Confusion...

Write about one aspect of Prechtel's speech that was unclear or underdeveloped

 It seems strange to Westerners now because they have systematically devalued the other world and no longer deal with it as part of their everyday lives.
     - result of European totalitarianism - divine rule - destruction of other cultures - interested in the spread of Catholicism - know how it came to the Americas, but how did it spread throughout Europe when it originated in the Middle East?


Some of us have buried our humanity deep inside, or medicated or anesthetized it, but every person alive today, tribal or modern, primal or domesticated, has a soul that is original, natural, and, above all, indigenous in one way or another. 
  - reminds me of every distopia I've ever read - are we living in a distopia?


But all along the way, very little, if anything, was given back to the hungry, invisible divinity that gave people the ability to invent those cars. Now, in a healthy culture, that’s where the shamans would come in, because with every invention comes a spiritual debt that must be paid, either ritually, or else taken out of us in warfare, grief, or depression.
 - This comes back to the the God-apple debate, from a different prospective.   Why did God make the apple if he knew it would tempt Adam and Eve?  Why did the deities give us the ability to dream if it costs them such?  Is this a sort of parent-child dynamic?  Parents sacrifice for their child so their child can repay them?


Ideally, the gift should be something made by hand, which is the one thing humans have that spirits don’t.
 - How does that work?  Are we supposed to make something and bury it?  How does song play into this if song is not made by hand?  If we make something, is the simple act of making it enough, or does it have to made with the spirits in mind?