What is this Destruction you speak of?
I was asked this question by an beautiful soul regarding my last writing. And in receiving that question, I understood the need to clarify and explore it in greater depth. And so I have striven do so here.
Destruction as a concept is filled with intense negative connotation in contemporary English. It is a word that implies violence, the use of force, with overtones of anger and hatred embedded in the intentionality behind it. 'To destroy' a thing is, often in our minds, a terrible and negative act.
But Destruction does not need to be, nor fundamentally is, violent. Destruction, as the opposite component of Creation in the Creation/Destruction duality, simply a part of the reciprocal cycle that allows change and transformation to take place. Rotting wood (destruction) allows for the growth and sustainment of lichens, fungus, worms and grubs (creation) that are then eaten (destruction) to allow bears, birds, insects and eventually people to survive (creation).
Yes, the duality is an illusion. Yes, they are in the end One Force arbitrarily divided by human consciousness into two separate forces. But it is an illusion that we GIVE MEANING TO. And this allowance for MEANING in this duality, as arbitrary as it may be, is one that we are best served to consciously recognize. For by doing so, with full cognizance, we can apprehend Intention in the manifestation of these forces in our reality, in our society, and in ourselves.
What we are aware of, we can consciously participate in: shape. What we are ignorant of, controls us.
We speak often of the New Sun, the New Age/the Age of Aquarius, the New Paradigm, the New America, the New World. Yes - there is something that we have been building together for quite some time! Something not quite like what we have had prior, or have now.
But HOW - how does one manifest the new Creation in a space filled with an old one?
How does one pick up a ripe apple when one's hands are full with rotten cores? Gingerly? Timidly? Balancing the new fresh fruit on the backs of brown and blackened skeletons of decomposing pomes? Or does one put down the old, allowing the energy and matter in them to compost back into the soil, and pick up the new apple firmly, with confidence and power?
Destruction is letting go; it is a means of relinquishing. Nothing more. The Ego lets go of the Body in Death - the Self lets go of the Ego in the moment of Transcendental ecstasy. A mother lets go of her child in birth. We let go of our deceased loves ones through grief.
But intention. THAT IS THE DIFFERENCE. The Destruction of the Old Paradigm need not be one fraught with blood and peril. It need not be one filled with hatred, anger, fear and ruin. And know this - that the actions you undertake are each one participations in that Destruction.
What is the Intention of your actions? Do you think/feel/believe that actions with negative intention will create a Paradigm of positive intention? That you can pave the road to some peaceful paradise with corpses, flaming ruins, and broken souls?
The New Sun is being created. You are one of the creators. It will be as you, as I, as they make it. Nothing more, nothing less. If you seek peace - act with peace. If you seek love - act with love. If you seek compassion - act with compassion. If you seek justice - act with justice. You will manifest only what you manifest into the world. For how can it be otherwise?
MUNAY, my brothers and sisters.
-Andrew Three Feather
Medicine Horse
Tuesday, December 20, 2011
Monday, December 12, 2011
Picking up a Paradigm with the hands of the gods
Let us speak of needs.
Pulling away an old way to allow a new one is full of pain, shock and the failure of the means of the provision of needs. Food, medicine, water, shelter, natural systems - all of these enter states of risk when an entire Paradigm undergoes metamorphosis.
Destruction is the necessary facilitator of Creation - but Creation takes time. Or perhaps more appropriately, Creation happens in the simultaneous now, but it humans manifest delay in integrating creation into their lifespaces. Creation has happened, but humans let go of what is rotten and take up what is fecund slowly.
The letting go of the dead old ways is as a wave traveling through the fluid medium of a population. The ones that have placed themselves furthest away from the epicenter of change will be the last to experience the shock, but will be the ones in most dire need the change once it arrives (if it arrives "in time" at all).
Like doctors and EMTs rushing to the scene of a calamity, those who have placed themselves closest to the epicenter (those who have opened up themselves the most to the reality of the paradigm shift) will be the most needed to aid the transition of those further away - the ones who are less prepared (particularly emotionally and culturally) and therefore who will suffer the most from shock, dislocation, agony, confusion and the victimization of their psychological response to change.
Epicenters will exist and do exist already in many places - really, an epicenter exists inside each person who has come to terms with the change. The swiftness with with those around the epicenters reach out with love, compassion, and the tools of aid (medicine, healing, food, skill, craft, etc.) to those in need will radically color the future of the fluid medium of the population. For the rollback of that wave - for there is a reaction to every action - will vary greatly in its intention and intensity in proportion to the speed and response of those Emergency Paradigm Technicians (EPTs).
If you are integrating this All already, you are already well on your way to being an EPT. The capacity of your compassion to transform potential change into intention evolutionary action is the critical component in what the New Way will manifest as. It is cliche to say, but still true - the future is in your hands. Its in your hearts. You are the change that will come to pass. The ones we have awaited to manifest Yahtaeo, to manifest the New Sun, are US.
As the Meso-Americans mythologized, the gods sacrificed themselves for this Sun we live in, now dying and rotting away to make room for the next. We are the gods on the ground now. Its on US.
-Three Feather
Pulling away an old way to allow a new one is full of pain, shock and the failure of the means of the provision of needs. Food, medicine, water, shelter, natural systems - all of these enter states of risk when an entire Paradigm undergoes metamorphosis.
Destruction is the necessary facilitator of Creation - but Creation takes time. Or perhaps more appropriately, Creation happens in the simultaneous now, but it humans manifest delay in integrating creation into their lifespaces. Creation has happened, but humans let go of what is rotten and take up what is fecund slowly.
The letting go of the dead old ways is as a wave traveling through the fluid medium of a population. The ones that have placed themselves furthest away from the epicenter of change will be the last to experience the shock, but will be the ones in most dire need the change once it arrives (if it arrives "in time" at all).
Like doctors and EMTs rushing to the scene of a calamity, those who have placed themselves closest to the epicenter (those who have opened up themselves the most to the reality of the paradigm shift) will be the most needed to aid the transition of those further away - the ones who are less prepared (particularly emotionally and culturally) and therefore who will suffer the most from shock, dislocation, agony, confusion and the victimization of their psychological response to change.
Epicenters will exist and do exist already in many places - really, an epicenter exists inside each person who has come to terms with the change. The swiftness with with those around the epicenters reach out with love, compassion, and the tools of aid (medicine, healing, food, skill, craft, etc.) to those in need will radically color the future of the fluid medium of the population. For the rollback of that wave - for there is a reaction to every action - will vary greatly in its intention and intensity in proportion to the speed and response of those Emergency Paradigm Technicians (EPTs).
If you are integrating this All already, you are already well on your way to being an EPT. The capacity of your compassion to transform potential change into intention evolutionary action is the critical component in what the New Way will manifest as. It is cliche to say, but still true - the future is in your hands. Its in your hearts. You are the change that will come to pass. The ones we have awaited to manifest Yahtaeo, to manifest the New Sun, are US.
As the Meso-Americans mythologized, the gods sacrificed themselves for this Sun we live in, now dying and rotting away to make room for the next. We are the gods on the ground now. Its on US.
-Three Feather
Monday, December 5, 2011
Manifesting the Dream
Creating the Dream from the ambiguous aether of the neurospheric entanglement of Beingness...
That is to say, manifesting something Real from the overarching transphysical reality within which we sympathetically vibrate...
Or, in other words, making actual what is dreamt about, what is postulated, what is supposed, imagined, participated in at the theoretical or artistic level. Transitioning from fantasy to simulation to immediate omnipresent reality as we accept it...
To do so, one must fertilize the seeds of what IS To Come with the remnants of what WAS Never To Be.
For there to be creation, there must also be destruction. Paving the way for the future that is unfolding in the Now requires the extermination of the present Now manifest.
Sometimes, the greatest act of compassion is murder. A mother bird feeds her children with the death of countless worms. Each one is a destiny sacrificed to Manifest the fledgling's opportunity to Be. Never ignorantly or naively assume otherwise. For to do so is to victimize one's responsibility to Power, to Medicine, to Destiny, to the Manifestation of the Dream in the Now.
Take responsibility for your Power. Take responsibility for your Manifestation's impact on others. To blithely assume that any positive action is without negative consequences is to fall victim to eternal immaturity. The Yin and the Yang balance one another, as a fundamental consequence of our Beingness in this Transversal Manifestation.
When you can Manifest a Now that transcends mere gratification, and resonates with Integrity, Compassion and Love - then you beget something of merit into History; into Reality; into Being. KNOW yourself. KNOW Why you seek what you seek. Delude not yourself with your own illusions and pretensions. Own completely what you seek to make without excuse or compromise.
To do otherwise is to ensure another endless cycle of failure. Another endless cycle of disappointment. Another endless cycle of stagnation. Another endless cycle of injustice.
Eternity is too short to be wasted. ACT with Ownership of the All of You, the All of Your Intention, the All of Your Impact, the All of Your Calamity, the All of Your Blessing.
If you do, we may all in turn be saved by your Integrity.
Would you allow us that chance?
-Three Feather
That is to say, manifesting something Real from the overarching transphysical reality within which we sympathetically vibrate...
Or, in other words, making actual what is dreamt about, what is postulated, what is supposed, imagined, participated in at the theoretical or artistic level. Transitioning from fantasy to simulation to immediate omnipresent reality as we accept it...
To do so, one must fertilize the seeds of what IS To Come with the remnants of what WAS Never To Be.
For there to be creation, there must also be destruction. Paving the way for the future that is unfolding in the Now requires the extermination of the present Now manifest.
Sometimes, the greatest act of compassion is murder. A mother bird feeds her children with the death of countless worms. Each one is a destiny sacrificed to Manifest the fledgling's opportunity to Be. Never ignorantly or naively assume otherwise. For to do so is to victimize one's responsibility to Power, to Medicine, to Destiny, to the Manifestation of the Dream in the Now.
Take responsibility for your Power. Take responsibility for your Manifestation's impact on others. To blithely assume that any positive action is without negative consequences is to fall victim to eternal immaturity. The Yin and the Yang balance one another, as a fundamental consequence of our Beingness in this Transversal Manifestation.
When you can Manifest a Now that transcends mere gratification, and resonates with Integrity, Compassion and Love - then you beget something of merit into History; into Reality; into Being. KNOW yourself. KNOW Why you seek what you seek. Delude not yourself with your own illusions and pretensions. Own completely what you seek to make without excuse or compromise.
To do otherwise is to ensure another endless cycle of failure. Another endless cycle of disappointment. Another endless cycle of stagnation. Another endless cycle of injustice.
Eternity is too short to be wasted. ACT with Ownership of the All of You, the All of Your Intention, the All of Your Impact, the All of Your Calamity, the All of Your Blessing.
If you do, we may all in turn be saved by your Integrity.
Would you allow us that chance?
-Three Feather
Saturday, November 26, 2011
Walking the Path Towards the Next Manifestation
Do you know what you are creating?
How often do we act, pursuing intuition, strategy or vision, and find ourselves at a destination at the end of our efforts different then what we imagined when we set out?
Occupation is creating. It is building. It is manifesting something new. But from this viewpoint here, I see outcomes and end states that surprise me as much as a sense that they will inevitably surprise the currently entangled participants in the effort.
Recall previously the discussion about the desire to take power, and its ultimate uses? Rotten and diseased structures only produce contagion, no matter who captains them. A melting iceberg is still as doomed even if one Penguin Emperor replaces another.
The rallying cry to take back power - to re-establish control over government - to demand accountability - falls into that trap. The positive intentionality behind these efforts can only fully blossom when it embraces the creative evolutionary forces that subconsciously drive it.
And, unknowingly, it already is.
The crisis of this society resides most definitely with the unwillingness of its participants to PARTICIPATE; to engage with their ownership of it and their own lives. Too much of what it fundamentally means to be Human, to ourselves, to others, has been willfully abandoned by WE THE PEOPLE. The populace has traded (sometimes at gunpoint) demography and ideology for Humanity. And it is, and always will be, a terrible trade.
The creative evolutionary forces that are driving the changes we now see were only let loose because of the collapse of social structures and programming built towards the facilitation of the denial of our Humanity. Consciously, they have at this point manifested as protest and demand against WHAT IS. Unconsciously, they have brought the members of our society together to engage in acts of Common Humanity with one another.
The Occupation encampments are rebooting Humanity in this country in a sense broader than any yet seen before. They are empowering people to work together, to live together, to govern together, to fight together to preserve those things that are most important to them. The living lessons of Human society on display in these camps ARE the point of all of this. They are WHAT IS LACKING most glaringly in our alienated, numb and isolated society. It was only after the liberation of economic and political catastrophe that we could take the steps to re-engage with those most fundamental of Human truths.
It is what gives meaning to the things that we do, for ourselves and for the survival of those around us. Without that meaning, without that sense of Humanity held in Common, our actions become nothing more than hollow signifiers - void and valueless, a series of charades keeping us occupied between now and the grave.
The Occupation movement is evolving, and will hopefully continue to evolve. If the people participating in it, and those supporting it, allow it to run its Own course, there will be - in its own time - a more definitive manifestation of change in this society than the one that, at least most broadly, is currently advocated for by its membership.
And let there be NO DOUBT here: Societies strive for their own survival. This movement is an ardent cry for salvation by our subconscious selves. And this voice, if strangled callously by those fearful of evolution, will turn to Thunder.
And woe then to each and every one of us.
-Three Feather
How often do we act, pursuing intuition, strategy or vision, and find ourselves at a destination at the end of our efforts different then what we imagined when we set out?
Occupation is creating. It is building. It is manifesting something new. But from this viewpoint here, I see outcomes and end states that surprise me as much as a sense that they will inevitably surprise the currently entangled participants in the effort.
Recall previously the discussion about the desire to take power, and its ultimate uses? Rotten and diseased structures only produce contagion, no matter who captains them. A melting iceberg is still as doomed even if one Penguin Emperor replaces another.
The rallying cry to take back power - to re-establish control over government - to demand accountability - falls into that trap. The positive intentionality behind these efforts can only fully blossom when it embraces the creative evolutionary forces that subconsciously drive it.
And, unknowingly, it already is.
The crisis of this society resides most definitely with the unwillingness of its participants to PARTICIPATE; to engage with their ownership of it and their own lives. Too much of what it fundamentally means to be Human, to ourselves, to others, has been willfully abandoned by WE THE PEOPLE. The populace has traded (sometimes at gunpoint) demography and ideology for Humanity. And it is, and always will be, a terrible trade.
The creative evolutionary forces that are driving the changes we now see were only let loose because of the collapse of social structures and programming built towards the facilitation of the denial of our Humanity. Consciously, they have at this point manifested as protest and demand against WHAT IS. Unconsciously, they have brought the members of our society together to engage in acts of Common Humanity with one another.
The Occupation encampments are rebooting Humanity in this country in a sense broader than any yet seen before. They are empowering people to work together, to live together, to govern together, to fight together to preserve those things that are most important to them. The living lessons of Human society on display in these camps ARE the point of all of this. They are WHAT IS LACKING most glaringly in our alienated, numb and isolated society. It was only after the liberation of economic and political catastrophe that we could take the steps to re-engage with those most fundamental of Human truths.
It is what gives meaning to the things that we do, for ourselves and for the survival of those around us. Without that meaning, without that sense of Humanity held in Common, our actions become nothing more than hollow signifiers - void and valueless, a series of charades keeping us occupied between now and the grave.
The Occupation movement is evolving, and will hopefully continue to evolve. If the people participating in it, and those supporting it, allow it to run its Own course, there will be - in its own time - a more definitive manifestation of change in this society than the one that, at least most broadly, is currently advocated for by its membership.
And let there be NO DOUBT here: Societies strive for their own survival. This movement is an ardent cry for salvation by our subconscious selves. And this voice, if strangled callously by those fearful of evolution, will turn to Thunder.
And woe then to each and every one of us.
-Three Feather
Saturday, November 5, 2011
Pain is the Medicine Working
Fear and Anger are a cycle. A terrible one - but a series of reciprocities. They are curious in their predictability within human manifestation, as a series of neuro-chemical triggers shaped by biological evolution; taking form in the decision to flee or fight.
The society of the American Republic is in the grip of such a cycle now. Faster and faster the gyre wobbles, from one to another. They feed off of each other, as a snake devours its tail - and the tail devours the snake from the inside.
Action, reaction, reprisal, response, action, etc. The amygdala - that piece of the brain that regulates emotional response and memory - performs its function with masterful efficiency within the population... and fear pheromones dance from one skin to another's nose, triggering group emotional responses in the slide towards automated mob action.
Remember - we are but apes after all.
But the first trigger of fear is stress. What caused the stress? What creates it now?
Imbalance, antagonism, alienation. Social dissonance. Cultural dissatisfaction. Economic disparity and exclusion. You can correlate compassion and inclusion within a society to its stress levels. And it is ironic that the more stress we feel, the less likely we are to be compassionate and inclusive.
The point? If the society be structured hierarchically (as ours is), the stressors begin with a transaction from those at the top to those at the middle. The agents of socioeconomic control (the elite, if you will) introduce stressors through their actions into those below them, and they spread out from there. So if the "elite" create stress - ask if it because they themselves feel stress. And then ask - what creates fear in the "elite" that the pass that fear down to us?
Perhaps it is because they feel that more change then they are comfortable with has already occurred, and as apes, are responding according to their evolutionary programming - withholding resources and acting outside of the realms of far-sighted rationality due to the emotive hijack they are experiencing.
And if that change has already occurred to create this First Fear - then how much closer are we to creating the New Way necessary for our survival? Disease fights hardest against the Medicine when it begins to realize that it is losing ground, as all entities do when threatened with the possibility of their extinguishment. If the disease was not fighting as hard as it is, it would be because the Medicine was not effective.
But the Medicine is working. Believe not in this - Know It. Continue to Be the Medicine in all that you do, and Health shall come to pass.
-Three Feather
The society of the American Republic is in the grip of such a cycle now. Faster and faster the gyre wobbles, from one to another. They feed off of each other, as a snake devours its tail - and the tail devours the snake from the inside.
Action, reaction, reprisal, response, action, etc. The amygdala - that piece of the brain that regulates emotional response and memory - performs its function with masterful efficiency within the population... and fear pheromones dance from one skin to another's nose, triggering group emotional responses in the slide towards automated mob action.
Remember - we are but apes after all.
But the first trigger of fear is stress. What caused the stress? What creates it now?
Imbalance, antagonism, alienation. Social dissonance. Cultural dissatisfaction. Economic disparity and exclusion. You can correlate compassion and inclusion within a society to its stress levels. And it is ironic that the more stress we feel, the less likely we are to be compassionate and inclusive.
The point? If the society be structured hierarchically (as ours is), the stressors begin with a transaction from those at the top to those at the middle. The agents of socioeconomic control (the elite, if you will) introduce stressors through their actions into those below them, and they spread out from there. So if the "elite" create stress - ask if it because they themselves feel stress. And then ask - what creates fear in the "elite" that the pass that fear down to us?
Perhaps it is because they feel that more change then they are comfortable with has already occurred, and as apes, are responding according to their evolutionary programming - withholding resources and acting outside of the realms of far-sighted rationality due to the emotive hijack they are experiencing.
And if that change has already occurred to create this First Fear - then how much closer are we to creating the New Way necessary for our survival? Disease fights hardest against the Medicine when it begins to realize that it is losing ground, as all entities do when threatened with the possibility of their extinguishment. If the disease was not fighting as hard as it is, it would be because the Medicine was not effective.
But the Medicine is working. Believe not in this - Know It. Continue to Be the Medicine in all that you do, and Health shall come to pass.
-Three Feather
Friday, October 21, 2011
Yahtaeo, Understood
Where is Yahtaeo? Geographically less so - more so temporally; spatially in our consciousness.
Yahtaeo is where the path untaken at the great fork in this nation's history led to. When notions of this nation's possibility as an independent society were being formulated, there was one clear option - and one option obscured. This nation chose at that time the clear option - the option to attempt to create a better Europe, a better Britain, a better Commonwealth. A path that led through Roman law, Christian philosophy, and English socio-political theory... cobbled together to attempt to create a system that would (finally) work. A system done right, in lieu of the many perceived failures that lay in the wake of European ships racing westward to disgorge their human payloads onto the continent.
But the obscured option. What of that? When the thought leaders, innovators and movers coalesced around the desirability of independence, why did they choose not to also sever their ties with the metaphysics, philosophies and social artifacts that they felt had failed them in their exercise in the real (as subjects of the British constitutional monarchy)? Around and amongst them were a myriad of models well and truly removed from the taint of history - the taint of tyranny - the taint of failed utopian dreams turned to human misery.
Imagine a national mentality that had concluded two hundred fifty years ago that the root of the problem was not merely political independence; that it was truly cultural independence that would set them free. One that had turned to integrate the perspectives and sociocultural norms of the First Peoples into the Great Experiment, instead of seeking their continued genocide and defilement.
What a turn would be there! How radically redefined would have been the historical development of Those United States of America. Or perhaps Tribes? Or Compacts? What sort of land would this be now? What sort of world would resulted from the impact of such a choice?
The Federal Republic constructed by this nation to govern the country is reaching a crossroads inevitable to every Republic in European civilization. They are inherently unstable creatures that seem to thrive on empire more in its acquisition than its administration. Redefining the political realities of this nation though place us back at that crossroads that others faced two hundred and fifty years ago. Build on the known, or look to the novel?
Perhaps if this nation has any real future, then it may very well lay on the path untrodden. Instead of These United States of America, perhaps instead there is a new name yet to unfold. A new story taken from an old one unwritten.
Yahtaeo?
-Three Feather
Yahtaeo is where the path untaken at the great fork in this nation's history led to. When notions of this nation's possibility as an independent society were being formulated, there was one clear option - and one option obscured. This nation chose at that time the clear option - the option to attempt to create a better Europe, a better Britain, a better Commonwealth. A path that led through Roman law, Christian philosophy, and English socio-political theory... cobbled together to attempt to create a system that would (finally) work. A system done right, in lieu of the many perceived failures that lay in the wake of European ships racing westward to disgorge their human payloads onto the continent.
But the obscured option. What of that? When the thought leaders, innovators and movers coalesced around the desirability of independence, why did they choose not to also sever their ties with the metaphysics, philosophies and social artifacts that they felt had failed them in their exercise in the real (as subjects of the British constitutional monarchy)? Around and amongst them were a myriad of models well and truly removed from the taint of history - the taint of tyranny - the taint of failed utopian dreams turned to human misery.
Imagine a national mentality that had concluded two hundred fifty years ago that the root of the problem was not merely political independence; that it was truly cultural independence that would set them free. One that had turned to integrate the perspectives and sociocultural norms of the First Peoples into the Great Experiment, instead of seeking their continued genocide and defilement.
What a turn would be there! How radically redefined would have been the historical development of Those United States of America. Or perhaps Tribes? Or Compacts? What sort of land would this be now? What sort of world would resulted from the impact of such a choice?
The Federal Republic constructed by this nation to govern the country is reaching a crossroads inevitable to every Republic in European civilization. They are inherently unstable creatures that seem to thrive on empire more in its acquisition than its administration. Redefining the political realities of this nation though place us back at that crossroads that others faced two hundred and fifty years ago. Build on the known, or look to the novel?
Perhaps if this nation has any real future, then it may very well lay on the path untrodden. Instead of These United States of America, perhaps instead there is a new name yet to unfold. A new story taken from an old one unwritten.
Yahtaeo?
-Three Feather
Monday, October 3, 2011
To What End this Great Struggle?
We are in the midst of what may potentially be an unprecedented event in the history of the human species. A global, spontaneous, decentralized uprising against injustice, tyranny and destruction. One that has slowly meandered across Eurasia, through the Middle East, breaking out in Europe and that has now moved into the United States. But while we may know the face against which we strive, do we know for what we fight for?
To what end should we exert ourselves? What does a world in which there is triumph look like?
To those that currently lead the efforts for change - and to you, reading here, perhaps one of tens of thousands leaders who do not yet even know they will be called to lead, let these words be submitted to you. Let them be kept under consideration during these times that are upon us, and the times to come in which to build, and rebuild, in the wake of the change that has already begun.
Will there be real triumph while our laws protect those that exploit us, our communities, and our nations?
Will there be real justice while our waters are being poisoned, our soils and farms defiled, our air filled with toxins?
Will there be real peace while institutionalized secrecy is used to keep us fearful, weak and divided?
Will there be real freedom while the laws meant to protect all only apply to a few?
Will there be real prosperity while the few are still allowed to impoverish the many?
Will there be real government while the whole of society is not expected to participate in its own governance?
Will there be real community while consumerism is advocated as an alternative to connection?
Will there be real wellness while disease is seen as a means to make profit?
Will there be real openness while expressing the truth is punishable?
Will there be real hope while our ability to discover for ourselves is suppressed?
Will there be real progress while those developments that could improve our lives are attacked, repressed, lied about or actively destroyed?
Will there be real economy while we sacrifices tomorrow's NECESSITIES for today's GLUTTONIES?
Will there be a real chance for our children, grandchildren and our great grandchidlren unless we have genuinely, compassionately, collaboratively and wisely addressed these questions?
-Three Feather
To what end should we exert ourselves? What does a world in which there is triumph look like?
To those that currently lead the efforts for change - and to you, reading here, perhaps one of tens of thousands leaders who do not yet even know they will be called to lead, let these words be submitted to you. Let them be kept under consideration during these times that are upon us, and the times to come in which to build, and rebuild, in the wake of the change that has already begun.
Will there be real triumph while our laws protect those that exploit us, our communities, and our nations?
Will there be real justice while our waters are being poisoned, our soils and farms defiled, our air filled with toxins?
Will there be real peace while institutionalized secrecy is used to keep us fearful, weak and divided?
Will there be real freedom while the laws meant to protect all only apply to a few?
Will there be real prosperity while the few are still allowed to impoverish the many?
Will there be real government while the whole of society is not expected to participate in its own governance?
Will there be real community while consumerism is advocated as an alternative to connection?
Will there be real wellness while disease is seen as a means to make profit?
Will there be real openness while expressing the truth is punishable?
Will there be real hope while our ability to discover for ourselves is suppressed?
Will there be real progress while those developments that could improve our lives are attacked, repressed, lied about or actively destroyed?
Will there be real economy while we sacrifices tomorrow's NECESSITIES for today's GLUTTONIES?
Will there be a real chance for our children, grandchildren and our great grandchidlren unless we have genuinely, compassionately, collaboratively and wisely addressed these questions?
-Three Feather
Sunday, October 2, 2011
Occupation transformed into Liberation
Today is a day filled with messages about occupation, invasion, protest. Citizens of the American Republic pouring into the streets, onto bridges, into lobbies by hundreds and thousands and tens of thousands. Creating a show of force and solidarity against...what?
What is it that they seek? Control, power? A desire to conquer institutions and suppress forces that they fear, don't understand, feel powerless against? When we take away subterfuge and misconception, is it not the case that the citizenry wants to bring these instruments of power under their demense, or even to end their existence - and therefore the power (perceived as a grave threat) that they have over their life?
Good. A noble effort. But is this the best course of action?
Let something else be considered as an outlet for that effort, that passion, and our collective NECESSITY.
The issue that underlies the problems with these instruments of power is the desire for control; for the desire for the centralization of power towards the benefit of the few at the expense of the rest. The psycho-cultural symbolism of occupation is ultimately no more than an attempt to replace one set of masters for another. If the citizens of the American Republic desire earnestly to no longer be mastered, overlord-ed, enserfed, then they must confront their own collective impetus for tyrannical power that they currently strive against.
The things that you own ultimately take possession of you. Changing the guard at the top of a institutionally corrupt and destructive system of power only perpetuates the crimes it commits - it does not amend or end them.
The only way to end the cycle is to confront the cause. Fear is what breeds the insecurity that, in turn, breeds a desire for safety that channels into a quest for power and domination that terminates in the violent struggle for total control.
If instead we strive to heal that fear, we suddenly and radically alter the outcome of the chain of consequences. Those that have made peace with their fears (and fear is a natural response to the very complicated world we live in) through honest confrontation and engagement with them do not, as a result, possess a desire for Total Control. Or perhaps, it is much better to say, they are not themselves possessed, owned, controlled by that desire.
They are Liberated. FREE.
If our focus was peace - and our focus was not upon fear - we would not seek to control or destroy what IS. We would accelerate the transition to what CAN BE. We CAN have a community, a nation, even a species that strives not for Occupation, Domination, Conquest.
Rather, we CAN have a community, a nation even a species that strives FOR Liberation, Empowerment, Emancipation. We CAN focus on our energies on fostering the seeds that have already sprouted even here in the seemingly impenetrable asphalt of the mainstream American Republic socio-economic "consensus" - rather than battling it out over rotting, faltering, dying institutions.
We have the strength, the vision, the compassion, and capacity to help one another BUILD something better then what we have been led to believe we have. But creation is never the product of fear and anger. It is the product of love, of hope - and of peace.
Has not the time come to create anew?
-Three Feather
What is it that they seek? Control, power? A desire to conquer institutions and suppress forces that they fear, don't understand, feel powerless against? When we take away subterfuge and misconception, is it not the case that the citizenry wants to bring these instruments of power under their demense, or even to end their existence - and therefore the power (perceived as a grave threat) that they have over their life?
Good. A noble effort. But is this the best course of action?
Let something else be considered as an outlet for that effort, that passion, and our collective NECESSITY.
The issue that underlies the problems with these instruments of power is the desire for control; for the desire for the centralization of power towards the benefit of the few at the expense of the rest. The psycho-cultural symbolism of occupation is ultimately no more than an attempt to replace one set of masters for another. If the citizens of the American Republic desire earnestly to no longer be mastered, overlord-ed, enserfed, then they must confront their own collective impetus for tyrannical power that they currently strive against.
The things that you own ultimately take possession of you. Changing the guard at the top of a institutionally corrupt and destructive system of power only perpetuates the crimes it commits - it does not amend or end them.
The only way to end the cycle is to confront the cause. Fear is what breeds the insecurity that, in turn, breeds a desire for safety that channels into a quest for power and domination that terminates in the violent struggle for total control.
If instead we strive to heal that fear, we suddenly and radically alter the outcome of the chain of consequences. Those that have made peace with their fears (and fear is a natural response to the very complicated world we live in) through honest confrontation and engagement with them do not, as a result, possess a desire for Total Control. Or perhaps, it is much better to say, they are not themselves possessed, owned, controlled by that desire.
They are Liberated. FREE.
If our focus was peace - and our focus was not upon fear - we would not seek to control or destroy what IS. We would accelerate the transition to what CAN BE. We CAN have a community, a nation, even a species that strives not for Occupation, Domination, Conquest.
Rather, we CAN have a community, a nation even a species that strives FOR Liberation, Empowerment, Emancipation. We CAN focus on our energies on fostering the seeds that have already sprouted even here in the seemingly impenetrable asphalt of the mainstream American Republic socio-economic "consensus" - rather than battling it out over rotting, faltering, dying institutions.
We have the strength, the vision, the compassion, and capacity to help one another BUILD something better then what we have been led to believe we have. But creation is never the product of fear and anger. It is the product of love, of hope - and of peace.
Has not the time come to create anew?
-Three Feather
Monday, September 26, 2011
Welcome Home
Welcome home brothers, sisters and all in between.
Let us talk about the world that we are calling into existence. Our words, our intentions, our actions - all are bringing us closer to manifesting this thing life is coming. For lack of a better name, I call it Yahtaeo (yah-tay-oh) - the Medicine Nation. It is a place and time of healing, cleansing, and powerful transformation in the next phase of our human journey.
Its a place that even now resonates in our modality of existence. Pockets and oases of it already interact with us, as we do with them. Some we build, some seem almost to build themselves. And this transformation is happening seemingly of its own accord, with leadership and design decentralized and spontaneous all through the world.
And so I hope that this island, small as it is, be a sanctuary for you to celebrate the transition that you yourself are participating in.
Keep living, keep breathing, keep hoping, keep dancing.
-Three Feather
Let us talk about the world that we are calling into existence. Our words, our intentions, our actions - all are bringing us closer to manifesting this thing life is coming. For lack of a better name, I call it Yahtaeo (yah-tay-oh) - the Medicine Nation. It is a place and time of healing, cleansing, and powerful transformation in the next phase of our human journey.
Its a place that even now resonates in our modality of existence. Pockets and oases of it already interact with us, as we do with them. Some we build, some seem almost to build themselves. And this transformation is happening seemingly of its own accord, with leadership and design decentralized and spontaneous all through the world.
And so I hope that this island, small as it is, be a sanctuary for you to celebrate the transition that you yourself are participating in.
Keep living, keep breathing, keep hoping, keep dancing.
-Three Feather
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