Blackfoot Physics by Peat, David -- Read -- Imperial Library of Trantor

Index

Cover Page Title Page Copyright Dedication Contents Acknowledgment Author to Reader: A Different Worldview 1: Spirits of Renewal

Thunder Birds Visions From Two Worlds The Heart of Knowledge A Dialogue Between Worlds Changing Consciousness The First Encounter Cultural Appropriation Calling Each Other Names

2: At the Sun Dance: When Paradigms Collide

At the Sun Dance A Clash of Paradigms Views From Two Worlds Heisenberg's Uncertainty Back at the Sun Dance

3: Coming-to-Knowing

Preface A Story About Knowledge and Knowing A Fishing Story Canoe Stories Knowledge as Process The Being of Knowing Knowing by Listening The Teacher Structuring Knowledge Doing and Playing Knowing and Experiencing Knowledge as Story Apprentice to Knowledge Quality of Silence What Is an Elder? Teachings at Night Dreams and Visions Clowns

4: Stories of Origin

The People's Origin A Clash of Paradigms First Explanations The Clovis Hypothesis The Several Waves Theory Even More Ancient? Alternative Arrivals Other Contacts

5: The Coming of Disease

The Garden of Eden A Condition of Disease The Virus of Progress The Sickness of Ideas The Alliances of Harmony Alliance With Health Harmony and Health The Great Disease The Sickness Spreads

6: The Medicine Ways

Healing, Wholeness, and Meaning The Medicine Way Indigenous Pharmacopoeias A Natural Ecology Energy and the Subtle Subtle Matter The Implicate Order Song Cluniac Alchemy Anger and Transformation The Renewal of Spirit

7: Sacred Mathematics

Introduction Number and Control Sacred Number Indigenous Number Number and Chance Sacred Architecture Number Systems The Four Directions and the Teachings of the Hoop Number and Spirit Number and Balance Number and Change Number and the Implicate Order Number and the I Ching Flux and the Trickster Contracts, Chaos, and Harmony The Nature of Laws, and the Laws of Nature

8: Time, Number, and the Mayans

The Circle of Time The Gift of Corn The Olmec Compact The Mayan Compact The Burning of Books The Abstraction of Mathematics Number and Mystery The Mayan Number System Writing Numbers Mayan Numbers The Writing of Numbers Time and Cycle “Indian Time” The Time Is Right What Is Time? Time and the Calendar The Mayan Calendar and the I Ching Why 260 Days? Practical Calendar Time and Astronomy The Calendar Round Lunar and Venusian Calendars Cycles and Durations The Sixth Sun

9: Language: The Sacred Vibrations

Introduction The Languages of Dominance Chomsky and Structure ManifestingWords The Vibrations of Nature Categories of Thought Animation Logic and Language Language, Culture, and Thought A Language of Process

10: Indigenous Science

Science Defined Changing the Yardstick Western Science: A Cold Topic Turns Hot The Human Face of Science Western and Indigenous Sciences Observation Experiment Prediction Control Objectivity Uniformity Models Causality Instrumentation Technology and Progress Spirituality Fragmentation Explanation Authority Truth Location Initiation Cosmology and Calendar Mathematics Representations The Role of Life and Humanity Ceremony Elders Spirit and Energies Dreams and Visions Maps Paths Reality and Transformation Conclusion

11: Realities

A Science of Perception Touching the lnscape Transformation Masks and Beings The Importance of Sanction and Containment Masks as Incarnations Reality and Transformation Observer-Created Reality Visions of Reality Creating the Inner Ear Shamanism The Anthropologists' Account Healing From Another World Wounded Healers Shaking Tent Flying Society and the Individual

12: Conclusions: Turning the Circle

The Hero's Quest Farming Technology Biology Medicine The Physical Sciences Cultural Achievement and Revival

Afterword:: From the Blackfoot to Pari Bibliography

Chapter 2 Chapter 3 Chapter 4 Chapter 5 Chapter 6 Chapter 7 Chapter 9 Chapter 10 Chapter 11

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