Page 112: CHAPTER 5: Where Healing Dwells
August 6, 2025, 7:08 PM
PART ONE: CHAPTER FIVE
Where the Healing Dwells: The Importance of Sacred Space
Page 115: European Sacred Sites
Page 117: Christian Churches on Pagan Soil
Page 119: Acknowledging the Sacred Awakens the Sacred
page 120: Where is the Kingdom of Heaven?
Page 122: The Power of place in Modern Medicine
Page 123: Smudging: Inviting Nature Home
Page 125: Other Uses of Smoke
Page 125a: The Origin of Sacred Plants
Page 126: Sweetgrass, Cedar, and Sage
Page 129: How to Smudge
Page 130: The Nose Knows
August 7, 2025, 9:47 PM
PART ONE/CHAPTER FIVE: Where Healing Dwells: The importance of Sacred Space
From page 112: “Does the place itself influence healing?”
“Certainly many of us have been places that don’t feel right, that make us feel tense, uncomfortable, or even sick, or conversely, that make us feel happy, relaxed and well.”
“Do herbs or massage work as effectively in the city as at the seashore?”
“Does penicillin destroy bacteria as quickly in a busy hospital as in the comfort of your home?”
“Native American Healers recognize that specific healing powers, as well as the plants and animals that embody them, reside in specific locations.”
From page 112 (snake?): “To treat a patient’s injured sine, a healer might travel to a desert to fast, pray, and gather snake power, a medicine related to the flow of electrical signals in the nervous system.”
(electricity tag)
From page 112: “The very act of traveling to a new landscape helps us release unhealthy habits and opens the mind to unexpected vistas.
From page 112-113: “A pilgrimage into nature can also be powerful preventative medicine. Nature strengthens us directly by feeding us with the natural ‘nutrient’ of air, earth, sky, mountain, and plant, and indirectly by expanding our awareness and awakening our intuition, faculties that can help us create healthful changes in our everyday lives.”
From page 113: “We can make a pilgrimage more healing and rewarding by ‘celebrating the landscape,’ a custom of indigenous people throughout the world.”
From Page 113: “As we travel, we can listen to the songs that the land is singing: the rushing wind, the rippling stream, ice breaking in the river, rain falling on the lake, the whistling hawks, chirping sparrows, and squirrels scurrying through the undergrowth.”
From Page 113-114: “The Earth is truly alive, and all her beings have the capacity to speak or sing to the human mind. The sagebrush sings; the salmon sing. Sometimes, the songs are in the language of the listener, sometimes, they consist largely of sounds that in themselves have no meaning, such as the vocables used in Native American songs”