Dreamspeakers Tradition Book

See also: Tradition Book: Dreamspeakers (revised edition)

Summary[]

From the White Wolf catalog:

If you knew the truths we do, you'd run from your sins.

Formed as a compromise, shunned as throwbacks, the Dreamspeakers now emerge from the mists to guide the world to an awareness of its ills. Kindly if possible, by force if necessary...

Now all your crimes have come upon us, my friend, and there is nowhere to run.

From the shadows of the "primitive" world, the shamans come, visions in their eyes and anger in their hearts. This book, Dreamspeakers, presents their side of the nine-fold debate called the Council of Traditions. From their uneasy beginnings to their resurgence in the modern era, the Dreamspeakers have walked a steady road. To join them, you must put aside your prejudices and follow the Dream Path...

Let us Dream the World Anew!

The path of the shaman explained;

Divisions and specialties among the Tradition's ranks;

New medicine, templates, characters and more.

Contents[]

Dreams of Steel and Concrete[]

Lexicon

Chapter One: Shattered Visions[]

Chapter Two: Walking the Spiritpaths[]

Chapter Three: Beyond the Dream[]

Chapter Four: Speakers of the Sacred Tongue[]

Templates
- Inner-City Spirit Doctor
- Techno-Shaman
- Dream Therapist

Appendix: Inside the Dreamwheel[]

Medicine (Rotes)
- Spirit Cloak ( Mind, Spirit)
- Trailblazing ( Prime, Spirit)
- Dreamcry ( or Correspondence, Mind, Spirit)
- Nightmare Dance ( Spirit or Mind, often with Correspondence)
- Healing Slumber ( Life, or Mind, or Spirit)
- Spear of My Fathers ( Matter, Spirit, Prime)
Recommended Reading
- Black Elk Speaks, as told through John G. Neihardt
- Carnival of the Spirit: Seasonal Celebrations and Rites of Passage, by Luisah Teish
- Crying for a Dream, by Richard Erdoes
- Dreamtime and Inner Space: the World of the Shaman, by Holger Kalweit
- Hawaiian Religion and Magic, by Scott Cunningham
- Introduction to African Religion, by John S. Mbiti
- The Native Americans: An Illustrated History, by Turner Publishing
- Pre-Columbian Religions (Holt History of Religion Series), by Walter Krickeberg, et al.
- Red Earth, White Lies: Native Americans and the Myth of Scientific Fact, by Vine Deloria, Jr.
- Voices of the First Day: Awakening in the Aboriginal Dreamtime, by Robert Lawlor
- Of Water and the Spirit: Ritual, Magic and Initiation in the Life of an African Shaman, by Malidoma Patrice Somé, Sangoma: My Odyssey into the Spirit World of Africa, by James Hall, Shamans of the 20th Century, by Ruth-Inge Heinze and War of the Witches by Timothy J. Knab.
  - Inspirational Music Artists
    - Between Father Sky and Mother Earth
    - Douglas Spotted Eagle
    - King Sunny Ade and Oneness of Juju
    - Mickey Hart
    - Native Flute Ensemble
    - R. Carlos Nakai/Jackalope
    - Rage Against the Machine
    - Robbie Robertson and the Red Road Ensemble
    - Thunderdrums (Scott Fitzgerald)
    - Bill Miller
    - Blood of Abraham
    - Ladysmith Black Mambazo
    - Honor: A Benefit for the Honor of the Earth Foundation
    - Horselips
    - Rusted Root
    - Sounds of the Earth (Steve Roach, David Hudson & Sarah Hopkins)
    - Speech/Arrested Development

Background Information[]

Authors' dedication is made to Floating Eagle Feather, Carla Hollar and special thanks to Phil Brucato. Phil Brucato thanks Owl Goingback and Amy Reed.

Memorable Quotes[]

Characters[]

Dreams of Steel and Concrete
- Michael Skyhawk - Dreamspeaker
- Hank
Chapter One: Shattered Visions
- Kelekokio - Dreamspeaker, Hawai'ian
- Wida - Dreamspeaker, Australian
- Dhamburu (He-Who-Is-Outcast, Killer-of-Dreams) - First Vision Mocker
- Columbus - Historical Figure
- David Livingstone - Historical Figure
- Kepler - Historical Figure
- Francis Bacon - Historical Figure
- Sir Isaac Newton - Historical Figure
- Charles Darwin - Historical Figure
- Sao Cristabao
- Nashoba - Dreamspeaker
- Bejide - Dreamspeaker
- Sigmund Freud - Historical Figure
- Carl Jung - Historical Figure
- Karl Marx - Historical Figure
- Leonard Peltier - Historical Figure
- Dr. Martin Luther King - Historical Figure
Chapter Four: Speakers of the Sacred Tongue

Terminology[]

Lexicon: Aiyana (Rank), Diaspora, Dreampath, Dreamtime, Great Dream, Howahkan (Mawiya and 'Uhane), Kaimi, Mana, Mawiya (Atman), Medicine, Moe'uhane, Nahimana, Path of Nightmares, Rituals, Sacred Objects, Shaman, So'cha, Society of Dreams, Sorcerer (Witch), Tarehe, Tisa, 'Uhane (Essence: Donoma, Maska, Haidera, Virena), Vision Mocker, Wemilo; Other Terminology: Dreams (Visions, Maya, Pathways of the mind, Sleeping Realm, Moe'uhane, Spirit Visitations and Waking Sleep), Dreamspeakers (Sami, Lorekeepers, Bakhita, Honored Ones, Servants of the Tribe, Medicine Men, Hada, Ramla, Gowan, Kha'vadi, Spirit Doctors, Konata, Medicine Workers, Taiun-ki, Dreamcallers, Anuvari, Maskai, Babalwos, Sangoma, Spirit Workers, Men of High Degree and Wise Women, among others), Spirits (Invisible, Other Beings, Iwa, Little Brothers and Sisters, Shining Ones, the Timeless, Friends Within, Hidden Helpers, Brethren, Et, Grandfathers, Grandmothers, Umbrood, Wisdom Speakers, Vision Guides, Branches of the Sacred Tree, Weavers of the Hoop and Meridians); 1441, 1456, 1464, 1466, 1756, 1800s, 1863, 1975, Africa, Amazon, Animal and Plant Spirits, Asheville, Asia, Australia, Bagheera, Balam, Banes, Baruti, Bastet, Bata'a, Burning Times, Cabal of Pure Thought, Caribbean, Central Park, Changelings, Changing Breeds, Circle, Contraries, Convocation, Corax, Council of Nine, Dooley's (Bar), Dreaming, Dream Spirits (Chimera), Epiphlings, Europe, Faeries, Familiars, Festival of Lights, Fetishes, First Cabal, Fomori, Four Winds, France, Garou, Ghost Dance, Ghost Wheel Society, Grand Circle, Great Dream, Great Tarehe, Greece, Gurahl, Haiti, Hashiya (Unknown Mexican Shapeshifter), Hawai'i, Horizon, Human Spirits, India, Inquisitors, Jagglings, Keepers of the Sacred Flame, Khan, Kopa Loei, Kwanzaa, Lodge of the Gray Squirrel, Manhattan, Maya Dream Realms, Medicine Path, Mediterranean, Mimis, Mistridge, Mokolé, Mokolé Mbembe, Mo-Mo Keu Dreamlands, Mythic Age, Nature Spirits, NC, Nevada, Njia Panda (Realm), Nunnehi, Nuwisha, Nyimba (a Sing), Odu, Onikari (Realm), Order of Reason, Otherworld, Paradox Spirits, Pattern Spiders, Pumonca, Pure Land, Pure Ones, Qualmi, Realms, Reckoning (Duel), Red Spears, Rome, Russia, Scandinavia, Second Tribunal, Second World of the Dinéh, Seeking, Siberia, Silent Striders, Simba, Sleepers (Sleepwalkers), Society of the Twisted Serpents, Solitaries, South America, South Dakota, Spain, Spheres, Sun Dance, Swara, Time Spirits (Zeitgeists), Totems, Turongs, Uktena, Umbra, United States, Vampires, Visions, Visionquests, Vortices, Voudoun, Weaver, "Weaver, Wyrm and Wyld Spirits", Wendigo, Werewolf, World War II, Wyck, Wyld, Wyrm, Yambula, Yambula'kitino (Realm), Zimbabwe, Zone,

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