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On Mountains In Gary Pak's diasporic, Korean-Hawaiian novel A Ricepaper Airplane (University of Hawaii, 1998) a woodsman named Uncle Bhak serves a warm bowl of rice porridge, or juk, to Uncle S... More

Margaret Runyan Castaneda dies at 90; ex-wife of mystic author

Margaret Runyan Castaneda dies at 90; ex-wife of mystic author They were an unlikely couple, the Latin American immigrant and the West Virginia divorcee whose paths crossed in mid-1950s Los Angeles.But, by Margaret Runyan Castaneda's account, ... More

Sacred tradition of sweat lodges lives on

Sacred tradition of sweat lodges lives on Just outside Bozeman, a dirt road leads to a different kind of church.The small shelter sits atop a hill and next to a stand of aspen trees. Stacks of wood and brush, piles of blan... More

Pungeo Festival, the Boat People's Lunar New Year Celebration

Pungeo Festival, the Boat People Here is Taean, in South Chungcheong Province, by the West Sea.The Hwangdo Village is starting their Lunar New Year with Pungeo[풍어] Festival.The Pungeo Festival is hel... More

Centuries of Aboriginal stories find home in Manitoban anthology

Centuries of Aboriginal stories find home in Manitoban anthology Manitowapow: Aboriginal Writings from the Land of Water is a anthology of Indigenous Manitoban writings that weaves the past to the present through lush storytelling, poetry, speec... More

18-Mile Crack Seen by NASA in Antarctic Glacier

18-Mile Crack Seen by NASA in Antarctic Glacier Antarctica is so vast that the pictures give you no sense of scale. The pencil-thin line across the satellite image of Pine Island Glacier (above) is actually more than 18 miles lo... More

Isolated Peru tribe makes uncomfortable contact

Isolated Peru tribe makes uncomfortable contact Peruvian authorities say they are struggling to keep outsiders away from a clan of previously isolated Amazon Indians who began appearing on the banks of a jungle river popular wit... More

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Wisdom Keeper of The Month

U Shein Sayargyi

A shaman and healer from Yangon in Myanmar. Mainly working with people releasing their possessions and occupations of other spirits he later began to heal with medical plant and developed a

remedy called Gold Ash-Powder. The exact composition and the production process were given to him through visions and dreams by his „Devas“. He is very well known in the most parts of South-East Asia, due to his spectacular healing successes. He is the founder and director of a healing- and training center near Yangon.

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Book of The Month

Shamanism Without Borders - A Guide to Shamanic Tending for Trauma and Disasters

By The Society of Shamanic Practitioners

In this handbook, produced by the SSP, experienced practitioners explain techniques and principles used by shamans throughout time to deal with trauma and disasters and how these practices are still applied

today.

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Film of The Month

The Fast Runner (Atanarjuat)

By Zacharias Kunuk

Filmed in Northern Canada in the Inuit language, this film is based on a myth that has been passed down through the generations. This an epic story, and all of the

actors are Inuit. The cinematography is magnificent, and brings the frozen North to life as never before seen on the screen. It won the Camera d-Or for best feature at Cannes International film Festival. It's a cinematographic work of art and an impressive film.

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