exquisite prayer. blown away to read 'mitakuye oyasin.' also moved by (with a pang) the wow moment behind the writer realizing that women are the backbone of this movement. they were for the emancipation proclamation also, and routinely (full circle) step up in full force on behalf of a greater good before stepping up for themselves/ourselves. i wish the writer had clarified "both of which are feminine in nature" more. we intuitively know this, but it's too easy to forget what birth and life cycles actually look like, and in that forgetting, there is great loss of the power behind the loss/life of what it means to be "feminine." i hope to see this film....

It's not ridiculous if we are hard wired the way Dr. Doty thinks we are. Others can guide the way to removing the blocks to your own compassionate self, "when the pupil is ready the teacher will appear". If we can learn to be accepting of others differences, every difference, then division doesn't have to be entirely divisive, especially if we realise as a species that we are bound together by something larger, like being human, like being alive, like God. There is a lesson here that you can learn; learn from those that let religion come between you and them and be compassionate to those who have yet to understand that religion divides. Show them with kindness and understanding that religion will not get between you and them becoming friends/neighbours/family and it doesn't have to and slowly we can all understand that.