reply to post by TechUnique
you forgot vaccines.
a Credo Mutwa quote comes to mind:
"We were told that there was a great smallpox epidemic
coming to the land and all the children must be vaccinated.
My grandfather used to say that the white man's vaccination
makes you blind and if you are to look after the cattle you
must not go to the trading store to get your vaccination.
"Inspectors used to come and check each child for signs
of vaccination. Our grandmother used to give us great pain
in order to save our spiritual eyes. Grains of maize would
be heated up and pushed against the skin of the child, and
so when the schools inspectors came he saw the blisters
and assumed the child had been vaccinated…and I noticed
that school children in mission schools who had been
vaccinated for smallpox or measles could not see
spiritual entities at all.
A flying saucer would fly through the
sky at great speed and be seen by many
men and women but the children who had
been vaccinated would see nothing and
I noticed this hundreds of times."
ZULU CREDO MUTWA
then there is that ancient decayed idol:THE LAW
"All government, in its essence, is a conspiracy against the superior man: its one permanent object is to oppress him and cripple him. If it be
aristocratic in organization, then it seeks to protect the man who is superior only in law against the man who is superior in fact; if it be
democratic, then it seeks to protect the man who is inferior in every way against both. One of its primary functions is to regiment men by force, to
make them as much alike as possible and as dependent upon one another as possible, to search out and combat originality among them. All it can see in
an original idea is potential change, and hence an invasion of its prerogatives. The most dangerous man to any government is the man who is able to
think things out for himself, without regard to the prevailing superstitions and taboos. Almost inevitably he comes to the conclusion that the
government he lives under is dishonest, insane and intolerable, and so, if he is romantic, he tries to change it. And even if he is not romantic
personally he is very apt to spread discontent among those who are." - H.L. Mencken
Nietzsche had quite a bit to say in a similar vein.
one of the fundamental tenets of shamanism is that compared to our ancient ancestors, we are a fallen race and degenerate breed indeed.
it should be obvious [after some considerable study] that for thousands of years TCOTBIP have been "breeding us for a desolation".
to a great degree the practice and goal of shamanism, is the recovery of our ancient greatness and powers.
tempered by the lessons hindsight provides.
S&F