Indigenous or Green Politics: The Politics of Consciousness and the Consciousness of Politics
"Through Universal Altruism we develop a feeling of true responsibility toward others; the wish to help all actively over come our problems".
The Dalai Lama of Tibet
The original article on this page has been moved. It starts:
"This article was originally written as an introduction to Rainbowbody's Healthy and Green Politics page, but it grew into a flower of its own, and hence has been moved here. Here we will show that there is a direct correspondence between the institutionalized apparatus which propagates ignorance and suffering, and the pre-existing institutionalization of ignorance and suffering on the planet. We will show that there exists a direct correspondence between human behavior, activities, and the institutions that man creates on one hand, and on the other hand, human consciousness (while it is the latter which shape and/or permit either abuse, exploitation, oppression, injury, and continued suffering to occur on one hand if it "unhealthy, dysfunctional, and perverted/corrupted; or on the other hand it can support healing, liberation, creativity, integrity, and happiness if it is healthy, functional, integrated, and wholistic.
For many of us, this connection is obvious; i.e., that consciousness shapes man's behavior, institutions, and politics on one hand; while also that man's environment, culture, institutions, society, and experiences shape his/her consciousness as a two way street; but a widespread pre-existing problem has been that consciousness expansion, spirituality, and the so called human potential movement has heretofore been poorly linked to social and political activities. Such a separation on a daily basis has artificially reinforced a spiritual rift (dematerialization) which continues to create suffering.
This connection between consciousness and politics -- or rather between political action and spiritual context -- between our persona and our environment should be obvious to any thinking sentient being; but modern day urban institutionalized propaganda machines and rigid institutionalized types will refuse to link the two; rather it obviates them. The "Good" News is that this two way street between consciousness and our experiences allow and enable sentient beings who are awake to change the future positively through skillful loving wise action; while the bad news is that there exists self interested institutionalized forces afoot on the planet who do not wish humans to wake up because such is judged as a threat to their perceived "advantage" (their perverse identification with the status quo in terms of their comparative advantage. fear, security, greed, and lack of self worth). Such sleepy people who see only a faint shadow or hollow phantom of what they are missing thus become the neurotic pursuer of ersatz consumables -- they become an accomplice in perpetuating their own state of need, anguish, and insatiable greed. With this compensatory neurotic apparatus reinforced, it then becomes difficult for the consumer to let go of their ersatz opiate/pabulum and realize their dormant higher potential -- the aforementioned healthy wholistic natural state of integrity which was lost sight of before the psychological conditioning, negative programming, perversion/corruption of one's psyche/consciousness became dominant. Worse people so addicted and dependent upon such false identification will cling to and defend it; i.e., they will feel threatened by paradigms which expose or reveal its contradiction. Thus they will tend to resist their own liberation from their addiction. Even worse they will tend to hide their addiction through glorifying it in manufactured pride especially through psychopathological methods of demonizing their perceived detractors which is really the externalization of their own inner conflict and demons.
Thus the remedial mechanism for the political milieu will be shown to be a spiritual/psychological mechanism of waking up, of regaining our inherent integrity, wholeness, spiritual health, and consciousness which was perverted through negative programming. This will be shown as being the same process as throwing off the impure thoughts, false beliefs, propaganda, and illusions of fragment identifications because as the sky clears the clouds go away.
Peaceful minds, honor peace -- they make peace. Inner peace comes from a deep realization of who we truly are -- where the inner demons of the corruptive mind have become conquered. Inner peace is a result of realizing who we are in completion -- as eternal unrequited love. Here there is no room for hatred or fear, only love, joy, fulfillment, compassion, comfort, and light. People who know fulfillment and joy are neither insatiable nor insecure. Successful people no longer incessantly strive, but rather they engender peace and fullness. Loving people make love, rather than hate, murder, or war. One who has found love, values and honors love, peace, and abundance attempts to enhance it. Such a person is motivated by such stirrings deeply from their core. As such peace is not passivity, but active -- it is the activity of love. Such people would not honor systems that create scarcity, competition, stealing from others, comparative advantage, war, or strife. Similarly, people who love and honor freedom do not enslave, oppress, nor support totalitarian police states, rather they become engaged in wise activities which liberate, remove suffering, heal, and celebrate a life wedded in Great Spirit.
Yes, it is too easy to talk "about" the negative (hate, greed, fear, and selfishness) in the world and condemn it; or on the other hand glorify the perfection of love as a spiritual process on the other; but the real challenge is in bringing the love and joy through where it is absent -- grounding and manifesting spirit in everyday life -- embodying love and spirit here upon the earth as in 'thy kingdom come -- thy will be done, here on earth as in heaven'.
Processes based on love and peace do not encourage nor reward suffering, comparative advantage, greed, jealousy, adversity, hatred, fear, competition, strife, and more confusion. It doesn't take a genius to figure this out, but it does require a healthy mind and a good heart. It requires some degree of awareness and sanity as well. It is taken as a given (a priori) that people collectively moved by transpersonal universal love are capable of moving mountains -- that when we act motivated by the universal non-dual Source (Great Integrity) acting in alignment and harmony with the natural joy of spirit, healing, abundance, wealth, peace, then true happiness manifests. This basic assumption of a natural altruistic ambition forms a most powerful momentum of its own. It opposes the perverse idea that man must be motivated by the whip, by scarcity, conflict, competition, fear, intimidation, greed, threat, or negative ambition."
To read this detailed article click on the following link: Lead Article: Healthy and Vital Politics:The Power of Love Against Fear, Hatred, and Greed -- Healing Against Harm
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"Although Columbus is long dead, the legacy of injustice that he began continues. Whether it be relocation of the Dine at Big Mountain, the persecution of Indigenous Peoples throughout Latin America, the fishing struggles in Canada, or the dumping of toxic waste on reservations, the dehumanization of Indigenous Peoples remains pervasive throughout the Americas. As we see in the spirits of the grandmothers of Big Mountain, the Mi'Kmaqs of Burnt Church, or the Zapatistas of Chiapas, Indigenous resistance also remains alive. It is in this spirit of resistance that I am inspired to continue fighting for my own freedom after 25 years of unjust imprisonment...
Threatening violence, or far worse, perpetrating violence, is not only heinous and loathsome, but will compromise our honest and righteous efforts to seek justice in my case as well as justice for all Native Peoples. In fact, such tactics so obviously contradict what I stand for and what all of my supporters stand for, that I must question the true intent of whoever is doing this...
As Native Peoples, our traditional values teach us that all life is sacred and should be protected. Any act of violence perpetrated upon innocent people violates our most sacred beliefs. We have already witnessed the horrifying and devastating outcome of the Oklahoma City Bombing in which so many died needlessly, including children. I fully denounce any scheme that has the potential to cause this type, or any type of death and despair."
Leonard Peltier
"Beyond Vietnam: A Time to Break Silence" a speech by Dr. Martin Luther King on April 4, 1967
Mahatma Gandhi on "Real Progress": An article from Resurgence Magazine by Kamla Chowdhry
Mikhail Gorbachev: NATURE IS MY GOD: An interview by Fred Matser, from Resurgence Magazine
Malcolm X on the "Oneness of Man: "Letter from Makka"
" ... as racism leads America up the suicide path, I do believe, from the experiences that I have had with them, that the whites of the younger generation, in the colleges and universities, will see the handwriting on the walls and many of them will turn to the spiritual path of truth - the only way left to America to ward off the disaster that racism inevitably must lead to."
Dalai Lama Addressing the Root Causes of Terrorism
"Unfortunately, the present measures lack a long-term and comprehensive approach to deal with the root causes of terrorism. What is required is a well-thought-out, long-term strategy to promote globally a political culture of non-violence and dialogue. The international community must assume a responsibility to give strong and effective support to non-violent movements committed to peaceful changes. Otherwise, it will be seen as hypocrisy to condemn and combat those who have risen in anger and despair but to continue to ignore those who have consistently espoused restraint and dialogue as a constructive alternative to violence."
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Dharma and Politics: An Article by Jack Kornfield (2004)
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America is engaged in a cultural war, make no mistake about it. It is on one hand the culture of greed, power, lies, and fear against the culture of peace, loving kindness, honesty, and naked authenticity.
On November 19, 2003 the President of greatest prison gulag society and military power on earth said:
Bush asserted; "that there are times, as with Saddam Hussein in Iraq, when the violent restraint of violent men is justified. In some cases, the measured use of force is all that protects us from a chaotic world ruled by force," he said.
( Bush: Europe Should Help Rebuild Iraq by TOM RAUM, Associated Press Writer)
ARTICLES
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Current Events: Newer articles of a transient nature written in order to disclose the indigenous perspective.
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Turkey Day Following 911 -- The Second Assault on America -- the Assault on Freedom from Within
One World:Toward the Reconciliation of Tibet and China
Institutionalized Paranoia, Guilt, Denial, Dysfunction, and Co-dependence upon External Authority: How this all works together with with the status quo media to manipulate, exploit, oppress, enslave, deceive, and destroy (utilizing the Afghan War as example)
Accesssing Trauma as Triggers (Samskaras): Understanding Trauma in Daily Life: The Relationship between Trauma in Body Psychotherapy and the Formation of Samskaras (triggers) in Yoga Philosophy. The latent power within remains largely uintapped for creativity and planetary healing. the body politic being composed of all our bodies.
Doubletalk, Hypocrisy, Trauma, and Denial in American Politics An analysis of the glue that holds the American psyche in ignorance: in denial of reality, in delusion and captive to the lie.
Denial, Dysfunction, Character Armoring, Trauma, and Delusion in Modern America: An in-depth articulation of the symptomatic mechanisms of post traumatic stress, guilt, and denial and how that in turn becomes manure for mass hysteria, demagoguery, authoritarianism, and totalitarianism utilizing viewpoint of trauma healing from a body based (body psychotherapy) perspective.
Institutionalized Racism, Guilt, and Hatred as an Escape from "Self"
The Voice of Silence and the Crime of Passivity, Submission, and Omission by Leonard Peltier
Hemp, Politics, and Oppression
Authoritarianism, Dogma, Karma, and Coming Home to Indigenous Space
Article by David Spangler on Progress, Utopia, and Apocalypse
A Lecture by John Mohawk on How the Conquest of Indigenous Peoples Parallels the Conquest of Nature
Spiritualism is the Highest Form of Political Consciouness (Geneva Switzerland, 1977)
Diverse, Green, Beautiful Cities: An interview with Carl Anthony, founder of Urban Habitat, in Yes Magazine: Hopeful News for a Just, Compassionate and Sustainable Future Issue #10 (see Back Issues Index)
China's Living Water Garden, by Anne H. Mavor: A polluted river in China becomes the site of a water park that provides a safe place for children’s play, a celebration of water’s beauty, and a cleansing of the water itself from Yes Magazine Issue #12
Seeds of Change, by Catherine Snead: A Participation Garden Project for American Prisons that Works
American Gulag, by Jerome Miller: Founder of National Center on Institutions and Alternatives and author of Over the Wall (Ohio State University Press, 1998) and Search & Destroy: African Americans in the Criminal Justice System (Cambridge University Press, 1997).
Carol Estes: On the Prison Industrial Complex: Making money off of Crime. Estes makes it clear that Punishment is not Justice! The failure of America's current "war on crime" band aid approach is symptomatic utilizing incarceration and punishment is compared with a more proactive and less harmful approach which is justice oriented and causal.
Why Ecology Needs Psychology and Why Psychology Needs Ecology by Theodore Roszak (added March 2002)
(New Articles are Forthcoming)
Iroquois Federation Constitution (beginning excerpt)
THE GREAT BINDING LAW, GAYANASHAGOWA
"I am Dekanawidah and with the Five Nations' Confederate Lords I plant the Tree of Great Peace. I plant it in your territory, Adodarhoh, and the Onondaga Nation, in the territory of you who are Firekeepers.
I name the tree the Tree of the Great Long Leaves. Under the shade of this Tree of the Great Peace we spread the soft white feathery down of the globe thistle as seats for you, Adodarhoh, and your cousin Lords.
We place you upon those seats, spread soft with the feathery down of the globe thistle,
there beneath the shade of the spreading branches of the Tree of Peace. There shall you sit and watch the Council
Fire of the Confederacy of the Five Nations, and all the affairs of the Five Nations shall be transacted at this
place before you, Adodarhoh, and your cousin Lords, by the Confederate Lords of the Five Nations.
Roots have spread out from the Tree of the Great Peace, one to the north, one to the east, one to the south and
one to the west. The name of these roots is The Great White Roots and their nature is Peace and Strength.
If any man or any nation outside the Five Nations shall obey the laws of the Great Peace and make known their disposition to the Lords of the Confederacy, they may trace the Roots to the Tree and if their minds are clean and they are obedient and promise to obey the wishes of the Confederate Council, they shall be welcomed to take shelter beneath the Tree of the Long Leaves.
We place at the top of the Tree of the Long Leaves an Eagle who is able to see afar. If he sees in the distance any evil approaching or any danger threatening he will at once warn the people of the Confederacy."
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