- 264 pages
- English
- ePUB (mobile friendly)
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About this book
Forty years ago, while paging through a book sent as an unexpected gift from a friend, Roger Welsch came across a curious reference to stones that were round, "like the sun and moon." According to Tatonka-ohitka, Brave Buffalo (Sioux), these stones were sacred. "I make my request of the stones and they are my intercessors, " Brave Buffalo explained. Moments later, another friend appeared at Welsch's door bearing yet another unusual gift: a perfectly round white stone found on top of a mesa in Colorado. So began Welsch's lesson from stones, gifts that always presented themselves unexpectedly: during a walk, set aside in an antique store, and in the mail from complete strangers.
The Reluctant Pilgrim shares a skeptic's spiritual journey from his Lutheran upbringing to the Native sensibilities of his adoptive families in both the Omaha and Pawnee tribes. Beginning with those round stones, increasing encounters during his life prompted Welsch to confront a new way of learning and teaching as he was drawn inexorably into another world. Confronting mainstream contemporary culture's tendency to dismiss the magical, mystical, and unexplained, Welsch shares his personal experiences and celebrates the fact that even in our scientific world, "Something Is Going On, " just beyond our ken.
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Table of contents
- Cover
- Title Page
- Copyright Page
- Dedication
- Epigraph
- Contents
- Preface
- Acknowledgments
- 1. A Lesson from Stones
- 2. Lessons from People Who Know
- 3. A Lesson from Elders
- 4. Early Lessons
- 5. Definitions and Distinctions
- 6. The Lesson of the Skulls
- 7. Resistance to the Irresistible
- 8. The Lesson of the Dolmen
- 9. A Lesson from the Pipe
- 10. The Lesson of the Feather
- 11. The Dubious Eye of Coyote
- 12. A Lesson from Poop
- 13. The Pilgrim
- 14. Establishing a Cosmic Buffer Zone
- 15. A Lesson from Touching the Fire
- 16. Lessons from the Zealot
- 17. Lessons from Real Shock and Awe
- 18. Lessons of Hubris
- 19. Lessons from Mother Corn and Father Buffalo
- 20. Lessons from the Nahurac
- 21. Where Lessons Are Lost
- 22. Lessons of Place
- 23. Lessons from Lines
- 24. Lessons from the Fourth Hill
- 25. Lessons from Lessons
- 26. Lessons from the Muse
- 27. Lessons from the Power
- 28. A Lesson from Prayer
- 29. Still More Lessons from Lessons
- 30. Lessons in Brief
- The Lessons of Others
- About Roger Welsch
- Other Works by Roger Welsch