While I fully recognize and acknowledge that I am a spiritual being, I know that my vessel is a gift from Creator, drawn from the bosom of Mother Earth so that I can experience life. Finding a balance relationship between the physical and spiritual is, in my view, the reason why we are here.
The problem is that we have been hoodwinked by evil men who wear cloaks of the religious order and hind behind persona's of the state order. They create their own culture through the establishment of colonial customs and traditions while outlawing all others. They use word magic to make all other cultures subservient to their own and pass judgement over them. If some get in the way, then they are dehumanized and called pagan, savage or even heathen.
Their persona is their only power and if we want to remedy that situation, all we need to do is see past the masks and peer into the truth of who and what they are. Their only authority comes from drawing us away from our own cultures, customs and traditions.
I acknowledge and recognize that my vessels ancestors came from the Quercy region in France in 1647. I surmise that they were fleeing war and were scared as they were convinced to change their family name on the boat ride to Turtle Island. My ancestors before them had been colonized for many generations, which infested our ancestral culture.
My vessel is the 11th generation here on Turtle Island and I work hard to acknowledge the ancestors of this land over thousands of generations. Despite our culture being lost for a thousand years, I know that I can draw upon spirit to bring it back. After all, culture is our customs, art and traditions that we use to help us find a balance between the physical and the spiritual. Culture gives us the framework to help us maintain that balance so that we an live centered lives.
The challenge is to maintain that balance in a world where colonial culture attacks, diminishes or even attempts to kill the culture of others. Colonial culture requires assimilation and for those who resist the process will find life challenging as the colonial culture has no spirit. Colonial culture is only focused on the physical and is out of balance with Creator and Mother Earth. That culture will fail catastrophically when Natural and Spiritual Law bring everything back into balance.
In a world at war, our only salvation is to find peace within despite what everyone else is doing. As such, I work on my own culture, a culture of one.
I reject the colonial culture and instead I work hard to re-make our ancestral customs and ceremonies to help me maintain that balance between the physical and spiritual. I also recognize that the world is different today than it was a few thousand years ago. So I draw upon spirit to help me make customs and ceremonies to help me deal with today.
I cannot wait for others and I refuse to depend on them to make these ceremonies for me. I am responsible for my own life path and as such, it is up to me.
My vessel was born on this land and as such, it is indigenous to this land. It is the land and cannot be removed from the land. When it dies, it will return to the land and I will move on. Until that point, I will focus on maintaining a balanced, healthy and centered relationship between all aspects of this experience. My brothers and sisters have a heavy influence on me as their culture is rooted in this land too.
I'm not afraid of death as I know that the true essence of who I AM cannot die. Saying good bye to my vessel will be a challenge, but we all must face that reality. Nobody is getting out of here alive. But I ask that people not misconstrue this as a lack of will to live. If anything, I've lived more than most people as I rejected the status quo and lived life on my terms. Being comfortable for death helps me live life and take chances that most others would not even contemplate.
That is what we all should do. Living life on our own terms is the culmination of our efforts to decolonize from the status quo and all their institutions, laws, customs, ceremonies and traditions. It takes courage to establish ones own and that is what true decolonization looks like.
We may never rebuild what we once had, but that is okay. This experience is teaching us as we grow into a new level of consciousness. We need protocols to help us maintain that level of consciousness and we do that through evolving our view of the world, ourselves and all our relationships. Our new culture will reflect these insights and help us integrate them into our lives, to prepare us for the next step that awaits us all.
But if we remain stuck in the colonial culture, we will perish. I urge and encourage us all to find our own culture through this transition. Don't let anybody convince us otherwise as they are attempting to hold us all back from an amazing period of physical, emotional, mental and spiritual growth.
Be a culture of one! If you find others that share your culture, then you are truly blessed and supported!
