The Voice of Rolling Thunder: A Medicine Man's Wisdom for Walking the Red Road
Cherokee and Shoshone Rolling Thunder (1916–97) has been called a living representative of Native American wisdom as well as a healer. This book, written jointly by Morning Star Jones, Rolling Thunder’s grandson, and Krippner, a psychologist and friend who spoke at conferences with Rolling Thunder, includes anecdotes and eyewitness accounts of his healings as well as recordings of his talks made by longtime friend Mickey Hart, of the Grateful Dead. Rolling Thunder was also an activist who taught his listeners how to walk softly upon Mother Earth and established a green community in Nevada called Meta Tantay—a place where visitors could study Native American medicine and traditional lifestyles. Referring to the earth as a living being, Rolling Thunder taught—far in advance of recent discussions of global warming—that the sickness of the natural environment is a reflection of the sickness of human beings. According to the authors, this book is both a glimpse of this controversial man who some thought to have authentic shamanic powers and others thought to be a charlatan and the story of an exciting era in American history. --Deborah Donovan