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covered up and hidden from Reservations looking for
public view. talented scouts, for tough
In the early nineties, Sally young men trained to
was married to a licensed move stealthily through
psychologist who worked at rough terrain. They were
a VA Medical hospital. He especially looking for men
worked with combat veterans with outstanding, almost
with PTSD, post traumatic supernatural, tracking
stress disorder. Most of them abilities. Before being
had served in Vietnam. approached, these carefully!” Mūkūrwe-inī, Nyeri, Kenya
Author and administrator of Gĩkũyũ Centre for
Cultural Studies, Kĩgongona kĩa Ũũgĩ wa Bũrũri Witũ.
Sally said, “I remember Selected men were A modern Gĩkũyũ Shaman and Priest after the
clearly an evening when extensively documented order of Melchizedek. A Mũnjirũ wa
Mbarĩ ya Kĩragũ.
my husband came back to as experts in tracking and Email: muiniwagicandi@gmail.com
our apartment on Doctor’s survival. With the usual
Circle carrying a thick enticements, the well proven when they received their
official looking folder in smooth phrases used to required military haircuts,
his hands. Inside were enroll new recruits, some of they could no longer “sense”
hundreds of pages of certain these Indian trackers were the enemy, they could no
studies commissioned by the then enlisted. Once enlisted, longer access a “sixth sense”
government. He was in shock an amazing thing happened. , their “intuition” no longer
from the contents. What he Whatever talents and skills was reliable, they couldn’t
read in those documents they had possessed on “read” subtle signs as well
completely changed his life. the reservation seemed to or access subtle extrasensory
From that moment on my mysteriously disappear, as information.
conservative middle of the recruit after recruit failed to
road husband grew his hair perform as expected in the So the testing institute
and beard and never cut them field. recruited more indian trackers,
again. What is more, the VA Serious casualities and let them keep their long hair,
Medical center let him do it, failures of performance led and tested them in multiple
and other very conservative the government to contract areas. Then they would pair
men in the staff followed expensive testing of these two men together who had
his example. As I read the recruits, and this is what was received the same scores on
documents, I learned why. found. all the tests. They would let
It seems that during the Viet one man in the pair keep his
Nam War special forces When questioned about hair long, and gave the other
in the war department had their failure to perform as man a military haircut. Then
sent undercover experts expected, the older recruits the two men retook the tests.
to comb American Indian replied consistantly that
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