Creator

July 31, 2025, 11:10 AM

From page 192:

"A Counselor prays and helps the patient pray in communion with the Creator, a process of both speaking and inner listening."

From page 191:

"Confession and prayer are closely related."

"Creator is also more likely to listen to a person who is humble enough to admit frailties."

"...'owning-up' to one's faults or misdeed is considered cleansing for the soul."

"When a person breaks one of the moral 'rules for living,' it creates a spiritual opening through which disease can enter the body."

(see endnote # 4, page 397:

Ann Tienup-Riordan, ("Boundaries and Passages: Rule and Ritual in Yup'ik Eskimo Oral Tradition (Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1994), page 209.

July 24, 2025, 11:23 PM

From page 87:

per Haudenosaunee Chief Tadodaho Leon Shenandoah: "We (human beings) were instructed to carry a love for one another and to show a great respect for all the beings of this earth." (endnote #22, page 357: "Wisdomkeepers: Meetings with Native American Spiritual Elders" by Steve Wall & Harvey Arden, 1990, Hillsboro, OR, page 107.

"In other words, love and respect are the essence of the Creator's original instructions."