Native American wisdom: "There is always a dream dreaming us."

"There has always been a dream.  Everything is still the dream.  All that we call creation and Creator is the dream.  The dream continues to dream us and to dream itself.  Before anyone or anything was, there was a dream, and this dream continued to dream itself until the chaos within the dream became aware of itself.  Once the awareness knew that it was, there was a perspective for other aspects of the dream to comprehend itself.  One of the emerging dream energies, or "complexes", that came from the chaos of the dream and still remains in the dream as a way for the dream to recognize itself, is called "human beings".  Human beings required a way to have perspective and reference, and because of this, another energy emerged from the dream, and this is known today as "time".  It is from the two energies of dream and time that the third was given birth to, and that third one is known as the "dream time".  Dream time is also known as "mind", which is by nature luminescent and pure.  And the dream time mind is reflected by the emptiness of awareness."

....which is the reason why Western psychological norms would never work for Native Americans.

with thanks to Eduardo Duran

"Life should not be a journey to the grave with the intention of arriving safely in a pretty and well preserved body, but rather to skid in broadside in a cloud of smoke, thoroughly used up, totally worn out, and loudly proclaiming "Wow! What a Ride!"

~ Hunter Thompson ~

Here are some of the songs rambling in my head:

Bury Me With My Guns On  

This Is How Your Remind Me

Scream

Clubbed To Death

Linkin Park's cover of Adele's Rolling Into Deep

Novacane

RockStar 

I Will Not Bow 

Black Spider 

Hysteria

Butterfly

Sex Is Good 

.....yes, I'm keeping busy...

(I'm still amazed that some people read the crap I'm posting here.  I guess there is such a thing as "accidental clicking"... or else....whatEVAH...)

ok...umm...what else...here is the last thing I've read today:

"Overall, the close relationship between cognition and behavior (N. Ed: please note the American spelling) is coming into view as well as some of its neural underpinnings.  Top-down regulation by the prefrontal cortex and bottom-up modification of cognition via experience from environment are becoming increasingly understood."

Gee, thanks, girls (Fiske and Taylor), 'cause look at what Foucault wrote about 20 years earlier:

"From the point of view of evolution, illness has no other status than that of a general potentiality.  The causality that makes it necessary is not yet disengaged, no one than that which gives each clinical picture its particular coloring.  This necessity, with its individual forms, is to be found not in an always specific development, but in the patient's personal history."

...oh, wait, we don't take Foucault into account, because he did not write APA style...obviously!