I wonder if I will ever be able to see a society in which we thrive peace and love - cheap words for many ears, which may consider them as a trite. I think I found out that the answer is present in certain societies who are estranged from this world, labelled as 'unnatural.'
I must speak of aboriginal people of Australia and their dreamtime phenomenon. As far as I can emphathize, dreamtime is different from our daily time where we interact with objects. Australian Natives, whereas, have a special connection with dreamtime where they can interact with something much more real than our shared reality. These people don't dream like majority of us; nor prosper their desires in their dreams. When they dream, the realm of dreams becomes authentic, and then it is acknowledged that whatever has been seen in the dream is a flux of vision descending from superconsciousness.
Through dreaming Australian Natives are authentically linked, because they know by experience that our shared reality is only a fragment of the entire phenomenon about consciousness. Through dreaming, they can feel the suffering of an animal, a plant and even an insect, as they have acknowledged the whole existence in its greatness.
In the deserts of Australia, one can see a native Warlpiri man praying before mala before he hunts down the hare-like animal. A Warlpiri first acknowledges the subjective-otherness of his prey; through such demeanor, he sees through the prey's body, and reaches its soul. When this happens, dreaming takes place. The hunter asks the soul if the prey allows him to hunt so long as his clan and family are fed. And it is most likely that the prey allows him, declares its life to be taken because its spirit has been acknowledged by a hunter. As soon the hunter acknowledges its subjective-otherness, the hunt is no longer an object, and becomes ready to move on from its animal path toward a higher consciousness. The hunter becomes one with the spirit of his prey in dreamtime, takes its body, as he frees its spirit, which has just been acknowledged by him.
Such higher level of treatment... these people are so skillful in their subjective treatment to the natural world that they easily empathize with an animal, even go beyond it, and contact its soul. Such reciprocity is beyond imagination...of a western man. For an aboriginal human being, it is a natural way of living... for this is, perhaps, what we never had.
Many Australian Natives celebrate life in such a way that nothing is being left out of this reciprocity. It takes only an afternoon for a Warlpiri to satisfy all his desires, and then what is left is to stare at sunset on the rim of the burning desert, and dance, and tell stories about hunting, discovery of new species, and how these species can be honored in the next dreamtime.
This is no dream. This life still exists, although vanishing day by day, as the ambition of our industrial society is growing maliciously to no end. This life... it seems so close, but also distant - just like how we feel about love. Thus we will never understand a thing about love, though everyone is free to make up his own story about it.
Love is reciprocity.
I must speak of aboriginal people of Australia and their dreamtime phenomenon. As far as I can emphathize, dreamtime is different from our daily time where we interact with objects. Australian Natives, whereas, have a special connection with dreamtime where they can interact with something much more real than our shared reality. These people don't dream like majority of us; nor prosper their desires in their dreams. When they dream, the realm of dreams becomes authentic, and then it is acknowledged that whatever has been seen in the dream is a flux of vision descending from superconsciousness.
Through dreaming Australian Natives are authentically linked, because they know by experience that our shared reality is only a fragment of the entire phenomenon about consciousness. Through dreaming, they can feel the suffering of an animal, a plant and even an insect, as they have acknowledged the whole existence in its greatness.
In the deserts of Australia, one can see a native Warlpiri man praying before mala before he hunts down the hare-like animal. A Warlpiri first acknowledges the subjective-otherness of his prey; through such demeanor, he sees through the prey's body, and reaches its soul. When this happens, dreaming takes place. The hunter asks the soul if the prey allows him to hunt so long as his clan and family are fed. And it is most likely that the prey allows him, declares its life to be taken because its spirit has been acknowledged by a hunter. As soon the hunter acknowledges its subjective-otherness, the hunt is no longer an object, and becomes ready to move on from its animal path toward a higher consciousness. The hunter becomes one with the spirit of his prey in dreamtime, takes its body, as he frees its spirit, which has just been acknowledged by him.
Such higher level of treatment... these people are so skillful in their subjective treatment to the natural world that they easily empathize with an animal, even go beyond it, and contact its soul. Such reciprocity is beyond imagination...of a western man. For an aboriginal human being, it is a natural way of living... for this is, perhaps, what we never had.
Many Australian Natives celebrate life in such a way that nothing is being left out of this reciprocity. It takes only an afternoon for a Warlpiri to satisfy all his desires, and then what is left is to stare at sunset on the rim of the burning desert, and dance, and tell stories about hunting, discovery of new species, and how these species can be honored in the next dreamtime.
This is no dream. This life still exists, although vanishing day by day, as the ambition of our industrial society is growing maliciously to no end. This life... it seems so close, but also distant - just like how we feel about love. Thus we will never understand a thing about love, though everyone is free to make up his own story about it.
Love is reciprocity.
