You might enjoy The Primal Mind, Vision and Reality in Indian America, by
Jamake Highwater. Harper & Row, ISBN 0-06-014866-7.
A mind-altering discussion of what the dominant Euro-culture turned its
back on, and to a large degree continues to ignore.
--Bob Whitmire
Certified Neanderthal
On Tue, Jun 23, 2015 at 4:15 AM, SwissPace <ian@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Thanks Moose,
>
> I read it and then the original transcript - which I found more emotional,
> I feel its a shame that we didn't adopt the indiginous ways of the world
> who seemed to respect nature and others more and wonder if we have ended up
> happier - it makes for sad reading now and as you say should be instilled
> in all people everywhere. Did the Aborigines write something similar I
> wonder?
>
> IanW who might be a closet new ager if he knew what it meant but thinks
> old ager (i.e to learn from the past and not about how old I am) might fit
> better. Swoon though I did not but maybe I have a different understanding
> of the word
>
>> All perspective.
>>
>> Of course, all us soft headed new agers and such swoon when we read/hear
>> quotes from Chief Seattle's letter to the US government, "Chief Seattle,
>> Chief of the Suquamish Indians allegedly wrote to the American Government
>> in the 1800's - In this letter he gave the most profound understanding of
>> God in all Things. Here is his letter, which should be instilled in the
>> hearts and minds of every parent and child in all the Nations of the World:
>> <http://www.barefootsworld.net/seattle.html>" <
>> http://www.barefootsworld.net/seattle.html>
>>
>> And yet, as on all other continents and islands when first settled
>> (invaded?) by homo sapiens, Chief Seattle's ancestors quickly made extinct
>> all the largest native animals.
>>
>
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