A ROOTS AND WINGS BLOG by GLENN SCHIFFMAN

11/27/2020

Quote of the Day

“The American fascists are most easily recognized by their deliberate perversion of truth and fact. Their newspapers and propaganda carefully cultivate every fissure of disunity .…They claim to be super-patriots, but they would destroy every liberty guaranteed by the Constitution. They demand free enterprise, but are the spokesmen for monopoly and vested interest. Their final objective toward which all their deceit is directed is to capture political power so that, using the power of the state and the power of the market simultaneously, they may keep the common man in eternal subjection.”

Vice President Henry A. Wallace, April 9, 1944.

11/21/2020

questions

"Ask a difficult question,

and the marvelous answer appears."

—Rumi

“The great thing about science is that the questions are so much more important than the answers. Almost any scientist can find an answer if he/she can only find a good question. I think that theology tends to make the mistake of straining for answers, even answers that claim to be final. Science lives with the questions. All its answers are tentative and breed further questions. The really great questions— those a bright child might ask—are never finished answering.”

—George Wald, Nobel Laureate, Biology

Roots

still a Loser

Ancestors

Explain

No More Make Believe

List of Lakota deities

Anúŋğite - The two-faced Spirit referred to as mother of the Four Winds, Yum the Whirlwind, and the daughter of the Pȟežúta (Medicine Men) Ka and Wa. She is also known as Wakanka, the elderly woman.

Aŋpo - The spirit of the dawn, an entity with two faces.

Čapa - The beaver Spirit of labor and taxes.

Četaŋ - The hawk spirit of the east.

Haŋ - The ancient spirit of darkness; banished to be under Maka.

Haŋwí - The moon Spirit who accompanies Wi. Also known as Haŋhépi Wi (Nighttime Wi) to differentiate her from Wi. She is also the Spirit of mother hood, constancy, kinship, and feminine things.

Hununpa - The bipedal bear Spirit of wisdom. After Iktomi was made the trickster and he forfeited his position as the Spirit of wisdom, he became the lower Spirit of wisdom.

Iktómi - The spider trickster spirit and son of Inyan.

Íŋyaŋ - The primordial creator Spirit. His color is yellow.

Ite - The wife of the wind Spirit Tate.

11/20/2020

Campbell taught

Joseph Campbell taught us that what we are really looking for is not so much the "Meaning" of life as the "Experience" of being alive. In other words, this awareness will mark the transition from the "search for meaning" to "the experience of meaning" as a necessary way to fully grasp the meaning and experience of our entire existence. The whole process tells us exactly what the Myth is.

Marcus Aurelius

Tecumseh

11/18/2020

The road crossing

11/16/2020

Purpose

Hannah

Religious Animal

"Man is a Religious Animal. He is the only Religious Animal. He is the only animal that has the True Religion--several of them. He is the only animal that loves his neighbor as himself and cuts his throat if his theology isn't straight. He has made a graveyard of the globe in trying his honest best to smooth his brother's path to happiness and heaven....The higher animals have no religion. And we are told that they are going to be left out in the Hereafter. I wonder why? It seems questionable taste." - The Lowest Animal

11/15/2020

Van Gogh

People still persist in thinking that life is flat and runs from birth to death. But life, too, is probably round, and much greater in scope and possibilities than the hemisphere we now know. ~ Vincent Van Gogh

Miles

10/29/2020

Quiet Mind

When the mind and thinking subsides in anybody, the resulting space of consciousness provides a portal for God to shine through. The person who captured this best was the great Indian guru Meher Baba who said: “Man minus mind equals God.”