 |
View source |
 |
|
|
# 2023-08-22 - Restoring Ourselves to Beauty |
|
|
|
Interesting excerpt from Blossom of Bone by Randy P. Conner: |
|
|
|
Holger Kalweit, who compares shamanic experiences cross-culturally, |
|
explains that they "invoke a deautomization of ordinary |
|
consciousness." He continues, "A shamanic technique may be anything |
|
that disrupts and confuses the normal stream of thoughts, the |
|
habitual experience of the emotions." In certain ways, the process |
|
of coming out as a gay person resembles the deautomization process |
|
undertaken by the shaman. |
|
|
|
The patriarchal male body is a weapon, a suit of armor, a machine. |
|
Like the female body in patriarchal ideology, it is also an object. |
|
We seek to reclaim its fluidity, its tenderness, its wholeness, what |
|
some have chosen to describe as its femininity, its androgyny. |
|
|
|
[Rob] Dobson suggests that dancing helps loosen patriarchy's chains, |
|
inspires us to reclaim and celebrate our bodies, and opens the door |
|
to new worlds. "May we reclaim our bodies from the culture which |
|
has tried to possess them for so long," he chants, "May we restore |
|
ourselves to beauty." |
|
|
|
[ |
|
For some reason this brings to mind another quote: |
|
"You don't have a soul. You ARE a soul. You HAVE a body." |
|
] |
|
|
|
From: Blossom of Bone by Randy P. Conner |
|
author: Conner, Randy P. |
 |
detail: https://lgbtqreligiousarchives.org/profiles/randy-conner |
|
LOC: BL65.H64 C66 |
|
tags: book,non-fiction,queer |
|
title: Blossom of Bone |
|
|
|
# Tags |
|
|
 |
book |
|
non-fiction |
|
queer |
