To: K-list
Recieved: 1999/12/03 02:11
Subject: Re: [K-list] food fight
From: Mystress Angelique Serpent
On 1999/12/03 02:11, Mystress Angelique Serpent posted thus to the K-list:
Music in my head today...:
"Doctor, my eyes have seen the years
Through the slow parade of tears
without crying
Now I want to understand" -- Jackson Browne
The battlefield has gone silent, and in the aftermath, I meditate on the
bloodshed...
I have often described this list as a grand experiement, never before
have so many cultures gathered in harmony to discuss K., for such an
extended period of time.. but it is clear, the results of the experiement
are conclusive: harmony only lasts till dinnertime, then the animals start
to eat each other. That's the nature of the beast.
If they are human animals, any excuse will do.. even if we did manage to
feed the hungry, by all becoming vegetarians, it would not stop the wars
and terrorism in India. We are supposed to look to India as the source of
high spirituality, because they have sacred cows? I have two words for
that: Female circumcision.
In India, honeymoon Motels are next to emergency clinics.. Cows are
sacred, and women are treated worse than cattle. It's illegal to kill a
cow, but it's legal to kill your wife, in India... if her dowry was not
generous enough, or if she has an annoying habit of giving birth to girls
instead of boys.
"I have done all that I could
To see the evil and the good
without hiding
You must help me if you can"
Unlike animals, humans will fight and kill each other for obscure
territorial reasons that have zero to do with food and shelter. Even among
awakened people, good intentions turn into holy wars and bloodshed, and
that seems to be the nature of the human animal. Here on the microcosm of
the K-list experiement, even via the safety of email, it has happened over
and over. I tried to stop it, but it was trying to halt the tide, with a
bucket. Nature won.. I think my mis-sent post was a message from Goddess
to stop trying to fight the tide of human nature.
Environmentalists are killing loggers, animal rights activists are
blowing up scientists, and pro-lifers are killing Doctors. Even plants
compete for sunlight, and room to grow in a slow-mo but fatal battle that
gardeners know well... using the weapon of thier own shadow. We cannot
help ourselves, and the bigger the "good intentions", the uglier it gets.
The shadow respessed, comes up big and dark..
The venomous vegans have killed my idealism, my hope for a peaceful
planet, and left it's corpse to rot.
"Doctor my eyes
Tell me what is wrong
Was I unwise
to leave them open for so long?" --Jackson Browne
I've had enough of being tolerant of intolerance. I spent my b-day
pondering this, and I have decided that the idea of a spiritual person's
tolerance is supposed to be infinite is a load of horse shit.
Ghandi was not tolerant of the British, Nelson Mandela was not tolerant
of aparthied. Mother Theresa was not tolerant of a lot of stuff, and very
outspoken. She had a soft spot for lepers, but she was nasty in her
judgments of working Mothers.
The Dalai Lama is very tolerant, but he is also a homeless refugee.
Tibet's tolerance got it's ass kicked by the Chinese.
"As I've wandered through this world
As each moment has unfurled
I've been waiting
to awaken from this dream"
In many ways, the K-list as a group is very intolerant.. we would not be
needing this cyberspace sanctuary, let alone a physical one if we were
happy to live among the sleepers. Over and over I have heard it on the
list, complaints that friends and family don't understand the experience we
are going thru.. think we are crazy.. I hear the desire to live separate
from the sleepers, to have "a place of our own".. how can they understand
us? We can barely understand our selves.
"People go just where they will
I never notice them until
I've got this feeling
That it's later than it seems...
Doctor, my eyes.. "
More and more I am finding myself drawn to the spiritual beliefs of the
Tribes where I live, here in BC.. the Haida, the Coast Salish are beautiful
people. One of thier most sacred rituals was the Potlatch, where a tribe or
individual celebrated the blessings of abundance by giving away everything
they owned, and the richer they were, the more honor it brought them. If
one person in the Tribe was hungry or in need, it brought shame down on the
whole tribe if they were not taken in and cared for. Generous people, who
asked permission of every tree they cut down.
The Potlatch was made illegal as part of a systematic destruction of
their culture that included sending all the children off to Missionary-run
boarding schools, and forbidding them to speak thier native language. They
were horribly abused, and sometimes did not see thier parents again till
they were adults.
As a result of thier collision with western values, they are all
suffering from Post Traumatic Stress Disorder, like war veterans. they are
committing sucide, in droves.. all the indigenous peoples world wide that
collided with the Missionaries, are..
"Doctor my eyes
Tell me what is real
I hear their cries
Just saying "It's too late for me"
I know how to help them. My Shamanic training from the ancient Mayan Rain
God, and Goddess Shakti have taught me the secrets of the Elysian
Mysteries... and, as Lesley describes, how the fractal of that sacredness
exists in all religions.. how it was once, for the natives, embodied in the
rites of adulthood.. when the child ego is cast off, and they vsionquest
for 3 days alone to find thier Totem.. Nature gives them thier True Self.
But, will they let me?
Once, the Native peoples of this continent, were enlightened beings who
felt themselves to be part of the Earth.. so much, that they could not
comprehend the idea, of anyone owning it. Of anyone owning anything, if
someone else was in need.
"Doctor my eyes
Cannot be disguised
Is this the prize
for having learned how not to cry?"
Blessings..
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