Too often, cultures collide because they don’t understand each other’s meaning. Interestingly, many cultural, religious, or spiritual norms of a past, present, or future society or civilization have deep meaning and are completely relevant. I’d like to send your mind on a speed tour and thought process of such topics, even if you’re not one to care much about the subject.
You see, not long ago, I was talking to a gentleman in South Africa who specialized in mythology, fairy tales, dream work, personal transformation facilitation, Native American teachings, and cultural wisdom. Now you can imagine that most people would look at this guy and say; “Oh great, another case of insanity,” and if you had, you would have done what most would.
But, let’s talk about all this for a moment, okay? You see, fairy tales are interesting, and yes, Humpty Dumpty was pushed, and in fact I guess there are also several themes underscored in Shakespeare’s plays, as they appealed to both sides, allowing us to laugh at ourselves in fiction without neither. side forced to admit the realities. They make you think, have you ever considered that?
Can we use analogy-like tales, allegories, stories, mythology, and cultural quotes to teach our children? If she answered yes, she is correct and if you think about it, we do this every day in our culture, all cultures do it. It doesn’t matter if you’re quoting Confusions, Gandhi, Thomas Jefferson, Plato, Mohammed, or the notables of any culture’s past; Do you see that point?
Native Indians in the US are very interesting to study, have you studied the Aborigines of Australia, the South Pacific Islanders, the American Indians, the Indians of the Americas as well? if not you should go online and learn as much as you can, there is a lot of wisdom to be discovered, there really is. What about the Eskimos and other North American Indians, and also the tribes of Africa? Yes, you will find more of the same, trust me, research some of this online yourself.
my acquaintance [loosely used] I was also a student of Jungian psychology, well, regarding Jung’s psychological study of the subconscious mind, could there be undiscovered biological, scientific, or quantum mechanical explanations for any of that? For example, do you have any insight into Rupert Sheldrake’s work with African tribes knowing when hunting parties had made a kill, even when it was 25-30 miles away, and would set up the barbecue pit in advance preparation? knowing this? – That’s pretty amazing, isn’t it?
This acquaintance was also interested in “BioDanza”, which was a new term for me, but there is some good information about it on WikiPedia online. Consider if large groups of people dancing in a circle holding hands, well what else is going on during such a tribal encounter with that group? Perhaps more than scientists believe. How come you ask?
Well, maybe all this sociological and anthropological study going back 1,000 generations has something, maybe they could teach something about modern science or too? Don’t think about it, maybe you like to question superstition, but it’s still worthy of study, and we need to explain how and why it works. Regarding the “Biodanza dance experience”, I would say that if that group is jumping up and down dancing, it could be like running, which tends to put an individual into an extreme rush of endorphins.
What if groups of people are doing this, while dancing they do it too? Follow me while I explain this, leaving the body at biorhythms that please human cells, bacteria, brain and immune system, in the 1-5 Hz areas, and why does the biodanza experience work? And if that’s all, then why add superstition to it? Also, if many people are doing it at the same time, their minds are working on almost the same frequencies and biorhythms, so should the results of such a group dance be expected?
In fact, in that case, biodanza has great implications for the success of the tribal group, group thinking and working together in a strong family group. Now, you might ask; why the mythology behind it is perfectly normal, why make it a big reveal and add all the other stuff, it just is. Sure, but realize even without understanding why it works, these groups, tribes, and cultures have been doing this for tens of thousands of years, and science hasn’t figured it out yet.
That’s why we should study culture, anthropology, sociology, etc., even if you consider yourself a “hard science” guy like me.