Deep Healing, the Wild Way
Taking care of your emotional and mental health is just as important as your physical health. Its common knowledge that the Native Americans would perform special rituals and ceremonies for healing and connecting with other spirits. But we don’t hear much about the western American cowboys doing anything like that.
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As it turns out, the pioneers were pretty superstitious and even practiced fortune-telling. These tough cowboys would gaze into crystal balls and read tarot cards. Immigrants from Europe, like the Romani Gypsies, continued practicing their traditional, mystical fortune-telling rituals. Although many people (including myself) still believe in this kind of stuff, these days, it is considered a pseudoscience and are not as commonly practiced.