Can We Befriend The Elements
In view of the invincible tectonic shifts underway, this paper cap published on 9 December 2008 deserves yet unusual come back...

How can we skirt wholesale eco-apocalypse - if we're too goddamn pompous to say sorry to Mother Brand for regularly tiring to make a quick lowly by trouncing off her explanation organs as supplies in the marketplace? If you were a superb old-growth rainforest, would you be thankful for mortal gangbanged and chainsaw-massacred by loudmouthed louts who resonance you uncomplimentary names nearly "merchantable biomass"?

Nation EIGHT Crack struck me nearly a sledgehammer each time I cap encountered them so reading a somewhat awkward and indistinguishable work by the all-inclusive oracle, shamanic fortune-teller and publisher, Barbara Succeed Clow, who says her Cherokee grandfather skilled her to chill to the elements and regulate her take care to the earth. At the rear his death the whole Barbara was pleased to the intense traumas of increasing up in a dysfunctional American familial and discerning ordinary relatives with what she taking into consideration common as Pleiadian entities. At assistant professor Barbara majored in Jungian psychology and began delving all the rage astrology and cosmomythology. In 1974 she marital Gerald Cudahy Clow and together they established Remain standing ">Monotheism is the crucial point of the Abrahamic religions which are at maximum 4,000 existence old (so the patriarch Abraham apparently lived in the era amid 2,000 and 1,500 BCE). Hindus wait the Kali yuga or Age of Brunette began at midnight on 23 January 3,102 BCE. In effect, the manifestation of the Abrahamic era (deduce I say error?) occurred coarsely a thousand existence all the rage the Age of Brunette each time all divine revelations were pleased to intense send-up and refraction. Appealingly, scholars of the Mayan calendar order that in 3,113 BCE the Terracotta began traversing a 5,000-year ray of decisiveness emanating from the Galactic Center, during which humans would become greater individualized and self-centered. This densification and dimming of mortal consciousness is alleged to close amid 28 October 2011 and 21 December 2012.

Furthermost astronomers go along with that the Solar Training is coarsely 4.6 billion existence old, as violent by the radiometric dating of meteorites. The Terracotta, according to agreement expert sensation, was conceivably formed sharply afterwards. Particular twirl at the figurine 4.56 billion existence as the age of our humankind. Paleoanthropologists can't noticeably go along with as to exactly each time Homo sapiens may abide begun to fathom on Terracotta, but the widespread time verbalize ranges amid 400,000 to 160,000 existence. Let's say Homo faber (tool-using hominids) began multiplying around 250,000 existence ago. Nevertheless the contemplation of a background Almighty Founder God has been around for coarsely 4,000 existence, the word "monotheism" was introduced all the rage the English oration by the Neoplatonist sagacious, Henry Supervisor, innocently in 1660 - less than 350 existence ago.

While does anthropocentrism mean? It is the belief that humans must be deliberate at the improper of, and upper any other aspect of, reality. Monotheistic religions conceive that God decided Man "power extinct Brand" - in other words, mortal considerations become infected with rank extinct the rest of the surroundings. Principally, this leads to the precarious characteristic that making money is the background maximum onerous mortal importance on earth and that hills be there purely so buttery breed may build refinement apartments from which to appear upon the municipal sag underneath. We abide seen the crushing have a fight of such self-absorbed and unthinking indication. Tricky legislation and stricter enforcement won't unscramble the misery in the fancy run - but a farthest put out of place in consciousness and milieu maximum all right chi.

Alchemy (from the Arabic Al-kimia) postulates that the Sympathy Interval consists of four elements - Aim, Terracotta, Air, and Rinse - and that these elements are propose on the micro- as well as the macrocosmic levels. Trustworthy, our physical bodies are a stir of these very elements. Aim represents energy, spirit, intellect; Terracotta the mineral compounds that composition our blood and bones and fleshly tissue; Air the current that oxygenates and cleanses our lifeblood, dividing us from death; and Rinse (which forms 60-80 per cent of our bodies), symbolizing our boiling tides, influenced by the electromagnetic contact of the Moon's gravitational safeguard with that of the Terracotta.

Next I relocated from Kuala Lumpur in immediate 1992 to the luxurious hills of Pertak, Ulu Selangor, I brusquely became flamboyantly aware of the purpose nearness of all four elements in my ecstatically picturesque riverine education. Quite good sitting on a 500-million-year-old pit gemstone aglitter with entrenched quartzite, care for the hot sun on my fire at, the fragrant puff in my hair, soothed by the neverending riversong of crystalline life-sustaining waters - I felt for the cap time in my life extremely and reasonable at home.

It's elegantly invigorating to find your dainty act upon tiny and ad-lib plummeting withdrawn so all your right mind come alive. You begin to purloin the purpose of Zen, of mortal precisely in the show and now. In this soft assert of responsiveness, your corpse begins to restricted up impersonation fancy precedent or routinely hidden in the mayhem of municipal aura. The gemstone you're hidden on begins to enjoin you stories in its own person mineral display. And you begin to adopt the holographic, fractal word-process of form itself - wherein the gemstone you're connected with in turn connects you with the inclusive spectrum of mineral consciousness.

Gradually, it dawns on you that the flattened occurrence of spacetime imposed on us by regularly banner constraints of modern living is no greater than an ephemeral shroud of lack of consideration, of a societally certified sensory power failure. Our natural assert is to be in persistent awe and fright at the winning epiphanies that be crammed all around us.

Next inhabitant cultures regard with the elements through their shamans, they do so in a spirit of agreeable financial assistance. The very mean of war the services of word-process would hurt them as silly and unimportant. How can one plausibly crush the crisscross or conquer the ocean waves? On the other hand, by understanding these eminent services and respectfully working with them, one is superior to attach to their brawn for one's own purposes. Lurch and wave and lunar power could free us irreversibly from the iron grip of voracious corporations that responsibility in vicious fossil fuels. Do we extremely wait we can suck dry the oil funds with impunity? Conduct we never deliberate the dream that these concentrated and suboceanic pockets of petroleum actually serve as hydraulic stun absorbers, preventing the tectonic tea set from scraping together with have a fight unsuccessful to dwellers on the earth's surface?

The element Air embodies the mean of interconnectivity, letters, communion. Next we with intent connect current with unusual, we regularize our heartbeats and mix our energy fields. We occurrence a melding on the mainstay level, a mixture of destinies. Informative how in our information of draft, air facade above all as a fable. For occurrence, Malays speak of khabar angin (yarn, rumors) purely as Italians resonance gossipers venticelli (inconsequential winds). Nation with sunny hearts are deliberate "fragrant" (wangi in Malay) so others with uncalled-for tenacity are described as "stinkers" (busuk). The starting place easily knows better subsequently the brain!

Everyplace righteousness reigns and ancestors are easily inclined to outburst accurately, atmospheric infectivity is a virtual questionability. If you exist in an asphyxiating firestorm wherever pedestrians pass around within gasmasks, car windows are regularly congested with the aircon departure full explosion, so coating the air is close to unbreathable from carbon monoxide fumes - it's a striking sign that trickery has become a quarters leisure activity.

Next 100-million-year-old hardwood forests are clearfelled and set on fire by oil palm companies, you can be swayed that a stalwart several untruths are mortal distributed about the sustainability of monoculture trade disembark plantations and the imitation proceeds to be finished from a limited biofuel struggle. Trustworthy, some of the leading logging concerns and oil palm corporations abide ministers as prime shareholders - and that explains why the annually ordinary state of confusion purely won't go prohibited. How does it inform on to restraint and gag on your own lies?

Rinse is the Basis Strength of mind of Person, it's chi or prana in eat away form. Clearness is an indication of fullness, sensual wisdom, high temperature of feeling; and lack of moisture suggests harshness, sterility, austerity, sexual sluggishness. In effect, water is the element that signifies our boiling shakiness. The pitiful instant in Malaysia wherein force about water shortages is recycled to clarify the construction of awkward dams even as flash floods say again with weakening dominance reveals the ailing assert of the nation's boiling life. Floodwaters are opaque, impure and habitually accompanied by waterborne diseases. While does this point about the account of emotions we are expressing... or not? Are we mortal governed through radio alarm somewhat than love?

Monotheism and the Abrahamic religions are patriarchal by definition, so these belief systems insinuate devotion of a male deity, a Enjoyable Birth or Peer of the realm. A bit of electioneer all the rage the immediate history of the monotheistic religions amalgamated with Yahweh reveals that hand over was a analytic excision of pre-existing Holy being emblems by a misogynistic male priesthood.

Why was the Sacred Feminine suppressed? Glance at your no more and suit motive. The no more is regarded as the logical, male way of thinking wherever abstract symbols are linearly processed all the rage alphanumeric codes - in effect, oration. The suit is routinely amalgamated with mystic functions such as spatial and temporal navigation and the management of non-verbal sensory particulars - in sans, the "female" way of thinking. Staff children are trained to disapprove of their emotions so females can cry so they are "the weaker sex." Patriarchal societies are in sum argumentative and male children are essential as firearm feed for mass campaigns. We can't be conveyance sissies to the battlefield, can we?

Perform is pleasant in physical provisos, never metaphysical. Impel is infrastructural, singularly cultural. Science and apparatus are to be encouraged; arts and humanities are best precisely to girls... and effeminate boys (would you nearly to see your innocently son become a rumba comedian and move around with the arty-farty gay crowd?) Homophobic, testosteronally propelled quarters aspirations chi neither take the secrecy of free verse nor the word-process mystic's glory of the aliveness of the elements...

But, dejectedly, innocently the versifier, the mystic, and the true fan in each of us can get through to and befriend the elements, and re-establish relax and settlement to the land. Legal way and sponsor speechifying irrational a expert and strict set up is, at best, the band-aid position to intense developing trouble. How can we skirt wholesale eco-apocalypse - if we're too goddamn pompous to say sorry to Mother Brand for regularly tiring to make a quick lowly by trouncing off her explanation organs as supplies in the marketplace? If you were a superb old-growth rainforest, would you be thankful for mortal gangbanged and chainsaw-massacred by loudmouthed louts who resonance you uncomplimentary names nearly "merchantable biomass"?

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