Message In A Bottle

worldKatherine Frisk – Call me old fashioned. But if you do not understand how the seed and how the root system works in biology, you cannot understand the fruits of any plant that appears on the surface.

The same goes for humanity. In the modern world we ignore the seed and the root system and pay attention to the fruits. These days if we do not like what comes out of the ground we just chop it down, or genetically modify it, or even patent it to make money. The thing about seeds and root systems is that they can stay dormant for centuries, eons in fact, in spite of companies like Monsanto. And when then climate is right, they will re-grow and flourish. So no matter how much the powers that be might try to manipulate and control society, our seeds, our roots, will always be there, waiting for a spring rainfall to let them grow, flourish and develop.

At one time in my life I made a study of the Bushmen of the Kalahari. They have the oldest genetic structure of all race groups in the world. Today there are only approximately 400 of them left. They are almost extinct. But their genes are carried throughout all of humanity. So when I get lost, when the world confuses me with its lies, deceit, theft, wars and duplicity, I go back to my roots. I go back to the seed. I go back to these values, morals and humanity that so far as we know, is the oldest on earth still alive today. Even though there are now so few of them left.

So what kind of life do the Bushmen value? Here are the main points.

1. Freedom to roam the earth. No borders, no fences, no laws or regulations to tie them in. No ownership of property, no taxes, no levies, no slavery to a debt monetary system.

2. They see themselves as not separate from nature but part of it. Whatever they take out, they put back in, in return as a gift as it was gifted to them. There is the deepest respect for all that surrounds them. They recognise that their need for survival depends on the death of some life form, and treat this with gratitude and the deepest respect. A life for a life.

3. The family is of the utmost importance to everything that they do. Family is all and everything. Children are valued not aborted.

4. Story telling. They never lost their sense of imagination, but they did not confuse the reality and dangers of this world with creative and entertaining narratives told around a fire at night with accompanying music and dancing. They did not mistake the latter for the former.

5. But most important, they kept a highly tuned sixth sense. Don’t lie to a Bushman because he can hear what you are really thinking. He will know days in advance before you even arrive. He communes with the plants and animals in the same way.

6. Lastly, the Bushman has no need for “religion,” or reams of texts telling him what to do, what to think or how to behave. He would look at you in confusion if presented with the Ten Commandments. He already knows. He does not have to study ancient texts to become an expert. He does not have to pay an authoritative body, bow down to an authoritative body, or be hemmed in by four walls and a ceiling to commune with “God.” He does this continuously. He has direct contact with “God.”

This is the seed of humanity. These are our our roots. But in recent centuries the plant that has emerged from what we truly are has been pruned, perverted and twisted in so many ways, that we have lost sight of our essence. In our pursuit to have control and dominion over the earth we have corrupted our own essential nature.

There is a very bad B movie called “The Gods Must Be Crazy.”A apt title. But I urge you to watch it. I am sure you can find it somewhere on the Internet for free. But in spite of the atrocious acting , sub standard editing and amateur directing, it carries the most profound message. A message in a bottle. A Coco-Cola bottle. Which basically sums up our whole current society and world system. Throw it over a cliff baby! Along with the BIS, IMF, World Bank and Goldman Sachs!

Katherine Frisk is a Guest Writer for Shift Frequency

SF Source The International Reporter  July 2015

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