{"id":11392,"date":"2020-04-18T20:39:49","date_gmt":"2020-04-19T02:39:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.chasclifton.com\/?p=11392"},"modified":"2020-04-18T20:39:49","modified_gmt":"2020-04-19T02:39:49","slug":"neoshaman-barbie-number-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.chasclifton.com\/?p=11392","title":{"rendered":"Neoshaman Barbie Number 2"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Neoshaman Barbie 1 with her drum.<\/p><\/div>\n

There have never been any little girls in my house, so consequently no Barbie dolls, but they cost only about $2\u2013$4 in the thrift stores. So I decided last year to make a neoshamanic Barbie, because I like the idea of “theme” Barbies (like “New Mexico Barbie<\/a>“) and because the very thought of her reminded me of a certain author and teacher who is “widely acknowledged as a major link between the ancient world of shamanism and modern societies thirst for profound personal healing and a deeper understanding of the pathway to enlightenment.”<\/p>\n

I made one and on a warmish day in January placed her way up behind the house in some boulders that I call Ringtail Rocks. She has her magickal assignment, she is hidden by rocks, and I will never disturb her.<\/p>\n

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Neoshaman Barbie 2 with her necklace of power and her spirit animal.<\/p><\/div>\n

But there was one more Barbie left, so today, now that the last snow has melted and the trail is dry, she went to a different cluster of boulders with a similar assignment, along with her spirit animal.<\/p>\n

These are part of a series of “installations” that I have started. You can tell that I was not a studio-art major, because I cannot produce 3,000 words of art-prose about what I made.<\/p>\n

But since producing prose (and editing other people’s prose) is what I do all day, these and the other installations are just thigs that Iet bubble up, and I don’t have to produce a lot of discourse about them. I am not even completely clear on their magickal purpose<\/p>\n

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A geocacher would spot this as a “suspicious pile of rocks,” but there are no geocaches in the area either.<\/p><\/div>\n

You can see a couple more on Instagram, <\/a> because Instagram is no place for long writing.<\/p>\n

Now I have this box of skulls and beads and wire and you know, all the usual stuff, and when the weather warms up, I have more un-formed, inchoate subconsciously directed ideas.<\/p>\n

“Weird things in the woods” pretty well covers it.<\/p>\n

Other Barbie-related posts:<\/strong><\/p>\n

October 29, 2003, “Barbie, the Hot Pagan Witch<\/a>.”<\/p>\n

January 26, 2005: “Inanna Descends to the Underworld (Barbie version)<\/a>.” The link is dead though, and the Wayback Machine did not help.<\/p>\n

March 5, 2005, “Some Pagan Publishing Gossip.<\/a>”<\/p>\n

April 27, 2006, “Pagan-Studies Barbie<\/a>.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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