An important message in the Hopi Prophecy is to avoid the two hearted people.
(This reminds me of the WHITE MAN SPEAK WITH FORKED TONGUE alert in old cowboy and Indian movies.)
Our civilization is in a state of koyanisqatsi - “life out of balance"
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Here is a quote from anthropologist and educator Peter Gold:
FEBRUARY 14, 2007
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Dividuals and Individuals
Deep dualism has fragmented contemporary America into a schizophrenic nation.
Whereas both camps hold to laudable ideals, such as love of family, keeping positive intentions, and striving to do good works, each lacks an
integrated collective soul and vision of global and personal wholeness.
Becoming the best versions of ourselves is a challenge, even under the most ideal conditions of life. But the fragmentation into lesser versions of
ourselves has been accelerated by civilization. We are mostly “dividuals,” divided beings, striving to regain our individual, undivided nature
Right now, we tend toward having "two-hearts," which is the way that Hopi Indians would describe it. For the Hopi, two-hearted people are unstable,
unreliable, potentially threatening to the wellbeing of themselves and community. Such minds (the Hopi say that mind is seated in the heart) are weak,
volatile and fly from one divisive thought to the next.
To the Hopi wisdom holder, when a person strays too far toward a behavioral extreme or conflictive point of view, danger will arise for that person
and others in contact with the two-hearted dividual. This extreme state of dualistic imbalance is called powaqatsi, the “way of witchcraft,” which
leads to koyanisqatsi, “life out of balance.”
From their vantage point of 500 years in observation of the dominating Euro-Americans, traditional Hopi will sometimes use such anti-spiritual terms
to describe the prevailing American way of life.
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