Interview Clips from the Last Ghost Dancer

First Interview: Sidney Hasnohorses Introduction

Interview Clips: Peyote, Spiritual Doubt, Family Conflict, and Indigenous Way of Life

 

Interview Clips – Medicine Man: Consciousness in the Plant and Animal Nations

Interview Clips, Lakota Medicine Man: Spirit Travel and visitations from the World Behind his One

Interview Clips: Kitchen Table Talks – Hunting, Humor, & Hallucinogens

Interview Clips – Lakota Medicine Man Reveals both his Sordid and Profoundly Spiritual Past

Interview Clip : Professor Dale Stover on Lakota Religious Identity & cultural conflicts.

Interview Clips: Peyote, Spiritual Doubt, Family Conflict, and Indigenous Way of Life

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Newsletter Re-Boot – No Holding Back : Documentary Adventure and a Living Religion

In other words, the documentary adventure has led to the heart of a mystical religion. And,the filmmakers are attempting to engage the rituals and teachings on all levels available to the human mind (physically, psychologically, intellectually, and spiritually). In other words, this documentary process has become an opportunity to evaluate the very nature of consciousness and whether modern indigenous people have saved this knowledge for all of humanity (link to Sidney’s quote).  

The Newsletter began with family and friends.

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History of the Documentary in Progress: First Interview

History of the Documentary in Progress:

Sidney HasNoHorse (link website) is a authentic, modern-day medicine man. He is genuine, spiritual and yet tragically complicated.

The night of the first interview, the filmmakers (link bio page on website) were stunned on many levels. And we continue to unravel the meaning beneath the legends, rituals, and ceremonies still holding together an indigenous mind and its earth-religion.

Upon walking into the crowded kitchen for the first time, there was almost an immediate tearing apart of perceptions, expectations, and cultural morays. An innately mystical mood hung over the house and grounds as the circle prepared for ceremony. And, for reasons that would take years to understand, there was also an intense anticipation of imminent violence.

Heyoka: Original Painting by Sidney Hasnohorse

That modern anxiety, however would diminish behind a thick and mystical mood as the ceremonial mind was building before our eyes.

The first hour-long interview (http://youtu.be/WLAF2aAfkzA) was honest, extemporaneous, and rich in culture and spirituality. To the sound of dogs wailing, and wind howling through the plywood shacks, we sacrificed tobacco to the fire and asked the Ancestors for permission to learn from their Medicine Man; aspects of the Lakota mind and spirit few people ever experience.

In that way, an authentic medicine man with ties to the most powerful warriors and healers of the colonial age began to emerge before our eyes. And he spoke in traditional cadence and stentorian tone giving us a powerful interview that most filmmakers wait a lifetime to experience.

We knew we had a fascinating character study of a powerful indigenous person at a critical point in our shared history (#SageRope) ; and in the life cycle of our shared environment.

At this point in the relationship between filmmaker and Medicine Man, we sit around that same kitchen table and discuss how the language of quantum physics (#QuantumIndian) fits well with the Lakota Legends and worldview.

Sidney Hasnohorse: Bare Butte Interview – Sillouette

When we meet this fall I will confirm that Sidney approves the hashtag, #QuantumIndian, to organize the tweets and posts dealing with cosmology and consciousness.

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A Diversion from Lakota Cosmology and Social Media Studies

Laying a foundation for something interesting . . .

HALLOWEEN, ALL SAINTS DAY AND ALL SOULS DAY

From the early centuries of Christianity, Nov. 1 and 2 have been observed as days to remember the dead. This remembrance most likely originated in Celtic lands where this time of year marks the beginning of death in nature. By the 5th century CE in Rome, there was a festival for all the saints celebrated in the Pantheon, a Roman temple dedicated to all the gods.

Eventually Nov. 1 was marked as a day to remind the Christian faithful that they are in communion with all who have gone before them especially those who have lived holy lives but who are not canonized as saints. From this, Nov. 2 became a day more focused on all the dead, hence called All Souls Day.

All over Europe and in South America these two days are celebrated with visits to the cemeteries and by special commemorations in church to remember the dead. All Saints Day is marked by the Catholic Church as a special feast day. In many churches, it is customary to have a “book of remembrance” in which people write the names of their loved ones to be prayed for especially all during November.

Halloween (All Hallows Eve, the night before All Saints Day) is an American popular spin-off from these ancient days of prayer. With the focus on the deceased, the notions of “witches and goblins” came to be a part of this secular custom.

Sidney Has No Horses Documentary

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Metaphysics, Spirituality, and Devine Discontent: The Director’s Initial Motivation

Heyoka, Painting by Sidney Hasnohorse

Sidney is a Heyoka

This begins the first of 2 narratives we will tell here and on our Social Media Platforms [@DocHasNoHorse & Facebook].

The first Narrative Stream is the story about two modern-humans first lured into filmmaking by very different projects (#Landscape and #SocialJustice); only to find themselves bound to a much more powerful, 5-year, #DocumentaryAdventure. We will start here with the Director’s personal motivation/s; and end with the blending of Quantum Consciousness and Lakota Cosmology. [Consciousness Topic Organized Under: #QuantumIndian]

We will begin by providing a few definitions:

Wikapedia – Metaphysics is a traditional branch of philosophy concerned with explaining the fundamental nature of being and the world that encompasses it. Although, the term is not easily defined and is highly debated.

 

 

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Why First Synopsis

After seeing Simon Sinek’s [ @simonsinek ] TED Talk I began changing my approach to to all the artist descriptions and Synopses I’ve been writing. I am a convert and here is the latest draft of the Synopsis.

Synopsis:

Sidney Hasnohorse is a Medicine Man, hunter, artist . . . and Chief. His lineage is legendary, his ceremonies are authentic yet brutal. The documentary is a rare emersion into the ancient and holistic world-view binding a Lakota community to its ancestors and The Great Mystery.

The Ghost Dance Ceremony is a 4-day ritual involving intense suffering; including hunger and several rounds of flesh offerings. Dancers are cut and tethered to the Ceremonial Cottonwood. The pain becomes the prayer as the pegs are torn from their bodies and strips of flesh become their sacrifice for the community and the Spirit-World.

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