Ways To Cope With The Depression Of The Dream Of Pandora Being Intangible.

[Tsyal Makto]

Originally Posted by auroraglacialis

What are these problems. I have to admit that I have not been following them lately. Are they already that far that they are getting land? Anyways - the underlying problem is, that the dominant culture is not really in favour of other ways of life. And it does not care if it is native indigenous people or people who want to become indigenous (meaning origina/unique to one place) once again. If it was not for the tromendous public relation affair the traditional people can cause, I have no doubt they would be gone already.

They were looking at a place called Geraldo Island, in Brazil. For a while it looked really good (REALLY GOOD, less than a million Euros for 2000 acres), but apparentally the Brazilian government is really a hard-ass when it comes to immigration, plus we just found out that the island is a protected. Plus Brazil is pretty strict about hunting, so that would obviously pose a problem, as well.

They just started looking into Australia. It's got lots of huntable species, vast land, and even wild horses. Though...spiders. Immigration might be a problem, too, again.

Originally Posted by auroraglacialis

The people in power dont want anyone to leave. It is the only way, people can really harm them. Revolutions can be fought, protests can be teargassed, petitions can be ignored, ... but there is much less you can do to keep people from walking away. Still there are things that can be done and those are mostly legal bull - indigenous people of any kind have to put up with laws and regulation and ownership issues and they have to fight with the weapons of the enemy, with lawyers and books.

Sad, isn't it? Only furthers my opinion that we have absolutely no true freedom, anymore. Sure, we have rights, but they're just cheap imitation freedoms doled out by the ruling class, that can be yanked away at any time they wish. Now they're after the one freedom left, the freedom to leave. Not by force, but by things like monetary debt or immigration laws. They don't want people living their own lives, because that's one less peon to exploit.

I honestly don't know what I would do if I lived in a country like North Korea, where the inability to leave is actually by fiat. I would probably kill myself, to be blunt.

Originally Posted by auroraglacialis

I dont know if any of you looked into that rather new ageish "indigo child" phenomenon. I dont want to give it any credit, but suffice to say that the questionnaire one can take to find out if one is "one of them" holds interesting questions. I have no doubt most of us here would get a straight A in that "test", but there is the claim that this is true for most people that ever take it. So that is what is taken as evidence of it beeing a fraud. But looking beyond that, what does it mean - it means that many many people say "yes" to questions like "You have the feeling that you are not at home here, maybe even from another planet" or "You have trouble functioning in the system, have trouble accepting authority" and questions on the relationship to earth, nature and spirituality.
So even if answering these does not mean anything in respect of some special aura or something - the fact that there are so many that fit into these tell me that we are way not alone!

It's an interesting concept, and something I have somewhat of a belief in (I do dib-and-dab in the metaphysical sometimes, it's quite an interesting subject). With that said, I definitely believe there is something to dreams, and Pandora and the Na'vi coming from dreams, and the deep connection that we all have to that mystical place (and let's not forget that picture you drew years ago). Whether it simply be genetic memory from times long gone on this planet, or something even deeper, I don't know. I know something is there, though. The problem I have is with some New Age things, such as indigo children. While I don't doubt that there could be some people like them walking the Earth (shamans, etc), I just have a feeling that it is something that the Western world will end up cheapening, like so many other things in the past.