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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