That's one way Francis Mitchell summons people he meets to keep in touch with Navajo culture. At 67, Mitchell is a Navajo medicine man, a Vietnam veteran, father of nine and mentor and spritual advisor to many.

The shaman of Xi Wuqi city wakes before sunrise on a Wednesday morning in June, piles his family into his silver Peugeot, and drives out beyond the city’s boxy mid-rises, past miles of strip-mines and coal refineries, and to the foot of a broad kelly-green hillside on the grasslands.

We are Quinn and Fabian Makhanda, African-American twins who lived with our Great-Grandmother Anna Makhanda in the township of Soweto in South Africa from 1992-1994. Anna Makhanda was a renowned African Oracle [Sangoma] and prayer person who was a faithful member of the community’s Christian church.

Genuine love and care are two important, intangible emotions that gives boost to our neurons for a healthy lifestyle, advocates Villy Doctor, an Indian doctor who believes that meditation and prayers as important aspects of healthy life.

MONTREAL -- A volatile mix of the traditional and the contemporary should make a hit of Beat Nation: Art, Hip Hop and Aboriginal Culture, an exhibition that opened this week at the Musée d’art contemporain.