| From: | Robert Watkins <bob@**.NTU.EDU.AU> |
|---|---|
| Subject: | Re: Gods/Heaven/Hell |
| Date: | Fri, 22 Sep 1995 17:05:42 +0930 |
>
> True, very much so, and that's sort of what I was trying to point out:
> one should not treat, say, Dog as a being or a consciousness that might
> actually drop by for tea one day. Dog is a totem, a way of life, an
> outlook, a source of energy. That's about it, though. It's just that some
> people where starting to talk about totems visiting their shamans, which
> in my view is not realistic (bad choice of words? :-)).
Totems may not "drop by for tea one day", but they do send visions, and
that's what most people mean when they talk about totems visiting their
shamans.
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