Rolling Thunder: A Personal Exploration into the Secret Healing Powers of an American Indian Medicine Man
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Author(s)Doug Boyd
PublisherRandom House Books for Young Readers
ISBN / ASIN0394488865
ISBN-139780394488868
AvailabilityOnly 1 left in stock - order soon.
Sales Rank2,358
CategoryHardcover
MarketplaceUnited States 🇺🇸
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"Rolling Thunder is an American Indian medicine man--spiritual leader, philosopher, and acknowledged spokesman for the Cherokee and Shoshone tribes. As a medicine man, or shaman, he is guardian of wealth of secret and mysterious knowledge passed down through countless Indian generations. This knowledge includes the power to cure disease and heal wounds, to find and use medicinal herbs, to make rain, to perform exorcisms, to transport objects through the air, to communicate with other medicine men unaided by telephones. These awe-inspiring powers come out of medicine man's unique and special relationship with nature, with what can only be called a "spirit of the earth." This remarkable book is record of attempt to learn something about sources of medicine man's powers. With Rolling Thunder's full cooperation, Doug Boyd, a researcher with the prestigious Menninger Clinic, watched a healing ceremony in which a man's deeply infected leg wound was cured in full view of international audience of scientists and doctors; got caught in a violent desert thunderstorm which was apparently caused by Rolling Thunder. . .Boyd is absolutely convinced that Rolling Thunder's powers are real. . .In this book Doug Boyd offers himself as a bridge between the scientists and the medicine men to convey the Indians' message that the key to our very survival on earth may be in the hands of this culture. . ."
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