It is becoming increasingly obvious that throughout the past 2000 years, probably longer, we have explored what life would look like if we ignore more and more of our humanity. So today, we find ourselves living in a dystopian nightmare of an overreaching government severely restricting our inalienable rights, financing endless wars, humans killing each other while millions of people, many of them children, go hungry every day. Millions struggling to make ends meet and care for their families and loved ones. Millions more homeless, living in the streets, in the first world slums in unbearable conditions. That this is supported by millions of plebs who are convinced that sending billions and billions to continue to finance endless wars, which is heavily promoted by the media and the politicians who reap huge profits from them, instead of helping starving children, the people living in the city slums, or regular folks trying to eke out a living, tells you everything you need to know of how far we have removed ourselves from the core tenants of our humanity.
Don’t tell me we have not been programmed to ignore our humanity cause your argument has no leg to stand on, considering the overwhelming reality of how so many of us think and live today.
Most of us know it’s there; we can touch our humanity, and we can reach the song of our hearts if we choose. But for most, it’s too painful in light of the sheer endless plight in the world. We feel helpless in trying to claim and express it in a world in which political correctness is being used as a totalitarian sledgehammer to dictate who we have to be and how we have to behave and live.
Our exploration throughout the past centuries of what it would be like to live without being centered in the heart, in love and caring, and instead being all focused on conflict, mistrust, greed, violence, self-importance, and fear has reached its apex. We are living in a world dying before our very eyes, and that’s a good thing because now, more and more of us are motivated to start working on building a new one.
Our Peruvian Shaman elders, Domano and Chea Hetaka, called the way of life we have explored in our modern world throughout the last centuries the backward turning wheel life. It means we have lived based on energy dynamics that take everything apart and destroy everything in their path, in the end, including themselves. The enormity of the violence humans inflict on each other these days is a stark testament to the backward-turning wheel destroying itself.
We have decided to explore what a human life would be like if we go to sleep, suppress our consciousness, and live disconnected from ourselves, each other, and all life. We wanted to know what it is like to live disconnected from what many ancient traditions call “The Field”—the field of aliveness, the field of consciousness, the field of beauty, and sacredness. Among the things I find remarkable about modern humans is that so many live in this comatose state while convinced they are evolved; it utterly astounds me. Talk about the illusion of knowledge being the greatest enemy of it.
We have a choice to make. We can continue living our little lives pretending that, yes, what’s going on is horrific, but there is nothing we can do about it, or we can stand up and learn how to take back, how to reclaim our humanity, our sovereignty, and our world, and begin building a new world based in completely new paradigms based in love, in heart, and beauty.
Talking with Kay about this this morning, we thought we would like to do a Bone Throwing Ceremony about it. The question we would ask the Spirits of the Bones is how can we reclaim our humanity and build a new world?
Domano’s advice to Kay comes to mind as a place to start:
“Learn your Song. Learn your masks. Refuse to take part in these broken webs, and they pass into death of their own weight. Hold to your center and dance on your Song instead. It is the only way you can stay alive.”
- Domano Hetaka, The Reluctant Shaman by Kay Cordell Whitaker
What do you think? Would you like to hear what the Spirits of the Bones say about this question? Let us know in the comments. Or if you are getting this in an email, send a reply.
Song to Song,
Helmut
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