THE FORCE OF THE PRIMAL
Lessons from the hunter-gatherers and other indigenous wisdoms
“The consciousness of the seer is a greater power of knowledge than the consciousness of the thinker. The perceptual power of inner sight is greater and more direct than the perceptual power of thought.”
Sri Aurobindo
The primal mind was able to commune intimately with nature as well as obtain non-local information from the Field of spirit. Without their intuitive abilities they could not have survived. These ancient medicine men and women and shamans were the original seers. Genomic studies have shown that the San Bushmen were the first people. Humans first arose out of Africa. There is rock art in the Apollo cave in Namibia going back 25,000 years ago showing evidence of shape shifting (therianthropes, human figures - part animal part human) which occurred during trance dancing. We were able to attain advanced states of consciousness millennia ago not easily achieve today.
“Wilderness holds the answers to questions we do not yet know how to ask.” David Brower
“In the realm of nature there is nothing purposeless, trivial or unnecessary.” Maimonides
The deeper we go, the less we know. More information does not make it any less mysterious. It helps us spiritually to be in awe of the mystery rather than trying to explain it.
Behold all creation with awe – seeing into it its sacredness.
Sacred mystery is to be experienced not to be deciphered. To be entered not to be decoded.
The mystery is not to solve problems or overcome temptations.
The mystery is to behold wonder and embrace joy.
The way is not to God but with God.
The force of the primal manifest as love, is the glory of God.
The saddest and most impoverishing notion human beings cling to is that we are limited by laws of the natural world.
There is a crucial difference between being subject to, and being constrained by.
“Miracles happen not in opposition to nature but in opposition to what we know of nature.” Augustine of Hippo
Miracles do occur within the natural world but are outside our limited understanding of the dynamics.
We are not restricted to the laws of nature, only to those laws we ourselves have contrived as to how nature works. These are limited. The hunter-gatherer mind was not inundated with the type of information and knowledge acquired through education or infatuated by technological wonders. Hence, they were able to access information not confined to the space-time continuum which escapes most of us educated beings. During sleep they received similar information in their dreams.
When we observe the intuitive abilities of primal peoples we see magic. When they look at our technology they see magic.
Manipulating this life force which caused consciousness and energy shifts was easy for primal peoples. We all have this universal, feminine force - Shakti, Kundalini in Yoga - though few of us nurture it. The Bushmen call it Num, the Zulus, Umbilini. Many tribes in Southern Africa recognize it as snake like and resting dormant in the lower belly as is the Kundalini serpent energy until it is moved by some form of spiritual practice. For indigenous peoples it was mobilized by drumming, dancing often with rattles around their ankles and chanting. This power is key to spiritual transformation and accessing non-local information on the other side of the veil between the worlds. Indigenous tribes in Southern Africa are masterful in using this for healing, cleansing, protecting and accessing vital non-local information from the Field. Indigenous peoples in the Americas also used entheogens, sacred, mind altering plants in ceremony and ritual to access non-local information.
Click and play this short video of the Bushman trance dance taken in the Kalahari 22 years ago.
San Bushmen Out of Body Spirit Healing Trance Dance
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