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Thank you...

...GM! Just read your excellent post and commented.

Common ground - who would have thought it ;-)

D

posted by DamonLeigh on September 5, 2004 at 5:52 AM | link to this | reply

DamonLeigh

Congratulations on your coming trip to the Amazon! But I notice even though "everything you do will be in preparation for that trip", you keep the liberal anti-Bush blogs coming (LOL).

But actually I am here to help. By the most amazing coincidence, my most recent post in The Agnostics Primer concerns the shamans of the Amazon tribes. Please visit my blog, for it may help you in your preparation.

I have followed your "Path of the Shaman" blog with some interest. Let us enjoy the common ground we can find with each other.

Be safe and alert on your trip to the Amazon-- it is a very dangerous place. I am looking forward to your reports when you return.

Regards

GM

posted by GoldenMean on August 6, 2004 at 10:32 PM | link to this | reply

I Know - I'm...

...still a bit bowled over myself!

I'll certainly be writing about it here when I get back.

Thanks for reading!

D

posted by DamonLeigh on June 8, 2004 at 8:09 AM | link to this | reply

OH WOW!!!

I'm JEALOUS!!!!!

I WANT TO GO TOOOOO!!!!!!

*sigh

Congrats for the amazing opportunity! I do hope you will tell us all about it when you return!

I can't get over how COOL this is!!!

posted by thepoetBubbaGirl on June 7, 2004 at 11:05 PM | link to this | reply

benzinha...

...worry not about flippancy - i learnt stuff from both your comments! However, I am a big fan of silence and contemplation. Indded, I'm trying to teach T the 'three second rule', to encourage her to pause for three seconds before she speaks in response. This saves a lot of silly and unnecessary things being aired!

I was really struck when you say "they taught that people can do what needs to be done to survive using just a few hours a day and then have free time after that". If time is our only non-renewable commodity, which is the wise way to spend it - as tribal peoples do, minimising the amount spent on survival and utilising the rest pleasantly and creatively? Or as we "civilised" folk do, working fifteen hours a day on "survival" (keeping up the payments on house, car etc) and a few snatched hours here and there relaxing?

Bit of a no-brainer, really!

Thanks for your comments.

D

posted by DamonLeigh on May 22, 2004 at 3:15 AM | link to this | reply

Passionflower & Tamara...

..I'll definitely be keeping you in touch!

Thanks for reading!

D

posted by DamonLeigh on May 22, 2004 at 3:10 AM | link to this | reply

Damon, this does sound like a dream come true. I'd love to read the article you finally write about it. You'll no doubt have some amazing experiences.

posted by Passionflower on May 21, 2004 at 8:32 AM | link to this | reply

Damon, my comment was very flippant upon my second reading of it.

I didn't really mean it to be that, though I wrote it that way. Sorry.

While living in Brasil, I came to believe many new things about life on Earth and the people communicating upon it, their new to me belief systems and communications with the Life Force of their choosing. Other countries and other friends taught me even more. I commend your path of learning and exploring and failed to remember my own when writing. Again, I apologize.

However, that said, some of my 'gift ideas' might be quite powerful and meaningful to them as they gift you with their knowledge. We all bring something into the church of life exchanges.

My very best advice, what I, the 'talks too much woman', learned was to not do that while learning. Learned it again,just now. My path of learning involves more silence, less speaking.

posted by benzinha on May 20, 2004 at 11:15 AM | link to this | reply

damon, bug spray and antibiotic creams and imodium.

Do they blow green stuff up each other's noses like the Yanomamo? Then turn into critters who hop around and lay around?

When I first read about them, they taught that people can do what needs to be done to survive using just a few hours a day and then have free time after that. Remember that, because of their laid back philosophies, they have remained closely attached to the land and its primary resources in their most fundamental forms and never did grow beyond that. It has its good points and then, there's us with our palm pilots and roads with cars and stuff......

Amazonas Indians are busy killing miners invading their reserves lately in Brasil....don't go near them or they'll teach you how it feels to be hit over the head with big sticks and how poisoned arrows feel going into your back.

It will be exciting, or, if it isn't, your coverage of it will be. Take some things to trade or to use for gifts....some present day shamanic things, like crystal pyramids and those stones with animals carved on their faces and incenses and what else? Face paint crayons, fabulous exotic (to them) feathers.....Can't think right now. How about those little crystal blocks of glass with laser pictures captured inside of them? My son gifted me with one of his Navy ship inside it and it has all of its details. Amazing! They would appear magical to them....they are magical to me.

Having been in those jungles, I don't envy you that part of the trip.....hot, humid, humid, humid and rainy and bug filled. Don't hit a tree, ants rain down on you, I do remember that damned day.....

You will have a real adventure, I know.

posted by benzinha on May 20, 2004 at 2:00 AM | link to this | reply

So they were right - you are pregnant. :)  Can't wait for your dream child to be born.  Looking forward to following your journey up to and beyond.

posted by Tamara99 on May 20, 2004 at 1:30 AM | link to this | reply