I'm reading a new book right now titled AMERICAN INDIGENOUS DEMOCRACY, writings from Haudenosaunee people. In North & South America we have people among us who are steeped in 'ancient ways'. The Eagle & Condor prophecy from the Andes (I think) points to mutual wisdom of both head and heart (=VAST oversimplification on my part about this), a vision that has a lot of darkness between here and there but a beautiful possibility.
Yes! Kali! But how to choose what our role is in preventing/assisting Kali if we actually have a choice? Because fighting back is certainly part of yin/yang or yang would have wiped us all out eons ago.
Thank you, Rev. Cameron. That quote from Jerimiah is timely and profound. I go back to your post on Saint Therese's "Little Way." I see that daily practice as baby steps, "a way" to get to that path that leads to communion with the world.
This is so resonant. I can feel my heart 🎶 “yes! Remember!” And still I am everyday searching, everyday seeking and lately everyday I am discovering the same message…”remember”. Thank you Cameron 🙏
What you’ve written intersects beautifully with an article written by Angell Deer entitled, We are Nine Meals Away from Remembering.” Two approaches, same message.
Yes! History shows how each empire that ends up so grande and "successful" has also ended up with the rich getting obscenely rich and the poor more and more helpless to find how to live even a minimally healthy life. We are definitely in an increasingly rapid cycle this time because we have moved so far from even teaching our children what poetry is. We have made our youth feel they have nothing to offer life except to prove their worth in technological advancement. Paying caregivers the least in salaries; moving our elders and disabled into carehomes so the family can still afford the salaries to keep their large and comfortable homes going, and sending the children off to be shaped into parts of an increasingly un-human world: that forgotten path may have to be found by accident when survivors of the next holocaust are digging through the mess. Even our churches have lost a vision of that path--because our families and communities are too disconnected from needing to help one another? Conservative families have loyalty to family (and political party) as the prime commitment. How do the non-conservatives find this kind of commitment to being interdependent at the basic levels of shelter and food=Love?
REALLY exciting read today - feels like a vision of what is possible now that has been waiting for us all to rediscover what our culture has buried deep in some dark woods. Thank you for once again helping me/us all tap into possibilities.
I love Lynne Twist's work with the Pachamama Alliance.com around the Eagle and the Condor story, too.
I'm reading a new book right now titled AMERICAN INDIGENOUS DEMOCRACY, writings from Haudenosaunee people. In North & South America we have people among us who are steeped in 'ancient ways'. The Eagle & Condor prophecy from the Andes (I think) points to mutual wisdom of both head and heart (=VAST oversimplification on my part about this), a vision that has a lot of darkness between here and there but a beautiful possibility.
Thanks for this reference!
Regarding the Eagle & Condor prophecy, you may appreciate this post from yesterday: https://paulettebodeman.substack.com/p/what-if-destruction-is-sacred
Yes! Kali! But how to choose what our role is in preventing/assisting Kali if we actually have a choice? Because fighting back is certainly part of yin/yang or yang would have wiped us all out eons ago.
This is so appreciated, thank you!
Thank you, Rev. Cameron. That quote from Jerimiah is timely and profound. I go back to your post on Saint Therese's "Little Way." I see that daily practice as baby steps, "a way" to get to that path that leads to communion with the world.
Beautiful.
This... made me cry. It's spot on.
This was such a great read. Thank you!
Clare Wagner
I want to respond with a Rumi poem that picks up on your meditation…
Seek the wisdom
that will untie your knot
seek the path
that demands your whole being.
Leave that which is not, but appears
to be
see that which is, but is
not apparent.
HIDDEN MUSIC
translated by Maryam Mafi &
AzimaMelita Kolin
This is so resonant. I can feel my heart 🎶 “yes! Remember!” And still I am everyday searching, everyday seeking and lately everyday I am discovering the same message…”remember”. Thank you Cameron 🙏
Our indigenous siblings remember so much better than most of the rest of us. I loved this meditation. Thank you, as always
Thank you. This is so beautiful. Feels like cool water on a hot day.
What you’ve written intersects beautifully with an article written by Angell Deer entitled, We are Nine Meals Away from Remembering.” Two approaches, same message.
Yes! History shows how each empire that ends up so grande and "successful" has also ended up with the rich getting obscenely rich and the poor more and more helpless to find how to live even a minimally healthy life. We are definitely in an increasingly rapid cycle this time because we have moved so far from even teaching our children what poetry is. We have made our youth feel they have nothing to offer life except to prove their worth in technological advancement. Paying caregivers the least in salaries; moving our elders and disabled into carehomes so the family can still afford the salaries to keep their large and comfortable homes going, and sending the children off to be shaped into parts of an increasingly un-human world: that forgotten path may have to be found by accident when survivors of the next holocaust are digging through the mess. Even our churches have lost a vision of that path--because our families and communities are too disconnected from needing to help one another? Conservative families have loyalty to family (and political party) as the prime commitment. How do the non-conservatives find this kind of commitment to being interdependent at the basic levels of shelter and food=Love?
Excellent insight….will others believe this way? We can only hope…
REALLY exciting read today - feels like a vision of what is possible now that has been waiting for us all to rediscover what our culture has buried deep in some dark woods. Thank you for once again helping me/us all tap into possibilities.
I love Lynne Twist's work with the Pachamama Alliance.com around the Eagle and the Condor story, too.
Faith: to remember
connection, to trust enough.
Communion in love.