Posted on 12/09/2017 7:31:15 PM PST by EinNYC
The city is drawing on an ancient Native American custom — the “talking circle” — to help feuding city employees mend fences, The Post has learned.
The city’s new Center for Creative Conflict Resolution offers a “circle process” for staffers to talk over their squabbles.
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NYC can't go down the tubes fast enough, pushed by the commie moron mayor, the perfidious city council, Al Sharpton, and various & sundry other libtards. So now it's gotten to where they have to solve employee problems with sitting on the floor with paper cutouts and singing Kumbaya. How can any rational being take this load of stupidity seriously?
Like a powwow?
Is this cultural appropriation or somesuch?
What’s wrong with scissors, paper, rock?
When it becomes my turn to talk at the circle, I will simply threaten to scalp anyone who opposes me.
I would insist on smoking a peace pipe——or I wouldn’t play their silly game.
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The Iroquois League of New York State was likely WAY superior to the current Lib Nation of NYC.
Do they include Chow in the effort?
😁 Well, the first question I had, was would they be smoking dope at their little pow wow? Maybe that is what gave them the idea in the first place. 😊
Sometimes conversation can resolved disagreements and disputes.I don’t see the need for a “circle”.
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“Then I burst out laughing and wondering what kind of dope these morons had been smoking.”
Lophophora williamsii is a small, spineless cactus with psychoactive alkaloids, particularly mescaline. It’s better known as peyote.
It works like this:
Banned by the United States government in the 1940s and 1950s, the use of the peyote “medicine” became illegal because of its mescaline content. However, in 1976, the government changed its mind and declared that Native Americans could practice their religion by using the sacred medicine.
“Native Americans just use it to pray,” said Richard Speer, also known as Hunting Crow. “It has been used by Native Americans for thousands of years and is thought to have been introduced by the Southern Plains tribes. It was introduced to the Navajos in the 1930s.” The ceremony is held in a tepee and conducted by a roadman, or medicine man.
“No negativity is brought in. Everything is positive. We do the best we can for everyone there,” Speer said.
“The people form a circle, with everyone part of the circle, whether you sing or not. Once inside you are there all night, saying prayers and using tobacco, cedar and sage.”
Speer said that the prayer ceremony lasts from dusk to dawn. Songs and chants are sung during the service. Different songs have different meanings. Some pertain to Jesus Christ, some ask God to bless the people.
The people pray for practical things. One person may want to pray for a loved one to get better, another may pray for her son to do well in college, others may pray for help in getting their finances in order. They pray for each other’s needs.
While the Native American church serves the Native American community, it is always open to the public, Speer said. Non-native people who befriend Native Americans can be invited to join in the ceremonies.
In the center of the tepee, opposite the door entrance, is a half moon-shaped mound where they place the chief or medicine man. Objects used in the ceremony include a staff, a gourd with rocks in it, a cup of sage and feathers. Participants drink tea made from peyote in a fresh or powder form.
It induces vomiting, which means you are getting well. However, the peyote, or medicine, is a psychedelic that produces incredible, brilliantly colored visions.
The use of peyote by the Native American Church is protected by the Fourteenth Amendment to the Constitution as well as sections of the Arizona Constitution. Some of the other states that permit the use of peyote include Texas, Colorado, Utah, Minnesota, Nevada, Kansas, Oklahoma and New Mexico. Roadmen get the peyote from Texas or the Chihuahuan Desert in Mexico and bring it to the prayer ceremonies.
They travel across the United States and Europe, holding prayer ceremonies in various communities when they are asked.
The ceremony helps achieve balance in life and realize spirituality, Speer said.
“By helping other people, you are helping yourself,” he said. “It’s a selfish reason to do things for others. It helps you embrace humanity rather than focus on you. We believe that whatever we pray for is going to happen. It’s been helping Native people for thousands of years.”
There are usually 15 to 30 people in a prayer meeting. Participants in the ceremony spend most of the night sitting on their knees.
“It takes an honest person to sit all night and pray that way,” Speer said. “You’re there to pray for people and suffer for a good cause.”
Now try to tell me this doesn’t sound like a DNC meeting.
rwood
Oh, wait, I am thinking about the despicable Aztecs, the forebearers of 10% of the Mestizo peoples of Mexico, the herpes of nations states. My bad!
My apologies to the great tribes of America who, like the Apache, hated Mexicans with a passion.
To quote Geronimo, a great man who fought both well and hard for his people:
“During my many wars with the Mexicans I received eight wounds, as follows: shot in the right leg above the knee, and still carry the bullet; shot through the left forearm; wounded in the right leg below the knee with a saber; wounded on top of the head with the butt of a musket; shot just below the outer corner of the left eye; shot in left side; shot in the back. I have killed many Mexicans; I do not know how many, for frequently I did not count them. Some of them were not worth counting. It has been a long time since then, but still I have no love for the Mexicans. With me they were always treacherous and malicious. I am now old and shall never go on the warpath again, but if I were young, and followed the warpath, it would lead into Old Mexico."
I thought it was going to be the tied together knife fight...
They should keep quiet about it. Princess Gray Beaver will want to charge them a hefty royalty.
More of a "circle jerk". Or perhaps a "cluster fxxk".
Sometime it's more fun not bothering to read the articles.
Mark
This is a maternal dystopia.
It is the classic (mostly) feminine view of “let’s just smooth everything over and it is fine”.
Now serious problems are ignored and minimized in favor of temporary peace, enabling bad behavior and indirectly punishing the aggrieved by refusing to fix the root cause. Until the next eruption, often an over-reaction to a little thing because the real dispute wasn’t actually addressed.
This is what liberals WISH worked, just talking it out, while denying that punishing the actual guilty is sometimes the only thing that works ... and shaming people in these sessions or letting someone off with “Oh, I’m sad I’m caught’ are both counter-productive.
The F.A.G. Way.
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