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The Last Ghost Dance: A Guide for Earth Mages

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Here is a book of joy for a cynical world. The author does not deny the very real problems we face as individuals and as a global community, but offers solid practices that everyone can take to transform the planet. Full of wisdom and humor, it is also a book that speaks to the spirit in a very personal way. Her words invite you to believe that humans truly can walk in beauty and peace on the Earth instead of behaving like viruses with shoes. Join the last Ghost Dance and feel the joy!!

If you are interested in various ways and techniques to clear your own energy field, this book will give you an excellent starting point. Also the author gives fully referenced footnotes and bibliography so you can go back to sources from which she gleans. She has a wide scope on her lens, so don't be surprised if there is more in this book than you could ever put to use. Good for the beginner on the path, but also good for those more travelled. The story she weaves about the Earth Ascension and the Rainbow Bridge and the End of Time fits in with many other stories I've heard from various tellers over the last 20 or so years. So there is resonance. Once I picked it up I did not put it down until I was to the end, and I hope to acquire a couple of copies to hand around to others of loving intention. Peace.

It is rather amusing to read the negative reviews of Brook's work. The majority of them are written by people with a fairly strong racist agenda - either racial purists who believe that anyone with Native blood should not teach non-Natives or people who believe that Native teachers should only teach the reader's expectations of Native shamanism. Brooke has never fit into the restrictive roles of these two types of people. She is and always has been a member of this Earth community first, her work a life-long process of speaking for those who cannot speak for themselves. This book is one outgrowth of that work, a work spanning decades. If you want to read about Brooke's training in the more shamanistic sense of it, you should look at Shamanic Voices by Joan Halifax. If you want to hear about Brooke's process, the things she thinks important for our world now, and the processes she thinks can help, then this book and Buffalo Woman Comes Singing are good ones. Brooke has helped many people, through her teachings, and her example, to find a way to live that transcends negative stereotypes, that transcends the reductionism that so many of us struggle with, and that reconnects all of us to the soul force and intelligence that is inherent in the world and that is our birthright to know.

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In order to understand this book, you need to read "Buffalo Woman Comes Singing", her first book. This is a continuation of that one. Her ideas presented in that book are further expounded in this one. Her first book is the typical New Age narrative of a special person given special knowledge to tell the world. This is the special knowledge she relaying to the rest of us.

This book is three books. One is a narrative of her being guided by a dead friend, two a listing of all things New Age, and three a workbook on nature rituals. The author is in desperate need of an editor since this books switches between the three and is confusing to the reader. She cannot seem to focus on any one idea and stay with it.

She writes uncritically about a lot of New Age nonsense without really understanding the concepts. In addition, she tries to fit her ideas into a New Age straitjacket. And finally, Ms. Medicine Eagle acts as a promoter of these products and people. The book is one-third promotion of other people's books and products.

Two unflattering things emerged from this book about the author. One is that she is not really a Native American. The other is that she is a parasite. In her book, she tells of planning to live with the dead friend's family without paying rent or working. Just being herself is enough for them. She also tells of how her mother tried to get money from the Lakota Nation to further her education. Which begs the question, if she is an enrolled member of the Crow Nation, why is any of her family asking another Nation for help.
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On racism: If the author writes about Native American topics such as the Ghost Dance, and says that she is a Native American, this lends authority to what she writes. This is to establish the credibility of the author when she discusses "my people this, my people that". If she is not who she says she is, then it is proper to point that out.

One problem with the New Age Movement is the emphasis on feelings and emotions to decide whether something is credible. Also, the notion that all secrets must be told and no culture has a right to set up boundaries of what is to be discussed is another problem.

Very new-agey, not traditional Native American religion. I didn't read it all, I stopped reading when she starting espousing mormon beliefs about Jesus being Quetzecoatl and how he came to America in a conoe to spread the good word. It's like she just picked up the book of mormon, copied it, and added "native" words like "earth mother" and "sky father" to it. Very cheesy. Little too far out, even for me.

This book is one of the most profound and well-written texts I have placed my hands on in years. Words cannot describe the beauty with which it has been written. The author obviously has her heart and head in the places of Divine Presence and that is clear within every letter of this work. Ironically, I purchased this book five years ago and only recently picked it up to read, finding it difficult to put down. Realizing that "when the pupil is ready the teacher will come," I know this was the right time for me to read this work, lending time to my own evolution placed it in my hands to read at the perfect opportunity to appreciate the gift residing within its pages. It could only be assessed in a negative fashion by those not fully blossomed to receive its rich nector. Thank you Brooke Medicine Eagle for investing your life energy in the creation of this amazing work and for the courage to place your reputation on the line for the sake of Sacred Truth.

You can learn a very important lesson from this woman: how to make deception and plagiarism pay off. Did you know she is also a great female musician? So says one of her many self-promoting web pages. Brooke owes all the real female musicians on this planet a deep, heart-felt apology! If you can find a heart in there, that is. Oh yes...any New Age concept that $ells, you'll find this woman with her greedy hand in it. Crystal healing? You betcha! Feng Shui? Right again! Now she's even messing with the Messiah! Tres Goofy? This woman is laughing all the way to the bank! Check her out on the web...her background "history" has more twists and turns and redirections than the Mississippi. Every page I read has yet another interpretation of the roots of this unsavory tree. And her writing? HOO HAH! Save your money, kids. Want bad entertainment? Buy a used reading copy, then use it again to prop up some wobbling table. Better still, take it camping and recycle it in the noblest way possible. But please...don't squeeze The Last Ghost Dance. BLARGH!!!