A brief note on upcoming blogs, before Christmas takes my attention for the week - "Cave and Cosmos," by an old favorite anthropologist, Michael Harner. Shuffled off to the side by my professors in grad school days as having 'gone native,' Harner has revived shamanism - or the art of spirit flight - and takes it very seriously. For a first impression, and what I will expound on later, his accounts of several of his students are shocking - many are EXACTLY like the descriptions of NDE people recently highlighted here, although the purely Christian aspects are muted. Through the use of drumming alone - no drugs or starvation, etc - people fly to the upper world or the lower. where they meet power animals or see celestial cities, relatives, famous philosophers and saints, and learn the secrets of the universe - which they cannot describe in flat earth (here). And there is love - the feeling of love in the "upper world" is the same experienced by the NDE people. Much more on that later.
On a personal note, he often mentions horses as spirit guides, and says that riding them in a vision is a sign that they have taken you on as their person, as sort of guardian angels. My last essay mirrors that perfectly - could Mohawk still be here? In a timeless world, who knows? Again, more on that next week. Merry Christmas, FK
On a personal note, he often mentions horses as spirit guides, and says that riding them in a vision is a sign that they have taken you on as their person, as sort of guardian angels. My last essay mirrors that perfectly - could Mohawk still be here? In a timeless world, who knows? Again, more on that next week. Merry Christmas, FK
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