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Reflections on Derrick Jensen's A Language Older than Words

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Dare we free ourselves?   You and I are one with the Chinese girls of modern factories, black slaves of the 1800's, or South American children of today's world working for pennies.   The races and socioeconomic statuses change, but the illusion is the same.   You are naught but a tally on an expense sheet".a non being with no sacredness. You are a cost of business taking away from the wealthy sitting upon their thrones at the top of the world.   This is the worst abuse of the Psyche.   You may as well be a woman pinned to the wall as your Soul is being raped in body, mind and spirit.   Broken down by the threat of rape, she is easy to manipulate... if she is able to function at all.   Rape is functional for those that wish to control.  

The rape of a woman-girl or man-boy mirrors the rape of a child's soul in elementary school and the rape of the Earth by megalithic corporations.   To some degree, people are awakening to this.   Some realize that Bush and Obama in their support of the rape of the Earth are but an arm's length apart and are supported by the same sociopaths such as the genetic engineering firm Monsanto.   And who is Gingrich but some rich used car salesman playing the game of politics while prostrating himself to big money supporting ecosystem devastation be that in the form of ecology or health care?   You just got to sell yourself to those hate-filled born-again Christians who consider blacks, women and various other less godly persons as less than human.   "These people have it coming to them" they rationalize.   "They should be raped, burned, and abused by all kinds of horrors to serve some God of their own making."   And who is this God but some war mongering greedy gent hungry for land, power and money?   Yes, God is made in their image and that image is a limited and sick sociopath.   As one Gnostic said many centuries ago, "If God is a jealous one, then how could he be God?   Of what would God be jealous?"

Why should Infinity be jealous of anyone?   Our mainstream God is wrathful for he is as limited as he is jealous.   He is the making of a human mindset.   This is the first problem.   He is seen as human.   The second is that he is seen as a noun.

So what if he / she were a verb and verbs were exposed as being expressed as nouns?   What if She / He were universal process such as the Tao, or the Way, of Lao Tzu?   As said in the Tao Te Ching, the entire universe makes love.   Life's process is intercourse.   If you don't believe this, feel the Sun warming your face as He enters the ground containing the seeds of new life that emerge in the Spring.   Ah, soil and soul are but one vowel apart.   Think of the waves of light entering the pupils of your eyes and your conception of this article and its message.   You and I conceive these words together.   Perhaps in Infinity there is no time or space between us?   Think this is crazy? Then what of the experiments in physics where 2 protons are seen to change simultaneously though in theory they could be light years apart? (see Talbot's Holographic Universe: The Revolutionary Theory of Reality)

Jesus Christ said, "love thy enemy as thyself."   How many flying the Christian banner go for this one?   I would add to this that thy enemy is thyself.   It might be nice if many of those Christians given voice in the news paid attention to the Man.   In psychology, this process of ascribing a trait you have towards another is called projection. What the Christians hate is their self.  

Many such as Ron Paul state they would be different.   No panties for Ron.   But, would Ron Paul be any different when the megalithic corporations and their brethren religious organizations wanting to have political clout begin tantalizing him with monies that aren't worth the paper they're written on?   Where's the gold supposedly backing it?   I've heard it's all gone!   (for a more fictional account of our modern world you may wish the view "The Matrix").

We are living a delusional lie and become angry at anybody that tells us we are living that lie.   It doesn't matter if we are republican or democrat, conservative or liberal. Our view of the universe is the RIGHT view.   So, how can it be right without being wrong?   Right and wrong battle, but once one disappears, the other disappears also.   How can there be a left without a right?   Oppositions are dependent on each other.   Besides, war sells!   Opposites depend on each other for their profit.   There is no left without right or male without female.   Long term, war has no winners.   For example, our war against ecosystems will bring forth no winners in a mass extinction that will also devour humanity.   What we do to the Earth we do to ourselves.

Listen to a radical Muslim speak their self-righteous lingo about Allah then listen to a television evangelist speak about God.   They hate each other yet are one and the same.   Again, even Jesus Christ says, "Don't remove the smote from thy brother's eye till you remove it from your own."   Perhaps if Christians actually attended to the message of Christ they might just get past their institutionalized religious arrogance. More importantly, in getting past judgment (remember judge not lest ye be judged), perhaps we can live in peace.   How many times is the same thing said before one gets it?

With the insight that everything is a mirror of our self, real change begins.   This is the seminal input for the conception of a new way in the depths of the Soul.   Change begins in you.   Dare you question everything you've been taught since the day you were born?   If you do, then by all means read Jensen's A Language Older than Words.   The link at Amazon is: http://www.amazon.com/A-Language-Older-Than-Words/dp/1931498555/ref=sr_1_4?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1333042997&sr=1-4 .

For a musical and visual reinforcement of this article's message within the realm of education, see Pink Floyd's Another Brick in the Wall at http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YR5ApYxkU-U

 

References with Links

 

Chellis Glendinning:   My Name is Chellis and I am in Recovery From Western Civilization   http://www.amazon.com/s/?ie=UTF8&keywords=chellis+glendinning&tag=mh0b-20&index=stripbooks&hvadid=23132601&ref=pd_sl_7b8bccfzcz_e

Daniell Quinn:   Ishmael:   An Adventure of Mind and Spirit http://www.amazon.com/Ishmael-An-Adventure-Mind-Spirit/dp/0553375407/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1333042814&sr=1-1

Derrick Jensen:   A Language Older than Words   http://www.amazon.com/A-Language-Older-Than-Words/dp/1931498555/ref=sr_1_4?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1333042997&sr=1-4

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