Great Spirit Guide Us

Grandfather, Great Spirit, you have been always,
And before you nothing has been.
There is no one to pray to but you.
The star nations all over the heavens are yours,
And yours are the grasses of the earth.
Grandfather, Great Spirit, fill us with the light.
Teach us to walk the soft earth as relatives to all that live.
Help us, for without you we are nothing.

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Bagadjimbiri

by Dr Anthony E. Smart

 
The two brother gods to whom the Karadjeri of northwestern Australia attribute the creation of the world.
Prior to the rising of the two brothers as dingos from the ground, there was nothing. The Bagadjimbiri made waterholes; from a toadstool and a fungus they formed genital organs for the first sexless people, and they instituted the ritual of circumcision.

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Iceman : Shaman?

Alby Stone

 
The discovery of a corpse on a glacier in the Oetztal Alps, on the Austrian border with Italy, became big news all over the world in 1991. This was no ordinary cadaver: it was nothing more nor less than the remarkably well-preserved body of a man who had lived in the late Neolithic period, some five thousand-odd years ago.

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Foreword

Foreword

“It is easy to show that in the interaction between body and soul there lies no greater riddle than in any other example of causation, and that only the false conceit that we understand something of the one case, excites our astonishment that we understand nothing of the other.” – Rudolf Hermann Lotze Continue reading “Foreword”