We all have the need for community. It is a primal archetypal presence in our soul calling out for expression moment by moment. At one time the hearth was the center of our tribal cave that we centered around for our survival. Food…nurturance…survival by having food to eat and cook, and gather together. To BE together. To stop the world and breathe the same air in the cave around the fire.
The men hunted and brought home the game and the women skinned and cooked it. They developed ways to store it in salt and other ways. The community gathered around hearth for food, tribal survival, companionship, and often the mogur (shaman) would tell stories through motions and grunts. (read Clan of the Cave Bear, by Jane Auel) The Power of Myth, by Joseph Campbell also wrote about this topic.
Now, this has been turned into fast food and the lack of center exists in our non-culture. We need to bring that center back home to the hearth. The Cosmic Intention of the universe has driven humans to space age acceleration and the cultural center of the power of the now has been put at risk. When we all sat around the fire and prepared the food, cooked and ate it we were present more in the now. We told stories and sang songs and culture came out of this gathering of people. It was easier , in many ways, to BE together. That purpose of BEING together is being lost!
We have reached dangerous “Tipping Point” of the loss of meaning. Joseph Campbell wrote about this happening, as did Thane.
How can we restore this culture to a less scattered and distracted technologically divided world. We travel the globe to find culture that is slower and more “present”. To learn how to bring it home, so to speak. I challenge you now, to take the time and journal about this and create a symbolic gesture to restore the power of myth of this lost tribe. I asked myself this a year ago…”where is my tribe?” The Prosperos is one, and I have a few others, to instill love and meaning into my life through my dedicated action with these tribes. I make the phone calls to nurture this in my daily life, and volunteer in my local church and 12 step group. Also sharing Translation and R.H.S. with people in groups on internet radio is another expression, inviting them to learn it. Astrological readings has also enriched my sense of meaning and symbolic living now. Even sharing movies with others in my apartment community room brings a sense of tribe.
Our community and cultural roles have shifted to insanely accelerated paces. The family is scattered around the globe and the cell phone has become the new “hearth!”. We eat our food on the run, gabbing mainly useless gab, to people won’t don’t know on face book, and nd we will probably never meet! This is a sad situation. On the surface it is inclusive and open to the new. Take a deeper look and it is shallow and meaningless “monkey mind” chattering garbage!
WHAT CAN WE EACH DO TO RESTORE A SENSE OF CENTEREDNESS AND PRESENCE OF COMMUNITY AROUND US?
This is the question that keeps ringing in my ears. Maybe you re actively living a sense of cultural community that brings meaning to your soul? The sense of Purpose is important in that process for me. I pose this question to you now and challenge you to share it with me, The Prosperos, and your own individual community. To take action, not to sit around forming committees, having endless meaningless meetings ABOUT doing that, BUT to actually do it! Take action. Mars and Venus are going into Aries any day now.
TAKE ACTION NOW AND BUILD SOME COMMUNITY AROUND YOU TODAY!
Robert McEwen, H.W., M.
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