Dancing On The Edge Books
Other Books by Phyllis Cronbaugh

Discovering the Magickal Mysterious Character: Empowering Teens and Women of All Ages Using a Journey of Native American Teachings (fiction)
In the spring after Sam’s eleventh winter, she meets Grandmother Wisdom Keeper, an old Native American Medicine Woman and begins the journey of her life. The old woman has been waiting for Samantha since her birth, for Sam is destined to become the next Wisdom Keeper far in the future. Sam finds this prophecy overwhelming, yet fascinating and irresistible. Her intense desire to learn the ways of Grandmother’s people draw her to discover the beauty of the Path of the Red Road. Grandmother guides Sam with the help of the little people and animals of the forest to discover her Sacred Dream; the lessons she has chosen to learn in this lifetime, and the legacy she has promised to leave to the next seven generations. The chapters of her normal teen years set the stage for Grandmother’s teachings and Sam soon embraces the Magickal Mysterious Character within herself.
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Discovering the Magickal Mysterious Character is the first in the Dancing On The Edge Series (See below). These books bring Native American teachings that inspire and empower the reader. It is a adventure combining Native American spirituality, traditions, folklore and fantasy in a modern-day setting. Teens and adults alike will discover that this knowledge is just as valuable today as it has been for millennia. Three sequels are planned. See below for more details.

The Talking Stick: Guarantee You Are Understood and Not Just Heard (non-fiction)
The Talking Stick is a simple tool that can be used by five-year olds or fifty-year olds… in the bedroom or in the boardroom. Promote respect and build self-esteem while settling arguments, making decisions, or brainstorming. The book gives guidelines on how you can become a Certified Talking Stick Mediator and create your own talking stick medicine tool. Learn the mystery of how the Iroquois Confederacy really used this secret weapon, which kept them at peace for over 700 years. Available NOW from this website!

Yes, It's Possible to Change Your Past: Combining Ancient Shamanic Wisdom and Quantum Physics to Help You Consciously Create the Life You’ve Only Dreamt About (non-fiction)
Have you ever wanted to change your past, knowing that if you did your future would be significantly different? Do certain events from your past influence your behavior or even haunt you today? The movie What the Bleep Do We Know states that it is possible to change the past. Quantum physics proves it, and many indigenous peoples have known how to do this for millennia. Implement this ancient technique called Erasing Personal History and your past will be changed forever, opening doors to a future you've only dreamt about. Click the cover of the book to go to the website.
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Wild Woman Rites of Empowerment Bible - Over 50 Life-Changing Ceremonies (non-fiction)
Rites of Passage, or what we call Rites of Empowerment, have helped people celebrate the natural evolution in their lives for thousands of years. Today few milestones are celebrated and those that are gloss over and fall short of addressing the emotional issues that mystify and create havoc in our worlds. Indigenous peoples have always celebrated the natural cycles of change and rites of passage promote the mourning that goes with accepting changes in our lives and closure heals the wounds of our inner child.  Rites of Empowerment celebrate our growth and maturation as individuals as we travel along our Path of Heart toward enlightenment. Rituals balance our masculine and feminine energies and help us regain the Five Hauquas, health, hope, happiness, harmony, and humor in our lives, which are every human’s inalienable rights. The book gives instructions on how to facilitate over 50 life-changing ceremonies. Included are numerous poems and stories to make your ceremonies personal and extra special.

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Becoming the Magickal Mysterious Character (fiction)
Becoming the Magickal Mysterious Character
continues Samantha Wind Dancer’s saga. The first book Discovering the Magickal Mysterious Character begins with Sam at the age of 12 and ends with her Becoming Woman rite of passage at age 13. This book tracks the next fourteen years of her life ending at age 27, as she begins a Major Chaotic Journey and moves into the Big West Moon of the Four Moon Cycles. Understanding more fully the wisdom of Grandmother, she embraces the matriarchal teachings of sisterhood, becomes engaged, married, and has a little boy, Sage McLaughlin Gaagii Begaye. When one of her friends discovers she is gay she is able to help her make sense of her life, and she finds the wisdom to help others heal the wounds of divorce, rape, and death of family members. Normal events in anyone’s life are seen through the eyes of a young woman who learns to take her own power and step into the circle of her own essence through Native American ritual and ceremony.
Due out early 2011.

Living the Magickal Mysterious Character (fiction)
Living the Magickal Mysterious Character
journeys with Sam through twenty-seven years of her life to the age of 54, from Wind Dancer to Wisdom Keeper. During these years Samantha begins living her Sacred Dream. Having learned the lessons that she agreed to learn in this lifetime, she expands her truth to discover the legacy that she has promised to leave to the next seven generations. She begins the crusade for justice for the people that have adopted her into their lives and to help them understand the beauty of the teachings that they have forgotten. Sun Dances and other Native American ceremonies take her deeper into the Gateway Process of the people of the Red Road.
Due out late 2011.

Legacy of the Magickal Mysterious Character (fiction)
Legacy of the Magickal Mysterious Character
is the last in the series. Samantha Wisdom Keeper travels her Path of Heart to balance the chaos in her life as she searches to find her own apprentice; the one that has vowed in a previous lifetime to protect and share the sacred teachings. Only this will ensure that all women will have access to this sacred knowledge for always.
Due out early 2012.

Earth Astrology: Completing What Sun Bear Started
Phyllis’ Earth Astrology looks at what Chippewa elder, Sun Bear, started back in 1980 and combines it with knowledge she received while an apprentice to the DeerTribe Metis Medicine Society, and then elevates this amazing wisdom to a final level, by overlaying the medicine wheels with knowledge from our Star Nation Grandmothers. Discover the messages of your totem animals as they apply to the way you consciously create every minute of every day of your life. The Elders say that life is not meant to be hard, but easy, if we will only align with the energies of nature around us. They say that the only reason we have stress in our lives is because we are resisting the changes in life that are inevitable. Animals are perfect in the Great Mystery’s plan, with no thoughts of the past or future. They live in the NOW, enjoying life to the fullest and you can too. Understanding the messages your animal allies have for you will allow you to enjoy the five Hauquas, health, hope, happiness, harmony and humor, which are every sacred human’s inalienable rights.
Due out in 2011.

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