THIS TRIBE IS ACTUALLY MANY TRIBES THAT ARE FOUND IN NEW ENGLAND AND THE GREAT LAKES. THE STATES THEY OCCUPIED INCLUDED NEW YORK, PENNSYLVANIA, NEW JERSEY, AND DELAWARE. THEY LIVED IN MANY VILLAGES WHICH ACTUALLY HAD 900 INDIANS EACH. THEY BUILT DOME SHAPED WIGWAMS, FROM SAPLINGS COVERED WITH BIRTH BARK, CHESTNUT, OAK OR ELM. THEY ALSO PLACED BARK OVER THEIR WIGWAMS. THEY WOVE MATS OUT OF RUSH AND CEDAR BRANCHES. BEDS WERE MADE FROM SPRUCE BOUGHS COVERED WITH SKINS. THEY SAT ON ROLLED UP SKINS AND HIDES.
MANY VILLAGES WERE STAKES WITH PALISADES. THEY MADE MOST OF THEIR CLOTHING FROM ELK AND DEER HIDES. THEY DECORATED THEIR OUTFITS WITH SHELLS, STONES, PAINT AND PORCUPINE QUILLS. MEN WORE BREECH CLOTH AND THE WOMEN WORE WRAP AROUND SKIRTS, LEGGINGS, AND MOCCASINS. THEY WOVE TURKEY DOWN ROBES.
THEY WERE MAINLY HUNTERS AND DID SOME FARMING USING FISH TO FERTILIZE CORN FIELDS. ON THE COAST THEY COLLECTED CLAMS, OYSTERS, LOBSTERS, MUSSELS AND OTHER SHELLFISH. THEY WRAPPED FISH IN SEAWEED THEN COOKED IT IN A PIT DUG IN THE EARTH. THEY WERE EXCELLENT HUNTERS, FISHERS, AND FOOD GATHERERS. THEY HUNTED MOOSE, CARIBOU, AND BEAVER AND OTHER ANIMALS.
THEY HAD BIG POWWOWS EVERY SIX MONTHS. EACH TRIBE BROUGHT IT'S CHIEF TO THE POWWOW COUNCIL. IT WAS AN OCCASION FOR FEASTING AND DANCING. ARGUMENTS BETWEEN GROUPS WERE SETTLED, AND TRADING WAS COMPLETED.
THEIR MEN MADE CANOES AND MADE WEAPONS . THEY USED SPEARS TO CATCH FISH. THE WOMEN WOVE FISHNETS, MATS, AND BARK CONTAINERS. THEY MADE BIRCH BARK BOXES AND DECORATED THEM WITH PORCUPINE QUILLS. THEIR ART INCLUDED ALSO STITCHED BAGS AND CLOTHING OF DEER HIDE EMBROIDERED WITH FLORAL PATTERNS. THEY USED BIRCH BARK TO MAKE MANY ITEMS SUCH AS CANOES AND WIGWAM GIFT ITEMS.
THE SNOW SNAKE WAS A GAME PLAYED BY TRIBES OF THE GREAT LAKES. A SNOWSNAKE WAS A LONG STICK OF MAPLEWOOD. ONE END WAS CARVED TO LOOK LIKE A SNAKE'S HEAD. THEY PACKED DOWN SNOW ON A LONG, LEVEL STRIP OF GROUND. EACH PLAYER SLID THE STICK AROUND THE GROUND. THE ONE WHO SLID THE STICK AROUND THEW FARTHEST WON.
ON THE EAST COAST THERE WERE MANY TRIBES THAT LOST 75% OF THEIR PEOPLE AFTER MEETING THE EUROPEANS - THEY GOT SMALLPOX AND MEASLES. TODAY THEIR ARE MORE THAN 1/2 MILLION ALGONQUIN TRIBES IN THE REGION OF NORTHEAST AMERICA.
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Friday, December 17, 2010
Thursday, December 16, 2010
HOW TO SUCCEED IN LIFE by MARIAN ELDEMAN
MARIAN IS A BLACK LADY WHO GREW UP IN NORTH CAROLINA AND TOLD HER STORY OF HAVING APPRECIATIVE PARENTS AND A LOT OF SUPPORT IN HER BLACK COMMUNITY. SHE WAS TOLD TO DO WELL IN SCHOOL. SHE BECAUSE A LAWYER. UNFORTUNATELY OUR CULTURE REWARDS GREED OF ALL KINDS. SHE WAS TAUGHT A DIFFERENT SET OF VALUES. HER KEY TO RAISING CHILDREN IS TO APPRECIATE THEM FOR WHO THEY ARE VS. WHAT THEY ACCOMPLISH. SHE WAS A CHILD ADVOCATE.
SHE WRITES THAT SHE IS SORRY FOR THE TIMES SHE DID NOT AFFIRM HER CHILDREN ENOUGH. HER BOOK IS ABOUT SOME OF THE SHORT COMINGS OF HER PARENTING. SHE HAD A LIVE-IN GRANDMA FOR 13 YEARS WHO RAISED HER KIDS WITH HER HUSBAND! SHE LIVES IN A WEALTHY WASHINGTON D.C. NEIGHBORHOOD AND KNOWS THEY ARE A PRIVILEGED FAMILY.
SHE SPEAKS THAT WE NEED TO BECOME MORE AWARE OF AND RESPECT ALL TYPES OF RACES. PAY ATTENTION TO DETAIL, AND TAKE INITIATIVE. PAY ATTENTION IN SCHOOL AND MAKE PROGRESS AS YOU SEE FIT. DO WORK THAT YOU LOVE VS. WHAT MAKES MONEY. SPREAD YOUR WEALTH AND SKILLS TO YOUR COMMUNITY. TAKE SOME RISKS IN ORDER TO ACHIEVE WHAT YOU WANT AND PLEASE ASK FOR WHAT YOU WANT. SPEND YOUR TIME IN A WORTHY CAUSE. SHE SPEAKS TO PARENTS TO TAKE PARENTING SERIOUSLY AND INSIST THAT THE FOLKS YOU WORK FOR REPRESENT YOU WELL. YOUNG MEN NEED TO HELP AROUND THE HOUSE WITH CHORES TO GET THEM DONE - NO MATTER WHAT IT IS. THESE ARE FAMILY RESPONSIBILITIES. CLEAN UP YOUR OWN MESS. TALK OUR THE CHANGING ROLES OF THE MOM AND DAD AS THEIR JOBS CHANGE.
REMEMBER THAT IT'S MORE IMPORTANT TO HAVE FRIENDS THAN TO DEMEAN ETHNIC RACES. ANOTHER LESSON IS TO NEVER GIVE UP NO MATTER HOW HARD LIFE GETS. BE CONFIDENT THAT YOU CAN MAKE A DIFFERENCE. DON'T BE AFRAID OF HARD WORK AND TEACHING YOUR CHILDREN TO WORK. FOCUS ON WHAT YOU HAVE , NOT ON WHAT YOU DON'T HAVE. LIVE IN THE PRESENT - ACCEPT EACH MINUTE AS AN UNREPEATABLE MINUTE. THE ONLY PERSON YOU CAN CONTROL IS YOURSELF. FIRST REMAKE YOURSELF, THEN TACKLE HOW TO CONTRIBUTE TO THE WORLD. HELP YOUR CHILDREN FEEL PRIDE IN THEIR HERITAGE AND THEIR SENSE OF HISTORY.
SHE WRITES THAT SHE IS SORRY FOR THE TIMES SHE DID NOT AFFIRM HER CHILDREN ENOUGH. HER BOOK IS ABOUT SOME OF THE SHORT COMINGS OF HER PARENTING. SHE HAD A LIVE-IN GRANDMA FOR 13 YEARS WHO RAISED HER KIDS WITH HER HUSBAND! SHE LIVES IN A WEALTHY WASHINGTON D.C. NEIGHBORHOOD AND KNOWS THEY ARE A PRIVILEGED FAMILY.
SHE SPEAKS THAT WE NEED TO BECOME MORE AWARE OF AND RESPECT ALL TYPES OF RACES. PAY ATTENTION TO DETAIL, AND TAKE INITIATIVE. PAY ATTENTION IN SCHOOL AND MAKE PROGRESS AS YOU SEE FIT. DO WORK THAT YOU LOVE VS. WHAT MAKES MONEY. SPREAD YOUR WEALTH AND SKILLS TO YOUR COMMUNITY. TAKE SOME RISKS IN ORDER TO ACHIEVE WHAT YOU WANT AND PLEASE ASK FOR WHAT YOU WANT. SPEND YOUR TIME IN A WORTHY CAUSE. SHE SPEAKS TO PARENTS TO TAKE PARENTING SERIOUSLY AND INSIST THAT THE FOLKS YOU WORK FOR REPRESENT YOU WELL. YOUNG MEN NEED TO HELP AROUND THE HOUSE WITH CHORES TO GET THEM DONE - NO MATTER WHAT IT IS. THESE ARE FAMILY RESPONSIBILITIES. CLEAN UP YOUR OWN MESS. TALK OUR THE CHANGING ROLES OF THE MOM AND DAD AS THEIR JOBS CHANGE.
REMEMBER THAT IT'S MORE IMPORTANT TO HAVE FRIENDS THAN TO DEMEAN ETHNIC RACES. ANOTHER LESSON IS TO NEVER GIVE UP NO MATTER HOW HARD LIFE GETS. BE CONFIDENT THAT YOU CAN MAKE A DIFFERENCE. DON'T BE AFRAID OF HARD WORK AND TEACHING YOUR CHILDREN TO WORK. FOCUS ON WHAT YOU HAVE , NOT ON WHAT YOU DON'T HAVE. LIVE IN THE PRESENT - ACCEPT EACH MINUTE AS AN UNREPEATABLE MINUTE. THE ONLY PERSON YOU CAN CONTROL IS YOURSELF. FIRST REMAKE YOURSELF, THEN TACKLE HOW TO CONTRIBUTE TO THE WORLD. HELP YOUR CHILDREN FEEL PRIDE IN THEIR HERITAGE AND THEIR SENSE OF HISTORY.
OSAGE INDIANS
THIS NATION IS A SIOUAN LANGUAGE TRIBE ORIGINATING IN THE OHIO VALLEY IN PRESENT KENTUCKY. THEIR ANCESTORS LIVED FOR 1000'S OF YEARS. THEY WARRED WITH THE INVADING IROQUOIS THEY MIGRATED WEST TO THE MISSISSIPPI RIVER.
AT THE HEIGHT OF THE POWER 1700'S THEY BECAME THE DOMINANT POWER IN THEIR REGIONS. THEY ARE FEDERALLY RECOGNIZED. THEY LIVE THROUGH THE COUNTRY. GEORGE CALLEN DESCRIBED THEM AS THE TALLEST RACE OF MEN IN NORTH, EITHER RED OR WHITE SKINS. MOST MEN ARE ABOUT 6' TALL AND SOME 7 FEET TALL.
THE FRENCH MADE CONTACT OF THE OSAGE IN 1673 BY EXPLORER JACQUES MARQUET. THEIR EARLY HISTORY SHOWED FOR 1000'S OF YEARS THEY WERE PART OF A GROUP OF DHEGIAN-SIOUAN SPEAKING PEOPLE. ACCORDING TO THEIR STORIES THEY MIGRATED WEST BECAUSE OF THE WAR WITH THE IROQUOIS AND TO HAVE MORE GAME. SOME BELIEVE THEY STARTED MIGRATING WEST AS EARLY AS 1200 A.D. THEY HAD LONG YEARS OF WAR WITH INVADING IROQUOIS. EVENTUALLY THEY REACHED THIS HISTORIC LANDS. BY 1673 THE FRENCH RECORDED THAT THEY HAD SETTLED NEAR THE OSAGE RIVER IN THE WESTERN PRESENT DAY MISSION. BY 1690 THEY ADOPTED THE HORSE. THEY HELD HIGH RANK AMONG OLD HUNTING TRIBES OF THE GREAT PLAINS. THEY MADE ANNUAL BUFFALO HUNTING FORAGE INTO THE GREAT PLAINS.THEIR WOMEN CULTIVATED CORN, SQUASH , AND OTHER VEGETABLES, AND HARVESTED NUTS AND WILD BERRIES.
EARLY FRENCH EXPLORERS IN 1673 ENCOUNTERED THE OSAGE IN CANADA. THE OSAGE AND PAWNEE CONTROLLED MUCH OF MODERN DAY KANSAS.
THEY WERE EXPERIENCED WARRIORS ALLIED WITH THE FRENCH TRADE DURING THE 1700'S. IN 1724 THEY ALLIED WITH THE FRENCH TO GET CONTROL OF THE MISSISSIPPI REGION.
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AT THE HEIGHT OF THE POWER 1700'S THEY BECAME THE DOMINANT POWER IN THEIR REGIONS. THEY ARE FEDERALLY RECOGNIZED. THEY LIVE THROUGH THE COUNTRY. GEORGE CALLEN DESCRIBED THEM AS THE TALLEST RACE OF MEN IN NORTH, EITHER RED OR WHITE SKINS. MOST MEN ARE ABOUT 6' TALL AND SOME 7 FEET TALL.
THE FRENCH MADE CONTACT OF THE OSAGE IN 1673 BY EXPLORER JACQUES MARQUET. THEIR EARLY HISTORY SHOWED FOR 1000'S OF YEARS THEY WERE PART OF A GROUP OF DHEGIAN-SIOUAN SPEAKING PEOPLE. ACCORDING TO THEIR STORIES THEY MIGRATED WEST BECAUSE OF THE WAR WITH THE IROQUOIS AND TO HAVE MORE GAME. SOME BELIEVE THEY STARTED MIGRATING WEST AS EARLY AS 1200 A.D. THEY HAD LONG YEARS OF WAR WITH INVADING IROQUOIS. EVENTUALLY THEY REACHED THIS HISTORIC LANDS. BY 1673 THE FRENCH RECORDED THAT THEY HAD SETTLED NEAR THE OSAGE RIVER IN THE WESTERN PRESENT DAY MISSION. BY 1690 THEY ADOPTED THE HORSE. THEY HELD HIGH RANK AMONG OLD HUNTING TRIBES OF THE GREAT PLAINS. THEY MADE ANNUAL BUFFALO HUNTING FORAGE INTO THE GREAT PLAINS.THEIR WOMEN CULTIVATED CORN, SQUASH , AND OTHER VEGETABLES, AND HARVESTED NUTS AND WILD BERRIES.
EARLY FRENCH EXPLORERS IN 1673 ENCOUNTERED THE OSAGE IN CANADA. THE OSAGE AND PAWNEE CONTROLLED MUCH OF MODERN DAY KANSAS.
THEY WERE EXPERIENCED WARRIORS ALLIED WITH THE FRENCH TRADE DURING THE 1700'S. IN 1724 THEY ALLIED WITH THE FRENCH TO GET CONTROL OF THE MISSISSIPPI REGION.
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CREEK INDIAN
BEFORE 1500 A.D. THEY GOT THEIR NAME FROM A CREEK IN GEORGIA. THEY BEGAN TO IDENTIFY WITH THE NAME MUSKOGEE. THESE INDIANS ARE ORIGINAL RESIDENTS OF THE AMERICAN SOUTHEAST - GEORGIA, ALABAMA, FLORIDA, AND NORTH CAROLINA. IN THE 1800'S THEY WERE FORCED TO MOVE TO OKLAHOMA LIKE OTHER SOUTHERN TRIBES. TODAY THEIR ARE 20,000 MUSKOGEE CREEK IN OKLAHOMA TODAY. OTHERS HAVE JOINED THE SEMINOLE IN FLORIDA.
THEY ARE ORGANIZED BY 2 TRIBES. THE POARCH CREEKS LIVE IN ALABAMA ON A RESERVATION THAT IS UNDER CONTROL. THEY ALSO MUST OBEY AMERICAN LAWS. THE OKLAHOMA CREEKS LIVE ON TRUST LAND. THEY HAD IN THE PAST A CHIEF CALLED MIKO WHO WAS SELECTED BY A TRIBAL COUNCIL. THESE CHIEFS WERE MALE - TODAY THEY ARE ELECTED AND CAN BE MALE OR FEMALE.
THE MUSCOGEE NATION ANCESTORS ORIGINALLY CONSTRUCTED EARTHEN PYRAMIDS ALONG THE RIVERS OF THE REGION. THEY OCCUPIED THE TOWNS OF COOSA AND TALLAPOOSA RIVERS, UPPER CREEKS, IN THE SOUTHEAST.
IN THE EARLY 19TH CENTURY THE MUSCOGEE LEADERSHIP EXCHANGED AND THEIR TRIBES WERE MOVED BEYOND THE MISSISSIPPI RIVER. IN 1832 THEIR LEADERSHIP EXCHANGED THE LAST OF ANCESTRAL HOMELANDS FOR NEW LAND IN OKLAHOMA. MANY PEOPLE FELT VERY UNCOMFORTABLE LIVING AWAY FROM THEIR HOMELAND. IN 1836 THE ARMY MOVED 20,000 TO INDIAN TERRITORIES. THE NEW NATION WAS ON THE ARKANSAS RIVER . THEY REESTABLISHED FARMS AND PLANTATIONS AND SENT REPRESENTATIVES TO A NATIONAL COUNCIL WHICH MET NEAR HIGH SPRINGS.
THE CIVIL WAR WAS DISASTROUS FOR THE CREEK AS THEY DESIRED NEUTRALITY. EVENTUALLY THEY FOUGHT BOTH THE UNION AND THE CONFEDERATES. THEIR NATION MAINTAINED A PRINCIPAL CHIEF THROUGHOUT THIS PERIOD.
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THEY ARE ORGANIZED BY 2 TRIBES. THE POARCH CREEKS LIVE IN ALABAMA ON A RESERVATION THAT IS UNDER CONTROL. THEY ALSO MUST OBEY AMERICAN LAWS. THE OKLAHOMA CREEKS LIVE ON TRUST LAND. THEY HAD IN THE PAST A CHIEF CALLED MIKO WHO WAS SELECTED BY A TRIBAL COUNCIL. THESE CHIEFS WERE MALE - TODAY THEY ARE ELECTED AND CAN BE MALE OR FEMALE.
THE MUSCOGEE NATION ANCESTORS ORIGINALLY CONSTRUCTED EARTHEN PYRAMIDS ALONG THE RIVERS OF THE REGION. THEY OCCUPIED THE TOWNS OF COOSA AND TALLAPOOSA RIVERS, UPPER CREEKS, IN THE SOUTHEAST.
IN THE EARLY 19TH CENTURY THE MUSCOGEE LEADERSHIP EXCHANGED AND THEIR TRIBES WERE MOVED BEYOND THE MISSISSIPPI RIVER. IN 1832 THEIR LEADERSHIP EXCHANGED THE LAST OF ANCESTRAL HOMELANDS FOR NEW LAND IN OKLAHOMA. MANY PEOPLE FELT VERY UNCOMFORTABLE LIVING AWAY FROM THEIR HOMELAND. IN 1836 THE ARMY MOVED 20,000 TO INDIAN TERRITORIES. THE NEW NATION WAS ON THE ARKANSAS RIVER . THEY REESTABLISHED FARMS AND PLANTATIONS AND SENT REPRESENTATIVES TO A NATIONAL COUNCIL WHICH MET NEAR HIGH SPRINGS.
THE CIVIL WAR WAS DISASTROUS FOR THE CREEK AS THEY DESIRED NEUTRALITY. EVENTUALLY THEY FOUGHT BOTH THE UNION AND THE CONFEDERATES. THEIR NATION MAINTAINED A PRINCIPAL CHIEF THROUGHOUT THIS PERIOD.
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Tuesday, December 14, 2010
MARRIANE WILLIAMSON
THIS LADY BECAME INTERNATIONALLY FAMOUS FOR SPEAKING ABOUT HOW GOD WORKS MIRACLES IN PEOPLE'S LIVES. SHE HAD SUFFERED FROM A MAJOR NERVOUS BREAKDOWN AND WAS KNOWN TO ME AS I STRUGGLED THROUGH DEPRESSION AFTER LEAVING MY JOB AND BECOMING A MOM. ALSO ALL THE COACHES I KNEW KNEW OF HER. I HEARD HER SPEAK IN SEBASTOPOL ONCE AND SHE HAD A WAY OF SPEAKING THAT GOT PEOPLE THINKING ABOUT BECOMING MOTIVATED - SORT OF WHAT IO WAS DOING WITH GROUPS OF PEOPLE AS A COACH.
IN 1989 SHE FOUNDED PROJECT ANGEL FOOD A MEALS ON WHEELS PROGRAM TO SERVE 1000 PEOPLE DAILY. SHE FOUNDED THE DEPARTMENT OF PEACE CAMPAIGN, A GRASSROOTS CAMPAIGN TO ESTABLISH A U S DEPARTMENT OF PEACE. IN 2006 NEWSWEEK NAMED MARRIANE ONE OF THE 50 MOST INFLUENTIAL BABY BOOMERS. SHE HAS WRITTEN 10 PUBLISHED BOOKS AND FOUR WERE BEST SELLERS.
HER MOST OFTEN USED QUOTE IS "OUR DEEPEST FEAR IS THAT WE ARE INADEQUATE. OUR DEEPEST FEAR IS THAT WE ARE POWERFUL BEYOND MEASURE." THE PURPOSE OF OUR LIVES IS TO GIVE BIRTH TO THE BEST WHICH IS WRITTEN WITHIN US. HER PHILOSOPHY ADOPTS A NEW THOUGHT APPROACH TO SPIRITUALITY.
SHE GAINED ATTENTION BY DISCUSSING HER COURSE IN MIRACLES ON THE OPRAH WINFREY SHOW. I STARTED TO TAKE HER COURSE IN MIRACLES AT MY CHURCH A LONG TIME AGO WHEN I SUFFERED FROM DEPRESSION. I DID NOT FIND IT THAT USEFUL, I DID USE HER TAPES TO HELP ME TRANSFORM MY LIFE TO PUBLIC SPEAKING.
IN 1989 SHE FOUNDED PROJECT ANGEL FOOD A MEALS ON WHEELS PROGRAM TO SERVE 1000 PEOPLE DAILY. SHE FOUNDED THE DEPARTMENT OF PEACE CAMPAIGN, A GRASSROOTS CAMPAIGN TO ESTABLISH A U S DEPARTMENT OF PEACE. IN 2006 NEWSWEEK NAMED MARRIANE ONE OF THE 50 MOST INFLUENTIAL BABY BOOMERS. SHE HAS WRITTEN 10 PUBLISHED BOOKS AND FOUR WERE BEST SELLERS.
HER MOST OFTEN USED QUOTE IS "OUR DEEPEST FEAR IS THAT WE ARE INADEQUATE. OUR DEEPEST FEAR IS THAT WE ARE POWERFUL BEYOND MEASURE." THE PURPOSE OF OUR LIVES IS TO GIVE BIRTH TO THE BEST WHICH IS WRITTEN WITHIN US. HER PHILOSOPHY ADOPTS A NEW THOUGHT APPROACH TO SPIRITUALITY.
SHE GAINED ATTENTION BY DISCUSSING HER COURSE IN MIRACLES ON THE OPRAH WINFREY SHOW. I STARTED TO TAKE HER COURSE IN MIRACLES AT MY CHURCH A LONG TIME AGO WHEN I SUFFERED FROM DEPRESSION. I DID NOT FIND IT THAT USEFUL, I DID USE HER TAPES TO HELP ME TRANSFORM MY LIFE TO PUBLIC SPEAKING.
BELIEF OF REINCARNATION
REINCARNATION IS BELIEVED TO OCCUR WHEN THE SOULS OR SPIRIT OF THE BODY AFTER DEATH COMES BACK TO LIFE IN A NEWBORN BODY. IT'S ALSO KNOWN AS TRANSMIGRATION OF THE SOUL. IT IS A BELIEF THAT IS CENTRAL THE MAJORITY OF INDIAN RELIGIOUS TRADITIONS SUCH AS HINDU, BUDDHISM, JAINISM, AND MANY MEXICAN CULTURES. IT WAS CENTRAL TO SOME GREEK PHILOSOPHERS THIS BELIEF IS FOUND IN MANY OTHER COUNTRIES IN THE WORLD SUCH AS SIBERIA , WEST AFRICA, NORTH AMERICA, AND AUSTRALIA.
THE SOUL CAN REINCARNATE INTO ANOTHER FORM EITHER HUMAN, ANIMAL OR INSECT. THE ENTIRE PROCESS IS REFERRED TO AS SAMSARA. DEVAS OR GODS MAY ALSO DIE AND LIVE AGAIN. AND HINDU GODS ARE SAID TO HAVE REINCARNATED . CELTIC RELIGION ALSO HAS REINCARNATING GODS. MANY CHRISTIANS STILL REGARD JESUS AS A DIVINE INCARNATION AND THEY BELIEVE HE AND SOME PROPHETS MAY INCARNATE AGAIN.
THE BUDDHA LIVED A TIME OF GREAT CREATIVITY IN PHILOSOPHY IN INDIA THEY HAD MANY CONCEPTIONS OF NATURE OF LIFE AND DEATH WERE PROPOSED. SOME WERE MATERIALISTIC, HOLDING THAT THERE IS NO EXISTENCE THAT THERE WE ARE ANNIHILATED UPON DEATH. SOME MUSLIM SEATS BELIEVE THEIR FOUNDERS HAVE SPECIAL SENSE OF DIVINE INCARNATION. THE BUDDHIST CONCEPT OF REINCARNATION DIFFERS FROM OTHERS IN THAT THERE IS NO EXTERNAL SOUL BUT A STREAM OF CONSCIOUSNESS THAT LINKS LIFE WITH LIFE. IN BUDDHIST TRADITION THE PROCESS OCCURS ACROSS FIVE OR SIX REALMS OF EXISTENCE INCLUDING THE HUMAN, ANY ANIMALS, AND VARIOUS TYPES OF SUPERNATURAL BEINGS.
HISTORY OF REINCARNATION
THE NOTION OF THIS BELIEF IS DATED TO AT LEAST 1200 B.C. IN INDIA AND GREECE. OR IT MAY HAVE ORIGINATED IN THE TRIBAL RELIGIONS OF THE GANGES VALLEY; OR IN PREHISTORIC TRADITIONS OF SOUTH INDIA.
EARLY GREEK DISCUSSION DATES TO THE 6TH CENTURY B.C. PHERECYDES IS AN EARLY GREEK THINKER WHO CONSIDERED REBIRTH IN 450 B.C. PLATO ALSO WROTE ABOUT REINCARNATION IN 400 - 300 B.C. PLATO'S TEACHER SOCRATES SAID UPON HIS DEATH THAT "I AM CONFIDENT THAT THERE IS TRULY SUCH A THING AS LIVING AGAIN, AND THAT THE LIVING SPRING FROM THE DEAD."
PAST LIVES
AN ATTEMPT TO KNOW ABOUT PAST LIVES BEEN DEVELOPED IN VARIOUS WAYS IN DIFFERENT PLACES. THE EARLY BUDDHIST TEXTS DISCUSS TECHNIQUES FOR RECALLING PREVIOUS BIRTHS, BASED UPON THE DEVELOPMENT OF OF HIGHER LEVELS OF MEDITATION.
TIBETAN BUDDHISM HAS DEVELOPED A UNIQUE SCIENCE OF DEATH AND REBIRTH , A GOD DEAL OF WHICH IS SET DOWN IN A POPULAR BOOK - THE TIBETAN BOOK OF THE DEAD. THE ORPHIC RELIGION IN GREECE IN THE 6TH CENTURY B.C. TAUGHT REINCARNATION IN MYSTERY SCHOOLS. THE WHEEL OF BIRTH REVOLVES, THE SOUL ALTERNATES BETWEEN FREEDOM AND CAPTIVITY AROUND A WIDE CIRCLE OF NECESSITY.
TAOIST
TAOIST DOCUMENTS FROM 3RD CENTURY B.C. CLAIMED THAT LAU TZU APPEARED ON EARTH AS DIFFERENT PERSONS AND IN DIFFERENT TIMES BEGINNING IN THE SOVEREIGNS AND FIVE EMPERORS. TZU STATES "BIRTH IS NOT A BEGINNING, DEATH IS NOT AN END." THERE IS CONTINUITY WITHOUT A STARTING POINT . TIME IS CONTINUITY WITH A STARTING POINT.
THE CELTS
THE CELTS BELIEVED THAT THE SOULS OF MEN ARE IMMORTAL AND AFTER A FIXED NUMBER OF YEARS THEY WILL ENTER INTO ANOTHER BODY. THE HUMAN SOUL IS INDESTRUCTIBLE WHICH ACCORDING TO THEM, PASSES AT DEATH FROM ONE TENEMENT TO ANOTHER.
NORSE MYTHOLOGY
REINCARNATION ALSO APPEARS IN NORSE MYTHOLOGY. THE EDITOR OF POETIC EDDA SAYS THAT THE LOVERS IN THE STORY WERE REBORN A SECOND TIME. THE VIKINGS PROBABLY ALSO BELIEVE IN REINCARNATION.
19TH CENTURY PHILOSOPHERS
THE DISCUSSION OF REINCARNATION WAS ENTERED INTO BY AMERICAN TRANSCENDENTALISTS -HENRY THOREAU, WALT WHITMAN, AND RALPH EMERSON. LATER IN THE EARLY 1900'S INTEREST IN REINCARNATION WAS INTRODUCED INTO PSYCHOLOGY DUE TO WILLIAM JAMES WHO DISCUSSED COMPARATIVE RELIGION AND THE NATURE OF EMPIRICISM.
AT THIS TIME THE IDEA OF REINCARNATION WAS BOOSTED AT A THEOSOPHICAL SOCIETY. HYPNOSIS USED TO RETRIEVE FORGOTTEN MEMORIES WAS TRIED FOR STUDYING PAST LIFE RECALL. THE DALI LAMA SAID IT'S GOING TO BE HARD TO DISPROVE REINCARNATION. IT IS A BELIEF HELD IN ALL MAJOR RELIGIONS EXCEPT CHRISTIANITY AND ISLAM.
NATIVE AMERICAN NATIONS
MANY NATIVE AMERICAN INUIT TRADITIONS BELIEVE IN REINCARNATION. IN THE NORTH POLE IT IS ENSHRINED IN THE INUIT LANGUAGE. A WINNEBAGO SHAMAN TELLS OF THIS STORY OF HUMAN REINCARNATION. HE TALKS ABOUT HIS TWO PREVIOUS LIVES AND HOW HE DIED AND CAME BACK A THIRD TIME. THE TIME BETWEEN HIS LIVES HE EXPRESSES AS BEING BLESSED BY EARTH MAKER AND HIS SPECIAL POWERS TO HEAL THE SICK.
"HIS GHOST WAS TAKEN TO WHERE THE SUN SETS. WHILE THERE HE SAID I THOUGHT I'D COME BACK TO EARTH AGAIN. "MY SON, DID YOU NOT SPEAK OF WANTING TO GO TO THE EARTH AGAIN? YOU CAN GO, BUT ASKED THE CHIEF FIRST. THE CHIEF TOLD HIM TO GO AND OBTAIN YOUR REVENGE UPON THE PEOPLE WHO KILLED YOUR RELATIVES AND YOU. THEN HE WAS BROUGHT DOWN TO EARTH. HE LIVED A LONG LIFE AND WAS BURIED. SOMEONE SAID TO HIM LET'S GO AGAIN. SO THEN THEY WENT TOWARD THE SETTING OF THE SUN AND MET ALL THE DEAD. AND HE HE CAME TO THE EARTH AGAIN (RADIN 1923).
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THE SOUL CAN REINCARNATE INTO ANOTHER FORM EITHER HUMAN, ANIMAL OR INSECT. THE ENTIRE PROCESS IS REFERRED TO AS SAMSARA. DEVAS OR GODS MAY ALSO DIE AND LIVE AGAIN. AND HINDU GODS ARE SAID TO HAVE REINCARNATED . CELTIC RELIGION ALSO HAS REINCARNATING GODS. MANY CHRISTIANS STILL REGARD JESUS AS A DIVINE INCARNATION AND THEY BELIEVE HE AND SOME PROPHETS MAY INCARNATE AGAIN.
THE BUDDHA LIVED A TIME OF GREAT CREATIVITY IN PHILOSOPHY IN INDIA THEY HAD MANY CONCEPTIONS OF NATURE OF LIFE AND DEATH WERE PROPOSED. SOME WERE MATERIALISTIC, HOLDING THAT THERE IS NO EXISTENCE THAT THERE WE ARE ANNIHILATED UPON DEATH. SOME MUSLIM SEATS BELIEVE THEIR FOUNDERS HAVE SPECIAL SENSE OF DIVINE INCARNATION. THE BUDDHIST CONCEPT OF REINCARNATION DIFFERS FROM OTHERS IN THAT THERE IS NO EXTERNAL SOUL BUT A STREAM OF CONSCIOUSNESS THAT LINKS LIFE WITH LIFE. IN BUDDHIST TRADITION THE PROCESS OCCURS ACROSS FIVE OR SIX REALMS OF EXISTENCE INCLUDING THE HUMAN, ANY ANIMALS, AND VARIOUS TYPES OF SUPERNATURAL BEINGS.
HISTORY OF REINCARNATION
THE NOTION OF THIS BELIEF IS DATED TO AT LEAST 1200 B.C. IN INDIA AND GREECE. OR IT MAY HAVE ORIGINATED IN THE TRIBAL RELIGIONS OF THE GANGES VALLEY; OR IN PREHISTORIC TRADITIONS OF SOUTH INDIA.
EARLY GREEK DISCUSSION DATES TO THE 6TH CENTURY B.C. PHERECYDES IS AN EARLY GREEK THINKER WHO CONSIDERED REBIRTH IN 450 B.C. PLATO ALSO WROTE ABOUT REINCARNATION IN 400 - 300 B.C. PLATO'S TEACHER SOCRATES SAID UPON HIS DEATH THAT "I AM CONFIDENT THAT THERE IS TRULY SUCH A THING AS LIVING AGAIN, AND THAT THE LIVING SPRING FROM THE DEAD."
PAST LIVES
AN ATTEMPT TO KNOW ABOUT PAST LIVES BEEN DEVELOPED IN VARIOUS WAYS IN DIFFERENT PLACES. THE EARLY BUDDHIST TEXTS DISCUSS TECHNIQUES FOR RECALLING PREVIOUS BIRTHS, BASED UPON THE DEVELOPMENT OF OF HIGHER LEVELS OF MEDITATION.
TIBETAN BUDDHISM HAS DEVELOPED A UNIQUE SCIENCE OF DEATH AND REBIRTH , A GOD DEAL OF WHICH IS SET DOWN IN A POPULAR BOOK - THE TIBETAN BOOK OF THE DEAD. THE ORPHIC RELIGION IN GREECE IN THE 6TH CENTURY B.C. TAUGHT REINCARNATION IN MYSTERY SCHOOLS. THE WHEEL OF BIRTH REVOLVES, THE SOUL ALTERNATES BETWEEN FREEDOM AND CAPTIVITY AROUND A WIDE CIRCLE OF NECESSITY.
TAOIST
TAOIST DOCUMENTS FROM 3RD CENTURY B.C. CLAIMED THAT LAU TZU APPEARED ON EARTH AS DIFFERENT PERSONS AND IN DIFFERENT TIMES BEGINNING IN THE SOVEREIGNS AND FIVE EMPERORS. TZU STATES "BIRTH IS NOT A BEGINNING, DEATH IS NOT AN END." THERE IS CONTINUITY WITHOUT A STARTING POINT . TIME IS CONTINUITY WITH A STARTING POINT.
THE CELTS
THE CELTS BELIEVED THAT THE SOULS OF MEN ARE IMMORTAL AND AFTER A FIXED NUMBER OF YEARS THEY WILL ENTER INTO ANOTHER BODY. THE HUMAN SOUL IS INDESTRUCTIBLE WHICH ACCORDING TO THEM, PASSES AT DEATH FROM ONE TENEMENT TO ANOTHER.
NORSE MYTHOLOGY
REINCARNATION ALSO APPEARS IN NORSE MYTHOLOGY. THE EDITOR OF POETIC EDDA SAYS THAT THE LOVERS IN THE STORY WERE REBORN A SECOND TIME. THE VIKINGS PROBABLY ALSO BELIEVE IN REINCARNATION.
19TH CENTURY PHILOSOPHERS
THE DISCUSSION OF REINCARNATION WAS ENTERED INTO BY AMERICAN TRANSCENDENTALISTS -HENRY THOREAU, WALT WHITMAN, AND RALPH EMERSON. LATER IN THE EARLY 1900'S INTEREST IN REINCARNATION WAS INTRODUCED INTO PSYCHOLOGY DUE TO WILLIAM JAMES WHO DISCUSSED COMPARATIVE RELIGION AND THE NATURE OF EMPIRICISM.
AT THIS TIME THE IDEA OF REINCARNATION WAS BOOSTED AT A THEOSOPHICAL SOCIETY. HYPNOSIS USED TO RETRIEVE FORGOTTEN MEMORIES WAS TRIED FOR STUDYING PAST LIFE RECALL. THE DALI LAMA SAID IT'S GOING TO BE HARD TO DISPROVE REINCARNATION. IT IS A BELIEF HELD IN ALL MAJOR RELIGIONS EXCEPT CHRISTIANITY AND ISLAM.
NATIVE AMERICAN NATIONS
MANY NATIVE AMERICAN INUIT TRADITIONS BELIEVE IN REINCARNATION. IN THE NORTH POLE IT IS ENSHRINED IN THE INUIT LANGUAGE. A WINNEBAGO SHAMAN TELLS OF THIS STORY OF HUMAN REINCARNATION. HE TALKS ABOUT HIS TWO PREVIOUS LIVES AND HOW HE DIED AND CAME BACK A THIRD TIME. THE TIME BETWEEN HIS LIVES HE EXPRESSES AS BEING BLESSED BY EARTH MAKER AND HIS SPECIAL POWERS TO HEAL THE SICK.
"HIS GHOST WAS TAKEN TO WHERE THE SUN SETS. WHILE THERE HE SAID I THOUGHT I'D COME BACK TO EARTH AGAIN. "MY SON, DID YOU NOT SPEAK OF WANTING TO GO TO THE EARTH AGAIN? YOU CAN GO, BUT ASKED THE CHIEF FIRST. THE CHIEF TOLD HIM TO GO AND OBTAIN YOUR REVENGE UPON THE PEOPLE WHO KILLED YOUR RELATIVES AND YOU. THEN HE WAS BROUGHT DOWN TO EARTH. HE LIVED A LONG LIFE AND WAS BURIED. SOMEONE SAID TO HIM LET'S GO AGAIN. SO THEN THEY WENT TOWARD THE SETTING OF THE SUN AND MET ALL THE DEAD. AND HE HE CAME TO THE EARTH AGAIN (RADIN 1923).
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Monday, December 13, 2010
SONOMA COUNTY'S ACORN CROP
I WENT HIKING AT BISHOP'S RANCH AND NOTICED THAT THERE WERE FEW ACORNS OF ANY TYPE THIS FALL. I ASKED THE MANAGER ABOUT THAT AND HE AGREED THAT HE HAD NOT SEEN MANY THIS YEAR AS WELL. I ALSO WAS AT THE JUNIOR COLLEGE AND NOTICED THAT THEY HAD SOME ACORNS ON THE GROUND AND A LADY FROM THE LAGUNA LAND TRUST WAS PICKING THEM UP. SHE SAID IT WAS INDEED A POOR YEAR FOR ACORNS IN THIS AREA.
I STARTED THINKING ABOUT HOW THE PREHISTORIC INDIANS USED TO TRADE BETWEEN SO MANY MILES WHEN RESOURCES WERE SCARCE IN ONE AREA. SO THE FOLKS IN MENDOCINO COUNTY - THE WAILAKI AND THE YUKI, AND PERHAPS THE SOUTHEAST POMO COULD HAVE TRADED WITH THE EASTERN POMO AND THE LYTTON TRIBE POMO FOR ACORNS IN EXCHANGE FOR WASHINGTON SHELL BEAD MONEY, OR PERHAPS FOR DEER MEAT OR TANNED HIDE.. WHO KNOWS. OR PERHAPS THEY WOULD HAVE HAD A STORED CONTAINER OF LAST YEAR'S ACORNS TO USE THAT WERE NOT SHELLED??
HOWEVER, I KNOW THAT IN PREHISTORIC TIMES THE INDIANS CONSIDERED THE ACORN MUSH SPIRITUAL AND I KNOW THEY WOULD HAVE SENT LONG DISTANCE RUNNERS TO FIND THIS RESOURCE AND BRING WITH THEM SOME ITEMS FOR EXCHANGE IF THEY DIDN'T HAVE ANY STORED. THE LONG DISTANCE RUNNER'S USED CHIA SEEDS TO CHEW ON THAT KEPT THEM FULL DURING THEIR RUN.
I STARTED THINKING ABOUT HOW THE PREHISTORIC INDIANS USED TO TRADE BETWEEN SO MANY MILES WHEN RESOURCES WERE SCARCE IN ONE AREA. SO THE FOLKS IN MENDOCINO COUNTY - THE WAILAKI AND THE YUKI, AND PERHAPS THE SOUTHEAST POMO COULD HAVE TRADED WITH THE EASTERN POMO AND THE LYTTON TRIBE POMO FOR ACORNS IN EXCHANGE FOR WASHINGTON SHELL BEAD MONEY, OR PERHAPS FOR DEER MEAT OR TANNED HIDE.. WHO KNOWS. OR PERHAPS THEY WOULD HAVE HAD A STORED CONTAINER OF LAST YEAR'S ACORNS TO USE THAT WERE NOT SHELLED??
HOWEVER, I KNOW THAT IN PREHISTORIC TIMES THE INDIANS CONSIDERED THE ACORN MUSH SPIRITUAL AND I KNOW THEY WOULD HAVE SENT LONG DISTANCE RUNNERS TO FIND THIS RESOURCE AND BRING WITH THEM SOME ITEMS FOR EXCHANGE IF THEY DIDN'T HAVE ANY STORED. THE LONG DISTANCE RUNNER'S USED CHIA SEEDS TO CHEW ON THAT KEPT THEM FULL DURING THEIR RUN.
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