Innate as Indigenous Environmental Sustainability

From the conception of a child, to the emergence of the universe. Hidden in plain view is the energy life force principle. This principle is called by many names, yet its function and relationship remains constant. Hidden in plain view, the spark of life permeates the universe. This life force called my mystics as the innate, to scientists such as Einstein puts it, in terms of, energy at the speed of light squared. Eastern philosophy calls it the tao, in the west we call it the spirit. There is no distinction between this material and the psycho/ spiritual reality. Matter is energy and energy is vibration. This vibration is the sound of life. The aum in one world view or the logos in another. This is the divine chant of the universe. This song manifested is the word become flesh. It has held the all things by its word, and from it all things have come. It has sustained and becomes all things it loves. This is true indigenous environmental sustainability. The life that holds all things together in deep intimate participation and integration.

The mystics and poets, desert fathers and shamans seem to have caught glimpses of these things long before our contemporary sciences. Chaos theory, fractal geometry, quantum mechanics are just todays words for saying something of long ago. Before God spoke only in king James English, yoga mats, and the latest psychedelic trends, firsts peoples integrated maps of meaning to live sustainability within their environment. No written language, sacred poses, or external helps needed. Just generations of ancestral knowledge passed down and intimate relationship with the biosphere. Interdependence on the whole, one folding into another. Just as the universe expands within itself, so the human consciousness in the like.

Prior to the age of warrior/ king cultures. Divine feminine cultures represented a time and space of human collaboration and sharing. A development state of human collective consciousness in matters of the elements, astrology, healing arts, and most of all agriculture. During this time technology was also used, but as relics of worship not war. Divine feminine cultures out of the animistic epoch see the divine spark of life as something to commune with rather than consume or conquer. Seasons and cycles guided and nurtured humanity. She taught them when to plant and harvest. Spoke to humanity through the full spectrum of their senses. From the stars, winds, flora and fauna, she sings to humanity songs of unconditional connection. Do you have the eyes to see and ears to hear?

In todays political climate, warrior/ king culture has dominated the spheres of society and the natural environment. Just like Rome, warrior/ king culture, our western world today dominates the known world of the time and made it its own. As it conquers and consumes surrounding cultures, it became a monoculture of its own. An example of this can be seen during the time of Constantine. Prior, Christians were being persecuted for their followings of Jesus. After Constantine made Christianity the “official religion” of Rome, the teachings of Jesus became weaponed and used as justification to conquer foreign lands and the spoil in the name of Christ.

This is the shadow of the warrior/ king type cultures. If left unchecked, thus emerges the tyrant. Environmental capitalism and monopolies continue to steal, kill, and destroy land and people groups. Deforestation, coral bleaching, water diversions, poor natural resource management, and soil depletion due to chemical and pesticides all continue the structural violence we live in today. ...

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On the innate by D.D. Palmer: https://drcaram.com/chiropractic-history/