Stories of the weekly dance of body - spirit - mind, cutting wood for the sweatlodge ceremony.
David Rodman has designed world-class software products for companies like AT&T and RCA Global Communications, as well as creating the first database management system for personal computers. An accomplished musician and experienced mediator, David is also a dedicated practitioner of the Lakota spiritual path, a Sun Dancer. These stories relate the observations, adventures, explorations and encounters that arise during his weekly practice cutting wood for the sweatlodge ceremony. It's a dance of the rational and spiritual, logical and mysterious.
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If you have a problem with that word “unconscious”, as I certainly do, it may help to look at it this way: Conscious is to unconscious as cola is to uncola. It’s not a kind of consciousness – 7Up is not a kind of Coke. The unconscious is NOT conscious. It’s all that other stuff. Symbols, as Jung describes them, live in the interface between those two worlds and draw our attention to what lies beyond the portal.
Because we have an opportunity to choose our attitude and focus our intentions in the present moment, the world and our own personal lives are a reflection of our thoughts. It is our 360 degree review on how we think. Put simply, our job is to fully
