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Creating reality & community - Symbol Creation is natural: Native American Dream Folklore: Chipewyan Sonenekuiñaji, Parintintin, & T'nalak T'boli-Bla'an Dream Weaving A. Casale:: "Indigenous societies in America have dream theories that reveal a philosophical order of universe!" + E.Halas, Durkheim

Year: 2025
Type: article
Abstract: Alessandro Casale observes: "Indigenous societies in North and South America have dream theories and interpretations that reveal a philosophical order about the nature of the universe." Alessandro Casale observes: "Indigenous societies in North and South America have dream theories and interpretations that reveal a philosophical order about the nature of the universe." Symbol–Meaning Creation: Life isn't about finding yourself. Life is about creating yourself! - George Bernard Shaw (1856 - 1950); Nobel Prize, Literature in 1925) It doesn't matter "what it is", it matters what you do with it. "Leslie White (1995) defines a symbol as a thing whose value is bestowed upon it by those who use it. This implies that meaning of the symbols is derived from and determined by the individuals who use them. The creative faculty of human beings makes them bestow values upon things freely, actively and arbitrarily, driving them towards symbolization. This symbol-making tendency is innate in man." "Devereux (1979:28) highlights the fact that "symbolization helps to hold man's segmental capacities together and fosters a broader direct involvement with the situation'. A symbol reduces the enormous complexity of communication by using a concrete sign as a kind of shorthand for a complex of interrelated concepts, ideas, and values systems."
DOI: 10.17613/x0gvs-qzv82
Author: Peck Jr, Charles E.
Language: English
Open Access status: green
OpenAlex ID: W6962799315
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