Towards An Anthroperapy
Wallace Darwen Brindle, D.A.T.A.
[Discussions In Anthropological Therapy and Analysis]
Anthroperapy Founder
North American Association of Anthroperapists
Introductory Readings, Two: http://www.geocities.com/onein10thouman/foundpoets.html
Introductory Readings, One
p. 258, The Golden Age of American Anthropology,
Geo. Braziller,
Pub.
1960, New York, Margaret Mead and Ruth L. Bunzel editors
The
Doctrine Of The Ghost Dance
[] You must not fight
[] Do no harm to anyone
[] Do right always -- Woroka
The great
underlying principle of the Ghost dance doctrine is that the
time will come when
the whole Indian race, living and dead, will be
reunited upon a
regenerated earth, to live a life of aboriginal happiness,
forever free from
death, disease, and misery. On this foundation each
believer has filled
in the details according to his own mental capacity or
ideas of happiness,
with such additions as come to him from the trance.
Some changes, also,
have undoubtedly resulted from the transmission of
the doctrine through
the imperfect medium of the sign language. The
differences of interpretation
are precisely such as we find in Christianity,
with its hundreds
of sects and innumerable shades of individual opinion.
The white race,
being alien and secondary and hardly real, has no part
in this scheme of
aboriginal regeneration, and will be left behind with the
other things of
earth that have served their temporary purpose, or else
will cease entirely
to exist.
