The Inspirational Sources - the Fire In the Mind and Heart - of America
Those Without A History Are Like Wind In the Buffalo Grass
In the wild creative heart of America lies a fiery crucible of the imagination - and of creative, spiritual and intellectual power - as yet not fully tapped.
The following quote echoes similar quotes found in Western philosophy - but for some reason the dramatic nature of this recognition - strikes me as being most relevant in coming - as this does - from the philosophy of the Oglala Sioux people of the Americas.
“Those Without A History Are Like Wind In the Buffalo Grass” 1
I highly encourage those who would truly understand America and the roots of the brilliant documents which we were given by the founding ancestors - to take a good long look at the original peoples of this land.
It cannot be overstated how deeply the roots of the government which these founding ancestors tried so hard to institute - and which we as Americans paid such a high price for - lie in the history and anthropology of our Native American cousins.
It should well serve as a parable - and as a warning to all - that the governance which would do what our system did to the Native Americans - will do it to anyone if allowed the chance.
The founding ancestors - the rugged individualists who served as the band of revolutionaries who wrote the US Constitution, Bill of Rights and Declaration of Independence - were British colonists and citizens during the revolutionary war.
The United States began as a collection of thirteen colonies belonging to Britain.
The band of revolutionaries we consider our founding ancestors were regarded as so much traitorous white trash by Britain.
As they worked in Philadelphia to agree on a version of the Declaration of Independence they could release - they were risking their own lives, the lives of their families - and the lives of every other American patriot.
Britain had used the Tower of London - and its dungeons and professional hangmen - as the premiere method of dispensing with those who did not support the status quo.
The practice of going after witches and heretics and burning them alive at the stake was primarily preserved for lower profile dissenters.
The roots of the ancestry of these founding revolutionaries go back far into the ancient roots of British and European history.
This band of rag tag revolutionaries shared a history in which many of their freedom seeking ancestors had been put to the death with a murderous zeal we now associate with British royalty and aristocracy.
The founding ancestors were regarded as traitors by their British cousins.
Although there have certainly been many attempts to establish a more populist government in such European nations - predating the Magna Carta - it was not so much the Europe of their ancestry which inspired the founding ancestors.
It was the freedom loving Native Americans - their more egalitarian nature and their use of citizen counsels for mutual decision making - which captivated these British colonials.
Everywhere across the legacy of our ideas of American style freedom - lie not only the echoes from the Magna Carta and from the philosophy of the European Enlightenment - but more poignantly the echoes of the social and political structures of Native Americans.
The founding fathers may have started out as close minded European White males - and truth be told still exhibited the traits of such humans during the revolution - but the fire in their hearts and minds stemmed from their knowledge of - and often grudging admiration for - the original inhabitants.
The wild heart of the original inhabitants - and the wild heart of the land - served as an undeniable crucible for the source of those fiery imaginations of our founding ideas.
What we come to if we truly study pre revolutionary America is the fire storm of the heart and of the mind which is our real heritage.
And it is so poignantly true that our government promoted the opposite of freedom for Native Americans, for African Americans and for all women.
Does this huge character fault mean we should discard our founding ideas and documents as if they were so much trash - nothing more than a sound and a fury - signifying and illustrating nothing?
Quite the contrary.
Not a day goes by when I don’t wish I had these imperfect, founding American, traitorous revolutionaries to speak with.
As we go through the present resurrection of totalitarianism in our midst it may often seem that these now shredded documents and ideas - mean nothing.
We may feel a shadow which tries to convince us that human beings are worthless - and that endeavoring to such a high bar of excellence - worthless.
When we think of the hypocrisy of these ancestors - and now burdened by the abject failure of - and - criminal behavior of our current government we feel overwhelmed and disillusioned.
And if we arrive at the conclusion - as I have done - that our government has committed genocide against not only their own native inhabitants - and across many nation states - and now has committed modern genocide through the Covid 19 apocalypse - what remains?
What remains is the fiery imaginative and creative and spiritual passion for the pursuit of just the very ideas and writings which have gone before.
America - the land, the people, the arts and music - the eagerness to come together as builders - and not as destroyers - as lovers and not murderers - as those dedicated to spiritual and intellectual excellence - is the crucible which has brought into being this process of which we are still a part.
America - not dead and moribund - but alive - the real fiery crucible which lies at the heart and soul of the achievement of these very ideas.
In the wild creative heart of America lies a fiery crucible of the imagination - and of creative, spiritual and intellectual power - as yet not fully tapped.
What these thoughts inspire me to is that we shall not rest - shall not put down this heavy load for a second - until on one fine day we look around and recognize that we have achieved the impossible dream - the dream of generations of humans - past, present and future.
And on that day we can declare - “sons - daughters - rise”!
The wrong path would be to choose despair and self pity - as those are the very spiritual speed bumps all of us as humans encounter on our trip as immortal wanderers here.
In our quest as human beings we have the opportunity to rise to the promise our creator furnished us with - in granting these unalienable rights - and in seeking to achieve the fiery creative imagination we will find necessary to see us thorough such a magnificent quest.
When in the Course of human events, it becomes necessary for one people to dissolve the political bands which have connected them with another, and to assume among the powers of the earth, the separate and equal station to which the Laws of Nature and of Nature’s God entitle them, a decent respect to the opinions of mankind requires that they should declare the causes which impel them to the separation.
We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal; that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable rights; that among these are Life, Liberty, and the pursuit of Happiness; that, to secure these rights, governments are instituted among Men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed; that whenever any form of government becomes destructive of these ends, it is the right of the people to alter or to abolish it, and to institute new government, laying its foundation on such principles, and organizing its powers in such form, as to them shall seem most likely to effect their safety and happiness.
The United States Constitution
As Americans - and as human beings - we have the responsibility to honor the creator - the Nature’s God - to whom we owe all glory.
May we be blessed with the heart and souls of warriors and with the fiery crucible of the imagination and creativity which guide our paths
Praise be to our creator and may the creator bless all the peacemakers.
MAY THE GUARDIAN ANGELS BE OUR GUIDES.
Fabulous❣️ Written beautifully. Will save it.
May God’s War Angels descend upon this country, and help us put it right with God’s plan, worshiping Almighty God with love and deep appreciation for our planet, our freedom, and the knowledge that God alone controls the Earth. God’s laws are the laws of the Earth, and of the people who live on it. We must obey his righteous laws in order to be a civilized people. Many in America have rejected God in their actions and deeds. We must call out to our God with repentance, and ask Him to come back to America. We presently are infested with soulless demons ruling our America. May God find us worthy to return to us, and destroy the evil upon this nation. Pray with all your heart and soul to our mighty God , our creator. 🙏🇺🇸
"In the wild creative heart of America lies a fiery crucible of the imagination - and of creative, spiritual and intellectual power - as yet not fully tapped." Yes. We have not yet begun to tap the power of the human heart and the divine light that flows through Nature including our nature.