Decolonising Humanity by Reconnecting with the Earth
Colonization has not only
disconnected us from nature,
it has disconnected us from our True Selves
by Chip Richards
During a recent speaking tour in his homeland of South Africa, the Creative Director of Starseed Gardens, Dan Schreiber shared insight into the theme of “decolonization” as a pathway to bring contemporary culture back into direct connection and experience of our own true nature.
‘There was a story told by the Gnostics of how Aeon Sophia, the Goddess who created the earth, loved this particular creative project so much that she became the Earth. So, to the cultures pre-Christianity and pre-monotheism, the Earth was a living, sacred being. Everything was sacred. The trees, the rocks, the oceans. And the people lived in accordance with that. There was an invisible, spiritual God and a physical Goddess, which was the Earth.
‘The birth of monotheism marked the death of Sophia in a sense because once humanity was disconnected from the Earth as a spiritual living being, then they could lay waste to the oceans and the rivers and cut down the forests.’
Seeing the Earth as a
living, sacred being
‘When Europeans arrived in these lands, they had built within them a superiority complex. “We have guns, we have technology therefore we must be more civilized.” They chose a whole bunch of beliefs to support that premise. The Darwinian idea of evolution meant that they could convince their soldiers that we came from primordial ooze, through amphibians to reptiles and mammals, then to monkeys that awoken, then to black people and finally to white people. The belief of this succession meant that white people – the white male – could now have a moral and spiritual imperative. “We are the most advanced evolutionary beings on the planet so of course we can rule over everyone else.” Which, of course, is absolute rubbish.
‘Without that colonization of the mind of the soldiers themselves, these people wouldn’t have been able to walk through the jungles of South America and say, “Yes we are the superior race, give us your gold, before we rape and pillage.” Which they did.’
Dan believes that in many ways we are “living through the karma” of this colonization and disconnection process, and sites the plant kingdom as a powerful example of this.
‘Take a plant like sugar. Sugar was one of the main colonizing tools. There was a huge demand for sugar in Europe. They went and they took the sugar to the tropics and they said, “You grow this. And they paid the Javanese people to have children to work in the sugar plantations. In this way, they could take over the land without actually fighting, by creating an economic imperative which ultimately lead the tribal leaders to enslave their own people in order to serve this imperative. But the karma of sugar is returning and we now have to digest that slavery in the form of alcoholism and diabetes as it sweeps the western world. Tobacco is another example, which was one of the most sacred plants on the planet. Now the karma of tobacco, misused for economic gain and control is playing out across the planet. How many people are killed each year?’
Restoring our connection
with the Earth‘(This) process has been carried out by our ancestors on the land throughout the ages in the form of rites of passage, vision quests, fasts, sweat lodges. To the First Nation people of America, if one of their own was losing touch with their sense of connection they would stick out like a sore thumb and they would be brought back into the fold and taken through a process of re-connection.
‘Today there is so much disconnection in our western world, it is a pandemic. We often can’t even see it because we are not living in a community that is connected for us to be guided back to. We all share this cognitive dissonance, this dis-connectivity. So much so that in many cases, the connected ones seem insane!’
In Dan’s view, the modern reconnection process started en-masse in the 60s, supported by the psychedelic revolution that served as a literal re-awakening of a part of the brain. There was a left and right hemisphere reconnection. East and West rediscovered each other.
‘Now, as I travel around the world I am struck by how many people are interested in the Gnostic practice of waking up and connecting to the Divine directly outside of religious practice, outside of the church. Outside of the hierarchy of people saying, “Well if you do this and you follow me, you get to the Pearly Gates.” This idea of a direct connection with Source, and the reawakening and re-sacralizing of the Earth becomes so important. The rebirth of Sophia is in full swing and has been prophesized for this time and each one of us plays out this awakening in our bodies.’
For the descendants of settlers and occupiers of stolen land, this is a powerful time to wake up to what the indigenous people of those lands have always known, that the destructive processes of colonization ultimately serve only to separate us from each other and the very Source of life… and it must stop. It is up to each of us to claim personal responsibility for decolonizing ourselves, and to do this we must be willing to go on a personal journey of reconnection and awakening, to restore our inherent sense of wholeness and bring ourselves back into connection with the Earth.
Dan Schreiber at Starseed Gardens –
Byron Bay, Australia‘Stand barefoot on the ground. Look at the sun. Bathe yourself in the sun. Go for clean water. If you can’t drink the water around here, there is a problem. If you can’t grow crops without Round Up, there’s a problem. Once we’ve re-awoken, how we live, how we grow our food becomes a natural expression of that awakening to who we really are.’
What is one simple thing you could do today (and every day) to consciously, genuinely experience your direct connection with the Earth?
Original interview by Nyck Jeanes and Leigh Chamberlain on the Seriously Fact Up Breakfast show – Bayfm.org
From Uplift @ http://upliftconnect.com/decolonizing-humanity/
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ReplyDeleteThank-you for bringing out info regarding the Gnostic story of Sophia, ancient texts (Apocryphon of John) discovered in Nag Hammadi,Egypt in 1945, and so brilliantly portrayed by John Lamb Lash, in his ground-breaking book, "Not in His Image".
ReplyDeleteI must make a point however, that this article appears to be jumping on the wagon of blaming the white male of Europe in its explanation of travesty upon our Earth.
It is important to note, that before Europa was infested and brutalized by the Romans, cultures there were more pagan oriented and also had a more Earth-connected spiritual belief system. Women had an equal footing and were valued within the community. This information is more detailed in "Not In His Image". It was not until the Yahweh religion with its victim-abuser theology aggressively took over Europe that desires for empire became manifest. The Europeans were aggressively conquered by Yahweh religion,(thou shalt have dominion over the Earth) Brutalized and conquered Europeans went on to the Americas and brutalized and conquered that continent. (and who funded and comprised the Columbus expedition?- who owned and financed the African slave industry?) I refuse to jump on the bandwagon of blaming "white Europeans" for the troubles of this world. We need to look at who funded those white European wars. The Gnostics spoke out strongly against the Yahweh god and called him the "Demiurge"The Gnostics were eventually murdered and wiped out by the followers of Yahweh, and the new religion of Christianity. I think the figure of Jesus, either real or as a convenient amalgam of Gnostic knowledge was used to create a new religion,thus .recreating a "Holy" Roman Empire part 2. It is quite ironic that the wisdom of the Gnostics are inexorably linked by the figure of Christ. Christ was discussed in the Aprocryphon of John-as the Aeon who came down from the Pleroma to help Sophia, after she realized she had fallen from Pleroma, due to her mistaken obsession with the experiment and distressed at her captivity by archons, in order to stabilize her being. So there we have the joining of the male and female energies. It took many centuries to subdue and subjugate the European populace with the ruthless Yahweh psychopathic god. Yahweh was a Hebrew tribal war god, from a brutal Arabian culture.
So let's not continue this bashing of white Europeans, especially white male Europeans. The average white male had or has nothing to do with attempting to subjugate others. It is the cabal infiltrates (archons) the money changers, that manipulate the populace for war. At one time, Europa was also an indigenous people.
Religion is often used to justify acts of brutality, and the price system (MONEY MYTH) is the incentive used as the source of most every violent act, hence, the root problem of most every conflict under the SUN that sustains us is or unwitting acceptance of a mythical price system that values STUFF over ALL people. You are quite correct, my friend!
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