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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Religion and the Personification Cycle: Morning Thoughts of an Indie Documentary Director

This Blog was intended to begin housing the musings, rants, and ramblings that resulted from the filmmakers research and performing the intense ceremonies of the Lakota. The attempt to work this one out interrupted a morning ritual and had to be written down.

Religion and the Personification Cycle:

Humanity, or most sub-populations of humanity, put a human face on God/god. Most modern Christians assign two human faces and one rarely considered spirit face referring to , or praying to either or both seamlessly. And this blend of personified spirit-consciousness is called monotheism.

The Aboriginal-Mind however may choose to put a human, animal, or mystical face on forces of nature or a variety of incarnations of God [Chanupa-Glu-Hamani, White Buffalo Calf Maiden . . .]. But in most cases; for there are tens of thousands examples of mystical and natural religions; they are content considering the ultimate form and nature of the most powerful, conscious forces in existence to be a Great Mystery. In other words, their best descriptions relay the belief that God is one power, but that its nature, form, and will remains a mystery to the human mind.

The Native-Mind may also ascribe consciousness to every living thing and all earthly and astral matter; animism. Owners of modern-minds may love their pets, talk to plants, or feel enlivened after a walk in the woods, but rarely consider them as sentient. This denying of a conscious or spirit nature to any but humans has, at times, degenerated into all out depravity, denying it to other physical shades or forms of humans; or along ideological, professional, or religious lines.

It is said that the Indigenous Religious Identity exists on a continuum between Ancient and Christian beliefs; as a wave of conscious energy perhaps; existing just outside time-space. But perhaps there are more than two vertices to the continuum and perhaps the modern mind exists on that same multi-directional, polyphasic wave-form. Perhaps I need to take a class in Fournier’s Equations. Perhaps there are seven directions, or vertices, as the Lakota suggest.

1. Earth & Atmosphere Consciousness
2. Worldly or Culturally Conditioned Consciousness,
3. Animal Consciousness and its parallel spirit world,
4. Plant Consciousness,
5. Eco-System Consciousness,
6. Astral (Milky Way, Solar System) Consciousness &
7. Universal Consciousness & The Great Mystery

And these Remnant Medicine-Men and Shamans are out there among us, in the morass of modernity; in the moral and emotional desert we call civilization.

Medicine Man 1000-Mile Glare w/ Buffalo Skull

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History of the Documentary in Progress: First Interview Captivates Filmmakers and Usurps Antarctica Google

First Interview Captivates Filmmakers and Usurps Documentary Antarctica

Sidney Hasnohorse Smoking

Sidney HasNoHorse (link website) is an authentic, modern-day medicine man. He is genuine, spiritual and yet tragically complicated. The night of the first interview was intense. An deeply mystical mood hung over the house and grounds as the Wakpamni Prayer Circle prepared for ceremony. Yet, for reasons that would take years to understand, there was also an intense anxiety, and fear of imminent violence.

The filmmakers (link-bio page) 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.

Buffalo Skull at Ancestral Teachings

Upon walking into the crowded kitchen as the Circle prepared for the 4-day Ceremony of prayer, hunger, flesh-offerings, it was apparent they were also creating connections to the spirit world. Subsequently for the filmmakers, there was an almost immediate tearing apart of perceptions, expectations, and cultural morays.

That modern anxiety however would diminish behind a thick and mystical mood as the ceremonial mind was building before our eyes. Then as midnight approached, though exhausted, Sidney turned to us and said, “We can do the interview now.” It would be the last chance to talk for four days.

Interview after the Hunt: Fall 2011

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. We struggled with extension cords, incandescent light bulbs, squeaking shed doors and playful Lakota spirits knocking our camera about.

He ended seconds before the tape ran out; one-hour: four-minutes and change. We knew immediately that the life story that unfolded before us was honest and courageous. He revealed more than we could ask for; from the first visions that revealed his spiritual gifts; through bouts of ego, anger, alcohol and drug abuse that almost destroyed him. He held nothing back and opened himself to derision and ridicule from native people, and modern scientists alike.

Frank Fools Crow, Sidney’s Primary Teacher

In that way, in traditional cadence and stentorian tone, an authentic medicine man with direct ties to the most powerful warriors and healers of the colonial age gave us the first of many powerful interviews; an interview of a lifetime (Twitter #SageRope). I turned to Brigitte and said, “There is a feature-length doc in this guy.” The next year we returned from Antarctica and I shelved that documentary. We’ve been returning to the Pine Ridge for interviews and ceremony ever since.

Now, at this point in the relationship between filmmakers and Medicine Man, we sit around that same kitchen table and discuss how the language of quantum physics (Twitter #QuantumIndian) may well describe the Lakota Legends and the World Behind this One.

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Executive Producer Brigitte Timmerman: In Progress Newsletter Article – November 2014 Google

Executive Producer Brigitte Timmerman: The Spark that Ignited a Documentary

by Salvatore Consalvi

Executive Producer: Brigitte Timmerman

 

Brigitte Timmerman was the spark that ignited this Documentary in Progress. While developing the documentary, “Fatima”, about Iraqi refugees and attending the Documentary Labs at Chicago Filmmakers , she was invited to the Pine Ridge Indian Reservation in South Dakota for a Sweat Lodge Ceremony.

Her first Sweat Lodge Ceremony in 2009 was a very intense experience on its own, but she found it more revealing that people from the dominant culture can live miles from fascinating, indigenous populations and know very little about them; or openly disrespect them. So when the Medicine Man invited her to return for the Sun Dance Ceremony she asked him to produce a short interview to submit to the National Archives.

Brigitte and Fatima

I had been impressed that she gained access to the United Nations Higher Commission of Refugees (UNHCR) while filming “Fatima”; and had interviewed Daniel Shore, Howard Buffet, and Madeline Albright. So when she asked me to join the crew, I jumped at the chance to witness the ceremony.

 

Brigitte Timmerman on the Ranch

 

Brigitte was raised in a cattle ranching family in Springfield, Nebraska and spent her summers as a child on ranches very close to the Pine Ridge. For decades her father supported Sidney’s ceremonies with firewood and beef yet she never visited the Medicine Man or his Circle.

 

Brigitte attended Ft. Lewis College in Durango, Colorado from 87’-92’ where she wrote, produced and aired content on KDUR’s college radio station. She has also completed several documentary film Labs and classes at Chicago Filmmakers and continuing education classes in Feature Film Production at the Hollywood Film Institute. She was first drawn to Native American topics at her college by the Navajo and Southern Ute tribes.

 

Brigitte as Producer on the Pine Ridge

 

Reviewing her work at Chicago Filmmakers Labs, I was impressed that she gained access to the United Nations Higher Commission of Refugees (UNHCR) while filming “Fatima”; and had interviewed Daniel Shore, Howard Buffet, and Madeline Albright. So when she asked me to join the crew, I jumped at the chance to witness the ceremony and interview an authentic Medicine Man.

 

 

 

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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).  

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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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Salvatore Consalvi and Brigitte Timmerma

Salvatore Consalvi and Brigitte Timmerman are the primary Filmmakers on the Documentary in Progress Sidney Has No Horses: Oglala Lakota Medicine Man.

Over four years ago they met Sidney and a small, relatively unknown group of traditional Oglala Lakota people in South Dakota.

From the beginning, they were amazed to learn that Sidney has direct spiritual ties to some of the most famous Warriors and Holy Men of the last 2 centuries.

So they were soon immersed in Sidney’s teachings, in their own research, and in the Four-Main Ceremonies themselves.

This first interview was intense and began a journey into the indigenous world-view.

Please enjoy the trailer . . .

http://ow.ly/BbiZu http://ow.ly/i/6NGrB

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Playing with our Images

After five years from first meeting and interviewing Sidney Hasnohorse, we will begin populating the blog with images and graphics generated from the Documentary in Progress.

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First Blog Post for Sidney Has No Horses

You have found the first Blog Post from Salvatore Consalvi, Director of the ‘Documentary in Progress’ Sidney Has No Horses: Oglala Lakota Medicine Man.

The project is a continuing investigation (five years and counting) of the Wakpamni Lake Oglala Lakota Ceremony Circle led by the authentic, controversial, if not iconic, Medicine Man, Sidney Has No Horses.

These blog-posts, associated tweets, Facebook posts, newsletters, and YouTube uploads will tell the story of a Lakota lineage of medicine men and warriors leading up to our discovery of Sidney. It will describe his brutally authentic ceremonies. It will portray an unbroken cultural lineage that maintains an extremely mystical Earth-based religion and the indigenous mind that has survived the corporate age.

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