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Moon Phase =starting to wane toward Gibbous | Weather = Decent weather is back!!!!!
Fall is temporarily here!!!!! | Current books = Medicinemaker - Hank Wesselman
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Quote: "Chance is always powerful. Let your hook be always cast; in the pool where you least expect it, there will be a fish."
- Ovid
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September 10, 2998...er, 1998
That book must be effecting me more than I thought...
I finished reading Medicinemaker a little while ago...it was...intriguing. I hadn't read Spiritwalker, so I wasn't expecting the premise.
The book is about the author's shamanic communications with a descendant 5 thousand years in the future. In that time, the collapse of civilization had occurred; Hawaiians had come to mainland America only 131 years before and the remanants of the North American peoples are nomadic hunters.
Could it be true? I find myself torn - part of me, the incorrigible skeptic, says that it is a good story and the experienced part of me says that is could be true - time - travel is definitely possible during a shamanic experience. One time I visited was during the time the caves in Lascaux, France were being painted.
I want to try an experiment. I want to see if I can do this. In a way, this is frightening to me since at this moment in time, I have decided that I will not be having children. If the experiment succeeds, that means that somewhere along the line, I've changed my mind...
Of course, this is an experiment that may be a long time in the making.
In the book, the author mentions a leopard man that is his ally. This ally shows itself as both a leopard and a humanoid - or sometimes, a curious blend of both. I wonder if it does that because that is the way the author would be most comfortable with it or if that is just the way it is? My ally is usually in animal form but does sometimes act more 'humanly' (I hope that isn't perceived as an insult...lol) - I think I'll ask. Perhaps it's just individual preference.
I've found myself intending to journey lately and finding ways to get out of it. I don't know if I'm afraid of what I may find out or if I'm afraid that suddenly not 'good enough' for the information...isn't that silly? Not good enough to talk to...sheesh.
Sometimes, though, I wonder if it's all just an illusion...heaven forbid, a delusion. After all these years, I still wonder about it. Yes, I have been told, "If you get something good out of it, does it matter?" No - I guess not. I don't know why I'm so afraid of being seen as crazy, anyway.
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