FIRST CREATION: Move Over Meditation

"Shaking medicine refers to the spontaneous and radically transformative experience of ecstatic shaking - historically associated with the Shakers of New England, the Caribbean, and the Pacific Northwest, along with European Quakers, Chinese Taoists, Hindu yogis, Christian ecstatics, Sufi mystics, Siberian shamans, seidr-workers, Zulu sangomas, and the Kalahari bushmen n|om/kxaosi. Today's Ju/'hoan bushmen say that this ecstatic trembling, shaking, and quaking come from what they call n|om, an intangible energy or vital force similar to chi or kundalini. They believe it is the original source of ecstacy, healing, and transformation. For over twenty years, Bradford Keeney has studied has conducted fieldwork with ecstatic shakers from around the world."
--http://shakingmedicine.com/

Being a long-time synchromystic myself, I'd like to point out an interesting coincidence: Shortly after I came across this guy's work and heard this track, I was browsing through a book store and aimlessly picked up a book of children's poetry, and was surprised to find an Inuit poem that parallels the same "first creation" story of the Kalahari bushmen, mentioned in this excerpt. Odd that two cultures isolated from each other on nearly opposite sides of the planet share such a similar myth:

In the very earliest time,
when both people and animals lived on earth,
a person could become an animal if he wanted to
and an animal could become a human being.
Sometimes they were people
and sometimes animals
and there was no difference.
All spoke the same language.
That was the time when words were like magic.
The human mind had mysterious powers.
A word spoken by chance
might have strange consequences.
It would suddenly come alive
and what people wanted to happen could happenó
all you had to do was say it.
Nobody can explain this:
That ís the way it was.
---Magic Words
Inuit Poet after Nalungiaq

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[227Morgan]

What was the ending? Other than that I liked it.

[MaynardMouse]

@227Morgan

You mean the music? It's TRANSFORMER (obviously) by GNARLS BARKLEY. Or if you were asking why the dialogue comes to an abrupt end, it's because this was only a single track from his audio course, which fills up several CD's. Most of it's pretty good, but this was perhaps the best part of the whole thing.

[nusphere]

Yes

[psmithbell]

Most profound and ridiculous, too. I love it.

[audacide]

wow. I found this video quite by accident and it spoke to something very deep.

Thank you!