Touching the Timeless
Feb. 25, 2008
Touching the Timeless
A world view is a set if images and assumptions about how the world came to be, its design, and people’s place in it. All over the world there are different ways of looking at and perceiving the world. There are five World View Universals: self and other, relationship, classification, causality, and space and time. For the Huichol and Navajo their world view has many factors contributing to how they view health and illness. The Huichol Indians live in the Sierra Madre Mountains of central Mexico. Every year they go on their pilgrimages led by their guide, a shaman named Pancho. They believe if they don’t go on their pilgrimages, the world will end and that is their responsibility. Part of this pilgrimage is living in the past. If they are living in the future, time will stop. This is how their space and time is viewed. They said that Gods don’t worry about space and time. Everyone will be safe with time. They have to pay attention to time and make sure everything is done right or else the Gods will be disappointed. Keeping open hearts and being the center of their sacred land. The original pilgrimage was the ancestors, where they walk in a group led by the shaman with many of their offerings. Once they walk deep into the valley as a religious experience, they look for peyote and gather it for the coming year. They take this hallucinogen to become Gods themselves and the shamans help with understanding the vision. This is a very spiritual quest for them. Along with finding the peyote they bring offerings which are very personal to them. The men give spears and women give bowls. The personal objects they bring with them in hopes to bring them wealth are crosses with coins on them. They confess their sins by tying knots in a string and then throwing them into the fire. This is more of a communal thing for them as they are all in a circle versus confessing their sins in a confession booth where it is you and the
Touching the Timeless
A world view is a set if images and assumptions about how the world came to be, its design, and people’s place in it. All over the world there are different ways of looking at and perceiving the world. There are five World View Universals: self and other, relationship, classification, causality, and space and time. For the Huichol and Navajo their world view has many factors contributing to how they view health and illness. The Huichol Indians live in the Sierra Madre Mountains of central Mexico. Every year they go on their pilgrimages led by their guide, a shaman named Pancho. They believe if they don’t go on their pilgrimages, the world will end and that is their responsibility. Part of this pilgrimage is living in the past. If they are living in the future, time will stop. This is how their space and time is viewed. They said that Gods don’t worry about space and time. Everyone will be safe with time. They have to pay attention to time and make sure everything is done right or else the Gods will be disappointed. Keeping open hearts and being the center of their sacred land. The original pilgrimage was the ancestors, where they walk in a group led by the shaman with many of their offerings. Once they walk deep into the valley as a religious experience, they look for peyote and gather it for the coming year. They take this hallucinogen to become Gods themselves and the shamans help with understanding the vision. This is a very spiritual quest for them. Along with finding the peyote they bring offerings which are very personal to them. The men give spears and women give bowls. The personal objects they bring with them in hopes to bring them wealth are crosses with coins on them. They confess their sins by tying knots in a string and then throwing them into the fire. This is more of a communal thing for them as they are all in a circle versus confessing their sins in a confession booth where it is you and the