Silly feminist semi-fiction, presented as Castaneda-verite. This
tiresome and ethnographically absurd account tells how trendy
Beverly Hills sophisticate Andrews travels to a Cree reservation in
Manitoba to be initiated into all sorts of Heavy Indian Lore by a
medicine woman named Agues Whistling Elk. The latter is a
storehouse of non-denominational native wisdom: she talks casually
about kivas, kachinas, "grandfather peyote button," and
Quetzalcoatl, despite the fact that all this belongs to tribal
cultures thousands of miles to the south. She also passes on to
Andrews such philosophical gems as, "We are travelers of the
dimensions. Do not be caught in the prisms of eternity. Start
thinking with your stomach. There are two dogs who stand guard in
your stomach. Their names in English are jealousy and fear," and
"You were blessed tonight, Lynn. Your wolfness is very powerful."
Andrews acquires this lupine strength after months of
apprenticeship to Dona Agues. She needs it because she has to do
battle with an evil shaman named Red Dog, who is actually a white
man and a renegade priest, for possession of a portentous "marriage
basket," inevitably symbolic of the mighty female life force. After
various hokey adventures she gets the basket and heads back to
Southern California, perhaps to lay a little Indian satori on her
chic but unempowered friends. The plot creaks, the dialogue drags,
and the whole package defies belief. (Kirkus Reviews)
A fascinating Castaneda-like spiritual journey into the wilderness of Manitoba, where Lynn Andrews meets Agnes Whistling Elk, the Native American "heyoehkah," or shaman, who will change her life.
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