The way the holy people got power in the old days was through contact with the spirits of animals. Every winter they danced and danced. They just kept on danccing, and evetually they got very strong from the danicng and then power would come to them. But in those days everything was different. Clear air and many forests...So they could get in touch with the animals who gave them power. But I don't think they can do it anymore. Everything gone now--noise and all. Legend days are over. Civillization is coming. No more legend days. There will be no more.
Elizabeth Wilson (1881-1980) "Widow of Chief Joseph, Nez Perce"

I had to give up my life in order to be.
--Goethe