As a young man, I made several journeys across the United
States, from San Francisco to New York City and back, crisscrossing the
continent by car, train, bus; and a lot of hitch-hiking. On one trip I went
north as far as Saskatoon, where on the night of a new moon, I fixed my eyes on
the Northern Lights. I was restless and searching
for America. I wanted to get a feel for its immensity, its people, history and
destiny. I was often haunted on my pilgrimage by the voices of slaves in
chains, and on the Great Plains, felt the presence of thousands of hungry ghosts
of the old ways...
“I can still see the butchered women and children
lying heaped and scattered all along the crooked gulch as plain as when I saw
them with eyes still young. And I can see that something else died there in the
bloody mud and was buried in the blizzard. A people’s dream died there. It was
a beautiful dream... the nation’s hoop is broken and scattered.” Black Elk
The hoop means the sacred circle of a people’s being.
It was on those trips that I first had the sense that there is no straight line
of Progress; it’s an invention of the West, along with the mechanical clock,
and Taylorism. All cultures offer humanity different ways of being in the world
with diverse ways of seeing, hearing and feeling.
“The central revelation of anthropology is the idea
that the world does not exist in some absolute sense, but is just one model of
reality, the consequence of one particular set of adaptive choices…” Wade Davis
That’s also a central tenet of NLP: The Map is not the
Territory. That the limitations we experience are generally due to our model of
reality and not Reality in itself.
There still exists myriad of ways of thinking, visioning,
listening, connecting- experiencing the world. Maybe there’s still time to find
another road before all the hoops are broken, before the dominant model of world
globalization turns us all into hungry ghosts.
The anthropologist Wade Davis defines ethnosphere as “the
sum total of all thoughts and dreams, myths, ideas, inspirations, intuitions
brought into being by the human imagination since the dawn of consciousness”
He offers us amazing examples of how different visions
of life make for completely different possibilities of existence:
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