The real illusion

"The real illusion that has permeated Western consciousness is our imagined separation from the natural world...Now...the concept of nonlocal thought and radical interconnection with the natural world is being re-understood...

 ...Polly Walker, a Cherokee working with Australian aboriginals, says that "knowledge is seeking us"- seeking the right vehicle to carry its message...

 ...The correct vehicle is not always a human being. The animals or the plants are better suited for carrying certain knowledge...

 ...Native science recognizes a reciprocal relationship between knowledge, language, land and consciousness. The first languages are sacred languages...

 ...Speaking in those languages evokes something real (not metaphorical) in the land. There is a direct energy transmission...

 ...Native languages are ... based in process and relationship. Sakej Youngblood Henderson says that in the Alqonquin language people can go all day long without uttering a single noun..."

 Who needs psychedelic drugs when you have acupuncture? During the acupuncture needlework and incense (mokusa) on my body's acupoints, I was experiencing major shifts in consciousness as though something were stirring around in my brain and aura, with swirling colors and images.

 The wild earth gods wrapped me in loam and verdure, healing and soothing, and at one point I too morphed into setter, with fur and paws and a soft belly to be rubbed, and experienced the pure joy of existence...Chiaro di Luna has so much to teach me, Nobunaga is always my wolf soul, protecting me...and Claire is a source of wisdom and grounding. Deep magic and healing flows in the Chinese medicine.

Source:Parry, Glen Apapicio. Native Wisdom in a Quantum World. Shift: At the Frontiers of Consciousness. Dec2005/Feb 2006, pp 29-33