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The Masculine World
All 600+ Native American tribes were monotheistic. Believing themselves and all things — animate and inanimate — to be part of the Divinity, they created societies that brought out the best in people.
Consider a society based on three truths: we are one with each other, one with the Earth and one with our Creator. Consider a society where you are taken care of from cradle-to-grave, where men and women are equals and though the “chiefs’ were all men, there were often chosen by the clan mothers who chose the most giving, altruistic tribal member to lead.
Chiefs could only persuade — never command.
Each tribal member chose what they loved to do — hunt, gather, conduct ceremonies, build shelters, protect the tribe, take care of the young, old or sick, etc — and they offered their efforts to the tribe. All efforts were considered equal. They developed no “labor-saving” devices because they relished in their “labor” and it kept them fit…They lived within a society that brought out the best in humans.
Around 5000 years ago, this newer culture — let’s call it “Babylon” as the Elder Rastas do — began in Babylon, Sumeria and India. It was based on greed, money, private ownership, power of force, patriarchy, and three lies: we are separate from each other, separate from the Earth and separate from our Creator. It no longer remembered the…
