Ancient Echoes. The Anasazi Book of Chants. Mary Summer Rain

Ancient Echoes. The Anasazi Book of Chants. Mary Summer Rain

I'm enjoying reading through "Ancient Echoes: The Anasazi Book of Chants" by Mary Summer Rain. These prayers, written in the spirit of the Anasazi, were perceived by Mary Summer Rain through long periods of meditation.



Mary Summer Rain answers to the highest calling: that of her heart and soul. This collection of prayers, chants, and poems that she received from the Anasazi through a spiritual connection is something we can read and reread and use in our daily lives. I highly recommend this to anyone, who can appreciate heartfelt messages from the soul paying respect to the forces... M. Shipman

The Seven Paths. Changing One's Way of Walking in the World. Anasazi Foundation. Native American

The Seven Paths. Changing One's Way of Walking in the World. Anasazi Foundation. Native American

"The Seven Paths" is a thoughtful little book from the Anasazi Foundation. It is a Native American tale about finding one's way through the aid of deity, nature, community and altruism.



People have moved away from Mother Earth, bringing heartache, pain, and other maladies of the modern age. The “self-help” movement claims to offer peace and fulfillment to individuals, but this solitary approach takes us only so far. Ultimately, it is in communion with our fellow beings and the natural world that we are made whole. We need to leave the path of Me and follow the path of We.

This poetic, evocative story presents the meditations of an ancient Anasazi tribesman who rejects his family and sets off on a journey through the desert. He walks seven paths, each teaching a lesson symbolized by an element of the natural world: light, wind, water, stone, plants, animals, and, finally, the unity of all beings with the Creator. The Seven Paths reveals a source of wisdom, restoration, and renewal familiar to native people but lost to the rest of us, seven elements among nature that combine to mend human hearts.