I think it's pretty funny that she tries to prove she's "down" with Native people by saying "Ho!" I guess she misunderstood "Aho", not realizing she sounds like she's at a rap concert.
From a publisher's synopsis:
"A self-help guide to the Native American spiritual growth process.... Readers are given directions on how to discover their own places of power, auras, power animals, healing powers, and other elements of personal spirituality"
Those are all the usual Nuage mistakes:
"The" Native American, thinking all NDNs have the same culture.
"Their own" spirituality, etc,as though the individual can be separated from their cultural context. Sometimes it seems like Nuagers only know four words, me, myself, I, and mine.
Belief in auras is not Native. It's cheesy paranormal stuff.
Power animals are Nuage, not Native, a misunderstanding of spirit guides that comes closer to being like a kid's belief in an invisible friend.
Self help is, well, from the self help movement, not Native traditions.
From a review on Amazon. I'm amazed they allowed it:
"Ridiculous, September 19, 2002
Reviewer: A reader
Popular with New Age Pagans and Wiccans. She teaches you to find your power animal and advocates crystal healing and speaking to guardian angels. She claims to be able to teach readers to analyze auras from touch. Readers are taught how to make their own Medicine Bundles and are told how to determine to whom they can show the bundles. Most of the book is pure Nuage, but Christianity is included as well. The author states that if you come across road kill, it was meant for you to find."
Is she seriously telling people to play with roadkill? Turn it into clothing, what? I'm not sure.
I get this picture in my head of someone trying to hold their nose while cleaning off the maggots and waving a crystal, all at the same time.
