Senoi
The Senoi are one of the indigenous ethnic groups known as Orang Asli from the elongated Malay Peninsula in what is now Malaysia .
The Senoi, with whom several ethnic groups can be distinguished, include around 12,000 to 18,000 members. Traditionally they lived mainly in the interior of the mountains as hunters in the tropical rainforests . They partially kept this way of life until the beginning of the 20th century. The Senoi speak their own language, which is one of the Mon Khmer languages .
Some groups of the Temiar-Senoi have withdrawn into the inaccessible mountain rainforests of north-central Malaysia, where they lead a life in voluntary isolation from global culture .
Much has been published about the Senoi dreams . Dreams and trance states are an essential element for culture and society. Otherworldly spirits appear in dreams and play an essential role in rituals (healing ceremonies). Earlier reports, according to which Senoi use lucid dreams , i.e. consciously influence dreams, could not be confirmed in this way and do not correspond to their own dream theory.
The Senoi musical instruments include a jew's harp genggong made of metal, a jew's harp ranggong (or juring ranggnin ) made from a palm leaf rib ( Eugeissona tristis ), mouth and nose-blown flutes, a two-string bamboo zither kereb or karaniing (similar to the Indonesian guntang ) and the Indonesian guntang Bamboo canes gooh . The latter are used in pairs to accompany female choirs.
literature
- Patricia Garfield: Creative dreaming (1984). 4th edition Ansata-Verlag, Interlaken 1993, ISBN 3-7157-0165-X .
- Holger Kalweit: dream time and inner space. The world of the shamans; Voyages of discovery into the terra incognita of the soul; the shaman as a pioneer of modern consciousness research . OW Barth Verlag, Munich 1984, ISBN 3-502-67350-0 .
- Strephon Kaplan-Williams: Dream Work. The key to the subconscious. A Practical Guide (Dreamworking, 1991). Goldmann-Verlag, Munich 1993, ISBN 3-442-12205-8 .
- Marina Roseman: Healing Sounds of the Malaysian Rain Forest. Temiar music and medicine (Comparative studies of health systems and medical care; Vol. 28). University of California Press, Berkeley 1993, ISBN 0-520-08281-8 .
- Strephon Williams: To Your Self through Dreamwork. Creative use of dreams (Jungian-Senoi dreamwork manual, 1982). Ansata-Verlag, Interlaken 1984, ISBN 3-7157-0106-4 .
- Robert Wolff: The Senoi smile. What it means to be human (Original wisdom. Stories of an ancient way of knowing, 2001). Oneness Center, Bern 2011. ISBN 978-3-9523830-0-1 .
Individual evidence
- ^ G. William Domhoff: Senoi Dream Theory: Myth, Scientific Method, and the Dreamwork Movement. The DreamResearch.net Dream Library: Useful Articles on Dreams 2003
- ↑ Peter J. Bräunlein: In Search of the “dreaming Senoi” -A contribution to the history of fascination with dreams (PDF document from 2000), loaded on November 5, 2014
- ^ Marina Roseman, 1993, pp. 85, 120