On Storing Emotions

"An anthropologist friend of mine once tried to explain to a female elder of the Indian Api people about the idea the ‘inner child’ as a term we used for storing emotional experiences from our pas. On hearing the term ‘inner’ the woman looked puzzled. She started turning her head left and right, and looking behind her as is she expected to see someone standing there. After some confusion, it turned out that she could not conceive of ‘inner’ in relation to a person so she translated into ‘behind’…Tribal people express all their thoughts, feelings, wants, and desires quite openly for the rest of the tribe to see…the concept of using the inside of a person as a storage facility is a strange one. In the end, my friend explained it to her by using the image of a box to represent the person, and then having something inside the box that related to the past. She responded with horror and said it sounded ghostly. Someone with an ‘inner child’ must be possessed. As opposed to coming from the ’inside’, primitive people are more likely to see emotional influences such as these as ‘attaching’ to you. Once they are ’in’ they have taken you over. and you would need treatment from the tribe’s medicine person or even excluding from the tribe altogether." C.G. Browne

Primitive Thinking

"As natural humans, instinct, simplicity, and sensitivity would also guide us, as through a dance or geometric pattern, the design of which we would intuitively know. This is how primitive people are able to not care about whether they will eat tomorrow. It is this ancient instinct and natural connectivity that is now considered to be irrational and unreliable."

Forbidden Dimensions by C G Browne

"C.G.Browne's book is one of the best if you are looking for a gritty and alternative account of how life has been in prehistory and how it still is today, otherworld and all! To be honest, there's nothing else to talk about in today's difficult world, so my own new book will inevitably follow a similar theme. I think it helps if we all get real and think real."

Patrick Jasper Lee