08-03-2010, 06:23 PM
(08-02-2010, 11:11 PM)Peregrinus Wrote: Separation of self from harmony with nature.
When people used the moon as their monthly 28 day cycle (which is the same length as the female menstrual cycle), this was separating the self from the cycles of the moon.
Today, when people are not in touch with these cycles, they are not in touch with the self, for the moon is part of the self, and holds great sway over us, as it does with the Mother. Ask almost anyone when the next full moon is. 500 years ago they would have been able to tell you, but now, the moon is just another part of the separated cosmos.
Note how aggressively the natives of North America have been exterminated. More than 150 million have been aggressively terminated, while today sterilization programs, under the guise of birth control, are still used on them. The reason was/is that the natives were/are in touch with nature, and this is something which removed power from the lie of separation.
This happened not only in North America, but in many countries where the invading power crushed the indigenous cultures.
I really think the rot started to set in when humans moved from hunter gatherers to farmers. The development of agriculture and becoming fixed in the one place began the notion of property and acquisition, and a loss in the knowledge of how to find the food that Nature provides.
I wonder how this harmony can be returned to the peoples of Earth. I can't see 6 billion people returning to a hunter gatherer lifestyle