"Ask the animals, and they will teach you, or the birds of the air, and they will tell you..." - Book of Job (12:7-8)
Wolf Energy has been used by shamans and healers in many cultures since the beginning of history. The Wolf, often mistaken as a symbol of negativity or violence, is a powerful teacher. The Wolf teaches us about our own humanity: Community, Loyalty, and the Love of One's Family. Wolves are also a symbol of Freedom, and Wolf Energy possesses the power to enlighten, heal, and strengthen those who call upon it.
The best way to harness this powerful, life-changing energy is to create your own Wolf Token Amulet that you can wear or hold close to you whenever you need it. This tutorial will show you the correct way to manufacture an authentic Wolf Totem Amulet that will bring energy and healing to your life.
materials you will need:
1) Craft Leather or suede (available at any chain Craft Store)
2) A large needle and strong thread
3) Fabric paint (any color)
4) Leather cord
5) (optional) Beads and Feathers (also available at any chain Craft Store)
6) A backpack
7) A can of beans
8) Towel
9) Survival knife and compass
10) One 2 liter bottle of water
11) One National Forest Map (available at local ranger stations)
Wolf Energy has been used by shamans and healers in many cultures since the beginning of history. The Wolf, often mistaken as a symbol of negativity or violence, is a powerful teacher. The Wolf teaches us about our own humanity: Community, Loyalty, and the Love of One's Family. Wolves are also a symbol of Freedom, and Wolf Energy possesses the power to enlighten, heal, and strengthen those who call upon it.
The best way to harness this powerful, life-changing energy is to create your own Wolf Token Amulet that you can wear or hold close to you whenever you need it. This tutorial will show you the correct way to manufacture an authentic Wolf Totem Amulet that will bring energy and healing to your life.
materials you will need:
1) Craft Leather or suede (available at any chain Craft Store)
2) A large needle and strong thread
3) Fabric paint (any color)
4) Leather cord
5) (optional) Beads and Feathers (also available at any chain Craft Store)
6) A backpack
7) A can of beans
8) Towel
9) Survival knife and compass
10) One 2 liter bottle of water
11) One National Forest Map (available at local ranger stations)
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Signing UpStep 1: Constructing the Pouch
1) First, cut the craft leather into two identical triangles.
2) Place one on top of the other and use your thick needle to punch matching holes along the edges (See stitching pattern template). These holes are for your thread.
3) Pull your thread through the holes with your needle. Finish your stitching with a simple square knot.
Feel free to embellish your pouch with feathers, beads, and leather cord of your choosing. Be creative! Be self expressed!
4) Next, use your fabric paint to draw the sacred symbol of the Wolf Paw on your pouch. Squeeze gently so that the paint doesn't come out in large blobs. The bottle should indicate that product's drying time, but fabric paint typically dries in 6-12 hours.
**IMPORTANT** The Wolf Paw is a vital emblem, so it is crucial to get it right. Do your research. Be careful not to confuse it with the paw of another animal (see the Paw Reference Chart photo).
Now your Personal Wolf Amulet Token Pouch is almost complete!
2) Place one on top of the other and use your thick needle to punch matching holes along the edges (See stitching pattern template). These holes are for your thread.
3) Pull your thread through the holes with your needle. Finish your stitching with a simple square knot.
Feel free to embellish your pouch with feathers, beads, and leather cord of your choosing. Be creative! Be self expressed!
4) Next, use your fabric paint to draw the sacred symbol of the Wolf Paw on your pouch. Squeeze gently so that the paint doesn't come out in large blobs. The bottle should indicate that product's drying time, but fabric paint typically dries in 6-12 hours.
**IMPORTANT** The Wolf Paw is a vital emblem, so it is crucial to get it right. Do your research. Be careful not to confuse it with the paw of another animal (see the Paw Reference Chart photo).
Now your Personal Wolf Amulet Token Pouch is almost complete!
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"Listen my brethren: the wolf who is here before you has promised and pledged his faith that he consents to make peace with you all" --St. Francis
Unless you can do this, preferably with a link to some peer-reviewed research on the process, then you are acting on Faith alone. You are subscribing to a mythology.
In your Instructable, you use references from three mutually-exclusive mythologies: Christian mythology, one of the several Native American mythologies and Polynesian mythology. You mortared up the gaps between these mythologies by cludging in some New Age West Coast woowoo.
This leads me to think that you do not subscribe to "a" mythology, but to every mythology - anything you are told with enough fervour, you accept as true and wedge into your Faith.
Do you feel that the mythology or faith behind a ritual has to be culturally verified as being "true" or "real" in order for the ritual to have an effect?
OR, is it simply the physical aspects of a performative ritual that has any effect on the participants?
I firmly believe that any person who follows ALL the steps of this particular ritual (especially the part where they research, travel to, track and observe wild wolves in their natural habitat) will have a powerful, healthy, and educational experience in the process.
The potentially life-changing benefits are really there, with or without the "woo-woo".
If it's just a ritual as panacea, then say so.
In this context, it's not a matter of the ritual being "true", it's a case of this instructable, as presented by you, is genuinely insulting to practitioners of the religions you have cherry-picked from. You start by quoting the OT, yet any Christian or Jew would tell you that this ritual is witchcraft, and (to them) abhorrent.
If you want to improve people's well-being, then just write an Instructable on tracking wolves and recognising their effects on their habitat.
Don't make absurd claims that can easily be shown to be nonsense, and counter to the religions you have tried to co-opt into your project.
There were multiple purposes of this instructible. One of which was to "play the fool" in order to gently mock those very individuals you are accusing me of being (you know... the irreverent and naiive Spirituals who like to find commonalities in all religions mix them all together into something new) and then to pinpoint the juxtaposition between myth and reality, while also exploring the real benefits that can come of of this fictional ritual.
I can see that it wasn't successful in your case... Maybe I was too convincing.
I'm sorry if I offended you personally with my unconventional use of Instructables.
That said, I'm going to leave this up because it does contain real and useful instructions of how to do some cool things. The glittering overlay of playful mythology-abuse just makes it more fun.
Another question: Can a belief only be "Authentic" if it's really old? Are all newly forming faiths challenged this way and accused of being "inauthentic" (Such as Christianity, which was also originally a "cherry-picked", modified formation of older beliefs).
I would hazard the opinion that an "authentic" religion is one based (at some point) on some form of revelation.
That revelation may be spiritual (such as Saul's conversion to Paul), or it may be one of philosophical sophistry (such as the origins and evolution of protestantism). It may build upon and modify a pre-existing world-view (such as Christianity building on Judaism, Judaism building on Babyloniam myths), or it may create a whole new world-view (such as Buddhism or Neo-Paganism).
What does not happen in an authentic religion (in my many years of observation) is the direct incorporation of competing religions' "holy writ". The Old Testament presents the Flood myth as an original, factual story. It does not provide chapter-and-verse references to the Persian myths from which it was lifted.
Your project did not come over as an authentic Belief, rather it reminded me of the contents of a small boy's pockets. Anything that currently grabs his interest is there - shiny pebbles, toy soldiers and a yoyo - and none has any link to the others, beyond the whim of the small boy.
Anyhoo, if you want a more in-depth discussion of your project, may I suggest you join "NGL Returns"? It's free to register, and they're a reasonably intelligent bunch. Tell them I sent you, see if they remember me...
http://nglreturns.myfreeforum.org