the good red road

About twenty years ago I read an issue of Marilyn Ferguson’s Brain/Mind Bulletin that suggested the future of psychotherapy would be “guided imagery combined with altered states of consciousness.” So maybe shamanism is the future. Shamanism says that when something changes in your dreams, it will be reflected in your life. A Native American council meeting begins by passing a talking stick, so that everyone gets a chance to speak and be heard. And, by and large, Euro-American psychology does not have guilt-ridden “Christian underpinnings.” (Freud, a Jew who considered religion illusory, is, after all, the father of modern psychology. The Western model is one of disease. What is different is that, in shamanism, spirit is not limited to human beings. Platek: You mentioned experiences of synchronicity — meaningful connections between seemingly disconnected people, places, and events. He was discussing using the sweat lodge to access spirits in order to heal cancer. But I saw my good red road. Platek: We try so hard to fix ourselves or make ourselves better somehow — whether through therapy or spiritual pursuits. Gray: That very difficulty is something about which people often come to me for help. If we ask children where chicken comes from, many of them will answer, “The supermarket.” We have forgotten that we are a part of the earth. It was a folded map of God's ongoing revelation. This turned out to be just the approach she needed. If we are going to have a future, we have to tap into those values. It is about the restoration of balance to body, mind, and heart. She was sitting on a rock in an altered state, and she had a vision of herself surrounded by alligators. We have become so alienated that we are destroying our own life-support systems. A great late-at-night record, and (I imagine) a great record to bring on a cross-country drive. Platek: The Native American writer Vine Deloria has written that “the primary difference between the Western and indigenous ways of life is that Indians experience and relate to a living universe, whereas Western people reduce all things, living or not, to objects.” How would a sense of a living universe help us? Find her on Broadway just about every night. Reciprocity and gratitude are necessary values for us to have to be proper caretakers for this place and to use its resources well and replenish them to keep the cycle of life going. These two worked together for months to dig out the grounds upon which to construct a ceremonial roundhouse, often ending their days over coffee. Platek: What about when we encounter a “sign” — perhaps a rare animal or bird? Native Americans have a history of doing almost nothing to protect forests, burning them at will for various purposes. Then, while in graduate school, I began studying with medicine people. It is a static model that looks to fix something and be done with it. Advanced embedding details, examples, and help! SPEDIZIONE GRATUITA su ordini idonei And it’s even being practiced competitively, like an endurance sport. Shamanic cultures focus on fostering the healing process with beliefs, attitudes, and connection to spirit. A sign is usually interpreted as a signal to take some action. Platek: When psychologist Carl Jung was feeling out of sorts, he would retreat to nature. America is given to spiritual faddism. It is a way of being, of relating to the world. Ned Farr & The Good Red Road, Venice. The practices of shamanism, which involve the skillful use of altered states of consciousness, are conservatively estimated to be forty thousand years old. What is the importance of synchronicity in our lives? His gritty but poetic account of this trip explores the challenges facing native peoples. Platek: You also said the most fundamental Native American value is reciprocity. And we all know that our bodies tend to heal themselves given time. Gray: Yes, we have become so alienated that we are destroying our own life-support systems. There is no need to subscribe to a belief system for a methodology to work. In shamanism contact with spirit is personal and immediate. It is not necessary to “believe” in shamanic work. Having experienced firsthand the power of indigenous healing, she began studying it while she completed her doctorate. In other words, our brains are wired for these nonordinary experiences. It was exactly like the one in her dream — same color, same markings. The patient sits on a beautiful sand painting and is surrounded by those close to him or her, who are singing healing songs. We need to have faith in a healer, but not blind faith. Gray: Shamanism is the use of altered states of consciousness for the purpose of healing. They can be difficult to decipher, but it’s important to pay attention to them. Grow something, and see how the earth nurtures you.”. Native American references abound throughout. But there are some exceptions: the Australian aboriginal shamans work with a kind of circular time that is taking place all at once, called the “dreamtime.”. In 1975 Kenneth Lincoln went on the road with his small daughter and four students, traveling from Los Angeles through Arizona, New Mexico, Nebraska, and the Dakotas, searching for the essence of the Indian experience in modern America. Set in the 1800's in Colorado, Oatha runs into some hard characters in a local bar as he makes his way across country to start fresh. EMBED. Gray: That would be a good start. Shamanism has been around for more than forty thousand years and continues to be used by more than 300 million indigenous people in the world today. At first I tried to ignore it and focus on the task at hand — removing the nonordinary spider. On the Good, Red Road is a short story about a man who rides into the wilderness unsure of how he'll survive it. The 1-hour Black Elk documentary, “Walking the Good Red Road: Nicholas Black Elk’s Journey to Sainthood” is now streaming Watch here! A presenter at the annual meeting of the Society of Indian Psychologists said that she had asked her grandmother what the worst insult in the Navajo language was. Nonhuman animals know that if they eat a certain insect for food, then they shouldn’t destroy the flower that feeds that insect. Perryman says that Native Americans have a history of poor land management, doing nothing to protect the forests and “burning them down at will for various purposes.” I would recommend Perryman read Native Roots: How the Indians Enriched America, by Jack McIver Weatherford. She would have to be both a Madonna, because of her motherly beauty, and Jesus Christ, because she is messianic and brings the ceremony of communion. Stream songs including "Meant to Be", "The Raven Song" and more. I might also use sage or sweetgrass; their smells trigger nonordinary states. This is the Facebook page for a band called Ned Farr & The Good Red Road. She adopted the style of the alligator, remaining still until the time came to pounce. SPEDIZIONE GRATUITA su ordini idonei When the fad has passed, the substantive practice of shamanism will remain. Her grandmother told her a phrase that translates, “He acts as if he has no relatives.” We need to focus on the relations between things, rather than just the things themselves. Gray: The traditional native values of North America are balance, harmony with nature’s cycles, gratitude, respect, and above all reciprocity: don’t take anything without giving something back. 247 likes. Modern physics seems to acknowledge the interconnectedness of all life. She asked me, “What does it mean?” I told her that deciphering meaning was the Western way to work with a dream, and that the shamanic way would be simply to remove the spider. Trama. Electric guitarist Jim Olbrys is a graduate of the New England Conservatory of Music. They took the word from the Turko-Tungusian Siberians and applied it to the role of healer in many cultures. The Quechua of Peru wait until the suffering person is sleeping and then go to the place where the trauma occurred and make a trail with cornmeal or tobacco from that place to the foot of the person’s bed so that the lost soul can find its way back. Native healing is primarily based on a form of psychology. Gray: We may notice that there is not enough synchronicity in our lives, or that we feel alienated or disconnected from ourselves and others and our surroundings. Gray: In shamanism meaningful coincidences are usually a sign that your life is in alignment and harmonized. Cuz you don’t understand that she’s in love with no one, And to the promise that you thought was in their face, On memories of an afternoon with the girl in the field, Giving everything we had except for trust, Now all that’s left in the field is snow and dust, We came so far and still had no where to go, Now matter how much I would like to grieve, And people suffer but they still will believe, believe, And stars will fall we know it’s part of the deal, Your memory is what is real with the girl in the field, Oh memories of an afternoon with the girl in the field, Tonight I [stared] looked into that sunrise, And all she has to do is touch me once so lightly, Cuz all I see in her is a lover that leaves me, She just shifts her weight and stares into my eyes, But all she has to do is touch me once so lightly, And all I see in her is a lover that leaves me, Between me and my beer and her at the bar, Like the game we played when we’d count to 10, It was then when we knew we would only find them blinded, And burned out the memory I was trying to scour, And burned out the memory that was sapping my power, Instead of this memory that I’m trying to scour, Instead of every single memory I’ve been trying to scour, Instead of the memory of that faded flower, Feeling like everything is starting to flower, Now all she's gotta do is touch me once so lightly, Cuz  all I see in her is a lover that leaves me, And it was taken by a man You used to love, Nights spent caught wide awake in its light, Is a voice that says you know It never lasts, A total eclipse of everything you thought you were, And you won’t even miss the sun with her, Now smarter than you will ever know and healthier…and funnier, Cuz you don’t even miss the sun with her, You know in time you just can’t rely, cuz, This little county line’s as far as I go, I stand beside the path, hoping to follow, And behind the trailer parks and church there’s a show, A man pulls out his gun, his wife breaks a window, And out on the Main Street they’re painting lines on the new paved road to the highway, I still wear the same coat, though I don’t wear the ring, And all the miles that you put between don’t mean anything, This is my heart and it’s beating for you, These days my old man never leaves his TV, He laughs inside his room and leaves the work to me, Everyone’s in town riding on the Ferris wheel, And folks on the corner, they argue ‘bout how the new paved road changes everything, And you’re in a strange place, some university, And you may learn that you won’t return, You didn’t see the leaves change you didn’t see them fall, It just gets colder in New York and that is all, That’s changing day by day, with less and less to say, And outside the county line is buried in the snow and I’m falling deeper, And out on the Main Street the people drive to a better life down that highway, I still wear the same face, though I don’t wear the ring, If I’m the one that you’re thinking of, And then fly…fly…fly…fly…fly…fly…fly…fly…, NED FARR: lead vocals, acoustic guitar, synth keys, CENOVIA CUMMINS: violin, piano, mandolin, organ, vocals, JIM OLBRYS: electric guitar, dobro, ambiences, vocals, additional vocals:  Stephanie S. Saunders,  Jack Rutkowski,  Adiamond Baker. Gray: I spent two years doing intensive diagnosis of patients, administering psychological tests. Platek: Do you ever do traditional Western dream analysis? Native American societies have a lived sense of the unity of all living things, as expressed in the Native American phrase “all my relations,” which has been called a prayer and a cosmology in one breath. Somewhere in all that he formed a band. But when I hear a client say, “I shouldn’t bring this up. The eight songs are about finding the path your life belongs on, and finding shelter when you stray from your path. So shamans work with dreams by going straight to the dreamtime. The Native American model is a dynamic one: the idea is not to eliminate the “bad” and replace it with the “good,” but rather to keep the balance. In one session she told me she’d had a dream the previous night in which a red spider had attached itself to her vagina. The new CD’s title Desert Motel sums up the overall “concept” behind this album. If we are lucky enough to have an animal come to us as a sign, then we can think about the medicine ways of that animal. Shamans in the Pacific Northwest use “soul catchers”: gourds or carved wooden cylinders. Oglala Sioux medicine man and holy man, Black Elk, spoke of the all the people on the red road as being one interconnected circle of people that made a sacred hoop. Had we included that value in the prevailing culture from the beginning, I dare say we would not be in the ecological mess we are in today. Gray: One woman I treated was a psychotherapist who was struggling with career and relationship issues and described herself as “depressed.” When we began meeting, she would cry for most of the two hours. As more people turn inward for understanding, the world will change, and change for the better. I encounter a lot of people who are good at what they do but haven’t found a way to channel those talents toward a path that’s congruent with who they are inside. For more info about his movies go to The Red Road Studio. I believe these practices teach us about the healthiest way to be here, the healthiest attitude to have toward our home. Several times during our conversation Gray emphasized the importance of nature in the healing process. In On Synchronicity and the Paranormal, Carl Jung relates that same experience with a woman who dreamed of a scarab and then became amenable to therapy when he heard such a beetle at his window and showed it to her. Gray: Absolutely. Everything that I have in this office space, I chose for its natural beauty. We might think of this as trickery or sleight of hand, designed to fool the patient, but consider this: the American Medical Association says that 65 percent of people who show up in the doctor’s office are suffering from some sort of psychosomatic illness. Usually that will get people’s dreams moving and give them healing dreams. This “shamanistic complex” has been found around the globe, in cultures that have never had any contact with each other. Gray: Yes, don’t take anything without giving something back. Shamanic cultures understand this, though they wouldn’t use the term “psychosomatic.” For them it is the spiritual nature of an illness that needs to be addressed. The creatures began to speak to her about how they can live in two worlds: land and water. Platek: Are there common practices in shamanism regardless of geographic location or cultural heritage? For me, incorporating the sacred into my work is a question of responding to what clients are asking for, rather than dismissing their concerns. Mainstream medicine, despite its limitations, is far from being a “negative model” hostile to health. In each issue of The Sun you’ll find some of the most radically intimate and socially conscious writing being published today. Listen to The Good Red Road by The Eagle and The Raven band on Apple Music. Gray: To begin with, we would experience an increased vitality and sense of belonging. If we are stuck in ordinary reality, then we are likely stuck in the dreamtime as well. Some people have the idea that we create our own reality, but this notion is disrespectful to the universe. Synchronicities are indications that we are in right relation with what is around us. The first winners were a tribal elder from the last piece of continuously occupied Native land in California and a university professor. I had to hide this, because the academic environment at the time was not supportive of “alternative” healing. Western medicine accounts for only about 10 percent of the world’s healing today. Feeling good is wonderful. When these anthropologists’ writings began to appear in print, it brought shamanism into the public eye. In Native American languages there is no word for “art.” It is simply assumed that if you are going to make something, you will make it as beautiful as possible. Platek: How do you put yourself into a nonordinary state? Farther north, among the Inuit, the guardian spirit is in male human form for a female shaman and in female human form for a male shaman. On the Good, Red Road - Kindle edition by Crouch, Blake. Do you think it is important for us to reconnect to our original roots in order to feel a stronger relationship with the earth? Give in to the temptation. With Martin Henderson, Jason Momoa, Julianne Nicholson, Tamara Tunie. Because music is the shit. I have nothing against technology, but technology should not be in the driver’s seat; it should serve human values. Western psychology says that when something changes in your life, it will be reflected in your dreams. ), Finally, when I read Gray’s account of the client who’d dreamed about a spider, and then Gray picked one up from her pillow “exactly like the one” in the woman’s dream, I became suspicious. Rocks, animals, the earth, and so on are seen as having spirits. Platek: What if someone came to you who did not believe in anything except the rational tenets of Western psychology and medicine? My good red road and yours should look nothing alike, because each is congruent with who we are. There is an excellent book recently published by the American Psychological Association called Varieties of Anomalous Experience. Mr. Farr's band is a quintet, with a punch-the-clock rhythm section, a fluid lead guitar, and a violin that sounds like an unwired Jean-Luc Ponty. When we are dealing with someone who supposedly has great wisdom and understanding, the first question to ask is: “When I leave this person after having received his or her teaching or treatment, do I feel more powerful or less powerful?” When working with a real shaman, we should feel stronger, rather than dependent upon the shaman’s power. Ray Corngrower Saga Book 4. Nonhuman animals know that if they eat a certain insect for food, then they shouldn’t destroy the flower that feeds that insect. (Guardian angels in Christianity may be vestiges of this tradition.) We can’t indulge in that narrow-minded viewpoint any longer. It assumes that we sometimes go out of balance, and good health depends on restoring that balance. It can be difficult to hold on to that feeling when something untoward happens. In fact, that is primarily what I have done for years. Western medicine is lagging behind native methods, having only recently begun treating the physical and the mental together. But we shouldn’t be alone all the time. Gray: Yes, I do. Gray: Yes, when people do that, they are not really grounded. The rest is accomplished by some form of traditional healing. Most of our current psychology has a complete disregard for humans’ relationship to the environment. There is simply nothing like her in Old World spirituality. A turtle carries its home on its back, for instance, and remains stationary when there is danger. The techniques either get results or they don’t. Another near-universal idea is the phenomenon of soul loss and soul retrieval. The techniques I’ve learned might not work for someone else, though. Gray: As I said earlier, it has become a fad, just like yoga. Such therapy techniques are not uncommon, as people bring their fears with them everywhere. Let me give an example of someone ignoring a sign: I once worked with “Lydia,” a woman who wanted to obtain a power animal — a type of guardian spirit. She was completing a fellowship at Harvard University and following a traditional path toward a doctorate in clinical psychology when she suffered a neck injury in a car accident. I met Gray for this interview in her office in San Francisco’s Russian Hill neighborhood. I decided to move to the West Coast and take some time to sort things through. This is different from just feeling happy or healthy. Rather we are looking for the sense that life is flowing along the way it should be. I took the spider, released it outdoors, and then returned to the extraction of the spirit spider. She felt like an eagle. I saw my path. Mr, Farr's vocal is the fulcrum, with the band rising and falling in volume and tempo as the emotional landscape changes. That may seem simple, but it isn’t. The burning of grasslands (not forests) contributed to soil replenishing, while taboos prevented deforestation. There is no North American Indian word for “earth” or “nature” that is pejorative. I began to walk back down the hill with a feeling of balance and beauty in every step. This is the Holy Land, and we should therefore rely upon nature’s example in formulating a model of mental health. Only you … Signs require reflection and interpretation. It changed him visibly. When she returned from that trip, Lydia began to apply these qualities to a dilemma in her life. We are neither making life happen, nor is life simply forcing us to do things. This was SundanceTV's second fully owned scripted original series; the first was Rectify. Platek: What are some traditional values of this continent that might help us feel more grounded and more at home here? The question is: Would it have been better to focus the work on getting the patient to safety? The professor learned from the elder and was greatly affected by her feeling for the land on which her people had lived for millennia. The native people made use of storm-felled wood from previous years and did not often cut down large trees, as European settlers did when they clear-cut woods to make one simple house. Cannon also explored the aboriginal phenomenon of “bone pointing” — that is, an aboriginal sorcerer points a bone at someone, and within a few days that person dies. It’s the mind’s belief that triggers the body’s reaction. What would light possibly shine out of, if not darkness? Frequently I will give a client a power object to place under his or her pillow at night. But it is not the same thing as feeling synchronous or in alignment. She reported feeling more energy, actively pursued job interviews, sought new relationships, and no longer described herself as depressed. In this regard we can learn a lot by incorporating the image of White Buffalo Calf Woman, the bringer of all the sacred rights to the peoples of the plains, into our American spiritual story. Shamanism says that when something changes in your dreams, it will be reflected in your life. As I utilized the sonic driving of the rattle to enter a state of nonordinary consciousness, I noticed a spider crawling up the pillow I was seated upon. Western psychology says that when something changes in your life, it will be reflected in your dreams. I am thinking of a woman who had several visits from a large turtle at a time when she was moving through her life at high speed and needed to slow down. It rarely treats the spiritual at any time. Recent research shows that someone in a hospital room with a view of trees will recover more quickly than someone who has no such view. Most of our current psychology has a complete disregard for humans’ relationship to the environment. The so-called mundane may be the very key that opens the cage in which we find ourselves. Gray: They would have found my experience peculiar and certainly not “real” psychology. Black Elk said that where the Good Red Road intersects the Hard Black Road, that place is Holy and there springs the Sacred Tree of Life, which in man could be called realization. I felt more integrated, rather than emotionally fragmented. Thinking there’s nothing else we’d rather hold, Thinking this is the best thing we ever had, But you could say that every boardwalk summer love is just pretending that, Thinking there’s no one else we’d rather hold, And found out how much love our hearts could hold, Still seems to be the best thing that we could have ever had, Living life with a little shine from a band of gold, Ten years ago you were the same...and I came to you and felt this way, And forgot to let go when you turned away, And stumble out of empty bars, chasing love’s, While you’re looking for the man behind the clown, Without a heart and mind there’s no magic in it anymore, While you’re still looking for the man behind the clown makeup, And though our lives took away all the dreaming, If through the years you find yourself fading, If you feel run down, if you feel stressed out, well, The mystery of the life that we’re living, Is how much time we have before the end of the line, You and me can get together one last time, Remember Jo, long ago we would lay on the ground, And we could feel the earth underneath spinning round and round and round, You ignored the warning signs that he gave, It’s the pain behind the smile that you crave, But you don’t understand that he’s in love with no one, You don’t understand that he’s in love with no one, I’ve been saying all along you would pay, ‘Cuz you don’t understand that she’s in love with no one, You don’t understand that she’s in love with no one, It’s funny how beating hearts can ricochet. Most shamanic cultures see this nonordinary reality as divided into three worlds: an upper, a middle, and a lower. If someone comes to therapy to overcome a fear of flying, for example, there are some cognitive-behavioral approaches that work wonders. I know how to recognize psychosis, and it involves a great deal more than just the presence of visions. They’d need to learn what to do directly from their own helping spirits. Anyway, when I told Lydia that her power animal was an alligator, she was visibly disappointed. Gray: Yes, that goes back to the difference between the Western model and the shamanic one. Perryman calls attention to the similarity between Jung’s account of finding a scarab and Gray’s account of finding a spider, but that doesn’t detract from Gray’s ideas or methods. Someone might hear a song on the radio and take it as a sign to quit his or her job. The good red road : passages into native America Item Preview remove-circle Share or Embed This Item. Produced by Evan Richey and Ned Farr Songs by Ned Farr, Recorded and mixed by Evan Richey at Ovation Sound, String arrangements by Cenovia Cummins & Ned Farr, MORE MUSIC BY NED FARR & THE GOOD RED ROAD. He had a very ethereal notion of spirit. The therapist interprets the dream as being about the patient’s fear of aspects of her inner life. From an indigenous point of view, transformation takes place reciprocally and invokes the whole culture. All rights reserved. WHAT IS THE RED ROAD? Gray: Our sacred path. Twenty years after making our first album we decided it was time to make a third. Platek: New York Times columnist David Brooks said in a recent piece that transcendent experiences can be identified and measured in the brain. I tried to tell Lydia about the medicine ways of alligators, but she wasn’t willing to hear it, and she went on her way. The Chukchi people in Russia say, “Everything that is, is alive.” In contrast, we have created artificial environments that enable us to forget that we inhabit a living planet. Furthermore, I had deliberately sought out a shaman in order to receive a vision, which is quite different from walking down the street and hearing a voice that tells you to walk into oncoming traffic. Many indigenous cultures trace illnesses or life troubles to a loss of pieces of our soul. Platek: You said earlier that illness occurs when we are out of balance. Gray: The Euro-American school of psychology has Christian underpinnings. Were we still a band? Created by Aaron Guzikowski. The cross at the entrance to the Pueblo church is centered, like the cross dividing the medicine wheel into four equal quarters. 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