The Friendship Pack: Open the Gift of Friendship and Learn the Secret of the Native American Medicine Bag

by Andy Baggott, Grey Wolf

The dense forests of northeastern America were once home to the Algonquin tribes whose highly developed culture addressed the need of having congenial relations with their neighbors. The three basic principles of Algonquin society - that consensus is the basis for group action, that sharing is important, and that humans are part of the web of the natural world - have profoundly influenced Western civilization and European settlement of North America. Unfortunately, they are also ideas that we often forget in our modern, frenetic world. The Friendship Pack helps readers to rediscover these fundamental life principles with a beautifully illustrated book about the history and culture of the Algonquins and European settlers in America, and a medicine bag, used in Algonquin communities as a ritual gift to cement ties of friendship. The Friendship Pack is a vibrant instructional manual about how to live a happier and more harmonious life by changing for the better and learning from the wisdom of the ancient ones.

96 pages, Hardcover

First published October 15, 1999

About the author

I am a writer, life guide and practicing shaman of the Celtic and pre-Celtic tradition and have also spent much of the past thirteen years working as a complementary medical practitioner treating patients with a wide variety of ailments. I have been practicing Tai Chi and Chi Kung for fifteen years and currently teach Yang Family Long Form and various Chi Kung forms running weekly classes, individual sessions and workshops. I endeavour to live in harmony with nature so eat a largely macrobiotic-style diet of organic grains and locally grown vegetables. Spiritually I follow a Celtic shamanic path whilst embracing many of the ideas of various traditions including Taoism, Buddhism, Native American spirituality and Christianity.

Reviews

[Sharon Robertson · Rating 4 out of 5]

Amazing inccorporating Amercan Indian history and fables the book was superb.