Meditations with Animals: A Native American Bestiary [Paperback]

Gerald Hausman (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: June 1, 1986

This first bestiary ever compiled from the Native American tradition brings forth sacred animal spirits and reminds us of our deep connection to Mother Earth. Powerful poems and meditations, legends and stories, show the helping and healing roles animals have played since the beginning.

Editorial Reviews

Review

"In this collection of verse and story, we are brought into the primordial community of the universe, the Earth, and all living things."
(

Thomas Berry, from his introduction

)

From the Back Cover

NATIVE AMERICAN / SPIRITUALITY

These powerful poems and meditations, drawn from Native America legends and stories, bring forth sacred animal spirits and remind us of our deep connection to Mother Earth.

In the words of a 101-year-old Santo Domingo Pueblo man who first encountered this book on the lips of his grandson: “Tell the poet he hit the true vein--the old ways are still our ways, and they will never die.”

Praise for Meditations With Animals
“In this collection of verse and story, we are brought into the primordial community of the universe, the Earth, and all living things.”
--Thomas Berry, from his introduction

Praise for Gerald Hausman's earlier work
“Hausman's work is spare and suggesting, evoking mood through images in the natural world...his work is influenced both in style and tone by Native American songs...strong, clear, elemental poems...”
--Publisher's Weekly

Praise for Bear & Company's Meditations With series
“These quiet presentations of spirituality are remarkable for their immediacy and clarity.”
--Publisher's Weekly

GERALD HAUSMAN has received high acclaim for his numerous works on Native America subjects. His books include: Meditations with the Navajo, Turtle Island Alphabet, Native American Animal Stories, Ghostwalk, Prayer to the Great Mystery, Navajo Nights, and Eagle Boy. He lives on an island in southwestern Florida.

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Product Details

• Paperback: 144 pages
• Publisher: Bear & Company (June 1, 1986)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0939680262
• ISBN-13: 978-0939680269
• Product Dimensions: 8.5 x 5.5 x 0.4 inches
• Shipping Weight: 5.6 ounces (View shipping rates and policies)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #1,185,891 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
  • #50 in Books > 4-for-3 Books > Religion & Spirituality > New Age > Meditation
  • #73 in Books > 4-for-3 Books > Nonfiction > Social Sciences > Special Groups > Native American Studies

More About the Author

I am an inveterate storyteller, which is to say: I love to do it, am helpless not to do it, and I do it all the time, even when I am by myself there is an inner monologue going on in my head. This habit of privately roving around in the land of legends is something I've done for as long as I can remember. My mom worried about me when she saw that I spent too much time by myself. I would creep into a closet and close the door and in the silence of the darkness I would spin tales of all kinds. I was never lonely as a kid because I had the imagination of a wild thing, and I was content to play in the fields and valleys and secret caves of that imaginary world.