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Turtle Island Questions
Going beyond the nature/technology conflict
What is to be learned from the experience of the confrontation between the white and red races and the subsequent taking over of Turtle Island by the white race?
Whenever we confront something that appears separate from us, we are actually confronting an issue within ourselves. In one-ness there is no separation, but we are not yet to a state of one-ness. We see things as separate for the sake of understanding.
We separate out into polarities so that we can act out the confrontation between our beliefs in regard to those polarities. This way we can understand those beliefs and change them if we are not happy with them. We take turns playing the roles of victor and victim. The confrontation between the red people and the white people is just a re-enactment of a polarization that has been acted out many times in many places between many seemingly different and separate beliefs systems. The same war has been fought across the globe. It is a war we can tune into any time we wish.
The confrontation — indeed all confrontation — is a confrontation within our selves regarding our own issues with separation. These issues of separation are then reflected back to us in the reality we create. So why did we create a conflict between a peaceful earth-loving people and…