Comments on: Naskapi Dreams http://www.timboucher.com/journal/2005/04/13/naskapi-dreams/ public domain playground. friendly entities welcome. Sun, 22 Nov 2009 19:03:59 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.7 hourly 1 By: Dream Worlds (The Anthropik Network) http://www.timboucher.com/journal/2005/04/13/naskapi-dreams/comment-page-1/#comment-23748 Dream Worlds (The Anthropik Network) Wed, 18 Oct 2006 22:45:10 +0000 http://www.timboucher.com/journal/2005/04/13/naskapi-dreams/#comment-23748 [...] In our culture, dreams are routinely denigrated, but this is not universally so. The Naskapi, one of the Innu people, never officially surrendered to Canada, and so has been denied the benefits of "First Nation" status under Canadian law. They have been living there as hunter-gatherers for at least 2,000 years, predating the later Inuit migration. The Innu believe that a "great man" named Mistap’eo lives inside everyone, and gives us our dreams. They believe that he wants us to make art based on our dreams, "attend to those dreams, to test them, try them out, and draw their conclusions from them." Thus, dreams form the very basis of Naskapi cosmology and spirituality. "They also sometimes discuss their dreams with one another and if a man or woman has a very impressive dream they spontaneously turn it into a song. If one man has a very good dream song then the others begin to sing it too, but even those songs fade out after a while, and then there is a new song from another individual who has transformed his dream into a song." (Von Franz, 1980) For the Naskapi, like the Aboriginal peoples of Australia, dreams are very real.9 [...] [...] In our culture, dreams are routinely denigrated, but this is not universally so. The Naskapi, one of the Innu people, never officially surrendered to Canada, and so has been denied the benefits of “First Nation” status under Canadian law. They have been living there as hunter-gatherers for at least 2,000 years, predating the later Inuit migration. The Innu believe that a “great man” named Mistap’eo lives inside everyone, and gives us our dreams. They believe that he wants us to make art based on our dreams, “attend to those dreams, to test them, try them out, and draw their conclusions from them.” Thus, dreams form the very basis of Naskapi cosmology and spirituality. “They also sometimes discuss their dreams with one another and if a man or woman has a very impressive dream they spontaneously turn it into a song. If one man has a very good dream song then the others begin to sing it too, but even those songs fade out after a while, and then there is a new song from another individual who has transformed his dream into a song.” (Von Franz, 1980) For the Naskapi, like the Aboriginal peoples of Australia, dreams are very real.9 [...]

]]> By: Arizona http://www.timboucher.com/journal/2005/04/13/naskapi-dreams/comment-page-1/#comment-143 Arizona Fri, 15 Apr 2005 22:45:06 +0000 http://www.timboucher.com/journal/2005/04/13/naskapi-dreams/#comment-143 I had a weird dream yesterday that seems related to this site and the theme of connections between pop culture and religion. So I figured I'd share it, Naskapi-style. <i>A Dream About Communication I've been seeing a specialist doctor and his assistant reads out to me a letter on my diagnosis. I stop him short saying he's not making any sense with his medical mumbo-jumbo. A surrounding audience, much like there is in a TV sitcom or game show, laughs at this poking fun at the letter. As a consequence I win a prize, worth $100, to attend a series of movies in a large theatre. I am asked to pay the $100 up front but it will be refunded. People file into the auditorium, passing large drink trays in the foyer. The glasses are heterogenous, not all identical, and they remind me of the collections in charity op shops. I grab a spherical or globe-shaped glass, a kind of Holy Grail. As in an Opera House, there are boxes along the sides and a large flashlight focuses on higher boxes where puppets are performing. Lower boxes are lit up in turn until the bottom box is reached and an especially strong light is flashed onto a naked guitarist - yes, he's "flashing", lol. He has tucked his penis between his legs, however, in some modesty. The light is then subdued and we (the audience) can just make out that he ties a piece of fur, like a large fluffy fig leaf, onto his pubic hair - there is a hook or pin in place for this purpose. He then starts to play and sing with this codpiece as his costume.</i> Context: I have seen two types of medical specialists in recent years: a dental surgeon (extracting a large cyst and wisdom tooth) and a dermitologist (skin diseases on my feet that have made walking difficult). I loved going under the anaesthetic for the surgery - it was so peaceful - and the surgeon was a loveable teddy bear type of guy, very reassuring. My mouth lost feeling in one quarter and this has still not returned completely, even after 18 months. I see this as linked to the idea of communication. The dermitologist did give me some old-fashioned remedies that have been useful but it's true that his diagnostic letter to my GP was gobbledy-gook, full of medical jargon and failing to see what was really amiss. He was treating me as a body and getting it all wrong. A bit of recognition of soul would have yielded some results. Regarding the prize, I recently did some voluntary work for a community organization and, as one of their volunteers, I was offered theatre tickets to a Shakespeare performance. I did take up the offer and found the experience quite mind-blowing. It would have cost close to $100 to buy the tickets myself. However, clearly 100 is numerologically significant as a higher unity. My main association to the last imagery is to the chakra system which is usually portrayed as an ascending consciousness of wholeness. However, I have always visualized it as wheels on wheels. If something changes on, say, level 4 then all other levels are affected. The dream seems to depict the bottom level as the most authentic and most illuminated. And that seems to tie up with the stuff you just posted relating to virtual and real worlds. I had a weird dream yesterday that seems related to this site and the theme of connections between pop culture and religion. So I figured I’d share it, Naskapi-style.

A Dream About Communication

I’ve been seeing a specialist doctor and his assistant reads out to me a letter on my diagnosis. I stop him short saying he’s not making any sense with his medical mumbo-jumbo. A surrounding audience, much like there is in a TV sitcom or game show, laughs at this poking fun at the letter.

As a consequence I win a prize, worth $100, to attend a series of movies in a large theatre. I am asked to pay the $100 up front but it will be refunded.

People file into the auditorium, passing large drink trays in the foyer. The glasses are heterogenous, not all identical, and they remind me of the collections in charity op shops. I grab a spherical or globe-shaped glass, a kind of Holy Grail.

As in an Opera House, there are boxes along the sides and a large flashlight focuses on higher boxes where puppets are performing. Lower boxes are lit up in turn until the bottom box is reached and an especially strong light is flashed onto a naked guitarist - yes, he’s “flashing”, lol. He has tucked his penis between his legs, however, in some modesty. The light is then subdued and we (the audience) can just make out that he ties a piece of fur, like a large fluffy fig leaf, onto his pubic hair - there is a hook or pin in place for this purpose. He then starts to play and sing with this codpiece as his costume.

Context: I have seen two types of medical specialists in recent years: a dental surgeon (extracting a large cyst and wisdom tooth) and a dermitologist (skin diseases on my feet that have made walking difficult). I loved going under the anaesthetic for the surgery - it was so peaceful - and the surgeon was a loveable teddy bear type of guy, very reassuring. My mouth lost feeling in one quarter and this has still not returned completely, even after 18 months. I see this as linked to the idea of communication.

The dermitologist did give me some old-fashioned remedies that have been useful but it’s true that his diagnostic letter to my GP was gobbledy-gook, full of medical jargon and failing to see what was really amiss. He was treating me as a body and getting it all wrong. A bit of recognition of soul would have yielded some results.

Regarding the prize, I recently did some voluntary work for a community organization and, as one of their volunteers, I was offered theatre tickets to a Shakespeare performance. I did take up the offer and found the experience quite mind-blowing. It would have cost close to $100 to buy the tickets myself. However, clearly 100 is numerologically significant as a higher unity.

My main association to the last imagery is to the chakra system which is usually portrayed as an ascending consciousness of wholeness. However, I have always visualized it as wheels on wheels. If something changes on, say, level 4 then all other levels are affected. The dream seems to depict the bottom level as the most authentic and most illuminated.

And that seems to tie up with the stuff you just posted relating to virtual and real worlds.

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