Hopi petroglyph*
It's been a long dark night for humanity's collective soul, lasting about 14,000 years. Our scurrilous history is laced with conflict, violent and bloody, throughout most of the centuries, brother against brother. Violent clashes of religions stirred the ire of western Europe throughout the early, middle and late "dark ages." Religions were all male dominated, structured much like the monarchies which also rivaled for land and power. The predominant structure of everything was power based, in a pyramid fashion with power being disseminated down from one dictatorial head, steamrolling through the centuries exploiting women, children, the poor, the weak, and the animals, the natural world, up to today.
However, there was a time before that time when things weren't so harsh and competitive just to stay alive, a gentler time when there was a stronger emphasis on peace, sharing and even the arts.
Modern archaeology has uncovered in many ancient archaeological ruins the preexistence of Goddess-based cultures predeluvian prominent. The findings in the ashes of their fire pits indicate there were no weapons of war. The conclusion by archaeologists is that those Goddess-based cultures were highly intuitive and primarily peaceful, caring for the sick, poor and elderly and educating the children collectively by a sharing of power among the people. It was a horizontal power paradigm, rather than a vertical, power down from top, type.
But, when barbaric tribes, with their male gods and feisty male leaders, swept down through the areas near Greece, where these Goddess-based religions existed, those peaceful, docile, agrarian cultures were no match to the fierce, land-hungry, power hungry, boys from the north. The peaceful cultures were taken over. There is clear evidence in Greece of a pre-existing culture that was most likely feminine-based with its high emphasis on arts and music.
Historicans suggest that our current world history basically begins where the male dominated cultures, with their male god religions, take over. We have only hints in our ancient writings that these Goddess-based religions /cultures ever existed, but it seems they did exist for almost 40 - 60,000 years. There is also strong evidence, emerging lately, that there were world-wide cultures that existed on the Earth that grew in power, and then destroyed their own civilizations in global warfare. There may have been five previous world-wide highly developed world civilizations, and according to the Hopi we are in the fifth one. This idea is also held by many brilliant scientists and other archaeologists.
The Goddess-based cultures existed for minimally 30,000 years prior to the invasion from the boys from the north, with their weapons and dominating power tactics. They have now, consequently, existed at the maximum of 15 - 16,000 years, and most of those years have been pretty violent.
Christianity, which on the surface may seem like another male dominated religion, in fact is not. Jesus' message balances outward directed social action with inward directed spiritual encounter with the divine, the ying and yang, the male and female aspects of spiritual and civilizational maturity. As a contemplative and action-oriented faith, it balances male and female spirituality, profoundly honoring both with equal emphasis. In the center of the darkest period in our current civilization's existence, in the depths of the Kali Yuga, he brought the way to peace which was an emphasis back to the integrity and dignity of the individual, freeing the individual to encounter God personally and grow spiritually and also to allow that growth to be reflected in actions that would benefit the community. Early Gnostics and Orthodox churches acknowledge that Jesus left the church to Mary Magdalene as discussed in a previous blog. While Christianity is not Goddess-based, it honors the spiritual and creative dimension of human life, which is typically defined as "feminine," while it is also present in men. At that time, his words and teachings were urgent, leading some of his followers to think the "end" was near. They certainly remain equally as urgent today.
Today we are at a tipping point, according to Yoga's Yuga calendar, we have ended the Kali Yuga, which is the darkest age and are moving into a less dark age. The yogis feel while the political and economic climate on the Earth is brighter than that at the turn of the Kali yuga around 1700, there is still great concern that we may cause our planet, the people, the animal and natural life so much harm from our abuse of all of life, in almost every aspect of life, that we will reach a point of no return. No one knows if we have passed that point of no return.
All the world's religions as well as extinct ancient religions (i.e. Mayan and Egyptian) all point to a particularly dangerous time for us and we are approaching that time, if we're not already in it. What does it mean and what do we have to do, in order to avert our total demise? If you listen to NASA, NOAH, world economists and scientists, there is grave concern about the direction in which we're headed. We must turn this spaceship around. We must alter our course.
I've included in this blog an important and awakening U-tube piece about the Hopi Kachina prophecy, which is an ancient warning that we must heed today.
We must open our hearts and increase our caring for the sick, poor, hungry, marginalized anywhere in our world. Truly love is the answer to all our world's problems, but it's an authentic, mature, open, risk-taking openness of our huge global heart.
In the beginning, as recorded in Genesis, is the story of the bloodshed between two brothers - Cain and Abel. The bottom line could be the theme song for the human race. We are our brothers' keepers! And, we are the keepers of all of life and we cannot look away. We have to share our good providence with our brothers and sisters everywhere. There are rich people in the United States and many of the Arab countries who have more money than the U.S. treasury. What if we all shared? Love IS the answer and sharing is Love. The whole world's future depends on the opening of our collective heart, and sharing our treasure, wisdom, compassion and love.
In the Hopi Kachina prophesy is a warning. While it is cast in stone that an "end time" will come, it is only a warning that we must wake up. And, women everywhere need to become free. We all have to take off our veils of ignorance and victimhood and take our rightful place in our world as equals. We are all equal, born with the same rights and loved equally by our creator. Education and self empowerment are needed for all of us, so we can become a fully empowered and fully aware people, everywhere.
*http://www.roamingthemind.com/awakening-our-indigenous-mind-hopi
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