Blackfoot Physics A Journey Into The Native American Universe By F. David Peat, Ph.D.
Publisher: Phanes Press 330 pgs.
Our ability to perceive deeply determines not only what we are capable of seeing and understanding, it is key to our ability to survive and live in balance upon planet earth.
Our society firmly hangs on to the view that reality consists of what we can immediately see and touch. The underlying assumption is that altered states of consciousness are in some way bizarre or disordered. The division between normal and abnormal is not the case within Indigenous society where it is acceptable for a person to perceive reality in a wider and fuller sense, receive visions, go on strange journeys, fly in the air, converse with rocks and trees and enter into negotiations with energies and spirits.
Why can’t we talk to rocks?
With the exception of a few mystics, artists and poets, the rest of us, unlike Native Americans, never feel direct access to the underlying movements of nature.
Indigenous science has developed a variety of ways in which the wider reality can be experienced even more directly.
Excerpts from Blackfoot Physics pgs. 286- 287
David Peat is a theoretical physicist whose experience at a Blackfoot Sun Dance ceremony many years ago was the beginning of his own journey into non-linear, Indigenous modes of perceiving and knowing. Written with respect for both Western and Indigenous Science, Blackfoot Physics is one of those rare books capable of opening the mind (and heart) to other ways of seeing and knowing. It is a book I treasure.
Pele Rouge
NOTE: This book was originally published under the title of: Lighting the Seventh Fire by Carol Publishing Group
