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"Be newborn
Be free of yourself"
(Tao I Ching)
Upon
observing the original European invaders coming to South America, the
indigenous tribe called the Kogis came to the conclusion that the Europeans
were dead. This perception caused a certain portion of the Kogis to go into the
mountains of Columbia to hide from the invaders they saw coming to their
land. For several centuries, a small portion
of this tribe stayed in hiding until they decided to come out of the mountains
as they saw the Earth deteriorating. It
was deteriorating due to the actions of what the Kogis referred to as the
Younger Brother, the European white men.
In
saying the Europeans were dead, the Kogis were not saying literally dead. Instead, they were referring to a state that
is beyond regular death. To the Kogis, and to most indigenous people, death is
a living process. As a Navaho chant
sings:
"The air I become it
The fields, I become it
The air, the cloud, I become it."
What
the Kogis were describing was the psychological and spiritual death of the
Europeans that had come about due to the civilized mindset of Greco--Roman
rationalism, which required the world being chopped into pieces. In this divisional mindset, the world's
people and resources were being invaded by what ultimately could be referred to
as a cancerous growth. By cancerous I am
referring to a mindset of growth that continues on without boundaries. Cancer is defined as being normal cells that
begin to grow abnormally to the point that they ultimately are destroying the
host's body. Cancer is the body
committing suicide. This is exactly
where Western Civilization exists in our modern day business and political
ethos of world domination by a select few.
We are destroying the world by our greed for controlling the world and
Her resources. We are committing
suicide. As the power of the Catholic
Church, located in Rome, reflects, we have not let go of the power of the Roman
Empire. The political and corporate capital
may have physically changed from Rome to London to Washington D.C. and New
York, but the power structure remains the same.
The rulers are the same Queen/King dressed in different attire.
Another
metaphor for the death the Kogis saw in the Europeans is the vampire. A vampire in European folklore is a person
who has died and refused to lie down. A
vampire's life is maintained by feeding off the blood of the living. The ones the vampire feeds off of are
generally beautiful young women who serve as the ultimate metaphor of life, and
the container of the egg that spells the future of humanity. Young women are the ones that are most ripe
for the unfolding of the potential that lies within them in relation to the
desires of the external world (the male).
It is the mesmerizing control over the woman, who is the "labor classes"
of the European culture; that causes her to stick her neck out for the pointed
teeth of the living dead. Thus the
vampire myth is ultimately saying the same thing as the Kogis, except that the
Kogis were more blatant about linking the European invaders to the process of
the living dead.
A
vampire is a dead being that refuses to accept he is dead. Our death is evident in the deforestation of
the planet and the pouring of concrete jungles throughout by corporations and
their underling governments. This
concrete world we have created has in turn cemented our dying corpse into a
metallic vault which does not allow us to return to our Mother and integrate
into the Other. We have created a dead
and dying world in our own image.
It
is interesting that the most formal term that we call a woman that has given us
birth is "Mother." Isolate the "M" in
this word and you have "Other." In order
for self-awareness to unfold, there is no doubt that the process of separation
from the Mother is required. Thus, our
separation from Nature is somewhat necessary.
Being the child of Woman, of Nature, is the way Nature is able to become
more cognizant of Herself. If we
remained in the womb, we would have no awareness of ourselves nor would the
Mother be able to see Herself. Our
awareness is Her awareness. It is
through Her child, which is Fathered by Her Eros, or Desire, that Nature is
able to see Herself. Nature divides
Herself into a multiplicity of beings in order to know Herself in the infinity
that is within Her. In a sense, Her
birthing of the manifest world is Her taking a journey of self-discovery by
taking form as an "other". As such, even
this article, and the arising of the corporate empire, is Nature knowing
Herself. My questioning and my love for
Her is Her questioning and Her love for Herself, for in Nature, there is "no
other." I am She.
Being
a lover of a woman is thus a metaphor for the return to the womb. As semen and sperm disintegrate in the
woman's body and becomes one with it, then this is the fate of all manifest
life upon the body of Nature. Indeed,
one could say that a man emerges from woman headfirst and, in making love via
the penis, returns to a woman headfirst.
This
is the process of life. This is why we
call the explanation of sexual reproduction to our children as the teaching of
the facts-of-life. As the Tao Te Ching says, the entire universe makes love. Thus, the Earth is often seen as a Woman, or
Goddess, and the Sun as a Man or God.
Interestingly, in our modern European culture we don't recognize Space1. Yet, Space, which contains both Father Sun
and Mother Earth, is often identified as Female, as reflected in the image of
the Egyptian Nut and the Sun God Ra. In
this image, it is Heaven, the Space in which Earth and Sun move, which gives
birth to and devours Father Sun. Heaven,
meanwhile, is simply a variant of Eve's name as Heave. Eve was the First Woman
of the Judea-Christian-Muslim Bible (literally
meaning Book). In human heterosexual relations, the process of
the birth and dissolution of Ra is reflected in birth and intercourse. The process could also be seen as evident in
same sex intercourse, for even in those relationships there is an entry into
another person which often results in a more embracive sense of wholeness,
which then takes one into a "higher" or all-inclusive state of
consciousness. Perhaps it could be
hypothesized that sexuality is often suppressed because it can lead us into
higher states of consciousness and thus needs to be suppressed by the "Man"
(i.e., the corporate/government complex) who is neurotic about maintaining his
power over the Woman (the Earth as well as the population he sees himself as
ruling over).
If one meditates on this image in relation to
heterosexual intercourse, then one can readily identify the absorption of penis
and semen by the woman as being a form of eating. Indeed, the original definition of semen is
food. Thus, when we say, "your words are
food for thought," we may as well be saying your words are seminal to the ideas
I conceive. It is interesting to note
that the milk of Nut's breasts is flowing upon the soils of the Earth and
nurturing the growth of flowers. Like Nut's
milk, when we allow ourselves to dissolve into the ground at death, we become
food for the Earth and thus we wind up "pushing up daises." Death, allowing ourselves to be eaten, is a
living process in which we become seminal to new life. Thus we are not Kings of Nature; we are,
simply, aspects of Her process.
In a
sense, we have killed ourselves through practices such as embalming,
mummification (in ancient times), and being placed in metallic coffins and vaults. All of these processes keep us from
dissolving into the Mother. Yet, it is
in boxing ourselves in and by mummifying ourselves (with embalming chemicals
and processed foods as well as the ancient practices of mummification) that
keeps us from engaging in the process of death, which is a living process. Our being boxed in does not allow us to "push
up the daisies." Our process of using
coffins, vaults and embalming chemicals is a reflection of not allowing
ourselves to let go of our persona. Thus
we are stuck"truly "dead to the world!"
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