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<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=414081" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>Initiation for Friend Thadd</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">I am an anthropologist.<br>The tribe I’m studying insist<br> they are prepared to accept me<br> into their closed community.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">But first I must be purified.<br>So I am stripped to my bare hide.<br>Then thrust into the steaming heat <br>of the sweat lodge and made to eat.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Some buttons from a cactus plant<br>The shaman wails a plaintive chant.<br>I soon grow used to nudity<br>It seems somehow to set me free.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">From the mind set that I know <br>how easily I can let go.<br>I seem to know instinctively<br>I’m subject to authority</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Some higher power judging me<br> to see if I am fit to be.<br>Entrusted with their sacred lore<br>Which will change me for evermore.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">I see strange visions in the steam<br>Am I awake or do I dream<br>I am entranced by what I see<br> and I embrace it eagerly.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">I’m not the man I used to be.<br>Therefore it follows logically<br> that I will see things differently<br> perhaps with renewed clarity.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">It seems that I have passed the test<br>The shaman tells me I must rest.<br>I fall into a dreamless sleep<br> which lets new knowledge slowly seep</div><div style="margin:10px 0"> deep into my subconscious mind<br>my old beliefs are left behind.<br>Old knowledge lost, new knowledge gained<br>It can’t be easily explained.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">So that is why I do not try.<br>I know I could not satisfy<br> your raging curiosity.<br>I am oath bound to secrecy.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">I’m still an anthropologist <br>but those deep feelings still persist<br>I gained from my experience<br>although I have no evidence</div><div style="margin:10px 0">to show that I have really changed.<br>My thinking process re-arranged<br>I know I m connected to<br> all living things and so are you.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">The difference being you don’t know <br>because you did not undergo <br>initation as I did<br> until you do some things are hid.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">10-Feb-09</div><div style="margin:10px 0">http: // blog.my space.com/poeticpiers</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=Ivor+Or+Ivor.e+Hogg">Ivor Or Ivor.e Hogg</a><div class=q>
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The tribe I’m studying insist
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But first I must be purified.
So I am stripped to my bare hide.
Then thrust into the steaming heat 
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