Comments on: Urban Shaman Action Network

By: Kc Divine

Kc Divine — Thu, 23 Apr 2009 21:46:34 +0000

buy the bass…
do it…
buy the bass

your friend was right
any self respecting bass playing urban shaman would own that bass

and yes i’ve been following you frequently

By: Phil

Phil — Thu, 16 Apr 2009 00:43:13 +0000

ok, color me interested. I only started reading your stuff about urban shamanism today. havent gotten into it yet and now im at work. itll have to wait:(
but what i want to know is who is the shaman in that picture and how is what they are doing shaman-y?

By: lulu

lulu — Wed, 15 Apr 2009 01:54:49 +0000

Garrett
I have heard that people in drumming circles some chant songs they have never played and play in ways they never knew they could. It reminds me of when you play drums and it seems almost tribal. i wonder if you woulnt have some success in a drumming circle.

By: Laura Jane

Laura Jane — Wed, 15 Apr 2009 00:45:48 +0000

whoa yeah we’re totally on the same page with the headband thing, haha!! i’m on a quest for the perfect medicine pouch and am also seeking out weird bone necklaces and stuff.

By: omnivateLLC

omnivateLLC — Tue, 14 Apr 2009 17:50:10 +0000

Heard a musician in Baltimore say something recently that really got me: “If you only hold a guitar for fifteen minutes a day, you’ll get better at playing it.”

Have definitely been applying a similar concept to learning radio technology: intentionally fetishizing the objects of radio, giving them a psychological potency, almost as an object of worship to make my studying for the ham test a kind of mythic-meditative practice. Maybe it’s symbolic of union with those afar, with communication and congress with the voices and angels of God.

If I had to make something symbolic up about your leather headband, I would say it has something to do with “binding your thoughts” and with keeping the “wildness” of your hair (your dark, animalistic side) from engulfing the focus and vision and clarity needed to face the world of man (work, civility, etc)