ISBN: Ostalo
Godina izdanja: 1993
Jezik: Engleski
Autor: Strani

Star Warrior: The Story of Swiftdeer
`Bear & Company` Santa Fe 1993.
broširano izdanje, odlično očuvana
ilustrovana, na engleskom jeziku; 260 str.

Wahlberg, a psychotherapist, tells the story of Harley `SwiftDeer" Reagan, a guru of the New Age who claims to be Native American and operates the Deer Tribe in Scottsdale, Ariz. Although the book bears Wahlberg`s name alone, it is told mainly in the first person from Reagan`s perspective. It details the ceremonies surrounding his beliefs about `spiritual sexuality" and `genital sense of self," supposedly garnered from Cherokee traditions. Wahlberg`s narrative style is straightforward. There are joyful memories, like Reagan`s teachings from his grandmother Spotted Fawn and his mentor Two Bears, a Navajo elder. There is also much pain as Reagan relates his tours of duty in Vietnam, a bout with leukemia and being raped during a stint in jail (for assault with a deadly weapon, among other charges). Reagan discusses his conflicts with Native traditionalists, who have denounced him as a poseur. Doubtless, many spiritual seekers have been touched by Reagan`s work, but given his blatant blending of different traditions, his claims to legitimacy as a Native medicine man stretch credulity. In his foreword, anthropologist Huxley, asks the most pertinent question: Why doesn`t Reagan announce his teachings as his own rather than making `difficult claims?`