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Shared Spirits: Wildlife and Native Americans (Religion and Spirituality)
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Gift format is a great value. -Filled with breathtaking color photography. -Native American stories taken from tribes throughout the U.S.
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Superb!.......2000-07-03
This book was beautiful. I am a native american whose decendents were of the Anasazi of Southwestern America. I was enthralled to read this charming book of tales. Please read it just to smile if not to comprehend.
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Contemporary sport bikes accelerate faster, brake harder, and cut through corners deeper than ever before. These technologically advanced motorcycles are exhilarating to ride, but to really get the most out of a motorcycles performance capabilities a rider must develop his or her own personal performance. Riders need to take their skills to the next level. Now, in this book written specifically for sport riders, well-known journalist, racer, and riding school instructor Nick Ienatsch provides the tools and techniques to help riders analyze and develop that personal performance. If youre an experienced rider, Nick will help you hone and perfect your skills, operate controls with even greater finesse, and apply race-proven techniques on the trackas well as on the street. If youre a beginning rider, Nick will show you how to develop proper skills and safety habits that will add to your motorcycling enjoyment and build your confidence. Whatever your current riding ability, Nick will teach you to safely find the absolute limit of bike and rider.
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You need it.....read it!.......2007-10-08
This book should be mandatory for every sportbike rider. It starts off with the basics and gets into the meat of more advanced techniques to become a better rider on the street or racetrack. After mastering Nick's writings, get your hands on Andy Ibbott's "Performance Riding Techniques." Between these two books, you will have the best material on the market for advancing your riding skills to a significantly higher level. Great stuff!
Terrific Book.......2007-09-28
I have read this book several times and implemented the techniques on 1000 miles of twisties in the Colorado mountains this past August. It made a huge difference in my riding. It's nice to know the proper techniques and I highly recommend it.
Will make anyone a better rider.......2007-09-27
Being a motocross rider for the last 35 years, I thought I would have no problems when I decided to become a street rider also. Even though I felt comfortable right away on my new road bike, after reading Nick's book it all clicked..! I now ride safer, more in control, and when it comes time to tear up the twisties, I'm having more fun on my bike than I could have imagined..! Thanks Nick, great book.
As Good As Twist of the Wrist 2.......2007-09-13
Very solid book on high performance motorcycle riding techniques. Covers all the major aspects, as well as offers numerous drills that can convert the correct techniques into muscle memory. I rate this book as highly as the iconic Twist of the Wrist 2 by Keith Code. A must read if you ride a sports bike.
The title of the book says it all.......2007-07-26
Excellent book. It leans a little more to the mechanical and physics of the ride than "Total Control" does. Glad I bought it.
As your experience develops, more truths in the book will reveal themselves.
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After 'Hit Man'
The New York Times bestseller Confessions of an Economic Hit Man documents John Perkins’ extraordinary career as a globe-trotting economic hit man. Perkins’ insider’s view leads him to crisis of conscience--to the realization that he must devote himself to work which will foster a world-wide awareness of the sanctity of indigenous peoples, their cultures, and their environments. Perkins’ books demonstrate how the age-old shamanic techniques of some of the world’s most primitive peoples have sparked a revolution in modern concepts about healing, the subconscious, and the powers each of us has to alter individual and communal reality.
Deep in the rain forests and high in the Andes of Ecuador, native shamans teach the age-old technique of dream change, a tradition that has kept the cultures of the Otavalans, Salasacans, and Shuar alive despite centuries of conquest. Now these shamans are turning their wisdom and power to the problem of curing a new kind of illness--that created by the industrial world’s dream of dominating and exploiting nature.
John Perkins tells the story of these remarkable shamans and of the U.S. medical doctors, psychologists, and scientists who have gone with him to learn the techniques of dream change. These shamanic teachings have sparked a revolution in modern concepts about healing, the subconscious, and the powers each of us has to alter individual and communal reality.
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A New Way of Viewing the World.......2007-07-06
This book is for those of you who recognize that there is something inherently wrong with the way our society operates. Even if you don't recognize it, this book will shed light on a myriad of problems. We can all learn a few things from indigenous people, and Perkins is a level-headed expert on the subject. Short and easy to follow, this book is a must read!
False and Deceptive -- Doesn't Even Mention Shuar Violence and Head Hunting!.......2007-06-21
This book needs to be labeled fiction and it totally misrepresents the indigenous South Americans about whom he's talking. The native Amazonians he visits have a well-documented history of head hunting and raiding until very recently! These groups survived colonialism because they retreated deep into the rainforest, and because they were extraordinarily violent towards outsiders, other fellow Amazonians, and especially to their own women.
It's insulting that Perkins remakes these indigenous Amazonians into his own hippy, 1960's idealistic view of a nature-loving, dream-centric, egalitarian culture with some special understanding of the world that we can use to remake our own. He neglects to tell anything truthful about the Shuar culture-- and it's tiresome and offensive to have people put their own ideals into some "Wise Indian's" mouth.
The truth is always interesting, and I'm sure Perkins' trippy, drug-induced vision of an eco-friendly imaginary dreamworld could be interesting too. His lie is to conflate the two.
John Perkins is a true teacher.......2007-05-22
I plan to buy ShapeShifting next. This book will change your life and the way you look at things. I know...there are so many books out there that claim to do that as well, but they are nothing compared to this book. Only an intelligent spirital person would read this book, but it is also an easy read. I have the highest respect for John Perkins.
Dreaming it as it is.......2006-07-31
This is a superb rendition of spiritual principles crafted within the context of indigenous cosmology. It reflects broader corollaries that can be assigned to numerous spiritual disciplines world wide and provide a source of inspiration to those who question the nefarious motives of unfettered "development" with all its hideous consequences.
Mr. Perkins utilizes vast personal experience to highlight indigenous wisdom that takes to task our ethnocentric, greed based, industrialized world view that seems designed to ransack planetary resources and exploit the lives of all it can consume. A sad commentary on the foibles of an economic system run amuck, yet, a surprisingly inspirational joy ride through time and space as seen through the eyes of the author.
Highly recommended.
Lacking depth.......2003-05-29
I was very dissapointed by this book. When I bought it I was expecting the book to teach me how to implement shamanic teachings, how to heal, how to dream, how to direct our dreams, how we can change our dream, but instead I read pages and pages of discriptive text. Talks only about Mr. Perkin's travels. It doesn't even give in-depth examples of how people were healed.
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Tribal shamans of the Andes and Amazon have long known how to enter an altered state of awareness in which they journey to other locations, seeking the wisdom of inner spiritual guides. During his travels in South America, author and teacher John Perkins has learned these psychic journeying techniques directly from shamans of the Shuar and Quechua peoples. He explains how they perceive nonordinary reality through heightened senses, and like the shamans, he uses rhythmic music to guide you through the process of finding your own power animals and inner guides, as well as exploring your dark side and opposite-sex side, in order to benefit from the physical and spiritual healing they offer us.Â
In workshops, in books, and now in this audiocassette, Perkins describes his experiences learning directly from shamans.Â
The work of John Perkins continues to bridge the gap between Western culture and that of the indigenous people of the rain forest, facilitating an exchange of knowledge while helping to preserve not only their teachings, but their increasingly fragile environment.Â
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Amazon Dream
Roberta Allen
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If there's an opposite to swashbuckling, Roberta Allen's exploration of Peru's Amazon is it. Sensitive and in no hurry, she learns the ways of the jungle, the river, and the people, despite her occasional fear and discomfort as an unmarried American woman of 41 traveling on her own through a foreign culture, language, and land. She tells a beautiful, perceptive, and introspective tale that allows the spirit of the Amazon to emerge.
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At last, an alternative to the Harrison Ford-style travel adventure! Amazon Dream is the real story of a woman's journey into the Peruvian Amazon, a mysteriously beautiful region of the world that is also the nexus of calamitous ecological realities. Traveling alone, she arrives at a so-called conservation camp, run by a man of dubious character, and learns what jungle life is like. Here she encounters bizarre characters, Peruvians and exiles alike. She visits the ancient Shipibo people renowned for their textiles and pottery and describes the way rapid change has affected them.
In hair-raising predicaments and emotional interactions, Allen continually challenges herself as a traveler. She confronts her ambivalence about coming from a dominant Western culture and, at the same time, looks for personal truths through the lens of this compelling wilderness. Situating her experiences in a cultural context, Allen conveys insight into other ways of life, and into the life of real dreams.
Roberta Allen is the author of The Traveling Woman, stories; and The Daughter, a novella-in-stories. She is also a visual artist who has exhibited worldwide.
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no title.......2005-11-12
Very odd, makes me wonder how this book ever got published in the first place, doesn't really make the Amazon appealing. It almost reveals more about Allen than about the area she toured, alone, in 1987 when she was 41. It prepared me for rain, mud, and all the insects in the world. And so much of it, to Allen, was dirty, and poverty-laden, and slovenly. She kept trying to find meaning in everything, searching for something she obviously needed. She is always fearful, feels alienated, and men seem to scare her, though she seems to fall for almost every one she meets, especially her guides. Maybe being alone makes a difference. She had no group support to fall back on. This book has very little of beauty, or wonder, or just plain fun. It is haunting, but in a thoroughly depressing way.
A Shopping Trip.......2005-09-02
This book details the experiences of a New York artist shopping for tribal pottery in the Amazon region of Peru in the late 1980s. Allen starts off from Iquitos, spends time in Belen, and Callao, before reaching Pucallpa where she wishes to visit members of the Shipibo tribe to observe their work and purchase pottery bowls from them. She had always been fascinated with the rain forest since she was a small child. But once she arrived in the towns near the jungle, she found herself overwhelmed with the Third World conditions. She hired guides to take her up the rivers to visit villages and see wild life. Not everything worked as planned, and sometimes the guides weren't willing to go, or sometimes she wasn't ready mentally to face the hardships on the river. In the end, though, she finally makes it to some Shipibo villages, buys a few pots, and returns home again.
Allen acknowledges her New York sensibilities, noting how careful she is about letting her guard down. One part of the motivation for her trip seems to be the thrill involved with leaving behind the stable, predictable life in the big city to descend into the unknown, uncomfortable and poverty stricken surroundings of the Third World, if only for a few weeks. In the trip described here, which seems to have lasted no more than about two months, she meets no one other than guides and First World tourists like herself. Her dealings with the guides are confined to work related duties, and she holds herself aloof from the other tourists. Most of her interactions seem to be inside her own head. Although she seems to have traveled in the area before, she's not what you might call a seasoned traveler. For instance, on an expedition to a remote area, she finds herself so dirty that she feels compelled to bathe with the group's drinking water, much to the dismay of the guides and other tourists. In this book, Allen doesn't devote much space to vivid descriptions of the scenery. She also never gets around to telling us about the unique characteristics of the Shipibo art. All in all, this is simply a travel journal covering the superficial events of a journey in the Third World.
AMAZON DREAM.......2003-08-13
HAVING BEEN RAISED ON A FARM IN THE APPALACHIANS AND A DEGREE IN CULTURAL ANTHROPOLOGY, I FOUND THIS TO BE AN AMAZING BOOK. TO SEE HOW A "NYC GIRL" WHO FANTASIZES ABOUT THE JUNGLE, DEALS WITH THE HARSH REALITY OF JUNGLE LIFE IS ENTERTAINING TO SAY THE LEAST. HER DESCRIPTIONS ARE FASCINATING AND AT TIMES HUMOUROUS, AND HER HONEST STRUGGLES WITH DEALING WITH REALITY VERSUS HER FANTASIES OPENS THE DOOR TO SEEING WHERE ONESELF HAS THE SAME PROBLEM AT TIMES, THOUGH WE'D LIKE TO BELIEVE WE DON'T. AMAZON DREAM IS A REALLY GOOD AND FUN BOOK FOR THOSE OF US WHO FIND CITY PEOPLE FUN AND ENJOYABLE TO OBSERVE, BUT ALSO FOR EXPLORING ONES OWN FEARS, STRUGGLES, IDEAS AND HIDDEN DESIRES FOR ADVENTURE.
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Amazon dream: Escape to the unknown
Robert Reed
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Amazon Dreams
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Anna Rolph
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Paula Deland has collapsed.
As her life flashes in front of her, she relives the astonishing events of her life, sustained by her dream to end the struggle between the sexes.
And now everything depends on restoring the laughing part of her soul - the part that knows nothing is impossible.
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Amazon Dreams.......2005-12-21
AMAZON DREAMS
This is a book you can't put down.
The story that Anna Randolph tells is more non fiction than fiction. As I read the book, the characters in the story came to life. Their story could be any woman's experience. Any woman who's entered a male dominated career field, any woman who has experience abuse, any young girl who has been molested, every woman who has stood up to her abusers and spoken out in society. Any woman who has said enough and claims her power.
The story also expresses how women cope. How once self empowered a woman can have total control of who she is, who she becomes, how she expresses herself and how she grows in wisdom, strength(both physical and spiritual)and how she frees herself emotionally and sexually.
This story is a story of will, determination and true gender freedom.
I strongly recommend this book to any and all women and girls who want to discover their own power. And I recommend to book to all men and boys who truly want to discover how strong, independent and what a gift it is to understand and share a women's strength.
Five Stars, all the way!
Amazon Dreams.......2001-10-02
'Amazon Dreams' by Anna Randolph is a truly amazing book. Through vivid flash backs, we learn about the life of Paula Deland, and her courageous, lonely battle to end the eons- old struggle between men and woman.
The author writes so well that it allows the usually vicarious reader into her characters mind and heart- one really cares and empathizes with her experiences on a deep level. For me, that is what reading is all about. My favorite parts were the descriptions of how Paula's physical training allowed her not only to compete on an even playing field, but also to own her power as a female and a professional. This is a book that I will read over and over, because the nuances of her journey continue to grow and resonate more fully each time.
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Dreams of Amazonia
Roger D. Stone
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Meatball Fulton
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Imagine that your mother tells you that she is going away. She is leaving you with relatives whom you have never heard of-and they are members of a strict religious cult. Your name is changed to a biblical one, Esther, and you are forced to follow the severe set of social standards set by the cult. You don't know where you mother is, and you are beginning to lose your own identity.
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i am esther rocks!!!!!!.......2006-06-28
i got to read this amazing book when i was doing my reading log for my english assignment. I read this book once before i was given the assingment. I like it personally because if the persistent character of kirby. She is strong and even in the hard times she know what she is heading to and need to get to. She keeps her goal throughout the book. It is amazing really!!
i recommend this book to anybody trying to decide on the book! dnt hesistate to get it!!!!!!!
P.S I READ IT OVER AND OVER AND OVER AND OVER AND OVER AND OVER AND OVER AND OVER AND OVER...IT DOESNT GET BORING!!!!
Predictable.......2006-05-09
It was an ok book but it was very predictable. Kinda cool concept though.
I meant to give 4 1/2 stars.......2005-09-18
I am not Esther are so many things I cannot describe, but I do not know for sure boring is not one of them. Though I didn't feel any real suspense troughout the whole book, I sure was curious to keep on reading, about such a fantical family and community.
I thought Kirby's sarcastic remarks about using God's name in vain were amusing, and her close relationship with Maggie was something that I was absolutely loved and one of the reasons Kirby didn't lose her audacious personality. Kirby's relationship with Daniel was well played with a nice strong bond as well as with the other siblings.
Fleur did a wonderful job and I would love to read more of her work.
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frustrating, yet addicting.......2005-03-24
i started to read this book because a friend of mine had told me about it. i partially read it because my name is esther, and i am part of a pretty strict religion. I Am Not Esther had so many twists in it that i never would have expected. i loved that Fleur Beale kept Kirby's character strong to the very end. i was amazed to see what kind of a cult she was thrown into. just the thought of it makes me shudder. it was amazing to me that Kirby could stand up to a whole cult for such a long time, with pretty much no one to back her up. i thought this book was great, and i think everyone should give it a chance.
"I Am Not Esther" - my review.......2005-02-16
I started reading this book out of a sort of curiosity. I'm very interested in different religions, how they work, and where they started, and I also love dramatic mysteries about teenage girls. With the whole religious cult thing and confused girl, I knew it would keep me going. It has done so much more than that.
Once I started reading this book, I became hooked. This young girl had been torn away from her mother and shoved into this up-tight family who belonged to this unheard of religion called the Fellowship of the Children of the Faith. I couldn't believe it when it talked about all of the rules this religion went by. To me, it was almost unfathomable.
Once I had finished reading the book, I was talking to a friend who told me about a religion her mother had been involved with, and quite upsettingly to me, a lot of what they did was what happened in the book. It was so hard to believe that people would actually do these kinds of things, and believe all of it too.
Ultimately, I definitely enjoyed this book. It was interesting, filled with drama, love, and hardships, and it will certainly keep you entertained to the very end. I honestly don't think there was a single dry spot. Besides from being interesting, this book certainly opened my eyes to what really happens, and that sometimes people take religion to an uncanny level, a level where it can get dangerous.
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Title: Beale, Fleur. I am not Esther.(Brief Article)(Young Adult Review)(Book Review)
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