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Shamanic Voices:
Maestro Tlakaelel
''Here in the Americas, more than 2,000 years
ago, groups went forth in the four directions with the message
that we must return again to raise up this great confederation
of nations.
''Q: How can we help the Earth to heal?
Tlakaelel: The need that we have is to truly know
the Earth. This is the basis of everything. There are many technological
advances, and Mother Earth has suffered many alterations. They
have changed, for example, the rivers. They have made great
reservoirs all over the world, here in America and in Europe,
and in Africa the great mammoth Aswan, the greatest reservoir
in the world. This has altered the ecology. In ancient Egypt,
the Nile river grew and inundated the riverbanks, leaving fertile
earth and humidity and cleansing all of Egypt. Now, they regulate
the water, and there are no longer these floods. Instead, they
must lift up the water with mechanical pumps. There are shells
and conches which developed in the water. Before, when the water
went down, it took with it these animals. Now it never goes
down so these animals are reproducing in a terrible way. The
eggs of the small animals are killing the people. This is dangerous.
In all places where they have detoured the waters of the Nile,
where they have regulated the currents, this has altered the
Earth.
Humans have extracted millions of metric tons
of petroleum, leaving enormous empty caverns. Now we have more
earthquakes. They are more frequent and stronger, more powerful.
The climate of the world has been changed, and many of us are
guilty of this. It is incredible that we had not taken this
into account, until a man by the name of Thor Heyerdal awakened
people's curiosity. He journeyed on the ocean in a raft and
saw that there were enormous oceanic deserts where there was
no life, where everything was covered with trash -- the trash
that was dumped into the ocean by all the cities, plastic cans
and bottles, and so on. Heyerdal brought forth the voice of
alarm, that we are killing the ocean and soon everything will
disappear.
We us indigenous people, we saw something. This
is the message of the ancestors. We remember the message of
Chief Seattle, his poem to natural life that is an inspiration,
a hymn, for current ecological groups. Chief Seattle's naturalness,
his comprehension of our natural relationship with All That
Exists -- this is the thinking of all of the indigenous peoples
of the world. When asked to sell his land, Chief Seattle said
sincerely, ''But how can one sell his own mother? Who can sell
his mother? Who can sell the aroma of the pines? Or the murmur
of the insects? Or the sound of the waters and the rivers? Or
the air that we breath, which is breathed by the eagles? It
was breathed by the buffalo. We all share it. Who can say this?''
In the last part of the message he says, ''If you are all coming
together in these places you call cities, you live far away
from nature. One day not too far away, you will awaken, drowning
in your own excrement.'' And in the end, he said prophetically,
''Now life ends and survival begins.'' He said this 200 years
ago, expressing perfectly the thinking of native people today.
How to heal Mother Earth?
We must return once again to love Mother Earth,
to understand her. The Earth is the ashes of our forefathers.
At the beginning, it was a ball of fire. And little by little,
it began to cool. Then we entered into a space where there was
water. Water began to enter. Little by little it began to cool.
In this water from outer space floated spores and seeds, and
thus began the first plants, the most primitive plants. They
were microscopic -- their roots were microscopic -- and they
combined with the water and went into the pores of the rock.
In this way, a plant grew and then died. And its ashes were
part of the Earth. So more plants were created and then more
ashes. Then the big trees came and the animals and we, ourselves.
And each one of us will become ashes. So the Earth is the ashes
of our forefathers. This is not a metaphorical statement --
it is true. She is our mother and these are our ancestors. They
maintain life, and all that exists is sacred because everything
is interrelated.
There were many eagles and there were many animals
that the eagles eat. In this way there was always an equilibrium.
We all look for balance. The animals teach us how to live. When
we put many rabbits in a cage and give them all the food they
want, they limit their space. When they see that there are too
many, the mothers kill the small ones. So they maintain the
number of individuals who can live in the space. This is how
the animals teach us. There are many more examples.
How to heal the Earth? Understand her. Love her. Identify ourselves
with her. This is all that is necessary.
We have forgotten. Today the people don't think of her as something
sacred. They think of her as private property, something we
must exploit. And they don't think about regenerating the Earth.
A way to heal the Earth is through the rotation of crops, by
planting different plants. The trees do this. Over a determined
period of time, the pines are born and die and other plants
begin to grow, other trees, and then again the pines. There
is a natural rotation. Yes, it is possible to do this, if we
understand. The important thing is that we have a synthesis.
What is the Earth? We see that it's a planet.
We are in a solar system which is moving. Mother Earth is alive.
She moves, she breathes, she has her own energy and movements.
And the human beings, we are interconnected --our brains, our
minds -- with all other human beings. The totality of our mind
is the mind of Mother Earth. We are connected with the animals,
with the plants and with all the beings that exist. But we have
forgotten this. And now the few people who can move these forces
because they know them -- because they feel them -- we call
these people witches or medicine men or shamans. But anyone
can do this. We all have the same capacity for comprehension.
The people who think a different way are said
to be crazy. But we are not crazy. The medicine person lives
on another plane, another vibration or wavelength. All that
exists in this world is vibrating at a special wavelength and
only exists in that wavelength. Shamans are simply receptors
who receive this wavelength. But we can have other wavelengths,
like Sai Baba. He has different wavelengths, and he materializes
things. For this reason some say he's crazy. It's just that
he's different because he goes beyond the human condition, beyond
the common, beyond that middle point, and he dares to use these
forces. He lives in two worlds. His world should be at the reach
of all.
We must think of how to heal the people, of how
to achieve a complete change in the human mind. We are the problem,
and the official education has many lies. We are taught a history
that is not the true history of the world. Instead, it is written
in the interests of the people who have won the wars. The official
history goes back only 8,000 years from the War of Troy, and
since then we have just had wars and more wars. We don't remember
other things. When someone speaks of Atlantis or Lemuria or
other prior civilizations, they say these are just theories.
But we know they are true. Science has just not committed itself
to investigating this further. They have just uncovered the
remains of a man in Africa who is 3.5 million years old. The
official histories say man is new, maybe 150,000 years. And
the other millions of years? And the people who were there before?
There is proof of other technological civilizations that were
more advanced than ours. We all think we are the greatest of
humanity, but this just isn't true.
I am a Toltec Chichimeka indigenous person. More
than 12,000 years ago, my forefathers began to unify humanity
again. We knew that, before, there had been communication among
all of the peoples of the planet. There was one single culture,
one single religion. But a cataclysm came and left us out of
touch. The few survivors began again to evolve. They are our
forefathers, the survivors of the destruction of Atlantis. With
these ideas, with this knowledge, they went to a place called
the Mountain of the Serpent in the middle of a valley in what
we now call Mexico, and they sent forth four expeditions to
the four directions to carry a message. This historic message
is that we are all descendants of a great culture, of a paradise.
In my language we call this Tamoanchan where everything was
in abundance, there was great luxury. And in a moment all was
lost. The people who survived, the grandfathers, said this place
existed. The children asked where, and were told, ''Maybe on
the other side of the mountains.'' So they went forth, farther
and farther, looking. In this way great migrations were established,
great movements of human beings throughout the world.
Here in the Americas, more than 2,000 years ago,
groups went forth in the four directions with the message that
we must return again to raise up this great confederation of
nations. They tried to invite the people -- those they encountered
on their paths -- to organize but also to share their knowledge.
These groups were messengers and ambassadors who made alliances
with the peoples. They carried seeds and beans and squash and
corn, and in this way they traveled and they shared this food.
Throughout all the native peoples of America, we still have
the same foods. Nine hundred eighty-eight years later, the descendants
of those who went forth returned to the valley in Mexico, bringing
all the knowledge they had been able to learn. They said, ''We
have discovered that there are people of four colors but one
single race, the human race.
We are all brothers and sisters, and our origin
is cosmic. We are all brothers and sisters because we are all
sons and daughters of the same father, who we call Teotl or
the Great Spirit or Great Grandfather or Great Mystery or the
Superior Mind. He is the unique creator of All That Exists.
We are all brothers and sisters of All That Exists. We must
understand this to mutually respect one another.'
In this way, they decided to found the City of
Mexico, Tenochtitlan, as the center of the cosmic race and cultural
capital of the human species. They created the concept and the
word ''Mexicatl,'' which means ''planetary citizen,'' or citizen
of this planet. They said, ''So far, the first Mexican has not
been born, but tonight we will plant in the bellies of our women,
and from here, two hundred seventy-two days forward, the first
Mexicas will be born, the first citizens of the universe.''
This ceremony was done on the equivalent of the 30th of the
month of July in 1324. The confederation began to evolve rapidly
until almost 200 years later when the Europeans arrived and
our evolution was suspended. But before that, an enormous confederation
existed. There were two confederations, one from today's Nicaragua
to the south -- the Confederation of the Condor -- and one from
Nicaragua to the north -- the Confederation of the Red Eagle.
The two confederations had made an alliance, called the Confederation
of the Eagle and the Condor. This history is not known. Some
have tried to destroy it, but we indigenous people preserve
it.
 Three
generations ago, we decided again to rescue our history and
tradition. This is what we are doing. When our evolution was
suspended, the grandfathers gave us instructions. They told
us what it was we would have to do, and what would be our strength.
Strength can only be given when the people identify with something,
when something brings them together. What has brought our ancestors
together is this idea of the cosmic citizen. The Earth is of
all of us, and we are of the Earth. The Earth is not ours; we
are hers. It was then that we decided to maintain the resistance,
and we always preserved, in secret, what is the destiny of man:
why we are here, where we come from, where we are going, and
what is our mission.
So man comes to the world with the aim of seeking
perfection by means of personal self-development. This perfection
will arrive when man is capable of creating all that he is capable
of conceiving. Here is the superior being of the future -- able
to create all that we conceive. Each one of us is a link in
the chain of evolution. Each one of us is a treasure, and in
our genes we preserve the memory of all the generations before,
of their experiences, and after, we leave behind our own experiences.
And pass them on to our children. The immediate mission of each
generation is the creation of the next one.
This is our mission. Now we have a goal that we must reach.
We must come again to a way by which we can identify ourselves.
We didn't come to this world just to eat, sleep, reproduce,
and die. We have a great destiny. This destiny is possible when
we achieve our worth and when we transcend. We live for just
a little bit of time. That which continues living after us is
the community, the Earth. Our work is to build a pyramid little
by little, growing and growing and growing. Soon we will be
able to complete the pyramid. For this reason, symbolically
we never closed the tops of the pyramids ourselves. They were
left apart. And when we complete them, then we will be like
gods. We will be capable of doing everything we are capable
of thinking.
We will again have a reason to be -- strength
for living, to conquerall the problems: the wars that there
have been, the differences between Catholics, Protestants, and
Moslems. These are easier to put aside when man has the idea,
I am cosmos. I am not cosmic, I am cosmos. I am an integral
part of the universe, of the creation of all. And I continue
being part of a great plan of creation. When we are all able
to feel this just a little bit, when we identify with All That
Exists, we will be planetary citizens, cosmic citizens. And
peace will come. The truth will be known.
Many religions have been bred so that the people
will submit. All religions are good, there are none that are
negative, but man has interpreted religion in different ways
to justify invasions, to justify slavery, the submission, the
obedience. When we are capable of knowing the truth and can
teach it to our children, then we will be healing Mother Earth,
we will be healing humanity. We will be healing the universe.
A worldwide reeducation is necessary.
We have committed many errors, and we must write
down this history, the history of our errors, and also the good
things. We must know that both the positive and negative are
necessary, the good and the bad. They are two poles, the same
as hot and cold, light and darkness, the positive and negative
poles of energy, the man and the woman. Apparently, the two
are opposed, but they come together and they create. The positive
and negative poles of electricity create light. The energy of
motors, the hot and the cold, create the climate in which we
are able to live. The man and the woman create as they come
together. So the positive and the negative side are both indispensable.
The devil could not exist apart from God. One
could not exist without the other. They both are positive, for
the two create our concept of good and evil. Which is the negative
pole of the Earth? And which is the positive? The north, or
the south? Either could be positive or negative, but together
they create an energy field that regulates life on the planet.
That is our concept of good and evil. Sometimes I am asked,
''Are there good witches and bad witches?'' I say, ''I understand
the question, so how would you attack the bad if you don't know
what it is? How could you know what's good if you don't know
what good is?'' You must know the extremes, and then you can
place yourself on whatever side you choose. What is good for
one is not necessarily good for the other. We must learn to
respect the plurality.
For the future, we must remember the people in
a prayer, which goes as follows:
Creator, accept me as I am with my vices, with my passions,
my detours, my works, my positive things, because I am this
way. You made me this way. And permit me that I may accept those
similar to me, that I may accept them as they are. And help
me, Creator, so that people accept me, too.
This is good. We must mutually accept one another
-- people of all colors, all religions, all languages. We must
learn to respect each other because we are sons and daughters
of the same Creator. The problems of humanity are coming to
a climax. There has been a history of wars, of wars that each
time are more bloody, each time producing more bodies, more
people dying. The young people are beginning to think, ''This
is the world left to us by our elders. Why are there so many
wars? Why is there so much division? Why is there a North Korea
and South Korea? Why is there a South Vietnam and a North Vietnam?
Why are the countries divided?'' They are looking for unity,
and now they are finding a motive.
This year in Canada there was a meeting of the
richest people in the world. It was requested that in the agenda
they include workers and poor people, but the organizers didn't
want to. This was like lighting the wick of a bomb. There was
another meeting in Washington, and they were prepared with groups
of police and the National Guard, because the people were coming
together. The same thing happened a week or so ago in Prague.
It's not the poor people of America, it's not us Indians; it's
the young people of the whole world who are asking for change!
It's the beginning of the end of a system that is no longer
positive. We are going to see great changes, the awakening of
the sleeping spirit of humanity, because now there are instant
means of communication. We know by television or radio what
is happening in any place in the world.
And if we want the true news -- because in some
places there are people who censure and control -- there is
the Internet. Now people can communicate instantly with millions
of other people. Our youths are seeing what people want, and
they are going to change the world. They are discovering that
we are a single human species who are now the guardians of the
Earth, and that this Earth is our home. Whatever happens on
our planet, positive or negative, affects all of us. We need
more groups like the ecologists -- small groups, local groups,
or bigger groups like Greenpeace, people who have taken a global
consciousness. They are going to change the world. There is
hope.
Our message would be strength for those who are
struggling, strength for the warriors of peace and for the warriors
of Mother Earth, strength for the ecologists, for all the people
who are working to understand the Earth. Those who are demanding
a reeducation on a worldwide level, those who are creating and
who are teaching the truth -- they are the future!
There is a very good future ahead. After many
centuries, the planet begins to vibrate with an idea:
We will save
the Earth!
This planet is
our home, and we are now the guardians of the Earth.
Our mission is
to keep it clean, habitable, and inhabited.
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