Fearless Engagement of Four Arrows: The True Story of an Indigenous-Based Social Transformer

ISBN-13: 9781433134487 / Angielski / Twarda / 2018 / 338 str.

R. Michael Fisher

Opis

Fearless Engagement of Four Arrows offers a unique strong "medicine" for the reconstruction of a healthy, sane and sustainable future for all.

Recenzje

''This wide-ranging exploration of fearlessness examines the life and work of Four Arrows through the lens of Fisher's synthesized philosophy of fearism/fearlessness. It helps address the most urgent questions facing our generation today: How can we break the dominant trance of fear-based living that is killing us and destroying the ecosystem? How are we to find and practice the 'peaceful way' while sitting in the fire of social, cultural, and political conflict? By embracing the earth-honoring spiritual psychology of Indigenous cultures as revealed in Four Arrows' CAT-FAWN mnemonic for dehypnotizing society, cultivating fearlessness, and promoting healing and transformation. This is heady stuff for a non-scholar like myself, yet the author's sincerity, intensity, and concern for all people and the planet shine through the accounts of Four Arrows' one-of-a-kind life and Fisher's careful inquiry of that life and teachings. «Fearless Engagement of Four Arrows» reminds us that at the core of our greatest modern conflicts are not conceptual differences in ethics and philosophy but a much more difficult admission: how frightened we all are. The key to liberation from this fear remains right where it was abandoned centuries ago: in the sacred, interconnected, nature-based worldviews of our own ancestors, no matter where our DNA comes from.'' -Jeff Nixa, J.D., M.Div., founder of Great Plains Shamanic Programs and author of «The Lost Art of Heart Navigation: A Modern Shaman's Field Manual»

Spis treści

Photographs and Figures - Acknowledgments - Shirley R. Steinberg: Foreword: On Being a Warrior - Preface - Introduction - Part I: Fearless - Fearless Waters Deep - "Walking a Path of Harmony" - Radicalization of a Moralist - Part I Study Questions and Practices - Part II: Fearlessness - CAT-Nature as (Com)passionate Gifting - Dancing in/with the Spirit of Fearlessness - Part II Study Questions and Practices - Interlude - Part III: Courage(ous) - Radical Honesty: Harnessing the Magic of Fear - Befriending the "Gift of Fear" - Part III Study Questions and Practices - Part IV: Brave(ry) - The Bronco and the Boat - Part IV Study Questions and Practices - Four Arrows: Epilogue - Appendix: The CAT-FAWN Model - Index.

O autorze

R. Michael Fisher has a Ph.D. in curriculum and instruction and a masters of adult education from The University of British Columbia. He is the founder of the In Search of Fearlessness Project and Research Institute. Fisher is the author of hundreds of published articles, as well as book chapters and monographs, focusing on the topics of education, fear, and fearlessness. His two prior books are leading-edge explorations: The World's Fearlessness Teachings (2010) and Philosophy of Fearism (2016).