There Are No Natives

The first truth is that we are all spirit. We're just in different meat puppets. Wandering different dirts. But all the dirts, at root, they are the same. As are the meat puppets. In all of them: spirit.

There are no "invasions." Not anywhere. We are all free human beings, alive on this earth; that we go where we wilt, is the whole of the law.

That a meat puppet from a different dirt is an "invader," this is a tremulant emanation of living in fear. Fear disturbs, disorders, is the helpmeet of calamity. We see this in the twitlering toddler in the White Power House. We see it in the dazed and confused who shot New Zealand.

The dazed and confused who shot New Zealand entered oxygen on a dirt commonly called Australia. The sort of meat puppets with whom he identifies first traversed the dirt of Australia about 230 years ago. There they displaced meat puppets who had lived continuously on that dirt for some 60,000 years. Yet he doesn't consider that an "invasion." Because he's dazed and confused.

There were no meat puppets at all, at least of the human sort, on the dirt known as New Zealand, until some 750 years ago. The sort of meat puppets with whom the man who shot New Zealand identifies, they were late to the party, didn't arrive until 400 years later. But he doesn't consider that an "invasion." Because he's dazed and confused. There is the further dazed and confusedness that he himself "invaded" New Zealand, in order to shoot it.

All this nonsense about which meat puppets belong on which dirt is just that: nonsense. The truth of it is, none of the meat puppets are even from this planet. As the Lew Welch philosopher exulted: "There are no natives!" The meat puppets are composed of materials manifested to construct far distant stars, some several billions of years ago, when the spirit decided it would like to try hereabouts being some matter for some whiles.

As the Shropshire philosopher described it: "From far, from eve and morning/And yon twelve-winded sky/The stuff of life to knit me/Blew hither: here am I."

Everyone knows all this; they just get distracted, and forget. As the Jerome Garcia philosopher said: "We are all one organism, we 2001-mw4.jpgare all the universe, we are all doing the same thing. That’s the sort of thing that everybody knows, and I think that it’s only weird little differences that are making it difficult. The thing is that we’re all earthlings. The earthling consciousness is the one that’s really trying to happen at this juncture and so far it’s only a tiny little glint, but it’s already over. The change has already happened, and it’s a matter of swirling out. It has already happened. We’re living after the fact. It’s a postrevolutionary age. The change is over. The rest of it is a cleanup action. Unfortunately it’s very slow. Amazingly slow and amazingly difficult."

The twitlering toddler in the White Power House, the dazed and confused who shot New Zealand: they are already over. They are but the last throes, of dim-think.

Though it's not even dim-thinking, really. In my universe, there is but one gun on the planet. It is in a museum. People file by, and they look at it, and they wonder: "What were they thinking?" Well, they weren't. Thinking. That's all.

"I write along a single line: I never get off it. I said that you were never to kill anyone, and I meant it." The Kenneth Patchen philosopher said that. And that's the place to start. With no exceptions. No buts. No what ifs. Because let one demon out of the box, and the rest come flying forth as well. And you end with the likes of the dazed and confused who shot New Zealand. Feeling perfectly right and sane and justified, with what he has done. Because it was "necessary."

The dazed and confused filmed his killing with a helmet cam. And where did he get that idea? From the serial killers enrolled in the armed forces of the dirt known as the United States. Who, and as we speak, are filming their killings with helmet cams, in the dirts of Iraq and Afghanistan. The dazed and confused who shot New Zealand. The serial killers enrolled in the armed forces of the dirt known as the United States. They are the same.

During the version of the killing known as World War I, the Gurdjieff philosopher, asked what the combatants would do, if they became awake to the spirit, replied: "they would put down their guns, and go home to their families." That is what all the meat puppets need to do. Everywhere. All over the world. Put down the guns. All of them. And go home to their family. That family: everyone.

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Steven D's picture

Our lives are miracles and our deaths of no importance other than to an anxiety laden ego that cannot conceive of anything more important than itself.

Lose the self, you recognize the spirit that animates everything.

You learn that love is more than selfish desire for another, but the recognition that there are no others, only one, or simply us.

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"You can't just leave those who created the problem in charge of the solution."---Tyree Scott

@Steven D
we will return, when the sun dies, absorbed by the nebula, and eventually back to whence we came. There are no natives to the universe.

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Lookout's picture

...was once asked, "You ain't from around here are you?"
He said, "No, and you ain't either if your name ain't Running Bear."

We are all strangers in a strange land.

Killing others because they are strange is really killing ourselves. Sad isn't it?

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“Until justice rolls down like water and righteousness like a mighty stream.”

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Someday you will die and somehow something's gonna steal your carbon.

Modest Mouse

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Regardless of the path in life I chose, I realize it's always forward, never straight.

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" In the beginning, the universe was created. This has made a lot of people very angry, and is generally considered to have been a bad move. -- Douglas Adams, The Hitch Hiker's Guide to the Galaxy "

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@boriscleto

This is just the first verse of many evocative ones ...

For all of our languages we can't communicate
For all of our native tongues we're all natives here
Sons of their fathers' dream the same dream
The sound of forbidden words becomes a scream
Voices in anger, victims of history
Plundered and set aside, grow fat on swallowed pride

Nice, boriscleto

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During the version of the killing known as World War I, the Gurdjieff philosopher, asked what the combatants would do, if they became awake to the spirit, replied: "they would put down their guns, and go home to their families." That is what all the meat puppets need to do. Everywhere. All over the world. Put down the guns. All of them. And go home to their family. That family: everyone.

We are all family. We are all sentient beings who deserve to be in this world with everyone else simply by virtue that we all breeched the birth canal. We're here.

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There is always Music amongst the trees in the Garden, but our hearts must be very quiet to hear it. ~ Minnie Aumonier

Ecclesiastes 3:1-8 King James Version

1 To every thing there is a season, and a time to every purpose under the heaven:

2 A time to be born, and a time to die; a time to plant, and a time to pluck up that which is planted;

3 A time to kill, and a time to heal; a time to break down, and a time to build up;

4 A time to weep, and a time to laugh; a time to mourn, and a time to dance;

5 A time to cast away stones, and a time to gather stones together; a time to embrace, and a time to refrain from embracing;

6 A time to get, and a time to lose; a time to keep, and a time to cast away;

7 A time to rend, and a time to sew; a time to keep silence, and a time to speak;

8 A time to love, and a time to hate; a time of war, and a time of peace.

It's that time of peace that has proven more and more elusive.

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janis b's picture

@HenryAWallace

This line resonated particularly at this time ...

A time to get, and a time to lose; a time to keep, and a time to cast away;

Thanks for that.

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@janis b

I hope you are doing all right, despite the traumas in your quadrant of the globe.

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janis b's picture

I always enjoy your writing - It’s brilliance, your cosmic and human combination. When you’re funny, you're very funny. and when you’re profound, you are endlessly profound. Thank you for all of it, and all the best to you. I will continue to re-read this piece for a sense of peace.

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janis b's picture

and always troubled and saddened by how fear has been implanted into so many otherwise sentient beings. What a terrible loss of spirit.

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@janis b
is exposed to fear, there are but two escapes.
Fight or die.

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Regardless of the path in life I chose, I realize it's always forward, never straight.

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@Pricknick

recognise it for what it is, yield to it, and disable it.

You know, like a possum, even if it doesn’t always work ; ).

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@janis b
I should have said humans because we suck at playing possum.

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Regardless of the path in life I chose, I realize it's always forward, never straight.

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@Pricknick

Still room for play, no?

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mimi's picture

Put down the guns. All of them. And go home to their family. That family

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We have lost out families and with it THAT family. It is us, who made it so. It's the inventions of our technology that caused that lost. It's our brains. Our so called intelligence. We are as dumb as can be.

"You can't think the unthought if you're thinking it" said some philosoper, Quentin Meillassoux. And you can't stop thinking, say I. So, there we go back to the stars. I think that was the plan to begin with.

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