{"id":6514,"date":"2014-06-06T16:36:12","date_gmt":"2014-06-06T22:36:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.chasclifton.com\/?p=6514"},"modified":"2014-06-06T16:37:01","modified_gmt":"2014-06-06T22:37:01","slug":"the-mind-of-the-native-and-the-mind-of-the-witch","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.chasclifton.com\/?p=6514","title":{"rendered":"The Mind of the Native and the Mind of the Witch"},"content":{"rendered":"

Typical Colorado foothills weather \u2014 from snow on the ground mid-May to temperatures in the 80s F. by the first of June. What is this “spring” people speak of? If you have hummingbirds and snow at the same time, that is our spring.<\/p>\n

Some links:<\/p>\n

\u2022 Rod Dreher posts on “How to see a ghost<\/a>,” which is a little tangential for the blogger usually defined as “crunchy con,” but there is a connection to the idea of being embedded in place.<\/p>\n

A lot of the post is excerpts from Rupert Ross\u2019s book Dancing With A Ghost: Exploring Indian Reality<\/em><\/a>, Much of it is animistic, as you would expect:<\/p>\n

If, for instance, it is possible for a man to \u201cwalk\u201d through the spiritual (that is, the imaged) plane, then he could not deny the possibility that others would be able to do the same. The dimension of each person which did this visiting thus ought to be able to encounter the corresponding dimension of others; suddenly the possibility of interaction<\/em> with others on that plane becomes real.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Dreher is a capital-O Orthodox Christian (by conversion, hence enthusiastic), writing that he does not “subscribe to the pagan, animistic metaphysic Ross describes, but that it\u2019s interesting to me to observe how much this overall outlook tracks with Orthodox Christianity and its belief in panentheism<\/a>, which teaches that God is immanent in all creation.” But read his post for the excerpts and to watch him wrestle with what Ross has to say.<\/p>\n

\u2022 Meanwhile, at his Paganistan<\/em> blog, Steven Posch links to what he considers an accurate description of the “mind of a witch,” although it was not written from that perspective<\/a>.<\/p>\n

I liked this part:<\/p>\n

Like all predators, a witch is a territorial animal, and to know your territory you have to patrol it regularly and you have to notice what’s going on there: what has changed, what’s changing, and what hasn’t changed.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

It’s all in how you define “territory.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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