In The Dream Seekers; Lee Irwin demonstrates the central importance of visionary dreams as sources of empowerment and innovation in Plains Indian religion.Irwin draws on 350 visionary dreams from published and unpublished sources that span 150 years to describe the shared features of cosmology for twenty-three groups of Plains Indians. This comprehensive work is not a recital but an understandable exploration of the religious world of Plains Indians.The different means of acquiring visions that are described include the spontaneous vision experience common among Plains Indian women and means such as stress; illness; social conflict; and mourning used by both men and women to obtain visions.
#8562476 in Books 2003-02-27Original language:English 9.00 x 6.00 x .25l; #File Name: 0805955755152 pages
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0 of 2 people found the following review helpful. My Dad Wrote This BookBy JJDad just died at 94. He was a WW ll and Korean Vet and it was hell at home growing up w/ him. He had PTSD after Korea and was a victim of the American War Machine that chewed men up and spit them out in pieces. I've spent my life trying to recover from his abuse. Maybe this book was an attempt on his part to put it all into some kind of perspective. War sucks!
