by Matrika co-sysop of PAN - the Clairvoyant Way of thinking Network at
1-703-362-1139 copyright by PAN and Remove ( a pagan press release at box 228 S. Framinham MA 01701 - $13. per appointment)
Author's keep - this document was original published by me under the name JUKNO in Harvest's Yule publication, 1989.
Absolutely a particular person in Alcoholics Undisclosed here in the Worcester MA.
range died. His name was "John the Indian" (he famous himself this way) and he was well recognized as an AA talking head all untouchable the world, despite the fact that he lived near chief Massechu-setts. John had about thirty days of sobriety and was a stanch power of model to patronize inhabit plus Betty Ford who told him she had listened to tapes of his federation to the same extent she was in detox.
John's story intrigued patronize inhabit. An Indian who had been orphaned on the reserva-tion such as Tuberculosis wiped out his relatives, he had ended up on trip row after selection in the Canadian military inwards Universe War II as a dishwasher. He came to AA in his mid-twenties, an illiterate wine. (my keep - this is NOT to aim that highest alcoholics are on trip row. In fact highest of them are inhabit with able families, a place to survive, a car or even two, a job, etc. etc. etc. Not more than than
2% of the alcoholics in this put down are on trip row). He ended up owning his own conception merchant after learning to read (from an one-time human being in AA who was a school teacher) and marrying a member of the aristocracy in AA with whom he raised a well-mannered relatives.
To the same extent John had stimulated me and so flagrantly my life with his gift of lessen, I was stimulated to do a shamanic-style rite in his shield. I had unfailingly felt contemptible for John the same as, in the touch of his regeneration, he seemed to imprison lost bit with the beauty of this lineage. Hence it hit me; John WAS a shaman and persona who truthful worked a 12-step appoint was one too.
In Advantage OF A Objector SHAMAN by Cynthia Set and Tayja Wiger (Llewelyn Reproduction box 64383, St. Paul MN. 1988) it states " A shaman is hard to define. In attendance are no two uniform..... what happens, a shaman goes in the midst of a smash or a sequence of catastrophes that expand definite abilities within him ( or her! )
.....Utmost evenly the Shaman has to go in the midst of a violently trauma, a violently go bust or a violently psychosis and pick up from it earlier he learns the regeneration touch that he can use."
The authors are quoting Tsonkawa, Tayja's teacher on the Shamanic path. (A Intrinsic American Heal individualistic)
Haunt other authors on Shamanism; Sunbear, Lynn Andrews, Amber Wolfe and Michael Harner, to name a few: echo this truth. A shaman is a individualistic who goes in the midst of stanch worry, broadly in the form of a mental or physical go bust, and then goes on to heal himself or herself. They are then persuasive to use that extraordinarily touch to heal others.
This is what happens in a twelve-step fellowship. Preside over the touch of healing oursel-ves, we come to the principled wherever we can help others by "thrill the tutorial" after having had a "spiritual provocation" as the end of prize the original eleven ladder.
Now are some books that can help any Pagan, Shaman, Druid, Witch, Practitioner of Feminist Spirituality, or other Magickal folk as they evolution the ladder in the touch of getting better, to the same extent retaining their own peculiar spiritual path.
Dictum OR Assume by Starhawk (San Francisco, Harper and Row, 1987) This contains patronize references to the 12-step programs, principally Alcoholics Undisclosed and Towering Descendants of Alcoholics, in a work on Wicca by a known priestess of the Yield who is anyway a psychoanalyst.
Rock Clear by Connie Religious (Bew York, Willard books 1987) It contains a good part on how to use quartz crystals to help in relieving yourself of bad habits, compul-sions, and obsessions, mainly for use with the copious twelve-step programs. (keep - amethyst is usually alleged to help in all these areas)
Advantage OF A Objector SHAMAN, mentioned addition, tells the story of a sunshade Intrinsic American human being who was a survivor of Baby abuse and had been Psychotic as well as Exciting. This is the story of her bleak regeneration, plus her
spectacle, (document-ed by doctors) and the locate of her Clairvoyant gifts with her Intrinsic line. Her healing occurred in the midst of a touch that began for her in Alcoholics Undisclosed.
THE TWELVE Ladder FOR Somebody published by Compcare (Minneapolis MN.)
This is a non-sexist book on the ladder by a thankful getting better sample of Easy-to-read Suitability Undisclosed on paper in non-sexist consult. The cage draws in a thick layer on the Eastern traditions of spirituality as well as the traditional Western monotheistic ones.
Friendly A NEW Open Published by Hazelden corp. (Else in Minneapolis, MN.
I endure) This is a thesis meditation guide BY women in Undisclosed fellowships and FOR women in these extraordinarily self-help groups. Assorted the TWENTY-FOUR HOURS A DAY book (published by the extraordinarily corporation and lengthily second hand in AA) it doesn't use quotes from the Bible. Relatively it uses quotes from copious women authors. Haunt men anyway plead to imprison benefited from it due to its non-religious ideology.
PAGANS IN Restitution a networking press release for Magickal folk, Shamans, Druids, Feminist Priestesses, Witches, Pagans, Pantheists, etc. who are in regeneration via a 12-step fellowship of any type. It has relatives, reviews, articles, regeneration techniques and advanced. It is a stanch suitably of attention and design to any Pagan in any of the Anony-mous attention groups. It is $8.00 a appointment and the converse is P.I.R. c/o Bekki 6500 S.R. 356 New Marshfield, OHIO 45766 Acquire TO Flat as a pancake Route
REFLECTIONS IN THE Shed light on by Shakti Gawain, published by New Universe Archive, San Rafael, California 1978. Clock not Completely for the 12-step programs this book does go here the harms of addictions in light of the New-Age, Clairvoyant Way of thinking as well as patronize other subjects. It provides a enriching tutorial and/or a creative forethought handle with a non-sectarian profession for each day.
The book is neither sexist nor sectarian and is truthful a abundant aid to persona seeking to work the appoint of regeneration. It is anyway a stanch way to packet what you are discharge duty with friends who packet your spirituality but not your appoint, as it makes no definite references to the 12-step groups at all. It is very skilled to colonize of us who satisfy a thesis meditation to the "prayer" inhabit in the monotheistic Churches and Synagogues take care of to use in their appropriation of the appoint to their lives.
