Joseph Rael envisioned a book for children to teach them the important ideas that he learned as a child and has continued learning throughout his life.
About the Book
Every child is born a Holy Being
We are all on a journey—the Journey of the Holy Being. This journey starts when you are born. The secret is that you are already a Holy Being when you are born…Go ahead and read these ideas I am giving you, but beware because you will eventually become a Holy Being if you read this book! Actually, you already are—you just forgot ...
Southern Ute elder Joseph Rael (Beautiful Painted Arrow) offers words of wisdom to children and the young at heart, as told to David R. Kopacz, MD. Joseph fills the bowls of hearts and minds with 18 ideas to stimulate inventiveness, creativity, and an appreciation for sacredness in everyday life. Accompanied by Joseph’s artwork that further illuminates inventive ideas that are so needed in the great big bowl of Mother Earth.
Awards
2024 | Children's Illustrated / Non-Fiction Ages 6- 9 Years (Grades 1- 4)
Gold Nautilus Book Awards
Bios
JOSEPH RAEL, whose Tiwa name is Tsluu-teh-koh-ay (Beautiful Painted Arrow), is a visionary healer and artist. He brings together in his person Southern Ute (through his Mother) and Picuris Pueblo (through his Father) traditions and is a citizen of the Southern Ute Tribe and the United States of America. He is the author of many books, including Sound: Native Teachings & Visionary Art, Being & Vibration: Entering the New World, Ceremonies of the Living Spirit, and with David Kopacz, Walking the Medicine Wheel: Healing Trauma & PTSD and Becoming Medicine: Pathways of Initiation into a Living Spirituality. He is a graduate of the University of New Mexico and holds a master’s degree in Political Science from the University of Wisconsin. He has worked for Housing and Urban Development, the All Indian Pueblo Council, and the Indian Health Service, using Native American traditions and holistic health care to help those suffering from addiction. In 1983 he had a formative vision of Sound Peace Chambers and has overseen the construction of over 65 chambers on four continents, which led to him being recognized by the United Nations for his work for world peace.
DAVID R. KOPACZ, MD works as a psychiatrist at the Seattle Veterans Affairs primary care clinic and he is an education champion with the national VA Office of Patient Centered Care & Cultural Transformation, where he teaches Whole Health to VA staff across the USA. He is board certified in psychiatry and holistic & integrative medicine and is an assistant professor at the University of Washington. He has worked in many different settings and places, including holistic private practice, community mental health, and as clinical director of Buchanan Rehabilitation Centre in Auckland, New Zealand. David is the author of Rehumanizing Medicine: A Holistic Framework for Transforming Your Self, Your Practice, and the Culture of Medicine and with Joseph Rael, Walking the Medicine Wheel: Healing Trauma & PTSD and Becoming Medicine: Pathways of Initiation into a Living Spirituality.
Table of Contents
Opening
Ideas
1. You are born with a Bowl Full of Ideas in your heart, so that you are Inventive, Creative, and Holy…
2. Ideas are the building blocks of Life…
3. Wah-Mah-Chi is the word for God in Tiwa, which means Breath-Matter-Movement…
A Vision of Creation
4. The Creator made Earth, Water, Air, and Fire―all life comes from a balance of these four elements
5. The Idea of Earth
6. The Idea of Water
7. The Idea of Fire
8. The Idea of Air
A Vision of the People’s Future
9. Father Sky
10. The key to understanding life is found in the vowel sounds of the letters: A, E, I, O, U and in the numbers 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10…
11. Every child is born a Holy Being
12. To be a Shaman means you have to be able to be two places at once…
A Story of Sailors Living Under the Sea
13. We came from the Stars and we will return to the Stars…
14. The Earth is our Mother, if we care for Her, She will care for us…
15. We are here to repair the Medicine Wheel…
16. Sound & Vibration are the source of all creation…
17. La vida no mas un sueño es (Life is but A Dream)…
18. We don’t exist the way we think we exist―we are not just physical bodies, we are Sparkling Holy Beings…
Closing