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Journey to Eloheh: How Indigenous Values Lead Us to Harmony and Well-Being Hardcover – October 8, 2024

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Rooted in ten Indigenous values, this thoughtful, holistic book―written by Randy Woodley, a Cherokee descendant recognized by the Keetoowah Band, and Edith Woodley, an Eastern Shoshone tribal member―helps readers learn lifeways that lead to true wholeness, well-being, justice, and harmony.

The pursuit of happiness, as defined by settlers and enshrined in the American Dream, has brought us to the brink: emotionally, spiritually, socially, and as a species. We stand on a precipice, the future unknown. But Indigenous people carry forward the values that humans need to survive and thrive. In Journey to Eloheh, Randy and Edith Woodley help readers transform their worldviews and lifestyles by learning the ten values of the Harmony Way. These ten values, held in common across at least forty-five Indigenous tribes and nations, can lead us toward true well-being: harmony, respect, accountability, history, humor, authenticity, equality, friendship, generosity, and balance. By learning, converting to, and cultivating everyday practices of Eloheh--a Cherokee word meaning harmony and peace--we have a chance at building well-being and a sustainable culture.

In this riveting account of their own journeys toward deepening their indigeneity and embodying harmony, Edith, an activist-farmer, and Randy, a scholar, author, teacher, and wisdom-keeper, help readers learn the lifeways of the Harmony Way. The journey to Eloheh holds promise for all of us, Indigenous or not.

We know the Western worldview is at odds with a sustainable Earth, a just common life, and personal well-being. Together we can convert to another way of living--one that recognizes the Earth as sacred, sees all creation as related, and offers ancestral values as the way forward to a shared future.

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"Edith and Randy Woodley's passion and persistence to create spaces of community and care are inspiring. A blend of storytelling, theology, and guidance harvested directly through Indigenous wisdom, Journey to Eloheh reminds us to stay true to the path of kinship and belonging, and to never give up on justice and peacemaking in the world. I highly recommend this book for anyone who is searching for a way to be a better relative on this earth or to fight for a better reality for future generations. This book will help you get there." --Kaitlin B. Curtice, award-winning author of Native and Living Resistance

"Spiritual journey as autobiography: like a Navajo weaver, Journey to Eloheh skillfully connects Native American theology and personal experience into a way of life. If you are looking for your own path, Edith and Randy Woodley's story is a good place to begin." --Steven Charleston, author of Ladder to the Light, Spirit Wheel, and We Survived the End of the World

"There is so much we can all learn from the wisdom of Indigenous culture. In this book, Randy and Edith Woodley invite us to join them on a journey of learning a different way of living that leads to wholeness, abundance, and peace. They generously share their life experience and spiritual insights to show us a better path toward harmony with the whole of creation. I highly recommend it!" --Dr. Brenda Salter McNeil, author of Becoming Brave and Roadmap to Reconciliation 2.0

"A practical antidote to despair, hopelessness, and aimless consumption, this book offers a robust and healing path to well-being for all of us. The Woodleys are wise and trustworthy guides for restoration and embodied goodness within the community of creation." --Sarah Bessey, author of Field Notes for the Wilderness: Practices for an Evolving Faith

"Randy and Edith Woodley write with insight and wisdom from their years of experience. They have prophetic voices that draw attention to the needs of all of our relatives. Their voices rise out of difficult situations in which they have done more than survive; they are showing how to flourish in an ever-changing world." --Ray Aldred, director of the Indigenous Studies Program, Vancouver School of Theology

"For many years, I have considered Randy Woodley one of my teachers. His books, lectures, and personal conversations--together with his humble, yet bold, spirit as a teacher--have enriched and challenged me. His new book, co-written with his wise and eloquent wife, Edith, is a masterpiece, a book I would recommend to anyone and everyone. It beautifully combines the sharing of their life-story with the essence of their lifeway, articulated in ten powerful Indigenous values that are as deeply spiritual as they are deeply practical." --Brian McLaren, author, teacher, and activist

"In my twenty-seven-year journey as a pastor, I had two prolonged, intense internal struggles wrestling to keep my faith. Randy and Edith Woodley's Indigenous values and their friendship played big parts in restoring hope for me during my second struggle. Their generous sharing of painfully beautiful and vulnerable stories, along with life-giving, wise values, in Journey to Eloheh will surely be a gift to anyone who reads it." --Eddie Han, pastor in Los Angeles

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Rev. Dr. Randy Woodley is an activist, scholar, author, teacher, wisdom-keeper, and Cherokee descendant recognized by the Keetoowah Band who speaks on justice, faith, the earth, and Indigenous realities. He is the author of numerous books, including Becoming Rooted and Shalom and the Community of Creation. He and his wife, Edith, co-sustain Eloheh Indigenous Center for Earth Justice and Eloheh Farm & Seeds outside Portland, Oregon.



Edith Woodley is the cofounder and co-sustainer of Eloheh Indigenous Center for Earth Justice and Eloheh Farm & Seeds. She was raised on the Wind River Reservation in Wyoming and is a member of the Eastern Shoshone tribe. Woodley has a degree from Bacone College and mentors others in the spirituality of the land, farming methods, and seed-keeping. She is a leader in the Decolonizing with Badass Indigenous Grandmas cohort. She and her husband, Randy Woodley, have four grown children and six grandchildren.

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  • Publisher ‏ : ‎ Broadleaf Books (October 8, 2024)
  • Language ‏ : ‎ English
  • Hardcover ‏ : ‎ 264 pages
  • ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 1506496970
  • ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-1506496979
  • Item Weight ‏ : ‎ 1 pounds
  • Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 5.2 x 1 x 8.1 inches
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Rev. Dr. Randy Woodley is known as a public intellectual, author, scriptwriter, activist, farmer, speaker, and wisdom keeper. He is a recognized leader in the fields of Indigenous and Intercultural Studies, Ecology, Spirituality, Race, Theology, and Mission. Through his teaching, writings, and leadership, he invites Indigenous and non-Indigenous peoples to decolonize and Indigenize their worldview and practices so they can learn to walk on this earth in a good way. Randy is of Cherokee descent and is recognized by the Keetoowah Band. He is an award-winning author who has penned numerous books, chapters, and articles in his long writing career, including a book co-authored with his spouse, Edith. Randy also writes award-winning feature film scripts. His writings are known for their connection to The Harmony Way as original Indigenous teachings and how they might apply common values today to build a better world.

Edith Woodley is an Eastern Shoshone tribal member. The Woodleys are also co-founders and co-sustainers of Eloheh Indigenous Center for Earth Justice and Eloheh Farm & Seeds. Through an Eloheh experience, they invite people to a deeper spirituality and new relationship with creation while modeling regenerative Earth-tending practices and Earth justice.

The Woodleys are also cultural consultants, advising writers, directors, showrunners, churches, etc. through Sho-Kee Cultural Consultants. Edith, Randy, and their partners have a goal to restore cultural integrity to the arts and local communities.

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Facebook: Randy Woodley, Edith Woodley, Eloheh Indigenous Center, Eloheh Farm.

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Journey to Eloheh begins by telling Randy and Edith’s stories of coming home to harmony (Eloheh translates to harmony, another good word is shalom) and to their own indigenous identities. It then explores ten indigenous values that, if embraced, could transform our world and our lives (harmony, respect, accountability, history, humor, authenticity, equality, community, balance, and generosity). It’s a beautiful book and they are beautiful people. Highly recommend!
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  • Reviewed in the United States on October 8, 2024
    Part 1: Today, a book is being released into the world and you would be doing yourself a great favor if you were to read it. The book is Randy and Edith Woodley’s newest book, Journey to Eloheh: How Indigenous Values Lead Us to Harmony and Well-Being.

    I was blessed to have been part of the launch team and thus I was able to read it already. It deserves 5 stars. However, I learned much from the book that already has, and will continue to, impacted my life. For now I offer this review, quoting the book.

    From Chapter 12 on Authenticity: Speaking from Your Heart, they write this:

    There’s a story told on the Wind River Indian Reservation about the noteworthy Shoshone Chief Washakie, who lived through most of the nineteenth century. Washakie was being honored by the president of the United States with a silver saddle. The president’s aides had accompanied the gift all the way to Wyoming, and journalists were there, ready to report the old chief’s reaction.

    After the gift was given, Washakie said nothing. One of the envoys asked Washakie to comment. Still, Washakie stood in solemn silence. Again, the men from Washington pressed the chief for a response. “Don’t you want to send a message back to the Great White Father in Washington, DC?” one of them asked. Yet Washakie never moved his lips.

    Members of the press and government officials alike were indignant. How dare this old Indian slight the president in this way?

    One more time they asked Washakie for a response. Finally, the uncomfortable silence was broken. This time Chief Washakie moved slowly to the center of the platform. He opened his mouth to say just these few words: “The White man thinks with his mind, and he has many words to describe his thoughts. The Indian thinks with his heart, and the heart has no words.”

    In understanding the Harmony Way, we need to talk about how we speak—and how we don’t. We need to con- sider the differences in how we all use words. For many Indigenous people, there is a sort of primal power in our words and especially in our oral traditions. The journey to Eloheh includes thinking carefully about our words and what they reveal. It means learning to speak from the heart.

    Today, on the release of the Woodley’s beautiful book of goodness, harmony, and wisdom I choose to begin by waiting as I learn to think with my heart. But most of all, listen to your heart and order this book and start your journey to Eloheh!

    Part 2:

    Journey to Eloheh: How Indigenous Values Lead Us to Harmony and Well-Being is a unique blend of vulnerable storytelling and wisdom in which the authors, Randy and Edith Woodley, clearly embody the values they’ve set out to teach.

    The word “Eloheh” is a Cherokee word that means “the harmony way.” Thus this book is an invitation to join the journey in seeking and co-sustaining harmony among the entire community of creation. The beauty of such a journey is that it is a circle in which we may enter at any point along the way.

    Learning from Randy’s teaching and writing over the last 12+ years (I was his student at Portland Seminary) has both challenged and inspired what it means to follow Jesus while shedding the destructive trappings of my Western worldview.

    Randy and Edith’s lived wisdom, born of much heartache and setback which they share about in the first few chapters, roots itself into a better way of living in this throttled world. I believe them. And this book has profoundly aided my journey to Eloheh. Because I love them and the way they inspire me to live in harmony with the community of creation, my review might seem biased. Maybe we can think of it another way—aren’t many of us in search of guides who live out the values they teach over the long haul? The Woodleys are the guides you’ve been looking for!

    Randy and Edith teaching us at Eloheh Indigenous Center for Earth Justice
    The circular, embracing pathway the Woodley’s set fort in Journey to Eloheh is one in which we live toward balance and harmony with the whole of the community of creation via these 10 Indigenous values:

    Seek harmony.
    Respect the sacred.
    We are all related.
    Look forward by looking back.
    Laugh at yourself.
    Speak from your heart.
    Listen to everyone.
    Increase your friendships and family.
    Work hard and rest well.
    Share what you have.

    Let’s be honest, there is likely much to untangle if you are anything like me. Historically White men, like myself, have not done well to listen, let alone listen to the Indigenous elders in our midst. This book might just be the gateway to healing our ears, our hearts, and our lives.

    This book will aid in the untangling, stir repentance, and chart a renewed vision toward wholistic harmony and well-being. We will not be the same after reading and receiving the goodness that resides in the lives of the Woodleys, and in the pages of their book,

    Journey to Eloheh: How Indigenous Values Lead Us to Harmony and Well-Being.

    I hope I meet you somewhere on the journey to Eloheh.
  • Reviewed in the United States on December 19, 2024
    After sharing their personal journeys the authors write Coventry about several core indigenous values that formed the basis of healthy tribal communities. Relevant as consumer capitalism collapses and we deal with climate change as many if us are asking..how shall we now live?
  • Reviewed in the United States on October 23, 2024
    Journey to Eloheh is not a book to be read, it is a guide to be referred to and lived. Edith and Randy do not seek to be preachers or lecturers, they lead with examples in their book and for those of us who have had the privilege of spending time with them, they show in their lives and interactions. They speak as true teachers who follow the way. “But I am not enrolled in a Cherokee Stomp Dance Ground, nor do I reside in one of the few remaining Cherokee traditional communities. I have been fortunate to become friends with such people and I will attempt to honor them by sharing enough so that you can learn but not so much as to expose what is private.” Honesty, transparency, gratitude and respect flow throughout this work of love.
  • Reviewed in the United States on November 5, 2024
    There is an idea that is prevalent within many traditional native circles: balance. In this book, Edith and Randy remind us how to stay balanced ourselves so that our relationships with all of creation (including our families) can flourish and be balanced. They also remind us how western colonialism and values (which anre often rooted in competition and hierarchy) has gotten us to a crossroads where we have to choose between life and death. I especially appreciate them sharing their personal stories in which I found many parallels with my own. Maltiox and neaše (thank you)!
  • Reviewed in the United States on October 10, 2024
    Edith Woodley’s influence can be sensed across Randy’s many books but i appreciated her stepping out into offical authorship! Conversationally written for those also unfamiliar with Indigenous experiences, perspectives, and values, this book carries enough weight and insights for a lifetime of practice.

    I could have read this book without putting it down as I was so immersed. The Woodley’s weave histories and stories alongside research and analysis to invite the reader to expand their worldview and make practical changes that bring us all back towards balance.

    Wonderful work, thank you!
  • Reviewed in the United States on October 8, 2024
    The Woodleys have written a real great story of their own way into the practice of a wholesome, just way of well-being learned from their own indigenous cultures and ancestors. They open up their story, values, and practice to invite the rest of us to learn from them and get more free and more just together!
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