Rattling the Bones

I often talk about Shamanism as if it was a conscious choice for me but the truth of the matter is – it wasn’t. When I met EC in 1998, she told me that she had a dream about a White Wolf who had saved her from being crushed by an18 wheeler van, on the highway. She spoke of a dream but for her it was a lucid experience. It was as real as if it had happened to her during waking time. One of the things that I’ve learnt and admired through speaking to Aboriginal People is that they don’t make a difference between sleeping and waking dreams. Life as a whole is a dream to them, the way it has always been for me. I keep hearing that Aboriginal culture in America is lost to emancipation and Christianity. It’s as if people want to believe that the first Europeans destroyed these people and there’s no way of getting it back. We live in a society that feels empowered by sufferance. Whenever I have the time to talk to people in my neighbourhood or community I...