SOUTH

July 19, 2025, 1:45 PM

From Page 58:

"Okaga made the first flowers and seeds and is associated with the gentle beauty of waterfowl, meadowlarks, and cranes."

"Each of the Four Winds tries to please Wohpe and win her favor."

"The South brought Wohpe warm, beautiful things and won her heart."

"The South Wind awakens the senses and teaches us to appreciate music, art, food, and our bodies. It is the direction of love, sensuality, and sexuality."

Sexuality "is represented by the ELK, a close relative of the DEER. A person with Elk Medicine" has the power to attract the opposite sex and may counsel people who have questions about courtship."

"Love and sexual passion, however, must be balanced with intellect and spirit, lest the emotions of the South burn like a fire out of control."

"Traditional Native American Elders stress the importance of balancing sexual passion and spontaneity with intelligence and modesty. We should express sexual feelings with sensivity, honor, and respect for a partner, always considering the harmony between two people more important than personal needs."

From Page 59:.

Anishinabe: Ma-na-ji-win = RESPECT "is the foundation of all unions between men and women."

Richard Katz (former Harvard University Prof) "found that healers were more passionate about life. This suggests that the emotions may be a key to assessing health and focusing healing power." (see endnote #18; Richard Katz, "Boiling Energy, Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 1982, page 235.

"We inhale the oxygen exhaled by the plants and exhale the cargon dioxie the plants need to breathe."

"The South is the color yellow"

"Clairvoyant vision of Medicine People"

"The South reminds us to have faith. Faith is different from intellectual belief. It requires that we TRUST that which cannot be described. The trouble with descriptions is that w often tend to substitute them for experiences."

"The word stone is not the same as the experience of seeing or holding a stone."

"Humility is required to admit that there are things one cannot know or believe in; it requires courage to have faith in the Great Mystery." (see endnote #22, page 355:

"When the great psychologist Carl Jung was asked in a television interview whether he believed in GOD, he replied, "NO. Why should I believe? I KNOW!" To know GOD is to trust GOD and to be open to HER guidance. In Judeo-Christian terms, trust means understanding GOD as the Great I AM, as pure being without attribute. Not I am this or I am that just I AM. Moses asks GOD HER name, and GOD replies, "I AM THAT I AM." Jesus was a master of paradox and often used paradox to shock his listeners into expanded statesof awareness. He recalls GOD's holiest name and expresses his identity with this name when he says, "Before Abraham ever was, I AM." (John 8:58).

From page 60:

"The South is also associated with Coyote, the trickster and spirit of humor. Perhaps the most difficult belief to give up is the belief in a separate, independent "I."

"Humor helps us to cope with, gain power over, and heal from pain, frustration, loss, and suffering."

painfull childhoods of comedians:

Charlie Chaplin

W.C.Fields

Jackie leason

(see endnote#23 on page 356: Allen Klein, "The Healing Power of Humor, L.A. Tarcher, 1989, page 5).

"All the Native American medicine people I have known have had wonderful senses of humor and would sometimes crack jokes at what at first seemed the oddes moments-in the middle of a healing or during a counseling session. I have seen an Elder use humor to test prospective students. If they have a good sense of humor, they pass and are considered capable of learning about Native American culture; if they are too serious, they fail."

"tape of Alvin and the Chipmons singing PowWow songs!"

"Take the work seriously, not yourself."

"Native Americans understand that both humor and mystical insight arise from a flexible consciousness, the ability to perceive in a new way or from multiple perspectives."

From: "Proverbs of Hell" by poet William Blake:

"If the fool would persist in his folly, he would become wise." (sarcasm per rk)

Folly defined: 1) lack of good sense, or normal prudence and foresight; 2) a foolish act or idea; 3) evil, wickedness especially lewd behavior; 4) criminally or tragically foolish actions or conduct; 5) an excessively costly or unprofitable undertaking; 6) an often extravagant picturesque building erected to suit a fanciful taste.

"The South represents the power of the feminine: gentle intuition instead of cutting intellect, a prioritizing of relationship over control, and wisdom found in patient receptivity rather than impulsively aggressive action."

"Each gender has its own teachnings, ceremonies, and power."

Healing is enhanced if "women face South and men face North."