"Since Universe is Energy, part of the process of understanding,
at
least as I experience it, is to learn to ‘see’ flows of energy and
specificities of energy. Both are necessary. Because, you see,
Universe is both Whole and Specific. Western science is beginning to
understand this through explorations about particle and wave. Both
particle/ particularity/specificity of Universe and the wave/flow of
Universe were aspects I was encouraged as a child to apprehend and
understand. I was asked to ‘see’ the ‘dancing points of light’ and then
to apprehend the shift from location to flow. Much of shamanic
practice has to do with developing the ability to enter and use this
shift.
...The
Western tradition represents body because it's always looking at things
out here at arm's length. It's using microscopes, it's 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 breathe, 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 preceed you. You let your thoughts flow into that
circumstance to understand it."
~Paula Underwood Spencer