour and commonsense is amazing. It's not a 'teaching' book, its a book about learning, it doesn't preach, its gives you choice. Since I read it I have spent more time thinking about what Bear Heart says in it, than any other book I have read before. Its full of impact but it's subtle, which may sound like a contradiction, but you need to read it to understand what I mean. It's a very easy book to read, it doesn't use complicated language, it doesn't need to.

Just a beautiful book! (76/77 people found this helpful)

What more can I say?This is just a BEAUTIFUL Book!
Bear Heart describes his training and life as a Native American medicine man, in the most wonderful easy to read, elegant prose.
It leaves you knowing that there is more to life (if you ever doubted it!).

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