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31.

Action in Cognitive Ethnology

Marc Beckoff

395-402


p. 396 cognition "in aliens from space"

"Many people are more willing to countenance cognition ... in aliens from space, than in rodents, amphibians, or insects."

{The reason for this regard is that the "aliens from space" include guardian-deities from other planes-of-existence, whence they participate in controlling the minds-and-bodies of the robot-like animals which, on the material-plane, swarm over this planet.}

{By praying to such otherworldly guardian-deities, it is often the case that a shaman may cajole such deity to send some robotic-minded game-animal, who will thereupon stroll into the village and wait patiently to be cudgeled-to-death by humans.}


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32.

Embodied Oiko-Paganism

Adrian Harris

403-15


p. 403 analysis to determine propre functions of body, of soul, and of spirit

"contemporary animists are concerned with ... "discourses that

divide spirit and flesh, soul and body, {indeed, how can any metaphysics neglect to make such distinctions?}

{This dividing is advocated throughout the New Testament, "even to the dividing asunder of soul and spirit" (EH 4:12).}

subject and object ..." (G. Harvey 2005b:83)."

{This distinction is basically grammatical, for useful convenience in diction.}

Harvey 2005b = G. Harvey : "Animism". In :- Bron Raymond Taylor (ed.) : The Encyclopedia of Religion and Nature. London : Continuum. pp. 81-3.

EH = Epistole to the Hebraioi http://biblehub.com/hebrews/4-12.htm


p. 411 entry of praeternatural spirits into a mortal's body for spirit-mediumship

"As the drumming increased, ... there was a participatory communication between Gordon's {named after "Flash Gordon" of the comic-strip?} and the spirits in process,

{Where the mortal medium be in communication with the spirit-entity, this is of the nature of an "overshadowing" (instead of a "possession").}

the other-than-human was {(singular,) implying one-spirit-at-a-time} coming through into the human form.

{Entry of such extraneous spirits must be one-at-a-time : not until after an extraneous spirit already temporarily in occupation of the mortal spirit-medium's body hath departed, can another such spirit entre.}

At times ... [the human spirit-medium]'s body appeared to act out ... expressive movements. (Greenwood 2005:94)"

{In a mediumship-se'ance, spirits often indicate their own personal identity by causing the mortal spirit-medium's body to make identificatory gestures.}

Greenwood 2005 = Susan Greenwood : The Nature of Magic : an Anthropology of Consciousness. Oxford : Berg.


p. 414 experiential unification of self with other-that-self

"At some level the mind/body/place matrix is "one indivisble totality" (Ingold 2000:9), and the self/other distinction ceases to function, as evidenced by the phenomenological experience of deep trance."

{This sensation of unification of one's seslf with the [generalized] other-that-self is brought about by a collective of divine entities as a praeliminary to their entrance into telepathic communication with one's self; it is commonly accomplished with the assistance of having ingested a psychedelic drug, which is the eucharist expected by those deities in order for one's self to achieve communion with them.}

Ingold 2000 = Tim Ingold : The Perception of the Environment. London : Routledge.


p. 414 experiential microcosm's aequivalence to macrocosm

""Your physically felt body is ... -- in fact, the complete universe. ..." (Gendlin:[1978])"

{Taoist mystics, during trance, sometimes witness the divine universe (including deities) within their own waking-state body.}

Gendlin 1978 = Eugene T. Gendlin : Focusing. NY : Everest House. [reprinted 1981 NY : Bantam]


p. 414 experiential quasi-dream of thought-transference

"Like being in a great big dream, relevant messages are being spoken everywhere, telling me things I need to hear, and to which I need respond" (Fisher 2002:103)."

Fisher 2002 = Andy Fisher : Radical Ecopsychology. Albany (NY) : State Univ of NY Pr.


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33.

Animistic Research Methodology

M. J. Barrett

416-22

http://www.porosity.ca/ copyrighted by Mary Jeanne (MJ) Barrett


pp. 418-9 methods & processes

p. 418

"Specific methods include ... meditation (e.g. Bai 2001),


dowsing (e.g. Hansen 1982),


dreaming (e.g. Castellano 2002; Bernard 2007) and


non-local communication (e.g. Sheldrake 2003)."


"These forms of consciousness ... are often not accessed and acknowledged given the ... methodological imperialism demanded in academic

p. 419

discourse (L. Smith 1999; Battiste & Henderson 2000).


Such "imperialist" {/inflexibly materialist/ could be an apter term} discourses make it difficult {as, indeed, they are intended by the materialist ploutokrats who originated them, and who compell the universities to submit to them} to engage that which


"has been been muted or repressed and gone unheard

{But wherefore hath it "been been muted or repressed and gone unheard"? -- Because such concerns are deemed potentially adversarial to the oikonomic ("imperialist") interests of the ruling-class ploutokrateia! (And such concerns are as yet unabated; they are as valid and outstanding as ever.)}


in representations of our practice" (Lotz-Sisitka 2002:118). ...


Since the processes of knowledge production and acquisition that support


porosity

{commonly known as /transcendence/ or the like}


exist beyond the intellect and are often not explained within


conventional Western

{read /ploutokrateia-promoted capitalist-materialist/}


frameworks of knowing (see Bai 2003, 2009; Stuckey 2010),


they are frequently marginalized and seldom explicitly taught or acknowledged in in most academic contexts (for some exceptions, see Braud & Anderson 1998; Dillard 2006a,b).


This "shadow knowledge" (Abram in Abram & Jardine 2000:176) is sometimes assumed to be spiritual in origin ... and referred to as "derived{-from-spirits} knowledge" (D. M. Smith 1998), or "revealed{-by-spirits} knowledge" (Castellano 2002:24)."

Bai 2001 = Heesoon Bai : "Beyond the Educated Mind". In :- Brent Hocking; Johnna Haskell; & Warren Linds (edd.) : Unfolding Bodymind. Brandon (VT) : Foundation for Educational Renewal. pp. 86-99. https://www.google.com/url?sa=t&rct=j&q=&esrc=s&source=web&cd=3&cad=rja&uact=8&ved=0CCoQFjAC&url=http%3A%2F%2Fsummit.sfu.ca%2Fsystem%2Ffiles%2Firitems1%2F13201%2FBai%2520-%2520Beyond%2520Educated%2520Mind.pdf&ei=0VVrVciUHoOXyATM4oCIAg&usg=AFQjCNEFUOTW_E0w

Hansen 1982 = G. Hansen : "Dowsing : a Review of Experimental Research". J OF THE SOC OF PSYCHICAL RESEARCH 51(792):343-76.

Castellano 2002 = Marlene Brant Castellano : "Updating Aboriginal Traditions of Knowledge". In :- George J Sefa Dei; Budd L Hall; & Dorothy Goldin Rosenberg (edd.) : Indigenous Knowledges in Global Context : Multiple Readings of Our World. Univ of Toronto Pr. pp. 21-36.

Bernard 2007 = Penelope (Penny) S. Bernard : "Re-uniting with the Kosmos". J FOR THE STUDY OF RELIGION, NATURE & CULTURE 1.1:109-28.

Sheldrake 2003 = Rupert Sheldrake : The Sense of Being Stared At, and Other Aspects of the Extended Mind. NY : Crown Publ.

L. Smith 1999 = Linda Tuhiwai Smith : Decolonizing Methodologies : Research and Indigenous Peoples. London : Zed Books; Dunedin (NZ) : Univ of Otago Pr; NY : St. Martin's Pr.

Battiste & Henderson 2000 = Marie Ann Battiste & James Youngblood Henderson : Protecting Indigenous Knowledge and Heritage : a Global Challenge. Saskatoon (SK) : Purich Publ.

Lotz-Sisitka 2002 = H. Lotz-Sisitka : "Weaving Cloths". CANADIAN J OF ENVIRONMENTAL EDUCATION. 7.2:101-24.

Bai 2003 = Heesoon Bai : "Learning from Zen Arts". J OF THE CANADIAN ASSN FOR CURRICULUM STUDIES 1.2:39-54.

Bai 2009 = Heesoon Bai : "Re-animating the Universe : Environmental ... and Philosophical Animism". In :- Marcia McKenzie, Paul Hart, Heesoon Bai, & Bob Jickling (edd.) : Fields of Green : Restorying Culture ... . Cresskill (NJ) : Hampton Pr. pp. 135-51. http://www.academia.edu/3760188/Fields_of_green_Restorying_culture_environment_and_education

Stuckey 2010 = Priscilla Stuckey : "Animist Refigurings of Western Epistemology". J FOR THE STUDY OF RELIGION, NATURE & CULTURE 4.3:182-205.

Braud & Anderson 1998 = William Braud & Rosemarie Anderson (edd.) : Transpersonal Research Methods for the Social Sciences. Thousand Oaks (CA) : Sage Publ.

Dillard 2006a = Cynthia B. Dillard : On Spiritual Strivings : ... African-American ... Academic Life. Albany : State Univ of NY Pr.

Dillard 2006b = Cynthia B. Dillard : "When the Music Changes, So Should the Dance : Cultural and Spiritual Considerations in Paradigm 'Proliferation'". INTERNAT J OF QUALITATIVE STUDIES IN EDUCATION 19.1:59-76.

Abram & Jardine 2000 = David Abram & David Jardine : "All Knowledge is Carnal Knowledge : a Correspondence". CANADIAN J OF ENVIRONMENTAL EDUCATION 5:167-77. http://cjee.lakeheadu.ca/index.php/cjee/article/view/307/232

D.M. Smith 1998 = David M. Smith : "An Athapaskan Way of Knowing : Chipewyan Ontology". AMER ETHNOLOGIST 25.3:412-32.


pp. 419-20 fallacies of materialist hypocrisy in peremptorily disregarding the praeternatural

p. 419

"socially constituted {i.e., ploutokratically-imposed} epistemologies and ontologies that assume that the more-than-human {i.e., divine} world (Abram 1997) does not ... interact with humans in a dialogic relationship"

p. 420

""methodological atheism" (Ezzy 2004:118), and avoidance of the "S" word (spirit) in discussions of discussions of research methodology (see Shahjahan 2005; Dillard 2006a,b)"


"a range of suspicion, fear (Ezzy 2004) and delegitimization (Dillard 2003) of ways of knowing and knowledge that do not have rational {sic : read "materialist"; for, spiritual ways of knowing are at least as "rational" as are any other "scientific" ways} explanations (... Findlay 2000; Hufford 2003; Jonas & Crawford 2004)"


"shamanophobia ... (... Walter & Fridman 2004)"


"ontologies that ... deny (or ignore) the energetic connections among all things as articulated by ... indigenous science scholars (e.g. Cajete 2000)".

Abram 1997 = David Abram : The Spell of the Sensuous ... in a More-than-Human World. NY : Vintage.

Shahjahan 2005 = R. Shahjahan : "Spirituality in the Academy : ... Evoking a Transformative Way of Knowing the World". INTERNAT J OF QUALITATIVE STUDIES IN EDUCATION 18.6:685-711.

Dillard 2006a = Cynthia B. Dillard : On Spiritual Strivings : Transforming ... Woman's Academic Life. Albany (NY) : S.U.N.Y. Pr.

Dillard 2006b = Cynthia B. Dillard : "Cultural and Spiritual Considerations in Paradigm 'Proliferation'". INTERNAT J OF QUALITATIVE STUDIES IN EDUCATION 19.1:59-76.

Ezzy 2004 = Douglas Ezzy : "Religious Ethnography : Practicing the Witch's Craft". In :- Jenny Blain; Douglas Ezzy; & Graham Harvey : Researching Paganisms. Walnut Creek (CA) : AltaMira Pr. pp. 113-28.

Findlay 2000 = L. M. Findlay : "Forward". In :- Marie Ann Battiste (editrix) : Reclaiming Indigenous Voice and Vision. Vancouver : Univ of BC Pr. pp. ix-xiii.

Hufford 2003 = David Hufford : "Challenges for Healing and Intentionality Research : ... Entering the Mainstream". In :- Wayne B. Jonas & Cindy C. Crawford (edd.) : Healing, Intention and Energy Medicine. Edinburgh : Churchill Livingston. pp. 293-306.

Jonas & Crawford 2004 = W. Jonas & C. Crawford : "The Healing Presence ... Measured". J OF ALTERNATIVE & COMPLEMENTARY MEDICINE 10.5:751-6.

Walter & Fridman 2004 = M. N. Walter & J. N. Fridman (edd.) : Shamanism : an Encyclopedia of World Beliefs, Practices and Culture. Santa barbara (CA) : ABC-CLIO.

Cajete 2000 = Gregory Cajete : Native Science : Natural Laws of Interdependence. Santa Fe` (NM) : Clear Light Publ.


pp. 420-1 hazards, in a hypocritical world, of academic research into the praeternatural

p. 420

"not being part of the academic club (see Boler 1999)"


"being told "your hands can't know""

{Contrast the book-title ThHFI.}


"living contradictory subjectivities/identities simultaneously in both my personal and professional lives -- one {i.e., the hypocritically faking a praetense to condescend to materialism} of which I reveal {fakingly}, and the other {i.e., the genuine, the sincere praeternaturalism} which which often ... remains hidden"


"inappropriate performing {i.e., neglect to act hypocritically enough} as a human, or as an academic, are they are currently conceived, in Western {/in Western/ being a euphemism for 'in ploutokrat-dominated capitalistic culturisms'} and academic contexts (and ... being told I am crazy) (see Plumwood 2002; Jensen [2000]; G. Williams 2005)"

p. 421

"being explicit about using a dowser as an important research tool".

Boler 1999 = Megan Boler : Feeling Power : Emotions and Education. Routledge.

ThHFI = Edith L. B. Turner : The Hands Feel It : Healing and Spirit Presence among a Northern Alaskan People. DeKalb : Northern IL Univ Pr, 1996.

Plumwood 2002 = Val (Valerie) Plumwood : Environmental Culture. London : Routledge.

Jensen 2000 = Derrick Jensen : A Language Older than Words. NY : Context Bks. [reprinted 2004 White River Junction (VT) : Chelsea Green Publ]

Williams 2005 = G. Williams : "Hobbes : ... Philosophy". Internet Encycl of Philosophy. http://www.iep.utm.edu/hobmoral/


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