Revisiting "Planetary Shamanism"

“I hunched in the dark green, dry conifer trees above the Banff cliff -- fresh from the mineral baths -- looking down at a beautifully colorful public ceremony.  As the dancers left the central ring, an ‘official’ medicine man took the microphone.  When he held aloft a proud eagle feather, saying ‘This is very sacred to my people,’ I felt as though I kn…