Living as I do in Indian country, I'll offer the native perspective that it is just two factions of wasitchu fighting over the same false god. So I offer some comments from that different perspective by John Trudell:
What both systems share is the divorcing of humanity's spirit from both their ancestors and their descendants.
Words of wisdom. Or just healthy reason, however one wants to call. Not being Indian, I do not follow the mythology of Indians, and it'S symbols and rites. But what is expressed by it and lies behind the level of symbols and rites, I always felt instinctive sympathy for. I also feel that it does not matter if thse things and things that I do follow are really completely in correspondence. It's more important that no matter where we are, we all look at the same direction to see the sun rising, or setting.
P.S. Very interesting myspace profile of yours. Looks like a very interesting life to me!
I put one of John Trudell's songs up on my publishing website at:
From "Tribal Voice" it's called "Living In Reality"
Quote:
It took the times we didn't care about living,
To learn survivors survive whether they want or not.
It took the pain, the grief and the dying to remember,
What gets forgotten in the living.
It took the lessons of a thousand generations,
To get through the time of yesterday.
It took the joyful songs of laughter,
To last beyond today into tomorrow.
It took the fragrence of a woman's touch,
To realize brothers and sisters are never alone.
It took the joining of earth and sky,
To create, centering the universe.
Regarding my myspace page, My background wallpaper is a painting of Hotei Ushu, the Zen sack-and-stick priest embodiment of Zan fullness painted by Miyamoto Musashi.
02-08-08, 10:10 AM
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