Overview
A Native American healer, teacher, and activist, Rolling Thunder is known to millions of people through Doug Boyd's book about him and through his own tours and talks all over the world. This book is the summation of his teachings in his own words. As controversial and plain-speaking as Rolling Thunder himself, it exhorts, enlightens, and teaches through anecdotes and stories, forces us to listen and to think, and carries on his primary mission: to bring Indian knowledge to non-Indian people.Rolling Thunder Speaks represents the gathering of over 30 years of his tapes and writings, in addition to stories, lessons, and conversations remembered by his widow, Sun Rising Pope. Rolling Thunder mastered five different medicine traditions and healed and instructed both Indians and non-Indians for over forty years. In his book he provides information on Native American spiritual beliefs, practices, and healing, and discusses karma, prophecies, the political realities faced by Native Americans, history according to Indian beliefs, and his personal spiritual visions. Sun Rising Pope writes: "The words are his words; everything in this book is what Rolling Thunder taught." See also page 1.
Synopsis
A Native American healer, teacher, and activist, Rolling Thunder is known to millions of people through Doug Boyd's book about him and through his own tours and talks all over the world. This book is the summation of his teachings in his own words. As controversial and plain-speaking as Rolling Thunder himself, it exhorts, enlightens, and teaches through anecdotes and stories, forces us to listen and to think, and carries on his primary mission: to bring Indian knowledge to non-Indian people.
Rolling Thunder Speaks represents the gathering of over 30 years of his tapes and writings, in addition to stories, lessons, and conversations remembered by his widow, Sun Rising Pope. Rolling Thunder mastered five different medicine traditions and healed and instructed both Indians and non-Indians for over forty years. In his book he provides information on Native American spiritual beliefs, practices, and healing, and discusses karma, prophecies, the political realities faced by Native Americans, history according to Indian beliefs, and his personal spiritual visions. Sun Rising Pope writes: "The words are his words; everything in this book is what Rolling Thunder taught." See also page 1.