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OK. It's 2012. We have almost a year left until the world goes down in flaming heaps of plastic shit on the next Winter Solstice ;-). Some thoughts:
•This blog has focused way, way too much on weapons. It's time to bring in some higher love, so to speak. Guns can protect us and feed us and they serve that pragmatic purpose, but they can also easily bring about the end of the American social order thru wanton violence. We need to remember that community is what will ultimately save us. It is foreseen that there will come a day when there are so few people left in the world that people will greet all travelers with open arms, without any head trips at all. We need to re-connect with our own humanity, to make it thru the coming times.
I recently traveled to the Hopi Mesas and the Taos Pueblo. Sadly, last year the last 5 remaining families moved away from the single surviving strictly old-school village on Second Mesa. This means that that village is now occupied only for sacred rituals. I was also told by a local that the new generation of Hopi dancers is not as devoted as their forebears, that they have succumbed to the seductions of the modern world and do not have their hearts in the sacred rituals. This is bad news for the rest of us, because the Hopi are the Keepers of the Earth, and as their sacred rituals die, so does mankind and the planet.
On a more positive note, the Taos Pueblo continues on as it has for millennia, with its inhabitants still living the pure life on their sacred land. They hunt in their pristine ancestral land and still drink from the stream that flows directly thru their village. This is good, good news. I talked directly with Indians who have spent their entire lives on the Pueblo, living the traditional life. They are good, friendly people. Go visit them and talk to them. They reminded me of the old hippies I used to see. Then I realized that those old hippies were modeling themselves on these same Indians. The hippies are now gone, but the Indians remain.
I came away from these Native communities with this thought: The world is in a cycle of unprecedented change, and ancient ways and cultures are indeed vanishing all over the earth, never to return. These native cultures are usually bound in secret earth-based rituals which were designed to preserve their cultures, and by keeping those rituals secret as they die, these cultures are extinguishing themselves completely. I have resisted accepting that technology is part of the future, but now I believe that it will remain part of human culture for the time being, and I embrace it. My thoughts are generally in line with what Penny Kelly expressed in ROBES, when she said that the future surviving "Family" communities of the late 21st & 22nd Century will in fact use high technology (if humanity succeeds in avoiding total collapse and a new Dark Age). That does indeed seem to be the route we are on.
Lastly, I spoke with a woman in Santa Fe who is part of the burgeoning local/organic food movement. She and a friend are getting into sacred bee shamanism, and starting a home-based honey business. They will be adding 10 new hives this year alone. Also, they grew so much food last year that they had to give it away. All this on 2 1-acre plots. Yay! Yay, yay, yay! This is what will save us: Locally grown food and home-based businesses. So, join the trend and choose your alliance. Become a Creator, and get back to your sustainable, earth-based roots.
•This blog has focused way, way too much on weapons. It's time to bring in some higher love, so to speak. Guns can protect us and feed us and they serve that pragmatic purpose, but they can also easily bring about the end of the American social order thru wanton violence. We need to remember that community is what will ultimately save us. It is foreseen that there will come a day when there are so few people left in the world that people will greet all travelers with open arms, without any head trips at all. We need to re-connect with our own humanity, to make it thru the coming times.
I recently traveled to the Hopi Mesas and the Taos Pueblo. Sadly, last year the last 5 remaining families moved away from the single surviving strictly old-school village on Second Mesa. This means that that village is now occupied only for sacred rituals. I was also told by a local that the new generation of Hopi dancers is not as devoted as their forebears, that they have succumbed to the seductions of the modern world and do not have their hearts in the sacred rituals. This is bad news for the rest of us, because the Hopi are the Keepers of the Earth, and as their sacred rituals die, so does mankind and the planet.
On a more positive note, the Taos Pueblo continues on as it has for millennia, with its inhabitants still living the pure life on their sacred land. They hunt in their pristine ancestral land and still drink from the stream that flows directly thru their village. This is good, good news. I talked directly with Indians who have spent their entire lives on the Pueblo, living the traditional life. They are good, friendly people. Go visit them and talk to them. They reminded me of the old hippies I used to see. Then I realized that those old hippies were modeling themselves on these same Indians. The hippies are now gone, but the Indians remain.
I came away from these Native communities with this thought: The world is in a cycle of unprecedented change, and ancient ways and cultures are indeed vanishing all over the earth, never to return. These native cultures are usually bound in secret earth-based rituals which were designed to preserve their cultures, and by keeping those rituals secret as they die, these cultures are extinguishing themselves completely. I have resisted accepting that technology is part of the future, but now I believe that it will remain part of human culture for the time being, and I embrace it. My thoughts are generally in line with what Penny Kelly expressed in ROBES, when she said that the future surviving "Family" communities of the late 21st & 22nd Century will in fact use high technology (if humanity succeeds in avoiding total collapse and a new Dark Age). That does indeed seem to be the route we are on.
Lastly, I spoke with a woman in Santa Fe who is part of the burgeoning local/organic food movement. She and a friend are getting into sacred bee shamanism, and starting a home-based honey business. They will be adding 10 new hives this year alone. Also, they grew so much food last year that they had to give it away. All this on 2 1-acre plots. Yay! Yay, yay, yay! This is what will save us: Locally grown food and home-based businesses. So, join the trend and choose your alliance. Become a Creator, and get back to your sustainable, earth-based roots.
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