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# 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." | |
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For some reason this brings to mind another quote: | |
"You don't have a soul. You ARE a soul. You HAVE a body." | |
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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 | |
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book | |
non-fiction | |
queer |