"The Western tradition
represents body because it's always looking at things out here at arm's
length. It's using microscopes, it using all kinds of tools to look at
things, to take them apart. That's changing, but this has been the
understanding. The Eastern approach uses Spirit - you meditate, you
breath, you apprehend the nature of the Universe through your Spirit. I
think the Native American tradition, at least the one that I understand
and grew up in represents Mind. Because, as I say, you let your thoughts
precede you. You let your thoughts flow into that circumstance to
understand it."
-- Paula Underwood Spensor Oneida tradition.
