|
 |
How
dangerous
is an Indian
with VISION?
|
"Bringing
Back the Spirit is a prayer
for humanity to understand
and experience wholeness."
Bringing Back the Spirit by Phillip H.
Duran, is a prayer for humanity to understand and experience wholeness.
In a deeply personal narrative style the author relates his own
transformative journey through Christianity, physics, Indigenous
science, and spirituality to address critical issues from a Native
American/First Nations perspective. The author states:
“The ever-present issues between North
America’s First Peoples and society, including the Church,”
says Duran, speaking for himself, “will remain until leaders
invoke ancient wisdom and moral courage to move the nation and
the world toward balance. The influence of Church, Congress, and
society can play a decisive role in the federal government’s
responsibility to the tribes. Only an inward change can kindle
the human spirit and conscience to lovingly relate to all our
human and non-human relatives in order to build a sustainable
society.”
To read the Introduction to Bringing
Back the Spirit,
click here.
Read what
others are saying
about this significant book...
From the Foreword by Joseph Rael...
Bringing Back the Spirit: Indian Ways of Wholeness for Church
and Society in Crisis by Phillip H. Duran could easily be
entitled Bringing Holistic Health to a New Soon-to-Be Global
Human Society....
For today’s world, Professor Phillip Duran’s
book is very “right on” for this century. There is
a saying that goes like this that “everything over time
becomes its opposite.” Now, holistic health is the current
theme of consciousness in the world of 2005.
The teaching that we were brought up in as Tiwas
was the belief that “we do not exist”; that is to
say that the past is history and should stay there and that all
human struggle is for the future benefit of the whole human race
and that we are creating our own realities as we go along in life.
Our past as human beings has been one of fragmentation. Now it
is time for wholeness.
Joseph Beautiful Painted Arrow
Tiwa and Southern Ute Indian
Phil
Duran’s very American, very Christian journeys told in “Bringing
Back the Spirit” become for the people of this time a much-needed
guidebook pointing out clear directions amidst today’s confused
and threatened landscape. His power-filled word is the proverbial
voice “crying out in this American spiritual wilderness…Repent.
Repent!”
Phil
has been blessed to learn from becoming “poor in spirit.”
And now through his personal experience he models for many how
salvation can and will come to those willing to receive and take
to heart, the “good news” potent, and alive in the
indigenous voices and perceptions still awaiting discovery in
this land.
Larry
Littlebird
(Laguna/Santo Domingo Pueblo)
President, White Dawn House
Author, Hunting Sacred Everything Listens
Gerri
and I have known Phil and Norma Duran for many years as brother
and sister and friends. Phil has stretched me intellectually many
times. His book takes you on a journey through his life—and
in the delightful first meeting with Norma. His book speaks our
heart’s agony of our ancestors’ past when European
Christianity arrived here among our People.
This
book is a challenge to the American church. While Phil is holding
the Scripture and our Lord high, he calls the church in America
to search its own soul. And, we hope, to make some necessary changes
to return to a vital relationship with Jesus. We are happy to
endorse Phil’s book.
John
and Gerri GrosVenor
(Echota Cherokee & Yankton Sioux/Wailaki/Wintun)
Phil
Duran guides us on the path to wholeness through his intimate
journey through Christianity, physics, spirituality and his unique
native worldview—weaving a tapestry of incredible depth
and beauty. The healing and authenticity the Church longs for
is described in this book, but be prepared to be moved by insights
born out of a rich, but painful and poignant life. This autobiography
successfully navigates across several genres from narrative, politics
and poetry to theoretical physics and native science. Most of
all, we encounter Jesus at unexpected turns, revealing Himself
to us as fully alive and at home with our Native ways. We owe
Phil a debt of gratitude for this strong message of healing, delivered
at great personal expense.
Ray
Levesque
Director, First Nations Center
If you are a champion for the
cause of healing and wholeness for the Native American people, for
the Church, and for America, you need to have this relevant
new book by Phillip H. Duran!
Purchase this powerful
new book today for only $17.99,
and receive "The
Potlatch Speeches" e-book
Free (a $14.99
value)!
Order Yours Today!
To order
Bringing Back the Spirit using a check or
money order, send $20.99 ($17.99 + $3.00 shipping)
to the address listed below.
Checks and money orders should be made out to "Healing the
Land."
Healing
the Land
P.O. Box 73
Scotland, PA 17254
 |
The
Potlatch Speeches E-book (a $14.99 value): How valuable
would it be to be able to sit down with nine Native elders
from around North America, and have them share their hearts
on the state of Christianity among the Native American people?
The Potlatch Speeches is just that—a collection of articles
written by Native elders that will provide you with diverse
and insightful wisdom on where we’ve been, where we
are, and where we’re heading in reaching our Native
people with the Good News. |
This is a book to listen to, feel, ponder—an
important contribution to a growing literature on the discovery
and recovery of American Indian identity, culture, spirituality,
and traditional knowledge or science. For Duran, a Tiwa Indian,
scientist, and Christian, the search for identity and purpose
is the central theme of this “difficult introspective journey
of self-exploration and internal conflict.” In his journey
to reclaim his Pueblo identity, Duran speaks candidly about the
difficulty of deconstructing old paradigms, shedding conformist
ways of thinking, and recovering traditional paradigms in order
to reconstruct a wholistic spiritual and integrated scientific
worldview. Because I grew up among the Ojibwe and serve an academic
and multicultural community, I found Duran’s insights into
Manifest Destiny and our government’s systematic extermination
of the original nations of this land to be particularly helpful.
His exposure of the American Church’s witting and unwitting
complicity in this nation’s project of cultural and spiritual
genocide is heart-rending. Read widely, this personal and painful
journey has the potential to move the church, if not the nation—through
repentance, reconciliation, and restorative justice—toward
partnership in recovering and celebrating the personal, cultural,
spiritual, and national identities of the original inhabitants
of Turtle Island. I highly recommend this book to those who are
beginning to understand the breadth and depth of the wound festering
in the heart of the church and in the history of this nation.
Rev. Dr. Bruce D. Martin
Director, United Campus Ministry
Penn State University
University Park, PA
Get your
own copy today!
Bringing
Back the Spirit by Phillip H. Duran
ISBN: 1-897091-29-X · Tradepaper · 288
pages · Retail: $17.99
For
additional releases from
Healing the Land Publishing,
Click here!
|
