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[Tamash]

Hi Lewis, I have been mulling over your Program Overview for a week
and am trying to think what and how I could contribute. As you know,
I am not into healing patients individually, though Toni is. Yet, in
so far as the communal and cultural setting is decisive and
inseparable from the human biological unit, I am hoping to support
healing by promoting culture change in a sick society through the
book I am writing. Our interests, I believe, significantly overlap,
yours centered on healing and traditional societies, and mine centered
on re-establishing the social core of pre-neolithic culture at a
higher level of complexity and a much larger scale. I believe your
healing framework might benefit from being modestly supplemented by
the kinds of things in which I am interested. I will upload the draft
of a paper I have written in which I have included a 7-page section
about what I have learned from your books and your Hawai'i seminar of
a few weeks ago. I start the paper with a note on the page numbers
directly referring to narratives and healing, followed by their
setting within 11 pages on all pre-neolithic cultural survivals. This
in turn is set within what the book intends to communicate about the
cultural transformation required for a sane society capable of moving
toward sustainable development, 27 pages in all. The draft as a whole
includes a section on how the interweaving of science and education
in an information society (written largely by a co-author) might be
used as a lever for promoting culture change. An earlier version of
this draft, with fewer pre-neolithic survivals and without the
narrative/healing discussion which is brand new, has come out during
the Summer in Hungary, in a publication similar to the U.S. Atlantic
magazine. In the book, I hope to expand the healing section
significantly, showing how the integration of modern and traditional
healing might be used as another lever helping to move us toward a
more sane and sustainable world. I will give a lecture series during
the Spring semester at Cornell's Department of City and Regional
Planning about all this, of course including healiing. I have been so
busy since November preparing the ground for a first lecture at the
end of the Fall semester that I have been unable to participate in the
Coyotewisdom exchange, but have been following it and badly missing
the group. Toni and I are looking forward to jumping in very soon now
that things are quieting down. We look forward to seeing you at the
Open Center lectures Friday and Sunday in New York, hoping that maybe
Ilana might also be there. Warm greetings to you and all in the
group, Tamash

[Lewis MehlMadrona]

Thanks for your comments. I agree with you about the cultural piece in all this, and look forward to reading your material.  I think we do need to struggle to bring tribal elements into our work in a kind of post-modern way.  I'll look forward to what you have to say about Hawai'i.  And also to seeing you Friday night.  I called you back today and Toni answered and I hope she gave you my message.

 

Lewis