"Grown men may learn from very little children, for the hearts of little children are pure, and, therefore, the Great Spirit may show to them many things which older people miss." This seems like something a society needs now and then, a season when the salmon swim upstream to keep the life cycle of the river in balance. But one might says that that those supporting and participating in the occupy movement are sort of Heyoka's themselves in that they are moving in the opposite of the dominant direction. The momentum of modern culture has a dominant clockwise spin. Zintkala Oyate, as quoted in Heyoka magazine (6 December 2006) There are things that Black Elk and Lame Deer did and said things in a way to divert the tensions at that time when the pipe way was under attack. If you look at this world most things flow in a clockwise cycle but you also have that small element in life that goes the opposite direction. "Black Elk and Lame Deer were Heyoka which means that you literally say and do things backwards in a humorous manner but whose spirit helpers are the powerful thunderbeings. In fact, Black Elk and his friend might have been occupiers of a sort in their own day. Black Elk at the end of his life was very dismayed and troubled at the state of affairs in this land but I suspect he would be heartened somewhat by the season of Occupy. I like to think that the spirit of the native people of this land is helping to power this new season in America, this spring that is now emerging. They basically described the wachusi of being "users" and "takers", something that stood out in bold relief when set aside their "base every decision on looking forward every 7 generations" philosophy. As I recall, the Oglala Sioux described the wachusi as appearing to be gripped by a sickness - one that made them blind and deaf to the impact of their actions on other people and the world. I think there are accounts in John Neihardt's legendary book Black Elk Speaks ( ) of Native Americans describing the look in the eyes of the white people (wachusi) they encountered for the first time. Their arrogant, haughty and selfish demeanor in "the zoomed in version" may look like confidence, but when the camera pulls way way back to reveal the 150 foot tidal wave bearing down on them, they just look silly.ĭon't mess with mother nature. especially when the camera pulls back for the observer to witness the entire scene in context. Journal look serious and important in their $10,000 handmade suits, but, when you get right down to it, their arrogance and confidence is comical. The elite corporatists worshipping the Wall St. We can either align our human activities with those forces, those seasons, those waves, those tides or we can feebly attempt to resist them with comical valor. There are forces at work that are far more powerful than anything we might design. It really reminds us that there are bigger things than human society. "You can crush the flowers, but you can't stop the spring." Frovikleka shared a wonderful quote today:
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