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Why use marble?
Marble specifically adds elegance to entrance halls, lanais, and formal salons. There is a multitude of marble in varied hues that one may fall in love with. Marble commonly fits right into the home or office while naturally heightening it is beauty and value.
Why use granite?
This igneous rock contained deep within the earth’s crust is undoubtedly one of nature’s most versatile and terrifi gems. When granite is cut, polished, and sealed, it then becomes immune to scratches, weathering, staining, etching, and heat. These are the gains of one of the most difficult and densest natural stones known to all.
When vanity and durability meet up with the worries of building and rebuilding edifices and other construction projects, one may count on granite. Granite enhances the look, feel, toughness, permanence, as well as the resale value of the structure it is a percentage of. Granite specially provides the best service either as a kitchen countertop or as flooring material.
The increasing interest in employing natural stones to new or remodeled constructions is overwhelming. This goes to further emphasize the value persons place on the beauty and skillfulness of Mother Nature’s treasures.
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“A dear stream of practical noesis with the mind modify we need to save the life of our Mother Earth–and ourselves . . . This is a book for each person who loves this planet. Eagle Man shows us the joyful path home to our universal Mother.”
?ynthia Bend, Water Spirit Woman, co-author of Birth of a Modem Shaman
“A rich panorama of our native inheritance which allows the seeker access to the heart of the Path of Beauty. Ed McGaa has walked this path so that all persons may live in harmony.”
?amie Sams, Hancoka Olowanpi, author of Midnight Song: Quest for the Vanished Ones
“Ed McGaa is one of the basi people who may write with regards to 0glala religion in the basi person because he has lived it. For years anthropologists have hoped a Native American would portray that society from the inside out. Ed McGaa has. It’s regarding time.”
?illiam K. Powers, author of 0glala Religion
“Fascinating as well as inspiring reading. Ed McGaa makes an magnificent spiritual guide and intellectual teacher . . . The data stimulates the mind, the drawings delight the eye, and the ideas soothe the spirit.”
?ack Weatherford, author of Indian Givers
“Profound and perceptive . . . Mother Earth Spirituality will be of outstanding importance to those of us, both ‘rainbow’ and non-Indian people, who walk over land in search of a deeper spiritual life . . . For us, this book is an valuable guide showing us how to do it.”
?red Alm Wolf, Ph.D., author of Taking the Quantum Leap
About the Author
Ed McGaa, J.D., was born on the Oglala Sioux reservation in South Dakota and is a registered tribal member. He served in Korea as a Marine Corporal before earning an undergrad degree at St. John’s University in Minnesota. He then rejoined the Marine Corps to become a Phantom F4 fighter pilot in Vietnam, where he flew in more than a hundred combat missions. Upon his return McGaa danced in six annual Sioux Sun Dances. The Sun Dance led him to the seven Mother Earth ceremonies underneath the tutelage of Chief Eagle Feather and Chief Fools Crow, two Sioux holy men. Eagle Man holds a law degree from the University of South Dakota and is the author of Red Cloud: Biography of an Indian Chief; Mother Earth Spirituality: Healing Ourselves and Our World; Rainbow Tribe: Ordinary People Journeying on the Red Road; Native Wisdom: Perceptions of the Natural Way; and the novel Eagle Vision: Return of the Hoop.
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108 of 111 persons found the following review helpful.
 Native American ways of living have much to instruct us
By DAVID-LEONARD WILLIS
After reading “Black Elk Speaks” I picked up this book because I believe that Native American ways of living have much to offer us. We neglect their wisdom at our peril. It is a outstanding privilege that we have access to their cognition on how we may live in harmoniousness with Mother Earth. The author starts with the question why he must instruct non-Indians with regards to Native American spirituality and answers that it is time to percentage that spirituality because it does not belong to the Indians alone but to others with the right attitude; we all live in one world. If held within the Indian community their old wisdom will not be permitted to work it is environmental medicine on the world where it is desperately needed. A spiritual fire that promotes a communal commitment to a international environmental undertaking is needed. Native or primal ways will fuel that fire and give it outstanding power. Mother Earth may be revered, valued and protected.
He then quotes the letter from Chief Seathl (Seattle) to the President of the United States of America in 1854 – one of the most strange and eloquent letters that a President may have received. “How may we buy or trade the sky, the warmth of the land? The idea is strange to us. If we do not own the freshness of the air and the sparkle of the water, how may you buy them?” The truth is that we could actually stop here, go into a quiet room and reflect on those three sentences and we will surely discover the root cause of galore of our ills. We put a price on everything the Indians think has no value and we place no value on everything the Indians think is valuable. Sparkling water in a stream flowing through a wood has no value to us but it is the essence of life to the Indian. Having polluted our rivers and killed the fish we are at long last starting to ask ourselves those very questions that Chief Seattle asked of the President 150 years ago.
Another point made by Chief Seattle haunts me. “…to injure the world is to heap contempt on the Creator. The Whites too shall pass; perchance sooner than all other tribes. Continue to contaminate your bed, and you will one night suffocate in your own waste.” How some of us today are saying more or less similar things to our deaf leaders? But the heart and soul of the Indian way of life lies at the end of Seattle’s letter, “So, if we trade our land, love it as we’ve loved it. Care for it as we’ve cared for it. Hold in your mind the memory of the land as it is when you take it. And with all your strength, with all your mind, with all your heart, preserve it for your children, and love it … as God loves us all. One thing w know. Our God is the same God. This world is cherished to Him. Even the white man can not be immune from the mutual destiny. We may be brothers after all. We shall see…..” How a good deal of of us would assert that we have loved the land as the Indians loved the land, or cared for the land as the Indians cared for the land? If we answer ‘no’, then surely that means that we have something to learn from the Native Indians. I am sure that if Chief Seattle were here today he would cry to see what we have done to those lands the Indians kept sacred. He would cry for the pain inflicted on the earth. He would cry for us who in our greed and selfishness have wrought such harm on ourselves and our children.
I agree with and applaud Ed McGaa. A spiritual fire that promotes a communal commitment to a global environmental undertaking is needed. Native or primal ways will fuel that fire and give it outstanding power. We will have to all learn something from this book. But not just read and think and speak. But act. This book is not one thing if we do not act on it. This is what Stephen Covey was telling us in “The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People: Powerful Lessons in Personal Change” that original we have to change ourselves, and only then we may change others and the world.
Einstein told us that we need a higher level of thinking to get ourselves out of the mess than the thinking that got us into the mess. Stephen Covey tells us that in such situations as we are in today we need a quantum change that may only be brought regarding by a totally new paradigm. Our current way of living is the paradigm that got us into the mess. The Indian approach is probably the paradigm that will get us out of the mess. If we read this book with an open mind and without prejudice, I believe that the Native American paradigm must be at the top of the shortlist of new paradigms from which we will have to make our selection for building the world we want for our children.
40 of 43 humans found the following review helpful.
One of the Best….
By Grant R. Schnarr
Ed McGaa has written one of the clearest explanations of Native American spirituality to date. This book speaks in simple terms and translates ancient customs into progressed language for the intermediate reader delving into a new cultural approach to spirit and mother world religion and philosophy. If you are exploring Lakota religion for the initial time, this is one of the best firstborn books available.
65 of 75 persons found the following review helpful.
Good book on Oglala Sioux religion and spirituality.
By W. Lambdin
After reading “Native Wisdom” by the same author I had to read this earlier work.
This book includes assorted ceremonies.
Peace Pipe Ceremony
The Sweat Lodge
Vision Quest (Crying for a vision)
Sun Dance
Yuwipi
and more.
Includes the legend of Buffalo Calf Woman and bringing the pipe to the Sioux.
Includes the resourcefulness of Nick Black Elk (a Sioux holyman).
Includes a Sioux-English dictionary (It may be difficult to find what you are looking for).
Includes a glossary of natural names.
Mr. McGaa describes the pipe as a portable altar. This is utterly correct. The pipe bowl represents the effeminate distinct features of creation, and the stem represents the masculine forces of creation, and the smoke is offered to the seven sacred directions; N,E,S,W, Above, Below and Center.
Mr. McGaa likewise calls the Wotai (personal stone)as a portable altar. I disagree with this. It’s unfeigned that you may present the personal stone to the directions. In my opinion; the personal stone doesn’t come close to representing the level of sacredness as the pipe.
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