Feather Medicine: Walking in Shoshone Dreamtime : A Family System Constellation

by Francesca Mason Boring

Feather Medicine( Walking in Shoshone Dreamtine( A Family System Constellation) <> Paperback <> FrancescaMasonBoring <> LluminaPress

145 pages, Paperback

First published February 1, 2004

Reviews

[Alexandra Burns · Rating 5 out of 5]

Heart-opening view of another way of experiencing family.

[Kathleen Schmitt · Rating 5 out of 5]

For those who long for a different, more caring and understanding society, you need to read Shoshone member Francesca Boring's Feather Medicine. Boring sculpts fictional tales of a Shoshone community in which everyone belongs. Persons are valued for who they are, rather than who someone imagines the person should be. An example is the woman who has a baby, but does not have the maternal gifts to care for a child. The community simply allows another person with strong maternal gifts to care for the child. There is no condemnation of the unmotherly one. She is affirmed for her other gifts and contributions in the community. Another example is that a person who has the gift of "sight" is not shipped off to the psychiatrist. Rather, others who have similar gifts gather to to support and guide the gifted one as to the dangers and the wonderful potential the gift offers the community through this person.

Ancestors, in this community, are not gone and forgotten. Their memories and contributions are preserved in each family. It is possible to draw on the memories for strength. It is also possible to speak with an ancestor. We enjoy the wonderful sense of ancestors gathered around each individual, supporting and guiding that person.

Feather Medicine gives us much food for thought about the way human community can enhance the life of each person. In the highly individualistic world we live in, this alternative lifestyle offers us unique and wonderful challenges and the possibility of deep comfort.

[Laure Porché · Rating 5 out of 5]

This book broke my heart and mended it at the same time. It is absolutely beautiful and will remind your soul of what has long been forgotten in our society of striving to achieve. Francesca Mason Boring knits lives together and create an intimate portrait of a family, a culture, a world of presence to the essential. So much love for this book.

[Sharon · Rating 4 out of 5]

Loved it! As a student of Family Constellations, it may be one of my favorites in this genre. Beautiful ancestral stories connecting now to the past, providing healing for profound loss.