Dancing in Circles 13 comments

16 Aug 2004 @ 00:10, by John Ashbaugh Dancing in Circles [link] ”Once upon a time, they say, we danced our lives through - as we worked, played, ate, slept, fought, and loved. We danced to petition and appease the gods, to help the sun rise, the rivers flow, and the plants grow and thrive. By dancing we understood our power and our place in the universe, and through dance we transmitted this understanding to the next generation. We danced to celebrate life’s rites of passage, from birth to death; through the dance we attuned to and imitated the rhythms, cycles and the awe-inspiring process of nature, and we danced to express our joy, fear, grief and hope. According to Bernhard and Maria Gabrielle Wosien, "Dancing has always been an imitation of the divine mystery in manifestation." To live was to dance. Most importantly we danced together. We danced in a circle, the very symbol of unity and wholeness. Our circles created a sacred space, a Temenos, within which we created and recreated our cosmos and our realities. Outside was chaos and the unknown - within the circle was order, power and community. Then came the rise of cities and trade, suppression of "pagan" forms of celebration and worship and the ravages of industrialism. We lost touch with our earth and our communal unity. Our dance became more purely social; the circle became opposing lines and squares, then broke into couples, until recently we see the ultimate in dissociation - dancing alone, unaware of the whole and isolated from one another. The circle of the dance was broken, but the need for it remained deep in our psyches, in the places where we remember our wholeness”. kkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkk There are now about six billion and some odd number of human body-soul combos on this planet. If 60 million of us have computers, that’s one percent. If 300 million of us have computers, that’s five percent. The global on-line community is a small fraction of the human mental aggregate. The tradition in the United States is that approximately fifty percent of the qualified electorate never have voted and never will vote in a presidential election, much less any other election. What characteristics distinguish those who participate from those who don’t? Educational level and economic participation seem like rather overly simplistic parameters. Is this an interesting question? Fifty percent of the people don’t give a rat’s rear end in the first place. The other fifty percent of the electorate are concerned enough at some level to have an opinion, and most of those opinions are fairly well biased and shallowly defined. All of those grocery store shoppers, of whom I am one. Most of us have a tendency to become informed through commentary and analysis supporting opinions we have already decided on. The government of the United States and indeed, the governments of all countries in the world that I am in any way familiar with are grossly and totally incompetent and fundamentally unconcerned with addressing the issue of the capitalist war machine and its burgeoning effect on human and other forms of life. Interestingly enough, I read that there are going to be some demonstrations staged by some radical opponents of the Republican party at the New York City convention in two weeks. Hope too many of them don’t get too badly hurt. The emotional outrage needs to be vented against the regime, but as we all now should be beginning to understand, this demonstration will be like throwing a rock at a Tyrannosaurus Rex. As the old order begins to disintegrate during the forthcoming generation, all that anyone who survives is going to have is going to be each other. Those who live closest to the Earth will be in the most favorable position. Here I am living in Albuquerque! What kind of talk am I talking? At least I’m in New Mexico. Only about seventy miles from the Los Alamos national laboratories! I wonder why the word Patagonia comes into my mind every now and then? The Circle of Life shall prevail. The prevailing system of governmental organization is not going to change. It is going to Implode. The prevailing system of economic organization is not going to change. It is going to Implode. The global on-line community may perhaps not survive. Having seen the quality of devastation that the Old Civilization is capable of, the collective enlightened mind of the new world civilization may develop a more compassionate and humanitarian direction.

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