Having been brought up as the son of a protestant minister - partly in Curacao, which used to be part of the Spanish and (later) Dutch empire (or should one say the |West-Indian Company) - on an island which was declated to be an 'overseas part of the Dutch nation (or Empire) soon after World War II) (in common parlance known as "The Dutch Antiles" (with a separate currecy known as 'Antillian guilders, peeged to the dollar, ever since Dutch giulders were replaced by Euros.
I'm so ready to manifest a new reality and have been attempting to for a long time but so very difficult because then I'm ostracized by all colonizers around me and my child as well and there's not many like-mInded people!
Know that you have many like-minded people walking with you on this path, even if they are not in your immediate neighborhood. Our collective consciousness is a power allied with the natural world. Talk to the trees if there are no humans nearby... seriously. This is ancient advice I learned from medicine teachers. The colonizers are operating from fear... you are operating from love.
Thanks for the simple yet profound choice of perspectives. As for the Winter Solstice, Christmas and Roman/Gregorian New Year are in effect a two-for-one twisting of the 'rebirth' of the Sun & lengthening of days light-wise.
This is very helpful. It opens a path to thinking about the possibilities for our history (the history of the eurochristians and their secular successors) entering into thousands of years of ongoing Indigenous history and culture rather than absorbing the Native Nations into our culture by force and violence—it opens a path to a different way of looking at the past and the future which might help to improve the present
What a profound thought! I think it and I'm there in the timeless primeval existence. Perhaps the aberration that intruded upon timelessness will fade again into indistinction. Indeed, it must. Perhaps we can watch it begin to fade.
I took some photos of the Solstice in December as it hit the rock placements on my land(can't post a photo here but here is the fb link https://www.facebook.com/photo/?fbid=10159996567863932&set=pcb.10159996574933932 ). These stones are aligned south east and northeast. One for the summer. One for the winter. These were in situ before Buddha, before Christ, before Mohammed and quite a few other historical personalities. Maybe even Ramesses. The stone walls, the stone placements, the weirs in streams all point to habitat management and a level of community cooperation with little enough conflict to allow for the building of 250000 miles of walls, leave botanical cultivars and point to the stars for timing. Of course there was samsara but life here on what may have been remnants of Pangea (or not) has left examples as fixed terma on terra firma, for what harmony and heaven on earth once was and can be.
Some accounts have Native peoples disclaiming ownership or the construction of these edifices and told the settlers from Europe it was here when they themselves they arrived.
Having been brought up as the son of a protestant minister - partly in Curacao, which used to be part of the Spanish and (later) Dutch empire (or should one say the |West-Indian Company) - on an island which was declated to be an 'overseas part of the Dutch nation (or Empire) soon after World War II) (in common parlance known as "The Dutch Antiles" (with a separate currecy known as 'Antillian guilders, peeged to the dollar, ever since Dutch giulders were replaced by Euros.
I'm so ready to manifest a new reality and have been attempting to for a long time but so very difficult because then I'm ostracized by all colonizers around me and my child as well and there's not many like-mInded people!
Know that you have many like-minded people walking with you on this path, even if they are not in your immediate neighborhood. Our collective consciousness is a power allied with the natural world. Talk to the trees if there are no humans nearby... seriously. This is ancient advice I learned from medicine teachers. The colonizers are operating from fear... you are operating from love.
What a beautifully profound response! Thank you for the reminder!
OMG, I had no idea. Thank you so much. Now I have to go back and search for your earlier pieces. Best to you
That was fantastic Peter!
Your posts are so valuable, I wonder if you can send them with a URL so they can be saved? Thank you, Catherine
Every post will open in Substack with its own URL, by clicking the title or 'like' or 'comment'
For example: https://peterderrico.substack.com/p/view-from-the-shore-vs-view-from
Thanks for the simple yet profound choice of perspectives. As for the Winter Solstice, Christmas and Roman/Gregorian New Year are in effect a two-for-one twisting of the 'rebirth' of the Sun & lengthening of days light-wise.
This is very helpful. It opens a path to thinking about the possibilities for our history (the history of the eurochristians and their secular successors) entering into thousands of years of ongoing Indigenous history and culture rather than absorbing the Native Nations into our culture by force and violence—it opens a path to a different way of looking at the past and the future which might help to improve the present
What a profound thought! I think it and I'm there in the timeless primeval existence. Perhaps the aberration that intruded upon timelessness will fade again into indistinction. Indeed, it must. Perhaps we can watch it begin to fade.
I took some photos of the Solstice in December as it hit the rock placements on my land(can't post a photo here but here is the fb link https://www.facebook.com/photo/?fbid=10159996567863932&set=pcb.10159996574933932 ). These stones are aligned south east and northeast. One for the summer. One for the winter. These were in situ before Buddha, before Christ, before Mohammed and quite a few other historical personalities. Maybe even Ramesses. The stone walls, the stone placements, the weirs in streams all point to habitat management and a level of community cooperation with little enough conflict to allow for the building of 250000 miles of walls, leave botanical cultivars and point to the stars for timing. Of course there was samsara but life here on what may have been remnants of Pangea (or not) has left examples as fixed terma on terra firma, for what harmony and heaven on earth once was and can be.
Some accounts have Native peoples disclaiming ownership or the construction of these edifices and told the settlers from Europe it was here when they themselves they arrived.