Benefit for the U’wa of Columbia | San Francisco, CA. March, 2001

Well, I’ll try to be coherent. And, I don’t know exactly where we’re going, but wherever it is, we’ll be okay. But if I say anything that you don’t agree with, that’s just really what it is, right? Because I really am crazy.

[Reads poem]

In the reality of many realities. How we see what we see effects the quality of our reality. We are children of earth and sky. DNA. Descendant Now Ancestor. Human being. Physical spirit. Bone. Flesh. Blood as spirit. Metal. Mineral. Water as spirit. We are in time and space. But we’re from beyond time and space. The past is part of the present. The future is part of the present. Life and being are interwoven. We are the DNA of Earth, Moon, planets and stars. We are related to the universal creator. Creator created creation, spirit and intelligence, with clarity. Being and human as power. We are a part of the memories of evolution. These memories carry knowledge. These memories carry our identity beneath race, gender, class, age. We are human beings and these memories are trying to remind us human beings, human beings. It’s time to rise up. Remember who we are.

I think I want to talk a little bit about who we are. Because the reality is based upon our perception of reality. That’s what it is. But we really need to understand this. You know, I think one of the objectives in life is to understand, it’s not enough to know. I think I know how to turn on the TV, but I can’t even begin to understand how it works. So it’s not enough to know.

So I think one of the purposes that life teaches us is, the further we make it into life, the more coherency we have left and we will understand. Sometimes I feel like I’m in a reality where I’m surrounded by all these beings that don’t know who they are. They don’t know who they are, and because they don’t know who they are, they don’t know where they are. They don’t understand the language that they speak. So there’s a general confusion and chaos that just takes place in their reality. It’s almost like, you know, the way they make all the little chaos going in an internal combustion engine, you know, all the sparks and all the stuff just flying and it creates an energy that runs something. Anyway, it’s almost like this is the perception of reality that is being carried around in the human consciousness.

So anyway, who we are. We’re human beings and the DNA of the human being, our bone, flesh and blood is literally made up of the metals, minerals and liquids of the earth. We are literally shapes and forms of the earth. That’s who we are.

And we have being. Our being comes from our relationship to the sun and to the universe. Because our relationship to the sun, I mean, let’s be very clear about this. We’re not the sun. We would not have life. All right? It’s almost like the rays of light that the sun represents and brings to the earth. See, this is the sperm that gives life to the womb that earth is. So our relationship to power and our relationship to the reality of power is connected to that relationship.

So anyway, what I see, the human, the being part, the being part of human is being mined through the human experience. Their mining us. Whoever they are. I don’t have the names, but I know we can figure some of that out on our own. And I’m sure they have names, I’m real sure that they do. But I can’t say them. They don’t want us to know their names, right? Because what they’re doing, in a way it’s like vampirism. But anyway, in a mechanical term, we’re being mined. And the being part of human is being mined through the logic of the human and the emotions of the human. The spirit of being is what is being mined through the emotions of the human in order to run the systems. I mean, this is the purpose of technologic civilization. They call it techno logic for a very specific reason. This isn’t an accident. Okay? You know, it really isn’t.

And so one of the civilizing processes is to erase memories, right? To erase memories. Because we have ancestral memory. It’s encoded in the DNA. It’s a genetic memory. You look at our technologic civilization and everywhere that it goes, the longer it’s there, the more isolated the human beings. But they’re not called human beings, they are workers and citizens, etc., right? But the more isolated they feel, they no longer remember. Maybe they remember their grandparents or their great grandparents. But you’ve got all that ancestral knowledge that’s encoded in the DNA, but it’s been cut off so it can’t activate, because if we’re not conscious that it is there, then we can’t. This is a memory that is very important for them to erase. And it’s about who we are as memory of identity, and self reality.

So anyway, because we come from where we come from. Every one of us is the descendant of a tribe. Every person in this room is a descendant of a tribe. At some point in our ancestral evolution common collective genetic memory that’s in there, you know, that’s encoded, like I say, in the DNA. For every individual encoded in our individual DNA is the experience of our lineage from the very beginning. Whose whole perception of reality was what I was just saying. All things were made up of the earth. All my relations.

So, you know, they didn’t pray to man or human form. The closest they came to it was, they prayed to spirits. They were called ancestors, right. And because they were praying to those ancestors for help and guidance, they understood that we were borrowing today from the past, and the future. We’re borrowing it from both places. So they had this understanding of reality. They knew that to keep the balance was the purpose. That was the purpose. The reason for being was to keep the balance.

So this was like, I will call it, a spiritual perception of reality. And so because of the spiritual perception of reality, they understood that life was about responsibility. It wasn’t about the abstraction of freedom. It was about responsibility. That life was about responsibility. So the spiritual perception of reality was based upon that. We were the children of the earth. The earth was our mother, the sky, the sun in the sky, this was our father. And right. And our reality worked for us.

[Poem reading]

You know, calm, collected, genetic, ancestral mind. Not a one of our ancestors went for the new show. Nobody wanted it. They wouldn’t buy the tickets. So the show was going to die. So the show decided, rather than it die it would make our ancestors die until they accepted the show. And this is what happened. It happened to all of us. Whatever happened to the Indians here, trust me, it happened to the tribes of Europe. It started happening to them 3000 years before it happened to us. So by the time the virus got here, they had it down. You know, they were very efficient. They could do in a couple hundred years what took thousands. I mean, no offense.

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So in our collective genetic ancestral memory, we had the experience of encountering the technologic perceptional reality. Because somewhere as this thing unfolded and refined itself as it was spreading over the planet, a religious perception of reality was used to replace a spiritual perception of reality. All right, because the spiritual sense of reality, you’re connected to everything. You know, you’re connected. But in the religious perceptional reality, see, you committed a crime for being born. Your fucked for getting here. I didn’t make this up. And I’m not making it up now, alright.

So, anyway, in order to justify being here, to get to stay, you had to submit to the male dominated chain of command. The authoritarian system. Then this new religious reality said, you know, well, now there’s one God. You know, see these gods battle it out amongst themselves. So you see, I can’t envision. To me, I’ve never been able to envision gods or goddesses. I can’t imagine a creator in a human form. I mean, I can’t. And I think our path to trouble started when we started to do it that way. You know, I’m looking at the earth as the mother. Call her the goddess, whatever it is. See, but I don’t go with God. I know that’s a limited perception of reality. See, they forced it on us. But the trouble came, see, when when we decided that the creator entity had a human form. See? Because then that rationalizing justified mistreating the rest of the natural world, right? I mean, sexism and racism came out of this perception because once you’re under the new God thing, see, the earth was no longer the Mother. The earth was the property of this new God.

And, all God’s children. God didn’t have a lot then, but they were very mean so their numbers expanded. But God’s children, their objective was to subdue the earth for this God. So in order to achieve that objective, they had to create sexism. So sexism has got a lot to do with how we live with the earth. So now the Earth was property, and all spiritual value was separated from the earth. It was now a religious perceptional thing. It just wasn’t a part of the reality anymore.

So not a one of our people really went for this. Because it’s like, you know, this is a major perceptional reality change. But anyway, we committed a moral crime for getting here. So now we had to submit to that world view. To me, clearly to me, it’s clearly a blatant, a very blatant perception altering how one perceives reality. I mean, it’s brainwashing intensified to its maximum. Because our ancestors were forced to see life differently in order to remain just physically alive. You know, I don’t really know that much about what happened, you know, but I would suggest every person of European ascendancy, that you go and you study, you want to know more about your reality, go and study your tribal ancestry and see how you got civilized. Right? See how you got civilized. Because terrible things happened. And these terrible things, these are what altered the perception of reality. See, and because the basic, basic part of this and that altering of the perception of reality, what we’re getting down to is, is it made us become irresponsible as human beings. We can blame the bad guys for being bad guys, but that don’t work. It’s not enough. It’s about human beings remembering their spiritual reality, their spiritual identity, and accepting the responsibility from that perception or reality. Taking responsibility because the bad guys only get away with what they get away with because we don’t take responsibility. Because there’s a difference between blaming somebody for something, and taking responsibility.

So when Columbus got here, he got off the boat and he said to the first people he saw, who are you? The people he saw said, we’re human beings. And Columbus said, oh, Indians. Now, Columbus is every descendant of the tribe of Europe that came anyway. We’re not talking one person here. We’re talking a mindset, alright? This is a mentality that came, a Columbus mentality, we call it. You know it’s almost like this is when the virus got here, and this is how long it’s been here. But because, you know, we’ve never had this disease before, we don’t have an immunity to it. But if we can survive the ravages of this disease, we will have all of an immunity to it, because we are the part of the Earth.

Anyway, Columbus got here and he didn’t know what it meant to be a human being. See that perceptional reality of being a human being and what it really meant had been erased from descendants of the tribes of Europe by the time they got here. So when we introduced ourselves to the Europeans as human beings, they just didn’t get it. It wasn’t a part of their perception of reality. They might know how to say the words right, but being a human being had changed in their reality.

We know there was an inquisition, and this inquisition went on for 4 or 500 years in Europe. The purpose of the Inquisition was to alter the perception of reality of the descendants of the tribes of Europe, to make them believe and see reality the way the church wanted them to believe and see reality. The church called it. They waged a war for possession. For possession. This is important. They waged a war for the possession of the souls of the godless heathens. And to be a godless heathen, you just didn’t believe in God. It wasn’t part of your reality.

Or another way, becoming a godless heathen was to question the authority of the church to do this. So, you know, again, I’m not making this up. You know, this did transpire. These things did happen. And they killed as many people as they could, I guarantee it, in order to get the other ones to submit. So they killed as efficiently as they could with the technology they had at their disposal at that time. Because they created a rationalization as to why to do it, it just became as efficient as they could do. And at some point, the descendants of the tribes of Europe no longer knew what it meant to be a human being. They didn’t know. They didn’t want to know. So the descendants of the tribes of Europe, in the end, had to love what they feared, which was there to possess them. So, you know, I think it messed up love in a lot of ways, you know, that they haven’t unsorted yet. Yeah, no offense.

But anyway, all of this took place through our intelligence. Our intelligence. Now, whoever it is we pray to, however we pray, however we do that, I think that we have an obligation and a responsibility. And it’s about respect. If we respect our creator, then we should use our intelligence as intelligently as we can, as often as we can. And that means with clarity and coherency. That means to activate and respect our intelligence and activate the thinking process so that it’s going the way we want it to be, because that’s why it was given to us. We were given intelligence.

This is what was there to help us through the evolutionary reality. To ride the balance, so to speak, of the evolution with our intelligence. It’s our medicine, it’s our protection. It’s our self-defense. Those fears and doubts and insecurity in one’s daily mind and reality, how much do they affect one’s daily mind? In reality, how much do they effect the people around them that they’re connected to and care about? So what’s the repercussions of the fears and doubts and insecurity? Because I guarantee you, every day when we get up, we use our intelligence to create those effects. So it isn’t that we’re not using our intelligence or we can’t use our intelligence. We can’t stop using our intelligence. But it’s about us human beings taking the responsibility to be as clear as one possibly can be about it, and use our intelligence the way our creator gave it to us to use. Keep the balance. Our intelligence. So everything that ever happened, had to change the perception of reality. This battleground had to take place. The real battleground may have been the bleeding and the dying, but it has to do with the intelligence to alter the perception of reality.

So again, about respect. So if we respect our creator, we have a responsibility to recognize our intelligence and use it as clearly incoherently as we possibly can. Otherwise we’re just pretending. We’re just being delusional and rationalizing and justifying and just telling ourselves a big lie. If we do not use our intelligence as intelligently as we possibly can, that’s how we show respect to our creator. Then you can’t say you don’t know because I just told it to you, right?

And, when you vote for the lesser of two evils, I condemn you. Actually, if you vote for either one of the two evils I condemn you. By our acceptance of the lesser of two evils, so to speak, we’re using our intelligence to create what goes on. I don’t vote. I did vote in Amsterdam, whatever that means. Picked the winner. We didn’t have to have recounts. We knew. Okay, but I don’t vote because, I mean, my reasons for not voting are very valid. See, when they created the voting system here, the Democracy here, when you created it, I was the majority. Hey, look at me over here. Oh, I see, you’re the enemy and you can’t play. So the little majority rule then came out of the smallest number of people. The smallest number of people on the entire hemisphere continent. They decided it was going to be majority rule. And something about it, right, I don’t trust. I inherently don’t trust it. And I don’t understand why you do. So now that we’re the smallest numerical minority on our own land base, they say, come vote. So in that scenario, who’s stupid, me or them?

And I’m bringing this up about democracy for this reason. And this is about coherence and using our intelligence. I think that every generation of human beings has a responsibility to decide how they and their immediate descendants will live with the Earth. I think it’s our responsibility. I think it’s our responsibility to do that. And I think when I look at democracy as a native person, see, to me it’s just another chain. Freedom is a lie. You know, democracy, I mean, think about it. Every democracy had a landowning class. Every democracy had some form of slavery. Every democracy had some form of sexism. And I’m saying this not because I’m trying to overthrow anybody’s anything because, you know, it’s just, you know, it’s not about that. It’s about the next generation. We live in an evolutionary reality, and maybe it needs to evolve in the best interest of our seventh generation. It [Democracy] may be the enemy. But I don’t mean just it by itself. I’m talking about all of the industrial faces of control systems, whether it’s democracy or fascism or socialism or any one of these industrial faces and mechanisms to control the mass of people.

Because every one of these systems have a small class and an ethnic rich and industrial ruling class, and a planetary ethnic rich. And everyone of these governments, no matter what they call them, they serve that master. So don’t misunderstand me. This isn’t about, you know, a perception of reality here. That’s the reality.

I come from a tribe, and whatever’s been going on in my evolutionary journey, I still remember that. It’s never been a question about the memory. But they’re trying to take that memory away. But the memory of the tribes 100 or 120 years ago, Geronimo said the Americans, they’re messed up. He called them the Americans. See, so I feel a kinship to those ancestors and what they saw and what they tried to stand up against. I feel more of a kinship to them than I do to be a lapdog to this system and promote this lie, alright? Because I think it’s irresponsible. And I think that when people are afraid to think about what needs to be thought about, that’s the danger of the lie, the casualty of war. Afraid to think, you know. So I will say democracy, because you’re not supposed to say anything bad about democracy, but I’ll say it. I don’t look it as I’m saying something bad. I’m just saying this is what it is. You heard the other side. So I want to say this side.

See, every word has its own meaning because it makes its own sound in a vibratory world. Every word has its own meaning, you know, so, like democracy, that noise, that sound, noise, whatever it is. My ancestors, 30 generations ago, never heard that sound. That noise was never made here on this land base. It was alien to them. So I think the word freedom shouldn’t be used so frivolously, you know, and I think that somewhere in the course of this it is about responsibility. This is a word that needs to float around in our consciousness. And we need to plant that seed and let it nurture in our consciousness that life’s about responsibility because we will synchronize closer to what it is we seek in our life. Because it’s very difficult to deal with an abstraction of freedom by a people who don’t know who they are and what they’re saying, you know, okay, no offense. I’m not talking about you unless I am right.

And believe is another word, right? I believe. You see, I come from people who have beliefs. And I’m a part of those beliefs. And I respect those beliefs because they are part of my reality. But then, on the other hand, every time I hear somebody say, I believe, it makes me cringe inside. So I cringe a lot. It should be more in harmony, right? The sound. And I think believe might be a word that’s not in harmony, although that’s the illusion that’s been created that we’ve been led to believe. See, I think it’s better to say either I know or I don’t know or I think. Yeah, I think I have intelligence. I think my intelligence has been drugged with this information. My intelligence has been sent on a trip. I’m tripping. Can we understand it that way. Yeah? Friends.

So it’s more passive, right? Believing. And I think we should respect our intelligence and it should always be active. It should be active. If we can create our own daily insecurities and miseries and fears, we can use that same intelligence to create a whole much better reality. And the collective reality, all the causes and movements and the things that we feel are right, that we chase that reality is not going to really change until we change this other one. Because this thing has been going on for like 3000 years. You know, everybody’s been protesting and standing up. The same old struggles. Just a new generation saying new words, dancing to new music, to new instruments. But it’s the same old thing. Check out a little bit of Paris or France in 1430. Check that place out, man. It’s the same thing, the rising. Check out the rise of industrial civilization or the Industrial revolution in America in the 1800s. Same thing. So this same struggle by the human beings to just try to stay alive. It’s been going on for a long time. So what I’m saying, what I mean is like, so it isn’t that we haven’t been trying for such a long time. We’ve been trying to right a thing to make it more right. The balance.

I think maybe what we should consider is it’s us who are being mined. So we need to interfere with that mining process. And so we need to become as clear as we can. It’s about responsibility. There are no rights and no freedom without responsibility. I guarantee it is about responsibility. I think that’s the liberators word. You want to be free, then be responsible. I think that’s the liberators word. Because then we are taking direct action with our intelligence. Because, see, there’s not anything wrong with us. We really need to be ourselves. We need to be real to ourselves. We will get closer to synchronizing our balance. The first thing is we need to be real to ourselves. We need to be able to face ourselves because if we can’t face ourselves, then, you know, we should think about that. Because the other thing is, whoever it is, the coming generations, the creator, the whoever it is, if we’re not willing to face ourselves all right, then in some kind of a way, we diminish our respect for them. Because we are here to be real. When we look at ourselves, we have a way of saying, going to the fourth mind, which means to look at everything, but you rise out of it. You look at it from outside, from the top to bottom, all the way around, from the inside. You look at it from under it. You look at a thing every way that you can, and you see it for what it is. And then you act. See, and we need to understand, to do that without judgment. It’s not our responsibility or our right to judge. You can judge nothing without judging yourself.

You know, and and it’s already been determined that most of us, we’ve judged ourselves negatively. Through our fears and our doubts and our insecurities. So let’s look at that thing about judgment. It’s our responsibility to see clearly and learn from our clarity and our coherency. That’s our responsibility. It’s not our responsibility to judge and condemn. So in order to be real to ourselves, you know, we got to be careful about rational self rationalization and justification and these little things that pop up disguised as something else.

We need to be real to ourselves. And if in our reality there are shameful things. Alright, then don’t lie to yourself about it, because a shameful thing isn’t necessarily really shameful things how we perceive. But if there are, I’ll put it this way. If there are things in our reality that we’re not comfortable with, alright, then we should see it for what it is without judgment. And if we can’t live with it, it will evolve out of our behavior pattern, you know? And if it bothers us, but we can live with it, then it’ll stay. And the things that we do good on the other end, the things that we perceive from that perception. See, everything should be seen exactly for what it is.

Another thing that goes back into the spiritual reality that’s been altered by the religious reality. I think there’s too much pride. I think pride is something I’m proud of. You see, I think it’s something you give, but it’s not something you take. Because every time I’ve ever seen anyone take pride, they take too damn much of it. I’ve seen it organizationally, I’ve seen it individually. I’ve been the player. So I think, you know, maybe life is really more about humility. See, we come from an ancestral past. The part of the genetic memory. See where humility was connected to our participation in reality. And we were grateful and we were thankful. We when we say, I’m proud, really, we’re happy. And wouldn’t it be more clear to just say that? I’m happy or I’m glad or I appreciate it. These things come from the being. Pride comes from the human. I mean, it’s these types of alterations that were done to us, right, that keep us from synchronizing. And you know, there is no answer. The only answer is, is that we have the intelligence and the responsibility and the ability, all right, to create the solutions to the problem that we’re confronted with.

Now, I guarantee you, you know, you can you can deal with the lesser of two evils, but there is no political solution. And I think you know that. I think everyone knows that. Right? But they just feel powerless to do it. So they want to avoid dealing with that reality. And I’m saying, hey, let’s look at reality and deal with reality. I got intelligence, I accept the challenge. I have the ability. This is why I was given it. So there are some miscalculations in me. I kind of messed up a few times along the way. So what I learned from it, it’s part of who I am, right? But that doesn’t mean the coherent parts and the clear parts aren’t clear and aren’t coherent.

In some subtle way, it’s been created into the human, into the human being’s mindset, you got to be the perfect person in order to get it done. But at the same time, all right, at the same time, nothing’s perfect. And we all know that. So just accept ourselves for who we are and show respect to our creator by using the gifts that the creator gave to us. And I’m not trying to get anyone to believe me or not believe me or any of that. Right. Because but it’s really about thinking, you know, the objective is about thinking. Because our relationship to power, I’m going to start to wind out of here. But our relationship to power is connected in our relationship to clear, coherent use of our intelligence. You had some rain here, right? And some wind. I mean, so let’s look at us. Every human being is a raindrop, all right? And when enough of the raindrops become clear and coherent, they then become the power of the storm that the existing reality has to endure. It can’t arrest it, indict it, change it. It has to deal with it in a realistic way.

Human consciousness. Maybe we’re all snowflakes or raindrops. We’re all peace a little. We’re little tremors in the earth. Right? Maybe we’re all part of that scene when we become clear with our coherency. Then this collective thing happens and you have power. And that power is the power that we connect to as we live our lives. Because I’m telling you, you know, how many of you feel powerless to deal with your life? And I’m telling you, if there’s anybody in here that feels powerless to deal with your life, you know, don’t take two aspirin.

For the next generation that’s coming, I think, have an understanding about the value and reality of your intelligence. I think it’s very crucial that they have that understanding to make it through this, because we’re being mined at a rapid rate. And I think it’s very crucial, alright, to the continuation of the living species, not just the human species. You know, I mean, the living. So it’s got to be about intelligence to the next generations. But the only way we can do it is we can’t tell it to them. I mean, we can say it to them, but we have to show it to them, because we aren’t part of an evolutionary reality. And we will influence the evolution. We will because our intelligence is always active. So it’s just about taking responsibility. But we will influence the evolutionary reality, and we can influence the evolutionary reality out of a base of loss and frustration and self-judgment and things that’s been going on for the last 300 years or 400 years here, which has led to this situation.

We can use some clarity and coherency and influence the evolutionary reality in a more clear and coherent way. Every struggle that we must engage with, whether it’s political or economic or social, all these struggles are necessary, alright, to keep this circulation going. The other part of that reality is we have to outthink what it is that that we’re challenged by or that oppresses us or does whatever it is, we have to outthink it. It’s that simple. The first act of being free, and liberation, alright, is the act of taking our intelligence back, taking our imagination back, our ability to think. That’s the first act of liberation. That is the very first act, alright, of conscious liberation. The first steps towards respect for the creator is one understanding that we have that intelligence.

And for our next generation, you know, we have a responsibility to direct as much intelligence into that as we can, because this thing about life and death, you know, this technologic reality’s been around for 3 or 4000 years now, and you know, it’s all realities based upon death. So therefore, at some point, it must die. Our whole objective as human beings is to stay alive. I mean, really alive, not surviving. Existing. I’m talking about alive, connected to life and living. See, we have to outlast it because we can’t fight it. Because it’s violence and it’s aggressive mindset, alright, it’s beyond parallel. But that doesn’t mean that it’s powerful, that just means it’s violent and it’s aggressive and is without parallel. And you better be damn careful of it.

But that’s what that means about power. Our relationship to clarity and coherency and the use of our intelligence is our relationship to power and we can out-think it. Simple math. Simple math. It’s a mathematical thing. In the authoritarian state system, only X amount of people are given permission to think, yeah. So theoretically we will out last them if we will just do what is necessary to get there. Your descendants and my descendants depend upon us to keep the reality of the living alive, and we are going to influence the outcome no matter what we do. So I’m talking about, let’s take some responsibility. And let’s influence it in a more clear and coherent way. Outthink them, trust ourselves and our ability to think. And each and every one of us was given just as much intelligence as we need. It’s not a contest.

I’m going to close, and I thank you for being here and getting whatever you got out of this right. Thank you.

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