The Blessing Way/Paper Clip by Sarah Stegall Copyright © 1995 by Sarah Stegall Writer: Chris Carter Director: Rob Bowman The Navajo do not pray for rain. Unlike their neighbors, the Pueblo and Hopi, who dance for the favor of the gods when drought threatens, the nomadic Navajo will hold ceremonies to put themselves in harmony with nature, even if it means buckling down to wait out a season of no rain. Similarly, the Blessing Way Chant is designed not to heal the patient of his physical ills, but to restore him to the “path of beauty”, the road of balance…
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The X-Files: “Our Town”
To Serve Man by Sarah Stegall Copyright ©1995 by Sarah Stegall Written by Frank Spotnitz Directed by Rob Bowman I am beginning to wonder if there is, indeed, a conspiracy behind “The X-Files” after all: this is part of a campaign by Chris Carter and his crew to make vegetarians of us all. From “Red Museum“, with its tainted beef, to “Our Town” with its suspect chicken runs a direct line, a connection that gnaws at our cultural taboos about adulteration of food and the eating of forbidden fruit. Or in this case, forbidden meat. Mulder and Scully are assigned…