One of the difficulties I have found is that there is no way of giving someone the heads-up that they might be dealing with something a little unusual {me} in a way which they can take on board and not find weird. Whenever I have tried people have not taken me seriously. They think, it seems, that they already know what they are dealing with. They imagine that I can be easily managed. When something slightly odd happens or I behave in an unexpected manner, they are surprised. There is no point in saying , “I told you so”.

A long time ago in a Maasai village the soon to be head man and trained up proto-village shaman guessed that I would not flinch when he demonstrated a war club stopping very close to my head for the rest of the tourists. He spoke good English having been to school in London. Later he invited me to stay in his hut and at the village whenever I pleased because he sensed the shamanic connection between us. I was welcome as a brother. At the time I was a young lecturer in physical chemistry at Imperial College. He did not know that and in the context, it was wholly irrelevant. We were having fun; our eyes were singing.

People make assumptions and judge a book by the cover all the time. Here I know that I have been “read” by several “witches” and they know that I know that they have read me.

Following on from the dream this morning the Jaguar Shamans are an anthropological fact and were put forward for UNESCO consideration.

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Traditional knowledge of the jaguar shamans of Yuruparí

Colombia

Inscribed in 2011 (6.COM) on the Representative List of the Intangible Cultural Heritage of Humanity

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I am fairly confident that were I to observe / participate in some kind of ritual I could probably follow what was going on and refrain from either scoffing or shitting my pants. If some anthropomorph arrived I would not be surprised.

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It might be hard to reconcile this with skill and ability in using femtosecond Ti: Sapphire pumped  parametric oscillators. There is no contradiction in me.

There is a tendency for people to pooh-pooh things which they know little about and certainly do not understand. Strangely the more clever people deem themselves to be, the more likely they are to pooh-pooh, which is mildly illogical. I have mentioned premature omniscience as a recurring theme.

People can be overly confident that they know what they are dealing with when they have next to zero idea. They can blunder in, try to blag their way out and make a complete arse / tit / wanker of themselves. They may not even notice, imaging that they got away with it. Whatever that means.

I have mentioned the shoe-horn of ought and should, this is the tool by which people stretch their confirmation biases to fit evidence which might be a bit iffy for a fit to their bias. I’ll wager that were I to take someone alone out into the woods at night and light a campfire, I could alter their perception as the hours went by. Just before dawn, my hour of power, I could freak them out, no matter how utterly rational they imagined themselves to be. I can howl in a manner which alters.

People can over estimate their knowledge, skills and scope of understanding. The phenomenon of arrogance is common, that arrogance can get people into trouble. Not necessarily in the world of the mundane, but deep in the spirit world  where the deep magic still lives. Where that magic is of a non-mundane kind.

People can get the wrong end of the stick about what they are dealing with…