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Paulo Kirk's avatar

I will be interviewing this elder soon, to be aired on my radio show, KYAQ.org on the Oregon Coast:

https://youtu.be/FIPZw0XT3zs?si=rs7UZilQfg0cmyPq

Tiokasin Ghosthorse, Cheyenne River Lakota Nation of South Dakota, is an international speaker on Peace, Indigenous and Mother Earth perspective.

A survivor of the “Reign of Terror” from 1972 to 1976 on the Pine Ridge, Cheyenne River, and Rosebud Lakota Reservations in South Dakota and the US Bureau of Indian Affairs Boarding and Church Missionary School systems designed to “kill the Indian and save the man,” Tiokasin has a long history of Indigenous activism and advocacy. He spoke as a 15-year-old at the United Nations – Lake Geneva, Switzerland.

He is an active board member of Simply Smiles, Green Cross International, and The Center for Earth Ethics. Tiokasin speaks frequently at venues such as Yale University’s School of Divinity, Ecology and Forestry focusing on the cosmology, diversity, and perspectives on the relational/egalitarian vs. rational/hierarchal thinking processes of Western society.

Tiokasin was a 2016 Nominee for a Nobel Peace Prize from the International Institute of Peace Studies and Global Philosophy.

Selected for 2016 Native Arts Cultural Foundation Fellowship, and a Nominee for a National Endowment for the Arts National Heritage Fellowship 2018, National Native American Hall of Fame Nominee 2018, and 2019 Indigenous Music Award Nominee for “Best Instrumental Album” for “From the Continuum.”

A master musician and a teacher of magical, ancient and modern sounds, Tiokasin performs worldwide and has been featured at the Cathedral of Saint John the Divine, Lincoln Center, Madison Square Garden, the Metropolitan Museum of Art, The Apollo Theatre, and the United Nations, as well as at many universities and concert venues. Tiokasin serves on boards of several charitable organizations dedicated to bringing non-western education to Native and non-Native children. Tiokasin is “a perfectly flawed human being” and a Sundancer in the cosmology of the Lakota Nation.

Tiokasin is also the host and producer of First Voices Indigenous Radio

https://youtu.be/cl23UCPUZJ8?si=u4qFyMQwQFQAKw0m

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Jack Sprat's avatar

In my opinion the top tier puppeteer was Lucifer. We were created in this evolutionary state of nature world (think Lord of the Flies) that Lucifer had management responsibility for before he went bad. So it was like being in kindergarten and getting a really cunning pedophile as the headmaster. So we and some other worlds were quarantined to contain the spread of Lucifer's alluring but poisonous philosophy until Lucifer's superiors sort out the mess. In the meantime humanity's moral compass got fucked. Lucifers in jail now, his superiors are dealing with the situation, it'll get sorted out.

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Paulo Kirk's avatar

Goddamn, can you end the fucking JudeaChristo crap of Lucifer and these fucking Marvel Comic Book Jewish stories? Grow out of this domination shit.

Tiokasin Ghosthorse " If we think peace with Earth rather than peace on Earth, one means domination, one means relational."

So Mother Earth does indeed listen to us and gives us all that we need all our cries, all our whimpers, all our prayers, she answers it, gives us food, gives us water, gives us warmth, and we learn in between those like warm and cold, we learn what the balance is, we learn what the rhythm is. And so once we are into the rhythm, you can really start questioning, what is savior mentality? What is salvation point mentality? We're always looking for the solution. So I think rather than looking for this solution, we need to acknowledge where we are at in this consciousness, or in this continuum of being in the present and this comes through when you speak your Indigenous language and most Indigenous languages that I know of, don't have nouns. So therefore there cannot be a savior mentality.

Now you see how the western mind tries to take all of what I just said and put it into the box of, I need to find the answer to why is this? We need a reference, we need something so that we can learn “how to”, as if how to was a manual to do something. And what we've forgotten is that Mother Earth is always listening to us, Mother Earth is always teaching us lessons. There's not one time in human history, that humans can teach Mother Earth, any lesson, you see. And so that's our arrogance to think that we can control the Earth, we can, you know, do what we want to the Earth, and even save the Earth. And so in that sense, you know, the Western mind, the Euro-Western wants to be at the top of the heap so that they can, I don't know what it is, reward, cause and effect, take and reward, or give and reward type of mentality, a dualism. And you see that Mother Earth is not like that, very many qualities of communication she has. So I guess that's a long way of understanding or trying to answer the question of what is savior mentality.

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Jack Sprat's avatar

No

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Kazimir Malevitch's avatar

Today more than in the past, we could and should use propaganda to turn the table upside down. The problem is: Why we don't do ithat anymore?

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Kazimir Malevitch's avatar

Bernays... 1923 Crystallizing Public Opinion ...Propaganda 1928... just in time for Mr.Adolf... 1945 end of WW, Public relations... and last but the best 1955 The Engineering of consent... too many coincidences...

Was he, btw, a Zionist jew also? xD

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