Yo, Dr. Quinn, You’re Double Parked!
There’s is simply too much expendable income burning holes in people’s pockets, even on the Upper West Side:
A fragrant mix of smoky sage and red willow bark filled an Upper West Side meeting room that’s windows were covered with blankets and plastic sheeting and whose door jams were sealed with duct tape.
Side note: if a healing ceremony starts with “sealing openings with duct tape,” count me right out.
Posted: February 13th, 2007 | Filed under: What Will They Think Of Next?Standing near the center of the room, an American Indian chief and medicine man, Harold “White Horse” Thompson, chanted and waved stone-filled rattles that pierce the darkness with streaks of light.
About 30 men and women who had come to the Children of Life interfaith center sat around the chief. They had come to participate in an American Indian healing ceremony called a Lowampi.
A small but growing number of New Yorkers are embracing Mr. Thompson’s holistic healing philosophy and making periodic trips to meet with him in South Dakota. In November, some of his adherents paid for him to travel to New York City, and last week they brought him back for another two-week stint.
