Finally, I found the following internet sites to be very enlightening and enriching!

Co-Intelligent Prison Work: http://www.best.com/~cii/S-CIprisonwork.html
This site looks at ways to assist violent offenders and others to consider alternative ways. "The prison population in the U.S. doubled from 1981-1991, and has doubled again in the past five years, [writes Manitonquat (Medicine Story), a Native American elder, spiritual leader and Keeper of the Lore for the Assonet band of the Wampanoag Nation in what we now call New Hampshire.] [The prison program I work with is based on an indigenous understanding of] how to live a life that is harmonious and in balance. We notice that things tend to want to heal, to come to balance, to become better, and that human beings want in fact to learn, to become more aware, more conscious, and to make things better. [In our prison program] we encourage spiritual growth and seeking, because a whole human being must be aware of more than himself, that there is a vast mystery beyond our consciousness to which we must have some relation. (Manitonquat - Medicine Story)

Indigenous Healing Alternatives:
http://www.best.com/~cii/Plisteningcircles.html
I believe a co-intelligent civilization needs to be built, at its most elemental level, out of circles and spirals, just as many indigenous cultures were and are. Circles lend themselves to a sense of wholeness and balance, to an awareness of the rhythmic processes (cycles) of the world and our place in them. Circles make us conscious of context. (Manitonquat - Medicine Story)
Native American Spiritual Freedom in Prison: (Sketch by Black Crow)
http://www.nativeweb.org/pages/legal/trapp/index.html



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