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Earth And SpiritThe thing that seems to get overlooked in the creation story in Genesis in the bible is that God spoke or breathed onto some earth to create us. So we are the breath of God and Earth. What is the breath of God? Is it millions of year of evolution? Is it literally some being picking up earth and breathing on it? I really don't give a shit. The important thing in the story, to me, is that we are the Earth and the Earth is us. We are God's breath and speech and God's breath and speech is us. What does this mean? I don't freaking know. But what I can feel and experience is that you and I are the Earth. We share the earth's DNA. We return to it when we die. Our form changes back to Earth. Through the excrement of the worms, the weather, or our ashes if we are cremated. I don't know what the heck God's breath is but my faith is that whatever it is looks a whole lot like love. The verb love. I do have a slight clue what the Earth is. The struggle for me is simply to be Earth every day, and to live as God's breath, whatever the heck that is... There are many myths to explain this concept. I grew up Christian so that one is fine. God picked up Earth, breathed on it, and created us. On the sixth day. Why not? They had to make the story small enough to understand. The Lakota were born from Mother Earth's vagina, today known as "Wind Cave" by we Europeans. Why not? I went to Wind Cave. It is honeycomb rock like the rock on the coast of Maine because it used to be under the ocean. Seems like a perfectly good uterus and vagina for Mother Earth to give birth to The People to me... I love that story. I am Earth, born of Earth's vagina! Awesome! The idea that it took 6 million years to come through that vagina. Even better! I got to spend 6 million years evolving out of Earth's vagina! That's friggin' awesome! Friday, November 18th 2011 |
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10/10/2011 | Occupy Wall Street | |||
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08/2/2011 | On Being An Artist | |||
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11/5/2010 | Even The Air | |||
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12/11/2009 | Pete Seeger | |||
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05/14/2008 | God | |||
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09/26/2005 | Sky To Mountain | |||
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12/3/2004 | Standing Up 2 | |||
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05/16/2003 | Satan | |||
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