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Title: Spirit of the Rainforest: A Yanomamo Shaman's Story by Mark Andrew Ritchie ISBN: 0-9646952-3-5 Publisher: Island Lake Press Pub. Date: 01 January, 2000 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $14.95 |
Average Customer Rating: 4.77 (26 reviews)
Rating: 4
Summary: Incredible look at people as we really are.
Comment: Ritchie's book blew me away. It showed me that no matter what code of ethics one has, human beings still violate their own standards. The Yanomamo Indians have a standard which we would depict as savage: revenge killings, even when they did not know the perpetrator (as when disease takes a life); marriage by rape; wife beating ok to keep woman in line and preserve one's standing in the village; lying and stealing an expected way of life; etc. Even with these lower standards, Jungleman (one of the main characters) violated his own standards and was haunted with guilt since he violated his conscience. We keep thinking that guilt is just because of standards too high and restrictive. Spirit of the Rainforest showed me that changing the standards wouldn't help. People are the same everywhere. We would still do evil. The descriptions of the spirit world were also mind blowing. It is incredible to read first-hand accounts of trafficing with spirits! "Spirit" is a must read. Go for it! Christopher Barnes
Rating: 5
Summary: A Chronicle of Evil Spirits Making lives Miserable
Comment: This book contains some disturbingly gruesome details of real wars the Yanomamo tribes of the Amazon had with one another.... It is never-the-less an awesome look into the world of evil deceiving spirits who fight for the souls of these indians and who "quake" at even the thought of Jesus, and who the Yanomamos
shamans caught lying about Jesus. The Indians know Jesus as "Yai Pada" and the Father, who they call "Yai Wana Naba Laywa". They knew of Jesus before the first white man came. The evil Spirits only wanted to lead these Indians to a life of war and revenge. Which reminds me about what Father Amorth a Catholic Exorcist wrote about these demons: "I have heard demons tell me many times that they suffer more during exorcisms than in hell. When I ask "Why don't you go to hell, then?" they answer, "Because we are only interested in making this person suffer."
Jungleman the Shaman wrote: "I wish I had known the truth about Yai Wana Naba Laywa when I was a young man--it would have saved me so much pain and misery. But how could I? My spirits lied so much to me and tricked me. They were so beautiful, so wonderful, so hard not to want. They were the best at telling me split-truth. Now I'm at the end of this life, and I'm ready to begin my real life with Yai Pada."
Rating: 5
Summary: An Astounding Book
Comment: This astounding book might be the last piece of the religion puzzle I have been working, for as long as I can remember.
Jungleman, the omniscient narrator, tells how the Yanomamo Indians lived and suffered because of their association with bad spirits. I would describe it as a classic study in anthropology, not necessarily meant to be of any significant religious importance, but full of religious implication nevertheless.
The Yanomamo had always known of the Great Spirit, who made all spirits, but believed that he was too dangerous to approach. They were surprised that (A) the nabas (white men) knew of the Great Spirit and insisted that the Indians throw away their lesser spirits and let the Great Spirit in, and that only then would they be happy; and (B) that so many of the nabas, even though they knew of the Great Spirit, had not, themselves, let him in, and therefore were not happy. A few of the nabas were reasonably happy, in the knowledge of the existence of the Great Spirit, even though they had not actually let him in. But the Indians who had not let the Great Spirit in and continued their association with their lessor-mostly bad--spirits suffered (and the degree to which they suffered is the most astounding part of the book) for centuries with their eye-for-an-eye, tooth-for-a-tooth warrior mentality, killing their enemies, stealing and raping their women, and far worse.
Among the things that ran through my mind as I read Spirit of the Rainforest:
1. The now-extinct 15th Century pre-Columbian Arawak Indians, who associated themselves with good spirits-called Zemis--and lived in peace for 10,000 years and were happy
2. The continuing tragedy of the Israelis and Palestinians under their eye-for-an-eye, tooth-for-a-tooth rule
3. The teachings of Jesus
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Title: Eternity in Their Hearts:Startling Evidence of Belief in the One True God in Hundreds of Cultures Throughout the World by Don, Richardson ISBN: 0830709258 Publisher: Regal Books Pub. Date: May, 1984 List Price(USD): $14.99 |
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Title: Clash of Worlds by David Burnett, Peter Cotterell ISBN: 1854245708 Publisher: Monarch Books Inc Pub. Date: May, 2002 List Price(USD): $13.99 |
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Title: At Home in the Street : Street Children of Northeast Brazil by Tobias Hecht ISBN: 0521598699 Publisher: Cambridge University Press Pub. Date: 13 May, 1998 List Price(USD): $22.00 |
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Title: Peace Child by Don Richardson ISBN: 0830704159 Publisher: Regal Books Pub. Date: November, 1975 List Price(USD): $14.99 |
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Title: Darkness in El Dorado: How Scientists and Journalists Devastated the Amazon by Patrick Tierney ISBN: 0393322750 Publisher: W.W. Norton & Company Pub. Date: 14 January, 2002 List Price(USD): $14.95 |
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