Fearless Engagement of Four Arrows The True Story of an Indigenous-Based Social Transformer

''This wide-ranging exploration of fearlessness examines the life and work of Four Arrows through the lens of Fisher's synthesized philosophy of fearism/fearlessness. It helps address the most urgent questions facing our generation today: How can we break the dominant trance of fear-based living that is killing us and destroying the ecosystem? How are we to find and practice the 'peaceful way' while sitting in the fire of social, cultural, and political conflict? By embracing the earth-honoring spiritual psychology of Indigenous cultures as revealed in Four Arrows' CAT-FAWN mnemonic for dehypnotizing society, cultivating fearlessness, and promoting healing and transformation. This is heady stuff for a non-scholar like myself, yet the author's sincerity, intensity, and concern for all people and the planet shine through the accounts of Four Arrows' one-of-a-kind life and Fisher's careful inquiry of that life and teachings. «Fearless Engagement of Four Arrows» reminds us that at the core of our greatest modern conflicts are not conceptual differences in ethics and philosophy but a much more difficult admission: how frightened we all are. The key to liberation from this fear remains right where it was abandoned centuries ago: in the sacred, interconnected, nature-based worldviews of our own ancestors, no matter where our DNA comes from.'' -Jeff Nixa, J.D., M.Div., founder of Great Plains Shamanic Programs and author of «The Lost Art of Heart Navigation: A Modern Shaman's Field Manual»