Grandmother Spider's SpiritWeb

Howdy folks! I have been Wiccan for the last 8 years and regretfully confess I haven't practiced the belief for approx. 3 of them. Now I come to the table in need of assistence and (gulp) help. My fiance' has a brother who for as long as he can remember has been "haunted" by visions and dreams influenced by a being that (from my understanding) calls itself "Archaos" (Ark-a-o-is).

The book "Standing Ground: Yurok Indian Spirtuality, 1850-1990" by Thomas Buckley, in chapter 4 "Seeing With Their Own Eyes," talks about the difference between academic style of learning and the learning process in Native American cultures:

The first acorns have started to fall. The ones the bugs have gotten to. Soon the good ones will be ready, and I will harvest my supply of acorns for another year.

All these years I have stumbled around reading Wild Edibles books with their incomplete and sometimes erroneous directions and experimenting on my own. Learning the hard way how to process and cook acorns.

I have just come back from being in the woods for almost two weeks with no electricity, no phones or running water. I camped with friends in a remote area on the Olympic Pennisula. Our camp consisted of an eclectic assortment of tents and teepees scattered in a beautiful green meadow. All around us the salmon berries gleamed golden ripe. They were a treat to nibble.

Files and books about the native peoples of the Americas.