Cleopatra Earthworm
Not many people have goals of becoming enlightened in focus
and not many people on earth are willing to devote even one hour per day to
this cause, many are so blind-sighted by fame or materialism to even give a
damn or want or need to chart the nature of their souls path.
The secret societies know that we are in a virtual prison
here, and if you are not willing to succumb to the rituals on earth, the most
basic being getting up at 7 am getting ready and then out the door to your job,
and this is a funny concept to a spiritual person like myself because everyone
needs employment to become rich and escape this whole bondage structure
Most figure it out early and succumb the nature of their
souls to hidden sciences and cults like freemasonry and eastern star because to
tell you the truth it is the only way to fame, they have bought up every avenue
to build their own structure
Me personally, as a spiritual person, I don’t know how
working people do it, I observe and I benefit from it from the people around me
that have learnt the hard way that they need to work, and provide, it is pretty
much the only way they can live, and I can’t blame a single working person for
the ritual they set out on, they have no choice.
In the east they have systems in place for people that wish
a more spiritual existence, and only now in 2013 are we beginning to see some
of these ancient societies open up to all of us and share their teachings with
the rest of the world.
I have always believed strongly that I am meant for a more
spiritual purpose which loosely construes of Buddhism, meditation, techno… But
most of all, a love for all living beings, a compassionate view of their
struggle from a woodbug to a cat to a horse, to a giraffe to a neighbor to a
lover and to my family.
I have always believed my struggle that has ensued has been
for a purpose. To become fully enlightened and able to lead others into a new millennium
and a new faith.
Meditation is a very personal and intimate struggle through
emotion, pain, hostility, love, and the future. But not many beings on earth
are shown meditation, nor have the ability to really meditate.
Most of all beings are somewhat meditative to pass the time,
but unfortunately on the scope of the structure that we all inhabit only humans
are able to reach full enlightenment
But humans are the most imprisoned by this structure, and
they will usually get us through our vices and were taught the whole way not to
do things, when this is advertising on exactly what to do so many try the world
of criminality like drug dealing and you can make more in one night than a
month of working 8 hours a day at a genuine job.
And what a travesty we have now, it is almost as if the
culling has started, we are slowly losing people every moment to cruelty of the
system making them believe they are at fault for defaulting on a mortgage and
losing their house, their job, their livelihood
It’s almost as if there is many others within this hell
world that are fully aware of what they are doing to the people underneath them
but they gamble away jobs, and positions like a slot machine.
We have whole nations that have gambled away peoples
futures, making an elite world power into a third world country in an instant
so being aware of things like this, and working within the moment to understand
and appreciate how lucky you are to have what you have is important and imperative
to future growth
Me personally I have always looked at Buddhist monks for
guidance and a way of life, because they live on very little. One of my
greatest achievements this past while was finishing the test to the Doctor of Philosophy
in Religion, much of my inner circle was overjoyed, much of my outer circle
like family was suspicious because I did not go through the regular ritual of
student debt and the ritual of 6 years of schooling, and my Ph.D only cost $100
about $65,000 less than a regular Ph.D haha but Universal Life Church has less
restrictions on things like this for their ordained ministers.
I think the people that treated me with hostility were the
ones to watch out for, it’s not like I said I was on mars yesterday or whatever
lol
Me, as well, I have a checkered past to deal with along with
being involved in a monarch sciences family, where most of the older
generations have bartered the nature of the future souls for their own freedom
or reincarnation.
If I could share my enlightenment with people, and I do, the
energy I broadcast. The things I write.
My path, and I have tried with this virtual ministry
If you are ever bored look past on my path in this blog see
how I was 2 yrs ago versus these current discourses
An audio discourse is coming, only two people listened to
the last one lol so I won’t let that get me down
Ever present 2013, time to at least start enlightenment don’t
you think?
Many people have lived before you to try an achieve what I speak about but they are elsewhere, vanished to us, and most likely trying to achieve the same goal -again, and again, until they get it right.
-Shaun A. Delage
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Kindfulness
my bday prezzie to myself :)
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PUBLIC NOTICE
Thursday, March 7, 2013
CANADA IS DISSOLVED
A Legal Notice to all Agents of the so-called Crown of England and Elizabeth
Windsor, and to all Canadians
Issued by the Governing Council of The International Tribunal into Crimes of Church and
State
This PUBLIC NOTICE is issued to the Members of the Parliament of Canada, the
Canadian judiciary, the governmental civil service, and the active serving
members of all Canadian police and military forces, as well as to all citizens of
Canada:
1. On February 25, 2013, a lawfully constituted Common Law Court of Justice found Elizabeth
Windsor, Queen of England and Head of State of Canada and its churches, guilty as charged of
Crimes against Humanity in Canada and of engaging in a Criminal Conspiracy to conceal
Genocide. The same verdict found Canadian Prime Minister Stephen Harper guilty of the
same offenses.
2. This verdict was based on irrefutable evidence, including eyewitness accounts of Elizabeth
Windsor's personal involvement in the forcible abduction and disappearance of ten children
from the Kamloops Indian Residential School on October 10, 1964, while on a state visit to
Canada. Ms. Windsor has never denied or refuted this charge or evidence, nor did she respond
to a Public Summons issued by the Court.
3. The Court's verdict rests upon the Nuremberg Legal Statutes of 1950 which allow any head
of state to be tried for Crimes against Humanity, as well as the right under Canadian law to
hold the Crown liable for tort offenses committed in Canada.
4. Elizabeth Windsor therefore stands condemned as a convicted felon. As a fugitive from
justice, she is now liable for arrest and imprisonment under the terms of the Court verdict. A
Citizens Arrest Warrant for the detention of Elizabeth Windsor was in fact issued by the Court
on March 5, 2013, and Ms. Windsor has evaded this Warrant.
5. a) Each of you has taken a public oath of allegiance to Elizabeth Windsor as the Queen of
England. Your oath now constitutes a criminal act under international law, including Section
25 of the Rome Statute of the International Criminal Court, which obligates all citizens to
refrain from colluding with authorities engaged in or convicted of criminal acts.
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Code to the Matrix
When I read this book for the first time, my life collapsed and everything changed for the better :)
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The 42nd revision of my manifesto posted at bottom half of this blog, the net and everything has been borking out for me today since I uploaded this again so if you're lucky you will get a visible copy, if "they" will permit you to see it... if not, try a bit later :P
FiSh TreAT
To live a spiritual existence, amidst an information age
seems ironic in a sense because there will always be people trying to pull your
attention away from yourself, and into their own enlightenment.
Simple songs, blogs, chats, business, the news, everything
is garnering your attention in some degree.
It takes a person of incalculable wisdom, to understand and
follow the creators wish for you to become enlightened. Not many people are
fortunate to live a spiritual existence, but you too can become enlightened
with two hours a day of meditation and introspection.
These days I devote about two solid hours to meditation
sometimes getting 4-6 hrs, and I am fortunate to be surrounded by the forest in
my forest ashram.
Believe me, if you became obsessive about meditating you
would go insane, it takes a person with quite a bit of patience to even sit
still in silence for a half an hour, if you are not used to meditation there is
some wonderful guided ones at the bottom of this ministry that you can
download, and other things like wealth attraction, who doesn’t like wealth lol
But there is a multitude of things to aid you to come to
peace with oneself. I also recommend taking a ten day meditation retreat c/o
vipassana if you are fortunate enough…I know I list them on my manifesto but
things like this are rather enigmatic.
Personally if you are lucky and fortunate enough in this
life and can take 12 days out to meditate then all the power to you – you are
perhaps more fortunate than most living beings currently.
I always thought in my mind when I was taking vipassana man
this is like a cult, perhaps it is, who knows? A cult though would suck you in
and you would never be able to leave, vipassana on the other hand sort of wants
people to get going and scram lol
I learnt about myself, my path, suffering, crime, sadness,
slavery, enlightenment all in one little course.
I mostly learnt that I was here to fulfill a greater
spiritual purpose because I am here as a person that has made mistakes- so many
I can’t count. And you can continue on as you have been and not even let it
register who the hell you are until you work to better yourself.
Then you begin to understand that there are multitudes of beings
that are corralled in this reality suffering to simple instinct and countless
humans and animals that are not given the opportunity to look within and become
enlightened.
I have to say me finding vipassana was pure fluke, one that
the “others” that were around me at the time didn’t see coming. I was on a walk
home when I came across the spiritual leader of vipassana speaking at the plaza
of nations in Vancouver.
It is funny how enlightenment can find you in the strangest
of places, and when you are suffering the most, most likely have to return
15,000 times b4 you get it.
That is the path that most are on, coming back here 15k
times, and they somewhat understand, you can tell it in them, they are crass,
ignorant, angry and just a lil worker bee with no other set goals or a path.
Me, I was heavily involved with monarch sciences at the time
I found vipassana, was just charged with 6 charges including a weapons charge,
I had initiates gathering all around for the path of my soul, I was using
methamphetamine quite a bit, recovering from abuse, facing life as an extremely
poor person, being abused in a relationship not to mention being literally
starved on a hippy diet which made me more susceptible to the programming.
It found me, and they sent people to watch me and to try and
mess things up for me.
But I made it.
Now I take being a spiritual leader quite seriously, one
being nobody has stepped up to represent ravers in a faith, nor conspiracy, nor
philosophy in the new millennium, the faiths currently are thousands year old illusions
whom couldn’t offer one ounce of enlightenment to their followers, only
illusion and hatred.
It is ironic to be in this time, the new pope has been
chosen and we enter a new era of time after 2012
I was always looking onto 2013, was a bit scared of the
possibilities however.
Let’s welcome in 2020
-
Shaun A. Delage
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Random Musingz
Yep, it's siamese elitist concept ;)
Stephen Harper = CRIME minister of Canada
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ChiPmuNk MoNk
I cant even believe the amount of life lessons and tests
that make themselves known to me and find me even though I live a life of
relative isolation. I have two cats, and one of them is an avid hunter, killing
innocent beings like songbirds, bugs and mice. The other day I let her in after
some time outside and I always check her mouth for things but noticed
something, and she coughed out a life fieldmouse out of her mouth which just
landed in one thud and looked up at me, half frightened to death. I said oh
pickles (name of my cat lol) Why would you bring this poor thing in here, so I
grabbed a stew pot and chased the thing around to endless circles of the
kitchen, meanwhile the cats are licking their chops. Finally I called my
boyfriend to help who was in a slumber, I have made it my forte to not wake him
unless absolutely necessary but this was an emergency- I was not only chasing a
mouse around but two cats with crazed looks in their eyes trying to shield the
poor thing from the felines jaws.
I have always made it my goal to liberate life as much as I
see fit, including bugs, beings that are smaller than you should not be your
prey but an equal.
Anyways, BF comes down and we start chasing it all over
again, and finally it ducked under the washing machine, so we decided to forget
about it, let it find a way out through a crack in the floor.
A few days passed by and we checked under the machine, and
nothing so we assumed it got out and freed itself. The next day we hear a
cafuffle in the kitchen and saw the poor mouse running across the kitchen and
the cat right after it, the cat put it in its mouth again and swatted it a few
times, and it ran under the stove this time. So I am juggling keeping the
rodent in sight while stuffing cat by cat into time out into the bathroom lol
BF finally grabbed hold of it by its tail and out back into the forest the poor
thing goes, liberated!
Where most people fail, karmically- I excel
I have had some issues trying to place myself in the mind of
a cat, a beautiful cute fuzzy creature with pointed teeth, a killer.
I believe strongly that anything you kill, is a creature of
the divine, powers more strongly than you, and for all the creatures that we
kill in our life by eating them or keeping them out of our home etc, you can
use a little enlightenment to save the odd one that crosses your path once and
awhile, but since cats don’t understand I am constantly trying to fend off evil
karma from entering my environment.
I believe life throws you these little tests sometimes, to
see how you would react to a situation, most would just give the mouse or bird
astray in your house a quick bang to the head with a pot and kill it.
This I don’t really understand in people and I would never
do that to a living being. another reason why I personally don’t hunt or fish.
It is funny how much dogs or cats in our care become accustomed
to humanity yet remain somewhat feral most of the time.
It is, really a lesson in compassion and kindness, for you
never know when you will be in the mousehead or the anthead one day, if the
reincarnation ever subsists to animalia from humans.
I got some shocking psychic predictions lately and have
posted them under this posting a few down. I have decided to ask for advice in
some deeper matters that have been plaguing my consciousness for some time. My
life itself remains somewhat of a mystery, and since I am not an extrovert I don’t
have the ability nor the capacity to forget 90% of what happens to me.
A few things ring out for me, I will start to see some
issues come up this summer that will point to some answers for the mysteries
that surround me. And I will become fully liberated in this life time, in 2019.
WOW
See I always have out of body experiences in the astral so
to speak so it is not unusual but I was pondering what I would think if I had
an OBE in the waking life….sort of terrifying. And I will be 37 lol
And the issues surrounding my penthouse/mason/twin encounter
which happens to be the most unusual experience of my life. So they were trying
to change the nature and structure of HIV and it failed badly and now more
people have HIV than should have.
My experience with psychics is, that is they propose more
questions than answers lol
I have been pondering the curse thing for quite some time, I believe you can get rid of the curse on your own, and I have been taught to not believe in curses and run the other way when a psychic tells you you have a curse however I
have a sleep paralysis thing, extreme shyness, and a few other things that
could be construed as a curse, including living far below the poverty line financially.
What initially got me hooked was the vancouver oracle that initially told me I was cursed first asked me if I had protective talisman on me, I said, as a matter of fact I do, reaching into my pocket I pulled out an elaborate turkish evil eye charm with dozens of silver beads interwoven onto it and the psychic took it and read from the talisman ...
What initially got me hooked was the vancouver oracle that initially told me I was cursed first asked me if I had protective talisman on me, I said, as a matter of fact I do, reaching into my pocket I pulled out an elaborate turkish evil eye charm with dozens of silver beads interwoven onto it and the psychic took it and read from the talisman ...
I think back to my time in crime and sex work and I wonder
if it is all karmic, I mean I have the option to go out and get employment or
whatever but being on a disability pension has its benefits, I don’t have to
work, I have issues, I will leave it at that.
For the most part I don’t think I was meant to be in the
working life, or in normal society, I think I was more destined to live a
spiritual existence, somewhat detached from everything yet in small ways apart.
This made me think of what if the Church of Techno evolved,
what would come out of it?
Well I would probably open a physical (structure) where
people could listen to deejays and these endless words every weekend or in a retreat
type atmosphere, combining meditation, techno, philosophy, conspiracy…
I would want it to be a recognized faith, and for that to
happen in Canada it has to exist as a structure for 15 years. It is funny
because of the new pope thing happening I was thinking how cool it must be to
be the pope, and it hit me in meditation, I am a pope. LoL just void of 17
trillion in my ministerial bank account.
I don’t think spiritual people were destined to work easily
with money. I guess I would need a faculty of advisors if the church ever
evolved, and I would leave the money in their hands lol would suck to spend all
the churches money on slot machines haha
I would just want to share my experiences, and have group
meditations cycling between techno and silence, taking breaks for marijuana and
some damn fine food 3 times a day or night with endless snacks, my philosophy
would differ from most organized structures in place, like vipassana, where
your not allowed to do anything really on the course, including only eating two
meals a day.
It is also funny to note that the Church of Techno is
perhaps the only religion on the planet that is welcoming to all sexualities.
Anyways some ponderings from my end of the globe, I have
placed a confessional at the bottom of this virtual ministry if you want to be
absolved of all sin for perpetuity as well
Thank you for reading
Thank you for your support over these years
Blessings
-
Shaun A. Delage
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Gay and lesbian -bi-trans brothers and sisters
To All My Kin On The Path,
Here Is A Very Interesting Perspective/ Interview Of An Indengenous Shaman Of The Dogon.
Please Read On:
Gays: Guardians of the Gates
An Interview with Malidoma Somé
Malidoma Somé recognizes that he learned more through his initiation as a Dagara tribesman than from his PhDs from the Sorbonne and Brandeis University. His name means "be friendly to strangers," and he is charged by his elders of the Dagara tribe of Burkina Faso (east of Nigeria and north of Ghana) with bringing the wisdom of his tribe to the West. His book Ritual: Power, Healing and Community (reviewed in this issue) is highly praised by Michael Meade, Robert Bly and Robert Moore. If you were not fortunate enough to catch his reading at the Elliott Bay Bookstore last August, you can find out more about him through the book and tape reviews in this issue.
During one of the Conflict Hours at the Mendocino Men’s Conference Malidoma spoke eloquently on indigenous people’s views of gay men. He kindly agreed to elaborate on his views as he sat with me among the redwoods of Mendocino.
Bert: At Conflict Hour you told us that your culture honors gays as having a higher vibrational level that enabled them to be guardians of the gateways to the spirit world. You suggested that our Western view limits itself by focusing only on their sexual role. Can you elaborate for our readers?
Malidoma: I don’t know how to put it in terms that are clear enough for an audience that, I think needs as much understanding of this gender issue as people in this country do. But at least among the Dagara people, gender has very little to do with anatomy. It is purely energetic. In that context, a male who is physically male can vibrate female energy, and vice versa. That is where the real gender is. Anatomic differences are simply there to determine who contributes what for the continuity of the tribe. It does not mean, necessarily, that there is a kind of line that divides people on that basis. And this is something that also touches on what has become known here as the "gay" or "homosexual" issue. Again, in the culture that I come from, this is not the issue. These people are looked on, essentially, as people. The whole notion of "gay" does not exist in the indigenous world. That does not mean that there are not people there who feel the way that certain people feel in this culture, that has led to them being referred to as "gay."
The reason why I’m saying there are no such people is because the gay person is very well integrated into the community, with the functions that delete this whole sexual differentiation of him or her. The gay person is looked at primarily as a "gatekeeper." The Earth is looked at, from my tribal perspective, as a very, very delicate machine or consciousness, with high vibrational points, which certain people must be guardians of in order for the tribe to keep its continuity with the gods and with the spirits that dwell there. Spirits of this world and spirits of the other worlds. Any person who is at this link between this world and the other world experiences a state of vibrational consciousness which is far higher, and far different, from the one that a normal person would experience. This is what makes a gay person gay. This kind of function is not one that society votes for certain people to fulfill. It is one that people are said to decide on prior to being born. You decide that you will be a gatekeeper before you are born. And it is that decision that provides you with the equipment (Malidoma gestures by circling waist area with hands) that you bring into this world. So when you arrive here you begin to vibrate in a way that Elders can detect as meaning that you are connected with a gateway somewhere. Then they watch you grow, and they watch you act and react, and sooner or later they will follow you to the gateway that you are connected with.
Now, gay people have children. Because they’re fertile, just like normal people. How I got to know that they were gay was because on arriving in this country and seeing the serious issues surrounding gay people, I began to wonder it does not exist in my own country. When I asked one of them, who tad taken me to the threshold of the Otherworld, whether he feels sexual attraction towards another man, he jumped back and said, "How do you know that?!" He said, "This is our business as gatekeepers." And, yet he had a wife and children -- no problem, you see.
So to then limit gay people to simple sexual orientation is really the worst harm that can be done to a person. That all he or she is is a sexual person. And, personally, because of the fact that my knowledge of indigenous medicine, ritual, comes from gatekeepers, it’s hard for me to take this position that gay people are the negative breed of a society. No! In a society that is profoundly dysfunctional, what happens is that peoples’ life purposes are taken away, and what is left is this kind of sexual orientation which, in turn, is disturbing to the very society that created it.
I think this is again victimization by a Christian establishment that is looking at a gay person as a disempowered person, a person who has lost his job from birth onward, and now society just wants to fire him out of life. This is not justice. It’s not justice. It is a terrible harm done to an energy that could save the world, that could save us. If, today, we are suffering from a gradual ecological waste, this is simply because the gatekeepers have been fired from their job. They have been fired! They have nothing to do! And because they have been fired, we accuse them for not doing anything. This is not fair!
Let us look at the earth differently, and we will find out gradually that these people that are bothering us today are going to start taking their posts. They know what their job is. You just have to get near them, to feel that they don’t vibrate the same way. They are not of this world. They come from the Otherworld, and they were sent here to keep the gates open to the Otherworld, because if the gates are shut, this is when the earth, Mother Earth, will shake -- because it has no more reason to be alive, it will shake itself, and we will be in deep trouble.
Bert: Christianity has separated spirit from body and spirit from Earth. And earlier you talked to us about Christianity suppressing your culture. So there’s a suggestion here that suppression of homosexuality would be the way for the Christians to shut down the gateways, shut down the spirit, and shut down our connection with the Earth.
Malidoma: Yes! That’s right! Christianity stresses postponing living on earth, as of we are only here to pack up our baggage and prepare for a life somewhere else "out there." Jesus Christ is right here, man! And of course anyone else who knows more, who knows better, will be suppressed.
And you start with the gatekeepers. You take the gatekeeper and you confuse his mind. You threaten him and you throw him in the middle of nowhere. Then nobody knows where the gate is. As soon as you lose the whereabouts of the gate, then you have a culture going downhill. What keeps a village together is a handful of "gays and lesbians," as they call them in the modern world. In my village, lesbians are called witches, and gay men are known as the gatekeepers. These are the two only known secret societies. These are the only groups that will get together as a separate group and go out into the woods secretly to do whatever they do. And if they find you during their yearly symposium, they have the right to kill you.
Unless they go out on their yearly symposium, the village cannot be granted another year of life. They have to go out to do what they do, in order for the village to feel safe enough to live the way it has lived before. This is why, to me, we’re playing with our lives.
Bert: So our culture may not be granted another year of life.
Malidoma: That’s right! Every year it feels like the number of years that this culture is entitled to live is getting smaller. So God only knows how close to the chasm this culture is. This constantly- reiterated discomfort and hatred for the gay person is again another indication that every year we might as well be prepared for the apocalyptic moment when the stars start to fall to the earth.
You see, unless there is somebody who constantly monitors the mechanism that opens the door from this world to the Otherworld, what happens is that something can happen to one of the doors and it closes up. When all the doors are closed, this earth runs out of its own orbit and the solar system collapses into itself. And because this system is linked to other systems, they too start to fall into a whirlpool. And the cataclysm would be amazing!
Ask the Dogon, they will tell you that. The Dogon. They’re a tribe that understands this so well, it’s amazing, mind-boggling. And it is a tribe that knows astrology like no other tribe that I have encountered. And the great astrologers of the Dogon are gay. They are gay. There is a dull planet that, in its orbit, is directly above the Dogon village every 58 years. Who knows that, but the gay people.
I mean, I’m not just trying to make gay people look fine. This is the truth, man! I’m trying to save my ass!
Why is it that, everywhere else in the world, gay people are a blessing, and in the modern world they are a curse? It is self-evident. The modern world was built by Christianity. They have taken the gods out of the earth sent them to heaven, wherever that is. And everyone who aspires to the gods must then negotiate with Christianity, so that the real priests and priestesses are out of a job. This is the worst thing that can happen to a culture that calls itself modern.
Bert: That theme came up earlier with you and Martín, the Mayan shaman here, that if a modern society wants to shut down another culture they will go out and kill the keepers of the ritual.
Malidoma: Oh, yes! Because they know that this is where the life-pulse of the culture is. This is where the engine room of the tribe is. So if you go and bomb that place, then the whole mechanism shuts down. That’s pretty much what’s at work in the third world, and what has happened here with the Native American culture. And the thing about it is that humans are going to be begetting gatekeepers, no matter what. This is the chance that we’ve got. So maybe that means that sooner or later we’re going to wake up to the horror of our own errors, and we’re going to reconsecrate our chosen people so that they can do their priestly work as they should. Otherwise, I just don’t understand. I just don’t understand. My position about it is not so much that gays be just forgiven. That’s just tokenism. But that they serve as an example of the wrong, or the illness, that modernity has brought to us, and that we use that to begin working at healing ourselves and our society from the bottom up. That way, by the time we reach a certain level, all the gatekeepers are going to find their positions again. We cannot tell them where the gates are. They know. If we start to heal ourselves, they will remember. It will kick in. But as long as we continue in arrogance, in egotism, in God-knows-what form of violence on ourselves, no, there’s that veil of confusion that’s going to continue to prevail, and as a result it’s going to prevent great things from happening. That’s all I can say about that.
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Here Is A Very Interesting Perspective/ Interview Of An Indengenous Shaman Of The Dogon.
Please Read On:
Gays: Guardians of the Gates
An Interview with Malidoma Somé
Malidoma Somé recognizes that he learned more through his initiation as a Dagara tribesman than from his PhDs from the Sorbonne and Brandeis University. His name means "be friendly to strangers," and he is charged by his elders of the Dagara tribe of Burkina Faso (east of Nigeria and north of Ghana) with bringing the wisdom of his tribe to the West. His book Ritual: Power, Healing and Community (reviewed in this issue) is highly praised by Michael Meade, Robert Bly and Robert Moore. If you were not fortunate enough to catch his reading at the Elliott Bay Bookstore last August, you can find out more about him through the book and tape reviews in this issue.
During one of the Conflict Hours at the Mendocino Men’s Conference Malidoma spoke eloquently on indigenous people’s views of gay men. He kindly agreed to elaborate on his views as he sat with me among the redwoods of Mendocino.
Bert: At Conflict Hour you told us that your culture honors gays as having a higher vibrational level that enabled them to be guardians of the gateways to the spirit world. You suggested that our Western view limits itself by focusing only on their sexual role. Can you elaborate for our readers?
Malidoma: I don’t know how to put it in terms that are clear enough for an audience that, I think needs as much understanding of this gender issue as people in this country do. But at least among the Dagara people, gender has very little to do with anatomy. It is purely energetic. In that context, a male who is physically male can vibrate female energy, and vice versa. That is where the real gender is. Anatomic differences are simply there to determine who contributes what for the continuity of the tribe. It does not mean, necessarily, that there is a kind of line that divides people on that basis. And this is something that also touches on what has become known here as the "gay" or "homosexual" issue. Again, in the culture that I come from, this is not the issue. These people are looked on, essentially, as people. The whole notion of "gay" does not exist in the indigenous world. That does not mean that there are not people there who feel the way that certain people feel in this culture, that has led to them being referred to as "gay."
The reason why I’m saying there are no such people is because the gay person is very well integrated into the community, with the functions that delete this whole sexual differentiation of him or her. The gay person is looked at primarily as a "gatekeeper." The Earth is looked at, from my tribal perspective, as a very, very delicate machine or consciousness, with high vibrational points, which certain people must be guardians of in order for the tribe to keep its continuity with the gods and with the spirits that dwell there. Spirits of this world and spirits of the other worlds. Any person who is at this link between this world and the other world experiences a state of vibrational consciousness which is far higher, and far different, from the one that a normal person would experience. This is what makes a gay person gay. This kind of function is not one that society votes for certain people to fulfill. It is one that people are said to decide on prior to being born. You decide that you will be a gatekeeper before you are born. And it is that decision that provides you with the equipment (Malidoma gestures by circling waist area with hands) that you bring into this world. So when you arrive here you begin to vibrate in a way that Elders can detect as meaning that you are connected with a gateway somewhere. Then they watch you grow, and they watch you act and react, and sooner or later they will follow you to the gateway that you are connected with.
Now, gay people have children. Because they’re fertile, just like normal people. How I got to know that they were gay was because on arriving in this country and seeing the serious issues surrounding gay people, I began to wonder it does not exist in my own country. When I asked one of them, who tad taken me to the threshold of the Otherworld, whether he feels sexual attraction towards another man, he jumped back and said, "How do you know that?!" He said, "This is our business as gatekeepers." And, yet he had a wife and children -- no problem, you see.
So to then limit gay people to simple sexual orientation is really the worst harm that can be done to a person. That all he or she is is a sexual person. And, personally, because of the fact that my knowledge of indigenous medicine, ritual, comes from gatekeepers, it’s hard for me to take this position that gay people are the negative breed of a society. No! In a society that is profoundly dysfunctional, what happens is that peoples’ life purposes are taken away, and what is left is this kind of sexual orientation which, in turn, is disturbing to the very society that created it.
I think this is again victimization by a Christian establishment that is looking at a gay person as a disempowered person, a person who has lost his job from birth onward, and now society just wants to fire him out of life. This is not justice. It’s not justice. It is a terrible harm done to an energy that could save the world, that could save us. If, today, we are suffering from a gradual ecological waste, this is simply because the gatekeepers have been fired from their job. They have been fired! They have nothing to do! And because they have been fired, we accuse them for not doing anything. This is not fair!
Let us look at the earth differently, and we will find out gradually that these people that are bothering us today are going to start taking their posts. They know what their job is. You just have to get near them, to feel that they don’t vibrate the same way. They are not of this world. They come from the Otherworld, and they were sent here to keep the gates open to the Otherworld, because if the gates are shut, this is when the earth, Mother Earth, will shake -- because it has no more reason to be alive, it will shake itself, and we will be in deep trouble.
Bert: Christianity has separated spirit from body and spirit from Earth. And earlier you talked to us about Christianity suppressing your culture. So there’s a suggestion here that suppression of homosexuality would be the way for the Christians to shut down the gateways, shut down the spirit, and shut down our connection with the Earth.
Malidoma: Yes! That’s right! Christianity stresses postponing living on earth, as of we are only here to pack up our baggage and prepare for a life somewhere else "out there." Jesus Christ is right here, man! And of course anyone else who knows more, who knows better, will be suppressed.
And you start with the gatekeepers. You take the gatekeeper and you confuse his mind. You threaten him and you throw him in the middle of nowhere. Then nobody knows where the gate is. As soon as you lose the whereabouts of the gate, then you have a culture going downhill. What keeps a village together is a handful of "gays and lesbians," as they call them in the modern world. In my village, lesbians are called witches, and gay men are known as the gatekeepers. These are the two only known secret societies. These are the only groups that will get together as a separate group and go out into the woods secretly to do whatever they do. And if they find you during their yearly symposium, they have the right to kill you.
Unless they go out on their yearly symposium, the village cannot be granted another year of life. They have to go out to do what they do, in order for the village to feel safe enough to live the way it has lived before. This is why, to me, we’re playing with our lives.
Bert: So our culture may not be granted another year of life.
Malidoma: That’s right! Every year it feels like the number of years that this culture is entitled to live is getting smaller. So God only knows how close to the chasm this culture is. This constantly- reiterated discomfort and hatred for the gay person is again another indication that every year we might as well be prepared for the apocalyptic moment when the stars start to fall to the earth.
You see, unless there is somebody who constantly monitors the mechanism that opens the door from this world to the Otherworld, what happens is that something can happen to one of the doors and it closes up. When all the doors are closed, this earth runs out of its own orbit and the solar system collapses into itself. And because this system is linked to other systems, they too start to fall into a whirlpool. And the cataclysm would be amazing!
Ask the Dogon, they will tell you that. The Dogon. They’re a tribe that understands this so well, it’s amazing, mind-boggling. And it is a tribe that knows astrology like no other tribe that I have encountered. And the great astrologers of the Dogon are gay. They are gay. There is a dull planet that, in its orbit, is directly above the Dogon village every 58 years. Who knows that, but the gay people.
I mean, I’m not just trying to make gay people look fine. This is the truth, man! I’m trying to save my ass!
Why is it that, everywhere else in the world, gay people are a blessing, and in the modern world they are a curse? It is self-evident. The modern world was built by Christianity. They have taken the gods out of the earth sent them to heaven, wherever that is. And everyone who aspires to the gods must then negotiate with Christianity, so that the real priests and priestesses are out of a job. This is the worst thing that can happen to a culture that calls itself modern.
Bert: That theme came up earlier with you and Martín, the Mayan shaman here, that if a modern society wants to shut down another culture they will go out and kill the keepers of the ritual.
Malidoma: Oh, yes! Because they know that this is where the life-pulse of the culture is. This is where the engine room of the tribe is. So if you go and bomb that place, then the whole mechanism shuts down. That’s pretty much what’s at work in the third world, and what has happened here with the Native American culture. And the thing about it is that humans are going to be begetting gatekeepers, no matter what. This is the chance that we’ve got. So maybe that means that sooner or later we’re going to wake up to the horror of our own errors, and we’re going to reconsecrate our chosen people so that they can do their priestly work as they should. Otherwise, I just don’t understand. I just don’t understand. My position about it is not so much that gays be just forgiven. That’s just tokenism. But that they serve as an example of the wrong, or the illness, that modernity has brought to us, and that we use that to begin working at healing ourselves and our society from the bottom up. That way, by the time we reach a certain level, all the gatekeepers are going to find their positions again. We cannot tell them where the gates are. They know. If we start to heal ourselves, they will remember. It will kick in. But as long as we continue in arrogance, in egotism, in God-knows-what form of violence on ourselves, no, there’s that veil of confusion that’s going to continue to prevail, and as a result it’s going to prevent great things from happening. That’s all I can say about that.
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