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1Nov/093

Something to Think About, me thinks…

I am honored to have been invited to visit with a Lakota Medicine Man today. My friend, and long-time friend of James Shore, Scott, is part Native American - as was James - and arranged a visit.

I will say that I am quite excited. Scott has prepared prayer strings for ceremonial offering. Scott and I will probably not stay for the ceremony. Nonetheless, I am studying up a bit on Lakota Culture, so as not to be the offensive white guy. It is an honor to have been invited along with Scott to visit. I am very aware of this fact.

In studying up, I found this. I think it is very poignant and certainly topical, given the recent death of James and the other two victims at the hands of James Arthur Ray, charlatan extraordinaire.

James Shore, as part Chippewa, would have been heartbroken to know that his death would have resulted in any strife within the tribes, or used to cast any dispersion on Native Peoples. Had he known that his participation in a White Man's Sweat was heretical, he would never had participated.

But I stand by my statement now more than ever: James Shore did not attend the "Spiritual Warrior" event as a "follower" - if you would had known him, as I did, it becomes increasingly apparent that he went as an observer.

Imagine if you will a sociologist wanting to really see an asylum from the inside - and being committed purposefully in order to do so. This has happened in the past.

James was an anthropologist at heart who was fascinated by the fringe.

The truth of the matter will out. But I am here to say that James A Ray was no match for James Shore - spiritually, intellectually, or otherwise. And James was no fool. Which begs the question I will answer: What was he up to?

James A Ray was f**king with things he had no business messing with. And he owes all Native People a massive apology. But he won't apologize - because he is a snake, a profiteer, a murderer of sacred things, a murderer of people.