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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.
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