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What we once knew has mostly been forgotten or subdued as we experimented and viewed life from different angles. Who we once were has changed dramatically and yet traces of all that we have ever been continue to thread through our world today.
There is within me all of my soul's experience throughout all my lifetimes in various forms and including places not of this Earth. But even if I didn't believe in reincarnation, I must recognize that my DNA in this body is a summation of all the DNA it took to build me from the very first cell of my eldest ancestor at the beginning of human history. And at that point, we are all undeniably related. Why do we think that is different now? Who among us can judge another? Why do we continue to judge by geography or appearance or language or spiritual heritage? Haven't we learned the ill effects of judgement and exclusion? Individuals will abuse. This has always been so. That is insufficient reason to damn or exclude all who share a trait with the abusers. We have had this lesson over and over throughout human history. Why have we not all learned from it? Every wall has two sides. Although a wall may be built to keep others out, it also barricades those within. We create the walls, for there are none in the Universe that we have not manifested ourselves. Yet no matter how many of us have suffered and died while trying to scale or defend these walls, we have not seen the absurdity of building them. There is a Red Road and in fact a Rainbow of Roads and if you travel any one of them far enough, you will see that they all lead to the same place. So why bicker over the details on the pathways? The Red Road was forced underground for a long time. Now it springs up in the most unlikely places and not necessarily in a bonafide Native American body. For an interesting take on this, try reading "Return of the Bird Tribes". I knew the story before I read the book. I knew it in my heart of hearts, and in fact the story goes much farther back in the Earth's history. We're trying to restore our stewardship of the Earth even as we try to integrate all we've learned while we were distracted away from it. One of the first things we have to release is the judgement, the concept of separatism. We don't have to be one big homogenized glop to coexist, but we absolutely must stop cutting ourselves up with all these protective and defensive lines. Everything beyond the understanding that we are all in this together... is fluff.. and certainly not worth a fight. 05.27.2003 |