SageWoman Blogs
As above so below, within as without, except for with other people. I've worked with others as a modern shaman since 2000, and the hardest facet of that role to impart is creating balanced relationship with All Things--especially each other--and live it in our "I" culture. It's easy to feel interrelated in trance, to idealize it in solitude, but to reach beyond the isolation of how capitalistic culture has created us and fosters us poses significant challenges. We end up living the collective experience alone. In this blog I explore new approaches to being an introverted, suburban American animist in an individualist culture, and living that connection out loud.
Remembering 9/11 -Totems of Patriotism
Listening to radio commentators discuss various remembrances of 9/11, I rattled off the pledge of allegiance in my head and felt sort of... nothing. I wondered how many others find that facet of our identity fraught with conflict, weighted with tension between feeling called to reconnect with the cultural tribe at a deep level, yet paralyzed in disdain or isolation from the national collective.
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Friday, 13 September 2013
The Pledge of Allegiance was created by the US Civil War, primarily for rebels being repatronized. Also pledging to "God" was added by a Christian Congress a century later, and contradicts the US Constitution. The pledge to the federal government and the Christian God rather than to our States was a fundamental change in US government. I'm not convinced that it was an improvement.
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Tuesday, 17 September 2013
Thank you for this. I found myself distancing myself from the news this past 9/11, but even so the energy of remembered grief, anxiety, courage, fear - all of it swirled around and I found myself processing the energy of others through my body. It is good to remember the wholeness of this place we call country.
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Nation-states like the U.S. and Canada are artificial colonial constructs that have managed people's affairs and decimated the beautiful ecosystems of Turtle Island since their Euro-patriarchal inception. “Canada” or the "U.S.A." are capitalist white supremacist fantasies that have nothing to do with connecting with the land. Human beings do better in small localized earth-connected cultures, not monolithic nationalistic bureaucracies.