"When the Wisdom of the Grandmothers is finally Heard and
Respected, the World will heal." ~Hopi Prophecy
The American Indians despite a variety of beliefs and
traditions shared many customs and ideas.
Among them was to consult the grandmothers of the tribe when a big decision
was to be made. The grandmothers often
had the final say on important matters.
Today the martial patriarchs run the world and the grandmothers are shut
up with trifle trinkets and steered to be concerned with emotions, relations and
finance rather than being caretakers of the family, the family of Earth Mother
I mean.
I am an astute observer
and as an astute observer I am capable of being the fly on the wall, unnoticed. As an astute observer I also always question
the observer effect and I always question whether or not my observations are
valid. I explore the possibility that I
am projecting and question I am only observing microcosmic situations rather
than macrocosmic reflections. I admit
that it is possible my observations are based on the bubble I exist in and that
perhaps I am wrong about seeing what I see and applying it to the bigger
picture, but I admit I have explored this idea for a longtime silently. I don't mean to say every grandmother is
materialistic, just the vast majority.
Women are
brainwashed to be materialistic and to teach materialism. Society is brainwashed. Women are no
exception and perhaps women have more psychological ticks geared toward them
than men. Women are brainwashed to think
of themselves as princesses in their own storybook, separate from the woes of
the world, who ought to have an apartment in New York City, a condo in Hawaii and
quarterly vacations so as to shop for original stuff. Women are trained to separate and close themselves
off from everything but their immediate concerns and family and they teach their
sons and daughters to become and obtain.
Women are more materialistic and selfish than ever before and are losing
the matriarchal wisdom that inspired peoples to turn to them for advice and
ideas in the past.
Perhaps it is the
microcosm I exist in, perhaps I am brainwashed and my observations are thusly
misguided, but I think not, I think most of the grandmothers of the western
world are primarily concerned with their own selfish storybook. The grandmothers of the world teach
selfishness and materialism and separation from Mother Earth. The grandmothers do not teach us to be caring
and loving, but to obtain. The
grandmothers of the world have raised little materialistic worldlings. And now without our grandmothers direction the
world has reached the point where toxic burden of our selfish culture of
separation has saturated entirety. We
have reached the point of toxic saturation where all is poisoned and even grandmothers
scoff at caring for the Earth Mother instead of getting yours.
We are all
brainwashed. It happens to the best of
us. Our thinking is steered, the jingles
are in our heads. Today we need the grandmothers
of the world to snap us out of it. We need
the grandmothers of the world to be concerned with more than fashion and
weddings. We need the grandmothers of
the world to teach giving and not getting.
We need our grandmothers to teach caring and compassion not train more
materialistic cliff dwelling lemmings. The
grandmothers of the world need to teach the children caring wisdom for the Earth
Mother is reeling from a brainwashed society digging at her guts, spewing
radioactive and petrolithic toxins, poisoning all future generations.