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The tribes of Zimbabwe, live and rejoice in their tribal music, for them life is motion: the frenetic movement of hips and body to the restless sounds of drums and rattles. For the Balinese, master carvers and painters, to create stunning fruit and flower trays as daily offerings to their gods and to dance and enter states of trance in the moonlit nights so that they may walk on hot rocks or burning charcoal as a means to overcome the limitations of their minds, so that they may communicate with the spirits of the beyond, is enthralling. For Cubans and Brazilians, the rhythms of the Son and Salsa and Zamba respectively dwell in their blood. Some of their joys are derived from a life dedicated to the mastery of dancing and music. The Huichol Indians of Nayarit and the Sierra Madre in Jalisco, Mexico, achieve their Eudaimonia by dwelling in a deeply communal, spiritual and creative life. The Huicholes ceremonies for the call of rain are precious and sacred, annually journey to fetch the peyote drug and from their spiritual wanderings and connection with the divine, they make the most meaningful, dynamic and colorful yarn paintings and offering bowls deeply symbolic. And then we have Shelley’s defense on poetry... a magnet to the beyond and in Shakespeare’s own words: “the forms of things unknown, the
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