Proyecto 14 de Julio:
For The Dead Women of Juarez
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La Calchona
Project Website: http://juarez.bravehost.com
See Mapuche Dreamwork: http://dreamtalk.hypermart.net/international/chile_english.htm
"From remote times, this culture has considered dreams as a path to follow in their lives. "
dreamtalk. ©2005 Association for the Study of Dreams
Basic Theoretical Foundations & Theorists: Search and Discovery
1.) The Scientific Method-- Popper: critical rationalism wikipedia: "Sir Karl Raimund Popper, CH, FRS (July 28, 1902 – September 17, 1994), was an Austrian and British philosopher and a professor at the London School of Economics. He is counted among the most influential philosophers of science of the 20th century, and also wrote extensively on social and political philosophy. Popper is perhaps best known for repudiating the classical observationalist-inductivist account of scientific method by advancing empirical falsifiability as the criterion for distinguishing scientific theory from non-science; and for his vigorous defense of liberal democracy and the principles of social criticism which he took to make the flourishing of the "open society" possible."
2.) Pragmatism-- John Dewey: Pragmatism wikipedia: "John Dewey (October 20, 1859 – June 1, 1952) was an American philosopher, psychologist, and educational reformer, whose thought has been greatly influential in the United States and around the world. He is recognized as one of the founders of the philosophical school of Pragmatism (along with Charles Sanders Peirce and William James), a pioneer in functional psychology, and a leading representative of the progressive movement in U.S. education during the first half of the 20th century."
3.) Dreamwork-- Montague Ullman: dream sharing , Carl Jung wikipedia: "Montague Ullman, MD, (born 1916) is a psychiatrist and psychoanalyst who founded the Dream Laboratory at the Maimonides Medical Center in Brooklyn, New York and for over three decades has been actively promoting public interest in dreams and dream sharing groups."
4.) Dreamwork-- Stanley Krippner: transpersonal psychology wikipedia: "A leader in the transpersonal psychology movement, he is the co-author of Extraordinary Dreams and - itor of Varieties of Anomalous Experience: Examining the Scientific Evidence and The Psychological Impact of War on Civilians: An International Perspective."
5.) Systems Theory wikipedia: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Systems_theory Project Motto::.. ...It is to real-ize that one is dreaming...and...to real-ize two are dreaming...and...to real-ize three are dreaming...present and forever together. -- Eric J. Lindblom PhD, Harvard University Presente y Siempre Please note this project is a Work In Progress (WIP) and, thereby, not each page on this website is complete. The website, thereby, shall remain like a diamond in the rough for a time. The website is under Deconstruction! Lindblom The Project (14): In Juarez Mexico (El Paso del Norte), over five hundred women have been t o r t u r e d, r a p e d, and murdered since 1994. Project 14 is named in honor of Sandra Juarez who was murdered on the fourteenth of July, 1998. Her murder has not been solved. Her memory has NOT been forgotten. Presente y Siempre ****************** See: http://juarez.bravehost.com El Proyecto 14 de Julio Description narrative of the scene: "The Dead Women of Juarez: Since the 1970s, Ciudad Juarez has bet its development on maquiladoras, the assembly plants where thousands of young people, primarily women from rural villages, put together stereos, toys, clothes, blenders and a good many car parts for export across the border. On display in Juarez is the quick and brutal mashing of a rural people into an industrial work force. Thousands of women come to Juarez hoping to be part of it. The maquiladora yanked women from the farm with the offer of their first paycheck; they became Mexico's "Rosie the Riveter." In a matter of a few years, the maquiladora turned time-honored roles upside down: women became the family providers, men the caretakers. Women who arrived in Juarez to work in the plants came to see the world, and their place in it, differently. But this same process did not create a new man. Does the killing of dozens of these young women in Juarez have to do with serial murder, or with what the town has become?" http://www.samquinones.com/
Hypothesis:
The way for taking a long look at Juarez is to employ Spiritual Systems Socially Engaged Spirituality as a non-interpretive search and discovery process eventually to raise the conciousness of the El Paso region. The terms used shall be defined as we go.
Project Website: http://juarez.bravehost.com
Method:
The first step (search and discovery) is to employ lucid dreamwork with the assistance of two archtypes: La Calchona and Kokopelli using Mapuche Dreamwork and the Native American Kachina concept as a base. It is expected the method shall evolve and refine as the search and discovery process moves toward the second major phase: construction.
See http://calchona.bravehost.com and http://channeling.bravehost.com for support.
Disclaimer: For the dreamwork, a series of
search and discovery methodologies
were employed. These steps in discovery are presented as being a linear and non-interpretive method progression. The actual undertaking may not be as linear. If that is the case, it shall be disclosed as we go.
The Research:
1.) To begin the dreamwork process, non-interpretive guided imagery has been employed just prior to sleep to set the stage. The concept is to do the dreamwork while in the sleeping state of consciousness.
The image used was typical: a meadow surrounded by forest with a large chair in the middle of the meadow.
During the actual dream sequence, it may be significant that no one sat in the chair. It was empty. The concept of the empty chair is a powerful symbol. Presente y Siempre
This intial step has become a proverb search. It defines parameters for the anomalous experience. That can be seen as a kind of rough roadmap. The dream continued.
Principle: A powerful and frightening proverbial phrase was conveyed: "Before the end of the world, the birds shall die."
That proverb was interpreted, upon waking, from the Spanish word for a particular bird: la paloma. The word has a double meaning in Spanish because it is also a term of endearment for women.
Photo credit: http://galeon.hispavista.com
Principle: The second session produced the proverb: "Trust me, I know what I am doing." Apparently the group leader is not this researcher (Lindblom)! That feels appropriate as especially in Lucid Dreamwork, there is a question of abuse of control. Thereby, the non-interpretive method shall be applied sans control issues wherever possible.
The control, thereby, shall be elsewhere to be defined as we go. Who has the control?
2.) The second step in the dreamwork process was to devise a method based on the non-interpretive method work of Montague Ullman and Stanley Krippner. Again, the dreamwork was to be accomplished while in the sleeping state of consciousness.
The Ullman Dream Appreciation Process (DAP):
"1) A dreamer volunteers and tells a dream in detail. Others may only interrupt to ask clarifying (non-interpretive) questions.
2) Others take the dream as their own, speaking of it as if they had actually dreamed it. They suggest what the dream might mean for them. The dreamer listens without participating.
3) The dream is officially returned to its original creator. The dreamer may respond to everyone else's input, and may share her/his own insights.
4) The dreamer thinks further about the dream, and reports (at a later time) any additional insights."
http://www.dreamtree.com/Resources/Methods.htm
3.) The third step in the dreamwork process was to devise a method based on the work of
Lucid Crossroads
"The Lucid Crossroads is a non physical location, open to all who can recall the visual representation and directions to the Crossroads when in certain states of consciousness. This might be regular dreaming but most people are encouraged to visit whilst in a lucid dream, astral projecting or other states that create or simulate the actual or illusion of a mobility of consciousness. Accomplished lucid dreamers and astral projectors can use the Crossroads as a calming place to stabilize lucid or astral state before choosing a door through which to access a lucid dream or astral location of their choice.
The website http://www.lucidcrossroads.co.uk
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lucid_crossroads
Again, the dreamwork was undertaken while in the sleeping state of consciousness.
4.) Dream Telepathy
Using a non-interpretive method, dream elements from other's consciousness shall be allowed to enter the dream sequence. "...how one person could transfer thoughts to another while the second person was sleeping, thereby influencing the second person's dreams." http://www.espresearch.com/dreamtelepathy/
See" Dream Telepathy by Montague Ullman, M.D. and Stanley Krippner, Ph.D. with Alan Vaughan
Principle "As Gardner Murphy said in his forword, this book "takes a giant step into the unknown."
That principle, a giant step, shall become part of this research process.
5.)
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"Cultura Mapuche, Carlos Aldunate Del Solar, Serie Patrimonio Cutural Chileno Serie Cultura Aborigenes, Ministerio de Educacion, Chile 1986
Historia del Pueblo Mapuche, Siglos XIX / XX, Jose Bengoa, Coleccion Estudios Historicos Editorial Sur, Chile 1985, Serie Cultura Aborigenes, Ministerio de Educacion, Chile 1986
Vision de las Comunidades Mapuche. Eugenio Alcantara, Boletin Indigenista de Chile, Numero 1, Chile 1981
Los Sueños El Espejo del Alma, Rosa Anwandter, Ed. Platero, Santiago, Chile 1998"
http://dreamtalk.hypermart.net/international/chile_english.htm
"...dreams facilitate communication with supernatural beings."
"The New Anthropology of Dreaming", Barbara Tedlock, Ph.D.
http://www.asdreams.org/journal/articles/1-2tedlock1991.htm
http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&q=Mapuche+dreamwork&btnG=Google+Search
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