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When Plato 'objectified' man, he set in motion events that culminated in a personified modern Europe represented in Edward Bernays

You cannot set man apart from, or set man above the natural environment without experiencing negative consequence; the isolated narcissism shaping Western reality resulting in destructive behaviors to include science an unconscious necrotic religion expressed through symbol of malevolent technology In this case, Plato's base 'appetite' has returned mutated from exile to 'consume' his Republic via consequence of dying environment I'd recently been informed the CERN Large Hadron Collider is suggesting parallel Universe, something the shamanic cultures have been aware of for probably 40,000 years or more Within the context of those parallel universe are multiple dimensions or realities, a place where awareness exists Look at it like this: There are two primary ways of sight perception, with a simple shift of focus, you can use a pane of glass either as a window or a mirror. And on top of that, you may think you are looking through it as a window, when in fact it is a mirror, even though you are physically employing it as a window [the element of paradox] Now, when western science can pull its head out of its butt [with the distinct sound of a champagne cork pop] and

understand they are projecting image and assigning that illusion the value of reality, and that the greater reality is concealed behind the image in the mirror or focus on accomplishment [ego] we might see real progress. Alternately stated, if western scientists had not converted a large fish bowl into a mirror on the inside and insisted on wearing it over their heads like a helmet, science might have figured some things out. Like time travel, interdimensional travel, immortality, a whole host of things they are so retarded about .. they cannot put together in their heads the fact people running around in breech-cloths had a higher science than anything they could imagine in their wildest dreams. None of it required time machines, space ships or, for that matter, a Large Hadron Collider. Benjamin Worf observed " the Hopi language is seen to contain no words, grammatical forms, construction or expressions or that refer directly to what we call time, or to past, present, or future" and this is my direct experience with the Blackfeet, the key word here being "directly." They all are capable of knowing a sense of spatial/linear time in a sense of 'we will meet at such place at so time' but the old native thought process is organized primarily in the right hemisphere of the mind, the location of the personality is there and it is the primary filter through which the world is viewed. In this case, time is not a removed abstract but a place from which people see out from. In other words, this is why there is no indigenous concept of coincidence or accident, but only a concept of consequence, relating to alignment

and integration with time in motion. We are always in the present, now and when/wherever. The purpose of ceremony is alignment with the surrounding energy fields in an all encompassing sense of time as fluid reality from which experience cannot be separated/differentiated. Once integrated to the living indigenous community cosmology [community in sense of a single organism] it is like living in a different cosmos without limitation in a sense of creating reality, up to and including bringing on immense disasters merely with thought. Here is the reason behind a life-long emphasis on self-restraint and noninterference in nature in a highest sense of self-disciplined ethics, if only because thought has the power to travel and impact in the sense of memes. In the outside world, we not only create, but accentuate those disasters by living beyond necessary means, with exploitation of our environment as though we had a right to determine outcomes. In fact, not only can a differentiated humanity NOT determine outcomes, collectively our western worlds approach magnifies our individual species insignificance, when we have stepped out of the natural order of things and behave as though we were gods entitled to determine our world's destiny with 'sustained development.' Creating reality is simple. Seeing what is going on, on the other hand, is beyond the reach of the people creating western reality. Just suppose there were a non-western

civilization had quantum mechanics mastered long ago (there was) and an incredibly primitive (western) civilization encountered them (it happened) and there were no adequate nomenclature yet developed in the primitive western science (think bloodletting doctors, it wasn't that long ago) to translate into sensible terms an idea so simple as 'it's all related' .. and everything from this point relating to the high non-western civilization was reduced (in the western culture's collective head) to anthropomorphism. Id recently had a short (rather curt) conversation with a representative at the Institute of Noetic Science (IONS) .. RW: I've unsubscribed, resigned, given my reason (fraudulent shamanic programs), routed you to junk mail, et cetera, but noooo, here you are again.. (sneaky bastards, I'm not coming back ;) IONS: Ive unsubscribed you from the back end, it may have been a glitch when you unsubscribed but were not trying to be sneaky. As for the "fraudulent shamanic programs" I assume you are referring to the Micheal Harner group [I had pointed to Harner in my earlier resignation fro IONS, the author] at our Retreat Center. I apologize if you had a bad experiences. Most people had very positive things to say about the group and I've never heard anyone use the term fraudulent with them. Please note that most of the workshops that happen at our Retreat Center are led by independent people or organizations and they essentially just rent out our facilities similar to a hotel. For what it's worth I heard they have recently moved their workshops to a different site for unrelated

reasons. RW: Actually, I lived immersed in shamanic culture for over two decades and had looked closely at every aspect of the Institute's promoted shamanic programs over the years. Harner is simply a poster child for a multifaceted ongoing fraud. I have attached here a sound paper on what the organization has altogether missed .. were IONS ever wishing to get on track IONS: I just briefly skimmed the paper, but I'm still unclear on the "fraud" of IONS "promoted" (again many of these are independent groups renting out our retreat center) programs. That is a pretty strong word to me since it has the connotation of intentional deception. There have been a number of groups that rent our facilities or people that we publish their articles or use their books for premiums, etc. that we too have had philosophical differences with but it shouldn't mean we need to exclude them in the discussion so to speak or treat them as if they are intentionally deceiving others. I really appreciate you sharing your perspective on this and since we don't have the time or space (email isn't always the best format) to delve into further nuancing each others' perspectives, we'll just have to agree to disagree. RW: I have connections at IONS I have respected a lot, also Saybrook, but for me it comes down to this: There is sound science pointing to serious problems with the programs. Benjamin Whorf was likely 1st to note these (indigenous shamanic people) operate in a world

westerners cannot see, MJ is simply one smart lady to point out from a very sound perspective the dangers of attempting co-opting practices from other cultures. Responsible organizations have a duty to look at these things and act on them in ethical ways. There is a lot of money to be lost were the issue to be dealt with forthrightly, because authentic shamanism (culture) simply cannot be co-opted and integrated to western life styles, they are diametrically opposed systems. This is not being dealt with forthrightly and that is why I consider it fraud. Having said that, I am open to the day IONS were to be willing to correct its position in this regard, but of course that would require ethical inquiry and courage ;) IONS: NO REPLY

Michael Harner has certified people in shamanic studies with as little as a single weekend workshop. Harners disclaimer the certificates do not confer shaman qualification is splitting hairs because a certain knowledge of shamanism is inferred nonetheless. In fact, the invisible world of the authentic shaman is only invisible to the western world where children are trained in denial from their first moments .. and that western world now days extends to nearly all historically shamanic peoples courtesy of western culture, inclusive of western science and anthropology particularly. That Harner embraces professional anthropological association endorsement on goes to reinforce the view his certificates are false

currency. By contrast, my own training (with Plains Ojibwe & honorary Blackfoot Pat Kennedy and associated ceremonial people in Ghost Religion, monitored and cross-checked by Blackfoot Oral Historian, Priest of Okan and Keeper of the Law of the Black Stone: Floyd Heavy Runner) was ten years in the NOVICE stage, 24 years total immersion training and the only certification possible is that you are able to manifest certain phenomena to the satisfaction of masters in the discipline in which you have been trained. It is with this background Id pointed IONS to the work of Mary Jane Zimmerman Now, I will recreate my conversation with the Institute of Noetic Science as you might hear it told in Native American circles: It just so happened, a truly remarkable Westerner sat less than utterly stunned (utterly stunned being the median western mentality) and asked the non-western person a question .. The conversation goes like this: Whiteman: If the Indians had this high holistic grasp of reality based in quantum mechanics, why didn't they have an answer for the dilemma posed by the Whiteman? Indian: Because the Whiteman could not put together in his head, that people running around in breech cloths typically exceeded the intelligence of Einstein. Whiteman: Huh?

Indian: We had no answer to your culture because we had no mental grasp, no capability to conceptualize people THIS STUPID. Whiteman: Uh.. Indian: Now, going to the subject of macro-cosm versus micro-cosm, in atomic structures, and the idea of creating reality, look at just having sent a satellite into orbit around the planet Mercury and tell me, what do you think your culture has just achieved concurrent to the universal shamanic principle of 'timing' and Fukushima? Whiteman: Blank stare Indian: Rolls ^-^ eyes What I had done with the explanations that follow is, to reverse engineer science over a period of 20+ years, translating the ideas to terminology that could be understood by authentic indigenous shaman without any functional training in western science (one of my primary informants of 24 years, Pat Kennedy, had never been to school, and was completely illiterate but was fluent in no less than seven native languages and recognized as an absolute master of the shamanic ceremonial world by more tribes than perhaps any other Indian of the late twentieth century), and together we examined what fit, what were the limitations and extensively examined both worlds in juxtaposition. In any case, it was determined by my informants that westerners simply are blind to a world of phenomena native people were (prior to forced Anglo education) fluent in as a matter of habit, and this goes to

anthropologists as a class inclusive of people considered blind. Here follows is native world view retranslating the present, recent past and past in western terms. A bit of the old native philosophy translated to so called 'modern' ideas would be: Our existence is Macro-Gaia, i.e. everything is [inter] related, from sub-atomic particle to cosmos with an element of Vitalism (the great mystery), which taken together present as a quasi or mimic intelligent design. The ID element would be quasi in the sense the native take on this aspect or presentation would be better described as Intelligent Expression, design implies plausible attribution, where expression' does not. This thought goes to the native persona of humility: There are some things one simply cannot know. The effect of this ancient native world view at the human philosophical level precluded morality, rather requiring a highest sense of ethics. Spirituality is a term disfigured in translation because of a western morality bias. Yes, everything is sacred, but not in a moral sense but in an applied sense of ethical behavior in relationships. Screwing nature around is screwing everything (and by extension, everybody) around and in the native ethical model is anti-social behavior. Thus the native minimalist behavior (practiced restraint) under-pinning the native (quantum based) laws of non-interference and reciprocity.

The less you mess with things and leave things as they are, the less you mess things up, for you and for everyone. Bottom line is negotiate the path of life, dont exploit. To the Native American, retarded behaviors (essentially being stupid in the native definition, no matter your actual IQ) has a right to be, if that is what it is what someone wants to be, but only to a point. Socially retarded behaviors projected into other peoples space, bring consequence, but only then. The ultimate consequence of persistent antisocial behavior was a form of banishment under the law of non-interference, people who radically violated others peoples space lost their status as sentient beings, i.e., no one would be held responsible for anything that happened to anyone with a reputation for disregarding others space. Consequently, it was very dangerous to radically misbehave and serious offenders knew they had better leave. The differing values systems are right and wrong, projective/corrective (western) juxtaposed to: what works and what does not work, restraint/non-interference (native.) How it happens: Subjective judgment, projected expectation, right and wrong, praise and punishment, and protected from learning through making mistakes and consequential injury = a developed ego in western children. These children learn primarily to see themselves (self image.) In this context they learn to fear making mistakes. Because of the diverse values/personalities of their adult overseers, they cannot trust their larger surroundings, one adult may punish them for something they did not know was wrong after another

adult had not punished them for the same behaviors. One adults demands and expectations often differs from anothers. Expectations, words, body language and tone do not always line up. Their world is highly unpredictable and they develop defenses that close them off. In the more unpredictable and highly punitive niches of this culture, lying can become survival. Because lying is 'wrong', they learn to lie to themselves about their own subsequent behaviors and motives. They dissemble under pressures to conform. The end result/demand is conformity, with those who did not have the where-with-all, environment, guidance or temperament to conform, finding themselves rejected and drifting, all too often to no good end. From an old native perspective, "No Child Left Behind" would be about conformity and prepping future generations to be structured into sheep. Neutral observation, non-interference, restrained praise (a pleased look rather than no expression), no wrong, no blame, no punishment, only what works and self learned experience and consequence of what does not work without social artifice, allowed to make mistakes, to suffer injury and learn = a sense of place in the Indian child's world. These children learned primarily to exercise restraint, observe and gently integrate to the world around them. The native child never knew age discrimination, their egalitarian social setting does not discriminate between the two year old and the ninety-two year old. Nobody knows better than anybody else, because no one can know something for someone else. Indian sense of self (a heightened sense of non-egoic self-awareness related to

personal space) is sacrosanct in the individual from day one of life. A child that does not wish to be held must be set free. The most important impressions come from a consistent, highly respectful modeling by the adults in a child raising world where the outcomes are predictable. Everything is predicated/modeled on ethics, self-restraint and non-interference in the affairs of others. Differing cultural context: Anglo civilization heritage is paternal, historically men are the primary knowledge holders, disciplinarians and rulers, women are culturally inferior, supportive, subservient and the child nurturers. Male ego is the normative rule and in the modern case of attempts at egalitarianism between the sexes, women often must acquire pseudo-male egos to compete. Native civilization is nearly egalitarian between the sexes but with a primary feminist outlook: it is the women which hold the authority to instill the cultural values and insist on discipline, the men are somewhat, but not dramatically subservient to women, and men are the primary emotional nurturers. Western male ego (assertiveness) does not exist, everything is acquired by permission which is as simple as entering someone's space by choice of words and essential demeanor: tone, body language and words all line up in a highly respectful, non assertive, non threatening way. Most interestingly perhaps, to the western observer, would the old native cultural phenomena of women initiating all sexual encounters.

If the native child were to hear the western expression often directed at children, 'I know better than you', really what she/he actually would be hearing is a native cultural untruth. In her/his world, no one can know better than anyone. In short, the native mentality were it to be adequately investigated from a point of western psychology is that paradox of the ethical sociopath. Ethics in a highly respectful context of non-interference learned from childhood, absent the moralizing concept of good and evil, right and wrong, rather the ethics predicated on a highly self restrained yet guilt free behavioral system of self accountability and what works (as opposed to what does not work) creates a stable cultural platform that is nonhierarchal in ways invisible to the western cultural anthropologist. With an elevated status comes responsibilities requiring ever greater self sacrifice. A chief becomes responsible for the welfare of the widows, orphans and disabled, for example. Everything was a system of deliberate and crafted balance in a sense of a law of social physics, as opposed to the western world's physics of exploitation: resulting in modern civilization's constant state of chaos and flux. The Native woman's role had remained invisible to the outsider who was never privy to the system where every Native man of stature listened when his mother, sister, wife and daughter, essentially the women's secret societies, delivered identical message of direction and consequently the men met in council to take the nation in this direction

the women had insisted upon. If the western world could not see this warriors world and its underpinning, men trained from childhood by women to serve a feminine perception, how much more can the western world not see? What in the western world itself goes largely un-noticed even by the westerners? How did the Native American so excel at picking off the Whiteman in the solo encounters of one on one?? It all began for the Native warrior with childrearing. And the consequent ability to see in ways the western world has never understood. "Napi keeled to drink and noticed the chokecherries over his head in the water's reflection. He forgot to drink and got all wet when he reached for the cherries." a Napi Story or Blackfoot proverb. I cannot date western civilization but I can say I believe Blackfoot civilization has (or had) about 40-50 thousand year old memories. According to linguistics studies, Native American languages had been isolated from other known languages at least 35,000 years. Anthropologists have in the past conveniently ignored linguistics. Now that genetics is backing the linguists, the anthros, rather than give up and admit a mistake, have invented a fantasy land called 'Beringia' that has as much in common with reality as the new age land of 'Moo' [Mu] The Blackfeet arrived in South America by sea (with early origins likely in central Asia, possibly sharing remote ancestry with peoples in south Asia whose languages have what is known as a 'pre-verb' usage.)

Oral history indicates contact with the 'little people' of Indonesia (Hobbit or Flores Man) likely between 35,00040,000 years ago en-route to the Americas and the Blackfoot having subsequently migrated to the north from South America. When the Blackfeet arrived in their present homeland (8,000 years or so ago) which is truly the Northern Rocky Mountain Front from whence they ventured to the plains, they had already met a northern race of indigenous White people and had been in the general northern vicinity probably at least 14,000 years. There was co-mingling with these indigenous whites who adapted them to survival in their new home. The present Napi of Blackfoot Oral History who created the present Blackfoot world was a Whiteman, and according to Oral History, all Blackfeet Indians are descended from Napi. These preBlackfoot indigenous Whites are almost certainly represented in the so-called Kennewick man (a late example.) Napi's raft represents a sea migration, there are separate stories indicating somewhere along the way surviving what appears to have been a large astroid impact over/on the North American ice sheet, the people knew it would happen and went underground (in caves) near a mountain top, caves with near vertical or vertical shafts were the favored shelter. I am familiar with the mountain geology in their present proximity, it matches the Oral History. This impact likely broke glacial lake Missoula and created their great flood and Grand Coulee, and also caused the mega fauna extinction. This flood event later becomes mingled with Napi's original sea migration raft stories as the culture has disintegrated with language and oral history loss in modern times. Prior to mega fauna extinction, the

Blackfeet appear to have migrated with and/or rode on Woolly Mammoths (not as domesticated animals but as peers with a communicated kinship, not so different than the birds allowed to perch on the backs of large mammals.) In their shamanic tradition there is time travel, interdimensional travel and created reality from knowing possibilities. All of this indigenous science is predicated on the law on non-interference. We co-exist in parallel universe with multiple intermediate dimensions. All of this is accessed via a training which approaches our experience as integrated to a great living clockwork (the physical plane) via an ability to perceive ourselves integrated to time in motion and does NOT disturb the clock expressed in the physical plane (the law of non-interference.) Consciousness in these ancient people was organized differently altogether. Every ancient Blackfoot was taught not to ego- project into physical reality outside of the law of reciprocity, that is taking ONLY what is given to comfortably survive and giving back/integrating to the timing of physical reality through life lived as ceremony. To live otherwise is to be the fool. In old Native America, ego as the westerners experience was diagnosed and treated as a mental illness. Human advancement in the old native consciousness was limited, as much as possible, to perception. Don't injure the clock of physical nature sustaining us, only take what is offered in the timing, to survive. Meanwhile comprehend the clock's motion, time travel and learn. Anything can be discovered this way, the ancient Blackfoot stories of

Mudman and dinosaurs case in point. The contrast (in the western cultures experience) is the story of Napi reaching for the cherries in the reflection he sees in the water. This all about ego, and pointing to physical anthropology, did it ever occur to the anthropologists the migration was OUT of North America when pointing to the so called shovel-tooth physical trait, which diminishes more and more (assimilation) the farther you get into Siberia and away from Western North America? The point is, anthropologists are clueless. If the authentic old shamans had a fluent grasp of the western mind and science, or for that matter, 'science fiction' [only look back to Jules Verne to see how through people's belief creating reality 'science fiction' becomes 'science'] they likely would tell you your UFOs, aliens, moon civilizations, what have you, are your intermediate dimension creations of collective projection or beliefs into the physical plane or dimension, approaching manifest reality. It could be as easily a violent Jesus that loves you covered in blood via Armageddon, if the modern Christian crusaders of the neo-con religious right are allowed to collectively project their reality onto the rest of the world. You make things happen from here with your collective heads no matter your perception of, or where they might have come from. If aliens indeed arrive and come from somewhere else, you created that reality too. Our creating nearly anything is possible, in the intermediate dimensions, and the membranes separating those alternate dimensions, in the physical plane are breaking down, with damage to

time done by damaging the clock (the physical plane.) Instead of using the timing provided to naturally travel, discover, advance and know, people are now simply ripping through the fabric of existence, with exploitation of the physical plane via technology, to try and figure out what is there. Birth of greater collective-individuated awareness would the origin of the 1/2 god titans, we have those stories too, Poia (Scarface) is one of the more important stories in Blackfeet cosmology. Related Okan (so called Sun Dance, but means sacred circle or corral) is all about our life in the clock and preventing/correcting any possible mistake in consciousness, that is recalibrating to prevent the possibility of a false perception of reality or awareness in the physical state. The Moon and Venus both came along as manifestations of births in awareness or literally have been created by the collective thought process, also the constellations and much more, which sadly since male hierarchal civilization, [the human mind] has set out to destroy that awareness, which in turn will 'uncreate' our existence, the result of exploiting the clock (physical plane.) A genetic mutation and new race of people or even titans, is possible nearly overnight through a collective realization. The present new age people sense that, but don't actually 'get' it and aren't ever going to get there with their 'it is all about me' narcissistic [cherries reflection] individual/personal enlightenment approach. So long as we take pro-active advantage of exploitation in nature, we cut ourselves out of any possibility at advancement. The people vegetable gardening and approaching point of self

sufficiency in a humble circumstance of leaving the lightest ecological footprint possible, people who walk, not drive, will have a better chance at making it, those flying to yoga and new age workshops or retired on stock dividends or otherwise exploiting the wealth derived from nature, simply won't. The 'timing' will take them out as surely as the same timing represented in a Sabertooth Tiger took out someone not paying attention 15,000 or more years ago. If your relationship to what is ethical in the context of living balanced in the expression of our creation is not correct, you don't advance. Hierarchal civilization has collapsed again and again and those peoples did NOT advance. Personal fortunes beyond needs of simple existence should be turned to alleviating the suffering this wealth acquisition has caused via exploitation of nature, if you wish to have any chance at moving forward. Your wealth CANNOT be disassociated from its exploited natural sources, you MUST give back what you don't need, to survive, any Deepak enlightenment or other motivation notwithstanding. His multi-hundred million dollar business model/empire is everything that is wrong, not right, with narcissistic personal enlightenment. The carbon footprint of that fortune is no different to a Chevron stockholder's and is ultimately deadly to everyone involved and their consciousness as well. Physical wealth is the cherries in the reflection. And it would make no difference if you were an eco-feminist, or any other pseudo-social justice motivated mentality for that matter, if you pay yourself a salary from a non-profit as well, and don't walk a self honest and ethical walk in relation to nature, you all get wet in the end.

The humans have failed again and again and again because there is always those greedy people who dive into the creek for the cherries they see in the reflection. In the past there have always been those who have recreated reality and 'reemerged.' Unfortunately, civilization has re-emerged as well. It may be this is the one time the damage is such, there is no recovery, with the human experiment in consciousness ended. This would be a Deepak/Darwin marriage diving for cherries in the male/mono-sexual [monotheism originated] hierarchy, whether man or woman, Deepak Chopra, Marilyn Mandala Schlitz, Dan Brown, Eckhart Tolle, David Wilcock, Bruce Rawles, Marianne Williamson or Michael Harner and un-creating reality with: we are all about exploitation with book sales for $money$ and just another failed experiment of nature. Theirs is an egos no ego ego and these people are, in their own way, simply blind in their cultural self-deceit. Collective projection with our mind creates. When diving for cherries in the physical reflection or so called 'advancing' civilization with the unnatural creation of wealth, it un-creates as well. None of these so called 'leaders' teaches true social responsibility which collectively unplugs you from the physical grid. Sustained economic development, the source of the wealth you provide these wolves in sheep clothing via book sales which are paper pulping the Amazon, is precisely the principle of cancer. Civilization is, and any related carbon footprint or plugged into the grid 'enlightenment' is, a form or symptom of cancer. Everyone who buys into plugged-in BS narcissistic

enlightenment, and BS is all it is without taking real responsibility for money's collective role in the planet's destruction, is responsible as well. Our brains are a high self-expression of parallel universe, that is why there is a pair of them, and meanwhile, our intermediate or inter-dimensional reality is so totally dumbed down by hierarchy in the modern world, we cannot begin to know the simple possibility of survival, physical, spiritual or conscious survival inclusive, let alone any true advances in creative awareness, except that we learn to authentically, and not hypocritically pretend, to give back to the nature which has sustained us. Survival and advancement are all about non-interference and reciprocity. We presently don't have either. The inevitable result is humanity as miserable as they have made the earth ill: with run amok science and technology in a narcissistic vanity based on $MONEY$ In regards to the modern Indian, I recall an elderly Native American woman remarking on earlier times, before women had been pushed out of their central role in Sun Dance by 'Christian' influences: "Without the women, those men [the Sun Dance leaders] were nothing." Only look to our brave male ancestors who could be shamed out of any cowardly behavior by the women who nursed us in every way- especially instilling the cultural values that made us ethical titans compared to the modern moral man. And know our ancient male warrior mentality most resembles that of the lesbian in modern western culture. That fact should shock the western [both Red &

White] pretenders to the shamanic or Native American identity. RESPECT the womens knowledge and stand out again as those before us who lived in a gentle, nurturing way, and in the paradox of things, knew no fear in our combats with those who would dishonor or abuse women, the source of our laws and dignity. If you in any way disrespect, abuse or exploit women, or consider women and their intelligence less than your honored equal (who actually you are forever indebted to) there is no way, no matter your ancestry, you can claim to be truly shamanic. You will NEVER discover this in any system or mentality of western male hierarchal order, based in a western mono-sexual mentalitys culture, opposed to matriarchal society which had know a truly high intelligence of balance through psychological androgyny. The example from history I give is the native men who died defending, stone arrowhead against steel musket on an island off Alaska, and the young women who ran together as a group off a cliff, and died as well, rather than be dishonored by the western males who had come for them as sex slaves. SEX SLAVES. This IS western culture. You cannot know any other intelligence so long as you in any way support a system where such a thing exists, it limits ones perception when denial props up a lie of reality. Each person's mind is a lens (filter) through which they view the world, but in a cultural sense, this is also true of entire societies along the lines of Benjamin Whorf's

hypothesis of language not only a reporting device for reality, but a defining framework for it. When the collective head is locked up in the left hemisphere (masculine/logic) as is the case in western civilization and it's resultant male hierarchal order, the math is faulty because it (people's reality) cannot take into account the element of paradox, there is no psychological element of androgyny or balance incorporating female intelligence or reality outside of logic. Perception in this case perpetrate a lie, because the math is approached as infallible and yet the one half of reality, the right hemisphere, is suppressed or denied altogether, there is no 'gestault' or larger understanding of principles underlying our parallel worlds with one kept locked out of our understanding. Darwin, Dawkins and George Price theories, all, have failed because they cannot surrender ethnocentric bias in the thought process, and this is why they all have seen our reality as a terrible place. Science is a faith-based reality of culture gone awry long ago with perception, and should be defined as religious dogma. 'Peer reviewed' is a kind of institutional incest reinforcing ethno-ego centric bias, as when the western interpretation of a culture takes precedence over the non-western cultures interpretations of reality for themselves. This is a case of Science demonstrating a canon based on ego centered empiricism, a narrow ethno/ego centric view of reality that determines a dogma, and consequently science

qualifies as a religion in the sense of not having an open mind but is stuck in a closely confined faith-based rut of 'inquiry.' This is a world of phenomena most western males [includes some pseudo males in pant-suits] demonstrate blindness to, however summed up for the western world quite succinctly: The Human heart feels what the eyes cannot see, and knows what the mind cannot understand And this same feminine principle of intelligence had been summed up in highly intelligent form in 1918 by two absolutely illiterate elder Native Americans who had Marie Curies and other ideas of chemistry and atomic theory explained to them by a Yale scientistRising Sun, Chippewa leader: The scientific view is inadequate to explain ... how man is to find and know a road along which he wishes and chooses to make this said progress unless Manitoo by his spirit guides the mind of man, keeping human beings just and generous and hospitable Red Tomahawk, Sioux elder: The knowledge and use of any or all the powers of the objects on Earth around us is as liable to lead a man wrong as to lead him right. It is merely power, with no way of knowing how to use it correctly, unless Spirit is with a mans spirit for the light I might add, the 'new age' philosophers and their science

are no better at defining a purposeful future in a sense of creating healthy reality, when they are incapable of directly confronting evil in the very same (collective) consciousness which had produced them. When David Icke applied his ego-logic to vision of reptiles, creating literal image for phenomena of base DNA ruling certain but otherwise ordinary seeming people, hed experienced classic western misapprehension of spiritual reality for the worst of these. It is all centered on identical defective male hierarchal order mentality, going to a small ditty I'd composed awhile back.. "Deepak's dilemma .. his 'no ego' is ego's no ego ego" ..in effect this no ego is BS. People who have built multimillion dollar business enterprise cannot lecture us on ethics in any way, having built a malignant fortune on the back of technology born of Science pursuing sustained growth economics system destroying our Planet. Any idea of Science saving us from Science, the secular god of westerners, is the greatest of oxymoron. Having thought about all of this just a bit, one wonders, why had not any Darwin/Dawkins western science freak yet thought up an equation for Mankind's appreciation of purely simple aesthetic beauty such as flowers, sunrise, sheer loveliness in a landscape .. and how would this be applied (rationalized) to the absolutely soulless principles of evolution. Why? Because it could not work.

With our existence demeaned to 'survival of the fittest' and 'the food chain', small wonder these people cannot know any principle of real altruism, even the one based in math must be a false presentation for the fact of inability to appreciate nature in any sense of compassionate gratitude (giving back) which does not question, but actually acknowledges the mystery of our presence. This presence (our existence) cannot be, or sustain, without the element of paradox (androgyny) of our parallel worlds reflected in the left AND right hemispheres of the brain in approach to our life. I fully expect quantum mechanics to shoot down both Darwin and Dawkins, if we survive the western applications, such as particle smashers. This is the applied lunacy of projecting our existence into physical reality, i.e. the 'mirror' or reflection of awareness, a trap resulting from misconstrued grasp of the nature of our macro-cosmic consciousness. Therein is the huge mistake of assigning our present reality either a purpose or no purpose, it cannot be either without in fact being both. That is, we create reality, but at levels absolutely beyond the grasp of ego or a world ruled by the insanity of the sole left hemisphere, and the blind logic of its applied math. Now, what of dreaming? How is this explained in a context of synchronicity as known by ancient first peoples, peoples who do not distinguish realities, waking and dream but experience both as so-called 'lucid dreaming' ? People who could manifest waking reality change along the line of the miracles attributed to Jesus?

These stories are attributed to 'myth' by the ethnocentric/ego-centric western scientists, but I have witnessed this world. So, what would western science call it, when everyone in the same space and time describe the same 'non-ordinary' event in physical reality identically? Collective psychotic reality? Western culture lives in BLIND DENIAL. Fully 1/2 of reality is missing from the western model and their people won't get anywhere, in any intelligent sense, solely with logical progressions, if only because the larger reality defies logic and that which defies logic is denied by the insanity of logicians Ive been in Europe (exiled) for over 4 years. Three of those years have been spent in Germany with its fixation on all things Native American. There are plenty of Disneyland events going on over here, and Im not talking about Paris I suppose it would have been easy to prostitute my 24 years learning with some of the last great masters of American Indian knowledge, Blackfoot, Plains Ojibwe and Cree But the culture has been so maimed by people half trained, already, I could not bring myself to dirty it any further. So, I have been quietly, individually, teaching a handful of interested people but refusing any relationship with money having to do with my endeavor in this regard. It has been an investment based solely in faith, faith in my ethics, faith in what my teachers had shown me, faith in my adopted Native cultures original values. If you give better than you

get, you are a winner Now, suppose I had the opportunity to teach a group of Germans and we all were seated on the ground in a circle. Knowing my background, German mentality being what it typically is, theyd all be looking at me in awe as though I were a god and Im in the same moment thinking If you think you are important, you dont belong here, these folk all think Im important, so maybe I dont belong here. With all these expectant faces peering at me, I hate to tell them the truth but they are here because their own culture is failing them, so let the pain sink in Our lesson today is short and simple. Here is a one cent coin. Pass it around the circle, I wish for each of you to actually take a moment, only that, a moment, to contemplate the power of this tiny bit of copper. No questions please, I will explain when the little penny has returned full circle Who knows what one might think? Power? A single euro cent will buy you precisely nothing! So the 15 people take 15 minutes to appear all serious at what would ordinarily seem a ridiculous proposition, as the little penny passes hand to hand, some finger it, other bow their heads in meditation over it, but hey, Ive all these years training so best behave as though in the presence of a god .. but just now theyre about to discover a devil-

They much pondered bit of copper has finally been passed back to me and I look everyone in the eye, one to the next, holding up the single euro cent between forefinger and thumb while saying: In Quantum Mechanics, once two particles have been associated, they remain forever associated, no matter whether you separate them by a universe in space and time. We have always known this. It is why we, Indians, had been taught to be careful in our thoughts, and cautious in our associations and physical items such as pennies are in fact associations Now, just imagine this were a large old penny such as were known 100 or more years ago, and I had taken it off a dead mans eyes only this morning. In that case, each one of you would now be associated with that event I want you all to go home, look at and consider the source of your belongings, and know why the Native spiritual name for money translates literally: The leading trouble maker The ancient Native view concerning the web of life is precisely like this: We construct reality through two phenomena, primarily, our actions and our associations. Our associations tie us to the web, our person represents the intersect where the several or many strands meet and as such, our actions influence our associations, no different to our associations influence our encounters or luck

How one behaves and what one associates with, determines the direction and quality of everyones life, without exception. To construct a web which will resonate health requires self discipline incorporated to intelligent choice of associations and related energies. This is because everything you do, and everything every member of your web does, impacts and resonates throughout your web. By accepting Blackfoot culture on its own terms through immersion rather than subjective [Platos objectified] anthropological notions, here is what Id been able to solve applying Native American principles of math to solve an ages old mystery: this (formerly) lost Chinese system reconstructed more than 30 years ago using the based 8 math of the Native American oracle called Stick Game. The text of the Wilhelm-Baynes I Ching translation is organized around this system as demonstrated in the resulting relationships of the hexagrams and consistent text references. It is most easily explained using the coins rather than sticks, which is less familiar to people. The mathematical principles are identical to Native American. Using three tossed coins (like dice) these are the possible lines: Masculine/old is changing line) --o-- three heads (a so-called

Masculine/young is ----- two heads and a tail.

Feminine/young is -- -- two tails and a head Feminine/old is line) --x-- three tails (a so-called changing

Draw a + symbol large enough to build four hexagrams, one in each quadrant. Using the space in the upper left quadrant of the + symbol, you build your initial hexagram from bottom, up. Follows is an example of the values if you assign masculine to heads: line 6 ----- 2 heads, one tail line 5 ----- 2 heads, one tail line 4 --o-- 3 heads line 3 --x-- 3 tails line 2 ----- 2 heads, one tail line 1 ----- 2 heads, one tail the lines movement is -> and becomes its opposite at right
----------o-- (a solid line) --x-- (broken line) ---------- --- -- young --x-- old --o-- old -- -- young -- --

The hexagrams recording now differs to fill the + symbol from above to below
-- --- ---o---x--- --- -----------x---o----------

The difference in recording above to below is following the I Ching maxim Change, that is unchanging (also a stick game axiom), while reversing the order, you do not reverse the old or changing lines when recording the lower hexagrams. The top right and both bottom hexagrams are built from the top left hexagram, that is to say building one hexagram actually built four hexagrams. Using this system to build the hexagrams, together with the Wilhelm/Baynes I Ching translation, will produce consistent numerological inter-relationships between the hexagrams and consistent references between the hexagrams in the text, as organized by the ancients. The bottom hexagrams are the primary hidden hexagrams of the I Ching.

The presently popular and wide spread I Ching hexagram building system (given in Wilhelm/Baynes) can be applied as a math check for this system, one only need to apply it to the bottom right hexagram to arrive at the top left hexagram (with movement exhausted) and as well employ it to arrive at the secondary hidden hexagrams for all four of the primary hexagrams. If you did not draw (a word going to the original use of sticks rather than the coins) 3 of a kind when tossing the coins, it indicates the idea of stasis or no movement. The principle of infinity with this system can be looked at as rolling a wheel on a plane. If you were to mark 64 degrees on a wheel and roll it so to speak, unlike a computer analyzing Chess, you cannot exhaust the possibilities because no matter had you repeated an identical value, you will always arrive at a different space in time, yesterday cannot be the same as tomorrow. In ancient numerology the primary based 8 principle is recognizing as different and putting a limit on the value of thumbs (based 10.) If you think about it, abandoning the limitation on the value of thumbs points to where everything has gone wrong for humans in nature. For instance, if thumbs are what allow exploitation (tool making and use) and there were a simple analysis of the amount of tool-making damage to nature required to build civilization to a point of exploring space, the ancient system is much smarter that modern. The old way did not exploit to a point of destroying the planet and yet there resides in it an application (that is not

externalized) to explore space and time and to know. It is this same mathematical principle the Native American oracle measured the movement of energy in nature in relation to oneself. Western psychology [mentalities] will more often than not misinterpret an important aspect with seeing this in a projective sense of oracle because it cannot [does not and was never intended to] predict the future. It is a snapshot in time of ones position in relation to nature. The purpose of the Chinese application of this oracle was almost certainly to assess a need for a recalibration of the self in relation to taking decisions, nothing more. How the I Ching differs from the Stick Game is, the stick game is not recorded, reinterpreted or differentiated from the fluidity of the movement of energy in nature. In the ancient cultural system which both oracles draw their origins from, nature is read as living clockwork as one moves through time. If the Stick Game were one step removed from the original, organic approach, the I Ching would be two steps removed. The ancient cultural phenomena of understanding the timing of events witnessed in our living surroundings coordinated to our thoughts- would be largely [literally] impossible to achieve in those mentalities trained from birth solely in Platonic objectivity [European based rationality] wherein thought is separated from, rather than integrated to, Nature. However Quantum Mechanics has now challenged Platonic thought and presents a dilemma: How will Western science deal with the paradox of Platos

objectivity having led to conducting experiments indicating Human consciousness cannot be separated from objects, pointing to the entire culture founded on Plato is based in self-deception? A further observation would be; this ancient shamanic system is fully 50% corrupt in its 'civilized' or male hierarchy application by time of Confucius. Confucius was an unabashed Chauvinist and the Taoist I Ching is a degenerate male hierarchy textbook with ideas of the dark and feminine as inauspicious. Platonic gynophobia also rejects the female or intuitive intelligence incorporated to the original shamanic system [which remains incorporated in the Stick Game with its live interactions] from which the I Ching had derived. By time of I Ching development, female intelligence [intuition] via direct interaction had been separated out from the oracle in its relationship to nature and relegated to luck (with a literal coin toss) in this systems now compromised application, a masculinized I Ching. It is clear the Chinese had objectified this system prior to Platos theory. Confucius [551479 BC] and Platos [423347 BC] dates clearly indicate probability of Plato inspired by the Eastern philosophers misogyny, previously unknown in Europe. Herein lie the roots of objectivity and Platos misapprehension of reality. A comparison of the I Ching to the Oracle Stick Game could look like this: There are 8 sticks, all belonging to the ground (Earth.) These sticks are equally divided between

opposing teams, which may consist of 1 person to unlimited numbers per side. The sticks are a points tally which determine when the oracle is consummated (all the sticks first having been won from the ground and only then having moved into the possession of one side or the other.) The oracle employs two sets of Bones: each set of Bones has one marked Bone, and one unmarked Bone. Each set of Bones must generally follow these specifications: Each Bone must be easily concealable in a fist, and the marked Bone must be clearly marked and easily differentiated from the unmarked Bone. These Bones are the identical mathematical properties to the Old & Young Yin & Yang employed in the I Ching: Masculine/old is changing line) --o-- three heads (a so-called

Masculine/young is ----- two heads and a tail. Feminine/young is -- -- two tails and a head Feminine/old is changing line) --x-- three tails (a so-called

Concerning the Bones, when making a Point (guess), the possibilities are (with the two opposing hiders, each with a marked and unmarked Bone concealed in their fists) Middle: the hands between the hiders, or the right hand of

the hider on her/his left and left hand of the hider on her/his right, this Point is equivalent Old Yin Outside: The reverse of the above, this point is equivalent of the Old Yang And then (assignment of these values can depend on the players orientation or alignment to the cardinal directions) both the hiders left hands or both the hiders right hands will be equivalent either Young Yin & Yang in relation to a Point. But the point is not a guess and in fact if one must actually guess in a western cultural sense, as opposed to read the phenomena nature reveals during the process of the game, that person is in trouble with the oracle. This is where the I Ching went wrong with allocating outcomes to chance with the use of coins. The intuitive (female intelligence) had been neutered in the application. In the Native oracle, the intuitive or female intelligence is remains employed .. the bones are alive, the hiders sentient beings employing a meditation to conceal. To break down this puzzle, the Pointer must see through the hider and repeatedly make a correct determination of the marked and unmarked Bones positions. One does this with ones understanding of ones own relationship to nature. This phenomena of sight might manifest in several form, depending on a Pointers gift(s) or developed sense of intuitive intelligence (caveat: recalling Benjamin Whorf correctly postulated reality for the Native is shaped in such a way that the western mentality is incapable to see.) Here

you might also encounter a feather affixed to a divining stick (different to a tally stick) where the feather will be influenced by the energies employed, and move in such a way as to indicate the necessary point, recalling consciousness CANNOT be separated from objects .. Insofar as mathematical complexities in comparison to I Ching, there are rules pointing multiple possibilities. For instance when one set of Bones has been correctly determined but not the other (the two hiders having been challenged simultaneously with a point) the one set of bones are put to sleep rather than transferred to the pointer whod found them and the pointer must correctly determine the 2nd set possessed by the hider whod been successful, to win all the Bones and failing to do so with the next point the sleeping Bones come to life and the pointer is faced with two hiders again rather than the Bones having changed sides and teams roles reversed. Variations are an odd (kick) stick to begin the game, employing ten + one rather than eight sticks whereby the number of divinations required is increased overall [eight sticks and Bones put to sleep with possibility of coming to life is the oldest extant form.] One person may hide two sets of bones, whether they hold two unmarked, two marked or one of each depending on which Bone is in which hand, equals a value equivalent to two hiders. Another possible way of looking at Old versus Young is, when faced with challenge of having to divine the positions

of four versus two Bones. In the Native oracle there is no possibility of stasis as is found in the I Ching when the coins fail to turn up three of a kind. Nature is dynamic and when the Chinese corrupted the math to support rule of male hierarchy by substituting chance (coins) for applied female intelligence, they had rendered the phenomenal world of spirit invisible (and paradoxically make offerings to the same.) If there were a Native mistake, it would be the thought the western intelligence could steal and misapply this knowledge, in fact this knowledge becoming known widely, actually can only serve to undermine the male hierarchy that has brought the world out of balance. A 2nd point to the immediately preceding paragraph is: the western science had not until recently developed the necessary knowledge base and attending concept [quantum mechanics] to make an authentic inter-cultural translation of native reality to western reality possible. My experience has shown some western women can grasp the basic native principles of female intelligence in several hours, with a general rule the less educated (conditioned) are more apt to see through the Platonic self-deception than those women whod used education to rise in the western male construct of reality; whereas the western males are so completely retarded by their socialization into Platonic mentalities, you can drill them for years to practically no result and of those two western males who have managed a basic working grasp of the native knowledge, one took five

years and the other more than twenty years. Both male subjects suffer socially debilitating handicaps, which have served to deflate the western ego, which has not been shown necessary in the case of women, likely because women suffer as a class under western domination. The phenomena of western cultural conditioning out of and away from the world of phenomenal reality with denial of female intelligence is best demonstrated by the western science own laboratory result where Quantum Mechanics points to an entire other world of phenomenal consciousness and yet the advanced post-doctoral western scientist looks outside the lab and sees precisely nothing out of the ordinary. Closing this essay while remembering the Native belief in the importance of ones ability to laugh at oneself and pointing this excellent idea to Western science and the people whose reality is shaped by negative phenomena, I will merely state observant people could learn a lot from this critique/lampoon [excerpted from Napi Mephisto] of the SEED Open University Language of Spirit dialogues

The Great Oxymoron Lester Log Roller was from a family of Indians named for a drunken forebear who had been 'challenged' by some White

loggers in the Pacific Northwest to participate in the "Logger Olympics" of sport unique to their profession. Lester's forebear actually had brought off his performance quite well, while keeping his balance on a log in a pond which he managed to roll with agility, both forwards and backwards... his fame for the event however, was the wild look of panic on this Indians face with his braids flying askew, because this Indian did not know how to swim. His champion log rolling performance was purely survival driven which made the event all the more hilarious to the redneck Whites that had sent him onto the log at gunpoint. The chief of this White Redneck tribe's sense of honor, his name was Lucious Ludicrous Bean, declared Log Roller should be allowed to live for his amazing ability to mimic the loggers in the sport ("Damn, who'd believed"), but the Indian would hereafter have to be known by the new name and answer to it. The Indian agreed to the terms required to save his life while still on the log, and was subsequently fished out of the pond both before he had drowned and nearing sobriety, because he had finally fallen into the water from pure exhaustion. Log Roller's descendant, Lester Log Roller, subsequently was from a family of Indians that did not drink. They knew better. He went to Law School instead Nobody in the White Academic world knew how to create

a Native Studies Program because in fact to postulate a program as such in the western classroom was oxymoron. Hell, they did not even know that. Native Studies, if it was Natives doing the studies, would be non-interfering in Nature, observing the processes from which all Native intelligence had been drawn. Lester Log Roller did not know that, because he had been off to Boarding School from age five and then off to University in Kanadada. By this time he had mastered the provincial English linguistic trick of stating the just so "Eh?" after postulating something as mundane as "How aboot (yucky pronunciations) we run to the trading post for some smokes. Eh?" And his Blackfoot language was rusty, such as the time he was home from boarding school to visit and his Aunt told him to go back out (he had just come in the door) and bring in the "Napi-aki." Lester started to go back out, he was confused, but then resolutely faced his Aunt and told her "I don't have a White woman!" She laughed and said in English "I'm not talking about White women, I want you to bring in the milk jug." Lester felt dumb. Napi-aki could mean either milk jug or White woman, but he did not get the context. He had been too long away at school Lester was a conscientious sort, and so when his undergraduate major in 'Native Studies' was decided on, he returned home in summers and brushed up on his Blackfoot

Language. But he did not realize that the answer to bring his university into line with the political correctness of the new times had been to establish a White Anthropology program staffed by White-educated mentalities in people with Red skins and call it 'Native Studies.' And so, Lester, like the now countless other Red skinned people of Native descent, thought this was real. He should have remembered the Blackfoot proverb "Everyone knows the Whiteman is crazy." But Lester could not know this now applied to himself. So he questioned his former people's elders to get ideas for his papers he would need to write in the discipline of anthropology disguised with the 'Native Studies' euphemism. And thought he was Indian Lester went on to Law School and eventually became Director of 'Native Studies' at a great university which had been duly impressed with his achievements in the Whiteman's so-called field of 'Indian Treaty Law,' having nothing to do with actual Aboriginal Laws of past times, but which combined with the idea he spoke Blackfoot, seemed to make him eminently qualified to run their program. Here at university he met the great White theoretical physicist David Bohm and they had discussed David's curiousity as to why it had been noted as early as the 1920's the Native American languages seemed to have no problem describing many phenomena of the new

theoretical physics, which western languages had difficulty coping with. Lester had no idea why either, but it seemed there must be something to it and so they began a dialogue... and eventually Lester became a god. To at least three or four people. Lester, later on retired and living in a townhouse in the better part of Lethbridge, Kanadada, had continued with his anthropological interest in studying his former people and was particularly interested in their form of government before they had been conquered. His anthropological studies got him up and running on three legs in Blackfoot ways, like the proverbial wild dog that had chewed off one leg to escape a trap... and that was about it Lester had by this time taken over the dialogue and thought he had some things figured out: Like how the old time chiefs circle of oratory had worked. Not. What he attempted to replicate in fact became a lunatic caricature of what had been his ancestral wisdom. It was not meant to be evil and in fact it was not evil. It was merely stupid. But Lester could not know that By this time, these dialogues, with David Bohm now dead, had become sponsored by a 'Wannabee Indian' organization called 'New Age in Native America' run by an anal-retenthyper-liberal White intellectual who fancied himself an

enlightened feminist man. Though one might suspect otherwise, this man was not 'bi,' neither bi-sexual, nor bicultural Narcissus Yabadabadoo Montenegro was a "Coyote" in the strict local Hispanic sense of the term, that is a 'Spanglo.' You would never know to which community of his ancestry he was loyal to, because this sort of Coyote could only be loyal to himself. His ego was of a soft burnished sort, the kind of lovely passive-aggressiveness whose nasty aspect was presented in the effeminate dark side aroma of the flower he was named for. As a real Indian, you just did not want to get too close to Narcissus if you were to enjoy the genuine natural beauty of his expression. And so it also was with the NANA sponsored dialogues he so expertly organized for the world to know the truth of the New Age in Native America When Narcissus gazed into the reflective pool of the soft loveliness in his ego, he could detect no offensive aroma. His ethnocidal nuance as applied to Native American thought and philosophy was of a much prettier and more refined sort than that established for his intellectual forebears in the psychological literature developed by Erich Fromm: who postulated the Nazis much enjoyed the smell of their own farts. A far cry from the camps and ovens, the

ethnocidal 'thrust' of Narcissus' ego priapismic tendencies was to bring about the immolation of the Indians beliefs and thinking with grandiose graphics of Taoist imagery superimposed on Native American fruits and vegetables extrapolated to western print: advertising the many 'Red Skinned [Elmer] Fudds' (PhDs) he would gather alongside White skinned western scientists in a grand orgy of psycosomatic ego-stroking masturbation in high intellectual workshops of inter-racial discourse Napi fell for it in the beginning. It was attractive, because Lester, a Blackfoot Indian who could speak his language was master of ceremony and that fact, taken together with the promoted agenda of Native America's relationship to an observational philosophy of Quantum Mechanics, convinced Napi at the start he would learn something. Well, Napi did learn some things, he just did not learn what he had expected, like a wider understanding of Native Quantum Reality. Napi learned about Quantum Mechanics in the laboratory from the White scientists and absolutely nothing at all from the many PhD Native Americans because they had no idea at all of how Native Quantum Reality functionally worked. Damn, it was sad. Not one PhD, not a single PhD from either side of the Racial divide, understood that to be Native American in thought and philosophy had absolutely nothing to do with Race. PhD.

Wow. The White western scientists were sometimes frustrated with the Red western scientists who could only tell stories from anthropology that were totally out of context and consequently nonsensical. That fact only made the Red western scientists equal to the White western scientists totally out of context with Nature and nonsensical lab experiments Napi simply observed the first year he attended. The second year he contributed a little bit of real Indian thinking and freaked out Lester because it looked as though the entire event could be shown up as a case of 'The Emperor Has No Clothes!' The third year Napi had tried to explain to Narcissus and had approached Lester directly about making a contribution, how some things could change to open up the dialogues to real learning, but Napi was frozen out instead. No upsetting the gravy train of ego allowed here! Rather the 'face' of the event was to be preserved at all costs, a portrait of the mysterious and knowledgeable Indian, Lester, presiding over an event that might one day yield his great secrets held in abeyance: to his lesser Native beings and the handful of toadying sycophant Whites who peered upon his Native holiness with expressions of Heavenly reverence as though they were alter-boys seated upon the left and right hands of God. In fact, it appeared to Napi that Lester didn't know shit.

Lester only knew how to rest on his laurels from his former Native Studies program directorship at Harvard, look important, and otherwise act cool and all knowing. That's it Napi Thought: What a lot of BS ** Medicine Man Theory 101: Mid-Term Exam A Raven has a favorite perch overhead, just outside your door. One day you discover a black wing feather directly below the perch, corresponding to a feather missing from the Ravens wing (observable in flight.) You also have a black rooster with free run of the property. Make a selection from any of the following proposals to base your answer on in one paragraph (not to exceed the length of this explanation) bearing in mind the element of paradox. Note: Of the possibilities in the following proposals, there is one absolute dead end choice that is an automatic fail* a) Coincidence is a Western value that does not exist in pre-Columbian thought. b) The universal shamanic concept of timing predetermines the feather belongs to the Raven, not the chicken. c) Because medicine men exercise exceeding care in their thinking, the feather cannot be trusted to be the

Ravens except the roosters wing were examined to rule out any possibility it is a chicken feather. d) It would not matter whether the feather were a chickens feather. Hint: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Retrocausality
* c) is automatic fail

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