Customer Reviews:
Desirable
This book was sent to a young family member whose recent guidance and help from a group of Native Americans has helped in his healing. Before he read it one of the "Natives" asked to borrow it! Need I say more??

Not Good
This book was not what I expected. I thought there would be more ceremony ideas and alot of the stories were negative and fear based. There were a few useful pieces of information. The cover is beautiful.

I am now Pathfinder
What you will likely discover, as I discovered, after reading Bobby Lake-Thom's book, "Spirits of the Earth, A Guide to Native American Nature Symbols, Stories, and Ceremonies," is everything around you begins to hold new meaning. Connections among life events start forming in ways you never thought of, before reading the book. Ancient traditions and myths of the Native American people begin to seep into your perspective of ordinary daily events and reality. Signs and signals are found with new meaning to life's directions, all of which lead to new moments of the "Ah-ha!" experience in spiritual awareness. Even the way you conduct your rountine daily business begins to take on new and interesting challenges and perspectives.

All these things leads one to then feel that in some aspects of life, modern civilization might be wise to relearn ancient ways and consider using those ancient truths that do not violate our own core values. When you see ancient Native American Indian signs actually lead to the events of their predictive-meanings, it opens the mind to a higher plane of respect for all people regardless of their background, sophistication, and cultural attitudes or education. One begins to see dignity in people where you may have held pity. You begin to hold other cultures and many of their discoveries in much higher regard. Even reading the Holy Bible takes on new and deeper meanings and understandings.

A chain of many tribes forming a living human fabric of the Native American experience was surprisingly unified spiritually across the entire continent. While they did not always live in peace necessarily, they were spiritually unified to a significant degree to the point that spirit traditions on the East Coast where often identical to spirit traditions on the West Coast. Each thing, each animal, had its own spiritual meaning (with some tribal variances of course). [...]

good review
A very nice book that helps you to understand better the point of view of Native Americans about their relationship with Mother Earth. And that helps all of us to follow their spirit if we want to restore what we are and our little and beautiful planet.

Definitely worth it!
I am a Native American through blood and I can honestly say I was not brought up in any special way and that large part of my heritage was never really acknowledged. Nevertheless, I have always been up on it, I pray to The Great Spirit and so on. I purchased this book because I knew some of the context but I was more interested in learning about other tribes and their stories and such in comparison to my own since I already knew those ones. This book is great and awesome for anyone who is studying Native American symbols, stories, and ceremonies. There are, in fact, some things that are not necessarily completely true-like the owl omen for instance. I think it is geared toward a more nuetral instance in comparison to an everynight occurence, but I will never know. Although, everything else is pretty justifiable and quite informational. Definitely get this book!

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