Shadows on the Moon

When we do not have access to the deep wisdom of our bodies, the earth, our intuition - we end up hiding who we are in the shadow realms.

We try to understand ourselves through bouncing ourselves off the walls of the popular culture. All that is reflected back is the emptiness and loneliness of this place and time. The current popular culture is based on a tradition that goes way back to the emergence of war-like cultures. Cultures that emerged after the matriarchal cultures had been destroyed by the concept of domination based on might. The values that came out of the culture of the conquerors were based on this concept. And it is in the best interest of dominator cultures to keep the masses unaware of their own power. To convince them that they are do not know what they are talking about - to subjugate them and to punish them for attempting to connect to their body wisdom, to their deep intuitive sense of what is right and wrong.

Thousands of years later, we have a culture dominated by greed and consumerism. This is the new approach to domination. It is domination for the purpose of subjugating those who get in the way of the profit motive. One of the ways the dominator culture does this today is to promote consumerism. So once we have been disconnected, or never been connected, to our bodies, the earth, our intuition - once we are a world of people who are discouraged and depressed and confused because we do not know or understand who we really are - we begin to fill up the hole this causes with "stuff." We spend our money, run up credit card debt - work harder to make more money to buy more things. And the dominator culure - no longer "hordes with swords", but now multinational corporations - keeps feeding us the litany of separation so we come to believe that this is the path to happiness. And we abandon the language of the moon - we abandon our deep connection to the earth, our bodies, our deepest selves to chase after more material wealth, prestige, social acceptance from others caught up in this insanity. And everything around us in this popular culture, works overtime to convince us that this is the right path for us to be on.

And this path leads the whole world to the brink of disaster - to the rape of the earth, to a completely unsustainable culture that rains suffering on every part of this world. Including the suffering of those who live the "high life" - because in the end what greater suffering can there be than to be lost in illusion, cut off from the body and the spirit of who you were meant to be.