Ubuntu - filozofia tribala a fericirii

Ubuntu este o filozofie a triburilor africane care poate fi sintetizata astfel: "Sunt cine sunt, datorita a ceea ce suntem cu toti".

"Nu poti exista ca fiinta umana in izolare.E vorba de interconectare. Nu poti fi uman doar pentru tine, si cand ai aceasta calitate- Ubuntu-  te afirmi prin generozitate.

Ne referim la noi prea des ca individualitati, separati unul de altul, cand de fapt suntem conectati si ceea ce face fiecare afecteaza intreaga lume. Cand faci ceva bine, un lucru bun, se raspandeste; e facut pentru intreaga umanitate."

Un antropolog, vrand sa studieze obiceiurile triburilor africane, a adus bomboane si a provocat copii din trib la un concurs: care ajunge primul la destinatie va primi premiul. Supriza : la start , copiii au pornit alergand tinandu-se de maini cu toti, si au ajuns evident toti deodata la final, si au impartit bucurosi premiul cu fiecare din grup.

Antropologul , mirat, i-a intrebat de ce au facut asta, cand puteau concura pe cont propriu, si unul din ei ar fi putut lua intregul premiu, de unul singur. Copiii din trib au raspuns:

"Cum putem fi oricare dintre noi fericiti daca ceilalti sunt tristi?"

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"An anthropologist studying the habits and customs of an African tribe found himself surrounded by children most days. So he decided to play a little game with them. He managed to get candy from the nearest town and put it all in a decorated basket. at the foot of a tree.

Then he called the children and suggested they play the game. When the anthropologist said "now", the children had to run to the tree and the first one to get there could have all the candy to him/herself.

So the children all lined up waiting for the signal. When the anthropologist said "now", all of the children took each other by the hand ran together towards the tree. They all arrived at the same time divided up the candy, sat down and began to happily munch away.

The anthropologist went over to them and asked why they had all run together when any one of them could have had the candy all to themselves.

The children responded: "Ubuntu. How could any one of us be happy if all the others were sad?"

Ubuntu is a philosophy of African tribes that can be summed up as "I am what I am because of who we all are."

Bishop Desmond Tutu gave this explanation in 2008 :

"One of the sayings in our country is Ubuntu – the essence of being human. Ubuntu speaks particularly about the fact that you can't exist as a human being in isolation. It speaks about our interconnectedness. You can't be human all by yourself, and when you have this quality – Ubuntu – you are known for your generosity. We think of ourselves far too frequently as just individuals, separated from one another, whereas you are connected and what you do affects the whole World. When you do well, it spreads out; it is for the whole of humanity."

Institutia inchisorii creeaza delincventul

"Inainte ca fratii nostri albi sa soseasca aici pentru a ne civiliza, nu aveam  inchisori. Din aceasta cauza, nu existau delincventi. Fara inchisoare, nu pot fi delincventi.


Nu aveam lacate sau chei si din cauza asta nu erau hoti. Cand cineva era atat de sarac ca nu isi permitea un cal, o patura sau un cort, in cazul asta primea unul in dar.


Eram prea necivilizati ca sa acordam atentie proprietatii private. Nu cunoasteam banii si pe cale de consecinta, valoarea unui om nu era data de averea sa.


Nu aveam legi scrise, avocati sau politicieni, si din aceasta cauza nu eram in stare sa ne inselam unul pe altul.


Asadar eram chiar intr-o situatie foarte proasta inainte ca omul alb sa soseasca aici, si nu pot sa explic cum de eram in stare sa ne descurcam fara aceste lucruri fundamentale care (asa cum ne zic ei) sunt absolut necesare pentru o societate civilizata".


— John (Fire) Lame Deer.




“Before our white brothers arrived to make us civilized men, we didn’t have any kind of prison. Because of this, we had no delinquents. Without a prison, there can be no delinquents.

We had no locks nor keys and therefore among us there were no thieves. When someone was so poor that he couldn’t afford a horse, a tent or a blanket, he would, in that case, receive it all as a gift.

We were too uncivilized to give great importance to private property. We didn’t know any kind of money and consequently, the value of a human being was not determined by his wealth.

We had no written laws laid down, no lawyers, no politicians, therefore we were not able to cheat and swindle one another.

We were really in bad shape before the white men arrived and I don’t know how to explain how we were able to manage without these fundamental things that (so they tell us) are so necessary for a civilized society.”

Primitivi

Hai sa mai scuturam putin termenul "primitiv" de renumele de ne-evoluat pe care si l-a "castigat" in constiinta publica, sa incercam sa il percepem din alt punct de vedere.
Ce le lipseste acestor oameni, din punct de vedere al nevoilor , atat de baza, cat si al celor de apartenenta, dragoste, siguranta, respect? Care societate ofera un grad mai ridicat de fericire membrilor sai? Cele primitive sau cele moderne, civilizate?
Daca unii nu vor sa adere la curentul majoritar, civilizational, cine suntem noi sa li-l impunem?  Ce ne garanteaza noua ca fericirea spre care tindem noi e ceea ce vor ei? Live end let live.

"Almost universally, anthropologists remark on how ridiculously happy hunter gatherers seem to be. Laughter is far more common in their societies."

http://www.raw-food-health.net/HunterGatherers.html

Secretele psihedelice ale lui Mos Craciun

Desi multi vad sarbatoarea de Craciun ca o sarbatoare crestina, simbolurile asociate cu aceasta sarbatoare sunt originare din traditiile samanice ale triburilor pre-crestine din nordul Europei.

Ciuperca sacra a acestor triburi era ros-alba Amanita Muscaria, numita si ciuperca mustelor. Aceste ciuperci sunt foarte des intalnite in carti de basme si povesti, si sunt asociate cu magie, cu printese, etc.
Aceasta deoarece contin puternici compusi halucinogeni, si erau folosite de popoarele din vechime pentru calatorii - "tripuri" interioare si experiente transcendentale.

Majoritatea elementelor de baza a sarbatorii moderne de Craciun, intre care Mos Craciun, Pomul de Craciun, renul magic, darurile, origineaza din recolta si consumul acestor ciuperci sacre.

Mai multe detalii aici.

De asemenea, alte detalii interesante despre samanii din Siberia care se imbaraca ceremonial in rosu si alb, intra pe cosul caselor,despre ciuperca Amanita Mucaria care creste la radacina pomului de Craciun (brad sau alte conifere), despre renii ce mananca ciuperca si a caror urina este apoi consumata de samani pentru ca  ingredientele ciupercii nu snt metabolizate de organismul lor, insa sunt curatate de compusii toxici la prima trecere prin organism , si altele, aici.





Mai departe, vedem ca practic intreaga credinta crestina, dar si alte credinte religioase sunt bazate si originare in consumul acetei ciuperci. Dintr-o data avem o interpretare cu totul noua a simbolismului biblic al crearii omului, alungarii din Eden, etc: ceva mult mai umil si la indemana: ciuperca Amanita Muscaria. Adica "droguri", daca ar fi sa ne luam dupa perceptia publica contemporana, e adevarat indusa public printr-o propaganda interesata:



Teoria "stonde ape" a lui McKenna, privind saltul in constiinta de la animal la om prin consum de ayahuasca.

Variatiuni ale teoriei au mai fost sustinuta si de altii (Jan Irvin, Andrew Rutajit, autorii cartii de mai sus- The Pharmacratic Inquisition, sau John Allegro in "Sacred mushroom and the cross"), difera insa" planta sacra" consumata, in cazul acesta Amanita Muscaria.

Jaguar consumand ayahuasca.

Craciun fericit :)

Pierderea sinelui prin monetarizarea vietii - Charles Einsentein (english)

If Christmas is such an exciting and joyous occasion, it is mostly because the rest of the year is bleak and insubstantial in comparison: once the festivities are over, how depressed do people become when getting on with the daily grind? It is not difficult to see that money, or at least the concept of money that has existed since Antiquity, greatly enhances this sense of blandness pervading our experience of the world. And it does this not just by compelling us to 'earn a living', as the insidious expression goes, but by enhancing the commodification of everything. As a measure of value, money relies for its power upon standardization: all that can be turned into a generic commodity is, so that it can be utilized in financial transactions for the accumulation of wealth.

Physical money denoting the same agreed amount is, by definition, interchangeable: my money is as good as yours. Since financial transactions aim to quantify worth, they deal only with the generic: that which can be quantified. And as the realm of money is extended, more and more of the world is subsumed into the categories of 'goods' and 'commodities' which can be bought or sold, quantified and evaluated.

The economisation of the world consists not only of the standardization of all its parts, but also of their degradation. A given financial transaction involves the input of raw materials and the output of waste: industrial waste and pollution, land degradation, food waste, etc. Economists tend to refer to these outputs as 'externalities', hence they are generally not considered when analysing such matters as the economy of intensive agriculture, with its vast 'external' spillover in the form of a monolithic carbon footprint, topsoil depletion, etc. But it is not just the physical world around us that is degraded by ecomonic transactions; we live in an age in which our very humanity - from our individual talents and our pleasures to our very (brief) time alive on Earth - are considered financial raw materials from which we are encouraged to extract a profit. In this case, the output 'waste' may not be as physically obvious and perilous to the survival of other creatures, but it is no less real. We feel it in our bones, it is dehumanising and we lose a part of ourselves.

In order to convert any segment of the world, including human beings, into an object of financial desire, that object must first be considered scarce and of limited quantity. This is no mean feat when one considers that, for the vast bulk of human existence, mother nature has given to us freely; we did not need to purchase food or clothing, our survival and our safety were guaranteed by the other members of our tribe, and we could construct any objects or items of necessity either alone or in collaboration with our community. Once such basic functions are stripped from us, the economy sees to it that they are packaged and sold back to us: we pay for our food, we pay for our clothing, we buy medicine and houses and furniture and cheap consumer goods. Who comes out of such a scenario the richer? 

We are supposed to be shocked by the fact that over half of the world lives on less than $2 a day, yet we don't stop to consider how so many of them get by on this when we could envisage ourselves starving or freezing to death under such circumstances. Perhaps the aforementioned functions and necessities are provided to many of these people outside of economic transactions; perhaps the entirety of their lives have not been economized. 

By extending programs of economic growth and development, we are fostering the spread and distribution of commoditization, in which each object is to be considered in terms of its objective value. We are also encouraging the dissolution of community spirit and of humanity. Economists tells us that humans are all the same: we all want money. Either in its physical form, or as the standardized and evaluated objects which it necessitates, they insist that we strive to accumulate it. Yet we know that this is not the case; we are not all the same. We have different desires, different values and needs; from the moment we are born until we are indoctrinated into this culture, we sense the plentiful nature of the world and the infinity of all that composes it. We know that it cannot be reduced and that it must not be degraded.
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...the wildness screams

‎"Every last day on the job, the cameras are telling you that you are not alone, and you have become so lonely that you wish it so. Every day in the school, as you prop your head to stay awake through the single story of domination. Every night in the bar, as you drop your senses for a rush of numbing lubricant to ease this alienation. You sit, and you wait, because inside, the wildness screams. It does not beg, but defies you for life. And there you are, watching, listening, participating in the roles, while I sit here, and writhe in myself for not knowing how to ask. For never knowing how to say clearly, and calmly, so you will understand and not be threatened. But I'll try...

Hello. I am dying, inside and out, and I need wildness. I need freedom. I need resolve to this life long battle for acceptance of myself. I need to know the feeling of an unlit night. I need to adventure. I need to return to the place where I was born. To be attached life at every moment. To be wild and free. I need to come alive! I cannot do it without you. So, put down your sign and raze the buildings to the earth with me...the whole world is waiting."

Primul contact

E o lume libera, care te contamineaza

În Rusia se naşte un fenomen: mii de ruşi bogaţi părăsesc oraşele şi se retrag în zone izolate, pentru a-şi duce viaţa cât mai departe de civilizaţie. Trăiesc in colibe, manâcă doar ce cultivă şi îşi cresc copiii în spirit liber. Pentru ei, banii şi cariera nu mai au valoare. Mai mult, sunt convinşi că în curând vom trăi toţi ca ei. 
Imagini dintr un sat în apropiere de Siberia, unul dintre cele 200 din Rusia ridicate de la zero de foştii bogătaşi.


Au fost profesori, ingineri, avocaţi, oameni de afaceri. Au avut bani şi cariere  de invidiat.  Dar într-o zi şi-au vândut casele, şi-au îngheţat conturile şi s-au retras în sălbăticie pentru a trăi ca la începuturile lumii. 
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Ultimii oameni liberi de pe planeta

Primul film cu tribul de pe Amazon, făcut public. "Ultimii oameni liberi de pe Planetă" privesc împietriţi spre cer la avionul echipei de televiziune.

BBC a publicat în premieră un film cu tribul izolat care trăieşte în pădurea tropicală din Amazon, la graniţa dintre Brazilia şi Peru. Până acum fuseseră date publicităţii doar fotografii. Imaginile incredibile îi arată pe oameni privind uluiţi spre cer: autorii reportajului spun că au filmat de la un kilometru distanţă, pentru a reduce la maximum stresul pe care l-ar fi put provoca membrilor tribului.

Descrişi ca "ultimii oameni liberi de pe Pâmânt", aceşti locuitori ai pădurii amazoniene ar putea fi "o specie pe cale de dispariţie". Membrii tribului sunt în pericol din cauza defrişărilor ilegale, care le ameninţă stilul de viaţă şi îi alungă pe de pământurile lor.

Tribul este considerat izolat, având foarte puţine contacte cu societatea modernă. Nu se ştie nimic nici despre stilul lor de viaţă, nici despre limba pe care o vorbesc "şi poate că ar fi bine ca aceste lucruri să rămână aşa", spun jurnaliştii BBC. Autorii reportajului precizează că au primit acordul de a filma tribul de la o distanţă de 1 kilometru.

"Este foarte important pentru umanitate că aceşti oameni există. Aceasta ne-ar putea învăţa că se poate trăi şi altfel", este concluzia filmului BBC.

Anti - civilizatie

No way out?
by John Zerzan

Agriculture ended a vast period of human existence largely characterized by freedom from work, non-exploitation of nature, considerable gender autonomy and equality, and the absence of organized violence. It takes more from the earth than it puts back and is the foundation of private property. Agriculture encloses, controls, exploits, establishes hierarchy and resentment. Chellis Glendinning (1994) described agriculture as the “original trauma” that has devastated the human psyche, social life, and the biosphere.

But agriculture/domestication didn’t suddenly appear out of nowhere, 10,000 years ago. Quite possibly, it was the culmination of a very slow acceptance of division of labor or specialization that began in earnest in Upper Paleolithic times, about 40,000 years ago. This process is behind what Horkheimer and Adorno termed “instrumental reason” in their Dialectic of Enlightment. Although still touted as the precondition for “objectivity,” human reason is no longer neutral. It has somehow become deformed, with devastating impact: our reason imprisons our true humanity, while destroying the natural world. How else to account for the fact that human activity has become so inimical to humans, as well as to all other earthly species? Something had already started to take us in a negative direction before agriculture, class stratification, the State, and industrialism institutionalized its wrongness.

This disease of reason, which interprets reality as an amalgamation of instruments, resources, and means, adds an unprecedented and uncontrolled measure of domination. As with technology, which is reason’s incarnation or materiality at any given time, reason’s “neutrality” was missing from the start. Meanwhile, we are taught to accept our condition. It’s “human nature” to be “creative,” goes part of the refrain.

Division of labor gives effective power to some, while narrowing or reducing the scope of all. This can be seen in the production of art as well as in technological innovation. The distinctive work of individual masters is apparent in the earliest cave art, and craft specialization is an essential aspect of the later development of “complex” (aka stratified) societies. Specified roles facilitated a qualitative rupture with long-standing human social patterns, in a remarkably short period of time. After two or three million years of an egalitarian foraging (aka hunter-gatherer) mode of existence, in only 10,000 years, the rapid descent into a civilized lifeway. Since then, an ever-accelerating course of social and ecological destructiveness in every sphere of life.

Egocide

de Kevin Tucker

The primal war is a spiritual war. It began as the spirit of wildness was buried beneath the interests of domesticators: within history and within ourselves.

At its core lies the spiritual connection, the wordless sense of being that flows through the world. It is not about fighting for ‘Nature’ or about individual desire. It is about egocide: killing the self/Other split that underpins all civilized relationships.

There is no ‘Nature’, alone and isolated outside of our grasp. There is only the life that is in and of us. This is something that cannot be taught, written about or described. It’s not filling in space for god/s, nothingness, economics or science. It is not a cognitive force that hears every prayer.

I can’t say what it is that I feel. I can’t objectively prove its existence. But without my soul, I am as good as dead.

The domesticators have known this for a long time.

I can say that I feel something. It’s something that I know is real. It’s something worth fighting for.

That’s something that wild peoples and places have been telling us for ten thousand years. Humans, like all beings, are intrinsically spiritual. Not in the sense of elaborate ritual or religious beliefs or anything of that sort, but spiritual in a much different way: a lived spirituality.

There is a flowing, organic nature to the world. It’s something you can feel as you follow tracks through the new snowfall. Something felt in a handful of wild berries or the smell of roots. It’s something you see in the eyes of an animal as their pupils dilate for the last time. The sting of a thorn, the protests of squirrels, and the ambience of rain on leaves, the sound of rushing water: there is life in all of these things. An essence that simply living brings you into.

Peru: shamani si plante sacre

Desi "civilizatia" omului alb s-a intins pe toata planeta ca un foc mistuitor, distrugand tot pe unde a trecut, in triburile din jungla  Americii de Sud traditiile, cunoasterea spirituala, ce merge mana in mana cu plantele magice inca se pastreaza vie, datorita unor shamani, oameni dedicati caii spirituale, obtinerii "puritatii".
Cel care vrea sa devina shaman trebuie sa invete, printr-o disciplina a vietii (a nu se citit cuvantul disciplina" in sensul nostru  - occidental, european, ci in sens spiritual) cum sa manance, cum sa vorbeasca, cum sa mearga, cum sa interactioneze cu respect cu Natura si cu ceilalati semeni.

In traditita oamenilor/ tribului Shipibo, respectul este in mod special adresat plantelor sacre, plante "maestru".
Un astfel de shaman este si Guillermo, un om cu o "putere" deosebita, asa cum au spus chiar unii romani ce au participat la intiere alaturi de el.

Espiritu de Anaconda was created in 2004 by Guillermo Arévalo (Kestembetsa) with the objective to vivify the traditional amazonian medicine and the shamanic culture of the Shipibo people also to western people. The western popular culture and way of life is, as we know, influencing even the far corners of the world. For the traditional cultures around the globe this can pose a dilemma when children and young people no longer wish to carry on with the tradition. From talking to Guillermo we learned that there is more interest for the shamanic field among westerners then among his own people and that is the main reason why he chose to create this center (and also the center Luz Cosmica) to  make this tradition and knowledge easier available also for western people.

Guillermo Arevalo - Kestembetsa is a shipibo master healer and the spiritual leader of the Shipibo people. Since he began to investigate the amazonian natural medicine his objective was to share the Knowledge with others. For him shamanism is a field of investigation of the supra natural dimensions. Such investigation can help us to learn how to live in harmony with ourselves and our environment. During his 35 years of practice he studied almost all the amazonian master plants. His expertise in shamanism and curanderismo is recognized all over the world.

For the last few years he has been focusing his personal research on his concept of spiritual shamanism.

Cosmogony of the Shipibo people give you an overview of their philosophy and how they perceive Reality.
The Asusena is a preparation of plants used as a vomitive, it will purify your body and prepare you for the ceremony.

The Diet is the main discipline of our tradition, as the Shipibos say "the Diet is the door of Knowledge. 

"The diet is the discipline that a curandero has to follow in order to acquire knowledge and it is also followed by the patients during their healing process. At Espiritu de Anaconda, all our guest usually diet a master plant during their stay."

There are three different types of diet: Healing Diet, Purification Diet and Apprenticeship Diet.

Shamanism is a way that requires us to follow a certain discipline of life. Those who choose to enter into this field have to learn how to live a spiritual life in order to stay pure. They have to learn how to eat, talk, walk, relate to others and to Nature with respect. In our Tradition the respect of the Master Plants, for example, is fundamental if one really wants to grow.

According to the Shipibo the Knowledge comes from the master plants. They are essential to the Tradition and this is why we decided to focus this workshop on them. There are  many Master Plants in the Amazon Rain Forest and all over the World as well. 

...citatele zilei

Today a man on acid realized that all of matter is merely energy condensed into a slow moving vibration, that we are all one, and there is no such thing as death. Life is but a dream.

Here's Tom with the weather.....

-Bill Hicks

 „Nous laisserons ce monde-ci aussi sot et aussi méchant que nous l’avons trouvé en y arrivant”. Voltaire

"We must be willing to let go of the life we have planned, so as to have the Life that is waiting for us" - Joseph Campbell


"Banish the word 'struggle' from your attitude and your vocabulary. All that we do now must be done in a sacred manner and in celebration. We are the ones we have been waiting for." — Hopi elders


The love you withhold, it's the pain you carry.' - Morenae


Hoarding when there is abundance in order to create an artificial scarcity is a horrific form of oppression.

As a child I understood how to give, I have forgotten this grace since I have become civilized.
-Luther Standing Bear, Oglala

NON NOBIS DOMINE, NON NOBIS, SED NOMINI TUO DA GLORIAM!

"Da-ne glorie Doamne, nu pentru noi, ci pentru numele Tau".

All things are subject to interpretation. Whichever interpretation prevails at a given time is a function of power and not truth.

"The curious paradox is that when I accept myself just as I am, then I can change.”

–Carl Rogers

We should never forget that everything Adolf Hitler did in Germany was legal and everything the Hungarian freedom fighters did in Hungary was illegal."
- Martin Luther King, Jr

“The warrior transforms his animal fear of extinction into an opportunity for joy. Because he knows that all he has is this moment. Think as warriors. We are all going to die!” ~ CC

“Hope has two beautiful daughters: Courage and Anger. Anger at the way things are and courage to make them the way they ought to be.”~Augustine of Hippo
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"Civil disobedience becomes a sacred duty when the state becomes lawless or corrupt."~Mahatma Gandhi

"Masina din cap" de Glenn Parton

(merci, pai mei,  pentru traducere :)
Criza mediului inconjurator consta din deteriorarea si distrugerea completa a ecosistemelor in intreaga lume, inseamna eliminarea a nenumarate creaturi din aer, de pe pamant si din mare, cu multe specii impinse spre limita disparitiei sau disparute deja. Oamenii care permit pasiv aceste lucruri, in afara de cei care le promoveaza activ din motive economice sau alte motive, au calatorit deja o distanta buna pe drumul nebuniei. Cei mai multi oameni nu vad, nu inteleg si nu le pasa prea mult de aceasta catastrofa planetara deoarece sunt in totalitate preocupati cu probleme psihologice grave. Criza mediului isi are radacinile in criza psihologica a individului modern. Acest lucru face cruciala cautarea unei eco-psihologii, trebuie sa intelegem mai bine ce lucru teribil se intampla cu mintea omului modern, de ce se intampla si ce poate fi facut.

Gandirea profunda

Solutia pentru criza globala in fata careia ne aflam depinde mult mai putin de raspandirea de noi informatii decat de re-intrarea in constiinta a vechilor idei. Ideile primitvie sau ideile tribale , inrudirea, solidaritatea, comunitatea, democratia directa, diversitatea, armonia cu natura, ofera cadrul sau fundatia pentru orice societate rationala sau sanatoasa. Azi, acestor idei primare, daruri ancestrale mostenite, li se blocheaza accesul in constiinta. Marea majoritate a oamenilor moderni nu pot vedea adevarurile simple pe care stramosii nostrii le cunosteau, si pe care trebuie sa le cunoastem din nou, despre viata in echilibru cu natura. Suntem pierduti in dezbateri politice interminabile, cercetari stiintifice si compromisuri deoarece cea ce era de la sine inteles pentru mintea primitiva a fost uitat.

Pentru sute de mii de ani, pana la inceperea civilizatiei cu aproximativ 10000 de ani in urma, oamenii au trait in societati tribale, care produceau o constiinta tribala, un set de idei sau principii calauzitoare pentru a trai cu succes impreuna pe o planeta diversa si sanatoasa.. Invazia civilizatiei peste triburi pe intreaga planeta a fost atat de rapida si ucigatoare incat putem vorbi de trauma civilizarii. Deoarece oamenii care traiau in triburi nu erau pregatiti si nu au putut sa reziste macelului civilizatiei, constiinta tribala a fost impinsa in subteran, devenind ceva interzis si periculos. Popoarele cucerite au fost oprite din a gandi si a actiona conform vechilor obiceiuri, sub amenintarea cu moartea. La originea civilizatiei se afla foarte multa frica.

Dezvoltarea individului este o repetare abreviata a dezvoltarii speciei. In copilarie o persoana moderna calatoreste o distanta enorma intre creatura pimitiva si cetateanul responsabil contemporan. Cand este confruntat cu puterea imensa a civilizatiei ai carei primi reprezentanti sunt parintii, profesorii, preotii (si mai tarziu politistii, judecatorii si sefii) copilul se afla, psihologic, in aceeasi situatie ca si stramosii sai tribali, anume conformarea la dictatele civilizatiei sau moartea. Neajutorarea copilariei face din amenintarea fizica sau pierderea afectiunii, care sunt folosite de parinti si de altii pentru a impune morala civilizata si educatia civilizata, o experienta traumatizanta. Micii persoane care se dezvolta, ii este inoculata frica de a-si exprima propria natura tribala. Este nevoie de foarte multa frica pentru a deveni un adult civilizat.

Cand copilul devine constient de ideile si impulsurile care se opun dictatelor civilizatiei, el/ea simte anxietate, care semnaleaza un pericol. Copilului nu ii este frica de idei si de impulsuri, ci de reactia stapanilor la acestea. Deoarece copilul nu poate sa scape de cei care ii controleaza viata el/ea fuge de gandurile/sentimentele periculoase. In alte cuvinte, copilul instituie o represiune asupra sinelui sau primitiv. Ideile tribale sunt acum izolate, taiate din constiinta si nu pot influenta cursul viitor al evenimentelor.

Apocalypto (2006)

Unde a gresit omul alb...

Erau niste vremuri in care mi-ar fi placut tare mult sa traiesc...

Spiritul samanic

O carte deosebita, linkul pentru lectura ei, aici:
spiritul samanic

Cree Indian Prophecy

Only when the last tree is cut down
Only when the last river is poisoned
Only when the last fish has been caught
Only then will you find that money cannot be eaten.

Intelepciune amerindiana

Nu ma intereseaza ce faci tu pentru a-ti castiga existenta.

Vreau sa stiu ce foc arde in tine si daca ai cutezanta sa visezi la realizarea a ceea ce porti in inima ta.

Nu ma intereseaza cati ani ai,

Vreau sa stiu daca iti asumi riscul sa pari nebun

in numele iubirii tale, viselor tale si aventurii care este viata ta.

Nu ma intereseaza care planeta este in careu cu luna ta,

Vreau sa stiu daca ai atins cerul propriei tale tristeti, daca te-ai deschis datorita tradarilor vietii,

sau daca te-ai asprit si daca te-ai inchis de teama unui necaz viitor.

Vreau sa stiu daca poti sa te asezi cu durerea, a mea, sau a ta, fara sa incerci sa o ascunzi, sa o micsorezi sau sa o opresti.

Vreau sa stiu daca poti sa simti fericirea, a mea, sau a ta, daca poti dansa cu fervoare si te poti lasa complet cuprins de extaz pana in varful degetelor de la maini si de la picioare, fara sa spui ca trebuie sa fim atenti si realisti ca sa nu cumva sa uitam care sunt limitele fiintelor umane.

Nu ma intereseaza daca ceea ce-mi spui este adevarat,

Vreau sa stiu daca esti gata sa-i deceptionezi pe ceilalti ca sa ramai sincer cu tine insuti si daca poti suporta sa fii acuzat de tradare, dar sa nu-ti tradezi propriul suflet.

Vreau sa stiu daca poti sa fii fidel si deci demn de incredere.

Vreau sa stiu daca poti vedea frumosul chiar daca nu-i tocmai dragut in fiecare zi si daca tu poti simti ca sursa vietii tale rezida in prezenta Sa.

Vreau sa stiu daca poti trai esecurile, ale mele, sau ale tale, si totusi sa continui sa stai drept pe marginea lacului si sa strigi catre argintata luna plina: “Da!”

Nu ma intereseaza unde locuiesti si cat castigi,

Vreau sa stiu daca te poti trezi dupa o noapte de tristete si de disperare, de indoiala sau durere si sa faci ceea ce trebuie facut pentru copii.

Nu ma intereseaza cine esti si cum ai ajuns pana aici,

Vreau sa stiu daca poti sa stai in mijlocul focului alaturi de mine si sa nu renunti.

Nu ma intereaza ce ai invatat sau unde ai invatat si cine te-a invatat ceea ce stii,

Vreau sa stiu ce te hraneste din interior cand totul se prabuseste in jurul tau.

Vreau sa stiu daca poti sa ramai singur cu tine insuti si daca esti fericit intradevar in propria ta companie in aceste momente de vid.