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CLOSING THE CIRCLE
The history of the relationship between aboriginal peoples and
western society has been one of usury, exploitation, displacement, and
genocide from the very first encounters. Ultimately, and in every case,
there is a steel survey pin and a paper document separating the indigen
from this homeland.
The underhanded intentions of the state emissaries were clearly
documented in their own diaries and ships' logs. Now that all of the
primes sites have been taken, the indigen is expected to show the proper
gratitude for the new liberal approach and for the charity of the
insensitives who have displaced us. We have to ask ourselves, what's
really changed?
The difference today is that the power politic postures are
couched in more sophisticated settings, using better language. The net
results are still the same. Who's got the land and the benefit of the
resources? In Canada, the relationship has evolved, at best, to an
intellectual, patronizing attitude toward the aboriginal peoples. This
is an unfortunate waste. When the western world comes to dispense with
its juvenile power posturing, it may come to appreciate that a precious
opportunity has been missed to view firsthand and learn from an ageless
cultural wisdom. In addition to correct life perspectives, there are
considerable hidden scientific benefits in medicine, biology, botany,
and surprising to some, in the field of subatomic physics as well.
Scientific advances in the subatomic fields are steadily evolving
into the aboriginal mystical and metaphysical structures. That this
timeless material (life technology) is not completely understood by
western society today, does not diminish tomorrow's benefit of it, nor
its ultimate value. This is a legacy of a broader cosmic understanding
and it must be preserved at any prices. Badly needed answers to many of
the world's problems, and indeed the world's future, may be lost in the
trampling of these fragile cultures. With the present rates of erosion
there is precious little time to capture the subtle workings of this
mature perspective for humanity's benefit.
We are living in troublesome times and it's more apparent daily
that we've been asking ourselves the wrong questions all along. Our
global policies have been dynamically shaped by power mongering,
frustration, confusion, and greed rather than a clear sense of life's
purpose. In the present western value system we are unable to reconcile
life's experience with the simplistic scientific models of reality.
This is crucial, as it means we lack the basic understanding of our
experiences, and in the long term this is totally unacceptable in a
technical society.
Technology's progress and its broad implications have greatly
outstripped our human capacity to make sensible choices for the common
good. This central issue alone is stressing the social fabric of
humanity more than any other. We must come to realize that context of
our very purpose for existence. The wisdom from more mature
perspectives tells us that "all anguish experienced in humanity can be
traced to consequences of actions taken out of context with our
fundamental purpose in existence".
That western technocratic society has failed to respond to this
wisdom as yet, at this the threshold to the third millennium, only
further demonstrates its own crass nature. Fortunately, it is likely
that within the next twenty-five to fifty years humanity will benefit
from a scientific breakthrough which will be tantamount to a "gross
reality dividend". The physicists will achieve the long sought Grand
Unification Theory (GUT). This will finally tear to shreds the
remanents of the dark shroud hanging over humanity since the middle
ages. Modern society has falsely assumed that we'd safely shed this
period's legacy with the dawn of the industrial revolution.
The age old questions, "What are we? Why are we here on this
planet?" will finally have mathematical support. This mathematical
support is the technical verification that our modern society badly
needs to correctly realign itself in its existent context. The mystics,
poets, and medicine men have attempted to convey these perspectives to
us for centuries. Some day the discourses to shape this perspective in
the individual may be available on CD disk or even on PBS TV.
From this new understanding of humanity's purpose, working social
structures can be built which are correctly aligned within our existence
context. This includes new models for government, and our educational,
legal, economic, industrial, cultural, and spiritual systems. We can
effectively put behind us all the thorny problems we are presently
burdened with.
The theoretical subatomic physicists are key to this new
enlightenment event, for in our modern technological society only they
will be considered acceptably fit for the role of modern priesthood. The
former priesthood, left over from the dark ages, have not only lost
their way, they have lost their credibility as well. They are now
clinging pitifully to power in outdated religious institutions and have
resorted to preying on the weak and the gullible for their money.
The physicists will pose a theoretical working model of reality to
serve as a map for humanity. In this structure, they will have
successfully incorporated all their major theories into a working
explanation of what is happening here in our earth experience. They
will explain how string theory has an aperture effect, and that chaotic
systems have underlying patterns of predictability. Mapping will start
on the multiple dimensions of a fuller reality, showing how subatomic
particles transform from one state into another in the different
dimensions. They will talk about new theoretical energy values far
exceeding that which is possible in our universe; they will tell us that
reality's events are really processes with causes and effects that are
interdependent across the dimensions; that time is an illusion, and
that's okay; and that the common energy that interconnects and flows
into these multiple levels of reality is a kind primordial sound. They
will explain how this cosmic sound actually inflates and sustains the
various dimensions, that sound has a primary wave (with instantaneous
velocities), a secondary wave ( light velocities ), and a third wave
which is the conventional sonic wave which we are familiar with.
In time these physicists will confer with their fellow academics,
the anthropologists, and learn that aboriginal cultures have a history
and tradition with spiritual practices that have integrated these useful
models of reality into their social systems. Furthermore, some of these
cultures have retained the capacity to teach us how to transcend the
various dimensions with a working understanding of the broader reality
model. This is done by manipulating the individual's consciousness. The
elder's oral story tradition is the mechanism used to shape the correct
perspective in the individual. With this altered perspective a medicine
man is able to slip into the sound energies that transcend the mind, the
body, and the dimensions . This is the widest perspective of all, in
that he can then look back on this reality band and view it all.
For cultural evaluation purposes, it is paramount that the extent
to which the culture is cognizant of its primary purpose should be the
main consideration for assessing its maturity. It is plain to see now,
that without a primary orientation, whole cultures can easily mistake
intellectual prowess for intelligence and go on to develop aberrant
capacities. Widespread in today's perspective is the inability to see
how all is interconnected, especially the interconnectedness woven
through the adjacent invisible realms. Mistaken perspectives that take
hold in a society ultimately divert that society from its primary
purpose. This diversion can go on for hundreds of years, and bring about
ecological degradation on a global scale. The waste of life's wondrous,
joyful opportunities, coupled with the arrogance of humanity is really a
sight to behold. Words simply cannot do it justice.
A life-correct perspective is one that is shaped by certitudes
drawn from this fuller reality context. These certitudes can be had
only by direct experience in these wider realms. To gain this
experience it is necessary to have the correct perspective, including
the model structure, to serve as a map. In time, members of the western
society will be invited and finally welcomed to drum dance within the
circle in the celebration of humanity.
We all share the same premise of life and someday we will be
cognizant of this fact, globally. This greater understanding of life
will open up new avenues for peace and harmony in the world. Life has
purpose; we've intuitively known this all along.
Vancouver B. C. Canada.