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According to Rabbi Daniel Mechanic, an expert on the codes, the belief that the Torah contains encrypted messages dates to the medieval practitioners of the Kabbalah, a form of Jewish mysticism.
The execution is even more problematic: There is an abundance of bad acting, heavy-handed moralizing, obvious dialogue--and, of course, the obligatory elderly Indian skulking about to highlight the mysticism of the situation.
Billed as the first feature film by Native Americans, this picaresque tale wins reviewers' admiration for being "palpably authentic" (Richard Schickel, Time ). Critics like the story, about a young man and his friend who set out to retrieve his father's ashes, for eschewing "the high seriousness and dubious mysticism" of most films about the Indians' plight (John Anderson, Newsday ). Although everyone enjoys its wry humor and cutting observations about life on the reservation, a few say its aimless plot betrays its makers' inexperience.
I think I'll start by auctioning off my copy of Early Islamic Mysticism: Sufi, Quran, Miraj, Poets and Theological Writings .
Actually, what I hope to dispel isn't pre-Darwinian mystery, but a kind of post-Darwinian mysticism, a confused exaltation of genetic affinity.