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Pontificating With Whats Her Face:

It Seems We May Have Lost Touch With PachaMama But Its Not Too Late To Re-communicate

David Shane Shelton, MA, Indigenous Mind, Wisdom University, May 2011, Corral Ranch 1841 Pearce Ct., San Marcos, Tx, jamiedave@grandecom.net, 512.754.0427

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It seems we have, as of late, disconnected ourselves from our self-sustainable eco-field. This eco-field is not unlike the Te-Tao Ching. Through an objectifying mode we have grown into a self-conscious state but at the expense of our environment as we no longer put in the required effort for the quality of our genuine eco-field but rely instead on only the quantified, synthetic versions. As our brains developed, it seems we have strived for the paterial, the mental, conceptual development, predominantly masculine associations, and less of the material, the physical body and feminine associations of Mother Earth, Mater. We systematically began a shunning process of the body and the eco-field from whence it came. There still remains a connection to the field, if not minimally, through various art forms of indigenous cultures and religious sects and existing mythologies. Our modern tales no longer embody this connection as they tend to speak of the evils of the field and of Nature or not of it at all. We have created synthetic versions of Nature to fulfill, although they do not, our inner voids as these synthetics are quantifiable. Repressed portions of our psyche, often times of feminine aspects, remain stranded in our unconscious, thus we continually project them onto Nature and material creations; relying on these synthetic versions causes and creates our inner turmoil. We must bring forth our shadows to our self-conscious state and cease our projecting in order to continue. If we remain unconscious to awareness we allow the subtle potential of wholeness to become misconstrued into a trick of material versus paterial gatherings. Our ego has been developed and used, thus far, as a tool to collect energy in this misconstrued pattern. It must, instead, be used as a fulcrum to channel energies through it to enhance connectivity. Our ancestors developed exercises

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and meditation. As we create this new ideal ego to become a conduit, we revel in the diversity of our eco-field, ceasing to generalize the nuances of our eco-field; this attentive observation in each unique variable develops clarity of mind and density of soul and a joi de vie.

keywords: Mater, Pater, material, paterial, mysteries, Devil, breath, eco-field, synthetic

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welcome to our world From Mater Earth to Pater Sky we journey and in doing so have divorced ourselves from Nature, creating disharmony with our eco-field. Through synthetics and misinterpreted mythologies (often entirely re-written) we have systematically devilled our environment and left only a brewing tension within our collective psyche. There is a course correction available and the following pages will take us through each of the offsets and offer methods to re-integrate what is tantamount to metaphorical forks in the road. Over the course of the last twelve thousand years, give-or-take, our brain has developed finer and finer folds in its development. This, in turn, has led to our collective consciousness, born of the cosmic consciousness, to interpenetrate Sheldrakes Morphogenetic Field, of which our eco-fields reside within, and experience first hand this phenomenal realm from the inside rather than from a simply objective viewpoint beyond. The most apt description of the Field I have found to date comes from an interpretation of the Te-Tao Ching by Robert Henricks. In his book he says: the Tao resembles an untended and uncared-forfield, and the varieties of wildflowers that grow in such a field represent the ten thousand things and that the field accomplishes all that it does without taking any action (wu-wei); that is to say, we never see the soil actively doing anything; all that happens seems to happen on its own by nature; it does nothing, and yet there is nothing left undone (wu-wei erh wu-puwei) (Henricks, 89).

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Yet, have we not still looked upon this realm with predominate objectivity? A self induced calving from our surroundings, our eco-field (also know simply as Nature) has left us with a curious illness of the psyche. Modern physicists had set mankind back for many decades. In ignoring the effect of the Zero Point Field, theyd eliminated the possibility of interconnectedness and obscured a scientific explanation for many kinds of miracles. What theyd been doing, in renormalizing their equations, was a little like subtracting out God (McTaggart, 2002). We are still heavily reliant upon Mater Earth (Latin for Mother) for protection, or shelter, and nourishment, food. I use Mater as I am fascinated with the connection between the concepts of Mother and that of matter tied together in this old terminology. We ceased, however, looking back to her for guidance in the form of crucial life sustaining information exchanges from our ecofields to assist our decision making. This is plainly awareness and represents an organisms ability to perceive, interpret, and respond to environmental information (Bhaerman, 2009). We instead sought this from the quantitative, empirical science realm which to this point excludes the conscious element of our existence for consciousness is unquantifiable. In its primordial condition, humankind possessed an instinctive knowledge of the profound sacred unity and interconnectedness of the world, but under the influence of the Western mind, especially its modern expression, the course of history brought about a deep schism between humankind and nature (Tarnas, 2006). We shrugged off the Mater once we discovered our Pater Sky (Latin for Father) to indulged the mental states of development (roughly 5 to 6 thousand years ago) and the enlargement and greater refinement of the brain (Pater and paterial will be

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consistently used as a term, the latter, I think, invented for the use of this work to define the conceptual realm in contrast with the material realm). Thus, trial after trial of attempts to exert independence from our surroundings ensued, and was subsequently followed by the realization that we were not the center of the universes attention. This upsetting moment may very well have caused the original abandonment issues with the Mater and we have only responded violently on the one hand, blaming Mater Earth, and with disillusionment on the other as we sought in vain the answers from Pater Sky. When the lines arent appropriately coordinated, mild to severe psychopathology occur (Esbjorn-Hargens, 2009). We still carry this stigma with Nature. However, as our brains developed so, too, did our consciousness gain greater and greater access to interpenetrate the implicate order through the brain and physical body (not unlike a puppet). As we gained more self-awareness, we found always something missing within our psyches and always something or someone else to blame for it, some subtle nuance overlooked as we have successfully repressed the separation, the turning from our Mater. The answer, we are slowly awakening to now, has always been hiding in plain sight within our projections. This fault allowed for a newly developed ego to maintain an arrogant stance of defiance toward Nature (Mater) for the abandonment rather than taking responsibility for our own failings to maintain a feeling of connection in some form, and has since led to many a misinterpreted data exchange with Nature and the Field.

the field Evidence of the Field can be seen to manifest throughout the various cultures of

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history via art and mythology. For example, the Aborigines create interactive drawings to depict areas of water and food and shelter to share as a map with those in need. These maps are derived from Dreamtime, yet another descriptive term of the Field, is it not? As well, Muslims and Hindus (among others, including Christians) utilize sacred geometry to decorate and tile their homes and temples/mosques. Sacred geometrics are paterialistic renditions, conceptual forms of the Field, as these peoples have conceived of them, as seen in The Blue Mosque in Turkey, The Dome of the Rock in Jerusalem, Notre Dame de Paris, and Mandalas. These forms act out and otherwise bring to this waking realm the story to which science more-or-less describes as an integration of the forming of the implicate order (via David Bohm) to chemical reactions of materials, building and destroying into biological flora and fauna; to which we, our consciousness, thus enters (science diverges at this last point). And, the Field itself? Could it be that the strings of which some physicists speak so highly of in their incessant wriggling (the strings not the physicists) to form wave after wave of energy patterns, light particles, and forms, into what we now call sacred geometry, could have ultimately led to molecules which led to cellular structures and to us? In this upward spiraling of flesh and biological form do we not meet the cosmos as it spirals down into multi-verses, our universe and its plethora of galaxies, down into our galaxy, our solar system, our planetary system into our own personal eco-fields? Could we be the meeting place of these two incredible spirals of energy? We have been discussing the Field all this time throughout history in our mythologies. Tales of the Golden Fleece as that material which, when woven by

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Grandmother Spider (as a cultural cross-referencing example), creates the Web of Life or the mythical El Dorado of Amazon Basin infamy? For it is not a road to a literal city of gold as the Spanish had so hoped, nor a wild goose chase as the Spanish then believed it to be, rather it is the road to the higher plane, to the Sun, ascending, then back to the Field! I do not believe that anyone of the Incan or South American cultures of the time ever intended to return once they embarked on this journey. In more recent history, the stories changed and no longer included the search for the Field. Rather, they sought to warn of the dangers lurking beyond the city walls. Little Red Riding Hood and Hansel and Gretel come to mind as well as were-wolf lore. Ancient tales such as these identified women and men who sought to embody particular animals such as Native American shape-changers; yet, in Medieval times (or perhaps Roman, post-Roman) a spin was made of this activity to instill a fear of Nature and of those who pursued this folly. Were-wolves, were-bears or foxes (use of a predominant predator was to, Im sure, cap the lore) changed the mindset from a seeking out of the animal to those whose souls had been seized, devilled, and made to seem bestial because of their Nature wanderings. Finally, I want to mention modern tales of the last sixty plus years as they mention little or nothing of Nature and focus on the existential void of the human spirit. Has the outright repression of Nature led us to this seemingly dead-end as evidenced in the progression of the stories told by the Bards of each time period?

synthetics As the brain develops, so too does our self-awareness and the want to explore the

PONTIFICATING entirety of this realm to which Grandmother Spider, Shiva and all of the names of splendor have been so generous to weave. We look into each nook and cranny, and

rightfully so, every probable combination, every possibility of what we can take to such an extent that we now enter a concoction of modern and post-modern mental states where we are no longer sure what is or ever was real, diverging from the authentic message of the sages to seek wholeness within the duality of the Field through our sensory modes and we cognize the objective world by projecting outside of ourselves the causes of our sensations, presupposing them to contain these causes (Ouspensky, 2011). And, I look on with everyone else for something to fill me for I am not sure I even understand what this wholeness entails. As we separated and isolated ourselves from Nature we began unconsciously to re-create a synthetic Nature to surround us, a safe one. Our unconsciousness would continue to project its cravings for relationship onto this entirely false world; thus voiding our psyches upon plastic representatives incapable of supplying in return provisions equal to that of Nature. This is the tension our species is feeling currently, this rift between our society here in the modern/post-modern West and ancient cultures much nearer the Primordial Mind, the Cosmic Consciousness, nyana ( as the Buddhists call it). The culture and the church would have us believe it lurking and seeking to blacken our very souls. Yet, everyday, just outside our homes, is the answer we cannot, somehow, see: Nature as a fair representation, a reflection of our unconscious. Nature, the pre-personal world, isself-alienated Spirit, [and] without any help whatsoever from the ego. What happened in the historical Garden of Edenwas not the instigation of

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where we can not evolve further without this lost part of our psyche for Nature is [our] unconscious perfection (Wilber, 2001) even as irrational as it may seem. So, rather than gathering herbs from our own eco-field, to which we are entangled, we have pharmaceutical companies recreate synthetic versions for us to ingest for ailments possibly created by them (including mind expansion drugs to create controlled nonordinary sensory experiences); rather than gather nuts and berries and hunt, we have corporations with engineered foods and fast food restaurants and diners serving high fat content foods; this coupled with our sedentary lifestyles and a constant influx of generated high electro-magnetic fields maintain the rift from the fountain of the primordial and our potential to further evolve.

devil and shadows At some point, we bought into the story given us by the church which was that what was once Pan, Cernunnos (Yum Kaax of Mayan Mythology) has now, in fact, become Devil. And, Devil is the gardener of Nature, they say. Devil is an archetype containing our shadows; is the embodiment of us, our dark side. Devil shows us our repressed behaviors and beliefs deemed deviant by a society in a collective state of denial. We must, at once, unmask this Devil and see ourselves, our long shadows. Regardless of what this archetype or shadow is called (Cthulu even comes to mind as a modern version of the demonic harbinger of ill-will hiding in the depths of our

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subconscious as a tool to prevent us from seeking there our answers), we must, at once, bridge the gap to this dark place within us and work to blend in the light of gnosis. I find it unbelievable that we see Nature out there everyday and never fully acknowledge the connection, the longing to re-connect with the lower levels of our pre-conscious condition to re-align the long standing breach in order to settle our post-modern dilemma. There is the process of dynamic repression in Western psychology which refers to higher-order levels of consciousness emerg[ing] in development, [only to]

repress the lower levels... (Wilber, 2001).

Such concepts which become contaminated by lower levelsare feltto be threatening to the higher-order structure of the ego-mind, distort[ing] the self-concept (the ego)and become shadow; leav[ing] the individual with a false self-image (Wilber, 2001). This false self-image of Devil can be acknowledged and integrated thus preparing our psyches for the mysterious concept of wholeness. Thus we have become paterially ignorant clouding the primordial intention of our species to bring forth and create something more, something great and mysterious; of a higher nature-order through our collective, subjective experiences within the Field. For only selfobservation [will] inspire construction (Needleman, 2009) and an ever present intimacy with the Field can affect our attitudes and our personal work on ourselves (James, 2007). Beyond self-observation, epiphanies must burst from within us through subjective experience to see and acknowledge various and diverse forms of consciousness all around us, at all levels. Our conclusions, I am certain, will reveal the subsequent entanglement between these levels as they all have emerged from the Field; all forms of

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flora and fauna each originate from the Field and hence the primordial and remain still connected. Buddha declares that in order to achieve perfect enlightenment one must realize that no object of awareness exists independently of the awareness of it. The very categories of mind/matter are conceptual constructs, whereas pure experienceis primordial (Wallace, 2009). The various levels of consciousness throughout the eco-fields provide, then, various perspectives and inter-subjective interpretations of the information provided by each of the other perspectives. It is here that the Dance of Shiva can be used to metaphorically explain this inter-subjective dialogue with the Field and the primordial. Shiva is at once the light and the dark, flickering on and off, giving and taking the information and processing it to and from the Field, from material to paterial, from the form of Vishnu (light embodied) to the outer nothing beyond being Brahma (darkness, nothingness). Meanwhile, in science, physicists are coming to the conclusion that information exists as a nonphysical propertywhileJohn Archibald Wheeler insist[s] that information must be meaningful to a conscious subject (Wallace, 2009). However, thus far, and due to distortions, we have misinterpreted the information. We are, I believe, unconsciously aware of this and have been repressing it back to shadow in Devil form. Devil then reaches back through the mirror at us to get our attention as we have not yet made any true attempt to collectively face it, listen and shed light into it. With Devils distractions we fall prey to Trickster and the original message of the Sage becomes incomprehensible. Loki, Coyote, et cetera (many cultures, many names) all speak humbly of seeking wholeness. We, through our own hubris, aggressively seek this through our material senses and perception, a god perceived as the old man who

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will appear physically before us or the image of the Virgin Mary to assist us; the newest techno-gadget-phone-thing to guide me, you, and us. Only now, we have become so inundated that we expand our unconscious dagger into the technological realm (which becomes outdated in a blink) and just as quickly our emptiness returns; causing need for more, for a fix. At a deep, shadowy level we know that these things will never fulfill us in the way we want (need, really) and we continue our unconscious projections. I do believe technology to be absolutely a positive step forward. My concern lies in a possible over-reliance of them to somehow offer us a miraculous rescue from Devil, for it to do the unmasking work for us. To continue, then, we further project our wants, stemming from this place of emptiness, onto our spouses, family and friends only to void ourselves all the more. One of the most persistent of all delusions is the conviction that the source of our dissatisfaction lies outside ourselves (Wallace, 2009). Each of us seeks, as do our neighbors, friends, family, for no one of us is capable of filling the deep shadow requirements of any of the above mentioned since each of us contain a similarly held interior creating the separation from each other. Instead of taking, we should be giving from within. The Wizard of Oz is a spot-on example of seeking to fulfill our inner-needs with exterior validations. The Tin-Man, Scarecrow and Lion all search extensively outward for their treasure to put within themselves only to find, after transformational journeying, that what they have sought lays within them already.

how is the tension eased? Nature is the beginning of the ease of this tension. It is an example, a reflection of

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unconsciousness, our souls. Nature is within our sensory perception, but not separate from us, beyond us as we have always believed. Merely reaching out to Nature will not fill us either. We must take note to expend energy as we take for balance. We are mutually obligated to each other to sustain both of our existences. However, over several thousands of years we have mostly focused or entertained that which in our lives provides joy, the passions of life; repressing the pains of the world into shadow as we do not want to assess them properly. Thus spring our pills and hamburgers to distract and maintain the ever upward ratcheting pleasures; Devil was purposefully conceived to corral us into the walls away from older modalities of behavior and thinking. We must have, at the time, believed that to repress negative elements of distraction which held us back from the light were connected with the material and the body and thus held back our potential. Of the paterial, we seem to constantly change, fixate, and change again, evolving rather quickly in that respect. While, materially, our bodies (which include the housing of the brain and the physical brain) grow and change, yes, but at such a slow pace comparatively that I wonder if the egoic sense of superiority (due to this quickly adaptive paterial sense) does not feel as if the material aspects had become dead weight. If so, would the ego not want to abandon such aspects and, hence, create and maintain a mind/body split believing wholeness to be solely paterial? Nature seems to have fallen into the cracks, a mode which includes the initiating elements: water and rock within and without relative to our bodies of Mater; fire representative of our will and drive, and present with the frictions of movement and digestion; and wind, our breath. Paterially these elements have lost their inter-objective

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connection with us; they are solely external devices of Nature. Fire has, metaphorically, supplanted our breath with the development of the ego; fire has been garnered by the ego as a tool of self-preservation of itself to drive the remaining elements at its whim. Ego has dammed up our breath, so to speak; there is a special egoic state now vulcanized in our psyche (but not impenetrable) which holds onto our breath as it enters, holds onto the sound of spirit rather than allowing its authentic reverberation to fully emerge into consciousness. The ego dams up our energies and seeks to collect them entirely into one basket as it believes it is creating wholeness in its work, in actuality creating a whole-mess. Our breath has become stagnant, our music only amplified by the need for external praises rather than personal internal soulful means. The holding keeps the mind (paterial) and body (material) separate for Devil is in the Mater and the body must be repressed. Seeking fulfillment still through sensory perceptions, the ego maintains its stance through material acquisition, processed however through paterial, and when these acquisitions do not match up with the conceptual the data is warped to fit the sensory reality only. How do we utilize this to construct our psychic bridge to reconnect our selfconsciousness with that which is held unconscious, back to the Primordial Mind for the original message: Wholeness? We must reach into the pool to rediscover our true nature and the meaning of wholeness, correct the deviation with Nature and move forward. For now, we remain collectively in a hypnopompic state, just beginning to awaken and wanting to open our eyes. We have been conceived into the Field and find ourselves primed to be a part of something greater, a chance to synchronize with the galactic pulse as it nears its pulse-time.

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material sets. The polar energies flux one within the other. Symbolically, the shape of the cardioid contains this metaphor of fluxing energies I am trying to express. The cardioid is the shape of a cross-section of an apple, its seeds the interior loop (representing our material bodies, the outer loop our paterial minds). We can then mindfully differentiate them and properly see the two as one working one within the other. We must create a dialogue with Nature to gain inter-objective awareness through inter-subjective conversations, another interior seed of the cardioid. Plotkin would say that when we open ourselves to this dialogue we begin to soul reflect rather than ego project and Ouspensky would suggest that we mindfully attend the now for clarity and integration. Through this dialogue, this form of breath-work, we unmask Devil and see once more our Cernunnos selves within. Spiral outward from our own yards to our neighborhoods, city, state, et cetera throughout the entangled eco-fields in ever expanding, enfolding cardioids of energy, one becoming the seed portion of the next level cardioid and so on. Artwork and breath-work, such as Kundalini or Holotropic methods, creates a dialogue back-andforth, spiraling together in a rotation of our egoic center and Nature. This resonance will pass through us as if we were a prism and our paterial thoughts will blend with the material actions of our bodies in seeming paradox. We stop projecting and stop generalizing, allowing polarities to rotate within egos rotation while our conscientious breathing, our puha (to use a Comanche term for breath), sounding releases the damworks; energy flowing freely to and from each aspect allowing us and Nature to breathe

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together. Nature, our unconscious, waits patiently for us to breathe again; and, with the development of an ideal ego which occurs when lines are actually integrated into a coherent self-system (Esbjorn-Hargens, 2009), our mutual sustainability will be assured and tensions eased between eras of conscious development.

generalizations Aborigines have multiple names for water holes, the Inuit have multiple names for snow, Shiva has 10,000 names, and Allah has 100. So, too, must we not only see trees separated to oaks and ash, but each oak is also a Lacey Oak or a Live Oak. Even further distinguishing the uniqueness of each Live Oak we see the torsion of each trunk as different, each branching at different heights and angles to the point where we realize, with epiphany, that each Live Oak tree is unique unto every Live Oak tree in the grand scheme and golden threads of the Field woven from the metaphorical golden fleece of mythology. Generalizing and categorizing are cerebral activities that stimulate a brain activity that reduces the perceptual richness and intensity. [Thus], the propensity to approach the diversity of the natural world with a categorical eye has the effect of lumping together all our different perceptions, thereby obscuring the nature of reality (Lawlor, 91) thus modernity let[s] these differentiations collapse into dissociation [and] condemns the pathological dissociation, not the dignity of the differentiation themselves (Wilber, 2000). We turn to each other and realize the same for each and every human. It opens, it zooms in on the fractals of life to such detail that, at times, one can not help but be overwhelmed by the beauty within the Field and the ordered chaos surrounding us.

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vessels and open up the neo-cortex and synchronize our slowest mental wavelengths, delta waves 2 to 3 cycles/second, with that of the Earths. The frequencies of our EEG tracings are all ELF, extremely low frequency, waves, as are the inherent frequencies generated by [Mater] Earth and some other natural phenomenaand their individual wavelengths are essentially close multiples of the Earths circumference (Baumann, 2010). This Earth-ELF relationship may have been integral to the early development of our brain wave frequencies (between 2 and 30 Hz) (Baumann, 2010). A mythological example comes to mind regarding humans and our propensity to generalize in the tale of the tower of Babel. We had put aside all of the nuances of the eco-field, at the time, and insisted there be one language, one people, one everything (I am tempted to think this another misguided attempt at wholeness). The scattering of the people and the diversification in the aftermath of the towers destruction reinstalled our need to search and to learn, a second chance to actively seek authentic wholeness. It seems we have only built an entirely new housing instead: the ego. The old saying: the devil is in the details could be tied, I am sure, to this Babel concept. It should read: the beauty is in the details. Nature has infinite details for us to seek out and treasure for there should never be one of anything (this may very well be an idea held by Robert Frost and, if so, all the better). We are misinterpreting (have been for 5 thousand years, give-or-take) the original message of wholeness and projecting the emptiness left, voiding ourselves from within and coming to the conclusion that the messenger must have intentionally deceived us (it could not be us, could it?). Thus the Sage becomes the Trickster in our nave little

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minds. The feedback loop only brings in pills, high-fat greasy foods (in some cases) and base-chakra sexual encounters which are only emptying of soul, not filling. These projections and outbursts only serve to enforce the tension between nyana (cosmic consciousness) and our current state, this aberration with Nature being the root. As we learn to open communications with Nature and breathe, our egos will work in unison with our psyches needs, a virtual heart-pump, and open our minds to greater mysteries and, one can only hope, authentic wholeness.

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