Sacred Instructions: Indigenous Wisdom for Living Spirit-Based Change
Human beings are the only species on the planet that has fallen out of step with creation. As a result, it is human beings that pose the greatest threat to life. The only way for us to regain our balance within creation is to once again find our balance with the natural world.
Larry Dossey • Sacred Instructions: Indigenous Wisdom for Living Spirit-Based Change
It is essential for us to recognize the sacredness of ourselves in order for us to understand our place in creation. As we learn to care for ourselves, we also teach ourselves how to care for others.
Larry Dossey • Sacred Instructions: Indigenous Wisdom for Living Spirit-Based Change
The colonial belief in expansion, which to many is viewed as a mental and spiritual illness, holds within it the idea that there is never-ending room for growth, even where there is undeniable proof that resources are limited and rapidly disappearing.
Larry Dossey • Sacred Instructions: Indigenous Wisdom for Living Spirit-Based Change
We have crafted a spiritual desert, and it is part of our dilemma.
Larry Dossey • Sacred Instructions: Indigenous Wisdom for Living Spirit-Based Change
Mother from being destroyed by mankind. Once he is awakened, he infects mankind with a spiritual illness, an illness that affects the mind and leads to a suicidal path of endless consumption. The Earth Mother calls to Kiwawk when the people of the Earth begin consuming faster than she can produce, and when she is being damaged faster than she can
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feminine is directly connected to every threat to life that we face today. When we look at the history of feminine suppression, we see that it correlates directly to the destruction of life on Earth.
Larry Dossey • Sacred Instructions: Indigenous Wisdom for Living Spirit-Based Change
have come to believe that winning in the marketplace affords them a greater right to life than those who don’t.
Larry Dossey • Sacred Instructions: Indigenous Wisdom for Living Spirit-Based Change
Chief Seattle spoke of wholeness when he reportedly said that “humankind has not woven the web of life. We are but one thread within it. Whatever we do to the web, we do to ourselves. All things are bound together. All things are connected.”
Larry Dossey • Sacred Instructions: Indigenous Wisdom for Living Spirit-Based Change
It teaches students to seek the right answer according to social norms, rather than instilling critical thinking skills that would lead them to right action.