I wrote about #PurificationDay and #ProphecyRock back in the 1990s. You should all pay attention. #Koyaanisqatsi (#Hopi word for "Life Out of Balance") is real!
The Hopi prophecies are coming true — here’s why we should pay attention
by Cyril Christo | Aug. 4, 2021 |
"In 1990, I had the extraordinary opportunity to visit the home of Martin Gashweseoma and Thomas Banyacya, Hopi elders in Hotevilla, the last traditional village on the Hopi Mesas, in the midst of the searingly dry and vast Arizona desert. To Western eyes, this almost inhospitable land is where one Nation, the Hopi have thrived without warfare for over a thousand years. There is a sense of profound freedom, clear and stark as the distant horizon. The Hopi are the preeminent dry farmers on Earth. When they speak about the elemental realities it is on the order of revelation. Thomas shared the vision of the now famous Hopi prophecies that describe this time of Powateoni, of purification, of social and ecological disruption that will eventually bring a time of lasting peace over the world’s people. But before that, we will have to go through the eye of the storm.
When I first heard Thomas’ words, I received them mainly as stories, warnings about Western man’s way of life that was out of balance with the Creator’s Law, a law that was once the very basis of our own Declaration of Independence. An indigenous group has disappeared every year since 1900. What unique and immemorial relationship with existence has humanity expunged in the name of progress? The answers are starting to haunt civilization in ways we cannot measure.
"The Hopi had been trying to get their message to the United Nations for years. They would succeed in addressing the General Assembly, but their voice would fall on deaf ears. Thomas raised his arms, as if brandishing an imaginary sword, the potential sword of nuclear annihilation, the nuclear sword of Damocles that hangs over all of civilization and the planet. The Hopi had suffered mercilessly at the hands of the U.S. government. In 1906 they were even starved so the “outlaw” traditional would sign a contract with Washington, DC. All in clear violation of what would later become the Genocide Convention Implementation Act."
The article goes on to say: "There was a time when NASA scientists were asking Hopi elders about what they could share about the Earth changes. Now we know. They are happening. And there is precisely nothing we will be able to do except go through the storm. Civilization has unleashed a monster beyond the wildest dreams of Doctor Frankenstein. The prophecies are daunting. They are not mystical and numinous. They are about an opening of an entirely novel order of being and relationship to the planet. An ancient metaphysics with a clear plumb line to the soil was being desacralized when Arizona Public Service imposed water, sewer and electric lines on a people who wished to maintain their sovereignty and who had no desire to pay taxes or become federal subjects, as we have all become. An entire way of living entrenched in an order of coherence our mechanical world cannot fathom, was coming unglued. The entire life force on earth was now in question.
"Today forces are being unleashed that will challenge the very foundations of society. The Hopi somehow foresaw the “talking cobwebs” and “flying villages” and even the house of Mica, the UN, generations before these things came into being. Knowledge that issued from a time before the computer and pollution that is killing clarity and life itself. I thought of the strength of the traditional elders years ago who were able to run dozens of miles a day. Much like the Tarahumara of Copper Canyon in northern Mexico. I thought of the prescience that came before computer models that so much of our society is beholden to. I thought of the crops the Hopi grew in near impossible conditions thanks to their prayers and songs. Science can dismiss these prophecies as mere superstition, as mere coincidence that cannot be proved or disproved. But to the Hopi the psychic pattern of the mind lives connected to its counterpart, the events of the worlds that unfold in the physical realm. The last time I saw the Hopi mesas, I felt an ancient metaphysics ebbing in the global drain. No discoveries by nuclear researchers at the CERN facility could match the intrinsic mindfulness of the elders.
"We face a more radical change in civilization than has ever occurred in the human time frame. The elders have warned us that the dominant society so very bent on subjugation and extraction of resources has “stirred the underground serpent,” which is bound to wreak future military and ecological havoc. Already the signs are here. We need to strengthen ourselves by running and taking cold baths say the elders. With the heat of the world now upon us, that will be a welcome respite for what we have unleashed on the world.
"Traditional elders have been locked in a battle with progressives for decades now, progressives who subscribe to the police state and the coal mines and the machinations of the dominant society. The traditional elders emphasize that the contest today is between those who subscribe to such prejudice and those who recognize the human family as a balancing influence within nature.
"If the mentality that rules the modern world wins, and the true caretakers of land and life lose charge of their trust, the human sojourn in this world will come to a painful conclusion, along with almost every other life form. But if the wisdom of the Ancient World prevails, our peaceful tenure could last indefinitely. It is time humanity chose either the path of annihilation or the path of everlasting life.
Not long ago Davi Kopenawa, an elder of the Yanomami of the Amazon, whose people have suffered invasions of their land, killings by foreign gold miners and unprecedented fires, told the world, whatever is happening to us, will happen to you.
"Listening, respecting and acting on the wisdom of the first peoples of the world may save civilization. The elders have been right all along. The emergency is here. It has arrived. The time to act is now."
https://thehill.com/changing-america/opinion/566362-the-hopi-prophecies-are-coming-true-heres-why-we-should-pay/
