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Navaho Symbols of Healing (A Harvest/Hbj Book)

In this original and superbly researched work, a Jungian-trained psychiatrist explores ancient Navaho methods of healing—methods that use ritual and vibrant imagery to bring the psyche into harmony with the natural forces that surround it. Through his interactions with Navaho medicine men, Sandner conveys the rigors of their training and the complexities of their purification and evocation rites, including the use of sand paintings as healing mandalas and the esoteric meaning of the pollen path.

Audience
adult
Length
medium · 290 pages

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