February 26, 2005 09:25PM
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Registered: 19 years ago
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Hi Sue,
I agree it's an interesting thread and thanks for your intersting post. As you know, I enjoy the insights you often bring in that are based in your own experience.
You allude to some things I mentioned above, so just a couple of points.
You said...
>I do appreciate the notion that the disruptive and oppressive night predations of the skinwalkers might have the consequence of strengthening and reviving the native Navajo spiritual and healing practices. Still, isn't the idea that such a cultural and spiritual vivification would not take place otherwise somewhat sad and perhaps even tragic?<
In suggesting that predatory behavior in a sense strengthens the tribe, I surely did not mean to imply that it was the only way a cultural revival might occur. It does not seem to me that the Navaho revival has been purely reactionary. On a cross-cultural note, the words of Heraclitus, which you referred to elsewhere
, do seem appropriate here ...
-The bow is called life, but its work is death.
-Men do not know how that which is drawn in different directions harmonizes with itself. The harmonious structure of the world depends upon opposite tension like that of the bow and the lyre.
-The way up and the way down are one and the same.
-The thunderbolt steers the course of all things.
-We must know that war is common to all and strife is justice, and that all things come into being and pass away through strife.
What you mention about the influence of Castaneda is exactly the kind of thing that concerned me in bringing him up. Obviously not all shapeshifters have the glamorous mystique of the Yaqui sorcerers in quite the way Castaneda depicts.
Jane
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