{"product_id":"hail-chanter-star-song-9798890222329","title":"Hail Chanter: Star Song","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eAuthor of\u003cem\u003e Evil Chasing Way, Hand Trembler and Sungazer\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eHail Chanter,  Book Four, in the Star Song series, features one man winding and wending his way through Southwestern real-time and dream-time. This novel serves as the final healing rapture of the previous three books: Evil Chasing Way, Hand Trembler, and Sungazer.\u003cbr\u003eIn the earlier novels, the author\/storyteller used the ancient art of singing to a star, hand trembling, and praying. The result, from the traditions of the Navajo Old Ways, turns a burning light into a healing one. This process took place on an operating table and in a radiation chamber. Hausman states: \u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\"I followed the sacred speech that a star makes. It lived within me and healed both the inside and outside of me.\"\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe emergence ceremony in Hail Chanter intertwines a mixture of ancient religion with modern medicine. The novel portrays Winter Thunder blowing apart a human form, making it all come together. The healer said: \u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\"It all comes together like a bunch of broken parts waiting to be annealed all over again.\"\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThis captivating story maintains Jack Andrews as the hero from the first three novels, while also exploring the character of Jay DeGroat, a Navajo friend of Gerald's for fifty years.\"...Hausman honors Native American philosophy and spirituality even as he reveals it.\" -Booklist\u003cbr\u003e\"Carlos Castaneda would've loved this book.\" -Dr Michael Gleeson, Anthropologist\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding Type:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Speaking Volumes LLC\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 10\/19\/2024\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN:\u003c\/b\u003e 9798890222329\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 122\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.42lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.29d","brand":"Gerald Hausman","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":52051686162613,"sku":"9798890222329","price":12.71,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0473\/0804\/6492\/files\/img_1d98bc78-b765-4680-8e03-62452683b7ef.jpg?v=1764047687","url":"https:\/\/pastforward.org\/products\/hail-chanter-star-song-9798890222329","provider":"Past Forward","version":"1.0","type":"link"}