Paris Jackson's "Paw Form" and Her Encounter with The Trickster in Oz?

LAST LAUGH?!
Dingo/Trickster?

Paris Jackson at the
Melbourne Cup 2017

A Life on Track?
On November 10th, 2017 Paris Jackson made headlines in Australia for all the wrong reasons it would seem, when the Australian press got on their high horse about Paris posing with a dingo and posting on her Instagram account the phrase "a dingo ate my baby", which is a common meme on the internet made (in)famous by shows like 'Seinfeld' and the movie 'Evil Angels' where Meryl Streep cries those famous words in a cringe worthy (in my opinion) Australian/New Zealand accent as she plays Lindy Chamberlain.

That Meryl Streep movie was from 1988, which was well before Paris was born, so I doubt Paris even knew the origins of the internet meme about the baby and the dingo.

The dingo is often seen as a Trickster animal in Australia, much like the coyote is seen as a Trickster in the USA by its indigenous population.
 Dingo - The Trickster

Click here to read the Dingo chapter from the book 
'Animal Dreaming'.

One of the memes doing the
rounds on the net right now

Using the Indigenous flag for an ad
 might be "paw form", too, I think

How Azaria Chamberlain's half-sister is campaigning for dingos... and is learning to be a handler

While the Azaria/dingo story is tragic and nothing to snicker about the Australian press like nothing better than a scandal, so why would they even bother to get Paris to explain what she meant by posting the Instagram photo with the popular meme saying?

I wonder if the Australian press got up in arms at the time about Julia Louis-Dreyfus uttering those words in the 'Seinfeld' episode that helped give rise to the meme?

I guess it's all too late once it is written ... in the press?-)

Azaria Chamberlain and mother Lindy

I also saw around this time in the same newspaper this story below about how people won't be able to climb the rock soon.

Should I have climbed Uluru?

"From 2019 climbing on Uluru will be banned in respect of the wishes of Anangu Aboriginal Australians.
The rock is a major visitor attraction, and many tourists visit the landmark to scale the rock."

I guess people do a lot of offensive things to others without thinking it over in Oz.

The trick is to know whether they meant to offend, or not, because of their own ignorance or lack of local knowledge.

I also find it ironic that walks to the summit of the rock will be stopped in 2019 and that Meryl Streep was born in a town called Summit in New Jersey.

UPDATE: 5th December, 2017

"A 78-year-old woman has been mauled by her three pet dingoes after she tried to stop a fatal attack on a pug in Sydney’s southwest.
The woman is in a serious condition in Liverpool Hospital with bite wounds to her arms, legs and back following the attack at Greendale about 5pm on Monday, police say.
The dingoes had targeted the pug, which was also owned by the woman, and before turning on her."

Christmas/Boxing Day and Thinking Outside of the Box?

In my last post I wrote about seeing the movie 'The Man Who Invented Christmas' and what I saw as shamanic connections in the imagery and some of the ideas in that movie.
A Shamanic Christmas Story?

I referred to a podcast in that post about Shamanism, which is well worth a listen to, I think -

Woven Energy 14 – Reality Driven Shamanism vs. Religion and Culture

In that podcast the guys talk about putting ideas into allegorical boxes.
I thought this was a great ironic analogy considering that a cross can be folded into a box and a box can be unfolded into a cross.
That podcast can be listened to quite easily (I think) as a standalone podcast without having to listen to all the other podcasts leading up to that one in the series.

So, why does Australia celebrate Boxing Day?

"Boxing Day is a holiday celebrated the day after Christmas Day.

It originated in the United Kingdom, and is celebrated in a number of countries that previously formed part of the British Empire.

Boxing Day is on 26 December, although the attached bank holiday or public holiday may take place either on that day or two days later.
In the liturgical calendar of Western Christianity, Boxing Day is the second day of Christmastide, and also St. Stephen's Day.

In some European countries, notably Germany, Poland, Belgium, the Netherlands and the Nordic countries, 26 December is celebrated as a Second Christmas Day."

Happy Boxing Day

The 26th of December

"The 26th of December actually has its origins in a much more noble (and less painful) practice.

It is said to have begun in England during the Middle Ages, when the servants of wealthy families had to work on Christmas Day. (Come on, did you think those princes and princesses cooked their own Noche Buena? Of course not.)
To make up for it, the said servants were given the day off the morning after to visit their families and to celebrate Christmas as they wished.

Before they left on their respective outings, each servant would receive from their master a box containing gifts, bonuses, or even leftover food from the previous night’s feast.

In some variations, these Christmas boxes also referred to the ones that tradespeople would collect from their clients on the first working day after the holiday in gratitude for their services throughout the year.
In another variation of the origin story, Boxing Day refers to the boxes placed inside the churches to collect money for the poor.

These donation boxes are then opened the day after Christmas and distributed among the less fortunate. (Another spin on the tale has a sealed box onboard sailing ships for good luck. If the ship was lucky enough to complete their voyage safely, the box was given to a priest, who would then open it up at Christmas so that the contents could be given to the poor.)"

Something to ponder this Boxing Day maybe?
Ding ... ding!

Lismore unveils its third recycled Christmas tree

Woven Energy Podcast #15 – How to Overcome the Miasma and Pursue Real Shamanism

UPDATE: 5th January, 2018

"Bleary-eyed and clutching coffees, the people queueing outside one upmarket fashion store on Sydney's Pitt Street began arriving before dawn and formed a line stretching 200m.

But when the doors finally opened at 8:00am, the eager shoppers rushed in only to find there were no discounts.

Not that it seems to have driven the crowds away, as people kept lining up just for the tradition of it."

A Shamanic Christmas Story?

I saw the movie 'The Man Who Invented Christmas' last night and was surprised that it featured the character of a talking crow in the movie.
Ironically, I had written a post yesterday about scare-crows -
Rock On(!) Tamborine Mountain?

'The Man Who Invented Christmas' is about, "the journey that led to Charles Dickens' creation of "A Christmas Carol," a timeless tale that would redefine the holiday."

The crow is on the left-hand side in the
word "story" appropriately enough 

The crow doesn't have a major role in the movie, but to my mind does add a shamanic nod to the movie, apart from "The World Tree" (Christmas Tree) featuring in the movie, as well;-) 

"Christmas Tree, oh Christmas Tree,
how lovely are thou branches..."?

Woven Energy Podcast #14 – Reality Driven Shamanism vs. Religion and Culture

'The Man Who Invented Christmas' is directed by Bharat Nalluri who was born in 1965 in Guntur, India and in the year 2000 was the director of 'The Crow: Salvation', which was the third movie in 

'The Crow' franchise.

After watching this great little movie, I decided to see if I could find any talking crow videos on You Tube, because I knew these animals were smart enough to talk if they really wanted to.
And yes, I found quite a few videos of crows and ravens saying the odd human word or two.
And one video in particular was from India.

I can just hear people out there saying "bah ... humbug" about whether crows can talk or not, and to you guys I say "have yourselves a merry little Christmas":-)