In my last posting I made a reference to the "cast out" mentality as represented by the Europeans that came to the Americas. In the book "Story of the Great American West", published by the Reader's Digest in 1977, there is at the end a section dedicated to exploring "the meaning of it all". I quote:
"More than a decade before March 4, 1905, the nation had already begun to sense that something had changed in America.... The ever-shifting, westward-moving frontier line suddenly had nowhere left to go...What had it all meant, this century-long national adventure of subduing and settling a continental empire? For some the answer was clear enough. For the Indians it was a tale of defeat, destruction, and despair. But what of the rest of us? Was there a meaning and a message beyond what the eye could see in the spreading checkerboard of farms, the mushrooming cities, the endless ribbons of railroad track, and all the other appurtenances of westward expansion?"
It is indeed baffling that people can actually sit down and ponder these questions as if the meaning and message for the "rest of us" can be separated from the atrocity that was done to this land and its people and somehow provide an answer that would justify what was done, making it all ok.
It is indeed impossible to find freedom and live in freedom through destruction and at the expense of another. If you doubt it, look around you. Americans are probably more enslaved than ever before in the history of mankind and most don't even know it. They are indebted, taxed, dependent, drugged, malnourished, addicted, unhappy, drinking poisoned water, breathing poisoned air, eating poisoned food, and most absurdly proud of being in such state of being.
Perhaps this situation can be best summarized by quoting from this book again:
"In a thousand ways, both subtle and obvious, the shadow of the frontier continues to cast its spell over America."
It is indeed a spell that has caused such frantic and destructive behavior. It is indeed a spell that does not allow people to recognize what is happening.
It would be easy to simply put the blame on the "white" ones and imagine that if they could be removed from the Earth, then all would be ok and everyone would live happily every after. Yet you must consider two things.
First, that which the Europeans did to the Americans was done unto them first. Europeans had been plagued by famine, warfare, pestilence, decay, religion, and destruction for thousands of years prior to their arrival on America. And even then, when it was proposed to the English that they should move to the Americas, their first response was that "they did not have the right to take the land of others." And they probably would not have, had it not been for the famine and unemployment that coincidentally appeared to pressure people into seeking a "chance for a better life" across the ocean. By the way, did you know that all this colonization was started by private enterprises?
Second, even before the Europeans arrived to the Americas, natives where already warring against each other, they were enslaving each other, torturing each other, and self flagellating themselves to "honor" their gods. Behaviors that can be basically found to a lesser or greater degree in every race on this planet. This is an indication not of the nature of the People, but rather of their contamination and deception by the unrighteous - unholy.
This is all to say, that this is not about whites, reds, yellows, blacks, and those in between against each other. Removing any of these races will do nothing to change the pattern of darkness, death, decay, and destruction from this Earth.
What this is about, is the unrighteous - unholy using whites, reds, yellows, blacks, and those in between to plunder and enslave us, the People. What these unrighteous - unholy have done to the People and through the People is indeed a violation of Life. Yes, it has brought great pain, sorrow, hatred, helplessness, and madness to each one who has participated in the unrighteous - unholy game.
It is indeed a noble attempt of the Native Americans to deal with this issue by saying that this is simply a "learning" for which they or we should be great-full. Yet this is the same as saying an abused person should be great-full to the abuser for providing such opportunity to learn.
In the Father Way, things are seen for what they are. The presence of the unrighteous - unholy is not a natural outcome of Creation. Their presence upon Earth is not by Divine Design. There is nothing to be learned from the abuse by the unrighteous - unholy. A violation of Life is a violation of Life and yes, pain, sorrow, hatred, helplessness many times follows such violation for that is what the unrighteous - unholy feed upon.
In the Father Way, how we handle the abuse is by laying the experience and all the emotions and malfunctions that resulted from such an experience on the Altar of Divine Love and Power in Right and Proper Exchange for Truth of Who We Are, Peace, Joy, Love as Self, Restoration to our Divine Nature.
As we wake up, one by one, from the spell the unrighteous - unholy cast upon us to pit us against each other and to destroy ourselves and our planet, we turn our focus unto the Father that we may Know once again the Truth of Who We Are.