John Crow Speaks

John Crow Speaks is the true story of a young boy's tutelage to the revered healer and guide, Bredda Man, one of the elders associated with the remote Maroon and Arawak communities of Jamaica still practicing the 'old ways.' The traditions that Bredda Man taught are said to have come from secret meetings in the bush among early African Medicine people, European Kabbalists and Masons. These teachings helped produce a people who were feared and respected as warriors and equally sought after as healers. Although the Maroons and Arawaks lived in isolation in the jungle, their shamanistic teachings and reverent communication with the earth has uplifted and influenced Jamaica and its popular culture for nearly four centuries. Here, for the first time in print, we come closer to the basic principles and practices of that spirituality as passed on by the elder Bredda Man to his young apprentice. John Crow Speaks is a moving spiritual memoir and an inspirational guide for anyone in search of a more expansive relationship to the earth. Book jacket.

Chet Alexander is a contemporary teacher of Kabbalistic Shamanism