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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 conseq
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Jane
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Hi Ritva,
And nice to see you. But I do think you need to re-read what I wrote. I did not say the skinwalkers were behaving only on instinct like animals. I said they were human beings who made conscious decisions about their choice of prey. I agree with teacup that you need more evidence for your point of view; but then so do I, though my speculation is based on a physical survival mecha
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Jane
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Hi Joanne,
It would have been more fun to respond to your original post to me, but sometimes discipline and censorship can be a good thing.
You wrote:
> > > This board is meant to be about
> evidence.
> >
> > And we are getting quite a lot of it,
> first-hand,
> > eye-witness accounts no less.
>
> The first-hand accounts can obviously on
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Jane
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Hi Stephanie,
Thanks for your comments. I elaborated a bit in response to Ritva just below this and look forward to your further observations on this theme.
Stephanie Wrote:
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> Interesting thoughts, Jane. Yes, it is
> specualation but no less interesting. I guess it
> could be perceived that skinwalkers somehow
> s
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Ritva Kurittu Wrote:
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> Hi Jane,
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> Ooops, I answered Stephanie further up and had
> some thoughts rather like yours. No surprise
> really.
I was thinking more of a naturalistic interpretation, along the lines of how predator and prey interact and maintain a balance in nature, more of an instinctual thing. Skinwalker
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Jane
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Thanks for the detailed response. I was pretty sure about some of the things you said, but with all the mystification that has swirled around in recent years -- I used to live in Boulder, where "shamanism" of many sorts is practiced with varying degrees of sincerity and authenticity -- that it can be a challenge to sort myth from reality and preserve important cultural distinctions.
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Jane
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Hi Ritva,
Interesting that you say "amen," though not sure how you mean it. There is a sense in which the predator strengthens the herd and I have been thinking that there is a sense, for all the evident negative intent, that the skinwalker strengthens the tribe. It occurs to me that taboos may also figure in an awareness of that at some level. That's a speculation not a conc
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Jane
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Hi Stephanie,
About the confusion about "animal powers," I was wondering myself in a general sense because I suppose we are all familiar with the manner in which "new age" interpretations of shamanism in essence exploit NA cultures, and there has been lots of curiosity raised about shapeshifting by the Castaneda tales. Not to suggest that is what Ritva has had in mind ... I
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Jane
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Joanne Wrote:
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> This board is meant to be about evidence.
And we are getting quite a lot of it, first-hand, eye-witness accounts no less. Certainly not bad to ask questions, but why shut off the stream with anxious challenges that put the respondent on edge? Not the best anthropological approach!
Jane
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Jane
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stryfe Wrote:
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> The amount of tales that I can tell you can
> fill a book. They have been acrued over a
> lifetime. Stephanie stated that this tale will
> unfold for you slowly. I suggest you excercise a
> little patience as the tale unfolds.
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> It does not require many words to speak the truth.
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Jane
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