JC> JK> It isn't a philosophical question, but merely one about the mineral
JC> JK> content of the human body and of the foods we eat. We are finally
JC> JK> coming around to the knowledge that we have a long way to go in this
JC> JK> direction.
JC> That is true. And I suspect that we will always have a long way to go.
JC> After all we have only been on this earth for several million years now
JC> and the more we learn the more we find out we don't know. I stopped
JC> worrying about it long ago. Maybe one of these days someone (anyone from 

JC> shaman to a "faith healer" to a scientist will do) will find a cure for
JC> the common cold.
Or why aspirin works.
JC> Don't know much about psychic research. Not high on my list of "things to
JC> know about". There was a "Town Hall" (local Portland, Oregon discussion
JC> show) about things like that. Mostly exposing the hoaxes. Reminds me 
gain
JC> of the joke about levitation. Or the guy that has the "million dollar" 
et
JC> for anyone that cares to demonstrate their psychic powers to bend spoons
JC> and stuff.
Why would anyone want to bend spoons in any fashion?
JC> James Selam is an adjunct prof at U of W. Born in 1919. As far as I know,
JC> still living.  Co-author (with Eugene Hunn) of "Nch'i-Wana - Big River"
JC> about Mid-Columbia River Indians. His picture is on page 10 in my 
paperback
JC> version. Excellent book. I always watch for lectures given by Hunn or 
Selam
JC> but always manage to miss them.
Not the man.  The old man with the braids lives in Canada.  He is not a
tame city Indian at all.
JC> I find it interesting that they would call the meeting a "Medicine 
heel".
JC> Medicine wheels are not a Pacific Northwest tradition. Hunn and Selam 
don't
JC> mention them. Actually, I suspect that in most/many cases the term has 
been
JC> misappropriated by "New Agers" or Sun Bear's organization. I, personally,
JC> would be real hesitant in attending _anything_ called a "Medicine Wheel". 
I
JC> it was sanctioned by the University and/or nearby tribes it would have
JC> _some_ credibilty. If it was just "using" the University in an attempt to
JC> _establish_ some modicum of legitimacy?... Naughty, naughty.
Not using it at all.  The idea was to bring in traditional medicine
pracitioners to talk with the folks who are into Western medicine.
As a result, we have doctors around here who prescribe herbal remedies
today.  I call that progress.
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