The vision of the mountain

In the 1980s, when I was teaching in the USA, I met Sun Bear, a prominent Lakota (Sioux) teacher and medicine man. Both of us were teaching at Sri Ramamurti Mishra’s Ananda Ashram in Harriman, upstate New York. At Ananda Ashram and at Sun Bear’s Medicine Wheel Gatherings I also met chief Wallace Black Elk, to whom this work is partly dedicated.

I should like to quote a text about Sun Bear’s outlook on life — and on the significance of the Medicine Wheel ceremonies. At the same time, I also see the text on the ceremony as showing its commonality with Yoga Nidra, both in terms of the state you experience and the result you achieve.