Thunderhead: A New Age Life and Times

By Medicine Hawk Wilburn and James T. Crawford, illustrated by Zola Novak

The Medicine Path, as taught by Medicine Hawk and the Shadowlight Medicine Clan, is a system of spiritual growth in a manner which is in harmony with all parts of the environment. This is a system in which we do not abuse our relationships with plants, animals, or minerals.

It is a system where we try to grow spiritually without forcing our beliefs on anyone else. It is a system based on Native American spirituality, but also includes other approaches. It is a system that tries to take the best parts from a variety of sources and weave them into a harmonious whole that will allow us to live in peace with all our relations: plants, animals, and minerals.

It is a system that recognizes that Spirit is in all things, and that all things are essentially sacred. It is also a system which recognizes that the world has changed, and that we must change with it. It is possible to walk a spiritual path even in concrete canyons where most of us live.

It is also not a system in which we can simply sit back and let the world go by. The Medicine Path is an active system, even a militant one, in which we must fight for the good of all our brothers and sisters, be they plants, animals, or minerals.

It is also a system based on common sense; not an idealized system that no one can really live with, but one based on ancient practices mixed with modern, some good common sense, a little logic, and a lot of love. It is a path for living fully in our lives on Turtle Island.

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If you bought one of the first 40 or so copies of the 2006 edition of Thunderhead, you have a collector's item. Chapter 4 was left out, and like those stamps with the airplane upside down, there won't be any more of these. Get a copy of Chapter 4 in PDF form by clicking over to the Thunderhead excerpt page.

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This edition of Thunderhead (ISBN 1-933514-03-5), completely revised and with new material, was released in September 2006, by Wind in the Forge Media in cooperation with Three Moons Media. The first edition was published under the title Totem, Thunderhead: the Life and Times of a Half Breed, and has been out of print for some time.