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33 Cards in this Set
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Indigenous |
Native to the land |
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Sacred ways |
Orally transmitted and experienced, respect their elders |
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Conversion |
Playing with fire |
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Caution |
Careful with religion |
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Circle |
Rotation, revolution, spiral return type of process |
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Balance |
Key word, harmony |
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High god |
Often withdraws after creation, human beings are pests, always asking for things |
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Lesser gods |
Nature spirits, animal spirit helpers, ancestors, trees, mountains and streams |
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Cloud of witnesses |
Ancestors who watch our every move |
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Medicine wheel |
Invokes keepers of four directions - north, south, east, and west, all healing |
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Chief Seattle |
All belong to same family, your god is the same as our god |
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"Caretaker of river" |
1. Balance 2. Organization is debilitating - go with natural flow |
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Reciprocal relationship |
Not dominating, earth is the womb and the tomb |
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"Backster effect" |
Plants appear to have awareness and react to situations in their environment |
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Goal |
Keep balance of all things, harmony |
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Evil |
Imbalance, excess, or deficiency |
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Ley lines |
Energy grids on the planet, acupuncture lines on earth itself, Roman roads were built on them supposedly |
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Pole shifts |
Periodically |
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Mana |
Impersonal spiritual "presence" in things of Nature |
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Animism |
Personal "presence" and identity |
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Sacred sites |
Build on previous sacred sites and/or use previous elements, link to the past |
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Power objects |
Talismans, spiritual energy |
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Sweat lodge - menstruation |
Power goes up and energy becomes disruptive |
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Shamans |
"Medicine people" , intermediates between seen and unseen, witch doctors |
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Means to become shaman are |
Common |
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Vision quest |
Get power animal - could be a deva, angelic being, or elemental |
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Rituals |
Morphic energy when ritual is repeated |
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Sacred pipe |
Used in ritual, pipe of harmony and balance, stem - male, bowl - female |
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Peyote cactus |
"Little deer" , entheogen |
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Entheogen |
Bringing out God within |
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Deer |
Carry prayers to God |
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Sun dance |
Way of self sacrifice to serve as energy of the Great Spirit, Dance for four days with no food, water, or sleep |
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Prerequisites for sundance |
Vision quest, tree, sacred pipe, whistle, piercing, rebirth |