This is the true story of Charles Langley, an Englishman from London, who became apprentice to a powerful Navajo Indian medicine man in the remote desert of the American Southwest. His early experiences of Navajo witchcraft, divination and healing, and of the visions induced by the peyote cactus, proved so remarkable and so other-worldly, he quickly realized that others would have difficulty believing them. Encouraged by the medicine man Blue Horse, and using skills honed as a top British journalist, Langley began to keep a detailed diary of the extraordinary events he witnessed in the company of this powerful American Indian medicine man. It is from these diaries, nearly half a million words in length-- much of which must remain secret--that this compelling first person account has been crafted. Readers will learn of the daily fight against witches and witchcraft. Of skin walkers, who are human shape shifters the Navajo believe can turn themselves into animals and birds; of visions, and of extraordinary feats of divination and healing, as well as fascinating insights into the unique culture of the Navajo tribe. As Blue Horse’s apprentice, Langley finds himself inhabiting a parallel world filled with exactly the kind of ancient mysticism and beliefs that his western upbringing and education have taught him to scoff at. But which increasingly become the everyday reality of his life. Eventually, he must choose either to continue his big city existence, with its comfortable lifestyle and preconceptions, or accept that the terrifying world of Navajo witchcraft is real and that, despite the risks, he must explore it to the end.

Spirit Land The Peyote Diaries of Charles Langley: Against Witchcraft and Evil Ones

History

Langley, Charles

Americas

CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform

A chance meeting with a young Navajo Indian propels an English traveler out of his middle-class life and into the world of North American Indian Medicine Men, a world where people genuinely believe that witchcraft can bring ruin, even death, and only Medicine Men have the knowledge to lift curses and restore the sick to health. Along the way, he travels across the beautiful Southwest, famous for its fabled Route 66 and breath-taking scenery.

Meeting the Medicine Men: An Englishman's Travels Among the Navajo

Politics & Social Sciences

Social Sciences

Nicholas Brealey

Illustrated children's book (ages 3-10 yrs). Two stories in one book. Catherine Meets a Very Big Bird introduces the characters. (Geku is a wise bird who takes his friends on fascinating trips.) Catherine and Geku Go to Camp relates the first of several trips.

Catherine & Geku : The Adventure Begins

Children's Books

Literature & Fiction

Research Triangle Publishing

Meeting the Medicine Men: 2nd Edition (Spirit Land)

Religion & Spirituality

New Age & Spirituality

Independently published

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