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   From: dalton@nfld.com   
      
   On Nov 2, 2022, David Dalton wrote   
   (in article<0001HW.29123573000ACED470000A41238F@88.198.57.247>):   
      
   > I just want to note that once when I saw an indigenous dancer   
   > at the Arts and Culture Centre here in St. John’s, Newfoundland   
   > and he was wearing an eagle feather headdress and had his   
   > back to me, the resultant cone of feathers reminded me of the   
   > (higher dimensional) tunnelling beyond the sun that I observed   
   > during my sun stare of September 5, 1991 in Vancouver, BC.   
      
   Actually I can’t remember if it was a headdress or if he was just   
   using feathers in his dance and they briefly formed a cone.   
   (I don’t have a very good visual memory.)   
      
   And of course I don’t recommend that anyone stare at the sun,   
   I didn’t suffer eye damage only because I am extremely nearsighted   
   and had discarded my glasses, so the focus would have formed   
   off my retina, and it was brief, and I was inspired and manic and   
   may have had narrowed pupils, and it was not long before sunset.   
      
   But the Lakota Sun Gazing Dance may commemorate a similar   
   past event, or more than one.   
      
   I wonder if Sarah McLachlan’’s birth mom is Qalipu Mi’kmaq?   
   (Her song Into the Fire partly inspired my sun stare.)   
      
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   David Dalton dalton@nfld.com https://www.nfld.com/~dalton (home page)   
   https://www.nfld.com/~dalton/dtales.html Salmon on the Thorns (mystic page)   
   "I'm on my way/And I must flag the last train down"   
   https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_x0jjvslUuY (Bill Bourne - Baggins)   
      
   --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05   
    * Origin: you cannot sedate... all the things you hate (1:229/2)