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   From: dalton@nfld.com   
      
   What’s the connection with New Zealand?   
      
   Well, I claim to have a region extending from 12 km below the   
   geoid to 255,000 km above the geoid, partly based on the   
   distance from here in St. John’s, Newfoundland to   
   Vancouver, British Columbia where I spent ten years   
   in The Department of Geophysics and Astronomy at UBC,   
   partly based on the extent of the Internet, and partly   
   based on the travels of my main human inspirer, Sarah   
   McLachlan, including the following incident:   
      
   On the night of January 29, 1995, I think the night before   
   new moon, I was in Vancouver and Sarah and her   
   friend Crystal Heald, who I had never seen, were on   
   holiday in New Zealand. I fantasized about both of them   
   while listening to the version of Sarah’s song Mary that   
   is on her CD The Freedom Sessions (the usual version   
   is on Fumbling Towards Ecstasy) after forming a   
   letter S out of houseplants, candles, and special objects.   
   I achieved my peak ever orgasm, a factor 100, which   
   was a whole body and brain radiative Kundalini wave   
   orgasm that lasted a while. (10=excellent).   
      
   And from my past writing, I see that the night of   
   March 15/16, 1995, I woke up sensing a great   
   wave of energy coming from I thought the   
   southwest and guessed Hawaii, or Phoenix Islands,   
   or New Zealand, or the middle of El Nino. But   
   now I think it came from Sarah in Kerrisdale,   
   when I was in Kitsilano at the time (both are   
   regions in Vancouver). But that would have   
   been from the southeast.   
      
   You might also be interested in the thread   
   "Neil Young -- Like a Hurricane"   
   on alt.native , in which I speculate that Sarah may   
   have a Beothuk maternal line through her birth   
   mother, who I think is originally from Howley on   
   the west coast of Newfoundland. I doubt that   
   I have any native blood but when I was on   
   the thorns I said “let this atone for the deaths   
   of the Beothuk people”. But i don’t plan to   
   indulge in any cultural appropriation but   
   instead after I come out of the low years will   
   investigate druidism, traditional witchcraft, and   
   celtic shamanism. Also I use the term   
   species someone instead of totemic spirit   
   and SSOSOSS (species someone of other species   
   of significant sign) instead of power animal. And   
   I use the term sun stare for my sun stare instead   
   of calling it a sun dance (though I think the Lakota   
   may call it a sun gazing dance). And I will not   
   start a religion or join one.   
      
   Also in September 1985, when I was newly arrived in   
   Vancouver, I got lost and wandered to the edge of   
   the Musqueam reserve and saw the no trespassing   
   sign and turned around, but also saw the white clapboard   
   houses that reminded me of home in outport   
   Newfoundland. From then on I knew I was on stolen   
   land and that I think contributed to my long mild   
   depression of 1986, when there was a gathering   
   of people from around the world at Expo 86. It   
   was also during a low of the sunspot cycle, which   
   we are in again, so I don’t expect to come out of   
   the low years this week but hope that I will.   
      
   Anyway, it seems that even if I am an avatar type I   
   am helpless without the blessing of the devi type.   
      
   Good night/morning (4:42 a.m. Sept. 14, 2018 here).   
      
   --   
   David Dalton dalton@nfld.com http://www.nfld.com/~dalton (home page)   
   http://www.nfld.com/~dalton/dtales.html Salmon on the Thorns (mystic page)   
   “Coming into season this world will flower   
   With the power of love, not the love of power" (Mae Moore)   
      
   --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05   
    * Origin: you cannot sedate... all the things you hate (1:229/2)