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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
Dan goes on
to describe how the colonization process of the European and British empires in
South Africa, Australia, India and the Americas was a process that broke down
the basic, inherent connection with the Earth that the settlers themselves had
before they became invaders and occupiers of new Lands. Not only were Lands
colonized, but minds too.
‘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
The question
is, as the descendants of those original invaders, how do we de-colonize
ourselves and restore our loss of connection with 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.
For Dan
Schreiber, the journey back is a daily one of simple actions stemming from a
deep reverence and commitment to being in genuine communion with the living
energy of the Earth.
‘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
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