Chimes: 2018 Edition (emended Blazevox book pdf)

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Images were entering my mind and leaving seeds. I saw a man dangle with hooks
stuck into his chest. He was looking for visions and to become a channel for voices
that would take him and his people forward. It was a ritual called Sun Dance and it
was a kind of extremity. I learned that mortification of the flesh can be a boon to spirit
and that valuing spirit can be more than an act of volitional faith: it can be a pact with
another world. It was not volitional that I witnessed it but it was volitional that I
believed and that a chord was struck within me. The receiver of visions could hold a
place of honor; whether I saw what I saw in a creek or an Ibanez or a pen, the kind of
seeing I was attuned to could move people from where they were to another place.
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