For those of you who do not know, I entered the
program in the 5th week.  Since then my mind's eye and
heart has been brewing at a new frequency as I am
setting intentions and solidifying my trip to Peru.  
As to be expected, my original ideas in joining this
class are transforming....my roots are taking hold,
and the core of my essence is discovering the
connection to  the peripheral veins of ideas. 

To find the interconnection to all things in which
surround us, to walk with awareness to shift this
paradigm.

Many indigenous cultures throughout this world suffer
from the effects of globilization, and the influence
of main stream westernization.  
How does a village experience displacement and
disallusionment of assimulation into a more
"civilized' context?  How does one remain empowered to
maintain their cultural identity when socially being
oppressed by the conceptual boundries of a nation
state as imperialism and globilization are now one.   

In the last couple weeks a chinese dialect was lost as
the last woman to have learned this language passed. 
It was a language spoken amongst ONLY women.  The Han,
supporting only Mandarin, now predominates in China.  

How do we support the diversity of people, lingustics,
and the environment.  How do we allow it to remain
alive rather than the spreading desert of english
speaking corporate supremacy.  What does it mean to be
American?
Is there something beyond what we have been
conditioned to believe to be the truth of our
existence in middle America

How do we shift the paradigm in which we, Americans
live as we, as a whole, are becoming so far removed
from nature:  from the food we eat to our impact of
the whole.  
 
How can we support and encourage identity and
diversity, sustain traditional living, and means of 
communication, community, communion;  
To sense the patterns that transforms and guides us on
the river of existance,
To explore the interconnection between all that there
is and that surrounds us,   
The relationship one has to life in which enters the
body, the air we breath, the song we sing or chant. 
What is the context of spirituality and relationship
to the natural elemental patterns which surrounds us. 
  

I am currently working for the Center of World
Indegenous Studies and Center of Traditional Medicine.
  My research is focused around present health care
issues, (specifically Diabetes) and reeducation around
ethnonutrition and ethnobotony within the Native
tribes in the Pacific Northwest.  There is also a
research component in a blind study in treating Native
American with dymensia using various forms of
traditional modalities of healing.  

I will also be participating in biweekly native
american ceremonies on the peninsula.  This will
further my studies in exploring various forms of
healing rituals.  I have found in my past experiences
with my studies in Asian healing practices and
Integrated Five Element Nutrition and Craniosacral
therapy have many interconnections to Native American
healing practices and energetic relationship to the
surroundings and would like explore these further.  
I will use painting as my medium to express my
experiences.

I will be facilitating in winter quarter, before I
leave, a guided journey using breath, movement and
sound.  This will incorporate live music and the
willingness of you to go to deep places of resonance,
states of consciouness to trancend ego.  I must
emphasize, this does NOT include the use of
hallucinagens. 

I will also take a 10 week component in Peru where I
will be focusing around cultural relationship to
plant, spirit, medicine and Ethnobotony.  I feel that
this relationship is essential to maintain diversity
and sustainable living in the modern context. 
I am also interested in how music and song plays a
role in healing.  The exploration of these
relationship plays an intergral role in the ability to
make the connection in the patterns within what we
know as sacred geometry.  This inner ties to my
further  observations in ecosystem patterns within
permaculture principles, and Eco-village design.  
Eco-village and permaculture design are ideas based
off of these traditional ways of living and
fundamentals of flow patterns.  It is a modern concept
to help educate in a more 'sustainable' methods.  I
will immerse myself into the culture as much as
possible and just live the daily life of the village I
converge with on my path.  I will explore place and
identity of a culture, remaining open to what may be
and learn from.  
Though, I do want to see some of the Ancient Runes to
observe some of the design structures and layout of
these ancient civilizations.  (Similarly, some of the
Anasazi villages in the Four Corners area have some of
the more inspiring influences on Eco-village design
principles.)

It is always in my intention to be proactive in my
community.  I have have just moved to Oly this quarter
and am still networking.  But will return to the
states with the intentions to apply what I have
learned from these earth based traditions to
contributing to the reeducation of our modern world to
remember a deeper connection of living through their
relationship to their surroundings.  This will be
through structured education gardens in school systems
in all age groups, from nutrition, chemistry , or
basis natural science in middle schools. I would also
like to encourage cultural connections, how do we
teach cross cultural education in America.
but In the interim, I would like to begin teaching
some workshops on permaculture, human ecology,
ecovillage design, and wilderness awareness skills
before I leave.  Let me know if anyone is interested. 

As far as bibliographies are concerned, I have a lot
of compiled books that I will be resourcing from.  I
will compile the list later this week.  But for now I
felt like I needed to check in since I have not been
in the class.  Sorry the email was so long..

If anyone has any suggestions please contact me.  I
would enjoy networking with other folks who are
interested in the work that I am exploring.

jayne