This Old-Timer wants to talk with others who care about keeping the
original universal Native American spiritual beliefs alive, the way they
were before the eclectic genocidal effects of mixing our original
spiritual philosophies with foreign man-god religions and cultures.
What I am speaking of is the Great Mystery, the way our people once
simply accepted the sacredness that surrounds us.  A time before we
reduced the great and most marvelous mystery to "The Creator", or "Man
Above".  I meet a lot of Native people these days who think of
themselves as traditionalists, yet are either Christian or Muslim.
These same people foolishly call the white man spiritually bankrupt
without ever taking the time to look into the mirror of their own
reality.  Is this not the pot calling the kettle black?  This Old-Timer
thinks that the non-Indian who seeks Earth/Nature spirituality by trying
to learn of our Native people's original spiritual beliefs are true
allies of our sacred Mother, the Earth.  Nothing stands separate from
Nature lest it be the technological creations of humankind, which along
with massive overpopulation, shall be the undoing of us all.  This
Old-Timer thinks it would be a good time for the Rapture to take all the
god-fearing ones away up to some cloud where they can all strum a harp
and leave our cherished Mother, the Earth, the opportunity to be free
from the overwhelming selfishness, greed, and irresponsibility of the
non-caring human ones.

prfbrown@magna.com.au replies ...

There is much to be said about the mother earth and the
elements of nature which are bounteously given for the
enjoyment of life.

Earth supplies our living need for food.
Water for our thirst, and air for our breath.
We would not go too far without these terrestrial
elements of living nature.

Neither would we go too far if - for a moment - we
forgot that it is the cosmic fire of the sun and its
sunshine which makes the living plants and trees grow,
and which gives light and heat to the terrestrial
ecosystems, and which lifts up the waters, and brings
rain with the winds, to the lands of the earth, our
planet.

There is a great deal to be said for the simplicity
by which the indigenous spirituality embraces the
foundational elements of life and of nature.  We are
custodians of the land, not owners, buyers or sellers.

    Every human being is indigenous
    to the terrestrial environment,
    itself eternally interfaced
    to the environment of the cosmos.

  - An undated observation of the mountain man


And I think the technolgical and materialistic blindness
grew from the loss of reverence for the simple elements
of nature - which are in themselves the elements of life.
Not just human life, but all living beings on earth.

Scientific discoveries around and after Newton replaced
the teaching of the four elements of nature, with the
analysis of the states of matter - solid, liquid, gas
(and eventually plasma), and there was no life in these
teachings.

But life goes on.  How are the signs of Spring?


Should you have a spare few moments during the thawing
of the northern winter, you'd probably very much like
to read the work of one of your brothers ....

Soul of the Indian - Charles Eastman (about 1911)
eastman.html

Bin nice talking to ya ol' timer.
Best be heading out now ......


    "Thank you for your company
     but I must be on my way,
     for the Road is growing shorter
     As the sun sets on my day"

     -  Off the soundtrack to the surfing movie
     "The Morning of the Earth" -  1970's



Pete Brown
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