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THE OOLOGIST 



mals seem to possess this beyond 

 civilized humans. He believes that 

 birds easily communicate to other 

 birds by direct mind, or psychosis, 

 suggestion which is easily understood 

 and sufficient for bird living. 



He also believes that primitive In- 

 dians possess to a mafked degree this 

 so-called psychosis power. Indians 

 talk by facial expression and poise ten 

 times more than one unfamiliar with 

 them could believe. Among his notes 

 Dr. Beede has the story of an Indian 

 woman who attended church in Bis- 

 marck, North Dakota', and told Dr. 

 Beede what a wonderful sermon the 

 minister preached. She knew no Eng- 

 lish, but caught the sermon by the 

 facial expression and poise of the 

 speaker. Afterwards, on seeing the 

 minister. Dr. Beede found that the In- 

 dian woman was correct. 



This woman showed large psychosis 

 power. And a horse knowing his 

 owner in a moment seems to indicate 

 the same. Most battles between ani- 

 mals are merely a test of psychosis 

 power and strength without pnysicai 

 force. And the same is true of In- 

 dians. He once saw Trapper Johnson 

 and a Crow Indian face to face in this 

 manner for two hours (The Crow In- 

 dian came to kill Johnson) and John- 

 son (a Scotchman with remarkable 

 psychosis powers) won out; and the 

 Indian collapsed. 



In numerous cases a wild animal 

 completely overcomes its prey by 

 psychosis force before seizing it With 

 the inventions of weapons and various 

 machinery, this psychosis power tends 

 to diminish. Regardless of terms or 

 definition, by psychology we mean 

 some sort of a mind process or life 

 process with a function in guiding or 

 aiding its possessor; and we do not 

 mean the mere scholastic analysis of 

 things. Whatever the life possibili- 

 ties in "reason," reason in humans has 



been so much and so long specialized 

 for gaining or corralling what others 

 produce that we can hardly determine 

 its life-teleos function by observing it 

 in humans. Popularly it means ability 

 to elbow one's way ahead. Gumplo- 

 witz and other psychologists believed 

 that reason is not the main mind 

 trunk, but that something that might 

 be called feeling, had not this term 

 gained a narrow sense, would better 

 express the mind trunk. A human 

 seeming to have a psychosis capable 

 of easily influencing or controlling the 

 moving faculties and resulting acts 

 (for good or bad) of others seems to 

 have a forceful psychosis, which need 

 not be unassociated with reason at all, 

 but may play with reason remarkably 

 well. 



"Education" (meaning Dooklng 

 rather than immediate contact with 

 objects, as in the Indian careful and 

 well planned training) and "civiliza- 

 tion" (meaning a type of culture large- 

 ly determined by cities) seem to lessen 

 the human psychosis. This psychosis 

 is probably best when it is extrovert 

 and not when it is introvert. 



The Indians acquire a large amount 

 of information both in the field of 

 natural history and Ijlology. Dr. Beede 

 says that he once demonstrated to the 

 satisfaction of two competent investi- 

 gators that an old Indian knew more 

 of the aforementioned subjects than 

 the average University professor who 

 specializes in those branches. Dr. Gil- 

 more also states that the Indians 

 know much of the subjects of biology 

 and natural history, and he has known 

 some of them who had made fairly 

 good deductions in the field of geology. 



The foregoing statements apply al- 

 most wholly to the Sioux Indians of 

 North Dakota, and the same may be 

 said of the bird and fiower songs. At 

 least we have little knowledge per- 

 taining to the prevalence of nature 

 songs in other tribes. 



