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abrahamic - There are ongoing discussions on the differences between, as well as within, the Abrahamic (Islam, Christianity and Judaism) and the Vedic (Hinduism, Buddhism and Jainism) religions in regard to ecological consciousness. – David Orton 2) "The inflectional speech-the root of the sanskrit, very erroneously called "the elder sister" of the greek, instead of its mother-was the first language (now the mystery tongue of the initiates, of the fifth race). At any rate, the semitic languages are the bastard descendants of the first phonetic corruptions of the eldest children of the early sanskrit. The occult doctrine admits of no such divisions as the aryan and the semite, accepting even the turanian with ample reservations.  The semites, especially arabs, are later Aryans-degenerate in spirituality and perfected in materiality.  To these belong all the Jews and the arabs.  The former are a tribe descended frome the Tchandalas of India, the outcasts, many of them ex-Brahmins who sought refuge in chaldea, in scinde, and Aria (Iran), and were truly born from their father A-bram (no Brahmin)  some 8000 years B.C.  The latter, the arabs, are the descendants of those Aryans who would not go into India at the time of the dispersion of nations, some of whom remained on the borderlands therof, in Afghanistan and Kabul, and along the oxus, while others penetrated into and invaded Arabia. - blatavsky, from the 'Secret Doctrine'

abreaction - decisive moment in (psychoanalysis) when the patient intensively relives the initial situation from which his disturbance stems, before he ultimately overcomes it.  In this sense, according to Levi-Strauss, the shaman is a professional abreactor. - mb

accessory properties - ‘ Caffeine, for instance, is found in many botanicals besides coffee beans, including tea (Thea sinensis), yerba mate (Ilexparaguayiensis), kola nut (Cola acuminata) and guarana (Paullinia cupana). While each of these plants has stimulant properties, they also have uniquely different effects.  By standardizing only to the caffeine content, these accessory properties are ignored, such as the tonic, long endurance effect of guarana due to its guaranine content, the antioxidant and nutritional effects of yerba mate, and the antitumor properties of green tea.’ -   Michael Tierra

acoustic mirror -  look at yourself in an acoustic mirror, and hear what you're saying. Notice repeating words, exscessive cliches, unconscious patterns, intonations, sloppy expression. You can do some linguistic grooming . . . - mb

acting at a distance - bureaucracy overcomes pity by distancing the human subject and by spreading responsibility across the organization and diffusing it down the hierarchy. The distancing is accomplished in two ways: the human affected by our actions is redefined as an "animal", as "the other"; and technology permits us to act upon humans who are at such a distance that we cannot directly observe what we have done to them. This last point--that the psychological consequences are less when technology permits us to act at a distance-- is supported by studies comparing the post-Vietnam war suffering of infantry, who had shot people at close range, and of pilots who had dropped bombs on them from higher altitudes. Bauman says that animal pity is inspired by the proximity of the sufferer, and it seems contradictory but true that it is harder to kill one person with one's hands than a million by pressing a button. http://www.spectacle.org/496/dream.html

addiction - possessive condition of dependence.  Yes, a kind of possession. - mb   2) , "addiction is a form of pathological learning" in which the brain has created a rewards system for something that is harmful to the body."I would not call it damage -- the circuit is working the way it should. But it has been remodelled in a maladaptive way," said Kauer. -  http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20070425/hl_afp/sciencehealth;_ylt=AtTbB8qxIXBCM3ujcEhalsbMWM0F

Adom – Adam hybridized with Atom – the interrelated human - mb

Adversarial trance – What you resist persists.  Are you a peace advocate resisting war, or promoting mutual harmony?   We win wars, thus creating a definition of peace as an absence of war, rather than peace as a pro-active culture.  How then to employ advocacy strategies that do not resists, and thus fuel persistence, of what they oppose?   How do you be for something and against nothing?   Ultimately the urge to attack others is a projection of one’s own unresolved conflicts.  The goal, thru self-understanding, is to collanborate rather dissasociate - ?

adults - obsolete children - Dr. Seuss

adventures in consciousness - the human life well lived - S. Grof

aesthetic frames - 'It has been suggested that this visual art along with the melodies of the icaros combine with the synaesthetic effects of the potion to produce an "aesthetic frame of mind" central to the healing process.' - http://www.biopark.org/ayahuasca.html

aesthetics of resonance -

afterglow -  Note the spiritual explanation, that you are on the spirit communicatory wavelength on yage and carry that frequency over to afterglow conversations which allows your spiritual essence to relate to the spirit in others, thus bypassing egoic barriers. You could also say you ‘outfeel’ those egoic barriers. - mb

Agni - Deity of fire.  Has aspects of world creator heating up the waters of creation;  of digestive fire, a principle that allows, encourages, and propels growth;  sacrificial fire - is both mediator between the gods and transformer of the offerings into energy acceptable to the gods.  Life feeds on life, requiring the digestive fire that transforms organic energy into life energy;  Agni as destructive and purifying agent.  – David Kinsley

agreeway -

agriglyphs -  crop circles.  ‘Look through 20 years of aerial photos of these agriglyphs and it is hard to deny their melodic precision, their circular forms resplendent with abstract, yet harmonic waves of invisible energy’.  Also looked upon by some sceptical observors as, ‘British rural fun’.  2)  Magnetic field transfer from higher to lower dimensions. Your media resists, why? Suggest discussion - Cassiopaea

algion - . . . is sold as a powder and added to products including Velveeta cheese, Corona beer, Eclipse breath strips and Mrs. Fields cookies.  Algin makes ice cream's texture feel less like ice crystals and more like cream. It keeps spice suspended in salad dressings. It coats paper to block ink from sinking through. It removes the brush strokes in a fresh coat of paint.  – Shannon Macmahon

allometric growth - the pattern of growth whereby different parts of the body grow at different rates with respect to each other.

allometry -  “ . . . this point is made most compellingly by allometry, when parts of the body grow at different rates. A familiar example is the slower growth of the human skull relative to the body in children, causing adults to end up with heads not much larger than those of infants but atop large muscular bodies. If the allometry of a species is strong, small adults can be strikingly different from large adults in many biological traits, even if they are all identical genetically in the trait under consideration. Among animals the process can be taken to bizarre extremes. In some stag-beetle species, such as the European Lucanus cervus, little males have relatively short, simple mandibles, while large males have more massive mandibles half as long as the rest of the body, an armament that gains them superiority in combat. What is inherited in the males is not one of a series of body types, and not necessarily even a particular body size, but rather the allometric growth pattern common to all the males. Males that obtain less food or terminate growth early end up small and feminized; those that reach large size become hulking, top-heavy supermales. The allometry itself is relatively simple, dependent only on differences in rates of growth among certain patches of tissue. It is easy to imagine a rapid switch of a magnitude often associated with the origin of species that is nevertheless based on the simplest hereditary change. Minor mutations in one or several genes might easily alter the allometric pattern, so that all of the males come to more closely resemble females. Alternatively, the change could push the pattern the other way, so that all stag-beetle males sprout huge mandibles. The social systems of ants illustrate the power of allometry even more dramatically. The caste system of each ant colony, from queens to big-headed soldiers to small-headed workers, is based on a single allometric pattern common to all female members of the colony. Depending on the food and chemical stimuli she receives as a larva, a female ant becomes a queen or a soldier or a minor worker. All fall within the same allometric framework. Genes have nothing to do with the caste determination of the female, but they do determine the allometry of the colony and thus the characteristics of the caste system as a whole. If the allometry is changed even a little by gene mutations, a different caste system emerges.”  Edmond Wilson

allopathy - a system of medical practice which aims to combat disease by the use of remedies which produce effects different from those produced by the disease treated.  It derives from the law of contraries, which aims to contradict or suppress symptoms.  In the history of Western medicine, Galen (2nd century Greece), an exponent of rationalism in medicine, was the first to formally institute the law of contraries as the basis of practice.  However, his opponents, the empirics, maintained that experience taught them that the law of similars healed, contrary to rational doctrine.  The law of similarities treats symptoms as the body’s adaptive defense against disease rather than the disease itself, and acts to express them.  It is the basis of homeopathy, and appears in many vitalistic medical philosophies which have made their way into contemporary discourses on holistic medicine.  The doctrines that derive from the law of contraries or similars therefore define main streams of medical thought in Western medicine.  Allopathy is now synonymous with modern biomedicine.  - mb

Altair - Although the names of modern planets and constellations are Latin, the names of most major stars -- Altair, Deneb, Rigel, Sirius, Fomalhaut, Aldeberan, Betelgeuse -- are Arabic as are many of the other terms of astronomy, such as azimuth, almagest, almanac, and the Zodiac. 

alter-native - I met Klee and his sister Jeneda and brother Clayson at a preview for the Tree Sit: Art of Resistance film many years ago where their band Blackfire (www.blackfire.net) was performing. I loved their powerful lyrics and their self-called “alter-native” punk sound. They are 'Dine’ and they bring together their traditional native beliefs and ways with music and activism. – Julia Butterfly

Anarchism -   "a tendency in the history of human thought and action which seeks to identify coercive, authoritarian, and hierarchic structures of all kinds and to challenge their legitimacy, and if they cannot justify their legitimacy, which is quite commonly the case, to work to undermine them and expand the scope of freedom" – N. Chomsky

anatomy of contact - Analysis of the process whereby cultures previously isolated from one another make contact.  E.g. with tribes previously isolated from Westernizing influence.  And to take that further, note the anatomy of contact created when Western (Global iindustrial) minds are brought in contact with the spirit worlds. - mb

ancient corporeality -  The performer, with a capital 'P', is a man of action.  He is not a man who plays another.  He is a dancer, a priest, a warrior;  he is outside aesthetic genres.  He doesn't want to discover something new but something forgotten.  Essence interests him because in it there is nothing sociological.  This is not externally learned, but accessed thru an 'ancient corporeality' (which might lead thru ancestral memories to . . . origins).  Primordial body memory accessed thru engaging body intelligence.  - Grotowski

anchiant -  really old . . . 

angelic updraft -  good . . . singing

animalt ransformation -  When a myth relates the transformation of a human being into an animal of the same name, the change in status is often marked by the loss of spoken language and the acquisition of a specific call.  Descola

Animate essences - Yaminahua model of cognition:  experiences and meanings can be embedded in the non-human world.  Concept of a type of perceiving animate essences (called Yoshi) shared by human and nonhuman alike, creating for them a shared space of interaction, which opens up this magical arena shamanism.     

Anna Mystic -

anomie - “Adding to this, according to my understanding, anomie a la Durkheim does  not refer to absence of any cultural norms. But it refers to, expressing in cybernetic terms, absence of negative feed-back. In society, there co-exist plural norms or ideals and they keep equivalence. But in state of anomie, only one norm or ideal get salient (expressed) and equivalence is broken out.  Anomie in the Mertonian sense refers to the relationship between goals and means. Sumita Miki Merton proposes 4 stages of anomic expression:  Innovation - using methods deemed wrong by society to achieve one’s ends;  Ritualism - going thru the motions (playing at normalcy);  Retreatism - ‘dropping out’;  Rebellion - trying to change society - ?

anormal - “Still the driving motor of shamanism is, besides the social needs, the shaman’s contact with the spriits.  This contact is realized through experiences that are anormal, transferred to another world, the world of gods, spirits, and ghosts.”  Hultkrantz

antenna head -

anthropocene - Humans have altered Earth so much that scientists say a new epoch in the planet's geologic history has begun. Say goodbye to the 10,000-year-old Holocene Epoch and hello to the Anthropocene.Among the major changes heralding this two-century-old man-made epoch: Vastly altered sediment erosion and deposition patterns. Major disturbances to the carbon cycle and global temperature. Wholesale changes in biology, from altered flowering times to new migration patterns. Acidification of the ocean, which threatens tiny marine life that forms the bottom of the food chain.
The idea, first suggested in 2000 by Nobel Prize-winning chemist Paul Crutzen, has gained steam with two new scientific papers that call for official recognition of the shift. - Robert Britt

anthropocentric detour - the anthropocentric detour of industrial society out of ecocentrism and into the present ecological dilemma - Sessions

anthropomorphic drama -   . . . during the (ayahuasca) tryp 'all of nature turns into an anthropomorphic drama.'  Andritzky

anusaya - (Sanskrit).  Buddhist term referring to the fears and latent tendencies that lie deep in our unconscious.  According to Thich Nhat Hahn:  ‘Because we are not able to resolve the anusaya, we repress them and they grow stagnant and cause sickness whose symptoms can be recognized in everything we do.  Buddha taught that rather than repressing our fears and anxieties, we should invite them into consciousness, welcome them . . . quite naturally they will lose some of their energy . . .’  as in ~~ laws of natural healing . . . .

ancestors -   The Ancestors are a spiritual experience not common to most modern religions. (They are the same thing as "the Saints" in Catholicism, but the Saints are little appreciated nowadays either.) The Ancestors are not easy to describe, but the following could be said about them. One's beneficent genetic ancestors, as well as the people who inhabited one's homeland in the past, as well as one's personal spiritual antecedents and inspirational guides, whether genetically related or not, comprise the Ancestors. In addition, the animals and plants of one's homeland would also have to be included here—or rather, they include themselves, because they claim to have helped build our bodies and the bodies of our ancestors up from the soil.

The Ancestors are an indispensable part of life, material and spiritual. They are not some mysterious people out there to spook us (though that is possible to the careless), but they are the people who went before us, who kept alive the traditions of fairness, decency, love, compassion, and spiritual wisdom, so that we, who came afterwards, could have a world that was worth living in. By being good, kind, spiritual people, the Ancestors earned the respect of the Creator, so that after their death they were allowed to continue as sentient beings. And now, from the other side, they still look over us, guiding, protecting, teaching, loving us. But of course, they can only be perceived by people who are, like themselves, dedicated to humane and spiritual purposes.

The Great Creator respects the Ancestors. Because of their spiritual activities they stand justified before him. Because he respects them, and because we stand on their shoulders, we are required to acknowledge and respect them as well. The Indians would say that it is not possible to communicate with the Creator unless one has this connection. The Ancestors are braided into the over-all human divine interconnection. In Indian ceremonies they act as a channel between us and the other world. The Indians never held that they were gods, except in periods of cultural degradation, but only that they are an indispensable part of the link to God. As an Indian medicine man once said, "The whiteman has his medicine, but he will never be able to heal because he does not know the Ancestors." - Matthew Wood

Apocalypse - Our situation is extremely dire, while at the same time there is nothing to become pessimistic about. Being able to hold this paradox is the “crux” of the matter. This involves being able to hold these seemingly contradictory opposites together as both being true simultaneously. Our apocalyptic situation is very dire, while at the same time it is (potentially) the highest blessing: If we recognize what the darkness is revealing to us, it can (potentially) wake us up. Interestingly, the inner meaning of the word “apocalypse” is something hidden being revealed."  - Paul Levy

appreciation -   Appreciation is a form of synergism.  For example, we can only minimally understand a painting by reducing it down to the different paint colors used.  The effect of looking at a (good) painting brings on feelings of appreciation.  These feelings tell you something of the intent of the artist, what he/she was trying to express.  Thus you understand intent, you feel relational to the painter, and you can thus be moved or healed by this relatedness.  Through experience with nature you develop an aesthetic.   You do this by thinking with the heart.  For this you need an eye for beauty

aromotherapy -  Aromatherapy is based on absorption by the nasal mucous membranes of volatile elements, ionized and made pranic.  Noses are then ‘pranic antennas.’ - Adidrevan Lysebeth

archetypal moment - the astrological onfiguration of one's birth

archetype -  1)  the primary colors of character.  2)  “We seeded and assisted this early symbol (Hator) of the feminine mystery.  She is an archeytpal pattern, a cosmic force that can be metaphorized, and we, as a culture, have identified with her qualities of love, ecstacy, and bliss.” - Hathors  3)  The dance of the many as one. - Sheoekah 4) what the DNA is to the physical world, archetypes are to the psyche - Marrion Woodman 5) Qualities have devic presences.  We've personified them into god and goddesses.   The age of rationalism kicked them out, and they crept back in thru Jungian archetypes.  6) a universal principle or force that affects--impels, structures, permeates--the human psyche and human behavior on many levels. One can think of them as primordial instincts, as Freud did, or as transcendent first principles as Plato did, or as gods of the psyche as James Hillman does. Archetypes (for example, Venus
or Mars) seem to have a transcendent, mythic quality, yet they also have very specific psychological expressions--as in the desire for love and the experience of beauty (Venus), or the impulse toward forceful activity and aggression (Mars). Moreover, archetypes seem to work from both within and without, for they can express themselves as impulses and images from the interior psyche, yet also as events and situations in the external world. Jung thought of archetypes as the basic constituents of the human psyche, shared cross-culturally by all human beings, and he regarded them as universal expressions of a collective unconscious. Much earlier, the Platonic tradition considered archetypes to be not only psychological but also cosmic and objective, as primordial forms of a Universal Mind that transcended the human psyche. Astrology would appear to support the Platonic view as well as the Jungian, since it gives evidence that Jungian archetypes are not only visible in human psychology, in human experience and behavior, but are also linked to the macrocosm itself--to the planets and their movements in the heavens. Astrology thus supports the ancient idea of an anima mundi, or world soul, in which the human psyche participates. From this perspective, what Jung called the collective unconscious can be viewed as being ultimately embedded within the cosmos itself. - R. Tarnas

Artist’s Task - Venus reminds us that we don’t need to source solution but to invite in solution. The artist’s task is to create doors in the wall of the Reality Police so that invisible magic can pour forth into the world again – Caroline Casey

A.S.C. (alteredstatesofconsciousness) - 1) is an arena outside time and space, containing metaphor and imagery as latency.  Metaphor here is an external mental form which corresponds to latent symbolic structures.  It is being in energy, thru a ritual focus that engenders an ASC, which in turn translates the ‘numinous’ qualities of metaphor into human experience, that the initiate then integrates with physically.  Knowledge therefore becomes deeply embedded in the body as physical experience.  *The importance of ASC is that it lessens taints from accompanying ‘projections’ into the energy state.  In this process the qualities inherent in particular metaphors can be eventually given form .  ASC permits shifts in cognitive/perceptual mindstates and permit the initiate to see a larger picture of interconnectedness that was formerly not possible (or ‘noteasilyaccessed’). Symbols as musical tones:  e.g. qualities associated with the Star of David, the cross, the Om mantra take shape in the structure of symbol, and sequence of visualization and experience.  In meditation (ASC / trypping) these qualities are transformed by being traced out in white light (as symbol) and experienced in the body (as vibration). The step from metaphor and symbol is also expressed as the step from mental constructs to vibration - i.e. the physcial experience in the body of the tonal frequencies associated with the numinous qualities of the metaphor.  Without physical feedback from the body one remains in mental constructs only - the books and reports of experiences told by others.  The physical aspects of meditation:   vibrations, circulations in the body, energy pulses - enables one to own the experience of meditation for oneself.  Thus one’s own internal experience can be a basic referent for ethnographic accounts.  Trust in the bodily truth.  (This is why the Gnostics got kicked out of orthodox Christianity.  They were actually having, owning, and being empowered by religious experiences)  So:  vibrational frequencies or tones represent particular metaphorical qualities that are held mentally and once experienced physically, translate into form in terms of how we think, speak, and act.  Bourguignon (1973) considers A.S.C. as part of the psychobiological heritage of our species.  It is ‘therefore a universal feature or process innate to humans that is expressed culturally in variable ways’. I. Prattis.  2) To scramble the senses and cognition is to release impacted ideas and rigidities of perceptions.  Colonic . . . A.S.C. allows the human organism a period of sloughing off of the old and an integration of the new.  Our history of A.S.C. experiences properly utilized are the growth rings of our psyche. 

Ascension - The ascension process is now geared to the masses and not just the select few – Archangel Michael

ascension movement – “Hal’s son, Dr. Joshua David Stone, is a well known author and teacher in the ascension movement and his daughter, Judith Tamar Stone, is one of the foremost Voice Dialogue teachers.” - http://www.delos-inc.com/Introduction/introduction.html

ashes of Eden -

astral memory - '. .  imprinted layers of existence cling to astral memory, like the layers of an onion'. - Rick Phillips

astrology - After English, astrology is my second language. Like a language, it's both logical and messy; it's useful in making sense of  the world, yet full of crazy-making ambiguities. At its best, astrology is a playful study of the metaphorical link between the human psyche and the  sun, moon, and planets. It's not a science. It's an elegant system of symbols, an art form with a special capacity to feed the soul and educate the imagination. When regarded as a precise method for predicting the future or when used to pander to the ego's obsessions, it becomes a deserving target for satire. – R. Brezsney  2) the oldest science of human history.  According to this cosmology the planetary energies reverberated through the spheres and echoed through the four realms of existence leaving their mark or signature in all aspects of the manifest and non-manifest world. - http://www.b-and-t-world-seeds.com/signs.htmg 3) a kind of intrinsic aesthetic splendor in the universe, an overflow of cosmic intelligence and delight that reveals itself in this continuous marriage of mathematical astronomy and mythic poetry. But in more pragmatic, human terms, my sense of astrology is that the constant coincidence between planetary positions and human lives
exists as a kind of universal code for the human mind to unravel, so that we can better understand ourselves and our world, rediscover our deep connection to the cosmos, and be more complete human beings. - R. Tarnas

Astronomy - the rebellious teenage son of astrology

atom – ‘Structures of activities rather than changeless inert things” – R. Sheldrake.  2)  ‘each an intention, a consciously created system for cultivating and regulating its particular field of space.’ – K. Carey

atomism-mechanism - The belief that the universe is divisible into simple and similar particles and that all wholes (forms) are fundamentally made up of these particles and nothing more can be termed atomism. The different concrete wholes, like rocks, trees, planets, and air, are simply different configurations of these particles; and change in wholes, such as the growth of a rose from seed to flower, comprise only changes in the configurations of particles.  Atomism began with the philosophy of Leucippius and Democritus, who found a compromise between the universal unity and unchangeability of Parmenides and the commonsense world of diversity and change. Their argument was that the sensory world was reducible to indivisible particles, called atoms, which themselves were identical and unchanging--hence providing a fundamental unity and unchangeableness to the universe. Thus, nature's wholes were simply a sum (configuration) of its parts (atoms).  From its beginning, this basic doctrine has undergone a number of interpretations as it was espoused by such as Epicurus, Lucretius, Gassendi, and William Boyle. However, its core notion of irreducible particles common to all wholes became a general theory of mechanistic science in the seventeenth century, underlying the philosophical perspective of, say, Hobbes and later Holbach and La Mettrie. This view was pervasive in nineteenth-and twentieth- century physics, chemistry, and biology, and we are now seeing its influence in the social sciences (behaviorism). Essentially, the mechanistic philosophy à la Hobbes sees commonsense wholes as made up of patterns and motion of basic particles. The fundamental laws involve the motions of these particles and their configurations; regularities found for wholes should be reducible to these laws. Moreover, causes are simply the action of one particle upon another (action-at- a-distance, such as gravity, was indeed troublesome to this philosophy, and led to imaginative attempts to define a corpuscular ether transmitting such causes). Things themselves can only act as a consequence of being acted upon.  Because particles were considered similar, if not identical, this mechanistic perspective generally led to emphasizing quantity over qualities, "primary" over "secondary" characteristics. Mass, length, and velocity become fundamental concepts of reality, superordinate to "subjective" qualities like color, texture, odor, taste, and shape. Reality was seen as a universal machine, set in motion, perhaps by God, constructed of elementary particles, governed by mathematical laws, and fully determined.  Mechanism, while still a popular commonsense philosophy and a methodological paradigm for social scientists, has lost its scientific base. Few physicists accept it today. The mechanical view has failed in its attempts to construct ethers, light corpuscles, and mechanical models to account for physical phenomena. Scientists increasingly have had to employ constructs without mechanical meaning (such as electromagnetic field) whose interpretations lie wholly within the mathematical equations of which it is a part. Mechanical models are no longer felt to be needed, even if at all conceivably possible. The focus is now on mathematical abstractions--functions, not material particles.– rj rummel

auric wounds – “ . .  and psychic scars can be repaired quite automatically, like the way the body heals itself, but others can remain in the auric field as long as a lifetime and even be carried into future lifetimes, depending on how deep they are.  Wounds remain in the field so long because people usually avoid directly experiencing their wounds, but suppress them deeper into the field and then bury them with an energy block.  Deep wound of this sort occur from one extremely harsh interaction or from habitually repeated negative interaction.  – Barbara Brennan

austronomy -

authorial bloat -  a condition brought on by becoming drunk on the ego toxins that often accompany a feeling of expertise or status of expert . .  - steve buhner (word);  mb  (definition). 

Autarky -  means economic self-sufficiency

authoritree -

autochotonous - pertaining to autochthons;  aboriginal, indigenous.  'This work has led us to meet about 70 local healers in this region, most of them mestizos . . .although the influence of autochotonous groups substantially affects the practices and imagery of the healers'.

autopoesis - Teachers of biology used to teach a list of properties of living things to distinguish them from non-living things, because it simply had no basic definition of life. This list included such properties as irritability (reactivity), mobility, growth and reproduction. A few decades ago, two Chilean biologists, Humberto Maturana and Francisco Varela, gave us our first basic definition of life as autopoiesis, a Greek word meaning "self creation." The definition that goes by this name is as follows: A living entity is one that continually creates its own parts. Note that this basic definition says nothing about growth or reproduction, which may or may not be properties of a living system. Some of you may be happy to know that you can be alive whether you reproduce or not. In any case, this definition seems to apply admirably well to our planet Earth, which scientists used to think of not as a living entity, but as a non-living geological ball upon the surface of which, by some miracle, life sprang from non-life. 

Now we can see that the Earth constantly creates itself from the inside out, lava erupting from its molten insides to form new rock, while old rock is eroded, carried to the oceans and remelted at the subduction zones of tectonic plates, where the edge of one slides beneath the edge of another. This great recycling system of magma to rock to magma is joined by those of Earth's waters and atmosphere as the sources of endless creativity, endless supplies of materials to be incorporated into microbes, plants and animals. The entire planet regulates its temperature like a warm-blooded creature, which indeed it can be see to be, as well as regulating the delicate chemical balance in the composition of its atmosphere, seas and soils, further evidence that it is a great living cell or body. Note well that it can function as such only because all its parts are in constant communication and because of the ceaseless planetwide flow of its energy and materials. Life will never evolve naturally on one part of a planet; planets either come to life as wholes or do not come to life at all. – E. Sahourtis

autoscopy - More relevant may be the kinds of double seen in autoscopy, literally 'seeing oneself.' Although the OBE is rarely distinguished from autoscopy in the psychiatric literature, other distinctions are made instead. The main distinction is that OBE involves feeling of being outside the body while autoscopy usually consist of seeing a double. Some people see the whole of their body as a double; some see only parts, perhaps only the face. There is an internal form in which the subject can see his internal organs; and a cenesthetic form in which he does not see, but only feels the presence of his double. There is even a negative form in which the subject cannot see himself even when he tries to look into a mirror. - http://www.psychwww.com/asc/obe/faq/obe19.html

avenues of thought - ‘If one does not reject patent and observable facts, we are inevitably led by these considerations on ayahuasca to a necessary epistemological revision of modern science, especially medicine. Conceptual frameworks, experimental models, and classic paradigms are all shown here to be inadequate to explain such an experience. Aristotelian thought, the foundation of modern science, provides an inadequate system of coordinates. It appears to us that one cannot undertake a serious and audacious (and ambitious) study of phenomena in the modification of states of consciousness without previously accepting an eventual change of paradigm. The pertinence of these themes enlarges the concepts currently in vogue in order to open up new avenues of thought. Ayahuasca constitutes an intellectual challenge for our time. We cannot overemphasize the need to approach the study of ayahuasca through experiential practices enriched by generations of Amazonian therapists and ayahuasqueros.  J. Mabit et al

awareness flows - Integrative (as opposed to adversarial) approaches to truth might benefit a population that is becoming increasingly congested in its planetary home. Freeing epistemology from the so-called 'Age of Reason' might even bring scholarly benefits, such as opening areas of inquiry notoriously resistant to logical investigation, e.g., the visionary quests of sorcerers, the meditational insights of lamas, or just those evanescent understandings people sometimes grasp in that never-never land between sleep and waking. It might also help us understand those awareness flows that can occur across seemingly impenetrable cultural and cognitive barriers. Inquiry into such matters has long resisted both syntax and logic as well as the crucial pillars underlying them: e.g., quantification, measurement, and classification.  Sorenson, R.

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Bacteria - are composed of genetic material, chemicals arranged into complex metabolic cycles, various molecular infrastructures, and salt water, all housed within a selectively permeable membrane. – Swimme, Sahourtis, and Liebes

bai -  Cashinahua term for ayahuasca tryp is 'bai', the idea of a sightseeing excursion with housecalls for visiting.  Kensinger, K.

balance - 1) the play of polarities. - mb 2)  Nature always seeks balance.  The natural range of activity of all elements of the system must be expressed. - Alexander

banana clock -  The host (Jivaro Amazon Indian) gives each guest a banana from the same stalk and when it ripens they know to come back for the celebration.  M. Harner

bandwidth -  1)  The numerical difference between the upper and lower frequencies of a band of electromagnetic radiation, especially an assigned range of radio frequencies.  2a)  The amount of data that can be passed along a communications channel in a given period of time.  2b) volume of information per unit time that a computer, person, or transmission medium can handle. "Those are amazing graphics, but I missed some of the detail -- not enough bandwidth, I guess."  3) Attention span.

bard - 'Taliesin was invited by the Emperor Arthur to his court at Caerlleon upon Usk, where he became highly celebrated for poetic genius and useful, meritorious sciences.' . . .  'Taliesin, Chief of the Bards, was the highest of the most exalted class, either in literature, wisdom, the science of vocal song, or any other attainment, whether sacred or profane' - Mabinogion

batin -  Indonesian.  “There are many types of spiritual practices in Java which may be undertaken and which are said to bring a person in better contact with the larger order: As preparation for or as part of such practices, one generally needs to become centered, to still one's own thoughts and listen to the batin, one's inner, spiritual aspect which is capable of being sensitive to the unseen forces of the universe. Batin is in contrast to the lahir, the outward realm of the senses, appearances, and material phenomena, although lahir and batin tend to be seen as operating in a sort of reciprocal arrangement - C. Geertz.

Through the development of the batin one may increase one's spiritual power or potency. This development is often undertaken through the denial of basic comforts associated with material life so that one may be detached and able to engage in the search for unity or oneness with the 'ultimate'.  Deprivations may take the form of fasting, night vigils, sexual abstinence, as well as more complex disciplines such as special forms of meditation (samadhi), prayer, and pilgrimages to sites considered to be foci of power. Such places of pilgrimage include certain gravesites, places of guardian spirits (dhanyang), natural sites such as springs or mountaintops, sites of old temples, and places associated with the remains of past kingdoms. Such practices are referred to as laku (literally 'step'; also, 'ascetic practice') or nglakoni.  M. Lyon

bardo passing -  In the Tibetan tradition that 49th day, seven perfect weeks, concludes the bardo passage, the interval between death and some kind of rebirth.

barakumin -  “I believe there needs to be a change of consciousness so that people have confidence in themselves, rather than asking for something from the outside. It seems to me that they lack the personality of independent individuals. They have probably been shaped by the patterns of discrimination and the corrective movement over the past thirty years. They have a sense of disgrace as children of the eta. Everyone thinks discrimination comes only from the outside world, and that is the source of their pain. But it is actually coming from inside themselves, too. They think negatively about themselves, so they suffer in terms of the value system of the outside world. If that were not the case, they would not be suffering. I don't think they have realized that yet, because the movement has been oriented toward the outside world.

You see, the difficult thing about the buraku problem is that burakumin are social beings, not racial beings. You can't tell that I am from the buraku community just by looking at me, can you? So if I am socially successful, it might seem best to hide my background. It is unusual for successful people to say they are from the buraku community. But that is crucial to the development of a new consciousness. Those who succeed tend to hide their origin, and those who remain identified as burakumin maintain negative self-images. While there is generally no need to worry about people's origins, in this sense, I feel the necessity to declare that I'm a burakumin. I live in an apartment building, and our neighbors know that I am from the buraku community, and that my wife is not. We could have chosen not to tell anyone. but doesn't bother us. - Nadamoto Masahisa

batrachian assemblies -  breeding frogs

beauty - a direct link to our inpsired selves

beliefs –  chronic thought  2) "Alberto, belief is not something that is based on proof, like your sciences. It is something that you invest. However much of yourself you invest in the ceremony is what you're going to receive. Don't be an observer; participate. Dare to take a chance." Oldmanat:  http://www.intuition.org/txt/villoldo.htm  3) beliefs are agreements about reality, and agreements can be changed – the Pleiadeans  4) My own opinion is that belief is the death of intelligence. As soon as one believes a doctrine of any sort, or assumes certitude, one stops thinking about that aspect of existence. The more certitude one assumes, the less there is left to think about, and a person sure of everything would never have any need to think about anything and might be considered clinically dead under current medical standards, where absence of brain activity is taken to mean that life has ended. - Robert Anton Wilson   5)  beliefs that foster despair are biologically destructive - Seth

bewilder -  to make wild . . . 

bezoar -  is a stony calcified hairball or gallstone that occurs in the stomachs of cud-chewing animals such as goats (though humans sometimes get them, too). The word is Persian ('pad-zahr', counter-poison or antidote); the bezoar's fame as a cure for poison spread westwards from there in medieval times. You swallowed it, or occasionally rubbed it on the infected part. In 'A Voyage to Abyssinia', written by Father Lobo in the eighteenth century, he says: "I had recourse to bezoar, a sovereign remedy against these poisons, which I always carried about me". Belief in its near-magical properties was then common.  - http://gen.culpepper.com/interesting/medicine/nicholas.htm

big bang - The remainder of my trip was spent going through cycles of re-orientation. Over all I felt that I had come into being, into existence, at that point in time, like in a ‘big-bang’ sort of way, it was the true moment of my creation.   - http://www.mypc.myhome.org.uk/shrooms/committed.htm

Bija - A "root" or "seed" sound or syllable of a mantra. Sperm. - http://www.clas.ufl.edu/users/gthursby/tantra/glossary.htm

bilateral coherence -  descriptive of a healthy relationship

bilocation - shaman defined as:   “men or women who exhibit both the need and the ability to induce in themselves the kinds of experience that bring them to the brink of permanent madness or even death.   These experiences can  produce feelings of depersonalization and fragmentation, in addition to feelings of weightlessness, ascension or flying, and bilocation.”

biochemical yoga -  the art of trypping well

biolence -

biolations -

biological resonance -  proclivity of the body-mind to take resonance with ‘outside’ phenemena either positively (laying on of hands) or negatively (sudden onset of a degenerative disease). 

biomemes -  biologically held information.  E.g. Plants are midwives of our consciousness, as we evolved later than plants.  Plants thus contain a story, information, that directly relates to human well-being.  Mitchell 

bi-ontological -  Participant-observation is a contradiction in terms, an oxymoron - similar to the impossibility of the objective observor in quantum physics.  “Thus anthropologist ‘dances on the edge of paradox’, playing schizophrenic role of player/commentator’” - Narby.  This is especially hard when as a commentator you have to report back to a world view that is anithetical to the one you’ve been participating/observing - though this has some expansion of conscious ‘stretching’ function if one can train oneself to accommodate and synthesize these perspectives, thus becoming bi-ontological. - mb  

biosphere -  irregularly shaped envelope of the earth's air, water, and land encompassing the heights and depths at which living things exist. The biosphere is a closed and self-regulating system, sustained by grand-scale cycles of energy and of materials-in particular, carbon, oxygen, nitrogen, certain minerals, and water. The fundamental recycling processes are photosynthesis, respiration, and the fixing of nitrogen by certain bacteria. Disruption of basic ecological activities in the biosphere can result from pollution.  - http://www.encyclopedia.com/articles/01492.html

birth - 'to transit the dimensions'

blessings - "Blessing" means the vigorous total wish for good, coming from the innermost self, from the divine inner being, the wish for the good of the unitive principle, which holds that there are no opposites and no conflicts.  When this unobstructed wish flows directly into the deepest regions of consciousness of another person, a vibrating energy force is created that brings a new impact in the inner person. - Pathwork Lecture #144 

Blossom Time – “Large numbers of people, without distinction of race, religion, age or social status have acknowledged the value of her teachings by establishing Sahaja Yoga centers in over 75 nations. These people who live a normal family life, tap to their inner spiritual power through daily Sahaja Yoga meditation and have achieved a complete balance of their lives on the physical, emotional, mental and spiritual levels. They understand the integration of all religions and spiritual paths not at a mental level, but through their direct, tangible experience on the central nervous system. Thousands of years ago, the Blossom Time was prophesized to come when, in these modern times of crisis, thousands of seekers of Truth are going to experience this connection with their Spirit.”

blood of the bhang - hash oil

body -  1)  What we call the body is a sort of flowering of the soul, a concentration of its sensual potential in the direction of a specific level of being.  - Whitney Streiber.  2)  the body is an evolutionary frontier - mb 3) the body is like a bud, to open it up, to flower energetically, is by way of the joints.  the deeper and less normally conscious are the joints, the more they are foundational and fundamental to the flowering process - mb 4)  the body . .   learns from ecstatic states - jorge gonzales  5)  a standing wave pattern - hathor material  6)  The temple template of infinity. – Sheoekah  7)  the terrestial terminal for the habitation of eternal awareness;  a nerve ending of god in matter;  a sheath of tangibility – K. Carey  8) (according to Taoism) a microcosm that follows the macrocosmic laws and is continually informed by macrocosmic influences such as the seasonal changes, planetary conjunctions, and other shifts in the life that surrounds us.  9) "One of the rather striking things I believe I learned was that our human physical body is, in reality, a highly ingenious and very amusing trick of the light. It's essentially the 3D holographic construct, (a hologram), that results from the interraction of laser light with holographic plates at a multi-dimensional level. Furthermore, there are in fact a whole array of higher "spiritual" bodies, (some of which are immortal), superposed on top of it in multi-dimensional space. The reason we are not really aware of these most of the time is down to the ingenuity of the design. We're not really supposed to be. The illusion we start to maintain from birth, therefore, is that we are solely physical. The idea of an outside world and inner physical space that we typically conceptualize in our daily life is, therefore, not very accurate. (If you think about it, everything we sense exists only inside what we conceive of as our head.) Our World is merely a projection. It appears this way because it's designed to appear this way. The reason we're not aware of this most of the time is because the human physical body and its' existence is, in fact, a sophisticated learning tool for our higher spiritual bodies. If we were ordinarily aware of our higher spiritually bodies, the learning tool would not function. As a people, therefore, we are here to learn. It is the act of learning that justifies our continued existence. - www.ibogaine.co.uk/exp12.htm  9) the body is a series of frequency envelops.  10) an energy system that processes material, because the body changes completely in only a few years.   11)  the body is a spiritual, psychic, and social statement, biologically spoken - Seth

body intelligence -  “According to his capabilities, the jaguar-man (shaman) can invoke the 'owners' in various ways: firstly through meditation and shamanic spells, for example on the origin of the Tapir if it is hunting that is required. As he recites his body 'tells' him by muscular contractions whether or not he can proceed with the hunt.” - Martin von Hildebrand

Bovis scale - “The Bovis scale is an intuitive scale created by a French scientist at the turn of the century to measure the natural health of organic objects, a system which is now being used in resonance therapy along with crop circles images to treat environments with disease as well as humans.   The higher the Bovis count, the healthier the system. An average person emits 15,000 Bovis.”  ?!?!

box system - The “Visions” chapter describing his recovery from a broken foot and then heart attack. . ..  Jung felt he was vacillating between living and dying.  While realizing he was choosing life, he was disappointed: ““Now I must return to the box system again,” for it seemed to me as if behind the horizon of the cosmos, a three-dimensional world had been artificially built up, in which each person sat by himself in a little box.” (p 292)  

brain - 1)  a liminal organ operating somewhere between the genetically fixed and the radically free - Victor Turner.  2)  skull marrow (in Chinese) 

breath - an integrative and balancing mechanism . . Breath seems to provide a physical control that bridges into the subtler dimensions through which life forces move.  breathing exercises are the means to control and distribute vital energies.  2)  “the breath is where the voluntary and involuntary processes converge, where the boundary between outer and inner dissolves, and hence a powerful meeting ground of mind and body, the separate self and the All.”  –susan thesenga  3) Awareness and control of the breath are the essential keys for understanding and developing the higher mind because they form a very powerful and natural way to connect with both inner and outer sources of the vital life-force energy.    By focusing your attention, you can use your breath to stabilize yourself, to have more energy and enhance your immune system, to create beneficial brain wave patterns, and to travel into the interior of your being to beyond the linear mind. . . You must learn to pay attention to where the breath takes you, for it is a very powerful tool for activating  and using your physical form to its greatest extent.  Brteathing exercises create a strong foundation in the body for those seeking higher consciousness, and we highly recommend you adopt the discipline of of always returning your attention to conscious breathing.  Breathing is an exchange of energy between the outer world and the inner domain of your body.   No matter what you are doing . . . modulating your breathing pattern is a way of staying centered, expanding the use of your mind, and enhancing your physical prowess. – The Pleiadians 

brevity -   the soul of wit - Shakespeare

brickolage -  a composite;  construction or something constructed by using whatever comes to hand.  The amalgamation of many bits and pieces of diverse cultural systems. 

bridge people -  In Incan prophecy, it being foretold that when the European's came to the Americas a 500 year period was to begin called the 'clashing of the cultures'.  It would then take 500 years for the Europeans to understand the Indians and the Indians to understand the Europeans.  This period would end with the appearance of the 'bridge people', those who are able to take the best of both worlds and alchemize them into a new culture and a new human. E.g. of the last crop of bridge people: Though Paracelsus is considered the father of chemical medicine, he worked with an alchemical pharmacology:  materials fertile with souls, magical transformations, and vital essences.  His greatness lay in his application of a logical and experimental approach to the magical and experiential world.

Buddhist mandalas - ‘’The relationship between geometry, math and music is especially important in Buddhist mandalas, whose elaborate geometries are claimed to be the physicalization of chants which are then used for meditation.’

bureaucracy -  1)  outer trench behind which lay a powerful system of fortresses and earthworks.  – Gramsci 2)   organized irresponsibility – Mannheim  2) bureaucracies of “official” America are the latter day descendants of the colonizers. 

bureaucratic drift - When bureacracies become more concerned with self-survival than solving the problems they were created to deal with. Instead their interests lie in making the problem worse, so that they get more funding, personnel, status, so they drift into inflated versions of their orginal selves. DEA is prime example.

C

canary in the goal mind -  !

cancer -  1) ‘a disease of congestion in the experiential realm.  When emotions are not processed, they tend to stand still, to freeze, and eventually paralyze the life energies that are trying to express themselves thru the personality’ - Dr. Ingrid Naiman.  2)  freedom without responsibility - David Korten  3) the logic of empire, which rejects limits on growth.   4) 'The cancers disappear temporarily, like the enemies that seem to be vanquished by our military bombardments, only to rise up again, secondary cancers, similar even in their new more virulent forms to the new infuriated rebel uprisings in Afghanistan and Iraq.  ‘The lymphatic system defends the body from foreign invasion by disease causing agents.’ This is the language of the kind of xenophobia that is presently directing our foreign policy and leaving us virtually isolated in the world, separated from the community of nations and increasingly separated as well from the community of all beings.  In a recent talk, I was asked to address the question of why there is so much fear associated with cancer.  I suggested that the afflicted ones know that something within themselves has gone wrong.  A healthy cell has mutated and has become other than its nature.  In a political sense, what was cooperative becomes imperialistic, devours the resources, takes over the territory, pollutes until all the systems are overwhelmed and breakdown is systemic. Cancer as event and metaphor speaks to us of political and environmental devastation.  It speaks to us of rampant and unrestrained growth.  It speaks to us of the take-over of the body by something not so much alien as aberrant, particularly in its inability to be a functioning member of the body community.  It speaks to us of damage so severe that only excision or death can save the system it has invaded.  It speaks to us of the extremity of the irreversible damage to the environment that is ourselves, where we live.  But the cancer cell is, itself, an entity on the front line.  It is a wounded self that seemingly cannot be restored.  It is the first victim of environmental disaster. The ones suffering cancer see immediately that war is going to be waged in their body against another part of themselves that was damaged and can no longer function.  Further, those who have cancer and are afraid know that as a society we turn against those who cannot function in society instead of trying to restore them.  Ask the veteran’s of the Vietnam and later wars we have been waging.  Healing, however, imagines restoration.  Healing looks to how communities protect, sustain and restore each other.  Preventive medicine is compassionate and looks to restore the environment in which health rather than illness can flourish.   What is good for the cell, is good for the individual and for the land and for the world and vice-versa.  Ever since my experience with breast cancer in the seventies I have been living by the dictum that we heal life and then life heals us.'  – Deena Metzger

capitalism -   . .  is today an immense cosmos into which the individual is born, and which presents itself to him, at least as an individual, as an unalterable order of things in which he must live.  It forces the individual, in so far as he is involved in the system of market relationships, to conform to capitalist rules of action.  - Max Weber – 1904  2) capitalism is good in that it allows humans to fulfill self-fulfillment without restrictions - this an improvement over communism - but with nature despiritualized, there is no inherent morality, no restraint.  Hence capitalism is only problematic in the spiritual barrenness of global industrial cultures.   Unfettered consumptions leads to imbalances.  Eg gap between rich and the poor.   Capitalism works in terms of linear, perpetual growth;  built on the twin pillars of consumerism and war, both of which require the destruction of natural resources, thus grinding up the capital. - Alexander

carriers of the Dream -

cell - I call that single cell a multi-creatured cell because the ancient bacteria co-invented it and actually resided in it together. From their descendants in the offspring of these cells came all the multi-celled creatures from ants to elephants, from flatworms to redwoods and you and me. Everything that is not a bacterium is or is made of nucleated cells. Again we see divisions of labor and reorganization, the evolution of nervous systems to coordinate, et cetera, et cetera. – E. Sahourtis

ceremony - ‘conscious celebration’ – Sheoekah  2) What happens during the workshop? What is it? What we call ‘workshops’ are really co-creative ceremonies in which we pool our creativity, griefs, ancestral inheritances, jokes, failures, and stories to create a collective offering to feed the Holy. They usually involve listening to stories, learning about layers of meaning for the various items we've gathered and brought to the event, beginning to make things for the ceremony, and compiling our individual gifts and creations into a collective offering or shrine. – Martin Pretchel  3)  bridges the world and allows vitality to flow . . . - mb

chaos - ‘Chaos often breeds life, when order breeds habit.' -Henry Adams

chandrayana -  In India, food regulation according to lunar cycles. 

charisma -  the qualities of uncanny authority and moral ascendancy in a leader (sociology).  - Max Weber  2) A charismatic person has three attributes, says British Professor Richard Wiseman: they feel emotions themselves quite strongly; they induce them in others;  and they are impervious to the influences of other charismatic people

charismatic megavertebrates - rhinoceroses, tigers,  and condors.

chetakas - These are servitors of Shiva, akin to elementals. Once drawn into service, they require nourishment. You have to keep this work force happy if you take them on.

chattering classes – ‘One of the worst afflictions of the British chattering classes, especially those in the media, is to assume that correlation means causation.’ http://www.cambridge2000.com/memos/correlation.html

chemical race - I asked pharmacognosist, Dr. Varro Tyler, if there was a ‘blueprint’ for each herb, meaning that all the constituents were present in the same proportion to each other in a given plant. He replied that this was not the case, due to several variables. The first is inherent differences in genetic compounds within the same species, which he terms the chemical races (think of the different races of the human species, and the incredible variations in metabolism and visual characteristics). These differences result in distinct alteration of chemical composition.  ‘Standardized Extracts’ by Rob McCaleb

‘chi’ - 1)  active vacuum.  2) the power of consciousness as its expresses itself through physicality – Hathors  3)  cosmic breath 4) subtlest matter influence - M. Porkert

chime -  A quaint, very British substitute word for resonance.  Like in:  'chime in'. 

Chiron -  The wounded healer centaur:  ‘Hercules chased the marauders all the way to Cape Malea, where Chiron himself was struck by one of Hercules' poisoned arrows, after it had passed through another centaur. The wound would have been fatal, but since Chiron was an immortal, he couldn't die of the wound, and its pain led him to a search for healing. In his search for a cure for his own wound, Chiron was the discoverer of medicine, which he taught to Asclepius.’  Shamanic sickness as medical training . . . 

chirurgery - archaic word for surgery.

chrestomathy - Dict.:  a collection of selected literary passages, often by one author and esp. from a foreign language

chrism -  A consecrated mixture of oil and balsam, used for anointing in church sacraments such as baptism and confirmation. Also called holy oil.;  A sacramental anointing, especially upon confirmation into the Eastern Orthodox Church. The Gospel of Philip (which in its entirety might be read as a commentary on Gnostic ritual) relates that the Lord established five great sacraments or mysteries: ‘a baptism and a chrism, and a eucharist, and a redemption, and a bridal chamber.’ - http://www.webcom.com/~gnosis/naghamm/nhlintro.html

chronopolitics - Levi-Strauss connected shamanism to psychology, not to performance studies.  Levi-Strauss felt shamanism is a precursor to psychoanalysis.  Unfortunately Levi-Strauss treats the two hierarchically rather than dialogically.  Note the asymmetry as revealed in the term 'precursor'.  A clear example of what Johannes Gabian calls 'chronopolitics'.  This an evolutionist ideology.  How about ‘developmental’ ideology, which doesn’t then judge as better or worse, but more from view of different stages of development, as a child is no worse than an adult.  To extend this to performance would imply that the primordial, original nature of shamanism is located before, behind, and therefore somewhat subordinate to contemporary performance.  Father and child - all cyclic - one becoming the other.

chrysalis -   gold-colored pupa of a butterfly.  ‘All that is gold does not glitter’ we may say when confronted with khrus- or khruso-, the combining form of the Greek word khrusos, ‘gold.’ We find this form, for example, in the Greek word khrusallis, ‘chrysalis,’ which refers specifically to a gold-colored pupa. This Greek word gave us our chrysalis, first recorded in English in the 17th century. As Modern English chrys- or chryso- the Greek form khrus- or khruso- has also been used to make words that did not exist in Greek. Among the more interesting of these are chrysocracy, ‘rule of the wealthy,’ and chrysotherapy, ‘the treatment of disease with gold compounds.’

circular devotion – in this way we are drawn to the earth, the sea, the stars . . . – Sasha Butterfly

cities -  engines of global consumption - carl anthony.   2)  a random collection of subhuman emergencies. - Da Free John.  3)  a laboratory or clinic in which human nature and social processes may be conveniently and profitably studied - Robert Park  4)  the grid

civilization -   1)  the most advanced state of savagery.  2) Civilization is that quality possessed by people with civil governments. Civil government is Europe's kind of government; Indians did not have Europe's kind of government, therefore Indians were not civilized. Uncivilized people live in wild anarchy; therefore Indians did not have government at all. And THEREFORE Europeans could not have been doing anything wrong - and were in fact performing a noble mission - by bringing government and civilization to the poor savages. - Francis Jennings  3)  Each civilization that has been an experiment on the earth plane has had opportunity to be birthed, to go thru maturation, and to come to conclusion, to alter themselves thru the very purpose of life itself.  You are at one of those junctures where your entire civilization is at the threshold of crossing over into a new vibration.  It is not for all to cross. - ?    4) The parameters of every civilization are dreamed into being from the spiritual realms by the collective imagination of all the participants.   . . civilizations manifest with a wide variety of intents and purposes based on the agreements of their designers and builders.    You are not born into a world without contributing  to its design, and you are continuously affecting and interacting with the nonphysical structure of your current civilization thru a process of cellular telepathy.  You are also telepathically interacting with other structures of reality that are interspersed thru-out time.  Your current civilization, like all realities, is composed of structured energy that is located on a frequency band, like a radio station broadcasting its programs from a distinct address.  Frequency signatures define and outline the purpose and maintain the continuity of all versions of reality.   Many of these realities you have been trained, encouraged – and genetically disposed – to ignore. - The Plaeidians

clan culture -  'I know I am ready for such a plunge, and feel that the benefits will accrue to our whole group, who are right now actively discussing where we go from here, further into the psychedelic journey, or outward to non-medicine circles, to use insights and agreements obtained thus far to build our ‘clan culture’ infrastructure.  I think it's a perfect time for both ways to be nurtured, facilitated, and to flourish.  Inspiration, vision, and deep personal work feed back into the ongoing growth of a spiritual community;  the frontier experience gives the con census settlement reports from outer reality, and insight into our collective condition.  - Mike Maki, May, 1999

clocks - devices used to arbitrarily measure the immeasurable.

co-exit -  to leave together

coal - geologically processed wood, a broad view (which) would include the petrochemical industry as a sub-set of modern herbalism. -  David Hoffman

coextensive/coextend - to extend within the same space and time as another.

cognitive implosion - what can happen as you move into two apparently irreconcilable knowledge systems simultaneously. There reconciliation is initiatory. - mb   

colloid -  a.  a substance that consists of particles dispersed throughout another substance which are too small for resolution with an ordinary light microscope but are incapable of passing through a semi permeable membrane b : a mixture consisting of a colloid together with the medium in which it is dispersed <smoke is a colloid> - Mirriam-Webster. 

colonialism -  a rude interruption (for those colonized). 

Colony collapse disorder - "STATE COLLEGE, Pa.  —  A mysterious illness is killing tens of thousands of honeybee colonies across the country, threatening honey production, the livelihood of beekeepers and possibly crops that need bees for pollination.  Researchers are scrambling to find the cause of the ailment, called colony collapse disorder, a quickly growing group of researchers and industry officials trying to solve the mystery.  Among the clues being assembled by researchers: — Although the bodies of dead bees often are littered around a hive, sometimes carried out of the hive by worker bees, no bee remains are typically found around colonies struck by the mystery ailment. Scientists assume these bees have flown away from the hive before dying.— From the outside, a stricken colony may appear normal, with bees leaving and entering. But when beekeepers look inside the hive box, they find few mature bees taking care of the younger, developing bees.— Normally, a weakened bee colony would be immediately overrun by bees from other colonies or by pests going after the hive's honey. That's not the case with the stricken colonies, which might not be touched for at least two weeks, said Diana Cox-Foster, a Penn State entomology professor investigating the problem. ‘That is a real abnormality,’ Hackenberg said. Cox-Foster said an analysis of dissected bees turned up an alarmingly high number of foreign fungi, bacteria and other organisms and weakened immune systems. Researchers are also looking into the effect pesticides might be having on bees." - http://www.foxnews.com/printer_friendly_story/0,3566,251365,00.html

comestibles - edible things.  As in:  'More specifically, he (Ross 1978) argues that, in the Amazon, large terrestrial animals - those most susceptible to over predation and difficult to harvest - will be tabooed by the less mobile people who live in large settlements and depend upon fishing and the hunting of smaller animals for the satisfaction of protein needs;  conversely, a non-riverine community of mobile people will adopt an unrestricted hunting strategy, show great versatility in its conceptualization of the comestability of animals, and typically engage in activities of sorcery, warfare, and inter village feasts as so many means to maintain access to extensive forest hunting grounds.' 

communal peoples - another term for primitive peoples, for indigenous peoples, long residence peoples. Note what happens when you scientize the concept: communism. 

community -  1)   ‘Developing communities can be about weaving together people that really care about deep core values and are willing to change their lives to bring that into manifestation for themselves.’ - Eaglesong.  2)  Another important element of the daimist spirituality created by Padrinho Sebastião is the community. The community is the reference point for the spiritual work of all members. All wonderful acquisitions we get from our spiritual leanings must go back to the community.’  3) Rampant materialism, along with its ugly stepsisters isolation and compulsion, has been the undoing of community in this country. Community cannot compete with shopping malls or 200 satellite television channels, with Gameboys or the 70-hour workweek. Community requires people gathering with others and talking, singing, questioning and arguing, a rialto where ideas and creativity are the currency - tai moses

community currency -  A local currency which represents hours of work.  The value of the hours are the same for everyone, worth the same for everyone.  Community currency keeps its value stable.  Eg - ithaca hours, burlington bread, river hours (Hood River )

community of spirit -

compassion - ‘is not being afraid of the pain of the world.  If we are not afraid to see the suffering, then we can be moved to go where we need to go, be what we need to be, say what needs to be said.’ - joanna macy  2) ‘The whole idea of compassion is based on a keen awareness of the interdependence of all living beings, which are all part of one another and all involved in one another. – Thomas Merton  3) up to the time of The American Revolution . . . The vast majority of goods were consumed close to the places of their production (usually within 20 miles). The producer was no more than a degree of separation from both his customers and his suppliers. He sold to or purchased from most of them directly and knew them by name. What we know about humans is that compassion comes naturally to most people in a proximate setting like that, and that it rapidly diminishes as the organization becomes institutionalized and the management is separated from its customers, suppliers, and employees. - Ross Bishop  4) 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’. - R. Walsh

complexity theory -   . . .   in which there is basically no duality between man and nature. . . We are part of nature ourselves.  We're in the middle of it. . . . So once you drop the duality . . . then the questions change.  You can't then talk about optimization, because it is meaningless.  It would be like parents trying to optimize their behavior in terms of 'us versus the kids,' which is a strange point of view if you see yourself as a family. . . . So the question is how to maneuver in a world like that.  And the answer is that you want to keep as many options open as possible.  You go for viability, something that's workable, rather than what's 'optimal'. . . because optimization isn't well defined anymore.  What you're trying to do is maximize robustness, or survivability, in the face of an ill-defined future.  And that, in turn, puts a premium on becoming aware of nonlinear relationships and causal pathways as best we can.  You observe the world very, very carefully, and you don't expect circumstances to last.’  - Brian Arthur   . . . For sustainable development it is indispensable because the normal approach (reductionist science and factional politics) fails so miserably with such an issue - Neil Harrison

compost bliss -

conceptual framework - social constructed filter or lenses thru which one perceives oneself and others.

conformity – ‘There is tremendous opportunity to make positive changes in our  world, for all forms of life, but we must see and hear and acknowledge  with the eyes and ears as well as the heart and mind of spirit the songs of pain that individuals and cultures have suffered (and continue to suffer) at the hands of those turning their heads to assure their own comfort through greed and apathy. Millions are waking up, but there are still billions of walking dead, those who continue to anesthetize themselves with addictions, including the greatest addiction of all – conformity.’  Leon shenandoah

conscious dance culture - 'thrives on the purity of spirit and sweat!' – DJ Dragonfly

conscious underground – ‘Human is becoming a household name for many involved in the US music scene. A multi-instrumentalist and talented songwriter, Human has performed with many notables in the conscious underground and has toured throughout most of the US and Hawaii promoting social justice and sharing information in the folk tradition.’ - Human promo lit.

consciousness -  1. the relationship of self to source (William Mitchell, N.D.).  2.  a tool thru which power symbols are recognized and managed.  - Helmut Waustischer.  3.  according to materialist (conventional) science:  an illusion born of chemical reactions.  Hence the sterility of the modern mythos.  4)  the working state of the soul – Nature (via M. Smallwright).  5) ‘Consciousness, therefore, is not merely thought, much less intellect or reason. It is the feeling of being alive and being related to all life. Consciousness as pure feeling exists already in the plant and is hidden in the rock, even within the atom itself.  – Lad and Frawley 6)  the power of evolution  7)  pure feeling  8) ‘. . . . Some, like quantum physicist David Bohm, suggest that individual consciousness may be more accurately described as our window on collective consciousness, or our particular manifestation of it. – Tom Atlee

constitutive power - ‘The boundaries of the discussion, in that we have only suggested the potential importance of a larger notion of order, have been limited to how a different cultural concept of order is a constitutive power in human life and affects concepts of knowledge and meaning. While a consideration of the role of order (and therefore meaning) as a constitutive power in culture and mental life is an obvious necessity, it is less common to look broadly at the implications of the concept of order for the organism at other levels, that is, for the person/group as a whole, including the physiological dimension.’  M. Lyon 1990;  ‘Order and Healing . .’, pg. 255. 

consubstantial -  Of the same kind or nature;  having the same substance or essence.  ‘Within the vast continuum of postulated consubstantiality (concerning the spiritual essence of nature’s beings) there are internal borders marked by differences in modes of communication.’ - Descola, P.;   ‘In the Society of Nature’ pg. 98.   

consumption - 100 years ago the name consumption was the name of a dreaded disease.  Now it describes the economy.

contemplation - (positive) hones our signal, so that our allies can find us – C. Casey. (negative) Compassion for earthly beings became abstracted into contemplation of an off-planet God during the reformation - Matthew Fox

continuum of consciousness -

control -  Control (in its organizational definition) is more appreciated when one has experienced a great disruption of it, more responsive when it has been built from 'the ground up', more alive when kept in open circuitry with its polar dimension of chaos.  Chaos is the death of control and control is birthed from chaos.  It is an organic cycle of dissolution and reconstitution. – mb  2)  Many of you do not understand that it is the exact pressure that would control (in its suppressive definition) you that transforms you.  The exact thing that would destroy you, if you use your will within it, would strengthen you.  The kinder you are to your body and the more you use your mind to energize your body, to clean your body, to get clear about what you want and the vibration that you will participate in, then you get energy that would (will?) flatten you and you will turn it around and it will strengthen you because you will be able to transmute it.  – Plaeidians

Conversation - is not just about conveying information or sharing emotions, not just a way of putting ideas into peoples' heads.  Conversation is a meeting of minds with different memories and habits. When minds meet, they don't just exchange facts: they transform them, reshape them, draw different implications from them, engage in new trains of thought. Conversation doesn't just reshuffle the cards: it creates new cards.’ -- philosopher, historian and author Theodore Zeldin

conversion magic - acculturation via hypnotic or magnetic effects.  Much like the effects consumerism has on many non-industrial peoples.

convulsionaries - 'Another related result (of 18th cent. interest in shamanism) was the European reflection about enthusiasm, madness, spirit possession, convulsionaries, and the arts of performance . . .'

Copenhagen interpretation -  formulated in Copenhagen by Dr. Niels Bohr and his co-workers c. 1926-28. The Copenhagen Interpretation is sometimes called ‘model agnosticism’ and holds that any grid we use to organize our experience of the world is a model of the world and should not be confused with the world itself. Alfred Korzybski, the semanticist, tried to popularize this outside physics with the slogan, ‘The map is not the territory.’ Alan Watts, a talented exegete of Oriental philosophy, restated it more vividly as ‘The menu is not the meal.’ - Robert Anton Wilson

Cordoba Caliphate - considered the most educated and liberal place in Europe during the 10th century, 

coresence - relating to the ‘core essence’ of something. 

corybant - any of the spirits or secondary divinities attending the earth Goddess Cybele with wild music and dancing.  To be corybantic is to be frenzied, agitated, unrestrained.

Cosmic consciousness - We need to think about the possibility that many other human cultures were right in perceiving a cosmic consciousness that creates itself as it goes and that is intelligent at every step of the way. . . that consciousness is the source of evolution, rather than a late product of an evolution.  E. Sahourtis

Cosmic cruiser - the universal saddhu, California style . .  – Shimshai

Cosmic race - In Mexico in 1928 at the insistence of the philosopher José Vasconcelos, then Minister de Education, it was named Día de la Raza (Day of the Race), denomination of the Iberian-American Union in 1913 to declare a new identity formed by the encounter of the Spaniards with the native peoples of the Americas. In 1902, the Mexican poet Amado Nervo had written a poem in honor of Benito Juárez (a Zapoteca Indian), which he read in the House of Representatives, titled Raza de Bronce (Race of Bronze) praising the indigenous race, title which later in 1919 the Bolivian author Alcides Arquedas would give his book. Bronze (noble metal amalgamated of various metals) came to be metaphor for mestizaje (the mixing of the races.) According to the thinking of Vasconcelos, a Cosmic Race, the race of the future, is the noble race that is formed in the Americas since October 12, 1492, the race of mestizaje, an amalgam of the indigenous races of the Americas, the Europeans, the Africans, the Asians, the world - in a word, the human race made of a mixture of all the races which Vasconcelos called the Cosmic Race. - Rafael Gonzales

Cosmogenesis - "None of the scientists of the seventeenth, eighteenth, or nineteenth centuries knew the larger implications of what they were doing or the discoveries they were making.  Yet each of the major figures was contributing something essential to a pattern of interpretation that would only become clear in the mid-twentieth century. Only now can we see with clarity that we live not so much in a cosmos as in a cosmogenesis, a cosmogenesisbest presented in narrative; scientific in its data, mythic in its form." – B. Swimme and T. Berry

cosmogony -  Dogon mythology describes the creation of the universe in terms of contrasting motions. In his initial act of creation, Amma threw out the seed of the world, which radiated out in four directions forming the surface of the earth. Myth also illustrates the basic structure of the cosmos as a tripartite division of space: a heavenly realm and a lower realm linked by an axis mundi through the human sphere. In myth, creative acts, such as Amma mating with the earth, or the decent of the ‘ark’ of the culture-bringing Nummo, take place along this vertical axis which links the two supernatural realms of heaven and the womb of the earth. Therefore, mythic narration describes two creative processes: movement up and down a vertical axis, and the radiation in four directions from a center. These processes related to the two ways of looking at cosmogony (origin of the universe): a vertical, three-part division of space and a horizontal, four-part division of space. - Barbara DeMott

cosmological project -   ‘Globalization is not a natural, evolutionary or inevitable phenomenon, as is often argued. Globalization is a political process which has been forced on the weak by the powerful. Globalization is not merely an economic project of economic integration. It is a cosmological project through which the world order and our place in it are being rewritten. What is sacred and what is dispensable is being rewritten. What has value and what is valueless is being rewritten. What should be protected and what can be sacrificed is being rewritten.  Shiva, V. -  Diversity and Democracy

cosmonomic - 'Their ethno-etiology thus relates human illness to environmental abuse;  disease is thus cosmonomic mismanagement.'

cosmopolitan - ‘In the jungles and tundra, shamanism is dying.  An intensely local kind of knowledge is being abandoned in favor of various kinds of knowledge which are cosmopolitan and distant-led.  Vitebsky, Piers - Counterworks

cosmopolite - a sophisticated person who has traveled in many countries. Note the importance of being polite.

cosmosis - 

cotemporous -  the witch hunting hysteria ‘aimed at annihilating women in Europe as knowers and experts was cotemporous with two centuries of scientific revolution.  V. Shiva - StayingAlive, pg. 18.  

coterminus - having the same bounds or limits.  Culture is not coterminus with language (?).  Durkheim:  in primitive societies religious and social life were coterminous.

cotton - densified smoke

compound individuality - Hierarchically ordered structures and emergents (properties or capacities that emerge de novo at certain levels of hierarchy) cannot be interpreted simply in terms of, nor considered as parts of, lower order phenomena. For example, when atoms of hydrogen and oxygen combine, the result is a molecule of water with novel emergent properties, such as wetness. These emergent properties are totally unpredictable from the properties of its constituent atoms and cannot be described in terms of atoms--and, of course, the water molecule is not contained within its atoms. So too life, or the biosphere, is not simply contained in, reducible to, or explicable simply in terms of, the physiosphere: the realm of pure matter. Life has emergent properties not found in the properties of its chemical constituents. Life, in other words, has properties and capacities that seem to defy description in terms of the movements of the mere molecules. Likewise, the noosphere (the realm of sentient life) emerges from and is not simply in the biosphere. That is, the noosphere is not a component of the larger whole called biosphere but is an emergent that in some sense transcends it. Ontologically, the noosphere thus cannot be reduced to, or considered merely as, a strand of the biosphere. And humans are compound individuals comprised of all three ‘spheres’ or levels; we cannot be regarded simply as strands of the biosphere which comprises only the physical and biological levels.  This is a difficult but important argument which can only be sketched briefly here. It appears to resolve a number of puzzles that have plagued ecological thinking such as how one can accord greater value to some forms of life, including humans, than others while simultaneously honoring all life. Wilber argues at length that this perspective is not antiecological, as it might appear at first glance. Rather, he insists that it naturally results in an enhanced concern for life and the environment which are now recognized as parts of one's own compound individuality. - R.Walsh 

Council of All Beings  - One of the forms of interaction that have evolved within deep ecology to challenge human-centeredness, and to try to reach out to this identification and solidarity with all life that Naess speaks of, is the Council of All Beings. The people gathering in the Council try to be a voice for other life forms, such as plants and animals, and for the wind, rivers, mountains, etc. Sometimes participants make a mask to speak through to represent the non-human entity they represent. Each being speaks before the other members of the Council, of how humankind has negatively impacted upon them. Drums, flutes or other musical instruments can be used to call the Council together, or is used after each Council member speaks. A Council of all Beings is actually a very moving experience for most participants, to enable them to step outside of our taken-for-granted human-centered roles.  David Orton

Council ways –  . .  in contrast to pyramidal societies. 

creativity - as:  our capacity not to resist the dimensional downloading process.  The more open one is to this impulse, the more s/he can conduct life/information force, the more this dualistic reality is touched by 'working the poles' to stimulate the alchemy by which this reality template crystallizes its growth.   Mb -  !   2) ‘Creativity is God's gift to you.  What you do with it is your gift to God.’ - Bob Moawad

Creation - attention + intention = manifestation.  When this is coupled with the understanding of the underlying Oneness of All, its the start of the way out of a life identified with the self projected into illusion.  2)  we were created so that in our relative freedom, we might return the love that created us and sustains us to eternity.   Creation is therefore the vehicle thru which, by love, the means of conjoining, the many is made as one.  Human marriage, and even sexual union, are correspondences of this conjunction or union with the Divine  - W. Van Dusen 2) The spiritual life of a human being means, in simple terms, life in the spiritual recognition of, and obedience to, Creation, its laws and commandments. This alone is the guideline that the Pleiadians adhere to regarding a philosophy of life and a lifestyle tuned in to Creation. This must be the final goal for humans on Earth as well. Creation means the same as love, life, spirit, truth, wisdom, logic, and intelligence, built upon the Creative laws and commandments, which are valid and absolutely unchangeable for all time and eternity. Only a life form which recognizes, lives, and obeys the true knowledge of Creation, the spirit which results from it, and related laws and commandments of Creation, can live the true way and in accordance with Creation itself. This means that the life form is living with true knowledge of the truth and with the truth of Creation and spirit, in fulfillment of the Creative, natural laws and commandments which are valid universally, without any weird and false faith in illogical and anti-intelligent forms of belief. - Pleiadians 3) a glorious, glowing lotus

Creation-body - 1) our essential bio-lineage, 2) our focal point in an organic universe of nested patterns of resonance, 3) our embodied evolutionary heritage; planetary genetics

creation’s embrace - I first felt Creation's embrace as a boy of fifteen, walking up into a mountain valley behind the farm. For a few minutes I was completely filled with the love of this sacred land, a quality of love I had never experienced before. A seed was planted in me that nurtured my spirit through the next two decades until it was time to look deeply into who I was, and begin the healing. - Steven Thompson, Waitaha

Creativity - Creativity is all about realizing what is already there, cutting through the limitations of mind and matter. It is indeed a Mystical Science that gives us the ability to expand beyond the limits of our conscious self and gaze into the Unknown. To create is our natural state of Being. To fully live in The Flow that we encounter when we trust our instincts and the fact that we are an extension of Creation itself. Aligned with this Divine Frequency there are no limits whatsoever to our Cosmic Experience. - Yogini

crepuscular - of, pertaining to, or resembling twilight;  dim;  indistinct.  2.  Zoology:  appearing or active at night, as in certain bats or insects.  'The (ayahuasca) vision does not therefore present the characteristics of a crepuscular state of consciousness.'         

criminal - A person with predatory instincts who has not sufficient capital to form a corporation  -- Clarence Darrow

Crisis -  1) crises afford life unusual evolutionary opportunities to create novel solutions - E.  Sahourtis.  2) Crisis means 'opportunity' in Chinese.

crisis narratives -  that which keeps 3rd world development experts employed.  The more crisis narratives, the more resources are allocated to experts to solve them.  They have an investment in these crises (sort of).

criteria of validity -  I believe that defending positions is very limiting, and tends to entrench one in one's errors.  Rather, one should attempt to validate or invalidate all claims, including one's own.  If one's position is right, then one will be able to invalidate all claims against it, which will resemble ‘defending’ the position.  Severely testing all claims is a form of conceptual evolution, leaving only the fittest, most defendable positions.  But defending one's own position because it's one's own is an ego-defense game. Of course, there is the huge question of the criteria of validity. - ?

cross- possessioning -  ‘Dealing with the many fears that come of confronting the psychic unknown, of undoing held patterns of self-identity and supposed truths necessary for ego dissolution and restructuring, and of dealing with realms long taboo in mainstream Western culture, are often part of the entry into the knowledges which construct much of the deep herbalist perspective.  Foremost among these is a central element of the proposed 'language of organismic growth (LOG)':  you know something by becoming what it is that is you want to know.  Restated:  you become that which is the healer (a plant, an animal, an element, an ecosystem) and are healed, empowered, renewed, etc. by that experienced identification.  As I am dealing with herbalism, we shall restrict the discussion to plants and cross-possessioning between plants and humans.’ - mb  2) 'Another way of stating how all creation evolves thru the human vehicle. When humans realize the sacred in that which they observe>commune (tree, mountain, star, etc) then that which realizes those qualities in itself in a novel and potentially transformative way; this thru resonance (cross-possessioning) with the emerging human self-reflective awareness - mb

crystal gong    One of my Nez Perce ancestors says that as the ages change, at the center of the universe a great crystal is stuck like a gong, and that vibration is a new sound that will ring down to fill every one of us and change us forever. I think it has just been struck: I see movement at many different underground levels, just beginning to bubble to the surface. I believe in the critical mass theory of powerful movement and change-that a relatively small percentage of the mass can shift the totality. It's like a wave rolling, like an enormous, powerful force, very gentle and simple, and yet as it comes rolling in it really begins to push and tumble things around, like a domino effect. My teachers say that if we stand in the light, the light is shed on ten thousand. One thing I'm trying to do, again and again, is to make sure that I'm standing in the light, and to urge my students in this direction as well! - brooke medicine eagle - http://www.cyberport.net/ads/brooke/6_4.html

cultural media - Cultural performance are composed out of what he (Milton Singer) calls 'cultural media' - modes of communication - combined in many ways to express the content of a particular culture. 

culture  - 1)  'momentary coherency's of point events in time and space, intentional worlds that flare intensely and slowly fade' - G. Maskeneric.  2)   ‘an aesthetic space utilized by pronouns to choreograph themselves thru a score of strategic social maneuvers.’!! - V. Turner   3) those patterns of learned behavior which certain 'parts' of the social organism (individual persons or groups of persons) characteristically display.’ - Wallace, 1956.  4) learned, nonrandom, systematic behavior and knowledge that can be transmitted from generation to generation. http://www.anth.ucsb.edu/glossary/index2.html.  5) ‘Culture or civilization is that complex whole which includes knowledge, belief, art, morals, law, custom and any other capabilities and habits acquired by man as a member of society - E. Tylor  8) Mathew Arnold said that ‘to be cultured is to be acquainted with the highest possibilities of the human spirit throughout time.’

culture of poverty - a self-perpetuating complex of escapism, impulse gratification, despair, and resignation; an adaptation and reaction of the poor to the marginal position in a class-stratified, highly individuated, capitalistic society. - http://www.anth.ucsb.edu/glossary/index2.html

cusp of an era - time in-between, the time of transition

cycles of meaning  -   ‘In non-industrial societies the underlying mythology, ritual preparation, and attention to due process enables initiates to engage safely with archetypal material. This occurs under the guidance of shamans or medicine people who have the requisite knowledge of entire cycles of meaning and of the symbolic transformations involved.’  Prattis

cymatics - In 1967, Swiss scientist Hans Jenny published the first of his painstaking studies of the vibrational affects on physical mediums such as water, plaster, oil and sand- Cymatics. By transmitting sound in the shape of a monitored frequency through these elements he was able to capture on film the exact geometric pattern that sound makes as its vibrations move through these substances. Changing the vibration altered the shape of the geometry captured in the receiving substance- a low frequency produced a simple circle encompassed by a ring, whereas a higher frequency increased the number of concentric rings around a central circle. As the frequencies rose so too did the complexity of shapes, to the point where tetrahedrons, mandalas and Pythagorean forms could be discernible. Jenny not only managed to solidify sound, he also enabled humanity to observe frozen music. (from ‘Sounds and Crop Circles’ - Freddy Silva) 

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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. Ricahrd 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

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    

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."

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 . . .

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 comp