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Subject: [K-list] El Collie Tribute: Trees and Shamanic views
From: Mystress Angelique Serpent
On 2002/04/23 14:43, Mystress Angelique Serpent posted thus to the K-list:
>From: CKRESSATnospamaol.com
>Date: Sat, 27 Nov 1999 20:52:14 EST
>Subject: [K-list] Trees and Shamanic views
>To: KundaliniATnospamList-Server.net
>Another tree story: I'd told my friend H. about my "hug a tree" adventure and
>she remembered it when she was on a weekend camping trip with some friends in
>northern California. Without telling her friends what she was up to, H.
>wandered off from their camp ground until she found a big old tree with a lot
>of character and gave it a hug. Soon after she embraced it, H. got a very
>strong message: "Earthquake!"
>
>It seemed weird -- she had never had a psychic experience with another
>species before -- but recalling my story, she took it seriously. She was
>starting back to warn the others when she was thrown to the ground, courtesy
>of a seismically feisty (I think it was a 6.0) quake. The epicenter was in a
>sparsely populated woods area, so fortunately it caused little human injury
>or damage to homes. H. came out of it without a scratch, as did her friends.
>
>I'd read somewhere that before the advent of telephones and voice mail,
>Aborigines communicated long distance perfectly well through trees. If they
>wanted to send a message to a relative or another tribe, they told it to a
>nearby tree. The trees passed the message along, so that any tree in a
>fairly wide radius would carry the message to whoever cared to listen in.
>
>I was trying to find the book that told about that, and instead came across
>some interesting stuff about Aboriginal and general indigenous/shamanic
>systems in Robert Lawlor's "Voices of the First Day." Aborigines knew about
>K -- it's in their sacred "Rainbow Serpent." Lawlor says: "the serpent is
>always associated with vibration and flowing energy fields... The Rainbow
>Serpent is the first cosmological model for the spectral order of universal
>energy... All radiation has the same velocity and the same electromagnetic
>nature; the only difference between parts of the spectrum are frequency and
>wave length. The electromagnetic spectrum, like the Rainbow Serpent, is a
>profound metaphor for the unity that exists between the tangible and the
>invisible worlds." (p. 115)
>
>Lawlor also addresses the differences between indigenous and patriarchal
>religions. He points out that Christianity and Buddhism focus on the
>individual "by concentrating on personal salvation and enlightenment." (You
>have to get YOURSELF saved or enlightened before you're qualified to run
>around proselytizing to everyone else.) Lawlor says: "Buddhist meditation
>and Christian prayer place the individual in the center of spiritual life.
>Although the ego is considered the source of evil and suffering, it is
>nonetheless the center of attention." The spiritual practices of Eastern
>traditions are designed "to turn the attention to the individual's inner
>thoughts and mental activities. Mastery of ... mind and perception is
>considered essential to achieving the ultimate state through meditation."
>The self-oriented (or me-and-God) "process of prayer and meditation is in
>stark contrast to Aborginal spirituality which, through ever-deepening
>perception, opens outward to empathize and identify with every aspect of a
>living, active world." (p. 234)
>
>Aboriginal children are taught compassion from infancy. "Whenever a weak,
>ill, or harmless person or creature passes the child's path, the mother
>fusses over it and showers it with attention, even if it is a scraggly
>lizard... Food is never denied to anyone or any creature that is hungry...
>The constant maternal dramatization of compassion in the early years orients
>a child's emotions toward empathy, support, warmth, and generosity... Any
>adult who does not show emotional empathy with the surrounding world is
>thought to be 'like a rock' and is considered to be 'not quite human.'" (p.
>247)
>
>This isn't to suggest the Major religions don't stress compassion -- they do.
> Yet often this is considered secondary to the real goal of personal
>salvation or ego-transcendence or whatever, while to most indigenous peoples,
>heart-centered relationship is the essence of spirituality.
>
>Again, Lawlor explains the difference:
>
>"The unrelenting absolute eternal ground beyond all differentiation, which
>many meditational philosophies seek as a goal of spiritual life, is for the
>Aborigines as well as the ancient Egyptians to be avoided -- it means an end
>to participation in the continually unfolding cycles of creation.
>Meditational philosophies speak of one's spirit being absorbed into the
>uncreative eternity, just as 'pure water blends with pure water and will,
>henceforth, never more separate in eternity.'" The goal of permanently
>dissolving oneself into ego-less All-ness "is nihilistic and abhorrent to the
>creation-loving, adventurous soul of the Aboriginal Dreaming.
>
>"Eastern meditative asceticism and Western productive materialism both result
>from the polarization of humanity's spiritual vision. As Carl Jung pointed
>out, they are like the left and right hand of the same body, each fulfilling
>and complementing the other. In recent years, the attraction between them
>has manifested in the numbers of educated, privileged Westerners who assume
>orange robes and begging bowls and enter severe monastic practices, while the
>Eastern swamis and yogis purchase Mercedes and establish corporate
>organizations and institutions. The ancient shamanic religious practices are
>the body or central core of the left and right arms of materialism and
>asceticism, integrating the two extremes and including all the intermediate
>levels of nature and consciousness." (p. 363)
>
>El
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