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November 2009 
2019 AD: (Superstuct Reality... ) Of Crows & Ghost Dances
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So this never happened before.. right outside our window in the early morning, a Crow; caw caw cawing... I am still sleeping and it enters me as an alarm...alarming. With our "Ravenous" Superthreat leaning heavily upon us, my Crow is doing the screaming -hungry CAW.
It left me rattled and I came into full wakefulness bothered by the Ghost Dances again. I don't think much or often about the fact that the Ghost Dances have started up again but when I do it's kind of haunting for sure.
I jumped on my bike to go swim in the ocean (one of my very best ways to shake stuff off). As I went to pull my lock from my bag, one of our precious glass Mason jars 'jumped' out and smashed all over the ground.... I AM spooked.. In the end I don't exactly swim in the ocean. I flail about yelling and roaring at the top of my lungs (crashing surf is just great for that kind of auditory privacy and you don't even look weird!!). That's what it took to restore some kind of equilibrium. So the world will end in 2042 or 2070 but at least the ocean has its same awesome restorative powers.
*~*~*~~* "Some of the many vocalizations that crows make are a "caw", usually echoed back and forth between birds, a series of "caws" in discrete units, counting out numbers, a long caw followed by a series of short caws (usually made when a bird takes off from a perch), an echo-like "eh-aw" sound, and more....Loud, throaty "caw-aw-ah"'s are usually used to indicate hunger or to mark territory. " (Wiki)
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Very interesing! What do you mean the Ghost Dances have started again? It makes me think of Native American Ghost Dances, is that what you mean?
Hi Jessica, Yes! this is a reference to the Native American Indian Ghost Dance, a tradition that can be traced to prehistoric times. In this context however I am role-playing myself in the year 2019, posting as part of a'Game' (Superstruct) that is running for 6 weeks with the intention of distilling some optimum resolutuion-type responses to all the many challenges that confront us at this time on our planet.
The Game designers set some parameters from which participants can enact, and one thing I read was that Ghost Dance events have been reported (as a Game participant, you make of that what you will… ) Since I do really have a relationship with Wounded Knee Lakota (building sustainable housing with them out there now - 2008), when I think of Ghost Dance, I tend to more readily think of how the Lakota Sioux adopted the Ghost Dance with the belief that their shirts had special powers through which bullets could not pass.. This was cited as being an integral tragic part of the Wounded Knee Massacre of 1890.. So all I did was wove that emotional feeling state into my Superstruct (Year 2019) story.