HUMOR

July 24, 2025, 10:54 PM

From page 87:

"Loving is love of the Great Spirit and love of the Earth and all who dwell upon HER. It's symbol is the SUN."

"Love reminds us of the Great Spirit's limitless and mysterious power, because the more we give love,the more love we have."

July 19, 2025, 3:02 PM

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 Chipmonks 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."