with carved tree trunks and sleep on the ground fully clothed, they have the highe

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st idea of the philosophic
al movement of
Nature. And they h
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secrets of this
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umbers as successfully as

• Pythagoras did. The truth is that the Tar
• ahumara despise the life of their bodies, and live only for their ideas—that is, in a constant and quasi-magical communication with the superior life of these ideas. Each Tara
• humara village is preceded by a cross, and surrounded by crosses at the four cardinal points of the mountain. It is not the cross of Christ, the Catholic cross, it is the cross of Man quartered i
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• n space, Man with his arms extended to the sides, invisible, nailed to the four cardinal points.

In this the Ta

• rahumara manifest an active geometric idea of the world to which even the human body is related. This means: Here geometric space is alive, it has produced the best there is, that is, Man. The stone which each Tarahumar
• a must, under pain of death, place at the foot of the cross when he passes is not a superstition but a technique of awareness. This means: Mark the point
• . Take note. Be aware of the contrary forces of life, for without this awareness you are dead. But the Tarahumara do not fear physical death: the body, they say, is made to disappear; it is spiritual death
• that they dread, but they do not dread it in a Catholic sense, although the Jesuits
• have passed their way. There exists among the Tarahumara Indians the tradition of metempsychosis; and it is the loss of their Double which they dread above all
• . Not to be aware of what one's Double is, is to risk losing it. It is to risk a kind of abstract fall, beyond physical space, a wandering through the high
• planetary regions of the disembodied human principle. Evil, for them, is not sin. To the Tarahumara, there is no sin: evil is loss of consciousness. The high philosophical problems are more important to the Tarahumara
• than the precepts of our Western morality. For the Tarahumara are obsessed with philosophy; and they are obsessed to the point of a kind of physiological magic; with them there is no such thing as a wasted gesture, a gesture that does not have an immediate philosophical meaning. The Tar
• ahumara become philosophers in exactly the way a small child grows up and becomes a man; they are philosophers by birth. And the headband with its two points down the back signifies that they are of
• a race that was originally Male and Female; but this headband has another meaning: a historic meaning which is obvious. The Pouranas carry the memory of a war which the Male and Female principles in Nature waged
• , and human beings took part in this war between the forces of the two opposing principles. The partisans of the natural Male principle wore white, those of the Female principle wore red; and it was
• Post-blast Issues and Responsesfrom this esoteric and sacred red that the Phoenicians, of Female race, derived the idea of the purple which they later commerc

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ialized. If the Ta

rahumara wear headbands which are sometimes white and sometimes red, it is not to affirm the duality of the two contrary forces, but t

• o indicate that within the
• Tarahumara race the Male and Female principles
• of Nature exist
• simultaneously, and that the Tarahumara have

the benefit of their combined forces. In short, they wear their philosophy on their heads, and this philosophy reconciles the influence of the two contrary forces in an equilibrium that partakes of the divine. THE MOUNTAIN OF SIGNS THE LAND of the Tarahumara is full of signs, forms, and natural effigies which in no wIRTB and PRSBI Continuing Educationay seem the result of chance —as if the gods themselves, whom one feels ev

erywhere he

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re, had chosen

to express their

powers by means of these strange signatures in which the figure of man is hunted down from all sides. Of course, there are places on the earth where Nature, moved by a kind o

• f intelligent whim, has sculptured
• human forms. But here the case is
• different, fo
• r it is over the whole geographic expanse of a race that Nature has chosen t

o speak. And the strange thing is thEMRTC to arrange a class in your area.