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Joseph Campbell - Kung dancing
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011361
Type of Spiritual Experience
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A description of the experience
Joseph Campbell -from The Way of the Animal Powers
The following is a transcription from a !Kung informant
When people sing … I dance. I enter the earth. I go in at a place like a place where people drink water. I travel a long way, very far. When I emerge, I am already climbing. I'm climbing threads ...And when you arrive at God's place you make yourself small. You come and come and come and finally you enter your body again … You enter the earth, and you return to enter the skin of your body …. And you say 'he-e-e-e!' That is the sound of your return to your body