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Big Egos Have Small Ears
…“Big egos have small ears.” Hopi elders have been speaking on the topic of space exploration for generations and have publicly issued warnings of what catastrophes will take place if you bring items back from the moon. The five missing tourists egotistically chose to go where human beings have no reason being. One of the five passengers recently went on several expeditions. He boasted of his excursions to space, also down to the depths of the Mariana Trench, and to the South Pole. These were done with intent to add expeditions under his belt and obtain Guinness World Record titles. What was all for this for?! Ego. The western mentality of “conquering”. …The billionaires were going to visit a mass grave site for fun. As Indigenous people, we know there is a specific protocol and purpose to enter certain places. If you lack respect for such power, consequences like this can surely take place!..
— Donna Morton
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Man, poor man, has to learn to function in these two ways of consciousness. When a man is in touch, he is non-mental, his mind is quiescent, his bodily centres are active. When a man’s mind is active in real mental activity, the bodily centres are quiescent, switched off, the man is out of touch. The animals remain always in touch. And man, poor modern man, with his worship of his own god, which is his own mind glorified, is permanently out of…
