Nature dictates…and traditional indigenous people
are Nature’s foremost amanuensis
Albert
Einstein was clever enough to understand a fundamental truth, whether he
realised it or not, that humanity’s traditional indigenous peoples are far more
evolved than those of the Western Industrial mindset. He expressed this in his
quote: “The Scientist’s religious feelings take the
form of a rapturous amazement at the harmony of natural law, which reveals an
intelligence of such superiority that, in comparison with it, the highest
intelligence of human beings is an utterly insignificant reflection,” i.e. our indigenous mind,
evolved over millennia being intimately and finely attuned to appreciate natural
phenomena, has developed an acute and holistic understanding of Nature’s Laws
and the knowledge of how to balance and maintain her ecosystems in harmony, and
this is a much closer reflection of God’s higher intelligence. And who are the world’s foremost adherents and
practitioners of the rule of natural law, with the longest continuous knowledge
streams? Aborigines of course, the masters of eternal
re-creation through ritual.
Aboriginal cultures are awesome in their capacity to retain and transfer
with integrity vast amounts of physical and metaphysical knowledge and wisdom
derived from Nature, understood in the Western world as ‘gnosis – they are
Nature’s elite amanuenses.
I believe we are rapidly approaching singularity
between indigenous cultures and the Western Industrial culture, creating a cohesive
unified field of human consciousness. But firstly Western Industrial peoples desperately
need to humble themselves and accept that the world’s traditional indigenous
societies are light years ahead of them in sensitivity to planetary energies
and dynamic forces, even to the point of having control over them, and are able
to translate these into sensible responses.
It is important to
realise how we came to be in this ‘us & them’ dichotomy of indigenous
verses non-indigenous cultures that has divided humanity for thousands of
years. The Western world has been, to quote a ‘60’s rock song, ‘murdered by the
hand of the inevitable’ due to having severed its connection to the living
planet – it could be argued that our brains have devolved and we are all mentally
ill, suffering extreme nature deficit syndrome. We were all indigenous once, since
hominids out of Africa evolved into Homo sapiens, perhaps initially or
concurrently in Australia who evolved the first pan-continental civilisation, many
millennia before any other large-scale co-operative groupings. We all had
virtually identical relationships with nature, but humanity split at some stage
just a few thousand years ago. People’s brains in the Western world ‘mutated’,
changed in some way, and began to develop along different tracks from the
holistic relationship with the planet into compartmentalizing knowledge, and in
the case of Ancient Rome, becoming sadistic and brutal towards nature and each
other. And as these silos of ever-advancing research and development
evolved, each one had more freedom and space to take their particular
discipline further than ever before; this as we know resulted in mankind being
able to travel in space, but indigenous knowledges are in no way inferior because
they did not diverge in this direction – they evolved as well only in a
holistic way, continually developing varied and distinctive responses to the
wide range of environments and social structures in which they lived.
I once read that the part
of the brain that stores information is much more developed in Aborigines than
in Europeans, due presumably to the massive amounts of information they needed
to retain. Mowaljarlai termed this mental gymnastic ability ‘pattern thinking’ where
every thought is cross referenced in a nanosecond in the highly-sophisticated
3D mind grid utilising the entire corpus of cultural knowledge. It is the
definition of intuition, instinctively knowing what to expect based on a
profound understanding and detailed knowledge of the past and present world
around you. Perhaps this mental
capability has atrophied in Europeans as the Western World placed most of that
knowledge in books and people had no need to retain it all in their minds.
Having freed up massive amounts of time and energy having to learn and retain
an entire culture, compartmentalised knowledge could surge ahead.
The downside of the
Western culture is that very few individuals are able to understand the bigger
picture – there are few real polymaths in the Western world whereas every
culturally-strong indigenous person can be so described. For example, Einstein
was a mathematical genius but demonstrably stupid in many ways – all of his
mental capacity was devoted to one very narrow segment of human endeavour,
which is how science has progressed. Senior lawmen and women on the other
hand share a comprehension of their world in its entirety, including the
parallel dimension of the metaphysical world which is only barely understood in
Western culture. There is indisputable evidence of telepathy for example, and
the ability to influence the forces of nature. And because the Western world has been cut-off
from the whole, from their connection with the living planet and its ecological
systems, they have been able to destroy it without thought, without
understanding the consequences & without caring.
It can be argued
therefore that indigenous cultures are superior to the dominating Western one,
in that they have sustained the Earth’s ecologies for tens of millennia,
whereas the alternate path is rapidly leading to social and ecological
global collapse. Looking at it this way, it’s easier to understand how the tragic
history of colonisation came about, with the invaders truly believing (and some
still do) that they are far superior to the ‘primitive savage’, when it is we
inchoate Westerners who have become crude, cruel and ignorant, despite our many
brilliant technologies.
This is not about guilt
however - it’s about recognising how all this came to be, acknowledging past
mistakes, and then starting to put things right. This means doing everything we
possibly can to help the world’s indigenous societies maintain and rebuild
their cultures and precious knowledge streams currently being enhanced with
validation and integration with Western Science. It means financially supporting the return to
homelands movement and ranger program where Aboriginal languages and culture
are prioritised, and where future generations of land stewards are guaranteed, constantly
augmenting these knowledges by keen observation and interpretation of nature in
all its manifestations. We are morally obliged to do this for the sake of our
children’s children and for the sake of every living creature.
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