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Published by:The Association of Waldorf Schoolsof North America38 Main StreetChatham, NY 12037Title: The Riddle of AmericaEssays Exploring North America’s “Native Expression-Spirit”Editor: John H. Wulsin, Jr.Executive Editor: David MitchellCover: Hallie WootenProofreaders: Judy Grumstrup-Scott, Ann Erwin© 2001, revised 2004, 2012 by AWSNAISBN # 1-888365-32-3vi
Table of ContentsAcknowledgments . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .Introduction . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .xxiMythologyOraibi . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1Edward WarrenAwakening Spiritual Consciousness through Legend:The Legend of Huitzilopochtli. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3David MitchellThe Ramapo Salamander . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9David AdamsGeographyThe Etheric Geography of North America. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 22David MitchellNorth of the Border. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 55Philip ThatcherOklahoma . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 68Joe GlosemeyerTexas. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 79Hilmar MooreMusic, Art, and LiteratureReflections on Early Sacred Music of New England . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 82Michael WinshipMusic and Manners: The American Experience . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 89Tom DewsWhat Is American Light? . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 92J. Leonard Bensonvii
Page 3: The Riddle of AmericaEssays Explori
Page 7 and 8: The Sacred in Latino Experience: lo
Page 9 and 10: IntroductionbyJohn H. Wulsin, Jr.In
Page 11 and 12: perhaps the most popular poet of th
Page 13 and 14: OraibibyEdward WarrenOraibi--the ce
Page 15 and 16: Awakening Spiritual Consciousnessth
Page 17 and 18: where he created the center called
Page 19 and 20: The Legend as TeacherIn spite of th
Page 21 and 22: The Ramapo SalamanderbyDavid AdamsT
Page 23 and 24: and to drive her father mad. Then h
Page 25 and 26: Stegmann describes a number of fact
Page 27 and 28: tism. Iron has the beneficial funct
Page 29 and 30: When the handsome angel saves Mary
Page 31 and 32: found in Paul M. Allen, ed., A Chri
Page 33 and 34: BibliographyHauschka, Rudolf. The N
Page 35 and 36: with the etheric geography, we beco
Page 37 and 38: The Morphology of North AmericaWe q
Page 39 and 40: Effects of Geography on the Physica
Page 41 and 42: Boreal forest in Canadaseverity of
Page 43 and 44: middle. All ofthese resourceshave a
Page 45 and 46: eady. Further west, wefind active v
Page 47 and 48: Mississippi and the Colorado, drain
Page 49 and 50: a system of writing used by the anc
Page 51 and 52: the pagan Indians) are out there wa
Page 53 and 54: He is trying to prove that the indi
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Another example of this phenomenon
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and is nothing less than the author
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The Peruvian shaman Carlos Castaned
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the four main areas (the physical l
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Cook, Grace. The Sun Men of the Ame
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Example: Boulder, ColoradoProfile:
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North of the BorderbyPhilip Thatche
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“poured like seas” all the way
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And now the channel opens. But noth
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HistoryIn mid-river we join the anc
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in particular those settlers from t
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hune’s concern for others led him
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7. Op. cit., pp. 61-63, 71-72.8. Ma
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It was also during the Permian peri
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time the white man arrived here. A
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ly to the south and west, except fo
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these forces was essential for harm
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courageously ready to dedicate one
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TexasbyHilmar MooreTexas joined the
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and many exist today, still in use.
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An industrious and orderly people;
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There was a grand, wild freedom, an
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Music and Manners:The American Expe
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ecame louder. At one end of the par
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Nevertheless, the title allows a ra
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at a definite time. When the opport
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It is not necessary to speculate ab
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What Is “American” in American
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he would conceptually synthesize an
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Cole was clear that the emphasis on
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Hudson River School), but its suppo
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expressions. Some of these wildly p
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Figure 6. Winslow Homer, Undertow,
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themes, was a weak draftsman, and f
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a heavier, more material medium tha
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including as much engineering as ar
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applied from without.” Wright wor
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had been carefully removed in lumin
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organic forms more to evoke the inn
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awe-inspiring power and mystery of
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mistakes. The painting comes out of
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a mess. Otherwise, there is pure ha
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there is a continuity of bothrealit
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divisions, and the bleeding of the
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were Reuben Nakian, Theodore Roszak
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Cage, explored ways to limit the ar
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The original personal images develo
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Studio relate to Johns’struggles
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As one of the top illustrators on M
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effect, dematerialized theirorigina
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idea, and not the activity of const
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Lisle, Laurie. Portrait of an Artis
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In one poem, to her book, she write
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mother, England. Literarily, after
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So Ada quite naturally thought the
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the beginning and the end: and that
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If the influence of Calvin can be s
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Vishnu, both the Primeval Cosmic Ma
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Emerson suggests man’s soul is co
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How did Emerson through his thinkin
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Supreme Being does not build up nat
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call of this period is for freedom.
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own soul between intellect and acti
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him, nor fire burn him, isa type of
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Culture, the height of culture, hig
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to be the liberation of the will fr
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Private and public is equivalent to
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lectures on Aquinas published as Th
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In other words, Emerson agrees with
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Toward an American LanguagebyThornt
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does he confront them outside the c
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collision with my obligation to say
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ing further back into the wildernes
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estated it by saying that the inter
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wonder that the English developed t
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It would seem as though I were abou
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Melville’s emotion is under power
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the matador sees the bull dashing t
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Before I enter upon a discussion of
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“The whale shed off enticings.”
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Wherein do these paragraphs from Mo
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The American LonelinessbyThornton W
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Thoreau illustrates certain America
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NATURE: As early as 16 July 1861, T
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that farewell address to “our dea
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Similarly, there are aspects of Tho
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Emily DickinsonbyThornton WilderGer
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That is to say, she shall have the
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overswayed. Their growth in the aff
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did love maturely we have ample evi
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would have been five steps forward
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animals and plants about her has no
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Rudolf Steiner tells us that Emerso
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came a second time; and Jonah, brui
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Whitman makes frequent use of perso
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Carl SandburgDespite the fact that
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The Thief Who Kindly SpokebyMichael
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Now to the song itself. It begins t
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The joker as the ordinary worldly e
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ut turn around to examine the mirac
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Mary Oliver, Inspired TeacherbyJean
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To Each Her HoneybyLara WulsinMary
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“Every spring,” (line 24) with
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Choosing America as a Placefor Inca
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In the Morning: A star above one’
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Double chooses, as it were, the hum
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Endnotes1. Given in London on the e
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Party and was the place where Mexic
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If even God suffered the crucifixio
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ciso Martínez and Tito Puente, San
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What does it mean to be born a West
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tal plains, rising gradually for mo
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Trust thyself; every heart vibrates
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spoke to his people just weeks befo
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of human beings, of support from th
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e recognized. For example, the cult
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considered necessary in relation to
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Movement in America:And So—What
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Now watch the Germans over there, n
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increase in the use of technology,
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and European-American sources. Only
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King, Martin Luther, Jr. Where Do W
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Americans earned two dollars per da
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the actions of our spiritual I. …
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Why do we teach Parzival? After Par
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disturbed or destroyed.” One can
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I would like to mention the words g
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Through the direct experience of st
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need to find what connects us not w
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and gardening to Waldorf schooling
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insights result. In considering the
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cording to Bacon. He also denounced
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the entire world. Thus, workers, sl
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At the end of his second lecture in
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chine, were unable to secure even a
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garbagemen, who sought union recogn
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Freedom, Thinking, and Individualit
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Thus the epochal separation of powe
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without attempting either to inspir
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But now it really is “We the Peop
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“an insoluble problem; on one sid
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life in the ideal and the real worl
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The Enlightenment: An Interpretatio
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maintained as a matter of right, at
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2. Even Franklin felt this and reco
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Anthroposophy and the Spirit of Ame
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(in the American Theosophist, 74, 1
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in this country is coupled with it.
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artists, writers, and musicians fil
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But this does not actually explain
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spirit revelation. People are still
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Doesn’t this sound as if it could
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Biographies of ContributorsDavid Ad
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Joseph Glosemeyer had a life-changi
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1988, she was asked to join the fac
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John Wulsin grew up in Cincinnati,
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