earthcircle

In the Beginning was the Word for the word is a magical symbol. Two thousand years ago the Celtic shamen considered the power of the written word such that it could not be allowed to fall into the hands of the common people less it undermine the natural balance of things. I am casting a spell by setting these words in print for you. As you read these words you create a mental image, reflecting upon this mental image you create thought and that thought shapes reality. In the modern era the projected and televised image surpassed the written word and became the dominant producer of mental images for us to reflect upon and thus shape our world.

Western culture is being bred as homo digitalis yet the media uproar is over human cloning which focuses our conscious awareness upon the physical aspects of cloning to divert our attention away from the reality that were are mentally cloned on a mass scale. Although we are free to explore our unconsciousness and all its possibilities through the inner shaman the multi-nationals would prefer you watch TV thus maintaining a reality and pseudo individuality mimicked from the mass marketing of celebrity and there by assuring you will remain enchained as a self-replicating mentally cloned consumer

TV, movies, news, newspapers, magazines, books, CDs, DVDs; are these the tools and rituals of a 21st century techno-shamanism? Just where is the shaman in our present day culture? With its role in society taken over by the rational logic of the scientist-ego embodied in the highly specialized “expert” the shamanic principle dispersed into the common-unity. This is the realm of what the expert calls the collective unconscious and it is expressed in the ritual cultural dynamic between perfomer/priest and the audience/congregation, which has evolved from the fire circle through religion and the theater into TV and the mass media where it now permeates our culture. 

One of the oldest mental cloning programs is our concept of Time. Modern 24/7/365 time is out of synch with the evolving Universe and it is no coincidence that we find our world full of chaos. Time is a synchronistic function that allows for the harmonious interplay of elements and their co-ordination. The Gregorian Calendar and its mechanical counterpart the Clock are disynchronis with the natural cycles of time that govern the biosphere. A natural time calendar of 13 28-day moons with one day out of time used by many pre-historic cultures was converted by the Romans into the Julian. Calendar by taking the 13^th month and breaking it up; scattering the 28 days among 11 of the 12 remaining months making them each 30 or 31 days

This was done to separate the calendar from the cycles of Natural Time upon which the conquered agricultural societies were based and to thus confuse and befuddle the consciousness of such civilized human beings as ourselves and keep us from actualizing our inner shaman.  Think I’m nuts? Ok. What day of the week is May 8 2009? You don’t know, you have to stop and think and you realize you don’t know and you will most likely look it up if you bother to answer the question at all.

The inability to answer this question concerning time, this stutter in thought, this not knowing, this inability to place yourself in the spiral flow of time is a disordered state. This not-knowing creates an anxiety that effectively blocks our minds from establishing and maintaining a telepathic awareness with each other and the biosphere which is the true intelligence of the Earth. By unconsciously accepting an irrational disorder such as the Gregorian calendar we predispose ourselves to accept every irrational disorder in our everyday world as “normal.”  Our function as humans is not to dominate and control the biosphere but to be her eyes, her ear and her hands. To know her mind as one with our own and to meet and norish her needs as well as our own.

Our disynchronis time in the form of the Gregorian calendar which names this month August after a Roman conqueror, the passivity and hierarchy we learn in school, the violent and misogynous mass media images we as a culture seek to emulate and our persistent underlying anxiety are the root causes of why we find our social world as violent and miserable as it is. How could we build the fearful violent poverty stricken world we live in if we were in the synchronous flow of the unfolding universe in which Time=ART and instead of earning a living (time=$$$) we were creatively living?  If you have trouble envisioning these words spend a week in the woods. Feel the difference and then ask yourself what time it is.