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Selections from "Medicine Without an Expiry Date"

Accolades

ACCOLADES

Résumé | Book

"One of the best ritual leaders in North America."

Malidoma Somé, author of
Of Water and the Spirit:
Ritual, Magic, and Initiation in the Life of an African Shaman

"A ritual genius."

Daniel Deardorff, author of
The Other Within:
The Genius of Deformity in
Myth, Culture, Psyche

For full texts and video testimonials see below

Introduction

INTRODUCTION

Résumé | Book

Introduction by

Malidoma Somé, Dagara Elder,
Diviner, and author of
Ritual Power Healing and Community
Of Water and the Spirit
The Healing Wisdom of Africa

Cover Art

Rob Ramage

Cover Photo

Jean Cueta

Cover Design

Calyx Kuprowski

Inside Photo

Michael Julian Berz

Printing History

Printed in a Limited First Edition of 100 Copies by
Village Books | Bellingham

From the introduction by Malidoma Somé

“Medicine Without an Expiry Date argues fiercely for the reclamation of our own indigenous intelligence. The book weaves an intricate fabric of perception, melding personal experiences with indigenous ritual, stories of initiation, and a deep exploration of what Jones calls storycarrying.

 

He includes discussions of the wisdom of the body, emotional intelligence, the nature of education, and a look into the practical value of the wild mythic imagination.

 

Intended as a combination of “teaching harangue,” poetry, field notes, and guidebook, it defies simple categorization: it is sui generis, without genre, “of its own kind.”  .  .  .  a walk between two worlds, authored by one who received the name “Calls Forth Voices” from the Dreamtime, contributing an understanding and deep connection with the elemental knowledge of the indigenous into the personal, social and environmental domains of the modern.”

512 pages / Foursquare Trinity Press 2014
Library of Congress Cataloguing-in-Publication Data 2014930988
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SAMPLES

Résumé | Book

"One of the best ritual leaders in North America."

Malidoma Somé, author of
Of Water and the Spirit:
Ritual, Magic, and Initiation in the Life of an African Shaman

"A ritual genius."

Daniel Deardorff, author of
The Other Within:
The Genius of Deformity in
Myth, Culture, Psyche

Table of Contents

Résumé | Book

Acknowledgements

15

ACT of FAITH:  In-Roads

21

Introduction by Dagara Elder Malidoma Somé

Prologue In-Gree

21

27

Prologue In-Junction

Preamble

Genius

Trickster

Communication

Trouble

Travelling

27

29

30

33

37

40

43

Prologue In-Vocation

ACT I:  Worlds

49

Episode 1  Vastly Through Another World

1.1

1.2

1.3

1.4

1.5

1.6

1.7

1.8

1.9

1.10

1.11

1.12

1.13

Howl

Down the Rabbit Hole

The Ball of Yarn Winds Round

Ritual or Ceremony?

Is the Indigenous Worthy of Trust?

Spirit and Soul

Chautuaqua

Appealing to Nature and the Spirit World

The Unrepeatability of Magic

Indigenous Social Science

To Sleep, Perchance to Dream

Death

What Dreams are Made Of

49

50

52

55

57

59

62

64

69

71

72

75

77

79

Episode 2  Gifts of the World

2.1

2.2

2.3

2.4

2.5

2.6

2.7

2.8

2.9

2.10

2.11

2.12

2.13

2.14

2.15

2.16

Voices

Re-Membering

Conversation

Village

Technology

Leadership

Healing

Cosmology

Dreamtime (Fire)

Animism (Mineral)

Relatedness (Earth)

Adaptability (Water)

Sustainability (Nature)

Ritual

Gender

Initiation

79

85

88

90

94

98

104

109

111

114

116

117

120

122

125

129

135

Episode 3  A World of Unknown Animals

3.1

3.2

3.3

3.4

3.5

The Old Kikuyu Diviner

First Steps

A Bellwether for Danger

Taking the Bones Apart

The Bench

135

138

141

144

147

153

Episode 4  The World Has No End

4.1

4.2

4.3

4.4

4.5

4.6

Sacred Cows

The Seven Erotic Virtues

A Hundred Yards to Freedom

The Next Best Step

Quarelling

Practices

153

156

160

163

166

167

ACT II:  Frameworks

175

Episode 5  Contents Organic:  Working Model

5.1

5.2

5.3

5.4

5.5

5.6

5.7

5.8

5.9

5.10

5.11

5.12

5.13

5.14

5.15

Organic Wisdom

Map / Territory Problem and Learning

Table 1 - Domains of Human Consciousness

Meaning, Motivation, and Nutrition

Table 2 - Epistemology / Nutrition of Five Domains

Emotional Domain

Imaginal Domain

World Domain

Evaluation of Therapeutic Interventions

Table 3 - Therapeutic Models & Domain Qualities

Dimensions of Therapeutic Models

Stimulus Rsponse

General Semantics

Catharsis

Resonance

Divinely Empowered Action

Relations, Conscience, Responsibilities 

Table 4 - Relations, Conscience, Responsibilities

Departure for the Quickening of the Troubles

175

176

178

182

183

184

184

185

187

189

190

191

191

195

198

204

210

210

216

79

Episode 6  Critical Content:  Body Work

6.1

6.2

6.3

6.4

6.5

6.6

6.7

6.8

6.9

6.10

6.11

6.12

6.13

6.14

Nomadic Migrations

History of the Body

Reach, Relax, Breathe

Laughter Yoga

Diagram 1 - Agony and Ecstasy

The Impulsive Behaviour of Shakers

Rivering

Ringmaster and Entities

The Choreography of Rivers

Resonance and Resurrection

The Touch that Satisfies Both

Playing Catch (Apparently)

Suggested Rules When Death is in the Room

Efficiency

Choreography of Chaotic Terrains

221

223

225

227

229

231

235

236

238

241

243

246

251

253

256

259

Episode 7  Conducting:  Working Out

7.1

7.2

7.3

7.4

7.5

7.6

7.7

7.8

7.9

7.10

7.11

7.12

7.13

7.14

7.15

Electing

Difference and Standardization

Instincts of Mothering

Follow the Inner Drummer

Study Guide of the Genius

Tell the History of That Thing

Unstructured Environments

Voting Rights

Action Studies

River Dance

City Survival Day

Friday Nights

Meta-Curriculum

Games and Learning

Kiaigh — The Trouble That Causes Anxiety

259

261

263

265

267

269

270

273

275

278

279

281

287

289

292

295

Episode 8  Confusion Presses In:  Emotional Work

8.1

8.2

8.3

8.4

8.5

8.6

8.9

8.10

8.11

8.12

8.13

8.14

8.15

Losing Your Head

The Necessity of Fierceness

Armouring or Noticing

Becoming a Master Counsellor

Into the Labyrinth

Dialogue Between Perspectives

Larger or Smaller

Satisfaction

Agony and Ecstasy

Diagram 2 - Emotional Expression & Repression

Contact Boundary

Involvement or Disengagement

Table 5   - Needs, Interventions, Complexes

Table 5a - Physical Domain - Abandonment

Table 5b - Language Domain - Guilt

Table 5c - Emotional Domain - Despair

Table 5d - Imaginal Domain - Amusement/Ennui

Table 5e - World Domain - Loneliness

Recognizing Core Statements

Table 6 - Complexes - Core and Counter Statements

Gods of Fire and Water

295

296

300

304

307

309

311

314

317

319

319

322

322

323

325

327

328

330

331

332

336

343

Episode 9  Courage: Art Work

9.1

9.2

9.3

9.4

9.5

9.6

9.7

9.8

9.9

9.10

9.11

Who's Running the Show?

Drama Foundry

Listening in the Kiva

All Leader—No Leader

Diagram 3 - Creative Ensemble Governance

Dramatic Structures

Drumming Creative Ensemble

Clowns and Parody and Coyote

Diagram 4 - Liminality and the Ostanado-Solo

Audacity

Creative Meta Maps

The Apple Orchard

Table 7 - Active, Liminal & Reposing Gender 

The Big River

343

347

352

355

356

357

359

365

365

371

375

378

380

382

ACT III:  Spells

389

Episode 10  Help for The Injured

10.1

10.2

10.3

10.4

10.4

10.5

10.6

10.7

10.8

10.9

Whazzup?

Anamnesis

Intention

Divination

Supervisors

Squircle up

Choreography and Geography

Gatekeepers and Guards

The Other World

Next Day Closing

389

392

394

396

398

402

404

408

412

418

421

Episode 11  A Thousand Books of Histories

11.1

11.2

11.3

11.4

11.5

11.6

11.7

11.8

The Argonauts

The Caves of Memory

Singing for Supper

Ogre at the Kitchen Door

A Cloak of Eyeballs

Cooking the General

Damn . . . I'm Pretty!

The Land God Gave to Caine

421

423

425

427

431

433

437

440

447

Episode 12  Against the Power of Wind

12.1

12.2

12.3

12.4

12.5

12.6

The Secret Name

Dragons of the Genius

Band of Gypsys

Let the Wild Rumpus Begin

Il name della rosa

"Vamp 'till cue"

447

451

456

458

460

462

465

Episode 13  Go Down

13.1

13.2

13.3

13.4

13.5

13.6

13.7

13.8

You Can't Design Your Own Ritual

The Three Obstacles and the Four Devils

Countdown

E-Day

Journey to the Center of the Earth

The Elder's Harangue

The Golden Temple

Doggedness

465

469

473

477

485

491

494

496

Famous Last Words

About the Author

Events

From a distance

509

509

511

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