Author explores Native American spirituality

Author Nanci Des Gerlaise grew up as the descendant of a long line of medicine men. She describes in "Muddy Waters" how she broke free.

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Dreamcatchers, sweat lodges, ancestral spirits, alcoholism, and abuse: author Nanci Des Gerlaise grew up with them all. Her new book, "Muddy Waters: An Insider's View of North American Native Spirituality," which according to a news release exposes the current awakening and popularity of occult concepts borrowed from her Native roots.

"The focal point of my book is an appeal to the Christian audience to turn away from Native Spirituality and its demonic influences; I also want to equip them with the knowledge of how to deal with those in bondage to Native Spirituality."

In recent years, Des Gerlaise has noticed the trend of Native Spirituality slowly seeping into the public school systems under the guise of multiculturalism. She finds Christian's acceptance of Native Spirituality even more disturbing.

"My book exposes the current awakening and popularity of occult concepts and techniques in our culture. It's happening in many churches through the 'Emergent Church' movement. This new spirituality is the age-old evil of the occult just dressed up in another garb."

Born on a Métis Settlement in the late 1950s into a long line of medicine men, Nanci saw from an early age the effects this sorcery had on her large family. Her book features the story of her deliverance by the Lord Jesus Christ from the evils of her Native religion.

"I was rescued from the terrible darkness of Native American Spirituality; this book features my testimony as well as a solid Biblical analysis of our culture. It brings light to a muddy and little-understood subject at a time when demonic influences and deception are penetrating the culture and the churches."

Info: Winepressbooks.com



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I'm a follower of the Nordic heathen tradition, Asatru.

I support my fellow followers of an indigenous religion, the First Nation's peoples. While their paths aren't mine, they are noble and honorable paths, diametrically opposed to the foreign spiritual plague that is Christianity.
Their path and mine, along with other indigenous natural faiths, together hold this planet that we call home together.

I urge them to fight the good fight and vigorously defend the faith and their people from this cancer of Middle Eastern slave gods. Never surrender! Fight to good fight until we've achieved the liberation of this Earth which is our home!



by Lokisgodhi | Thursday, February 12, 2009  1:44:27 PM

Nanci Des Gerlaise,

I am Nican Tlaca, an Indigenous Person to Cemanahuac, what is falsely called “the Western Hemisphere.” Your attitude towards our "spirituality" is reminiscent of the white supremacist invaders who used such an approach to justify rape, genocide, enslavement, cultural castration, and the theft of our continent. These crimes were committed by savage barbaric white supremacist Europeans who thought they were being very Christian by committing such crimes against humanity. Is such an attitude “Christian?” Would Jesus Christ approve of the crimes done on our land in his name? Is your god a genocidal maniac like his followers? Is such behavior not demonic? Spirituality is not even the correct word; it is a euro-centric concept that was forced onto us by Europeans. We never spoke of “spirituality” before they invaded us. We understood our Creator as the universe in balance.

If you wish to shed your heritage and join the white man’s sacking of our culture, you are welcome to do so by accompanying the racist Europeans back to Europe.

Cuauhtlatl Huitzilopochtli

by Cuauhtlatl Huitzilopochtli | Thursday, February 12, 2009  1:18:35 AM



Hello,
I am a Native American convert to Christianity. What you have said about Native American Spirituality is not totally true. There are those who conjure demons and evil just like the Christians have them. But many Native Americans were worshiping the Creator when the Europeans were in caves worshiping idols. It is not a fair assessment of our culture or spirituality. When I came to Jesus, I already believed in the one Creator of the universe, like the Jewish people do.
I just accepted His Son. Calling all native American spirituality as being from demons, is like saying that all Christianity and Jesus is evil because of those who came in His name and murdered our people in the name of God.
Both ideas are totally wrong and biased.
S'gi (thank you),
Dave Kitchen


by DavethNative | Wednesday, February 11, 2009  11:09:25 PM

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