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IS BABYLON FALLING?
In 2000, I asked Renny, an Elder Jamaican Rasta featured in my book Rasta Heart, if “Babylon” — the 5000-year-old patriarchal system of war, exploitation and divisiveness — was falling.
“No, mon,” he quickly replied. “Babylon has more to teach de people. It must reveal itself to your people like it revealed itself to my foreparents when it enslaved dem and brought dem to this island. Once dat is done, it will fall and Zion will rise in it’s place. De true Rastas here are working towards dis.” (Zion is the Rasta concept of a love-based world and has nothing to do with Israel.) …
Babylon is falling. It’s darkness has been revealed much more than is feared by those upholding it which includes many politicians and corporate top execs worldwide. Remember “apocalypse” is from the Greek apokalupsis, meaning “uncover, reveal,” from apo- ‘un-’ + kaluptein ‘to cover.’
We’ve each been given one/seven billionth of the task. Let’s each do our part.
Robert Roskind
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THE SILENCE OF THE STARS by David Wagoner
When Laurens van der Post one night
In the Kalihari Desert told the Bushmen
He couldn’t hear the stars
Singing, they didn’t believe him. They looked at him,
Half-smiling. They examined his face
To see whether he was joking…
