I wish I had a perspective on this but I just don’t know enough about it. Everything you mentioned does resonate strongly though. We have been conditioned with so many stigmas in regard to our bodies it’s no wonder they don’t work naturally.

My perspective is not Native American. I have studied a lot of traditions and my perspectives are a conglomeration of ideas. What I like about native traditions is that those natives learned by studying and communing with nature. They observed nature closely and could see how things worked. Today so many of us are so radically cut off from nature that we get all our information from that darn Matrix, as you say. From childhood we are conditioned to not trust nature, to fear it even, and to always turn to unnatural remedies. We’ve been fooled.

Speaking of urination, for many years I’ve had a pee pee preference. I prefer to pee out of doors. Back when I lived out in the country I would step outside to pee even though I had a perfectly functional toilet inside. I feel that we should return our urine directly back to nature rather than through some sewer system.

There are places in Asia where people urinate and poop into buckets and then they would dump the contents of those buckets in their fields to fertilize their crops. It’s perfectly good fertilizer but we have been taught to dump that fertilizer into the toilet and then buy expensive chemical fertilizers for our crops. And no one seems to see how backwards that is.

But there is another advantage to outdoor urination. I call it pee pee meditation. Outdoor urination not only gives us the opportunity to empty our bladders but also to empty our minds of incessant thinking as we stare out at and commune with nature while peeing. It’s a short meditation but powerful. It beats the hell out of staring at whatever is on the wall in your bathroom.

I once lived for the better part of a year in an old miner’s cabin that had no indoor plumbing. There was an outhouse but I only used it for number twos. Like an animal marking its territory, I did all my peeing out in nature. And this brings us full circle back to the subject of spiders. While living in that cabin I learned that spiders really, really love outhouses. It’s another reason to be loving and respectful to spiders.

Your reply, TheseEyesGod makes me want to learn more about urine therapies. The natives of Turtle Island lived with rattlesnakes for thousands of years and I never learned what they did about rattlesnake bites. Now I am very curious about it. Thanks for prodding my curiosity.