Notes

Chapter 1

1. Information about the importance of indigenous wisdom in modern society is from Angeles Arrien’s The Four-Fold Way: Walking the Paths of the Warrior, Teacher, Healer, and Visionary (San Francisco: HarperSanFrancisco, 1993), 3–5.

2. A thorough and succinct description of language development in infants and early humans can be found in Anne Karpf’s book The Human Voice: How This Extraordinary Instrument Reveals Essential Clues About Who We Are (New York: Bloomsbury Publishing, 2006), 83–109.

3. Malidoma Somé’s memoir, Of Water and the Spirit: Ritual, Magic, and Initiation in the Life of an African Shaman (New York: Penguin Group, 1994), offers a glimpse into a present-day culture still grounded in the oral tradition.

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