Southern Ute elder Joseph Rael (Beautiful Painted Arrow) offers words of wisdom to children & the young at heart, as told to David Kopacz. Joseph fills the bowls of hearts & minds with 18 ideas to stimulate inventiveness, creativity, and a sense of everyday sacredness. Illuminated and inspired by Joseph's artwork.
The book presents a vision experienced by Indigenous Mystic Joseph Rael during the Ute Sundance, urging readers to transcend their limitations and embrace new possibilities. Central to his message is the idea of connecting with the vibrations of intelligence that permeate the universe and our existence. Through this exploration, Rael invites readers to awaken to a deeper understanding of themselves and the world around them.
One of the great living visionaries in the Native American tradition presents the most substantial book yet of his teachings, illustrated with 60 of his colorful visionary artworks and links to scores of his voice recordings online. In this collection of his most basic and profound teachings, Joseph Rael writes about sound as the basis for all that is, and shows us how to use sound to remake ourselves and our world.
American Indian mystic, Joseph Rael, describes his life and ours as if it were an ongoing school in which we learn how to develop and use visionary and spiritual powers. His story is filled with magic, tragedy, mysticism and metaphor, and he ties it altogether with an ability to make sense of all the seemingly random events of life. In his own case, these go from being an isolated mixed-race child and witnessing the tragic early deaths of his two sisters, to his initiation into the tribal mysteries and his methodical path of self-education, leading to a degree at the University of Wisconsin.
All existence is vibration. From human breath and heartbeat to the pulsating energies of subatomic particles, to the expansion and contraction of stars and the universe itself, pulsation-vibration is inherent in all that exists. Rael shows how we may experience spiritual reality by accessing vibration through drumming, chanting, and vision quests.