Honoring the Medicine: The Essential Guide to Native American Healing

By Kenneth Cohen (Ballantine Books, $25.95)

Ah my brother, you will never know the happiness of thinking nothing and doing nothing. This is the most delightful thing there is next to sleep. So we were before birth; and so we shall be after death.  Hoping to shed light on the power and importance of silence, or the act of doing nothing,  Kenneth Cohen opens his new book, Honoring the Medicine, with this quote from a conversation between Carl Young and a Pueblo Indian. Cohen has been studying and practicing Native American healing for more than thirty years, and over this time has become a healer, educator, and writer of the healing arts. Honoring the Medicine sheds light on such basic tenets of Native American healing as the importance of nature, belief in the Great Spirit, finding our purpose in life, and the belief that children are sacred, and explains how these principles can be brought into each and every one of our lives. The healing methods featured in the book range from vision-seeking, dreaming, and fasting to energy work and music therapy. If you want to broaden your definition of the word healing,  this is an excellent book to explore. You’ll find yourself wishing to escape to nature and explore its beauty and the bountiful gifts it bears. And really who could ask for anything more?

“Melissa B.Scott

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July/August 2003




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