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Hello Everyone, and welcome, Ruth. Thank you for sharing. If you have any information about Polar Bears in dreams I would love to hear them.
Please check out Pachamama.org and awakeningthedreamer.org and you will find work being done with the same heart connection you speak of. I am a clinically trained dream tender and an 'Awakening the Dreamer' facilitator. In this work, I have met some of the most amazing people imaginable, who are doing extraordinary work in ways that inspire us all to do our part to make a genuine difference in our world. We are committed to bringing forth an environmentally sustainable, spiritually fulfilling, socially just human presence to planet earth. Please check out the sites and if you learn how to post things on this site for everyone to check them out, by all means, I would appreciate it.
Meanwhile, I've got papers to write and will be down under and out for awhile. I look forward to more sharing in the future.
Ginger
I just joined this group and am very excited to read the posts. For 10 yrs I worked with he Foundation for the Indians of the Sierra, for the Huichol tribe. I had called a photographer who had produced many photos and lived with the tribe (caucasian) and left a message. His wife, Huichole, and he had moved to the states in order to provide education for their deaf son. Summers were back with the tribe. She dreamed me after that call, exactly the way I looked . She called me, told me"I dreamed you" and "you are meant to help us. I send you things, you sell for us." And sure enough eventually 2 huge boxes of 'things' arrived. When I figure out how to upload pix I'd like to post a few on htis space. Huichol Indians are indiginous and are a peyote based culture. The shaman and the 'artists' hunt for peyote each year. The artists use the peyote to open their dreams. The artists are trained by the shaman from childhood to remember the dreams for months at a time. There is no sketching, no written language to use, etc. There is no sketch under the yarn paintings. They make yarn paintings of deities and prayer bowls (which are now made with commericially produced beads.) The works are amazing, and very moving.
This is a reverent culture where the shaman dreams where the deer might be found. The hunters take the deer while praying. As the deer lies struck by an arrow, the men pray, offer peyote, prayer flags (feathers on a whittled stick) and prayer bowls of thankfulness. The deer, hummingbirds, corn, rain, etc are sacred and revered for keeping the people alive. This was an extremely gentle community. they wore their symbolic (embroidered) garments daily. Eventually many had to leave and go into Mexico for work (15 yr drought). they wore their normal garb, and were beaten and some killed, by the local Mexicans for being' so different'-an embarrassment to the culture of machissmo. Their life has been very difficult -the mountians were arid, but the Mexican culture was equally difficult. the Foundation was started to provide teaching for crop growth, and the needed supplies. I'm not a sales person, but I was facilitating many groups then and just had the artifacts around. Afterwards people would come up in almost a hypnotic trance (from the works) and ask to purchase them. I learned that I had nothing to do with getting them sold. Each person was spoken to by the work. It never happened that 2 people wanted the same yarn painting-although each were beautiful and compelling.
I'm not tech saavy.
I just tried to send you all a notice of a film by a friend.
I'll shoot a copy to Bonnie with hopes she finds the right way to post for you!
HI Ginger: Great to hear from you. I have a 2 shelves of books on shamanism so if I can provide any help, please let me know. It's a passionate interest of mine--though I'm sure you have your own sources. I'd love to read your paper when it's complete....
Thank you, Bonnie.
Excellent quote.
I am starting another paper on Shamanism and will be checking into resources mentioned on this depth psychology site. Thanks so much for all of your work!
Kindest regards,
Ginger Swanson
One of my favorite shamanic quotes comes from Maria Sabina, the Mazatec Indian "wise one" of Mexico:
There is a world beyond ours, a world that is far away, nearby and invisible. And there it is where God lies, where the dead live, the spirits and the saints, a world where everything has already happened and everything is known. That world talks. It has a language of its own. I report what it says. (Halifax, in Sandner & Wong, 1997, p. 11)
That Sandner & Wong book,The sacred heritage: The influence of shamanism on analytical psychology, by the way, is excellent. It's an anthology with contributions by several well-known authors and experts in the field.
Imagery has always been central to the work of indigenous shamans, Ryan (2002) asserts, “the shaman everywhere is the great master of ‘thinking in primordial images’” (p. 41). Jung deems the shaman as having a “direct line to the unconscious” (p. 41). A shaman requires access to images in order to see intrusive spirits that cause disease or to locate the disease in the body. Simply showing a patient an intrusive object that the shaman has extracted can have a powerful effect on the patient, just as patients in the western world are affected by images of an x-ray or a pill that might help them heal. “The shaman today, like his ancestors, is able to ‘see’ an invasion of foreign energy encased in his patient’s body, ‘hear’ the call of a lost soul, and ‘feel’ the brush of his power animal against his leg” (Gagan, 1998, p. 53).
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