Kenneth Meadows - Earth Medicine: Explore Your Individuality Through the Native American Medicine Wheel

Native Americans had a close affinity with the earth and an understanding of the natural forces which shaped their environment. They recognised that not only were our physical bodies composed of the elements of the earth but our core personalities also were influenced by seasonal characteristics and by the tides of time governed by the sun and the moon.

The time of birth was no chance happening of fate, but an indication of personality traits and inherent potentials we were each born with to meet the challenges of life. The key to exploring your individuality is a Birth Totem an animal representation which indicates the characteristics and attributes which combined together comprise your medicine your inner power and resources.

Learn how to:

- Identify your own Birth Totem

- Connect yourself to your true potential

- Discover your life purpose and learn how to fulfil it

- Explore all aspects of your life including health and relationships

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Earth Medicine is one of a collection of books written by Kenneth Meadows on the Craft of Life and how we, as individuals, can attune ourselves to Nature and the Earth and discover our own inner resources. Each book in the collection is a complete self-help manual in itself on an aspect of personal development towards a more fulfilling life.

For more than thirty years, Kenneth Meadows sought answers to some of lifes most perplexing mysteries: Who am I? What am I? Why am I here? Where am I going? What is lifes purpose? He explored the worlds great religions and was offered beliefs. He considered the philosophies of great thinkers and gathered opinions. He examined the theories of materialistic science to find that most were based upon assumptions. His persistence brought him in touch with the simplicity of indigenous peoples whose wisdom had been passed on through oral traditions. He was directed to look not in the archives of learned institutions, but into the Book of Nature which reveals how the Universe is and that we humans are part of it and it is part of us. He found that by reconnecting with Nature we can make contact with our own Source and thereby find the answers we seek.

Kenneth, a Leeds University qualified teacher and former college lecturer and journalist, is internationally respected for his books on the application of shamanic principles to personal development and the extension of human potential. He has studied shamanic teachings directly under Native American, British, Scandinavian and other European shamans.

Kenneth meadows is internationally respected for his work in adapting ancient shamanic wisdom to modern times. He is the author of a number of best-selling books including The Medicine Way, Shamanic Experience, Rune Power and Where Eagles Fly.

My profound thanks and appreciation for making this book possible go especially to:

Harley Swiftdeer, the Cherokee Metis-Medicine Chief, for giving me my first practical experience of Medicine teachings.

Medicine Chief Silver Bear who has honoured me with much ancient knowledge and commissioned me with the responsibility of passing it on to others.

Wolf-Eagle for the benefit of his wisdom, guidance and understanding.

Tony Haggerstone and Leo Rutherford who shared some of my experiences on the Medicine Way and whose advice was invaluable.

My wife and life-long companion, Beryl, whose patience and understanding have sustained me throughout the task.

And to the Grandfathers and the Grandmothers. Ho.

Thank you, each and all. May you continue to touch the Earth with beauty and bring healing to planet Earth.

EARTH MEDICINE IS THE FIRST BOOK I COMPLETED IN WHAT HAS now become a collection of books which provide a distillation of ancient shamanic wisdom adapted to modern times and conditions and presenting a unique process of personal development which can change lives for the better.

Shamanics is the name I have given to this adaptation of shamanic principles to the practicalities of modern-day living. Shamanics is a word I coined to distinguish this process from the regurgitations of customs, rituals, and practices which have been taken from their tribal and historical context to form a feature of some representations of contemporary shamanism, and which have little relevance to the challenges of everyday life in a modern society.