Date: Wed, 26 Jul 2000 09:59:55 -0700
From: "Marlene R. Atleo" <maratleo-AT-island.net>
Subject: RE: Racism & genes - moon


Re: Randy Moon

I have no idea if or whether you personally need "a human sacrifice to 
assuage what gods"

I am saying that societies, social systems, which ever ones we are part of, 
need human sacrifices to assuage whatever gods we have....a symbolic 
need...with a real outcome...

medicine is a classic site where this is worked through....harvesting 
organs allows others to "live"....soteriological issues of suffering and 
salvation and morality are closely interwoven with clinical medical issues...

my eg. was the social terror of HIV (in North America) and the sacrifice: 
homosexuals ....
I get involved in HIV issues through educational 
programming/evaluation/curriculum about First Nations issues....
in our area heterosexual First Nations women have the fastest growing 
incidence of HIV mainly through IV drug use.... but in eastern Canada 
recent research suggest that the incidence of HIV is rising again among 
homosexual populations...I don't know how good the research or if its a 
function of the growing conservativism there...

but for another example could look at the throw away children everywhere in 
the world...the world vision campaigns to "save a child", rescue a child 
from his/her life....

there is an article in the latest Discovery mag about parasites and how 
they choose and shape their hosts....the hosts/victims don't have much of a 
choice in the matter....

Sheldrake, so maligned about his concept of the morphogenic resonance, in 
which the field evokes outcomes....is beginning to find some respect among 
genetic researchers because they are finding the dance between the DNA & 
RNA is affected by the field conditions in which it occurs....

I guess I am saying that the sociocentricities or egocentricity of 
perspectives that require a victim to absorb their own anxieties about the 
dangers of the field which they inhabit.....is the same as human sacrifice 
throughout the ages....

There is an interesting ritual traditional of the Pacific Northwest in 
which young initiants are taken into the woods to meet with their "wild 
man" so that they can work through their anxieties ritually that they may 
can  take part in society without canabalizing other members....of course 
its called the "cannibal dance"




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