![[audio]](/images/mediatype_audio.gif) | Harry Smith lecture on Native American cosmos. - Smith, Harry
Harry Smith describes two Native American ceremonies he witnessed in the early 1940's in the Pacific Northwest. Interspersed with his account of the ceremonies, he discusses tangentially various related topics, including Native American health before the European invasion, Native American sign language, the migration of symbols, misogyny in anthropological accounts of Native American peoples, creation myths, and cosmology.
Keywords: spirituality and literature; mysticism
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| Allen Ginsberg class on American vision - Part 2 - Ginsberg, Allen
Second half of a class with Allen Ginsberg discussing the convergence of Walt Whitman and William Blake, negative capability, meditation and clear seeing. Click for first half of Ginsberg's class.
Keywords: New American Poetry; beat movement; Buddhism; spirituality and literature
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| Allen Ginsberg workshop, Jack Kerouac Conference. - Ginsberg, Allen
An Allen Ginsberg workshop featuring student poetry readings. There is also a discussion about style and ordinary mind. This workshop took place during the 1982 Jack Kerouac Conference at the Naropa Institute.
Keywords: New American Poetry; beat movement; Buddhism; spirituality and literature
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| Eco-poetics panel. - Collom, Jack; Kyger, Joanne; Schelling, Andrew; Waldman, Anne; Warshall, Peter
Wide ranging panel discussion on topics of ecology, dharma, enviornmental protection, the language and stories of those realms, and their implications for new writing.
Keywords: New American Poetry; West Coast poetry; spirituality and literature; activism
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