Culture and Shamanism

In primitive times, when man only organized in small familial groups and clans, hundreds of thousands of cultures grew up, matured, and died. With a life expectancy of 30 or less it was difficult to learn and store knowledge and wisdom. Every group has a different mythos, different root idea. Simple environmental factors, or past disasters affect the belief structure. People did not have what we would call ideas. Starting from pure attention to senses the beginnings of cooperation began communication. To communicate one needs symbols to represent physical objects.

America is a tremendous gestalt resulting from a mix of all cultures of the world. Every culture's ideas, art, traditions, and beliefs are forming new combinations and patterns. This process has been accelerating for hundreds of years. Starting with the Native Americans and Europeans and later significant African, Asian, Hispanic, and people from every corner of the Earth. A tipping point of synthesis of all these cultures is resulting in the birth of a New Native American Culture. What is the character of his culture? What does this mean for us and the world?

I decided that it was not wisdom that enabled [poets] to write their poetry, but a kind of instinct or inspiration, such as you find in seers and prophets who deliver all their sublime messages without knowing in the least what they mean.
Socrates, In "Apology," sct. 21, by Plato

Rouse up, O Young Men of the New Age! set your foreheads against the ignorant Hirelings! For we have Hirelings in the Camp, the Court, and the University, who would, if the could for ever depress Mental and prolong Corporeal War.
William Blake

See ,the barrier is thinning