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‎A spiritual classic to be retrieved. Kindred spirit with Taoism...

 

"I believe that most of what was said of God was in reality said of that Spirit whose body is Earth."

 

 

"It was an excitement of spirit for one born in a little country town in Ireland to find the circle of being widened so that life seemed to dilate into a paradise of beautiful memories, and to reach to past ages and to mix with the eternal consciousness of Earth, and when we come on what is new we pause to contemplate it, and do not ...hurry to the end of our journey. The instances of earth memories given here are trivial in themselves, and they are chosen, not because they are in any way wonderful, but rather because they are like things many people see, and so they may more readily follow my argument. The fact that Earth holds such memories is itself important, for once we discover this imperishable tablet, we are led to speculate whether in the future a training in seership might not lead to a revolution in human knowledge."

AE Russell

http://www.sacred-texts.com/neu/celt/cov/cov10.htm

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That is very interesting Ulises. Rather Native American if I may say so.

 

 

Of course! Now we know - if we believe the scholar/mystic Peter Kingsley - that Native Americans, and Gnostics share the same shamanic roots...

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You've gotta love the gaian mind :)

 

Ive always found native american, celtic, and taoist practices harmonize well. I think that one of the reasons for this must be their closeness to the gaian mind. Observing nature very carefully will usually yield an outlook similar to the nature paths.

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You've gotta love the gaian mind :)

 

Ive always found native american, celtic, and taoist practices harmonize well. I think that one of the reasons for this must be their closeness to the gaian mind. Observing nature very carefully will usually yield an outlook similar to the nature paths.

 

 

I could'nt agree more... ; )

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being on TTB for a year. and so many great topics looked at. but i have been a little surprised not seeing much mention of native american views and how they harmonize with tao. i am also a bit of a pantheist (quite a bit)

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being on TTB for a year. and so many great topics looked at. but i have been a little surprised not seeing much mention of native american views and how they harmonize with tao. i am also a bit of a pantheist (quite a bit)

 

Although my knowledge is very limited I do enjoy discussing NA concepts whenever the opportunity presents itself.

 

Ah! Another Pantheist for me to talk with. I'll be watching for an opportunity to talk with you.

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Why the end of nationalism is good for you

 

Let’s burn the flags of all nations

No more nation-states

No more patriotism

Try it, you’ll like it

 

Welcome to the post-national future

Coming sooner than you think

 

Because we’ve had enough of endless statements

Like this one by India’s Environment Minister:

“National interest trumps all else.”

Or this one by the President of Turkey:

“No one should test the power of the state.”

But why not test the power of the state?

Why does an abstraction come

Before the needs and desires of real people?

 

What if there were no Israel, no China, no Indonesia?

No Iraq, no Iran, no United States?

Too radical for you?

 

Maybe you’d rather remain a glutton for punishment

Continue swallowing non-negotiable declarations such

as the following:“No government allows any organization to intervene in

its internal affairs.”

That’s a Thai government spokesman in 2010

During the mass demonstrations in Bangkok

Rejecting the Red Shirts’ appeal for peace talks

 

But nation-states are not the same as countries

The Mayan or Amazonian or Tibetan people

Will get along perfectly well

Without an artificial nation-state to define them

Because countries don’t wage war, governments do

War presents itself as necessary for self-preservation

When in fact it’s necessary for self-identification

 

As long as we identify with nation-states

We know ourselves by what we oppose

Not by who we are

And who are we?

 

We are one

No need for separation

The only way to say it

We’re all one

All humans on the planet

Same heart, same mind, same eyes

 

Or would you rather turn a blind eye

To developments such as the following:

A Botswana judge has ruled that Bushmen

Who return to their ancestral lands

In the Central Kalahari Game Reserve

Are not allowed to drill wells for water

This decision condemns them to having to walk

Up to 380 kilometers to fetch water

In one of the driest places on earth

However, tourists to the reserve

Staying at Wilderness Safaris’ new lodge

Will enjoy the use of a swimming pool and bar

While Gem Diamonds’s planned mine in the reserve

Can use all the water it needs on condition

None is given to the Bushmen

Bushman spokesman Jumanda Gakelebone said,

“If we don’t have water

How are we expected to live?”

 

No human illegal

No more national borders generated out of fear

Out of a total failure of trust

Arbitrary fictions laid down on the landscape

In reality they don’t exist

And if you believe they should, tell me this

What of all those who came before

Swearing fealty to other flags at the cost of their lives?

Down through history conquerors, pillagers, colonizers

Who are we to claim this land—any land—is ours?

Go back far enough and we’re all illegal immigrants

 

But things are different now

It’s dawning on us why we’re here

We’re here to change our presence on this earth

Release the stranglehold of the nation-state

Find our way to true community

By trusting—can we do that?—ourselves and each other

Living democracy in real time rather than in a voting booth

 

No more nationalism

Cloud clover for demogogues and racists

America-firsters (or Russia-firsters, etc.)

What are they afraid of?

That they’ll melt into all us other humans?

But that’s exactly what’s happening, like it or not

Reality of the Internet, everyone alive today our IP

addresses

Floating in space

Just like the planet

 

No more nation-states benefiting those in power

Mimicking individual egos in combat Battling for vanishing resources, for territory,

lebensraum

Using the sentimental hook of tribal identification to maintain order

What’s called “The United States of America” a rank

hallucination

“Russia,” “Myanmar,” “Nigeria,” and on and on

Hallucinations generated for profit and control

For suppression of the human spirit

 

But the human spirit knows no boundaries

No ID cards, no cradle-to-grave oversight

It’s time to step outside of the trance

Walk among the trees, listen to the birds

Do you think they belong to something called the

U.S.A.?

Do they fall in line behind “Old Glory?”

 

...And ain’t it strange, hundreds of old glories across

the globe

Each meant to be defended to the death

Tears streaming down the faces of deluded patriots

(The chips were installed at birth)

Who drop their flag only to pick up a weapon

And murder those unlucky enough to be holding a

different flag

Fiction, trance, rank hallucination

 

Yes, it’s against the law to burn the American flag

And how many other flags around the world

192 member states of the United Nations

From Afghanistan (when will we ever learn?)

To Zimbabwe (the less said the better)

Outmoded nationalism, we’re outgrowing it

No more electrified fences lit by floodlights of paranoia

No more making the nation-state safe for surveillance

 

But here’s some magic for you

Burn any of those 192 flags and before you’re arrested

You’ll see one of the wonders of the natural world

The ashes will form a spiral opening out to the stars

Cotton and rayon and nylon and polyester

Released at last from their symbols

Don’t believe me? Try it for yourself

 

No more patriots marching under

One or flag or another, heads held high

Legitimizing a myth of separation

The myth that we humans who started

As a single band in the prehistoric night

Now can only act from our differences

Beating our chests, teary-eyed

In a futile attempt to retrieve

Long-lost trust and solidarity

Rationalizing mayhem and extermination

Forgetting who profits from separation

The corporate, political, and military leaders

Of fictional entities founded in our name

 

Let’s burn the flags of all nations

Either join together or the human experiment dissolves

In a flaming brew of war and environmental disaster

The curse of nationalism

Everyone stuck in their own cultural narrative

A cage rather than a playground

 

It’s time to open gates, tear down fences, shred

passports

Roam wherever we like

Along rivers and mountains without end

Because we ourselves are those rivers and mountains

Our lock-tight identities due for game-changing

transformation

Here and now time to exhale

We’re all one

 

No human illegal

Mexicans, Guatemalans, whoever else is out there

Let them come, let them swarm over Gringostan’s

border

What are we afraid of, that they’ll find out what we’re

really like?

Afraid they’ll compromise the American way of life?

But what is the American way of life?

Everything for sale

Every last one of us prostitutes, hustling something

Methamphetamine trailers lighting up the high plains

night

Strip malls from sea to shining sea

All for another slice of virtual pizza

While the other nation-states are busy copying us

 

But these campesinos

Why are they stampeding across our borders?

If their local, village-based mode of survival

Were still functioning after corporate capital’s

depradations

After the bait-and-switch called Free Trade

After the drug violence fueled by our cocaine habit

Do you really believe they’d leave families and ancestral

lands

For a life of drudgery in the icy heart of the North?

 

Can you imagine what those who’ve risked their lives

To cross the border are thinking

As they clean our toilets and mow the lawns

Outside our cheesy McMansions

While we sprawl in the family room

Sucking up doses of radiation from our plasma screens?

Hey, that’s not me, man: I’m not watching TV. I’m

fixated on my new iPad. I’m pecking away at my

Blackberry, dude. I’m cheering myself hoarse for the

home team while the world burns...

 

What if, on the contrary, these campesinos secretly envy

us

What if they want their deracinated children

To grow into big-time consumers just like us?

What if they can’t wait until their children

Turn into dark-skinned versions of our tight white

selves?

Dios Mio...

 

And democracy, our claim to fame

Time for a reality check

We don’t live in a democracy

Voting means getting lost in make-believe

As soon as more than ten thousand people are involved

Approximate size of the polis in ancient Greece

Where citizens encountered one another face to face

Knew their strengths and foibles

Knew the skeletons in their closets

Their families and ancestors

 

Whereas in modern mega-states

Do we know who represents us?

Fantasies concocted by spin doctors and handlers

If you doubt it (and have enough pull)

Approach the leader of any nation-state

It doesn’t matter what their politics are

The only question is

How deep into trance is this person?

Wave your hand in front of the face

Watch the eyes light up

When you say you’ll vote for it

Watch the eyes go cold

When you say you won’t

 

Only local democracy is real

When allowed to function, that is

Living democracy of community movements

Farmers in Africa planting trees on barren land

Cooperative ventures worldwide

 

While left and right, socialist and capitalist

Two sides of the same grabby coin

Solidifying the delusion that we get somewhere

Only at the expense of others

And—haven’t you noticed?—the game is never won

Over the centuries always a sense

Of impending emergency, of corruption and betrayal

The open field of existence

Tricked into gigantic hoardings of mine and yours

 

The question is

Do we have what it takes to clear the deck

And work out a new way of life

The planet is calling to us in a voice louder than politics

Sweeter than vested interests

Can you hear her?

She’s asking for change

That’s the only reason astronauts were allowed up in

space

To see a global intelligence unfolding

A vast gathering of ecologies

One flowing into the next

Rivers and mountains without end

To see that we’re all one

Humans and plants, animals and spirits, sky and ocean

 

No more nation-states

No more patriotism

Try it, you’ll like it

 

MIchael Brownstein

 

http://www.realitysandwich.com/lets_burn_flags_all_nations

Edited by Ulises

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Many years ago I read some of Albert Camus' work and he wrote on the concept of 'cosmopolitan'. I really like the idea.

 

I had just retired from the Army so my mind was liberated to intertain thoughts such as that.

 

I have often stated that I am a proud American. I don't feel bad saying it. But I would much rather be able to say I am just a person of the world.

 

One world is a beautiful concept. Perhaps one day it will be. I am sure I will never see it. It is still much too far in the future if it ever does happen.

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Many years ago I read some of Albert Camus' work and he wrote on the concept of 'cosmopolitan'. I really like the idea.

 

I had just retired from the Army so my mind was liberated to intertain thoughts such as that.

 

I have often stated that I am a proud American. I don't feel bad saying it. But I would much rather be able to say I am just a person of the world.

 

One world is a beautiful concept. Perhaps one day it will be. I am sure I will never see it. It is still much too far in the future if it ever does happen.

 

I hear you.

I feel more and more in love with the mystery of who we are..of course I have and honor my ancestry, but I feel more and more a human animal, a ecstatic terran,more interested in:

"The most ancient Eurasian mystical traditions achieving a state of Communion that

discloses the true, single nature of all animate and inanimate entities veiled by the illusion

of inherent multiplicity—including Indian Shaivism, Himalayan Bön, Chinese Taoism,

Persian Zurvanism, the Egyptian cult of Osiris and the Greek Dionysian mysteries.."

from

Capriles, E., (enero 2007 ), “From Primal to Postmodern Ecommunism.”

 

http://webdelprofesor.ula.ve/humanidades/elicap/en/Main/BookChapters

 

 

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‎A spiritual classic to be retrieved. Kindred spirit with Taoism...

 

"I believe that most of what was said of God was in reality said of that Spirit whose body is Earth."

 

 

"It was an excitement of spirit for one born in a little country town in Ireland to find the circle of being widened so that life seemed to dilate into a paradise of beautiful memories, and to reach to past ages and to mix with the eternal consciousness of Earth, and when we come on what is new we pause to contemplate it, and do not ...hurry to the end of our journey. The instances of earth memories given here are trivial in themselves, and they are chosen, not because they are in any way wonderful, but rather because they are like things many people see, and so they may more readily follow my argument. The fact that Earth holds such memories is itself important, for once we discover this imperishable tablet, we are led to speculate whether in the future a training in seership might not lead to a revolution in human knowledge."

AE Russell

http://www.sacred-texts.com/neu/celt/cov/cov10.htm

 

Nice! Thank you

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Well, if there ever is an end, and there will be, there will be a new beginning.

 

I do hold to the Taoist concept of cycles.

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I feel more and more that we are - as a species - trough a deep cognitive change.

http://kingsleydennis.wordpress.com/2011/01/19/quantum-consciousness-3-hyper-communication-quantum-states/

http://kingsleydennis.wordpress.com/2011/01/19/quantum-consciousness-4-evolutionary-agents-%E2%80%93-our-next-quantum-leap/

 

The mind-expanding, heart-opening effects of just one gathering with Tim Freke keep rippling in my everyday life.. I hope there will be more midwifes like him facilitating the re-birth of planetary citizens living from the Heart...

 

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Yep. Oneness is the underlying principle that stands firm even during our darkest hours, and our most extreme differences.

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