Thank you for speaking up to the hierarchal-Colonial ideals - particularly so placed in our culture(s) of today. There is this complicity to continually require that there is someone to blame for our atrocities - throughout the entirety of all our 'cares of culture'. The 'small' blaming the 'large' - the 'large' blaming the 'small' - yet, regrettably themed in forcibly removing what connects us - Gaia (as I can 'label' now). As most of us here can agree that those that have lost that connect to Mother cause the most damage - it's quite amazing how much Blame we throw at each other in order to 'Heal'. Even within the mental-health field - there is such a pre-dominant language that there has to be a "blameful Cause" to all of our most detrimental qualities - and I see the necessity in that - to label and judge the causation of problems - yet there is such a root of perpetuating 'the blame' instead of 'removing the blame' and returning to some source that can heal both - those blamed and those 'of blame' - ...
All this to say, our middle ground is *literally* the ground We Live. I dream of a return to the source - on all levels of Being - small, large, hierarchal, forgotten, patriarchal, matriarchal - ego-culture to agriculture -
I can't think of anything more - than to feel the feeling of Long-Waiting-Witness to the On-going Destruction from those in Power...
Yep! I returned from a village visit the day before I read your post. The chief there told me about what had happened during covid. While the city was reeling not much changed in the village - more people started farming as there want much else to do and they started sending food into the city for the urbanites that were realising very quickly how important that land is to their continuation.
There is still a lot of respect for rural life in Fiji but the maw of consumerism is gnawing away at this. The chief said that they are resilient because they live with the land in a communal and respectful way. He showed us many medical herbs. He even preformed a sex change on a papaya tree 😆 Wisdom that seems almost farcical to my heavily conditioned urban mind!
We desperately need to explore what it means to be in right relationship, and do all we can to restore those neglected and abused relationships we've had with the land, each other and all or relationships.
Further revealing your political leanings, you fire off a wild salvo about Trump “blaming immigrants for drug abuse.” No such thing; it is similarly undeniable that record tonnage of fentanyl coming over the border WITH ILLEGALS has killed thousands of Americans. A sordid array too of other crimes has spiked with the ushering in of hundreds of thousands of convicted criminals into the country unvetted. And without so much as a PCR test.
You could write for USA Today, with that bias. Have you ever applied with them?
Why do you suppose these "illegals" (do keep in mind that anyone who is not an american indian is also an illegal immigrant) leave their homelands in the first place and why do they choose to sell drugs instead of say, growing corn? Please do research more, dear friend, about the history and global implications of such curious projects as NAFTA.
The fact that COVID-19 originated in a Wuhan lab—financed by Tony Fauci to the tune of quite some million$—is beyond dispute. Trump grandstands sometimes, Gawd luv him, but last time I was there, Wuhan’s was in mainland China. You weaken your narrative with this offhand foray into TDSville.
I figured someone would mention this. I considered editing this a bit. Yet when we zoom out, I see ample evidence that COVID is a result, as are floods and fires, of mans inability to live in right relation with The Wild. Whether it came from a wet market, bats or a lab it all reeks of an inability to live in right relation. Its all taking without giving, without ritual or courtesy. Thus, Covid comes not from Wuhan, it comes from modern thinking. It comes from us.
Blessed be 🙏🖤
Thank you for speaking up to the hierarchal-Colonial ideals - particularly so placed in our culture(s) of today. There is this complicity to continually require that there is someone to blame for our atrocities - throughout the entirety of all our 'cares of culture'. The 'small' blaming the 'large' - the 'large' blaming the 'small' - yet, regrettably themed in forcibly removing what connects us - Gaia (as I can 'label' now). As most of us here can agree that those that have lost that connect to Mother cause the most damage - it's quite amazing how much Blame we throw at each other in order to 'Heal'. Even within the mental-health field - there is such a pre-dominant language that there has to be a "blameful Cause" to all of our most detrimental qualities - and I see the necessity in that - to label and judge the causation of problems - yet there is such a root of perpetuating 'the blame' instead of 'removing the blame' and returning to some source that can heal both - those blamed and those 'of blame' - ...
All this to say, our middle ground is *literally* the ground We Live. I dream of a return to the source - on all levels of Being - small, large, hierarchal, forgotten, patriarchal, matriarchal - ego-culture to agriculture -
I can't think of anything more - than to feel the feeling of Long-Waiting-Witness to the On-going Destruction from those in Power...
All in All - Blessed Be
Beautiful. Thank you. Blessed Be.
Powerful piece Greg, rings true to my experience in Fijian villages as well.
Amazing! Would you mind sharing some stories?
Yep! I returned from a village visit the day before I read your post. The chief there told me about what had happened during covid. While the city was reeling not much changed in the village - more people started farming as there want much else to do and they started sending food into the city for the urbanites that were realising very quickly how important that land is to their continuation.
There is still a lot of respect for rural life in Fiji but the maw of consumerism is gnawing away at this. The chief said that they are resilient because they live with the land in a communal and respectful way. He showed us many medical herbs. He even preformed a sex change on a papaya tree 😆 Wisdom that seems almost farcical to my heavily conditioned urban mind!
We desperately need to explore what it means to be in right relationship, and do all we can to restore those neglected and abused relationships we've had with the land, each other and all or relationships.
Thanks for posting, Gregory.
🙏🙏🙏🌄
Further revealing your political leanings, you fire off a wild salvo about Trump “blaming immigrants for drug abuse.” No such thing; it is similarly undeniable that record tonnage of fentanyl coming over the border WITH ILLEGALS has killed thousands of Americans. A sordid array too of other crimes has spiked with the ushering in of hundreds of thousands of convicted criminals into the country unvetted. And without so much as a PCR test.
You could write for USA Today, with that bias. Have you ever applied with them?
Why do you suppose these "illegals" (do keep in mind that anyone who is not an american indian is also an illegal immigrant) leave their homelands in the first place and why do they choose to sell drugs instead of say, growing corn? Please do research more, dear friend, about the history and global implications of such curious projects as NAFTA.
The fact that COVID-19 originated in a Wuhan lab—financed by Tony Fauci to the tune of quite some million$—is beyond dispute. Trump grandstands sometimes, Gawd luv him, but last time I was there, Wuhan’s was in mainland China. You weaken your narrative with this offhand foray into TDSville.
I figured someone would mention this. I considered editing this a bit. Yet when we zoom out, I see ample evidence that COVID is a result, as are floods and fires, of mans inability to live in right relation with The Wild. Whether it came from a wet market, bats or a lab it all reeks of an inability to live in right relation. Its all taking without giving, without ritual or courtesy. Thus, Covid comes not from Wuhan, it comes from modern thinking. It comes from us.