Titlebook: Divine Play, Sacred Laughter, and Spiritual Understanding; Patrick Laude Book 2005 Palgrave Macmillan, a division of Nature America Inc. 2

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,Reading the Trickster’s Footsteps,buttress such a psychosocial approach, as illustrated by Black Elk’s account in John G. Neihardt’s book. Commenting on the . ceremony, which is characterized by absurd and foolish antics on the part of the ., Black Elk remarks on the compensatory function of clowns when he mentions that “when people

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Spiritual Laughter,of limits that suggests the unity of all that is, whether it be morally commendable or not. This episode expresses both a cosmogonic event, since Amaterasu has in a sense produced the world through being lured by dance, and a spiritual archetype, given that the gods’ laughter is a particularly direc

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,Fools for Christ’s Sake,stressing, moreover, that the basic meaning of the word “fool” carries in its semantic wake the double implication of lack of sense and ridicule. The nonsensical dimension of the fool may be related either to a lack of wits, a deficiency of the rational faculty, or else to sheer madness, and mere ps

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Epilogue: Cracks of Light,than it is above, but the thickening veil of existentiation makes it increasingly difficult to reach its pristine message. From a certain point of view . is, and cannot but be, flawed; this flaw being nothing other than the trace of its being “relatively” unfaithful to .. Demiurgic tricksters take t

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Frank Marcinkowski,Volker Greger .. Now the Demiurge can be precisely defined as the ambiguous principle of the unfolding of . as it manifests itself in the onto-cosmogonic process. Frithjof Schuon has remarkably encapsulated the metaphysical foundation of the doctrine of the Demiurge while distinguishing the various levels of man