Elizabeth Marshall Thomas:
"Khoisan believe that it harms a girl terribly to be possessed before she is mature. It might even drive her mad. Khoisan have no real solution to this, as there are no prostitutes and only in a few bands are there promiscuous women. Homosexuality is not permitted either; the young men just have to get used to being tempted constantly but never gratified."And then in the second oldest human culture:
"Is the strong cultural focus on sex as a reproductive tool the reason masturbation and homosexual practices seem to be virtually unknown among the Aka and Ngandu? That isn't clear. But the Hewletts did find that their informants -- whom they knew well from years of field work -- "were not aware of these practices, did not have terms for them," and, in the case of the Aka, had a hard time even understanding about what the researchers were asking when they asked about homosexual behaviors."
Well at least he critiques Steven Pinker's lies about the San Bushmen murder rate
So Christopher Ryan STILL wants to project his Western materialistic worldview onto the original human culture - without really studying the spiritual training that is tied to celibacy. oops.
He tried but he totally missed the target.
i was reading this book by Bradford Keeney and he says celibacy is preposterous to bushmen!: link
ReplyDeleteDo you have a quote or page number? The google review just says how the heart has to be ready to accept the N/um. That initial training is the month long celibacy training of only males - called Tshoma. It's done when the male is at the height of life force energy - at 16 years old. So fasting and celibacy with no contact with females for a month.
DeleteThen each time a hunter goes hunting there is three days of celibacy to build up the N/om to then attract the animals.
So it's not full celibacy but the Tshoma is one month of celibacy a year.
Then on rare occasions an older male healer will go off to live on his own to really build up his powers for physical transformations. The rest of the village is scared of those males. that is where Neidan alchemy training is from. That's the real celibacy training. That is discussed in the book "Healing Makes our hearts happy."
OK page 215. "Celibacy makes no sense to a Bushmen" - I have a new blog post that addresses this quote. It's true in the long sense but not for the month long Tshoma training or during hunting (which is a regular occurrence). Also there are rules for the female during menstruation - at first menstruation she is not even supposed to look at the males, etc. It depends.
Deletecool, thanks drew ... actually in that same book there is a passage in which a bushmen recalls an anechdote with a eastern chi kung master ... he laughs at him because he knocked out him with his n/um, believing that he could take it ... so keeney goes into saying that spontaneous movement is more powerful than active chi kung routines ... he has also studied japanese seiki-jutsu technique, which he characterizes also for being based on spontaneous movements rather than forms/daos/katas ... this has me intrigued, since both japanese and bushmen culture both follow the sun-female, moon-male ancient cultural pattern ...
DeleteThis comment has been removed by the author.
DeleteI had a typo in my comment so I deleted the comment and reposted it as a new blog post. thanks
DeleteThis comment has been removed by the author.
ReplyDelete