Mother Earth's Wisdom Understood By Both Indigenous Peoples and Scientists As An Extension Of The GAIA Principle
POST: Mother Earth's Wisdom Understood By Both Indigenous Peoples and Scientists As An Extension Of The GAIA Principle
POST: Mother Earth's Wisdom Understood By Both Indigenous Peoples and Scientists As An Extension Of The GAIA Principle
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My Very Beloved Friends and Relatives,
Environmental destruction is increasing throughout our Beloved Mother Earth. Along with this increasing destruction, Indigenous Peoples and their way of life are rapidly disappearing. Until there is a dramatic change in our actions towards our Sacred Mother Earth, humanity’s ultimate survival will be increasingly challenged, with ever- deepening and ever-widening crises.
During the early years of North American’s “new” ecological consciousness (1967), my grandfather, Vine Deloria Sr. had a conversation with an old friend, while visiting the Standing Rock Sioux Reservation in South Dakota that he shared with me when I was a young man. He told me that his old friend asked him to explain to him in Dakota what the English word "ecology" was all about. Although my grandfather's old friend didn't speak a lot of English, he always liked to learn about new English words he was hearing.
“Well” my grandfather said, “you know, Tahansi, we have these educational institutions now where you can go to study books, and talk and learn about life. Some people attend these institutions for many, many years. After they have read enough books, written about what they have read and talked about what they have written about, they become doctors of life. These doctors then get jobs where they earn a lot of money, so they can talk and study more. They have machines that look at things that are very small and make them look big. There are other machines that look at things far away and make them look close. They even put different materials in containers and pour them back and forth so they can find out more about Mother Earth. Anyway, they have spent great amounts of money and studied Mother Earth for many, many years and they have recently made a new discovery. They found out that everything is interrelated. They found out that when you pollute the air which all living things breathe and pollute the water which all living things drink, you pollute all living things. What do you think about that?”
The old man smiled knowingly and shook his head. “I was wondering when they would get around to that! Just look at what we do to our Mother Earth. We cut her hair where it should not be cut up and rip up her skin where it should not be ripped up, and then we drill holes inside her and suck all of her blood out and put things inside of her and blow her bones up.” He then looked deeply into the eyes of my grandfather, shook his finger and said, “And what would happen if you did that to your mother? She would die! And this is exactly what is going to happen to all of us if we do not learn to respect and understand the spirit and teachings of our Mother.”
This Sacred Wisdom that has long been held by Indigenous Peoples throughout Mother Earth is increasing being echoed by Scientists and Environmentalists as reflected in the following article. True Spirituality and True Science are One!
With Warm and Loving Greetings,
Brother Phil
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