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at the edge of shamanism ...

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2yUN6CsuVPw https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yNssQyjYtyU There is lambswool under my naked feet. The wool is soft and warm, - gives off some kind of heat. A salamander scurries into flame to be destroyed. Imaginary creatures are trapped in birth on celluloid. The fleas cling to the golden fleece, Hoping they'll find peace. Each thought and gesture are caught in celluloid. There's no hiding in my memory. There's no room to avoid. The crawlers cover the floor in the red ochre corridor. For my second sight of people, they've more lifeblood than before. They're moving in time to a heavy wooden door, Where the needle's eye is winking, closing in on the poor. The carpet crawlers heed their callers: "We've got to get in to get out We've got to get in to get out We've got to get in to get out." There's only one direction in the faces that I see; It's upward to the ceiling, where the...

far away people

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https://artblart.com/2018/07/27/photographs-edward-s-curtis-the-north-american-indian-list-of-large-plates-supplementing-volume-v/

stuff worth repeating

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https://symbolreader.net/2018/05/13/on-play/ https://symbolreader.net/2018/04/29/native-americans-stories-in-stone/

very entertaining review of richard noll's book about jung

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https://www.lrb.co.uk/v17/n06/john-kerr/madnesses https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Kerr_(author)

mongolian shaman gathering summer solstice of 2017

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there are seven youtube clips published by richard noll https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P67cK2VXvj8&index=7&list=PLCEnSj1cMJ5QF7GlLDRtTl3mMmfD19xr8 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard_Noll

mongolia today

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https://www.theguardian.com/world/gallery/2018/jun/29/mongolias-shamanic-rituals-in-pictures

The Paracas Textile ... from a culture that took it's shamanism to extremes

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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paracas_textile https://www.khanacademy.org/humanities/art-americas/south-america-early/paracas-nasca/a/the-paracas-textile