{"id":9999,"date":"2014-02-10T15:36:43","date_gmt":"2014-02-10T14:36:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/eden-saga.com\/en\/australia-songlines-dreamquest-psychotropic-sweatlodge-red-religion.html"},"modified":"2025-05-09T09:45:30","modified_gmt":"2025-05-09T08:45:30","slug":"australia-songlines-dreamquest-psychotropic-sweatlodge-red-religion","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eden-saga.com\/en\/australia-songlines-dreamquest-psychotropic-sweatlodge-red-religion.html","title":{"rendered":"Shamanism"},"content":{"rendered":"

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As evidenced by the traditions and customs of the\u00a0primary peoples<\/a>, our ancestors have maintained a magical mentality, like the current primitive peoples.<\/p>\n

In Australia, Aborigines celebrate the\u00a0Time of Dream<\/a>, a kind of paradise of origins in which each one of them finds his own place in this life. For them, ordinary reality is not worthwhile. They are devoted from an early age to the\u00a0exploration of the mind<\/a>.<\/p>\n

And these inner labyrinths have their outer projections, it is the\u00a0“sung tracks”<\/em>\u00a0they go all over through the Australian outback.<\/p>\n

With each verse, the landscape changes, a tutelary animal appeared on the way, and the Aborigine, guided by its sacred song, follows his dream track.<\/p>\n

For the same purpose, the Latin American Indians make an abundant use of hallucinogenic drugs. Peyotl, Datura, Jimson weed, and above all, the wine of the spirit,\u00a0Ayahuasca<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Unlike the\u00a0European or American yuppies<\/a>\u00a0who go there by charter flights, the Amazon Indians do not get high to forget the mediocrity of their lives, since they’re already full of\u00a0wonders<\/a>\u00a0and adventures. The state of nature gives them their daily dose of adrenaline. And the\u00a0Time of Dream<\/a>\u00a0gives pearls of wisdom.\u00a0<\/p>\n

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The Western world has lost sight of everything that makes the flavor of our human condition: to achieve the sacred union of the spirit that does not die and the material that degrades.<\/p>\n

The sacred science of the Atlanteans had achieved a fragile bridge between the two hemispheres of the brain , between reason and creative delirium, but this bridge was undermined by the ancient Greeks: Logical Plato killed flamboyant Aeschylus, the Appolinien stifled Dionysian. The latest real men, primitive, wild and away from slavery societies are still continuing this shamanic tradition.<\/p>\n

Paradox born of our idiocy: while all animal species are jealously protected, commendable care stops with our species. In humans, there are no protected tribes. Brigitte Bardot is not involved with Papuans, which makes them good. Very strong in their environment, will the Indians resist in our civilized microbes? If the dirty flu reached the Yanomami or these magic peoples of the Omo Valley – they may well disappear until the last …<\/p>\n

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North American Natives had different techniques to link to\u00a0Wakan Taka<\/a>: the vision quest, the\u00a0sweatlodge<\/a>\u00a0and the Sun Dance. The warrior in search of vision pierces his skin. He threads sticks where he knots ropes which are hanging from a sacred tree or a totem.\u00a0<\/p>\n

He then let himself be hung in the air, supported only by the ties which tear his skin. He stands firm until his skin breaks out, and until he falls like a ripe fruit. This is not masochism. It is a passion, like\u00a0that of Jesus<\/a>. By the door of assumed pain the warrior seeks a self-transcendence. He wants to enter the\u00a0World of Dream<\/a>, where the highest aspirations come true.<\/p>\n

Yet these rituals were considered barbarians and thus prohibited in most of the concerned states. Another ritual is represented by the sweatlodges. They are the\u00a0super saunas<\/a>\u00a0of the Sioux Lakota and have the same purpose as the sun dance or the psychotropic drugs: a vision quest, to find the\u00a0Time of Dream<\/a>.<\/p>\n

\u00a0The only problem, but a big one, is: the last Native Americans, largely cut off from their ancient traditions, claim they establish a church of the sweatlodge that really looks like a sect: ritual fixed, hierarchical clergy, and other signs of decline. Slowly but surely, the cold and angular world of pure reason and\u00a0kali yuga<\/a>comes to a point of no return.<\/p>\n

The Holy Mass of\u00a0Descartes<\/a>\u00a0and the Vespers of\u00a0Kant<\/a>\u00a0put a damper on their chimes. Expected return of Bergson,\u00a0Eliade<\/a>, Steiner and\u00a0Gu\u00e9non<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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You need chaos in your soul to give birth to a dancing star.<\/p>