tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22230028127363891722024-02-06T19:14:28.982-08:00Shaman's GraceLandscape & Deep ImaginationLance Kinsethhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06804590385954684819noreply@blogger.comBlogger38125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2223002812736389172.post-45921959852048910122022-06-20T05:30:00.000-07:002022-06-20T05:30:08.828-07:00<p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi31g2Y0mjV0yryHSoowx_hTzVnRwu-LXG2QCfClzVFBf1S6EXSCfvteMcabIKaQE6kxn65nnMhEmr04WZxpI75Nxw7hbExWxh-M3NBFUa0PEPcB6PGOkNkAM57GN4o8evba7QyZP8FXzaujF2jC4u8n8Y2R_uA7cVEO28lQuuLtZ_GOUD1ffgbV6LE/s1528/IMG_5379.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1528" data-original-width="1168" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi31g2Y0mjV0yryHSoowx_hTzVnRwu-LXG2QCfClzVFBf1S6EXSCfvteMcabIKaQE6kxn65nnMhEmr04WZxpI75Nxw7hbExWxh-M3NBFUa0PEPcB6PGOkNkAM57GN4o8evba7QyZP8FXzaujF2jC4u8n8Y2R_uA7cVEO28lQuuLtZ_GOUD1ffgbV6LE/w306-h400/IMG_5379.jpg" width="306" /></a></div><br /> <p></p>Lance Kinsethhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06804590385954684819noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2223002812736389172.post-4608030173340433012017-10-23T16:41:00.001-07:002023-03-16T11:52:01.794-07:0021st Shamanism...the Authentic "Old, Enduring Way"<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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When you gaze up every night and see the progression of the moon and gem-like brilliance of stars; when you live not with, but within, flora and fauna and old stone outcroppings, at rare moments, nothing is more real, more lucid, more explicit, than such as this rare view. <br />
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And whether you look up or down, surrounding you, you not only might experience an intelligence in flora and fauna that is not only unexpected but beyond equal. A “seasonal change” is a remarkable shift in coloration. Light variations and temperature do this, and yet, variations and color changes are intelligent. They can be “measured” mathematically at advanced levels. And what can seem astonishing--this sense of the non-human, be it flora or simply stone or soil or water or air--is that these events are not simply surrounding us to cosmic depths. They are us, that they are in our identity.<br />
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<span style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: initial;">But when the experience that comes to be termed shamanism becomes more visible, it seems to translate into spirits that look somehow like people, personality.</span><span style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: initial;"> </span><span style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: initial;">This is because we turn it into something that we think we need.</span><span style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: initial;"> </span></div>
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<span style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: initial;">Deep shamanism challenges us and is the the public, derivative game that typically references the authentic heart of shamanism. There are no spirits that meander around parallel to us.</span><span style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: initial;"> T</span><span style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: initial;">here are no ghosts or spirits that meander around with us and speak with wisdom and offer us special powers.</span><span style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: initial;"> </span><span style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: initial;">This is not shamanism.</span><span style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: initial;"> </span><span style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: initial;">This is the mistake that we make over and over again in spirituality and religion.</span><span style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: initial;"> </span><span style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: initial;">Right now in modern life, such facile, off-based interpretations still dominate our approach to shamanism. We act as if these events “speak” to us, as if they are people-like, and are endlessly trying to tell us something very important, trying to “set us right,” if you will.</span></div>
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<span style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: initial;">What we accurately sense is </span><span style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: initial;">that we are missing something not just important, but essential, critical.</span><span style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: initial;"> </span><span style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: initial;">We sense that our science and our poetry is incomplete.</span><span style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: initial;"> </span><span style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: initial;">Now we see a universe of galaxies comprising a universe and speculate multi-verses, but we realize we will never step back far enough to see life, reality, as it is.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica"; font-size: 12px;">We are </span><i style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px;">Homo sapiens</i><span style="font-family: "helvetica"; font-size: 12px;">, not the "wise one" </span><span style="font-family: "helvetica";">that we imagine ourselves to be<span style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: initial;">, but rather the “Earth taster," more akin to trees and plants.</span></span><span style="font-family: "helvetica"; font-size: 12px;"> </span><span style="font-family: "helvetica"; font-size: 12px;">Our task is to access to reman alert to more than we can imagine ourselves to be, to be more than we can ever imagine.</span><span style="font-family: "helvetica"; font-size: 12px;"> </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica"; font-size: 12px;">Shamanism is direct contact with Earth, with stone, wind, light, plants, fauna, smallness and largeness.</span><span style="font-family: "helvetica"; font-size: 12px;"> </span><span style="font-family: "helvetica"; font-size: 12px;">We aspire to stay connected more than to answer.</span><span style="font-family: "helvetica"; font-size: 12px;"> </span><span style="font-family: "helvetica"; font-size: 12px;">We try to see in the dark and open to the degree that we can.</span><span style="font-family: "helvetica"; font-size: 12px;"> </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica"; font-size: 12px;">That which is “right,” “righteous,” is a win-lose game that is small and displaces our attention.</span><span style="font-family: "helvetica"; font-size: 12px;"> </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica"; font-size: 12px;">Are we like a tsunami or volcano or beaver that alters the ecosystem on either/or a grand or local level, or is our real work, as Thomas Berry implores us, to integrate with the large ecosystem of the Earth.</span><span style="font-family: "helvetica"; font-size: 12px;"> </span><span style="font-family: "helvetica"; font-size: 12px;">We are wont to “believe” that our task is the latter, but is it?</span><span style="font-family: "helvetica"; font-size: 12px;"> </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica"; font-size: 12px;">Our task is to listen, to flow, to continue to taste, to directly contact the experience that we reference as “Earth" as self rather than as something apart to remain fitted. </span></div>
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<br />Lance Kinsethhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06804590385954684819noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2223002812736389172.post-37235946977943629222017-06-13T14:25:00.000-07:002017-06-13T14:25:27.463-07:00Listening To Trees & Stones<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<br />Lance Kinsethhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06804590385954684819noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2223002812736389172.post-60944864794177407442017-06-13T05:27:00.002-07:002017-06-13T05:27:45.269-07:00Shaman<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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Lance Kinseth, <i>Shaman</i>, 18x24, pencil/bristol, 2017</div>
Lance Kinsethhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06804590385954684819noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2223002812736389172.post-36844816123986395962017-03-02T09:51:00.003-08:002017-03-02T09:51:28.568-08:00<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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Luis Tamani-Amasifuen</div>
<br />Lance Kinsethhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06804590385954684819noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2223002812736389172.post-49802636025062784962016-12-21T14:57:00.001-08:002016-12-21T14:57:48.126-08:00Shaman Gate<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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Winter Solstice 2016--a turning point in 1000 cultures across the eons--and yet,<br />
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Here is a Shaman Gate--How do we pass thru?Lance Kinsethhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06804590385954684819noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2223002812736389172.post-45511379017142773952016-12-03T10:12:00.000-08:002016-12-03T10:12:58.922-08:00<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<br />Lance Kinsethhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06804590385954684819noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2223002812736389172.post-37101932943403699102015-08-14T16:12:00.001-07:002015-08-14T16:12:30.796-07:00sound/movement<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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THERE IS A PREDOMINANT belief that shamanism is an old way,
and “ancient way” that may or may not have value for modern life, depending on
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Such a belief is just that—a belief—when in reality there
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evolution of the Earth, having appeared only in the last flashes of the history
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“Old ways” are replete with superstition, prejudice, and
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</span>murder [e.g., an especially high murder rate among young men as a
response to injustice].<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Illness
and death might be skewed toward perceptions of having offended the spirits or
hexing by enemies.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>And “new
post-modern, cybernetic ways” may not really be an improvement and continue
this prejudice in different clothing.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Still, old ways can offer some rich emotional technologies that are
expressed in activities such as listening to stone, presence/identity in stars,
and taking/desiring less in material things.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>And the material technology of “new ways” can offer deeper
subtlety, such as micro- and macro- and astro perspectives that are still only
just beginning to open. </div>
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In such a context, living shamanism has always been and
continues to remain “no-thought,” a process of “seeking more than knowing and
interpreting,” connecting, and entering.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>This is essentially a wordless strategy that aspires to be
non-conceptual and be a method of access rather than an answer—a method of
remaining in contact.</div>
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The deepest poetry is beyond words. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>“Plants speaking” is conceptual, and
across the long run perhaps appealing in the sense of hearing answers or
information, yet facile at best.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>But the drum sound or grinding a small stone in a circle on a larger
tundra boulder or looking into a stone or into burnt wood can open.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It opens, not by getting an answer as
much as challenging conceptualization.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Shamanism that becomes culturally shared is likely no longer shamanism,
but rather has become a motif in a cultural religious or medicinal practice—an element
of a belief system.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The snake
means this… and the plant says this and does that… </div>
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Shamanism knows nothing.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It is perhaps a pulse or a repetitive act or a calming and
stilling, turning these sensations into gateways.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>We want answers, but the authentic “warrior” practice
involves existence in an unanswerable context.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></div>
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“Plant says this to me.”<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Good luck with that.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Shamanism says human life in any era is wild, and the essence of
wildness is the capacity to remain alert.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>No more than this.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>And this
capacity to remain alert (which implies a movement toward coming into balance
or “fitted-ness” is a wondrous dance that is more than enough to ask.</div>
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Alertness is an experience of which all living events have
some degree of consciousness.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It
is present at the bird feeder and in the growth of a plant and even in the
seasonal rock of the Earth in its star-dance.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Cultural life can be convinced that it has answers, but all
of the clear views of reality proposed by a thousand human cultures are soon
overturned.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Stars that are gods
dissolve to galaxies to a universe in perhaps multiverses and what is
that.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>If anything is known, it is
perhaps that you and I are really not you and I but rather an expression of
all, and all itself—more the dazzling, miraculous appearance of all in this
place in this moment. </div>
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Shamanism does say in a strong way that we need the
Earth.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>We need modernist Henry
Beston’s “fire before the hands” [<i>The Outermost House</i><span style="font-style: normal;">], and we need an indigenous sense of </span><i>mitakuye
oyasin—“</i><span style="font-style: normal;">all my relations” that is
heartfelt, and perhaps not unlike Siddhartha’s experience of dropping off self
and the discovery of E=mc2 or DNA. </span></div>
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A feral return to a pastoral is a concept, and a link of
sound with charkas to heal is the same.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>It is an attempt to break the barrier, but a facile waste of life.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>But sitting down with a steady pulse or
stillness and a heartbeat can be revelatory.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></div>
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So, teaching shamanism might begin with a drum pulse and
largely stay there, and when words are introduce, they are used to tell us what
not to do rather than what to do, (1) in order to reduce the repetition of
same-old romantic pitfalls, (2) to criticize what we have come to sense that
shamanism is or science or the high life of poetry or cyber-technology is.</div>
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There is an enduring dimension of human experience that is,
essentially, the enduring experience of human wildness—something that seems
impossible, something that we have left behind in modernity.</div>
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Old is not, in itself, better, but there was this beautiful
view of the wide-open star-full sky then.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>And new is not, in itself, the clarified, finally anti-superstitious way
forward. </div>
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So sit down, perhaps with sound in an urban basement, or
after two days of solo camping under the stars, and listen.<o:p></o:p></div>
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DUIR: Celtic reference for Oak that means :"doorway."</div>
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Just outside the south-facing back window, a white oak doorway into "world," and what is that? And why this separation of self and world?</div>
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A cluster of white oaks, once part of a savannah ecosystem, but with young oaks beginning to rise, in close communication and nurturance from the larger "mother" oaks--already here long before me. [The first house here, next door to the West, where the inhabitant at that time found North American Indian artifacts overflowing in the creek below. And the backyard of this house being largely a sandbar for the gushing waters of the melting glacial ice of the Des Moines Lobe, some 10,000 years past.]</div>
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6/23/2015: The Oak King has ruled the "waxing of the year with strength, courage, and endurance." Now, in this Celtic Old Way, we enter into the waning part of the year.</div>
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For all of its age-old similar conceptualization with our post-modern, post-industrial, cybernetic intelligence, we still clings to this here and that there--so very narrow a view.</div>
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We still argue over whether or not there is a climate change that we have caused. But there is no question that we could erase the battle and look at how we are destroying the Earth, period.</div>
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Shamanism, at its heart, is not conceptual, not a feel-good, not a healing--more of a responsiveness, more of an opening.</div>
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Why something framed as ancestral, primitive when we are inside a mass extinction of eco-diversity?</div>
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from <i>Shaman Tube</i></div>
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A WAY FORWARD IN SHAMANISM: naturalist, direct, non-conceptual experience</div>
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Not listening to, as we tend to hear/see our expectations, but rather, opening, following</div>
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Even in primal cultures, tight conceptual experience is the norm, because culture tends to be conceptual (-e.g., the forest pygmy, having lived in deep forest his entire life under canopy, travels with author on the culture to the edge of the forest and "sees" a puddle [common in forest] that is, in reality, a lake).</div>
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But if we FOLLOW, and open rather than discriminate, perhaps something is offered.</div>
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Mongolian shamans now incorporated, dancing around like idiots at their convention, practicing psycho-relief, of course, cultural now--derivative rather than original, and likely degenerate, which is to say, superficial, but well-costumed, and facile at best.<br />
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Mongolia is such a deep core place for shamanism, but, really, next-to-nothing but B.S. now, like almost anywhere on Earth where "shamanism" persists. In Mongolia, medical, religious, and nature cult phenomena: Tengerism (highest god, Tenger, god of heaven with the nasty killer Genghis Khan as the highest embodiment) or yellow shamanism, an "expressive Buddhism." Interestingly, the shaman's drum there, often a horse skin, becomes the "saddle" that the shaman rides.<br />
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<li class="MsoNormal" style="mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1; tab-stops: list .5in;"><b>Shamanism
as deepest connection to Earth<o:p></o:p></b></li>
<li class="MsoNormal" style="mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1; tab-stops: list .5in;"><b>Enduring
vs. archaic<o:p></o:p></b></li>
<li class="MsoNormal" style="mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1; tab-stops: list .5in;"><b>Shaman
as landscape vs. person<o:p></o:p></b></li>
<li class="MsoNormal" style="mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1; tab-stops: list .5in;"><b>Spirit:
numinous vs. literal [ultimately no separation between self and image]<o:p></o:p></b></li>
<li class="MsoNormal" style="mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1; tab-stops: list .5in;"><b>Creatural
vs. cultural <o:p></o:p></b></li>
<li class="MsoNormal" style="mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1; tab-stops: list .5in;"><b>Cultural
robbery: direct vs. no borrowing of technique/belief or “creation” of
economic [eco-tourist] event<o:p></o:p></b></li>
<li class="MsoNormal" style="mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1; tab-stops: list .5in;"><b>Core
vs. derivative/degenerate cultural shamanism<o:p></o:p></b></li>
<li class="MsoNormal" style="mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1; tab-stops: list .5in;"><b>Imaginal
vs. imaginary experience<o:p></o:p></b></li>
<li class="MsoNormal" style="mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1; tab-stops: list .5in;"><b>Self-criticism
of all journey imagery / progression of imagery with experience<o:p></o:p></b></li>
<li class="MsoNormal" style="mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1; tab-stops: list .5in;"><b>Shamanizing:
seeing sound [or repetition] as a primary method<o:p></o:p></b></li>
<li class="MsoNormal" style="mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1; tab-stops: list .5in;"><b>Method
of access vs. belief system<o:p></o:p></b></li>
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Major religions and shamanism are mutually exclusive.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The difference has to do with their
IDENTITY base:<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Shamanism=humanness
as <i>creatural</i><span style="font-style: normal;">.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>As a cultural product, human life is described as separate
and above the landscape, and assumes that human beings come into the world and
leave it, and/or that spiritual life has little to do with the “material
world.”</span></div>
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Indigenous spiritual practices that are often described as
“paganism” and even “animism” that seem to be Earth-based, tend to be
ecologically sensitive but imagine a world of spirits that really describe
power resources for health as well as for evil.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Further, paganism and animism tend to imagine individual
human life as everlasting and having an afterlife be it in Earth or beyond.
Even non-theocratic Buddhism retains many elements from Hinduism that imagine
an after-life.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>God or gods are the
creator(s) of life and the creation of man/woman and the Earth are the work of
these anthropomorphized spirits.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Spirits are separate entities that are arranged in hierarchy of
intelligence, grace, and other noble and ignoble characteristics: gods, angels,
saints, eagle and animal spirits, demons, humans, animals, plants, stones, wind
and water and light.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Spirit in
shamanism is ultimately quite different, although shamanism tends to degenerate
into the above religious motifs.</div>
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Paradoxically, most practices that are termed shamanism are
cultural: shared belief systems that are “derivative” from authentic shamanism
and often “degenerative.”<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>They
aspire to meet cultural and social and psychological needs rather than open to
and serve the larger landscape.</div>
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<i>BOTTOM LINE: </i><span style="font-style: normal;">We live
inside an incredible landscape, inside such an incredible, unending miracle
that is so eloquent, so intelligent in every speck and flash of it, and our
beliefs, values, and morals are so facile, so small, so prejudiced, biased, and
anthropocentric.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>We imagine
that we know what most events are, but in our heart of hearts, we really
recognize that we do not understand what the most basic events are, such as
atmosphere and water and energy.</span></div>
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Shamanism appears and endures because it finds the humanized
moral base limited and damaging to the Earth that, in turn, damages human
life/health, no matter how benign or other-serving/kind the religious
expression appears to be.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>After we
strip away the moral self-serving biases that we have been applying culturally
to everything, this is not what we intuitively experience in a fundamental
shamanic experience.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></div>
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Shamanism is naturalist inquiry, not a religious pagan
practice, and not a theology.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Religions offer belief systems.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span><i>Shamanism emerges as a method of access</i><span style="font-style: normal;"> like science.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Many
spiritual practices, as well as science, emerge from a sense of everyday
experience being incomplete.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>All
of the spiritual practices that endure across time go through cycles of
co-optation and reformation.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Even
science becomes “scientistic/scientism” and must check itself, but religions
assume a stolid base that is eternal. </span></div>
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Shamanism sees difference—sun, tree, water, wind, biota,
stone—but doesn’t find hierarchy that then sees “apartness.”<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>There is more of a metaphorical
interweaving of events [not really objects] and process.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>You listen more than you know, because
seeing a tree, you need to get past the image/object to have any hope of
relating/understanding and the event “tree” or any other that does not cleanly
come down to a separate object.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><o:p></o:p></div>
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<br /></div>
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You see tree as expressing a star in Earth and it goes on
and on from there, And then your actions may become quite different toward this
event.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>And this same base begins
to apply to other events, and it is quite different from the routine way that
you have been approaching things.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>There is no longer a set base.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>And then you find yourself living in two simultaneous contexts: cultural
and natural.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Shamanism doesn’t
“believe in nature” more than in culture.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>It just goes there.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>And
this nature is not apart, not anti-urban, as urbanization can have powerful
ecologically adaptive features and be optimized an expression of the Earth
that, in turn, is an expression of the outer atmosphere of the sun, that is, in
turn, ….<o:p></o:p></div>
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Different from other practices that emerge out of a sense of
ordinary life as incomplete and even inaccurate, shamanism directs attention to
the creatural dimensions of human life.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>When it becomes psychological, social, societal and cultural, shamanism
tends to become a derivative practice in which it reinforces a belief system
rather than remains a method of access.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>It becomes a motif and is really not shamanism any more, but rather
becomes degraded and deteriorates. Blends/amalgams of shamanic method and other
spiritual practices are cultural motifs.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Most practices that are termed shamanism either in contemporary
indigenous or modern societies are really derivative and degenerative
forms.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Why? Because
spiritual practices are often more psychological balms and when supported culturally
aspire to support and stabilize the culture rather than to challenge it, and
were never really methods of access in the first place.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>They arise out of neediness.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>And none of these practices image
themselves as coming from the landscape.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>They are all anthropomorphic, human-centered.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>They may pay homage to honoring the creation, but they
ultimately look elsewhere.<o:p></o:p></div>
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Shamanism attends to the creatural because of a sense of
human development coming out of the landscape and going back into the
landscape.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Landscape designs and
expresses human life, not anthropomorphic god/goddess-images.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Spirit comes from the landscape,
period, no exception.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The
landscape is not a playground of good and evil or demonic forces.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Spirit is present in an inherent
harmonious intelligence that is in atoms, cells, slime molds, ad infinitum and
that is demonstrable.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Shamanism aspires
to attend to such phenomena.<o:p></o:p></div>
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Most aspects of everyday life that seem so real and concrete
are primarily constructions: Time artificially divides the day, the sun moving
across the sky is really the Earth’s rotation, actions are shaped by priorities
and folkways and mores that may not be in harmony with landscape [which then
feeds back on us in terms of physical and mental disorder and violence.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>And our cultural sacred and profane
practices and beliefs tend to encourage this disorder.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The worst-case scenarios of atrocities
that have resulted in the murder of millions over and over again have what we
consider to be benevolent religions as their root source.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The same has been the case toward the
landscape.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It is not within our
identity despite the contributions of our most rational scientific measures
that find human life both intimately landscape [DNA and ecological literacy]
and deeply lost in an Oceanus of Earth, galaxies and Cosmos rather than
separate and above or some Casper-like soul. </div>
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<br /></div>
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The role of culture in creating exclusiveness and separation
is reinforced because of core moral beliefs that place us either separate from
the landscape or place us within it as if it were a stage set.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>And this morality has fostered
destruction of the landscape and underpins the manipulation/destruction of
other human beings.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>There is no
unbreakable common ground once beliefs collide.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></div>
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<br /></div>
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Attention to the creatural dimensions of human life finds a
complexity and subtlety that is intelligent and wise, not primitive.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Not separate, it designs us rather that
we have to activate it, and we optimize human life by attending especially to
that which we overlook and come into increasing harmony with it.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Shamanism is a method of access, with
which we attend to the landscape, but very self-critically <i>because </i><span style="font-style: normal;">of the cultural biases that we apply to it.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Attending to the creatural offers a
check on our activities, folkways, mores and overriding beliefs that damage
more than optimize.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></div>
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<br /></div>
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If this process is not there in what we call shamanism, then
the practice is little more than a diversion or a delusion or entertaining,
curious escape.</div>
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<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
For a Koryak shaman the landscape of tundra and forest is heartfelt
and the source, authentic, not primitive/archaic.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>For moderns, core beliefs allow for the industrialization of
landscape with landscape as a separate resource to be used to be of value or to
be activated, preference/inequality in relationships both human and with other
species, both human and ecological poverty, and violence.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Modern and primitive values encourage
us to step out of the world as if it is not us.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It is simply crazy and yet it is what our systems teach us
and these beliefs are expressed in our religions and philosophies and
psychologies and sociologies and go unchallenged.<o:p></o:p></div>
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<br /></div>
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Homo sapiens/Earth taster<o:p></o:p></div>
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Lance Kinseth, <i>Shaman’s
Prayer For The Earth</i><span style="font-style: normal;">, 36”x36</span></div>
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In totemic work</div>
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In conversation with oak today</div>
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About their caring for offspring</div>
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And such exquisite sensitivity</div>
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Especially their quibble with stars</div>
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<br /></div>
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Perhaps next time</div>
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How and why they came to this ground</div>
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And how wonderful their optimism</div>
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And more about the gratitude of the one with blessed wounds</div>
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In marriage with lightning</div>
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<br /></div>
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And perhaps how oak is rain</div>
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And more of what wind had to say</div>
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And what sense of obligation and to whom?</div>
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<br /></div>
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Such overlooked intelligence and so wide open</div>
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And why so few of us listening?</div>
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Cy Twombly<br />
<br />
<i>Yet one more abandoned the heavy city's</i><br />
<i>ring of greedy stones. And the water, salt and </i><br />
<i>crystal closes over the heads of all who </i><br />
<i>truly seek refuge</i>.<br />
Tomas Transtromer, from "Five Stanzas to Thoreau,"<br />
<i>The Great Enigma</i></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
WE BECOME OUR WORDS.</div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
We are born from the Earth carrying a unimaginably deep
wisdom in our bones—an immeasurable oceanus of eco-literacy. We come out of the
Earth itself like a small wave crest of its ongoing creation.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>While we are remarkable for our
capacity for self-design, the Earth expresses us and designs us.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>And while speech-into-languages and
language into written literacy seem to separate human life from landscape,
Emerson accurately states in his essay <i>Nature</i><span style="font-style: normal;"> that our words come from nature.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>And yet, our words become abstractions, and island us in specific
cultures.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>We tend to see our
words and concepts more than the events that they represent.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>And we ignore and down-prize a
language that is deep and enduring and yet intimately known to us and that
actually runs us and saves us.</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
There is a common unspoken language that is present in each
of us and in each event in the universe.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>It is neither inactive nor untranslatable. We read it more than we allow
ourselves to imagine.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>We can see
it expressed directly in the forms and forces in the world around us.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It speaks directly in the shape of a
tree limb or a grass stem or the billions of orbs of dew in grass.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It is also within us, in the eloquence
of our billions-years old tested body design.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>And when all is said and done, it is the language that keeps
us alive across the long run of things.</div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
Anyone of us can look about and see and taste and touch and
even hear this language and easily sense that it is full of power: The light of
the sun and the wind and movement of water in streams and in rainfall.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It is more than enough information and
it comes directly into awareness from within and without.</div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
And yet, we favor dwelling in a dream of beautiful
abstractions.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>In this dream, the
sun appears to move across the sky when it is really the rotating Earth.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>In this dream we find a world of
parts—flowers and leaves that appear to be separate objects on a stage set. To
live, to become ourselves, we imagine that we must take power from separate
events and bring them inside to activate them.</div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
In every era and in every culture, there are at least
moments when we sense that we are living in a dream and not really listening to
life as it is.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>And in some
moments we recognize these elements to be more eloquent than culture or society
or psychology or biology.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>And we
“get it,” that our daily actions that carry us into the future are creatural
and that our eco-literacy is vary facile.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>“Shamanism” emerges as a response in direct practices
and as powerful motifs in medicine and art.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It aspires to attune us to the unspoken language that keeps
us alert to the changing conditions of existence.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>But without strong cautions, shamanism almost immediate
degenerates and degrades because it goes through a cultural filter that quickly
co-opts it to serve the society.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Degraded, we might seek “power animals” from our dream of parts as well
as psychic capacities that would make us special. </div>
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<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
Yet, when authentic, when truly humane, we awaken on the inside
of nature, buoyed up by it, made by it.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>And then, rather than take from the Earth, we aspire to come into
harmony with the power contained in the direct Earth, and to live it.</div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
Everything we touch in the built environment required
millions of human encounters to product the event in the present moment. And
this is very beautiful.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>And yet,
it is a dream of the Earth rather than the Earth itself. and wears an abstract
coat of language and can miss the very heart of language.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It is not the language of the sparrows
and grasses and stars and wind and water.</div>
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<br /></div>
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And so, this experience of life as a dream or as a set of
half-truths sometimes leads to an effort to step out of the dream.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Shamanism is not a belief system but
rather a method of entry.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>As a
method, it is nothing special.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It
is a ritual—as lean as we can possibly make it—that both aspires to desensitize
us from the domination of our thinking and beliefs and to deeply relax our
physiology, to allow us to become a creature.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></div>
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<br /></div>
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In our dream life, when we look at a tree or the moon, we
tend to see what we have learned about a tree or the moon rather than the event
before our senses.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>We dream “tree”
and “moon.”<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>In shamanic method, we
aspire to listen deep enough so that our culturally colored imagination can
drop away.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Having fallen away, the
imaginary can become the <i>imaginal</i><span style="font-style: normal;">.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The very real imaginal is often veiled
at first, yet often refreshing and restorative.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Rarely instantaneous, but rather by returns, we train in
this method of entry.</span></div>
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The imaginal is the unspoken language.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>And we try to come into harmony with
the unspoken “words” that appear.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>We do this, not as an esoteric, spiritual act, but rather as a
practical, profane way to optimize our life and our health.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><o:p></o:p></div>
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<br />
Not a post-modern blend of wondrous Sufi or Zen or complex sounding, more something free of convention, free of culture, society, psychology--creatural. <br />
<br />
GETTING BACK TO THE HEART PRACTICE. When you think that you have got it, perhaps, you think, again. You make a stab at turning off your thinking. Take a serious look at the cultural constructs that you are applying. It is not unrelated to to the same problem in resolving Zen questions--koans/kong-ans.<br />
<br />
Instead of something easy, try to imagine taking up something so limited, so impossible that perhaps one in 100.000 thousands of Koryaks living so intimately with the landscape find impossible to do.<br />
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And yet, still, it appears in human life in any age. Eternal, enduring. Lance Kinsethhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06804590385954684819noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2223002812736389172.post-42749863329597388762013-10-22T13:31:00.001-07:002013-10-22T13:31:47.251-07:00Drum Sings Sky Down<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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Lance Kinseth, <i>Calling
Down Moon</i><span style="font-style: normal;">, 48x48”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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DRUM SINGS SKY DOWN.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
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Drum’s vibrations obviously pulse through us, but they are
far more than drum’s.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>In that way
in which a wave is the ocean, these vibrations are Sky-sized.</div>
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Endless Sky, containing Earth and galaxies and Cosmos, comes
down.</div>
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Sky is already here, inside mass, inside us and the
surrounding space, and unbound in the holy river and sea.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The trees and mountains are Sky.</div>
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Drum forms a pathway for the essentials of Sky to come down
or for you and I to go up.</div>
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Raven and Crow are two of the essentials—faces of Sky.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Raven and Crow are present, even
already inside us, and yet—like Sky—are touchless.</div>
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Perhaps one time Moon or Raven comes down and perhaps in
another time we go up to Crow, and still more magic: we do not move.</div>
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If we are lucky we sense them and we interact with them.</div>
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If we are even more lucky, a time will come when they are
known to be us. </div>
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The atmosphere is the essence of their bodies and of your
body as well.</div>
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And yet, we spend most of our time in a world that does not
exist, that we contrive, and call this very real reality of Sky a “dream.”</div>
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Sky is our very existence in each moment and, in its vast,
unending formless form, that which designs us and expresses us.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Our most real scientific measures are
saying this to us.</div>
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Our hands are Sky’s hands.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></div>
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Sky is the body of spirit that extends out beyond galaxies
and cosmos.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></div>
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We exist deep inside spirit as a congealed form of energy to
fit the local conditions of existence.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
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We are not little pieces of spirit.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></div>
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There is no end or beginning to us, no separation, no
previous life, no coming and going, no ending and beginning.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></div>
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The differences that we feel—such as what I choose to eat or
how you dress—are real, but small and narrow expressions of our identity and of
our limits.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></div>
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A fish is river-shaped; a blossom is the tilt of the Earth
toward the sun. </div>
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And were we to get hold of it, opening a pathway into Sky
can optimize us, attune us to the longer reaches of ourselves, bring us into
harmony, and heal and sustain us.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></div>
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DRUM PULSE IS SKY SONG. </div>
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WHEN SKY SWEEPS DOWN in drum sound, all is transformed.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Be it far northern Eskimo <i>kilaut </i><span style="font-style: normal;">or Koryak </span><i>boubin</i><span style="font-style: normal;">.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Drum’s vibration sweeps
sky into the present moment.</span></div>
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Do you seek it’s wisdom?</div>
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Sky is more than space above landscape.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Sky is the farther reach of
landscape.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Earth is in it, as well
as star—Sun—and Milky Way Galaxy that contains Sun as a small obscure star, and
all galaxies and the farthest reach of cosmos, that unknown terrain of universe
or universes and/or more. </div>
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And Sky is the immanent form of Raven and Crow that can seem
ghost-like to us, appearing to wear the appearance of thin air.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Spirit-Beings are not really
spirit-beings in the catholic sense, not real this thing or that thing, not
really something either exclusively outside or inside, but rather, are
manifestations of inseparable, interpenetrating Sky.</div>
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When Sky sweeps down, as Sky endlessly does, but typically
so far outside our consciousness, Raven/Crow/Moon sweeps down.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>In drum sounds, Sky sings and comes
down or we fly out to meet Raven/Crow.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>When we leave the world that we have contrived, we find ourselves
inseparable an in a world where self and landscape are no more or no less than
facets of a whole.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>We look at our
experience contriving parts and miss the elephant.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It is like trying to cut the river into parts to see the
river.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Sky is the horizontal and
vertical terrain in front of our senses as well as the literal atmosphere above
us that presses into us as our very breath <i>and </i><span style="font-style: normal;">our very sensing as well.</span></div>
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And perhaps if we are lucky—if we are “called” into such
consciousness—Raven/Crow/Moon open this inseparability.</div>
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Spiritually, we are likely to imagine the landscape as
separable from ourselves, either as a <i>stage-set in which we act out a rather
brief temporal life</i><span style="font-style: normal;"> before entering a more
spiritual, transcendent “heaven” or as </span><i>a landscape of “come-arounds”</i><span style="font-style: normal;"> in which our soul moves across life spans though a
variety of forms.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></div>
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Shamanically, however, landscape—that is far more sky than
solid mass as its physical and spiritual essence—is god-like, and we—deep
within it, ensouled rather than a separate soul—are expressions of this
godliness.</div>
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Not just for aesthetic pleasure, awareness that everything
that is landscape is in us brings us inside is this very deep reality to
optimize each moment.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></div>
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Evenk Headdress
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A WAY OF SEEING in the dark, a way of knowing, retrieval or
restoration?</div>
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Such a way may deteriorate into a pathway to discouragement
or self-delusion, as if the landscape could be oversimplified—a “sham” that
misleads oneself or others.</div>
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At its core, accessing the natural may be more a process of
taking <i>refuge</i><span style="font-style: normal;">, and, if realized, …</span><i>the
water, salt and crystal closes over the heads of all who truly seek refuge</i><span style="font-style: normal;"> [from “Five Stanzas to Thoreau,” in Tomas Transtromer,
</span><i>The Great Enigma</i><span style="font-style: normal;">, p.6].</span></div>
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With such a turn in life, taking refuge, being truly
absorbed, disappearing, a need for power or control or vision or knowing is
realized to be unimportant, as well as impossible.</div>
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A powerful <i>un</i><span style="font-style: normal;">seeing, with
perhaps bright glints here and there that seem to make another world in this
world, aliveness may turn into that which it is, wholly natural and eased, </span><i>deep
in…inner greenness / artful and hopeful</i><span style="font-style: normal;">
[Transtromer, p.6].</span></div>
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[phrase from dg nanouk okpik]</div>
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<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span><i>You
drive<b> into a meaning made of trees.</b></i><span style="font-weight: normal;"><i><o:p></o:p></i></span></div>
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<i><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>Or
not exactly trees.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It is a sense<o:p></o:p></i></div>
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<i><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>Of
running through and under without let,<o:p></o:p></i></div>
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<i><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span><o:p></o:p></i></div>
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<i><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>Of
glimpse and dapple.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>A life all
trace and skim<o:p></o:p></i></div>
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<i><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>The
car has vanished out of.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>A fanned
nape<o:p></o:p></i></div>
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<i><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span><b>Sensitive
to the millionth of a flicker.<o:p></o:p></b></i></div>
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[Bold mine,<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>from Seamus Heaney, “The Road At
Frosses,” in Simon Rae [Ed.], <i>The Orange Dove Of Fiji<o:p></o:p></i></div>
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In woodland, gaze into a tree.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Any tree.</div>
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But…<i>not exactly</i><span style="font-style: normal;">.</span></div>
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Open tree to a larger name, simple, eased as if you were
opening a meadow gate, not intellectual— </div>
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“Plant,” or to “flora,”</div>
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And the, still eased, open “Plant” to “<i>aliveness</i><span style="font-style: normal;">,” </span></div>
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And a sensate flood of joy washes in. </div>
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Even in the slightest breeze, the quiver of leaves.</div>
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Profound, detailed sensitivity dancing all about you—“ the
millionth of a flicker” everywhere</div>
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“Tree” could have been different.</div>
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Tree might have evolved to be hardened. Crustose, like
lichens, walled, stump-like.</div>
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But tree is an open channel, another form of rivering:</div>
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Starlight into mass and upswelling hydrology and mineral and
aliveness.</div>
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And even more is offered in this aliveness overflowing the
bowl—</div>
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Insects and the prayers/songs/canticles of birds and
microbial life and on and on.</div>
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And what are these birds?</div>
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“Bird” swelling to “Fauna” swelling to “aliveness.”<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></div>
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The commonplace name of everything contains a wide-open <i>medicine
word</i><span style="font-style: normal;">.</span></div>
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A shamanic quality.</div>
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It is not old, but rather enduring and unending eternal.</div>
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In each event and in each common word is a medicine word if
we are up to it, if we are really post-industrial and post-modern and reaching
toward our human potential.</div>
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In older days, living amongst trees and wild grasses,</div>
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Perhaps your aunty, swirling the iron skillet on the fire
sees sparks </div>
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And remarks that somewhere there must be a war,</div>
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Old skillet and fire and spark had something to say. [p. 98]</div>
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Or to optimize the potato crop, the children might have been
admonished</div>
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To release parts of themselves, [p. 6]</div>
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On in personal names [not “I’m number 1 type of names” or
names picked off a popular list, but rather naming related richly to aliveness
and sometimes self-depreciating or incident–related because self was not
central]: Fred Bloodclot Red, Weasel Heart, Louise Stabs-in-the-Back, Bumblebee
. [pp. 82, 84, 98]</div>
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[From Ray A. Young Bear, <i>The
Invisible Musician</i><span style="font-style: normal;"><b>]<o:p></o:p></b></span></div>
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And so in sensing, perhaps allow yourself to transform
concepts/thinking into “medicine words” and see what miracles might appear in
that which seems known, overworked, and banal.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>And most intriguing, perhaps find your life in it.<o:p></o:p></div>
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Say my closest relations.</div>
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My skin tones and my height are souls.</div>
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My laughter and even my tears are souls.</div>
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It has been said that</div>
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How many animal sounds have conspired</div>
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When I become an opening wing,</div>
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My soul-ness is polyfablulous:</div>
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Multifold multiplicities.<o:p></o:p></div>
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