Tales of the Whirling Rainbow: Soul*Sparks

By Steven McFadden

Tales of the Whirling Rainbow is a journalist's account of some of the key myths and mysteries of the Americas, and an electrifying exploration of how those myths are resounding in real time. Veteran journalist Steven McFadden weaves the living myths together seamlessly in a tightly written book that is eye-opening, and soul resonant.

Drawn from sources both ancient and modern, Tales of the Whirling Rainbow conveys adroit insights into key facets of North America's unfolding saga. Learning to respect these knowings is fundamental to our spiritual growth and progress on the land going forward in time.

McFadden tells the tales in plain, precise language, creating a quick but absorbing investigation into a deeply rooted mythos that offers keys to healing.

 

As the Sun awakens and earth changes intensify, our human lives attain high velocity. At this time and in this manner, elders across Turtle Island (North America) told the author, the human beings who are the different colors and faiths of the world will be moved. This will create opportunities to heal their web of relationships.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Light and Sound Press, LLC
• Release date: Dec 3, 2017
• ISBN: 9781386988052

Steven McFadden

Independent journalist Steven McFadden has been writing about CSA farms since their inception in America in 1986. With Trauger Groh he is co-author of the first two books on CSA: Farms of Tomorrow: Community Supported Farms, Farm Supported Communities (1990) and Farms of Tomorrow Revisited (1998). He’s also the author of The Call of the Land: An Agrarian Primer for the 21st Century. His other non-fiction books include: Profiles in Wisdom; Teach Us To Number Our Days; Legend of the Rainbow Warriors; A Primer for Pilgrims; and Classical Considerations. He’s also author of a contemporary, epic, nonfiction saga of North America that is freely available online: Odyssey of the 8th Fire.

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Acknowledgements

I stand in deep gratitude and appreciation for the many people who have influenced me, and helped me in hundreds of ways to come to the knowings expressed in this book. Miigwich. I honor you and your wise and generous offerings. Thank you Kathie Gabriel of Sedona, Arizona, for contributing your beautiful visionary art to this book. I thank and honor especially my Muse and partner in life, Elizabeth Wolf; with respect and love, this small treasure arises from us and is dedicated to you.

Great thanks also to the contemporary elders, and elders of eras past, whose enduring messages are woven into this ebook. Miigwich. My appreciation and tobacco offerings for you all. 

- Miigwich, Steven McFadden

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Tales of the

Whirling Rainbow

Authentic Myths & Mysteries

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Prologue

Chapter 1: Legend of the Rainbow Warriors

Chapter 2: Emergence of the Whirling Rainbow

Chapter 3: Sunbow Walkers

Chapter 4:  The Teachings of Our Hearts

Chapter 5: Caoocoochee

Chapter 6: Return to The House of Mica

Chapter 7:  New Period of the Sun

Chapter 8: Fusion

Epilogue

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Throughout the inhabited world, in all times and under every circumstance, the myths of man have flourished; and they have been the living inspiration of whatever else may have appeared out of the activities of the human body and mind...Myth is the secret opening through which the inexhaustible energies of the cosmos pour into human cultural manifestation.  - Joseph Campbell

Prologue

As the years of my life have unfolded, I have found my path interwoven often with the people, the mythology, and the ways of the rainbow. I've heard about and known the legends for a long time, at least 40 years.

Over those 40 years I've moved through phases and ranges of relationship with the legends: variously regarding them as engaging stories, as shared spiritual visions and mysteries, as a powerful metaphor, as true prophecy, as wishful thinking, as corrupted new age fantasy, as a  thread of provocative relevance at this warp in the tapestry of our unfolding human story, as interesting but irrelevant, and as an elegant, constructive, and unifying frame of reference. Life has continued to serve me up unavoidable encounters, and through this I have come to a place of understanding.

I’ve heard 40 or more tellings of rainbow mythology over the decades. One fairly recent afternoon — May 13, 2006 to be precise — I heard yet another telling of the rainbow tale, a convincing telling since it came from an impecably authentic source. With my dear friends Stephen Clarke and Carlos White Eagle, I was seated at the kitchen table in a rustic ranch house in Haystack, New Mexico, visiting with Navajo grandfather, Martin Martinez, his wife Janice, and his daughter, Kay.

Grandfather, in his 90's and nearing his transition on the Beauty Way, had life experience as a rodeo rider, a Code Talker in World War II, a community leader, and for many long, honorable years as a traditional Medicine Man and the ceremonial Keeper of Tzoodsil — the Blue Bead Mountain, or Mount Taylor, one of the Four Holy Mountains that mark the Four Corners of Turtle Island (North America).

Grandfather told us a story. He spoke in Navajo, and Kay translated. As we sat at the kitchen table and smoked a pipe in a sacred manner, Grandfather said he could remember long ago when he was a boy hearing some of the Medicine elders talk. The elders told him that during his lifetime there would come a dark era when many problems would arise on Earth. For many people it would seem as though there was no hope.

At that time, the elders told him, the rainbow people would arrive. These rainbow people would find a way to bring healing. The elders told him that it would be good and important — and that he would see it come true. Grandfather told us that he had never experienced that teaching in fullness until our moments at the kitchen table, and that he was deeply happy to be in ceremony with us, some of the rainbow