{"id":859,"date":"2013-09-06T15:26:43","date_gmt":"2013-09-06T21:26:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/salkawind.com\/blog\/?p=859"},"modified":"2013-09-06T15:26:43","modified_gmt":"2013-09-06T21:26:43","slug":"from-shamans-drum","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/salkawind.com\/blog\/archives\/859","title":{"rendered":"From Shaman’s Drum"},"content":{"rendered":"

I’m busy working with some waikis to nourish a salka community here in Salt Lake.\u00a0 Here is something I came across in my old notes that I would like to share.\u00a0 It comes from an interview with Americo Yabar in the Shaman’s Drum (Fall, 1994).<\/em><\/p>\n

Hal Bennett:\u00a0 In terms of meeting our global crisis, do you feel going out in this way–to have direct contact with Nature and the Cosmos–is more important than going out and talking with other people?<\/p>\n

Americo:\u00a0 Yes, yes, absolutely!\u00a0 It is much more important in all aspects:\u00a0 therapeutically, intellectually, spiritually–in all ways.\u00a0 We have to speak to the mountains in the mountains, to communicate with the spirits of nature in nature.\u00a0 If you go to the river, the river doesn’t lie to you; the river cleanses you.\u00a0 The wind cleanses you.\u00a0 The ancient voices and the spirit of a tree can give you much.\u00a0 These are the only constant and direct presences of the Divine.<\/p>\nShare... <\/span>\"Facebook\"<\/a>\"twitter\"<\/a>\"reddit\"<\/a>\"pinterest\"<\/a>\"linkedin\"<\/a>\"mail\"<\/a>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I’m busy working with some waikis to nourish a salka community here in Salt Lake.\u00a0 Here is something I came across in my old notes that I would like to share.\u00a0 It comes from an interview with Americo Yabar in the Shaman’s Drum (Fall, 1994). Hal Bennett:\u00a0 In terms of meeting our global crisis, do […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-859","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","post-preview"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/salkawind.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/859","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/salkawind.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/salkawind.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/salkawind.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/salkawind.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=859"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/salkawind.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/859\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":860,"href":"https:\/\/salkawind.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/859\/revisions\/860"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/salkawind.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=859"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/salkawind.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=859"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/salkawind.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=859"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}