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dance -  Effective rhythms tend to induce a resonance between the pulsing sound waves and pulsing body waves - thus dance occurs.  In this way rhythm provides nourishment to your body.   The trick is to choose dance music which is emotionally positive, otherwise you can pollute your emotional body while vitalizing your physical body.  Iassos.  2)  dance is sampling time in space -  John G.    

dance of awakening - To have an original relationship to ourselves is not a process of following some form that someone else can teach us. It can be helpful at first to learn yoga, to learn various body therapies, but ultimately any belief system or process given by another that mediates our relationship to ourselves tends to limit the direct relationship that is possible for each of us. It becomes crucial to emphasize that whatever methods we use must eventually be set aside in order to give way to our own original relationship to ourselves. This is the real dance of awakening.  - Dr. Richard Moss

death -  1)  to die is to arise from a dream - its like waking up upside down.  And to be born is to go asleep in another reality.  - mb 2) death is release 3)  the spirit journey.  4) death is a workout - Christy Butts   5)  transition to another state of consciousness.  6)  death can be the final healing – Walter Weston.  7) Every time we relax into the feared or denied part of ourselves we go thru a kind of death, of our idealized self image, or who we thought we were – which leads to a new, deeper level of inner life.  Each such death prepares us for the great death, the death of the ego’s separation from god – Susan Thesenga  8) Whether death happens through an act of violence to a large number of people or to an individual, whether death comes prematurely through illness or accident, or whether death comes through old age, death is always an opening. So a great opportunity comes whenever we face death. – E. Tolle 9) death or the idea of death, is an illusion measured by the limits of our consciousness. - Allan L. Roland 10) in the faery seership tradition, there is no death, only embodied and disembodied, incarnate or disincarnate. your therefore just continue living . . - Orion Foxwood

Deep  Ecology - integrates the fields of ecology with psychology and consciousness. It addresses the current ecological crisis by way of a shift in human consciousness. Rather than viewing humans as the forefront with nature serving our needs, in deep ecology humans are viewed as a part of the web of life. – Astrid Berg

decomposers - 'There is the cinnamon fungus. In elms, it's the Dutch elm disease. In the poplars, it's the rust. And in the firs, it's also rust. Do you think that any of these diseases are killing the forest?  What I think we are looking at is a carcass. The forest is a dying system on which the decomposers are beginning to feed.' - Bill Mollison

dema deity  - A mythic complex named after several ancestral beings of the Marind-Anim people of southern New Guinea.  Nearly ubiquitous to archaic agricultural societies, the decisive acts of the Dema myths are that the goddess (Dema) is slain, an event which inaugurates human history and gives shape to the human condition.  From the dismembered portions of her body crops arise, produced asexually much as tubers are cultivated from cuttings.  The ritualized killing serves to remind humans of primeval events and archetypes that order the growth, death, and rebirth processes of nature, especially of the plant world.  

Democracy -  is based on the conviction that there are extraordinary possibilities in ordinary people.’ -- Reverend Harry Emerson Fosdick

Demon - Whoever finds the old-fashioned word demon offensive can speak in terms of complexes, for this is the modern psychological counterpart. Everybody ‘has’ his or her complexes—nowadays this is common psychological knowledge. However, how complexes make themselves felt in our everyday lives and how one can deal with them—that is another matter. . . As for today’s demons, Ribi explains they ‘are camouflaged behind a semblance of rationality.’ As for apparitions, hallucinations and other phenomena, a partial explanation may rest in the compensatory mechanism of the unconscious mind. Nature, including human nature, seeks balance—homeostasis. When natural desires and drives are denied, these repressed energies of the psyche find expression and release in autonomous ways—in ways not under the conscious mind’s control. If today one ‘has’ a complex, formerly one was ‘possessed by’ a demon. The difference seems to me to be a move in the direction of understanding consciousness as multidimensional, or the house in which ‘I’—as a sentient being—live as multileveled. I may have demons in my basement and angels in my attic, but if the door to the basement is left open my demons may move up into the living room, or the angels in my attic may come down into the bedroom and inhabit my dreams. - from ' Mary of Agreda'  

demonology - demonology is defined as a negative ideology built around real or imagined groups that are held to be responsible for cultural disorganization and misfortune; Witch hunts and persecutory movements are the plans of action that evolve from demonologies; they are attempts to purge society of a perceived cause of misfortune and disintegration.  - schoen@lclark.edu

demonomorphic - evil spirits as 'demonomorphic' representations of unconscious processes. 

denial - 1) ‘I been doin' coke everyday for ten years and I ain't hooked!!’ - Richard Pryor.  2)  When so much energy is put into denial, that there is none left over to do anything about the situation.  This leads to passiveness and eresignation - no juice.  3) Soldiers march to chants like ‘Kill! Kill! Kill! Blood makes the grass grow.’ This is not mindless sadism, but rather a specifically developed regimen designed to overcome the natural human aversion to killing another human. Soldiers are made into killing machines; a culture that will do this on the one hand and on the other constantly tout ‘humanitarian intervention,’ where soldiers are supposed to safeguard the interests of a civilian population, is a culture in deep denial.  -- Rahul Mahajan

dependency-creating language – ‘President Bush, like many dominant personality types, uses dependency-creating language. He employs language of contempt and intimidation to shame others into submission and desperate admiration.’ – Renana Brooks

derealisation -

devas - It is mainly the devas who build the forms, both in the physical world, and in the inner worlds, and they do this under guidance from the divine mind. - http://www.geocities.com/Athens/Olympus/3987/music.html

developmental praxis  - experience

dew -  saliva of the stars.  Dew has all the power of the stars and moon and what comes out at night and if you walk barefoot thru it in the morning it all comes into your feet and then courses thru your body    

dharma - 1) is a Sanskrit word that refers to the teachings of awakening. - Therese Fitzgerald

Diet of Worms - 1.  Usual items offered for consumption by the mainstream media.  2.  'A meeting of the Holy Roman Emperor Charles V's imperial diet at Worms in 1521, at which Martin Luther was summoned to appear. Luther committed himself there to the cause of Protestant reform, and his teaching was formally condemned in the Edict of Worms."

differences - on the plan of the universal, we can begin to accept and comprehend our differences as simply an enrichment of the whole. 

digeridoo - ambient ecological swamp funk

dilated body - body as lens.  Double agency addresses the neverending reflexivity of the split consciousness of the Western actor, having to be and not be her/himself, an embodied state of immanence and openness, expressed in the theatre anthropology idiom of 'dilation'.  As in, 'an actor is not only a cognitive being, but a motivated, decided, and dilated body - (Hastrup 1995: 77-98)

dimensional or daimonsional? -  The ontological argument as to whether spirits have independent existence or are simply psychological creations calved off the iceburg of the individual human mind.

dimensionally fluid -  ‘humans have great capacity to manifest spirit in physical universe. Animals, plants, insects and such are all less structurally adapted to focus on the physical, but they are more multidimensonally aware, they are much more dimensionally fluid then we are.  They can teach much about the many realms they inhabit.’ -  mb

disaster - desastrate, ‘to be torn asunder from the stars.’  2)  disastors have a way of breaking down the artificial barriers between people.   They can force people to need, rely, trust, and love their neighbor ~~ and hence spirituality grows . . . - Kevin Williams

disciplines of recollection - In the East, disentangling oneself from the world and realizing the One is equated with wisdom. Subsequently descending and returning to embrace the Many is equated with compassion, and the integration of ascent and descent is "the union of wisdom and compassion".  From this nondual perspective, the world and the flesh are not evil or degraded. However, becoming entranced by them, that is, becoming entrapped in maya, illusion--what psychologist Charles Tart calls the consensus trance--and thereby losing awareness of the transcendental domains and our unity with them is disastrous. Once lost, the challenge is to regain this awareness through a discipline of "recollection" that opens "the eye of the soul" (Plato), "the eye of the heart" (Sufism) or "the eye of Tao" (Taoism). The goal is an illusion-shattering wisdom that recognizes our true transcendental nature and is variously known as Hinduism's jnana, Buddhism's prajna, Islam's marifah and sometimes as Christian gnosis. - R. Walsh

disciplinary synaesthesia -  e.g.:   . . . the treatment of 'ritual as language', and 'action as text', can be useful if the metaphors are not overextended.

diseases -  are conversations, or events involving the exchange of information among cells within a living system. – Jane Katra 2) The majority of accepted beliefs– religious, scientific, cultural – have tended to stress a sense of powerlessness, impotence, and impending doom – a picture in which man and his world is an accidental production with little meaning, isolated yet ruled by a capricious god.  Life is seen as a valley of tears – almost a low-grade infection from which the soul can be cured only by death.   Religious, scientific, medical, and cultural communications stress the existence of danger, minimize the purpose of the species or of any individual member of it, or see mankind as the one erratic, half-insane member of an otherwise orderly realm of nature.  These are held by various systems of thought.  All of these however strain the individuals biological sense of integrity, reinforce ideas of danger, and shrink the area of psychological safety that is necessary to maintain the quality of life.   The body’s defense system becomes confused to various degrees . .  the body’s defenses will take care of themselves if they are allowed to, and if the psychological air is cleared of the true ‘carriers’ of disease.   – seth 3) 'the alienation and isolation of people not being part of a fabric of family, an extended family, is big time disease' - Denise Trager 4) 'There are no incurable diseases, only incurable people.' - Jeffrey Yuen 5) Vision quests strip away the false, the pretentious, the negative, and open one to a world of life, possibility. Both are gateways beyond fear. The roots of disease (spiritual, emotional, physical) are fear, repression, the calcification of love and the life force within a person. Ayahusaca and vision quests unleash artificial trappings and burdens. This kind of healing is the holiest work in the world. - Margaret de Wys

disenchantment (and rationalization) - The world of modernity, Weber stressed over and over again, has been deserted by the gods. Man has chased them away and has rationalized and made calculable and predictable what in an earlier age had seemed governed by chance, but also by feeling, passion, and commitment, by personal appeal and personal fealty, by grace and by the ethics of charismatic heroes. Weber attempted to document this development in a variety of institutional areas. His studies in the sociology of religion were meant to trace the complicated and tortuous ways in which the gradual ‘rationalization of religious life’ had led to the displacement of magical procedure by rational systematizations of man's relation to the divine. He attempted to show how prophets with their charismatic appeals had undermined priestly powers based on tradition; how with the emergence of ‘book religion’ the final systematization and rationalization of the religious sphere had set in, which found its culmination in the Protestant Ethic. In the sphere of law, Weber documented a similar course from a ‘Kadi Justiz,’ the personalized dispensing of justice by wise leaders or elders, to the codified, rationalized, and impersonal justice of the modern world. He traced the development of political authority from kings endowed with hereditary charisma and thaumaturgical powers, to cool heads of state, ruling within the strict limits of legal prescriptions and rationally enacted law. Even so private an area of experience as music, Weber contended, was not exempt from the rationalizing tendencies of Western society. In his writings on the sociology of music Weber contrasted the concise notations and the well-tempered scale of modern music--the rigorous standardization and coordination that governs a modern symphony orchestra--with the spontaneity and inventiveness of the musical systems of Asia or of nonliterate tribes. In his methodological writings, as we have seen, Weber strenuously objected to any interpretation of human history that subjected such history to an ineluctable driving force. He argued that society must be considered as a delicate balance of multiple opposing forces, so that w war, a revolution, or even an heroic leader might succeed in throwing the total balance in favor of a particular outcome. This is why he almost always made his statements in probabilistic terms. Nevertheless, when it came to the trends toward rationalization and bureaucratization of modern society, Weber tended to throw much of his usual analytic caution to the winds and to assert that the chances were very great indeed that mankind would in the future be imprisoned in an iron cage of its own making. In this respect, his message is thus fundamentally at variance with that of most of his nineteenth-century forebears. He is not a prophet of glad tidings to come but a harbinger of doom and disaster.  - http://raven.jmu.edu/~ridenelr/DSS/Weber/WEBERW9.HTML

disposable people - Globalisation and the threat to the work and livelihoods of the poor, and the creation of ‘disposable people’. Disposability of people was built into the substitution of human energy by machines driven on fossil fuels. The very definition of productivity in the industrial paradigm is labour productivity, i.e. the fewer humans beings involved in production, the more ‘productive’ a process is, even though it uses more energy and resources. Industrialisation = Fossil-Fuel Dependence = Energy Slaves replacing human beings and human capacities and human limits. Globalisation is accelerating this trend - vendana shiva

divans - in Muslim countries, a salon, coffee house, casino . . . 

divination - Though the dictionary defines divination as ‘the art or act of foretelling future events by alleged supernatural agency,’ this is a misleading definition. I would define it as the practice of seeking healing, insight and guidance from higher dimensional, inner sources commonly called the spirit world or divine world (hence the term divination). In most people’s minds, the concept of divination involves symbolic systems such as the Tarot, the I Ching, the Nordic Runes, astrology, or the reading of patterns of stones or bones. These can be considered divination accessories or tools. The esssential process in divination involves a querent asking questions and the diviner obtaining answers, by non-rational, non-analytical means. In the inner traditions of shamanism and alchemy the querent and the diviner are one and the same person, accessories are dispensed with, and one taps into direct intuitive knowing -- about the past, the hidden present or probable futures. Modern individuals, trained in a scientific outlook, often shy away from divinatory practices, fearing to give any credence to what they consider ignorant supersition. It should be understood though that divination about the future, also known as augury, prophecy, presentiment, foresight, or visioning is not foretelling or predicting. The future, unlike the past, is probabilistic and the visions sought in a vision quest or entheogenic ceremony are not inner movies passively received – they are instructions or guidance involving the individual in possible or likely future situations. Ordinary people, especially business people, do this kind of anticipation or projection of future trends all the time – and there are scientific books and conferences about various approaches to doing this, called forecasting, scenarios, trend analysis and the like. The chief difference in shamanic, hermetic and other esoteric traditions is that one goes into a mild altered state to do the divinatory questioning, attempting to rise out of the inevitably limited, normal time-space framework of the querent. In the shamanic knowledge-seeking and visionary traditions one poses questions to the spirits with which one is allied; or, we could say psychologically, the questions are addressed to the Higher Self.   -  Ralph Metzner

dizzy liver -

doctrine of signatures - To perceive the echo of things (from archetype in spirit to its many diverse forms) is to understand their meanings . . .

drama triangle - heroes, villians, and victims

Dream Incubation - "This process, divining by simply asking your inner wise or guiding self, is also involved in the practice known as dream incubation. This is one of the best ways to increase the meaningfulness of one’s dreams: before you go to sleep you ask your inner guide, your dream-weaver, for help in solving a particular issue. Whatever dreams may come can then be much more readily interpreted as symbolic answers to the question you posed." - Ralph Metzner

dreams and fantasies – ‘There are two different sides: dreams and fantasies. Everybody has fantasies. I have my own fantasies, but I don't put that much energy into them. I just enjoy them. I put all my power into my dreams to make them come true, because the world is as you dream it. If you dream that you are poor, you will be poor all your whole life through. If I want to change my dream, I have to put all the energy I have into that dream and I'll change the dream . . . because the world is as I dream it.’ - Ipupiara

Dreamtime hero -  To Australian anborigines, the dreamtime hero is not dead but an important source of life and energy.

dreambows -

drugs -  1) as neutral or impartial spirits, which upon entering an individual ‘intensify natural inclinations, good or evil (Philon, DePlant., XLI, 171), and in so doing give rise to self-knowledge.  - Antonio Eschotado.  2) ‘If they did not exist our governors would have invented them in order to prohibit them and so make much of the population vulnerable to arrest, imprisonment, seizure of property, and so on.’ – gore vidal

drug war - 1) is essentially a war against freedom of consciousness, a war of competing worldviews, a religious war.  Also assumes that using tools that nature provides to effect spiritual development is somehow bad, or cheating. 2) However, unlike shamanism, which has been largely rehabilitated in recent years, moved from the “category of abnormal psychology to the category of universal psychobiological capacities (Atkinson 1992),” the transformative knowledge native to communicative association with plants has yet to be much explored from the vantage of similar “universal psychobiological capacities.”  One reason for this oversight is that the study of vision plants is wound into the problematic psychology and politics of the modern Drug War. - mb

dualism -  Dualism can be seen as an alienated form of differentiation, in which power construes and constructs differences in terms of an alien or inferior realm.  Dualism is a relation of separation and domination inscribed and naturalized in culture and characterized by radical exclusion, distancing, and opposition between orders constructed as systematically higher or lower, etc. which treats the division as part of the nature of beings - val plumwood 2) duality exists only when you are identified with the body. Onc this identitification is transcended, all duality disappears - Ammachi

duskfire -

dwingles -

dyscontrol - ‘Inherently destabilizing to the integrity of the individual, illness disconfirms the illusion of personal control over the body, generating anxiety as one is confronted with the strangeness of dyscontrol’.  Becker, Anne - ‘Body, Self, and Society:  the view from Fiji’ 

dysteleology -  teleology is the philosophical study of manifestations of design or purposes in natural processes or occurrences, under the belief that natural processes are not determined by mechanism but rather by their utility in an overall natural design. Dysteleology is the doctrine of purposelessness in nature. Teleology is associated with vitalism. It explains apparently purposeful animal behavior by saying that the action is performed because it will later be advantageous to the animal. Science, on the other hand, has sought to explain apparently purposeful behavior through the theory of mechanism. - Umpleby