DAVID CARSON, a world renown author and medicine person steeped in the tradition of Native American lore, will be joining the healers and teachers at the “Just For The Health Of It!!” conference being held at the Marina del Rey Marriott Resort in Marina Del Rey, California the weekend of February 3 -6, 2006.
Of Choctaw decent, David Carson has absorbed and sought out Native American spiritual knowledge since growing up in Oklahoma Indian country and has lived on Crow, Sioux, and Cheyenne reservations in Montana and Manitoba. He distilled some of that knowledge in his MEDICINE CARDS: The Discovery of Power Through the Ways of Animals, the hugely successful (has sold over a million copies) divination system based on traditional animal medicine. David has lectured and given animal consultations and medicine card readings to thousands of people worldwide to guide them to their own personal truth and healing, and has worked with shamans from Siberia to Hawaii.
Now, at the Marina del Rey conference and in his extraordinary new book Crossing into Medicine Country: A Journey in Native American Healing, he tells us the story of his initiation as a conjure man—a ceremonial healer—with the Choctaw medicine woman Mary Gardener. For three years, he studied the arts of power plants and medicine animals, how to manipulate the layers of energy surrounding human beings, and how to use sacred tobacco in ritual, curing, and divination. Through Mary’s teachings, often conveyed in folktales of the primordial healer Yellow Tobacco Boy, and through his own, sometimes mind-bending experiences, David gives us a look into an alternate reality, in which health and illness express the balance between man and nature, and Western notions of physics do not operate.
“Part Mark Twain, part Carlos Castaneda, David Carson is a born storyteller. His tale is a rich broth of enchantment, wisdom, holy mischief.”
--Julia Cameron, author of The Artists Way
“David Carson captures a segment of spiritual history that until now has been suppressed. Crossing into Medicine Country is transformational literature at its best. His stories give completely new insights in ancient healing practices.”
--Cody & Robin Johnson, founders of The Great Rethinking Conferences and The Prophets Conferences
“Crossing into Medicine Country is a rare account of a true transformational experience, which holds the key to profound healing.”
--Olga Kharitidi, M.D., author of Entering the Circle and The Master of Lucid Dreams
At the February Marina Del Rey conference David Carson will be joining Adam, the amazingly gifted distant energy healer, Donna Eden, a gifted energy healer with the inborn ability to see the body's energies, internationally recognized healer Eric Pearl, Howard Martin who has been instrumental in developing and teaching HeartMath's breakthrough proven healing principles, Dr. Larry Dossey, whose ever-deepening explication of non-local mind provides a legitimate foundation for the merging of spirit and medicine, and Lynne McTaggart who has become a well-respected international spokesperson on the practices of conventional and natural cures through alternative medicine.
During the “Just For The Health Of It!!” weekend David Carson will give a one hour talk, present a three hour animal medicine workshop, and be available for individual consultations.
Information linked at www.greatmystery.org
David Carson will also be the shamanic guide for
THE GREAT NORTH AMERICAN SOUTHWEST PILGRIMAGE OF HEALING AND RENEWAL
CROSSING INTO MEDICINE COUNTRY
MAY 5 - 14, 2006
A Life Affirming Adventure with the Native Americans
New Mexico, Utah, Arizona
www.greatmystery.org/events/sw06.html
The “Just For The Health Of It!!" Conference and The Great North American Southwest Pilgrimage of Healing and Renewal are being presented by Axiom Conferences who have also brought you the What the Bleep Do We Know conference series, The Great Rethinking UK Conferences, and The Prophets Conferences. Contact: office@greatmystery.org.
