NASA Engineer Reflects on The Navajo Spider Woman and Life in Our Universe | Native America | PBS

[@maurameng133]

I love this story! And the importance of curiosity and creativity in understanding our world.

[@netzacoatl6327]

This is beautiful. Thank you.

[@CareyBoeckx]

Thumbs up if you're watching from a different country!

[@DavidGalich77]

It seems to all make sense.

[@CharlesAlvidrez-g7b]

Navajo Medicine Older Female, I have seen. I left my body once due to migraine headaches from four pinch nerves in my neck. I was on this Giant Rock wall at the top edge, I look down while clinging to the wall. I seen white farmers rolling straw into big rolls, the next moment I was sitting cross-legged in front of this Indian women, her hair was pulled back into a bun. She had Tercoise earring on about 50 to 70 years old. What I believe to be her son drove up in a black ford stepside truck, when he got out he was tall 6 foot or a little bigger, long black hair to his waist, slim, as he came around the back of the truck where we were sitting and then, telling her you have another one, She replys yes, then as he passes I see a little wooden shack he's walking to. Then I'm back in front looking at her, I asked her if she was from these plaines, they were flat desert with rock mountains that shot up out of the desert. She said no. She reply then said I'm from a higher plain. Then she ask me what do I want to know, at that time I notice A black like tube top she had on, then these tiny little lights started slowly coming floating from her black top toward me a lot of them. I was so out of it, my physical body brain lost communication and came back to my body, What was this all about. Can anybody tell me, I'm part Pueblo.

[@Tlilancalqui]

Pain and hardship can be a thing that either destroys us, or allows us to look for the calm spot in our mind, the center of the storm, if we relax our mind and focus on that calm spot, it brings us into a trance. if we can learn to rely on that calm in the storm, it can provide us relief from the pain that we are experiencing as well as allow us to get in contact with our spirit guide.

[@lbrowning2543]

What does the Mars rover have to do with Spider woman?

[@GenaTrius]

Space stuff, many limbs, materials technology, I dunno, probably other stuff. I do wish the video elaborated a little more though

[@lmeeken]

Plenty of potential poetic connections (maybe 'poetic' is the wrong word? - I'm a settler). For me, the most salient connection was that Spider Woman was tasked with mapping the universe, and the Mars Rover is one tool (of many) that we humans are using to try and do that work ourselves.

[@pamelapurcell8574]

Great Question!!👍🕸️🕷️🕸️👍

[@JablesBee]

Well that man was a NASA engineer so…

[@marvinmartian6516]

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