By
Hector Cerda
*Note: some numbered footnotes can be clicked on to visit material researched for this article
Introduction
The year 2012 was supposed to bring a worldwide, cosmic, unified, global consciousness, awakening. News
stories and Facebook postings were very common for a few years leading up to
2012 that suggested events would happen such as a galactic planetary alignment to
take place on December 21. Other events were supposed to take place like the
arrival of a new planet into our solar system or a giant meteor that would head
towards planet earth and cause Armageddon like consequences. Anything resembling
such prophetic events didn’t seem to take place. In fact I write this article
to investigate such false doom and gloom theories.
I will show you, the reader not only where
these theories originate from but why they are being pushed so heavily and why
I think they will continue to resurface. I will argue that the main source of
pushing this agenda comes from the New Age-pseudoscience community that
continues to exploit Native American, First Nations people. I will describe the exact concept I think is used to push such a movement and I will demonstrate
that not only do the New Agers gain monetarily from promoting such an agenda but
also the rich and powerful elites, or as the Occupy movement termed as the
1% of the human race that hold the worlds wealth (1). This 1% benefit indirectly from such
exploitation of people because the 2012 theories are part of continued social
construct of placing fear among the masses in order to convince them to
willingly surrender rights and resources for social control. In this article I
will explore some of the people whom I think are from the New Age,
Pseudoscience community and took on a false authority figure on Native American
prophecy for their own personal gain. I will compare such false figures to what
I believe is a more authentic approach towards living in true prophecy for change
among Native Americans. I will do this by examining movements of the New Agers vs.
the traditional native approach that both began in the early 90s in preparation
for the 500th year celebrations of Columbus’s so called discovery of the
America’s.
For this article, I use the term New Age or New Agers to
refer to the people that seem to use Native American rituals and traditions to
their own personal benefit (primarily fame, fortune or to fulfill ego) but have
no intent in pursuing a relationship with Native American tribal communities
towards self-determination and preservation of cultural roots. I use the term Native
American, First Nation, or Indigenous interchangeably as a way to refer to
those ethnic groups that New Agers exploit. If you are ready
to take this journey, then grab a cup of Timmy’s or Starbucks coffee, or better
yet a cup of Fair Trade coffee from your local organic store and be ready to
expand your mind.
Being Transparent Of My Own Bias: A Stance On Personal Beliefs
I believe in the almighty, the ultimate force in this
universe that many would call God or the Creator. I do not know whether this
god is male, female or anything of the like but I do believe that this almighty
Creator is responsible for making both the male and female essences which for
many of our Indigenous traditions, is necessary to continue the structure of a
family then so, a clan and ultimately a nation of people. God is a grand
mystery that we as humans will never be able to understand. In fact I think it
was never meant for us to try to understand the entire workings of the universe
but to only live them out and that the most basic principles of science,
astronomy, technology and society were already explored and instilled in all of
us as humans long ago by our ancestors. God created us to participate less in
preaching and more in doing. All humans each have their own languages, customs
and ways that God intended and that these ways should be held sacred. In no way
whatsoever do I believe anyone should infringe on the right of cultural groups
or nations to keep alive their ancient songs, ceremonies, dances, foods,
customs and language.
I think that God gave us the gift of choice to determine
that which is best for our families, clans and individual communities and that
since this almighty God created everything, that there are natural laws that
keep such constructs in balance and for that reason I think that God has given
us the scientific method, that which is the ability for us to experiment for
ourselves what works best for our individual communities and families, and I
think that science, as an observation of the natural world and how it can work
to benefit our people is not only a gift from God but also a responsibility. I
believe this responsibility of understanding the natural world through the
scientific method and respecting how it works for us is a contract between
humans and the Creator to continue living in sacred ways that benefits us.
However I also believe in the ability for such contracts and abilities to be
broken. I think that good science is
Godly and it should be something we all should seek out.
I also challenge you the reader to never take what you read
or hear in the media at face value when told and teach yourself how to research
credibility of what people say and publish (including this article). I think there is too much false
information (especially on the internet) and that pseudoscience is growing ever
more popular to convince people into believing false ideologies while pushing
away truth through real ethical science.
I think that with the gift of choice, that some of us can forget or lose
sight of our purpose in life and take the natural laws we are supposed to
respect alongside with the gift of science and abuse such to personal gain and
benefit. We see this through the history
of time itself where common people are harmed by our world leaders or those
with power because they have forgotten the understanding of God. Such forgotten
understanding is clearly demonstrated in the current and highly questionable
use of advanced technological use in weapons including bombs, biological
warfare, computer surveillance systems, drones, machines and the encouragement
of ideologies that are meant to harm people such as commodification of
resources and ultimately divide and conquering nations by separating families
through either social, political or military means.
And finally I believe there is the ability for people to
choose to be malevolent or cause harm to others. I think that the ability to
harm and kill, to destroy and neglect that which God made for us has been
happening among us for some time now and that there are plans by evil people to
keep doing this. I think that for those leaders among various nations,
communities and organizations that actually uphold such evil doings do not care
for the rest of us and that it is like a disease that consumes and destroys
anything these people want; a consumption of so many resources that they
themselves become the cannibals. The
late Dr. Jack Forbes, a world class Native American scholar once identified
such people as wetiko, a Cree
term which, to
quote Forbes, is "an evil person or spirit who terrorizes other
creatures by means of terrible evil acts,"(2). People who suffer from wetiko disease are the
true cannibals of the world with no understanding of God and natural law. The
concept of the wetiko was brought into Native American academics by Forbes
in order to shift the paradigm towards identifying who the actual evil doers
are in this world as opposed to those that do want to be right with
humanity and God.
If you know me through the Peace & Dignity Journeys or
any work related on Indigenous movements you will know that I believe in
cultural preservation and self-determination. Uniting our Indigenous
communities to work together for common struggles is crucial however Indigenous
people are not all the same and we should be vigilant towards anyone or any
other movement that might absorb our unique tribal communities into the global
one-size-fits-all culture that is constantly trying to get us to give up our
beliefs, language and right to preserve land. To put it bluntly, there has been (since 1492)
and continues to be a constant attack on the cultural and spiritual roots of
the Indigenous people of the Americas and I will not ever back away from
reminding others about this. Indigenous identity is the spiritual center of a
person.
The New World Order: Rule of Law vs. Law of the Jungle
Without sounding too much of a conspiracy theorist, It is
important to briefly discuss who and what the New World Order (NWO) is and how
it relates to globalism and the continuous attack on Indigenous peoples of the
Americas (and the world). The first time I ever heard the term New World Order
was on September 11, 1990 during an address to the union, George Bush Sr. noted
that peace could only be kept for our future generations by establishing this
New World Order, a rule of law that trumps the law of the jungle, where the
those nations that are strong have respect for the weaker however Bush was
making his case for taking the United States to war (3). I would argue that this was a clear and
present message to any nation who would challenge the United States and ruling
elite class. The law of the jungle phrase used by Bush was a coded way for
George Bush Sr. to say that indigenous people who wish to push back against the
United States (supported by the United Nations) war machine, and not willing to abandon
their cultural identity will suffer the reign of the United States. Such a
similar case was made by Pope Alexander VI in his Inter Caetera of 1493, a year
after the landing of Christopher Columbus to the Americas, the development of such
laws and legal doctrines regarding who could rule the so called New World would
continue. The final piece of that document reads:
“Let no one, therefore, infringe, or with rash boldness contravene, this our recommendation, exhortation, requisition, gift, grant, assignment, constitution, deputation, decree, mandate, prohibition, and will. Should anyone presume to attempt this, be it known to him that he will incur the wrath of Almighty God and of the blessed apostles Peter and Paul.”(4)Such a claim made by Pope Alexander VI back in 1493 contains the same ideology as made by George Bush Sr. when he gave another similar speech on January 16, 1991 stating that;"
"We have before us the opportunity to forge for ourselves and for future generations a new world order -- a world where the rule of law, not the law of the jungle, governs the conduct of nations. When we are successful -- and we will be -- we have a real chance at this new world order, an order in which credible United Nations can use its peacekeeping role to fulfill the promise and vision of the U.N.'s founders"(5)And to avoid going too deep into the topic, the overall issue was based on two nations, Iraq invading Kuwait over territorial disputes regarding access to oil within Kuwait (6). Rather than allowing these countries to resolve political issues within themselves the United States under the leadership of George Bush Sr. made a case through the United Nations that such nations that operate under “the law of the jungle” and not the rule of law are a threat to the world (7).
If you are not convinced that the “Rule of Law” is one of
imperial rule over nations that wish to have self-determination over themselves
recent world events would support my claim regarding the United States. There
has been much controversy over Edward Snowden, an ex CIA Computer technician
who leaked documents that proved United States National Security Agency was possibly
taking unethical steps in how it spied on its own citizens (8). Snowden was seen as a
threat to United States and while hiding, seeking political asylum, President
Evo Morales of Bolivia publicly stated that should Edward Snowden seek refuge
in Bolivia, he would analyze the request. Morales never said it was for certain.
President Morales is a prominent Indigenous figure for his country and has been
known to speak up against actions by the United States. Shortly after his
comment about asylum for Snowden, his jet plane was aggressively diverted from
making it back to his country and forced to land in Austria, being accused of
the possibility that he had Snowden in his plane (9). This is clearly evident that such an order had
to have come from the White House. If that plane was air force one with President
Obama being aggressively diverted to another country, those jets would have
been shot down and Obama would have made it safe and sound to his wife and
children. President Morales does not get that same preferential treatment
because it may be seen that he operates under the law of the jungle and not the
rule of law.
The 2011 Occupy movement on Wall street realized very late
what Indigenous , First Nations already knew and it was this; There is a small
group of ruling elite that continuously get richer in wealth by taking the
peoples resources (10). They do it in such a manner that is evil, destructive and has no regard for the
sacredness of life. This repeated tactic seems all too common to me as a Native
American because it resembles the ideology as explained earlier in the Inter
Caetera of Pope Alexander the VI and the Manifest Destiny under a divine god (11) that the first European
immigrants used to justify unethical, murderous, pillaging methods to colonize
land proven to have already been occupied by hundreds of distinct nations of people (12).
So to summarize this piece, the NWO is simply the large
class of ruling elites across many nations that have been wanting a one world
government, with one language, one main headquarters and one main leader. And
similar to the first colonizers that arrived in the Americas, the NWO is
clearly in the business of taking all the resources for their own king (CEO)
back home. Contrary to what you can find on the internet about the NWO and its
relationship to secret societies, satanic worshipping and other conspiracies,
the NWO has never been a secret. The global agenda is clear and present, its
not done in secret, it only seems that way for those who are too involved with
other “important” matters like the sports championship games or the next top
model. Understanding the NWO is more psychological than anything for persons
who have grown up disconnected from their traditional roots or unaware of how
the world works and had a paradigm shift in their understanding how society is truly
constructed. The agenda of the ruling elite (NWO) has been present for
centuries and continues to move its agenda of world domination, something that
began in 1492 with the arrival of Columbus to this hemisphere and later in this
article I will refer to why it is important to keep in mind how the NWO stands
to benefit from movements like the false 2012 prophecies pushed by the New Age
community.
Messiah Complex: I have the answers to your problem
Prior to identifying the people behind the 2012 prophecies I
want to discuss something I call the Messiah complex. This complex is based on
a human delusional disorder, type grandiose. The Diagnostical Statistics Manual
identifies delusional disorder, grandiose type occurs within someone who claims
to be someone of a higher power or even with a message from a deity (13). A person taking on the
Messiah Complex can be assumed to be in a state of mind in which they believe
themselves destined to be the savior of a group of people or saving someone
from a particular event. Such a complex can also cause someone to believe they
ultimately are saviors of the world.
This act of believing to be a messiah I argue can also
manifest into habits of a person in which they themselves, self-create a crisis
event and later have the remedy to save the people who are being negatively
affected by the crisis. This is the habit that I think was first put into action
by the colonial settlers of this hemisphere. They brought many crisis related
events with them only to later claim to be saviors to Native Americans by
offering (by force) religions, policies, laws, foods , customs and ultimately foreign
languages that was in the best interest to save them if they did not adopt to
such. Having a messiah complex is also
common in our current society and should enough people follow along behind
someone who has such a complex could lead to persons following someone with
non-credible wisdom or even worse, a cult.
I say this because I have personally seen many people who
have come to terms with a new way of looking at the world including folks who
begin to learn their Indigenous culture whereas they didn’t know prior.
Generally this seems to happen to new born followers of any spiritual or
religious practice. Similarly, for many folks who have had a paradigm shift in
their outlook towards US politics and globalism, I seen many young people
become obsessed with what they feel is the “truth” to how the world truly is
and that everyone is blind as sheep going along with the flock. Persons in such
situations feel as if they have seen the light and feel so great about their
new revelation that they feel the need to open the eyes of more people and this
in turn is damaging to that person.
These things represent that one person’s own experience and their own
personal will and vision. The further they begin to act in such a manner can
further their complex of thinking they are a messiah and possibly pushing the
rhetoric that doomsday will fall upon those who do not change.
Some of the first doomsday claims I recall learning about
was as a child in the 80s and 90s. Prince wrote a popular song titled, 1999
which had lyrics describing the need to party before we die from an unknown
destruction. The decade of the 90s brought Y2K doomsday prophecies in that the
year 2000 could bring the end of the world all because a computer glitch could
lead to a devastating meltdown to our technological infrastructure (14).One of the most popular
cult-like new religion, now a school of enlightenment is led by a woman known
as JZ Knight (15). Knight
was nearly worshipped as an enlightened master almost somewhat of a messiah
that began a movement towards getting followers to believe the concept of the “self”
while at the same time making a fortune for fee based workshops and healing
seminars. According to Knight a 35,000 year old spirit named Ramtha can channel
himself through the woman known as JZ Knight. According to Knight she claims
that her ability to channel Ramtha is not a hoax. Knight also promoted doomsday
prophecies to her followers noting that the United States would suffer great
natural disasters in years to come which would include volcanos, quakes,
droughts and tidal waves. Knight encouraged that it would be wise for Americans
that lived near coastal areas to pack up and leave, especially closer to where
Knight could be more accessible in the Pacific Northwest where she lives (16).
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| JZ Knight channeling the spirit of Ramtha during one of her costly sessions. |
Since the 80s the New Age profiteering scams have heavily
increased and not only do they seem to take advantage of people but they
incorporate Native American rituals and tend to exploit them for personal profit.
Shamanic healers and special messages from the divine are common characteristics
of such New Age cults like the Ramtha organization that arose from the 80s and
they all seem to be profit based where
the mass of followers pay to access sacred wisdom and knowledge of the future
all while supporting the lavish
lifestyles of those at the top (17). To the reader of this
article, I encourage you to investigate for yourself the cult of Ramtha which
is still around to this day. As far back as I can recall, it is within this New
Age cult of Ramtha that I argue some of the false prophecies about 2012 began
to arise.
The Doomsday Prophecies: An Epidemic among the New Agers
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| This issue claims to share Native American wisdom. |
I have for many years possessed a magazine title Body, Mind, Spirit. It was released in January of 1993, just a couple of months after worldwide protests against the 500th year celebrations of the so called Discovery of the Americas. I mention this magazine because I will compare it to another magazine I also possess titled; Rethinking Columbus dated 1991. I will discuss the Rethinking Columbus magazine at the end of this article but first let’s explore the copy of Body Mind Spirit that actually has some of the first articles published by New Agers in the 90s to push the agenda of prophecies of doom. Looking at the cover, the magazine has a glorious cover of what seems to be Native American themed art, and it is labeled in a way that leads the reader to think it has authority as “Native American elders share their wisdom.” is on the cover. If one were to actually have the copy at hand, you might be able to identify it as a quackery of false claims cause it sells merchandise, from ordering miracle making audio tapes, weight loss wonder pills and even an ad that claims you can achieve Christ consciousness as we dawn for a new era in the year 2000 (18). The magazine is full of tarot readings you can order, free horoscopes suggesting you to learn more only after purchasing audio tapes. The magazine is full of so many things that make me wonder why anyone would go to college for a career when one can just sell New Age merchandise to make a profit. But that is why I am writing this article, to demonstrate the ability to investigate the difference. And be prepared because I will add humor to my investigations.
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| Not an ad to this article, but hey I will still take $5. My address is... |
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| Dr. Saundra Pathweaver claims earth changes are coming. Will that be year 2000 or 2012? |
Another comment box in the Ghost Wolf article contains a
quote from Brooke Medicine Eagle who claims to be a Lakota Metis ceremony leader
and teacher. Medicine Eagle states that there is a lesson “we are being asked
to carry as we graduate into the Aquarian age, the time of the nine pointed
star…Will we carry with us her sacred pipe and the oneness it represents and
move into the New Age? Or will we be left behind?” (22). I
must interject here and ask the reader to think for a moment. Since when do human
beings “graduate” into a New Age? Do we get caps, gowns and tassels? If humans
are to graduate into a New Age, what was graduation like when humans shifted
into the current age we are in now? Is she talking about something to be forced
upon us like what happened with the first arrival of Europeans immigrants in
1492? It should also be noted that Medicine Eagle also has a website where she
charges a fee to attend her workshops (23).
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| Medicine Eagle says carry your pipe when you graduate to the New Age. |
Another smoking gun quote in this article that proves the
falseness of the 2012 Mayan prophecies is made by a woman named Charla
Tarwater. Tarwater states that “The Mayan Calendar made its shift into the
final phase on July of this year (1992). The calendar is over when this phase
ends.” (24). Tarwater
also continues to prophesize that at the end of that phase is when women will
return to their rightful power in the universe also stating that from that
point until 2012, 100 million women worldwide will reach menopause, claiming
that hot flashes and night sweats are correlated to volcanoes and floods. Keep
in mind that this end of the Mayan calendar according to Tarwater, was in July
of 1992. Since then 20 years have passed on her prophetic predictions and in
regards to women and menopause, I did not want to go there for her lack of
scientific reference but sadly she sold herself short on claiming prophetic
doom for in 1996 a researcher suggested that in regards to women and menopause
that by 2030, 1.2 billion women will have reached the stage of menopause (25). From 1990 to 2030 that
is an estimated 30 million per year worldwide or in other figures, multiply
that 30 million by 12 years (1990 to 2012) and we have an estimate of 360
Million women by 2012 to have reached menopause. Why did Tarwater only stop at
100 million women worldwide? Was she ignorant of the next numerical place value
that followed after the 100 million? Was Tarwater saving the other 260 million
for another doomsday prophecy? It is obvious to me that 360 Million sounds more
prophetic than 100 million, so why did Tarwater not use this number? Tarwater
could have also easily accessed the World Development Reports published annually
where these numbers were pulled from rather than pulling them from her own…I
think you get the point. It should also be noted that Tarwater manages a
website where she claims to be a New Age shaman and also offers clinical hours
of therapy for a fee. She claims to be a doctor however her healing certifications
as labeled on her website do not show anything I would consider from a legitimate
university or college (26).
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| Tarwater and her menopausal prophecy. |
There is also a quote from a woman who identifies herself as
Grandmother Twylah Nitsch, an elder of Seneca Wolf Clan. According to Nitsch, at
the time she was quoted for this article she said that the world was entering a
fourth world of illumination. Governments would fall and industries alike would
collapse. This is all part of the earth changes she notes that will have people
being gone who wanted to leave and those who want to stay will remain on this
plane (27). Nitsch
passed away in 2007 but a website with her books on how to prepare for the prophetic
life events to come is available for purchase on a website (28). It is not certain if
this is New Age folks exploiting her for profit or if she would have normally charged
for such services through workshops like the others identified above. There is however
another source where Nitsch claims that we are entering into a fifth world of
illumination (29). Nitsch
makes absurd claims that the ancestors of beings from long ago are encouraging
an awakening of some crystals that were misused before in the past and that it
led to the earth being swallowed into oblivion (30). I argue that Nitsch had no idea what she was
talking about and that her ideologies were those similar to New Age rituals,
where Nitsch claims the use of crystals to be planted in specific parts of the
earth are necessary to return the earth to its harmonic balance. I will discuss
the exploitation methods by New Agers and crystals but I still want to focus on
the claims made by Nitsch about crystals because they come from a book called
Profiles in Wisdom. This book published in 1991 is filled with profiles
claiming to be prophetic wisdom from Native American elders. One odd profile in
particular is William Commanda, a much respected keeper of several Algonquin
wampum shell belts which he interprets as holding records of prophecies,
history, treaty agreements between his people and first European accounts (31). The belts he kept also
held sacred pacts among his own people and how they were to live among each
other and the earth. I personally hold Commanda’s life in high respect and what
makes Commanda’s story different from Nitsch and the other New Ager stories is
that Commanda does not speak as if he has a messiah complex. Commanda actually
speaks about real issues in regards to the legitimacy of European colonial
powers settling and making law that supersedes those rights and title of Native
Americans. He addresses the issue from a credible position in that such efforts
were purposely made to eliminate inhabitants of this hemisphere to take the resources.
Commanda also does not claim to know when the world will end or when such
prophetic illumination is going to take place, he merely talks about what cleansing
is in regards to natural disasters but he clearly states he does not know what
the future holds or how it will happen. He only addresses what has happened to Native
American people based on past experiences (32).
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| Nitsch suggests to use crystals or else be swallowed into oblivion . |
Aside from Commanda's profile in this questionable book of
prophetic wisdom from elders, all the other elders from the book Profiles of
Wisdom along with those I have identified in the Ghost Wolf article I believe
are either frauds or persons who become exploited by New Agers. Such prophecies
that claim to contain wisdom and knowledge do not address any type of critical discussion
nor do they suggest wisdom that illuminates their followers to engage in
constructive action (as I will discuss true prophetic approaches later in this
article). This is the problem that I see with such New Age philosophy that
encourages love and light, enlightenment and a god like cosmic convergence that
pushed for the 2012 agenda.
A person who takes on self-proclaimed positions to be
keepers of prophetic wisdom I argue, are not doing anything to empower
Indigenous communities to truly access the resources and proper procedures
towards maintaining self-determination and sovereignty. Instead such prophetic
wisdom encourages Indigenous people and all people alike to become absorbed
into the mass conglomerate of followers that are awaiting a cosmic event that
will save humans. At the same time such
wisdom pushed by these New Age philosophers is primarily from their own
egocentric self, motivated by monetary gain. Now let’s take another step into
more recent years to examine how these false prophetic claims were recycled
again by other New Age exploiters of Native American philosophy.
Exploiting the 2012 movement
The first discussions I heard about the 2012 worldwide shift
in consciousness was prior to my participation in Peace & Dignity Journeys
2008 run. Daniel Pinchbeck, a non-community member of any Native American or
Mayan community at that, wrote a book titled 2012: The Return of Quetzalcoatl. I
recall seeing him in an interview on one of the big corporate news networks
like MSNBC or CNN. Then much later I saw him on my own local ABC news on a
story about the 2012 Prophecies where he suggested we had no control over a
movement that is drawing us in towards this global shift (33). Later I would hear more
of his “prophetic” book that claimed to contain so much information of what to
expect for 2012. After examining his book it is obvious Pinchbeck pushed an
agenda that included promotion of psychedelic drug use for receiving higher
states of consciousness whereas he claims that he was visited by an ancient
Mayan God known as Quetzalcoatl while having ingested drugs in the amazon.
Pinchbeck claimed that the spirit of Quetzalcoatl took up residence in his mind
and brought him to a new level of consciousness to become a new messenger of
this news of prophecy (34).
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| Jim Jones tells his followers to drink the Kool-Aid, never mind its just Daniel pretending to be Quetzalcoatl. |
Pinchbeck also pushed the agenda that as human beings we
must unite as a whole if we are to evolve into a higher state of consciousness,
and that similar to tribal rites of passage as humans we must all evolve
towards awareness that we are all interconnected (35). Pinchbeck also claims that we should be more
involved with our shamanic self and rely less on the sophisticated things in
life (36).
Of course the enlightened Pinchbeck didn’t bother to
investigate that his experience in the Amazon should have revealed to him that
the traditional teachings of Quetzalcoatl do not originate anywhere near the
Amazon. In fact he placed himself in position of expertise of the Mayan
calendar as it relates to Quetzalcoatl but his understanding of cultural
competency between the Maya and the psychedelic drug experience he had in the Amazon
never crossed his mind that he was way off by speaking on two completely different cultures on two separate continents to be exact. He did however enjoy a large amount
of fame and fortune in the selling of his book and numerous show appearances.
Another case comes from a man named David Wilcock. Wilcock
does not seem to be connected to any Indigenous nation or community however
similar to JZ Knight that I mentioned earlier in this article, claiming to have
channeled a 35,000 year old spirit that gives her prophetic wisdom, Wilcock also
claims to have made contact, and channel a spirit known as the ancient Egyptian
god Ra after reading a book titled The Law of One; The Ra material. That book
oddly was written by other people who do not give themselves credit as authors
of the book but claimed to have received the material by process of channeling
the spirit of Ra (37). A book was also written based on life experiences with Wilcock on how he might
be a reincarnated man named Edward Cayce, capable of telling the future (38). During his channeling sessions, Wilcock claims
that so many of his clients were given readings on prophetic earth changes to
come and will usher in spiritual ascension for the year 2000. This was also the
time to raise his fees charging clients from $65 to $150 per session when the spirit of Ra instructed Wilcock to begin doing this while also channeling sessions for
other people to promote peace in the late 90s. (39).
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| "That will be $150 for me having to share with you that prophetic wisdom." |
John Major Jenkins was also another New Age pusher of the
2012 agenda. Jenkins also claims that his spiritual enlightenment was credited
to his sophisticated use of LSD and other mentally enhancing techniques (40). Jenkins proclaimed himself as an expert in Mayan cosmology and went on
to argue that the cosmic understanding of the universe that the Maya came to
understand was attained through the use of drugs. He eventually pushed the 2012
agenda with the claims that we will be shifting from one world age to the next (41). In no way
does Jenkins use his credentials or position to actually discuss that the Maya
actually might have had a very profound use of the scientific method which
would have had to been used overwhelmingly to possess such an advanced
understanding in astronomy and the universe. Instead Jenkins promotes the ideology
that the Maya Indians of the past had to have been high and on drugs to have reached such enlightenment
by saying, “Psychoactive mushrooms and other powerful mind-altering
substances were being used in the area of Mesoamerica that gave birth to the
Long Count calendar" (42).
God forbid intelligence is possible for Native American civilizations through means
of a normal state of mind. Does Jenkins think that in order to achieve such
high standard of mathematical engineering and science that one must be high on
drugs? This is the exact same Messiah complex that resonates within the
exploiters of traditional Native American wisdom and knowledge. Jenkins apparently
claims to know best of what the Maya did to achieve such a superior level of scientific wisdom and he is here
to save us all from making the great mistake in thinking that the Maya are not intelligent
enough to attain knowledge for themselves without the use of drugs. Jenkins is
here to tell the world the way it should be according to his drug altering experiences and we all should join him as one. It is also important to
note that Jenkins is not a distinguished academic scholar in Native American
culture. I cannot find what college or university he attended that would have
taught him the need for using the academic and scientific methods which probably
explains why Jenkins considers scientific approaches to be
something only limited thinkers would consider.
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| "It's utterly impossible for Native Americans to come to intelligent wisdom unless they are high. Did you drug my glass of water cause I'm feeling intelligent?" |
Jose Argüelles is also another New Age exploiter who has the
same epidemic like characteristics of all the persons I have identified above. Argüelles
claims that he too was able to channel an ancient Mayan Priest knows as Pacal
Votan who led him to a new spiritual enlightenment which is documented
according to his personal website (43) revealing to him the date of 2012 to be eventful. Argüelles
began to push his harmonic convergence teachings in the 80s and he claimed to
have created a new Dreamspell calendar, where Arguelles then claimed that the
spirit of Votan was now living inside of him, he no longer was to be identified
as Jose Arguelles (44).
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| "Hello? Jose Arguelles no longer lives in this body, but as an ancient Mayan spiritual telemarketer I will be glad to take your prophetic reading for you." |
And finally as mentioned earlier, New Age crystal planting rituals needed in order to balance the earth could never have been more exploited then by a woman named Keisha Crowther or as she calls herself Little Grandmother. Prior to 2012, Crowther claimed that she was one of 12 chosen messiahs on this planet that have prophetic wisdom we must all strive to become conscious of. The best sources on Crowther are on YouTube, where she claims that it is Mayan prophecy that will bring heaven on earth in what seems to be an event to take place in 2012. Such claims included promises that people will enlighten to something much higher if they only choose to love. Crowther pushed an agenda that led her followers to believe that there were extra-terrestrial spiritual beings waiting to come to earth and teach us new technological advances but that we are not yet ready to receive them due to the lack of oneness and love among humans in the world. She did this while at the same time claiming to be a shaman for the Sioux Salish tribe however her workshops and events have amassed thousands and probably millions of dollars with none going towards the loving act of rebuilding Indigenous communities living in poverty. Crowther also makes it clear that for Indigenous people to begin the healing that the earth so deserves can only be attained through planting of crystals in the ground (45). To this day even after being exposed as a fraud (46), Crowther still claims to have received the wisdom of the ancestors to help people prepare for the coming New Age and to shift into the 4th dimension through fee based workshops and speaking engagements (47).
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| "BY THE POWER OF GREY SKULL!! With this crystal planting I will restore peace to the earth!" |
These characters I mentioned thus far are just a few of the
many that pushed the 2012 agenda to exploit people and their resources. Their
prophetic messages for 2012 was that the spirit world is trying to teach us, but I say that if this were ever true does the spirit world not know anything about
science or astronomical wisdom? Do the spirits that channel through
these New Agers know they are lying or are they stupid in understanding basic
scientific principles of the universe? Shouldn't these spirits get it right, i mean after all they do have something to do with God and creation?
In the next decade the star people you call meteorites will hit the earth? Say what?
The article about prophecy mentioned earlier and comets
hitting the planet can be traced to partially originate from Ghost Wolf. We did
not go too far into detail about who Ghost Wolf really was and one should
always questions someone who goes by stereotypical names while simultaneously
trying to prophesize spiritual mumbo jumbo on behalf of Native American peoples
especially when they want do so in the guise of such stereotypical names. Ghost
Wolf is also known as Robert Franzone or Robert Perry. Prior to his passing in 2005,
Perry added the title of Dr. to his name as can be noted on his website (48).
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| "The star people you call meteorites will hit the earth. I accept checks. make it out to Ghost Wolf...i mean Robert Parry." |
Perry was involved
with New Age prophetic teachings that claimed the world as we know it would end
for what seemed to be vengeance from a higher power for what happened to Native
Americans. This occurred in the early 90s and he can be seen on YouTube videos (49) along with another New
Age organization known as, I Am America
led by a woman named Lori Toye. Toye claims to have been sent messages as far
back as 1983 by spiritual entities of what the United States geographical
landscape will look like which includes all of the Pacific Northwest and
California seeming to have sunk into the ocean. Available for $30, a map can be
sent to help prepare you for the earth changes (50). She and Robert Perry both created some of the
first theories based on spiritual master teachers sending them messages that
California and other parts of the word would sink into the ocean. Robert Perry
(Ghost Wolf) would also go on to be caught up in financial/legal issues with
Judi Koteen, who first published the article we began to explore with New Agers
and prophecies. Further online research on Judi Koteen reveals that she
wrote a book titled, Last Waltz of the Tyrants: The Prophecy. In this book, Koteen
claims to have channeled a spirit known as Ramtha that speaks of prophetic
events to unfold which are closely similar to those made by JZ Knight I
mentioned earlier in this article (51). As you can see these New Age prophecies are not authentic
as we may think they are. They are a continued recycled product of the same
story that occurred about a decade prior among the New Age community.
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| Sadly, Robert Franzone was caught up in legal matters concerning his business partners. |
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| The symbol of a star at top left was mistaken by Sitchin as a symbol for the sun. Note the multiple pointed star is not within a circle. |
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| The sun correctly identfied. A four-pointed star within a circle. Note the multiple pointed star. |
In conclusion for this piece of the article, you now have
been given the origins to the 2012 prophecies that either claimed a
catastrophic event of earth collisions with meteors, spewing volcanoes, floods
and even spiritual enlightenment to a higher state of human consciousness which
in my opinion was never meant to happen.
Identifying those who benefit from quackery science prophecies
The false doom and gloom prophecies such as that of 2012 are
meant to strike fear into the masses. This fear that arises from such
storytelling I would argue is meant to persuade large groups of people to think
and behave in a specific way that benefits a small number of people either in
the corporate media, such as news stations, book publishers and also sometimes
political agendas meant to change policy and laws. The 2012 prophecies were
almost very convincing even sounding scientifically true to an extent. The challenge I think that exists today is
that people in general can be misled and are not well acquainted with the
understanding on how to empirically research or investigate claims made by
people that obviously should stand out as not having credible sources to their claims.
This fear instilled in the masses of people is one that can
also lead to psychological shock and distress. Such shock is comparable to that
which Naomi Kline outlined in her book, The Shock Doctrine: The Rise of Disaster
Capitalism. Klein described it best when in her book she defined the shock that
people receive from leaders of nations and world decision makers occur when they
exploit people based on either a natural or purposely intended crisis. Such
crisis events are used as an opportunity for certain leaders in the political
world to further push laws and policies that benefit the small corporate elite
and push the masses further into a crisis, thus more shock (56). I argue that this is done by certain leaders
tapping into the fear of the masses by using those crisis events and claiming
to have the answer to fixing the problem. Do you recall the section I wrote in
this article about the Messiah Complex? Next time you hear of a disastrous
event in the news like the Boston bombing, the Sandy Hook School shooting, the
Trayvon Martin issue or anything that is massively bombarded all over the
corporate media, I challenge you to not become too worried about what happened,
but instead carefully listen and observe what happens in the media and politics
soon after such crisis events. Is there a massive push to change laws and
policies when it wasn’t a news headline before? Are people reacting out of fear?
Is the story being supported with evidence based facts and figures that you can locate for yourself? I will let you decide that.
Because people in general do not have the time or resources
to quickly recover from such fear, they can be taken advantage of and in regards
to false prophecy such as those of the year 2012 I think that the New World
Order which I described earlier in this article is partially behind such
movements. I think this because the NWO benefits the most from people who fall
for such frauds promoting a global change in the name of humanity. In fact I
would argue that entering a New Age
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| Planting crystals in the ocean might solve the problems of the world so long as its done with the jawbone of an animal, maybe buffalo? |
The New Age wannabes that claim to have prophetic wisdom do
not even have to be associated with such New World Order political beliefs of the Democrats,
Republicans, Tea Party, Communists, Capitalists or any other socio-political
groups that overwhelm the masses and try to shift them into a New Age. The New Agers just need to believe that they
are special (Messiah Complex) and possess sacred knowledge of love and light
that we all must attain in order to be saved and evolve to become a more
advanced human race than the one we currently are today. This New Age
evolvement into a higher state of consciousness I argue is somewhat of a
spiritual and cultural based eugenics that greatly benefits the elite.
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| In order to see great change we must all unite as one nation, one tribe. Oh and give your money to the one person with such a prophetic message. |
I believe people who live in fear of meteors, volcanoes or massive earthquakes to hit the earth are also easily manipulated to give up something that is a loss for them but a corporate treasure for a few. 2012 has come and gone, but the same tactics will continue to happen again. In fact there is a popular concept I have been hearing of more and more since the years leading up to 2012 and it is what I think is being used to exploit people. For anyone who comes from a First Nation or maintains their Indigenous roots, I encourage you to look further into this concept for It can be one of good benefit to our communities yet if not properly understood it is one that can lead to the destruction of our traditional ways and usher in the “New Age” of enlightenment that I strongly disagree with. This concept is one of unity and oneness.
The Concept of Oneness
There were moments in history where the need to be unified was
beneficial specifically for Native American people. Prior to arrival of
Columbus, it is no doubt that Nations within the western hemisphere shared
trade routes, foods, languages, and art and even went to war with each other.
The need to be unified in a collective oneness sounds like a great idea but I
will argue in this section that oneness is not to be taken lightly for it can
lead to damaging outcomes if people who join movements using the cliché of
oneness are not careful. Such misleading movements I have already demonstrated
are pushed by New Age leaders like that in the 2012 prophecies.
One historical approach towards the use of oneness took
place in In 1934 when United States Congress passed the Wheeler-Howard Bill,
also known as the Indian Reorganization Act (IRA) or the Indian New Deal. This
new deal organized tribes as a sovereign component of government responsible
for administering its own tribal governance. The IRA was meant to assist in
protecting land and resources, eventually directing Native Americans back into
Nations with a solid land base for economic and cultural survival. The IRA also
included for tribes willing to participate, access to $10 million for revolving
funds within the Department of the Interior for loans in economic development,
passed by the Senate and the House (58).
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| Great changes in oneness come to people by influencing policy and legislation. New Age movements do not address such a realization. |
The IRA was first introduced by a man named John Collier, a
commissioner from the Bureau of Indian Affairs, who after visiting an Indian
Reservation and witnessing a ceremony had a life changing experience. From that
point Collier felt it was part of his responsibility to share his power and
privilege to assist Native Americans to work within the bureaucratic levels of
United States to establish micro governments among various tribes and
reclaiming tribal reservations. Prior to IRA the U.S. policy was moving towards
eliminating Indian reservations and distributing it to private individual
Indians to own and do with what they want like any other person owning property (59). The IRA did have
some pushback as any movement would however it did require the unity and
oneness of many Indigenous people and allies to work together in succeeding. We
know that to this day there are some challenges that First Nations are now
encountering with tribal governance and sovereignty within reservation land
held in Federal Trust, however this case described here is one that I strongly
argue is one where a person (in this case Collier) does not claim to be a
Messiah or holding sacred knowledge and wisdom to unify Native Americans.
Unlike the New Age frauds described in this article, Collier became an agent of
real change by using his abilities, education and credentials to work alongside
with Indigenous people and making the Indian Reorganization Act a reality. Something
we rarely ever see any more from non-indigenous community leaders that claim to
want to help.
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| New Age prophets claim to care for the earth. Why don't they send their followers to donate time and money to join those Indigenous movements already doing so? |
Recent events also based on the concept of oneness include
the movement to stop Keystone Pipeline from Alberta Canada to the Midwest and Eastern
United States and the Idle No More movement. They are based on approaching the
systematic structures of power and having influence in the decision making that
occurs when Bills and laws are passed. In no way whatsoever do these movements
encourage people to sit back and just wait for a global conscious awakening so
that humans can transcend into some higher plane or dimension. I would argue that true wisdom and knowledge
engages people to hold on to their power and traditions while at the same time
becoming part of a critical issue that is taking place in society. Only under
such circumstances do I believe the concept of oneness can properly benefit
people. Do not get me wrong, such movements can go astray and if not centrally
focused on the issue that started that movement, then it can become mislead
towards such New Age type agendas like those preached by the frauds in this
article. This is why I argue that unity and oneness can sometimes be the demise
of a group of people, culture or movement if not carefully kept in check.In his book titled, Wasáse: Indigenous Pathways of Action,
Taiaiake Alfred describes that which is a dangerously romanticized version of,
“attempting to negotiate structural changes to our relationships before our minds and hearts are cleansed of the stains of colonialism. In the absence of mental and spiritual decolonization, any effort to theorize or to implement a model of a “new” Onkwehonwe-settler relationship is counter-productive to the objectives of justice and the achievement of a long-term relationship of peaceful coexistence between our peoples” (60).
Alfred expresses that in order for a conscious movement of
people to be authentic, its leaders must have moral and spiritual integrity,
free of substance abuse and the will to exploit people as do the New Age
frauds. Most meaningful movements need leaders with a deep understanding of how
current Indigenous and non-Indigenous relationships function. To try to modify
the current bureaucratic state into something like the New Agers have done with
the 2012 prophecies further adds damage to the social injustices that take
place because they promote a reform that is similar to the same imperial
structure that was before. Calling for a total New World or evolving anew on how
we should live based on the New Age rhetoric promotes a denial and neglect of
the exploitive methods that took place as if it is not important to discuss
those events. New Age frauds place themselves on the stage of keepers of wisdom
and knowledge without allowing the Indigenous people they steal their ideas
from to be at the forefront of the discussion when seeking change within the
system. These frauds send a message that we just need to get to the next stage
of human evolution and everything on earth will be ok. In order for such an evil atrocity to take
place, it is my strong belief that the pushers of the New Age/ New World Order
agenda do so by using the concept of oneness and unity.
Prophecy does not instill fear in society, it directs society towards a meaningful understanding of current knowledge
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| Columbus arrived to America? He discovered it. That's what they teach in school right? |
I started exposing the fraud of the 2012 prophecies in this
article by analyzing a magazine that claimed to have prophetic messages based
on Native American wisdom. I hope that so far I have convinced you the sham of
such material and the characteristics of the type of persons that contribute to
it. I also promised to compare it to another magazine which I will end this
article with by analyzing what I would argue speaks more appropriately to the
authenticity of prophetic wisdom. The reason I’m choosing to compare these two
magazines is because not only did I want to investigate the fraud and origin of
the 2012 prophecies that were claimed by New Agers but I also want to mention
that these two magazines were printed around the same time as the so called 500th
anniversary of the discovery of the Americas (1992). Many movements among Indigenous
people of North and South America began in order to reject the notion that
Columbus discovered anything new.
In fact 1992 set the stage for Intercontinental movements of
Indigenous people telling the world how First Nations will take lead of their
own historical, social, economic and cultural wisdom, not to be told by others. It also would become a
place where the Prophecy of the Eagle & Condor would be spoken of a time
when the North and South would reunite as an interconnected society as once
existed before colonization (61). It is from the time these magazines were printed that I feel two movements of
oneness began to take place which incorporates “Native American” wisdom. There has been the New Age movement of oneness
and unity that completely disregards the traditional knowledge and wisdom of
Indigenous people and instead exploits them for profit and personal gain. It is
also a movement that speaks of prophecy on terms of fear and non-substantial
change. Then there is the other oneness movement that began since 1992, a
movement of authentic leaders and persons from hundreds of Indigenous nations,
unified together against odds and Imperial political power to educate people on
what truly has happened to First Nations and ultimately what has happened to the world since 1492 and
why it is no day to celebrate. This approach is more direct at implementing the
concept of prophecy towards meaningful change in how the world has accepted a
particular belief like the discovery of the Americas.
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| Those who discovered the lost Columbus. |
I also will demonstrate how unlike the compared New Age magazine
which doesn’t teach anything but speaks on junk science and instilling the same
fear for social control, a tactic used by first colonizers of the Americas that
followed with Christopher Columbus, Rethinking
Columbus is one that places a foundation of transformational understanding
to a deceitful concept about the Columbus legacy. The magazine promotes development
of the individual mental process and challenges the reader to recognize,
recollect, analyze and reflect upon the already existing paradigm it is trying
to engage the reader in. The approach used in the Rethinking Columbus magazine integrates prior knowledge of the
reader with new knowledge; or a different way of looking at the current
knowledge the reader possesses in their brain. For that reason I will also acknowledge the material we explore in this magazine as prophetic for it is meant
to change and direct society towards a meaningful understanding of the Columbus
legacy, a legacy that has devastated the entire world.
At first glance of the cover, there is a noticeable photo of
an Indigenous girl in traditional clothing. One might think this is a book
about Indigenous people and not Columbus. It also has a price of $4 compared to
the New Age magazine at $3.95. The inside cover to Rethinking Columbus has a clause giving the reader printing rights (62). That’s correct.
Articles of the magazine can be reprinted for use in educational settings. That
means you can actually teach people with the information in this magazine. The New
Age magazine, Body, Mind, Spirit does not allow the reader to do that because permission must be obtained to share and reprint such a magazine that claims to hold prophetic wisdom.
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| New Age profiteers would be upset to see Indigenous people failing to celebrate as one tribe. |
The first article in the
magazine contains an interview of a leader to an organization, Susan Harjo and
the name of the person who conducted the interview. Unlike the New Age magazine
which on the exception of Ghostwolf, the article was not completely clear how
the quotes of the other New Age persons were attained. Another article is
identified to be written by Bill Bigelow.
What’s important about his article is
that he has attached notes of the material he is talking about so that the
reader can look up the credibility on whether what he says is true or not. On
page 22 of this magazine is an article that tries to investigate the origin of
scalping back to Europe, an act of violence that many stereotypically attached
to Native Americans. The article is accompanied by a photocopy of the actual
proclamation and a reference of where the material source was taken from.
Page
44 contains a detailed map of North America and the original First Nation
languages. The picture is also accompanied by a footnoted source so that the
reader can further investigate the material and its origin. This magazine does
not compare to the New Age magazine we investigated earlier in the sense that this
magazine actually tells you where you can further research in the case you want
to know more about the information being presented to you or just want to fact
check the article. This is not present in any of Ghost Wolf or the other New
Agers that claim to have spirits channel knowledge through them of prophetic
events like meteors hitting the earth.
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| You mean to tell me this magazine gives the reader notes to investigate the material discussed in this article? |
An article titled Textbook Crimes and Misdemeanors
on page 66 has a wonderful analysis of a series of social sciences books to be
used in California schools. It also identifies the material it is taking the
analysis from and includes pieces directly from the book so that you may have
some insight on how biased and stereotypical the material is, similar to what I
have done in this article. It can’t get any better than that. The Rethinking
Columbus magazine is also accompanied by other pages of resources and teaching
guides that can help understand the direction that the makers of this magazine
are trying to convey to the world. In no way does the New Ager magazine do
that, it merely has tons of ads that continue to place fear in the reader such
as ads that can prepare you for the year 2000, or authentic Indian totem
jewelry and arrowheads which are not free. But most importantly there is an
article in the Rethinking Columbus magazine that contains an important teaching
we must take away from all of this investigating. It is an article of
documented writings on Bartolome de las Casas, a Spanish friar who chose to
speak against the enslavement and mistreatment of Indians in the New World in
the year 1542. He eventually gave up his slaves and advocated for humane
treatment of Indigenous people. Although he failed on many parts, his actions
resulted in policies that supported the rights to Native Americans (63).
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| People were removed from their land by a process called scalping? I thought they just moved away. |
Bartolome de las Casas
stood alongside with Native people and became an agent of change from within
his construct of power and privilege. He did not claim to have new knowledge or
wisdom to influence the change he wanted to see, he merely questioned and took part
in dialogue with the leaders necessary to start the process. I end this section
of the article on that subject because I strongly feel that if anyone is going
to be supportive of Native American wisdom and ideologies, it should be Native
people themselves at the forefront, and if anyone that does not identify with
an Indigenous community wishes to see Native American prophecies and knowledge
manifest into new processes of great shift in consciousness, then stand beside and support them
without exploiting anyone.
Conclusion
I wrote this article to investigate where the 2012
prophecies originated from and to show you the reader how they came from
non-credible sources that claimed to have genuine knowledge on the year 2012
based on Native American wisdom of the Maya. It was all a hoax to exploit
people for money, fame and worship, but most importantly is part of a continuous
assault on the masses of people, particularly Indigenous communities that have
yet to completely give in to the global imperialism of the New World Order
government, a government that has nothing secret about it, a government that Indigenous people have been at war with for
centuries. I also wanted to demonstrate the origins of these fraudulent prophecies
for sake of my own sharing of understanding wisdom whereas I personally have witnessed
many members of our own tribal communities regurgitate the same ideologies as
those behind the New Age frauds that claimed we must all evolve and be ready
for a new change that will be glorious and long ago documented by our
ancestors. I strongly encourage you as the reader to be vigilant in fact
checking what people claim. Lisa Aldred, a well distinguished researcher in New
Age exploitation on Native American culture explains that what these New Agers
are trying to do is sell people an experience of what it is like to be someone
else (64). Similar
to the same way corporations convince people that buying their products will
make them like a particular famous person in the entertainment industry.
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| Native people might organize together as one, yet each community has its own unique struggles that should not be clumped as the same issue. |
I maintain that there are no new teachings or knowledge that
any such messiahs can enlighten us with and that everything we ever needed as
distinct groups of peoples was already established to us by God when the
universe was created. I strongly feel such New Age agendas will continue in
other forms that we have yet to imagine and its main goal is to instill fear in
us to give up our freedoms and our rights to something very sinister by
trying to unify us under the concept of “oneness’ that will benefit the rich and
powerful elite, but not us. As First Nations and Native American communities,
we should be more vigilant when we hear of such cases in the future and be
willing to investigate for ourselves why such junk stories are being promoted
on a global scale. With that I strongly encourage anyone reading this article
to live your life to the fullest, believe in God and in unity but also believe
that you have control over much of your life and there is unique
characteristics to whatever nation, community or people you come from that
should be protected at all costs. Be aware of current social and political
events and investigate them for yourself. Fight for what you know is right in
society and live out prophecy of God rather than preach the prophetic messages
of God. Instead choose to live out the teachings and wisdom that the great
leaders of your community are struggling to keep alive rather than listening to
the massive global messages of wisdom which I would almost guarantee are meant
to push a “New World” agenda that only benefits the 1 percent of wealth holders.
* I welcome any
comments and feedback and if you want copies of any of the material that I
discussed in this article for your own reference, then please send me a message
and I will gladly be of assistance.
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