American Indian Spiritual and Pagan alternative belief systems - an answer to the consumer society

Reconnecting with nature recharges the spirit

So, if you are not into organised religion, you are not necessarily disenfranchised. Indeed, many are finding organised religion a turn off and are leaving it.

We often hear of dwindling church congregations of half a dozen stalwarts, the phrase 'when two or three are gathered together,' may be how organised religion eventually ends, when it is unviable to provide.

So where have all of these followers gone? why has organised religion declined? The stance by many schools to dispense with formal and religious based assemblies has been the biggest driver of a lack of following in recent times along with trendy left-leaning teachers. Communists despise religion.

A general malaise from the 1950's onwards has led people who were constrained by the strictures of wartime rationing and observance of regulations like the blackout, to rebel. Even after the war, rationing stayed in force, longer indeed than the war itself lasted.

When that was repealed, they found a new freedom, then came rock n roll and the swinging sixties. The grip of organised religion became ever more tenuous with the goings on of the Haight-Ashbory set and the New Age generation setting new standards and pushing the boundaries of acceptability.

The Green Man

a spiritual symbol thought to originate from the Greek God of Nature, Dionysis

Life became busier from the 1960's and the people became richer, but not spiritually.

A spin off of the New Agers of late 60's America was the resurgence of the Pagan and Spiritualist belief systems. In fact these have many shared traits with the American Indian people who have a spiritualist type of existence. I have come to see I have more in common with the American Indian beliefs than than the organised religion I was spoon fed.

People have become cynical, they have been lied to too many times by politicians supposedly acting in their best interests, when they are often clearly not.

The prevalence of UFO sightings has no doubt come to mind and the pat and frankly childish denials of the subject and convenient explanations fools no one. The people can see through the illusions.

The recent Brexit campaign was one example that the game is up, protestations of forthcoming Biblical-dimension doom and gloom if we voted to leave the EU were laughable.

The politicians severely underestimated the people's ability to see through the veiled threats, the desperate pleas to remain were ignored. The political arena changed, with people supporting in the past the major parties only, crossing the floor to vote with people from other parties for what they all thought was right for the majority and country, not just themsleves.

Even church leaders frantically and desperately tried to shore up the remain vote, a symptom of the present is that people made up their own minds.

An over 300 foot wide Mayan / Hopi Indian symbol appeared in crops at Silbury Wiltshire

This sort of instance has driven people to ask questions, questions about where we are going, where we are being led and who is leading us, do they actually know what they are doing?

A way of thought is developing and people are less accepting of dogma and rhetoric, they can see through the bullshit. The game has changed and so have people's need to find something else to follow, a true path and a true way of their own.

People are finding they need to re-evaluate their lives. They are often very busy running around with very busy lives that they are becoming ill with all the pressures that face them. 'New age' retreats allow people to find themselves, where they find people that help them redefine what is actually important in their lives.

Some then connect to nature, they find as the American Indians have, that going back to the forests reconnects them to a better place in their own minds. I have found that the countryside is always best for me to be in, just to stand in a forest, take in the air and enjoy the calmness does amazing things for you. It is like a warm rippling energy permeates you.

And this is why the Pagan and Spiritual beliefs have come back as a rejection of the modern consumer society by some people who have seen the light.

Go and read some American Indian wisdom, you will find for yourself that they have a great wealth of wisdom and knowledge. You will spiritually enrich yourself if you do so and go out into the forests and soak up the natural vibe. Then look for a way out, off the treadmill.

The American Indian's survival could be at the vanguard of all of our survival

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I have been working with the American Indian people to advise them on business and economic growth, how they could bring prosperity to the reservations and create jobs whilst adopting their policy of doing the least damage and only using the least resources. I give this advice free and see it as a very worthwhile thing to do. I hope this will be successful for them.

The reservation residents have a conundrum, there is a modern world outside but they also have to find a way to balance that with their traditional past. They are working to educate the young in the traditions of the past, but they also need an eye to the future.

The current economic model in the outside world is a tenuous one. It is one of artificial demand creation through marketing and product development of ever more higher performing and functional products. At odds with the traditional way of the Indian.

I recently saw a US military project approved, worth billions of Dollars for a war that would likely never come. Perhaps like the boy scout, they need to  'be prepared.' Mightily it would seem.

If our population is to grow and live longer, contingencies need to be made to limit the future population growth to levels which the planet can manage. The Indians practiced a responsible family planning method which ensured that they never overpopulated for their available resources. And that was over millennia.

Things need to change, the American Indians were given a list of prophecies a long way back, these were called the Seven Ages, we have heard of the 7 ages of man, well they have this list of prophecies and all of them have come true so far. We now face the final one and we need to change our way of life otherwise we not progress past that last milestone.

In my work with the reservation residents, I have said that I see the future way forward is to say 'the future is the past is the future.' They can produce a program, a way forward that would ensure our survival.

But it would require a massive re-evaluation of who we are and where we need to go. It would not be an easy ride, it would mean material sacrifices, but life is worth that. It has to be, you can't take money etc. with you when you die.

The wisdom and knowledge that has sustained these people up to the time of colonisation worked. It should now be adaptable for all our futures.

The so-called 'new age' was effectively 'borrowed' from facets of the American Indian lifestyle, without the 'free love' sex, drugs and alcohol additions.

The reverence for care of resources, respect for people, society including all and helping all, may seem like a utopian dream that is far from our lives today but the Indians had this as everyday life.

Consider that the Indians did not covet possessions as we do, they never built any prisons, there was no crime, there was no addictions. They just lived a simple lifestyle. That's why attempts to break up the 'new age' of the late 60's were so aggressive, because they were a threat to the white picked fence consumer heavy American lifestyle. 

In the Joni Mitchell song 'Woodstock,' there is a line 'we've got to get ourselves back to the garden,' which essentially means a simpler lifestyle. The Garden of Eden, but you get the picture.

With automation to take over much of the human work element in just a few years, we need to re-evaluate where we are going. We should look to the American Indian people for the wisdom and knowledge. They will be the salvation.

The Lakota people have a phrase 'Mitakuye Oyasin' 'we are all related.' We should start to think that and fast!

The New Age came as the product of Roswell

         Ancient Hopi Indian glyph depicting a craft like one that crashed at Roswell

Do you not think it strange that a mere 20 years after the Roswell Crash of July 1947, that a 'peace and love' generation emerged into public consciousness and popular culture?

Has a generation been seeded from that voyage? or a combined situation where the spirits of American Indian people who have lived before, are coming back to live in the physical bodies of people in these times to try and steer us to a better way of life?

It is no mere coincidence either that many of the statements they made in the 1967 onwards time were lifted from the American Indian way of life prior to European colonisation?

Joni Mitchell's song 'Woodstock' has a line in that sums this up , 'We've got to get ourselves back to the garden.' Did Joni know the interpretation of this line or was it some chance remark or written unconciously from a thought that was put into her mind?

I have been looking at the American Indian wisdom and knowledge for a while now and I am always finding some piece of it that is really profound and common sense.

Recently reading  books called Encounters with star people and Star Ancestors both written by American Indian authors, much of what we are looking for as answers is evident.

Also evident is why the information and media discussion of extra terrestrial life is trying to be covered over.

Fear and paranoia of the organised powers that be is one reason, the acknowledgement that something else off this planet has more technology than us is also the thing that those people are afraid of.

It may yet come when a life form other than ours shows itself.

The American Indian people have been living with contact from off this planet for millennia. To them it is normal and the majority of contact is benevolent and helpful. It is not in the main the classic abduction scenario that some experience.

Indeed, the star visitors gave the gift of knowledge, of how to use herbs and nature to heal and also left information on tablets about their origins, these were given to the Mayans, Hopi and Cherokee peoples.

The white collar 'conservative' backlash against the 'Peace and Love' movement was largely because the movement came from knowledge that was an alternative to the consumer driven white picket fence middle class American way of life.

The American Indian did not need drugs or alcohol to reach a higher plane of consciousness, that was the failing of the mostly white 'Peace and Love' generation, they could not reach the higher plane because mostly they were not able to connect spiritually.

The way you can connect is through having the gift to receive contact like I am lucky to have experienced. You can't buy it or channel it through holding crystals. To the American Indian it is hard wired into them. It only needs ceremony to awaken it.

Perhaps in this time, many non-American Indian people are the reincarnation of American Indians who have lived previously and that is why there is more awareness of what is happening on the planet and to it and people who see that there needs to be change. 

Because of the great numbers of American Indians who have passed on, it is likely inevitable now that their souls are finding new vehicles for the next stage of the great journey in this life, here and today.