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"Heal your past, discover your true purpose, and become a powerful source of inspiration and leadership with The Four Sacred Gifts, a collection of Aztec and global indigenous wisdom for modern life. Given the ongoing changes in our economic, social, political, and physical environment, we are often left gulping for air as we ride the powerful waves of change. Modern life overloads us with information yet lacks the true wisdom we seek. In this book,...
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"Drawing on 28 years of experience, Dr. Ravi Ratan combines ancient Ayurvedic wisdom with modern principles in Vedic Aromatherapy, creating unique blends for holistic health and healing. This book is a comprehensive guide to the healing and therapeutic use of essential oils on a psychological as well as physical level. This unique, beautifully illustrated guide explains the active ingredients, properties and uses over 90 remarkable essential oils,...
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"Building on culturally-based teachings through the use of traditional stories and personal reflections, Jerry Tello shares the 'medicine' and steps to detox from, and break the cycles of painful, generational patterns, and harmful relationships; guiding the reader through a journey to recover one's sacredness. Recovering Your Sacredness re-introduces values and codes of human conduct that are found in virtually every cultural tradition and spiritual...
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"Blends creative nonfiction and ethnographic research to tell the stories of Eva Castellanoz, Mexican American curandera and community activist; explores Castellanoz's faith, indigenous identity, relationship to Catholicism, and use of traditional folk arts and healing, which she views as a way to overcome poverty, racism, disease, social inequality, and loss"--Provided by publisher.
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"The domestication of the potato serves as the focus of this synthesis of ethnobotany and chemical ecology. Johns considers the evolution of the human use of plants, the ways in which humans obtain foods from among the myriad poisonous and unpalatable plants in the environment, and the consequences of this history for understanding the basis of the human diet."--Back cover.