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Hi. Everyone I'm Josh and this

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is the emerald currents and

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trends through a mythic lands.

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The podcast where we explore

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and ever changing world and

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our lives in. It through

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the lens and myth, story

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and imagination, The

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Emerald. All that's happening on the

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screen. Jewel in space. So

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a few announcements here right at

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the start. The. First

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announcement is that I

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will be offering a

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year long deep dive

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into mythic study. Starting.

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In early November of Twenty

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Twenty for. A year

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long deep dive into mythic study

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and animus. He and Ritual Foundation's

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called the Mythic Body and this

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is of course I've offered a

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couple times before and I'll be

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offering it again. It's a year

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long journey and it's for students

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of the mythic, Students of the

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Animate who want to better understand

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the ecstatic animate, hard of myth

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and story, who want to deepen

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their access to the imagine or

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core of human experience. And.

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Really specifically to explore foundational

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knowledge that is common to

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a global ritual traditions, animate

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traditions in order to enhance

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their practice in their own

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traditions. Through. Mythic

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study, somatic practice, ritual

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repetition, nature immersion, threshold

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exploration, and shared story

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we will read, calibrate

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together and deepen our

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relationship with body, community

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and cosmos together. It's.

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A course that. The relevance and

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workers for some added constructors

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for artists for writers for

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activists for policymakers for community

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builders and sustainable systems thinkers

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Really for all knowledge seekers.

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So. This course again will

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start in November of Twenty

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Twenty Four. And applications

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are open starting May

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first. And if you'd like

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it's a course that historically has filled up

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and there has been a waiting list. So.

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If you're interested in the course and

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you wanna spend time really diving deep

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in a day and age when a

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lot of our models of learning are.

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Not. So deep. If

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you really want to dive deep, this

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is an opportunity to do so and

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I look forward to spending a year

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together. Second,

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Thing I wanna say is

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just an encouragement that I

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nearly every episode. just a

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else also coming up that I

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wanted to talk about just a

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little bit. So as

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I think you can probably.

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Feel. As I think you probably

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know. The Emerald is

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and animate vision. At

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a time when such a vision is deeply

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necessary. And for me, this

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vision. The Vision of The Emerald even

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predating the podcast. Has

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always been about community and

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about giving back. So.

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I'm starting a granting program that's gonna

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gonna be small, at least at the beginning here.

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But. It's gonna be something. And who

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Means that there are going to be

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Twenty Twenty four. To. Support

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podcast patrons is that there

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the grants will be in the three

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And reviving traditional ceremonial songs

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or song lion lower. Or

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medicine traditions. Or documenting

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spirits and a particular geographic region.

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And in the second category, you

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might be a theater producer exploring

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how to reintroduce ritual a d

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to theater. This. Is about. A

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And how to foster it and keep it alive.

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There. Will be an intro video up on

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and all that good stuff. So.

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I hope this excites you as much as

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it excites me and I'm looking forward to

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bringing to life with you. And

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you can find out more

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at patreon.com. Last The

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Emerald Podcast. So now.

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On. with our episode. I

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everyone, so I'm taking a little

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bit of a. Breath.

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After that last episode on Justice.

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There was a big one right?

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Take em bras. With

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me. Yes,

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let's fill the breath of

8:30

life together. How

8:33

it flows freely. How

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it gathers and disburses and

8:38

gathers again. In

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a movement is timeless and

8:43

inevitable. As the pulse

8:45

of the ties. As

8:48

the movement class.

8:52

Were here. And

8:54

we've all got different opinions. And

8:57

we've all got differing thoughts

8:59

of how it should be.

9:01

That's very. So

9:07

in the last episode, I spoke of

9:10

how tradition after tradition speaks in law.

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The Law Of the Land. And

9:17

out Law is at the heart

9:19

of animate tradition. And

9:21

like I said in the episode

9:23

Law The Heavy Word right I

9:25

might say words like Law and

9:28

Order and you might start hearing

9:30

this in your head. And

9:34

in a modern culture where

9:36

law tends to be associated

9:38

with arbitrary rules handed down

9:40

from above, with rigidities and

9:42

regulations and with a history

9:44

of commandments and boarding schools

9:46

and Catholic nuns smacking people

9:48

with rulers. It's understandable

9:50

that a conversation on law could

9:53

see him removed from the animate

9:55

part of what this podcast is

9:57

all about. Like.

10:00

How did we get? from

10:02

universal adornment and speaking stones

10:04

and trance medium zip, ecstatic

10:06

ritual to law right? I

10:09

think it's fair to say that many

10:11

people have a knee jerk reaction to

10:13

the word law in this country. Anyway,

10:15

many of our cultural legends pride themselves

10:17

on having fought the law or stood

10:19

up to the law. Our founding fathers

10:21

were trying to get away from oppressive

10:23

laws, right? Laws. That impinged the

10:26

unalienable rights and freedoms of the human

10:28

being. There's. An ongoing

10:30

culture war about law pier in

10:32

the States. And there are

10:34

a whole lot of people in that culture

10:36

war. That same less is more. The.

10:39

Fewer laws, the better. So.

10:41

There's that vision of law. Law.

10:43

As arbitrary human rules. Law.

10:46

Abstracted from Natural Systems.

10:49

Law as basically a

10:52

societal civilizational invention. But.

10:54

That vision of law is a

10:57

function of modern abstraction and separation.

10:59

It's not reflective of what law

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traditionally is, and if we go

11:04

too far down the road of

11:06

seeing law as arbitrary. As

11:09

he burdensome. As a

11:11

set of confining human rules, we

11:14

can forget something a whole lot

11:16

deeper about law and how it's

11:18

been traditionally understood. We

11:20

can forget the. Law.

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For. Example. Is.

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The clouds. The

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movement of the clown. How

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they gathered disperse, how the below

11:34

and how they sent. Out

11:38

a cascade and an outpouring of

11:41

fertility Like. All

11:44

of this movement and some visions

11:46

and expression of agree on. A

11:49

law that plays itself out.

11:52

And seasonal cycle in

11:54

months. In cycles In Lunar

11:56

cycles. In continuity of. What?

12:04

The Law. Who

12:11

is not Law as we might

12:13

talk about law as you know,

12:15

the inevitable row of these books

12:18

on the shelves by the lawyers

12:20

desk. Tradition

12:22

after tradition talks about of

12:24

law of the land. And.

12:27

Vibrant allies present in

12:29

the water, present in

12:32

the spaciousness of the

12:34

great. Don't ask. The

12:38

great sky is not obstruct.

12:44

And that just. And

12:50

in this great skies

12:52

existence there is space

12:54

for all things to

12:56

express unfold, come to

12:58

be and pass on

13:00

to articulate and their

13:02

particular shape and me.

13:06

To pass on lake clues and.

13:10

pass on and patter

13:13

like clouds. Food.

13:17

And clouds on. The plane.

13:21

I saw spillovers, Cloud

13:28

Shadows Trust. So

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law is the understanding that

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there's a great order to

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nature, a pattern. There's

13:44

a way that the cosmos

13:46

unfolds And this law. this

13:48

order of creation is expressed

13:51

everywhere. The

13:54

word cosmos itself means what.

13:58

It means: order. But

14:01

before we go thinking that

14:03

that sounds boring, a restrictive

14:05

verb, impinging. Remember.

14:07

That the or in order.

14:11

Is the same or as in union

14:13

and. As in adorned.

14:17

The senses not have some

14:19

rigid, soulless impersonal order. Like

14:22

the Universe is a big military

14:25

academy right? The. Senses:

14:27

nachos, embroidery, Of

14:29

are repeated said. That

14:32

this universe unfolds according to a batter.

14:35

A shining powder. A

14:38

reverberant. To.

14:41

Pattern that does present and

14:44

how waves move and how

14:46

galaxies and for how

14:48

culture's organize our institutions arise,

14:51

how human undertakings gather and

14:53

disperse, So that

14:56

if you look at a map

14:58

of nations over the past eight

15:00

hundred years and speeded up on

15:02

times what you see looks or

15:05

whole lot like gathering and dispersing.

15:14

Gathering and dispersing. And

15:16

gathering again. This

15:18

is the law of the cosmos. This

15:21

is the law of the clouds. In

15:26

the traditions of the Indian Subcontinent,

15:28

there's a word for the pattern

15:31

that articulate and defines to very

15:33

cosmos. The word is berta, the

15:35

pattern, the order of creation and

15:38

or to as those who take

15:40

me courses new is a word

15:42

that I really like to talk

15:44

about. Because for

15:46

the is related to the word

15:49

order and also related to the

15:51

word part of. The

15:54

Universe as scholar and author.

15:56

Bill Mahoney tells us is

15:58

art for. Him the

16:00

it in it's artful nurses

16:02

and underline order. An implicit

16:04

in the order is sublime.

16:06

artful. must. Not

16:08

one without the other, In fact, She

16:11

looked up in a dictionary him you

16:13

see things like universal law. Or.

16:16

Cosmic order. Or

16:18

foundational truth. no sources, meanings and

16:20

I think we can begin talking

16:23

about a pack in of it

16:25

as. An integrated principles by

16:27

which the define and the natural and

16:30

the human world are all connected over

16:32

to. Ration

16:34

the school of it's a gritty

16:36

were all things in the world

16:39

in the universe are in some

16:41

way connected. To

16:43

this dynamic principle of harmony and

16:45

balance. Or something

16:47

ideas rather have a sense

16:49

of balance and harmony and

16:51

inaction. interconnection in the interconnectivity.

16:54

A smurf enough for to

16:56

a number metaphors, one of

16:59

which is as smoothly turning

17:01

we'll cosmic wield in which

17:04

everything in the universe is

17:06

turning with everything else smooth.

17:09

It's. It's.

17:13

Sex with season. When

17:22

I made a connection in my mind between

17:25

the Sanskrit word litter and they are not

17:27

only the English word order, that word order

17:29

can sound a little bit too static and

17:32

me a little but frozen if you will.

17:34

It's more like that, the Chinese, the notion

17:36

of the dow. It's kind of losing and

17:38

dynamic for. Hours.

17:42

And I'm intrigued by the by

17:44

the fact linguists tell us. And.

17:51

Therefore, artistic. Me

17:57

kind of put into words what I. There

18:00

are deeply intuitive and that is at

18:02

the universe is. It

18:05

is. She.

18:08

Is a work of art.

18:11

It's. So.

18:15

The modern western mind often as to

18:17

do some real patterning around the word

18:19

order. The. Modern mind in a

18:21

state of Ptsd from religious orders

18:24

and marching orders, and on and

18:26

on. Rejects a lot of what

18:28

we associate with order. The

18:30

Western mind makes a dichotomy between

18:32

that which is restrictive and that

18:34

which is liberating. Either it's free

18:36

or it's ordered. So.

18:39

Order and Free expression.

18:42

Order. And art. Can't.

18:44

Possibly be the same thing

18:46

yet. art teams with cemetery

18:49

unfolds from symmetry, all the

18:51

free spontaneity of the music

18:54

that transports us and deliberated

18:56

states unfolds from highly structured

18:58

mathematical ratios. All

19:01

music springs from a very distinct

19:03

and prescribed mathematical order. There is

19:05

order in the Art on Us

19:08

and Artful Nurse in the order.

19:12

Like the infinite carnival shapes.

19:14

Of clouds that arise from a

19:16

defined pattern of water and wind

19:18

within a sky that hold. Space

19:20

for. An

19:22

artful order and and ordered

19:25

art fullness are inherent to

19:27

creation and it's all around

19:29

us. Rates here. The

19:32

order of the Universe isn't some

19:34

far away law proclaimed by an

19:37

absent god. The waters slow with

19:39

of. The clouds

19:41

gather and disperse. The

19:45

river flows or damage on cola

19:47

close that invaded the same three

19:49

years the path of of. The

19:52

Gods themselves are born of her. And

19:55

the sun is called the wheel of A.

19:58

Or does what holds everything

20:01

together. Law.

20:07

As the Orphic him to law says. Quote.

20:10

Is the order that places the

20:12

stars. gives earth and ocean the

20:14

right place. Studies.

20:17

Nature's. The

20:20

substrate of the universe. This

20:22

word for order. This ephemeral,

20:24

yet add a man teen

20:27

law. When we get past

20:29

the associations with the word

20:31

order, we can see a

20:33

universe that very clearly unfolds

20:36

and spirals in in ways.

20:38

It unfolds in a sea

20:40

of vibrational responsiveness as immediate

20:43

as the sound of an

20:45

echo. the ripple in a

20:47

pond. Yes, it is shaping.

20:49

Faraway galaxies. But it's

20:52

also right here. In

20:54

the curve of an eyelash. In.

20:57

The branching of the placenta tree.

21:01

Which is why are to has

21:03

been translated as the Cosmic Order

21:06

and also the regular course as

21:08

thing. And when

21:10

we start to talk about

21:12

this pattern, the pattern of

21:15

creation. As seen

21:17

here. How the Western mind wants

21:19

to say. But what about chaos?

21:22

One about pattern breakers. What?

21:24

About tricksters and disruptors and all

21:27

that they bring will get there.

21:29

But first let's deep in this

21:31

for a moment. There

21:33

is inherent pattern to the universe.

21:36

And. That pattern can be seen in the wave

21:38

dynamics of all that is. What?

21:41

We call randomness. Wendell.

21:44

Berry says. Is. Simply failure

21:46

to see the larger pattern. The.

21:48

Inherent pattern of creation. The

21:51

way the cloud shadows move upon

21:53

the plate. The.

22:00

Suggestion that something might be inherent

22:02

to the universe. That. There

22:04

might be a pattern inherent

22:06

to creation that there might actually

22:09

be of their their. Like

22:11

there might be of way

22:14

things are beyond relativism. Grades

22:16

at the post modernist mind. You're

22:19

telling me that there's a pattern

22:21

and that's just how it is.

22:23

Well what about my truth? He

22:25

or truth? What about it all

22:27

depends on how you see it

22:29

feel Into this clouds gather. Clouds.

22:32

Disperse. You

22:35

feel that clouds gather

22:38

Clouds disperse. There's

22:41

very little this year Truth or

22:43

my truth can do to alter

22:45

that. We

22:47

breathe in. Manner.

22:56

So let's say for the moment

22:58

that law is definitive. Let's

23:01

say that law is exactly as

23:03

descended as as cloud. In

23:06

it's cycles are

23:09

inevitable. tangible, real.

23:13

It's actual play

23:15

is whimsical, express.

23:25

The animate vision of our ancestors

23:28

sees inheritance and the patterns of

23:30

creation. You're. Not

23:32

gonna find too many traditional culture say

23:34

that all this is a projection of

23:36

your individual consciousness. Or that

23:38

all forces we encounter are subjective

23:40

forces. Or that it's all random.

23:43

So. Even if you see

23:46

all this as a ultimately

23:48

non duel expression of shiver

23:50

consciousness, you understand If you

23:52

really grasp the civil Shakti

23:54

traditions, you understand that there

23:56

are definitive patterns along which

23:58

itself organizes. Ley

24:00

Lines along with it vibrates. Mundell

24:03

as of cause and effect along which

24:05

it homes. It bends

24:08

outward from source and definitive

24:10

harmonic structures. This is what

24:12

Mandela's what the on Terrorists

24:15

are. Descended isn't

24:17

stable as the sky a

24:19

summer early patterned as cloud.

24:23

Infinitely creative as the artful ordered,

24:25

it is. The.

24:27

Goddess is this geometry of

24:29

creation and many traditions. She

24:32

is this matrix those

24:34

pattern in expression. She.

24:37

Is the intricacy of the monolith

24:39

pattern that says what goes up

24:41

comes. Down, She is all

24:43

of it. If

24:45

you want to see the infinite creativity

24:48

of the pattern of creation, look to

24:50

the crowds and how they changed. Now

24:53

a feather. A

24:57

wheezes. What?

25:05

Do you see on the cloud that almost in shape

25:07

of a com. By. The I'm

25:09

just like Amazon indeed. Meetings

25:12

to dislike a weasel? Like.

25:15

A weasel. Own. Like a

25:18

whale. Very like away.

25:22

But as free as clouds are,

25:25

There. Are definitive ways that they arise

25:27

and those are all the pre determination

25:29

of patterns of son and water and

25:32

wind. So. The Order

25:34

contains within it all the space

25:36

for infinite expression that it needs

25:38

for its own replenishment under a

25:41

new. Oh Creative expressions, all tricksters

25:43

and waves of rebellion. And

25:45

the periodic smashing of social

25:48

orders and the ritual refreshing

25:50

of that order is ultimately

25:52

ultimately part of the order

25:54

itself. There's no

25:57

music that you could, saying nothing

25:59

that you. Create the movie star

26:01

The one tells the rogues singer

26:03

Mel Core and talk and so

26:05

brilliant. There is nothing you could

26:08

create that does not have it

26:10

on or most source in me.

26:13

All this is held within

26:15

the stability of what the

26:17

Mongols called Angry the Eternal

26:19

Blue. Sky. Eternal.

26:23

Definitive. Law.

26:27

Ever replenishing, Ever

26:29

creative, Ever express.

26:31

That's more to.

26:36

So even if you're really

26:39

big on impermanence, an emptiness.

26:42

Even if you've adopted the

26:44

Hara Gleason view that the

26:46

only thing stable as change

26:49

that doesn't mean that the

26:51

universes center less rudderless, anchor,

26:53

less nothingness. Within

26:55

the wave dynamics of creation,

26:57

all things change. But.

27:00

The way that they changed the

27:02

pulses in cycles along which they

27:04

change the bright, invisible laws around

27:06

which they spiral. Are

27:09

inherent. Even

27:11

the impermanence tradition stills he

27:13

inherent lot. creation. Karma as

27:16

the inherent flaw, Norma as

27:18

the inherent law. Love and

27:21

kindness as an alignment to

27:23

that law. There's

27:26

a reason why even the

27:28

most ardent emptiness practitioners still

27:30

see an inherent difference between

27:32

being a bully and being

27:34

kind. Because there

27:36

is in fact of their

27:39

their everything is in flux

27:41

Yes yet the karmic framework

27:43

of the waves, dynamics of

27:45

cause and effect persists and

27:47

clouds arise from causes the

27:49

preceding and return to earth

27:51

when conditions are right for

27:53

their roster. See.

27:55

Them send us

27:58

ephemeral. Spiraling

28:00

along spiral Dance class

28:03

forever. Lower

28:06

they like those sky. Will.

28:11

Read this guys like when you were. There

28:17

forever. Skies

28:19

like when you're young. They

28:21

were and own family that when i was

28:24

needed a new is a nice guys. Only

28:26

such a such a. Program

28:31

on. Beautiful.

28:43

So from an animate perspective,

28:45

yes, there's inherits. There's a

28:47

way things are. There

28:50

is an order to nature a

28:52

powder Hungarian philosopher Lazlo for then

28:54

he says it like this quote.

28:56

this order is something that goes

28:58

beyond every human intention and conception.

29:01

It. Cannot be planned. Rather

29:03

eat itself, renders old plans

29:06

possible. Just. Like the movement

29:08

of the stars in the sky for

29:10

the passage of time, it can never

29:12

be susceptible to his. Disorder

29:15

is cosmic. To revolt against it

29:17

would be is futile as revolting

29:19

against the rhythms of birth and.

29:23

Native authors leave Miracle says

29:25

quote natural law is when

29:27

the earth comes up with

29:29

something herself And so we

29:32

reckon. When

29:34

the clouds gather, erase

29:36

rain. Comes from the ocean,

29:38

so on. Everything

29:42

is dependent upon something else

29:44

and draws from something else

29:46

and feeds back into a

29:48

greater cycle of interconnectivity. That's

29:51

the law of. What

29:54

we do to the web of life we do

29:56

to ourselves. It's the law

29:58

of the land. In

30:00

the stores wasn't And the

30:03

land things with law and

30:05

when humans are attuned, they

30:08

receive law directly from the

30:10

land. And build their

30:12

entire cultures around that. I

30:16

spoke with Myanmar elder know man

30:19

about law. And how

30:21

it flows forth from nature. And

30:23

how it determines everything. Cycles.

30:26

Of food and harvest and

30:28

water use and even marriage

30:30

among clans. Galore.

30:33

Is determined by. The

30:35

spirit of the place. So

30:38

many people in today's world

30:40

assange better wide promotions completely

30:42

foreign to a lot of

30:44

people that a spirit in

30:46

the land could possibly determine

30:48

law for that place. And

30:51

basically that Lord is to

30:54

be connected and through that

30:56

connection we don't just talk

30:59

about your connection to other

31:01

people of their cell phones

31:03

with took a bad connection

31:06

to others and to Niger

31:08

itself and didn't really deep

31:10

part of it takes a

31:13

seat of the cosmos and

31:15

it's from that cosmos that

31:17

comes the law that you're

31:20

asking about. We

31:22

have a marriage law that

31:24

comes from planet called Cupid

31:26

so that's a marriage and

31:28

it's associated with the moons

31:30

of Jupiter. So when I

31:32

say that we're not talking

31:34

about the seventy six to

31:36

eighty three moons that a

31:38

being found all the time

31:40

bought a new telescopes, were

31:43

talking about the or than

31:45

a visible and used to

31:47

be visible even more clear

31:49

than it is now and.

31:51

That is Full Moons give a sad

31:53

marriage law. Then

31:55

there's a law that comes

31:58

with that. Through that sign,

32:00

cause Metics a cosmos connection.

32:03

That allows us to then know

32:05

and understand that coming with the

32:08

married so is a food law.

32:11

And what you eat comes

32:13

from the totemic system that

32:15

exists within the confines of

32:18

that marriage, so that determines

32:20

all the things that you

32:23

need is according to your

32:25

blood. Which

32:28

is determined through that and Rachel.

32:30

And then we can go through

32:33

processes slightly buses of mortal know.

32:36

And. Is a law that

32:38

connection to the little pace country

32:40

that spirit comes from. The.

32:43

Next Witness catchment. An

32:46

area that's his ignited. To.

32:49

You through your ancestral

32:51

lineage. And.

32:53

Months you have those connections.

32:57

Is a Six Seasons site.

33:01

That allows you to travel through

33:03

your. What we call

33:05

Carla good as your hi I'm

33:07

Rob. College or high

33:09

out and girl is luck at

33:12

upset. nice. Are

33:14

you travel with the in that area?

33:17

And as you do, you have members

33:19

of your. Immediate. Family.

33:22

Who were responsible for different

33:24

flotation? Seen that cattle And

33:26

you have this whole list

33:28

the picture that each and

33:31

everyone has a little piece

33:33

of. And then as you

33:35

travel across your face of

33:37

country, your and sisters, or

33:39

your ancestral lineage. And

33:42

also the totemic system

33:44

which is imprinted in

33:46

your team and yet

33:48

geniality through the atoms.

33:52

Allows you to sit on a

33:54

piece of country way your ancestors

33:56

said. And said that

33:59

he. Items into

34:01

the soil. And

34:03

you can make two days. And

34:06

the information the in through was my

34:08

son's. Becomes.

34:10

Patty you a new part of the

34:13

it. That's

34:16

the air ancient world. And

34:19

some way with in all of that. Is

34:21

what you would refer to as law. So.

34:27

In the Aboriginal vision, as I'm

34:29

coming to some infinitesimally small understanding

34:31

of it, Everything In this animate

34:34

world, everything comes from and revolves

34:36

around what is translated as. Everything

34:40

and creation unfolds according to a

34:42

great law. And. The role of

34:44

the human being is to ensure that one's

34:47

dances and ones are works. Ones.

34:49

Culture, building projects and ones

34:51

relationships. One. Ceremonies and offerings

34:53

ones food acquisition and water

34:55

treatment and birth and practices

34:58

and grieving practices and funerary

35:00

rights and stories and songs.

35:02

Are connected to that law

35:04

and reinforce our stories and

35:06

songs. the ones that last.

35:09

Come through law and they point back to.

35:12

Lower. And law.

35:15

Especially if you have an Australian

35:17

accent. are very deeply lived. There

35:21

are laws that come through the clouds.

35:23

There are laws that comes through the

35:25

stars. Laws

35:27

that govern what foods rape, and when and

35:29

how humans are to use them. Laws

35:31

that govern water use and are into

35:33

release. Analogy with streams. Quote:

35:36

We know of a time when

35:38

the animals and foods could speak.

35:40

Each of those food spoke a

35:43

promise bespoke a law. The

35:45

law they spoke has to do with how we

35:47

walked the land. And how

35:49

we treat others in accordance with

35:52

the great are monique pattern of

35:54

all the is. These

35:56

laws aren't so much

35:58

here. Truth. The Through. These.

36:01

Are embedded in the land

36:03

and known across a thousand

36:05

generations. And the cultures

36:07

that decide, oh, it's all relative and I

36:10

don't need to pay attention to the inherent

36:12

nature and. I can

36:14

just crazy on this land and which

36:16

the soil and the river and the

36:18

grass share a very delicate inherit relationship.

36:20

and it'll all be fine. Because my

36:23

truth is that I get the Gracie

36:25

pair and Phillips look. The whole thing's

36:27

a dust bowl now. These

36:29

cultures don't last. So

36:32

it's good to examine those

36:35

truth. Those. Laws. Because

36:38

the land. Is. The

36:40

judge of whether you're truth or

36:42

my truth or somebody elses truth

36:44

prevail. And the

36:46

Land sings with. There

36:50

is a signal to the laws of

36:52

Land says Dyson Yoga Porter. And

36:55

the songs live in the land

36:57

and transmit from land to people,

36:59

and the stories and songs replenish

37:01

and reawakened the land again. The

37:04

stories that are passed on from

37:07

generation to generation or stories of

37:09

law of ancestral lawmakers in Law

37:11

Breakers, The stories saying of the

37:14

delicate balance of the cosmos. A

37:16

cosmos in which everything plays it's

37:18

part in the overarching pattern. And

37:21

each has a part to play. So

37:25

it is the Tibetans say

37:27

so have I heard. Some

37:29

stories start and end like

37:32

this, right? Why? It's

37:34

a reaffirmation of law.

37:36

The story isn't about

37:39

law. The story

37:41

is law for a sounding. And

37:46

stories aren't there to teach. And

37:48

nice little abstract moral. the story

37:50

is meant to strike to reverberate

37:53

Tory note with the Law of

37:55

the Land so the story in

37:57

the land home together. However,

38:00

Her. So have

38:02

I heard it resound in the reverberate

38:04

tour in nature. So.

38:09

Have I heard whispers and. So.

38:12

Have I heard past her mouth

38:14

the ear For ten thousand generations? so

38:17

of I glimpsed at in the unending

38:19

spiral of stars. So have I seen

38:21

it in the dance and wisps of

38:24

cloud. So

38:26

as I say the words,

38:29

clouds gather And clouds. Disperse

38:31

clouds, Cabin and

38:34

clowns disperse. Clowns.

38:37

Catherine's. So.

38:40

It is. Things

38:42

start to move, you feel

38:45

them because it resound with

38:47

law. Whereas. If

38:49

I see something preposterous like clouds

38:51

never move. Or. Economies

38:54

grow forever. Those.

38:56

Sentences don't reverberate and the same way.

38:59

Because. There's no law there.

39:02

But. If I say like Szeto said,

39:05

If. I say look. Degree

39:07

sky doesn't impede the drifting.

39:15

The great sky. p

39:18

The drifting class may

39:21

that. Getting. This

39:29

law of the Land isn't

39:31

an abstract far away. it's

39:33

near. It's here. Is

39:36

in the breath. As presenters

39:38

wet missed breathe the mountain.

39:41

As the little droplets of

39:43

condensation on each hair poor

39:45

of the body in the

39:47

dozens of Hawaiian words from

39:49

Cloud Mother Pig and Piglet

39:51

clouds. Mackerel

39:54

Cloud. continually

39:56

growing cloud. Sheltering.

40:01

Long Clown Hi cloud.

40:04

Cloud with the rainbow woven

40:06

radio. Free.

40:11

Asia invites us to wake up

40:13

to her flows and patterns to

40:15

align ourselves to her harmonies. If

40:19

a particular when defense the ferns

40:21

towards the mountains That's the when

40:23

the brings. A

40:26

particular bird has a particular song

40:28

first. We started

40:30

seal the pattern. We. Start

40:33

to seal within how each

40:35

part reflects the whole, and

40:37

each part reverberates with law.

40:40

And as we ritually aligned

40:42

to the cycles of law

40:44

around us, the waters pouring

40:46

with long the clouds raining

40:48

law, knowledge of the pattern

40:51

of creation and how to

40:53

live within it streams in.

40:56

Which is maybe why the I surveyed

40:58

or says that clouds. Are one

41:00

of the sources of knowledge of cosmic law.

41:04

Feel into that. Clowns

41:07

or one of the sources of knowledge

41:09

of cosmic law. And

41:12

in the Hawaiian tradition there's

41:14

a proverbs. it says knowledge

41:16

is built on cloud billows.

41:19

Knowledge is set up and

41:21

the clouds and sometimes translated.

41:24

Is that just poetry? Is

41:26

that just a metaphor? How

41:28

his knowledge bill on cloud.

41:30

Below. There's

41:33

a very practical piece of this. Of

41:35

course, clouds tell us things about where

41:37

we are and was. Clouds

41:40

deliver signs and omens, not

41:42

abstractly tangibly so. Polynesian way

41:45

finders Wade Davis tells us

41:47

would read the reflection on

41:49

the underside of the clouds

41:52

to know where they were

41:54

in the vastness of the

41:56

Pacific. Certain cloud

41:59

for me. Some form above certain

42:01

a tolls an island group. Certain

42:04

seas around certain a tall

42:06

reflect and others certain iridescent

42:09

says along the underside of

42:11

clouds. This

42:14

is. The

42:17

particular silver green shine on the

42:19

underside of that cloud and what

42:21

it tells you about where you

42:23

are and what's coming. Next.

42:27

Clouds tell us a whole lot about

42:29

the cycle of life because they are

42:31

the cycle of life. Native

42:35

sculptor Rose Be. Simpson told me once

42:37

how when she was a kid she

42:39

would go to the public dances at

42:41

Santa Clara. And

42:44

on those days, those downstairs.

42:46

She would look out across the vast New

42:49

Mexico sky. And see columns

42:51

of clouds and the distance. Columns

42:55

of cloud building over

42:57

each pueblo. There. Was

42:59

dancing on that day. And

43:02

that's how she'd know that the dancers were doing

43:04

what they were supposed to do. That's

43:07

how you know the ritual as humming.

43:09

Ah, I

43:13

remember thirteen years old at sound

43:15

the phones or pueblo. A

43:18

dancer and many colors or

43:20

bundles others against billowing black.

43:29

Crack. Skies

43:31

split. Clouds

43:38

gather, Sometimes it's.

43:41

But sometimes when the conditions are right, they

43:43

keep. Keep

43:46

gathering. They

43:48

accumulate, they build and

43:50

the friction of that

43:53

accumulation. I'm

44:04

watch. Nearby

44:07

has black and

44:09

palace. Spew

44:12

rains to our. Everywhere

44:15

water, plants and rain water.

44:18

riot of green or near.

44:21

My lover's. Mirror

44:33

Buys songs to the clouds

44:35

brim with. Longing

44:38

without consummation as that endless

44:40

cycle of gathering and dispersal

44:42

seems the go on forever

44:44

and then finally the monsoon

44:47

arise. Spring.

44:56

What came from that? gosh,

44:58

that poor from the splitting

45:00

clouds. So

45:03

the Hawaiian say that looks. Very.

45:16

Close. To

45:22

the. See that

45:25

very. Few.

45:27

To. Shine

45:30

and known. Lose. Oh

45:34

the glow now that

45:36

wow see the way

45:38

my. Fear

45:40

the so sad and shine

45:42

and down from the my

45:44

wings or shaken group Shelley

45:47

is is owed to the

45:49

clouds to the dues that

45:51

week and sweet birds every.

45:55

For Wordsworth Martin voice

45:57

or says clouds represent

45:59

quote. Unity arrears occasion

46:01

of organic nature's ability to

46:03

reproduce and replicated in to

46:06

the clouds. Wordsworth imagines clouds

46:08

emerging from what he considers

46:10

and our region air a

46:12

region of becoming. South

46:15

of Life invisible. So

46:18

clouds speak not only to the

46:20

fertility that comes with rain. But.

46:23

To the incident expressions flow

46:25

from source and returned source.

46:28

To. A universe that

46:30

regenerates re Express replenishes.

46:36

Just clouds appear long ten

46:38

per the. Auction Master

46:41

Us. All

46:49

phenomena arise. They

46:54

dwell within awareness and in.

47:00

The cloud is an eternal

47:03

tourists. And the

47:05

infinite pulse of birth thing. And nine.

47:08

Shell He Sees in the

47:10

Cloud Quote: eternal recurrence her

47:13

life eternal Although subject continual

47:15

changed. The Cloud Poems. Title

47:18

is. I

47:20

change but I cannot die.

47:23

I. Silently last says shelley.

47:26

And my own seen a task. And

47:29

out of the caverns of

47:31

rain like a child from

47:33

the womb like a ghost

47:35

from the and I arise

47:37

and on do with it

47:39

again. Clouds never die. Out

47:42

on. Long as

47:45

is eternal and definitive

47:47

stable as the eternal

47:49

whimsical. Replenishing. Cloud.

47:55

So. Yes, knowledge is built

47:57

on the class. Mr.

48:00

The understand. Source and movement

48:02

from it and the record.

48:05

We start. To understand that your

48:07

he myriad the pattern of

48:10

breath, thought of feeling of

48:12

phases of life in ritual

48:15

in birth and death. We.

48:18

Start to feel all phases

48:20

of the cycle within us.

48:22

the rising, the gathering, the

48:24

accumulating, the bursting. The. Raining

48:27

down again. We. Feel

48:29

this regenerative law. In.

48:32

Us. In. Order for

48:35

something to be born to

48:37

crack opened precipitate a certain

48:39

amount of accumulation is necessary.

48:41

So the top us of the sages,

48:43

the heat. The. Spiritual potency,

48:46

the reverberate tory accumulation

48:48

of energy, Builds over

48:50

time like rising thunder

48:52

cloud. Like. Knowledge

49:00

gathering accumulating.

49:02

Billowing Building informs

49:04

everything from why

49:06

the intersect capitalism

49:08

space. Free. Energy

49:13

gather. To why

49:15

rituals need a good container. To

49:18

I Practice is done in enclosed space.

49:21

Accumulation. If you want

49:24

rain, you need accumulation

49:27

gathering gathering. Gathering

49:30

and accumulation. Do you feel

49:32

flaw present in the wisdom

49:34

of how clouds gather? I

49:37

spoke about this tude have.

49:40

You ever feel that you had

49:42

a profound experience. Offering

49:45

experience. But then

49:47

you over share it. You

49:50

shared on social media and

49:52

it's gone. Dispersal like clouds

49:54

that never read it, dispersed

49:57

before it ever gather. And

49:59

because. First know raid.

50:01

This isn't a metaphor.

50:03

This is how energy

50:05

actually move. So it

50:07

is as in the

50:09

clouds. So here in

50:12

me. Dispersal can be

50:14

important. It can be important to

50:16

disperse energy gets too thick in

50:18

the ritual space. It's good to

50:21

have practices of dispersal. But.

50:23

It's also good to have practices of

50:25

gathering. Of accumulation.

50:27

Of. Building and holding. Precipitation

50:35

comes only if there's. Been so.

50:40

The outpouring we want the creative

50:42

outpouring, the nurture it's of all

50:44

the we want to grow in

50:46

our lives only comes reconstruct. But

50:51

then the clouds To us, accumulations

50:54

not meant for accumulation sake alone.

50:57

The. Clouds not accumulate. Somebody can.

51:01

Accumulate share. As

51:07

cycle. As we

51:09

can spiral in law of the

51:11

land. We can't. Clouds.

51:16

Are the source of water. The.

51:19

Mantra Push palm of the Azure

51:21

of Eight assists the one who

51:23

knows. This becomes. Established in the.

51:27

Water is the source of. The

51:30

one who knows this. Becomes a school bus to.

51:33

The one who knows the

51:36

source of water becomes established.

51:39

The monsoon is the source of

51:42

water. The one who knows this

51:44

becomes established in themselves. Water is

51:46

the source of the months. Who's

51:48

the one who knows this becomes

51:51

established and themselves. The

51:53

one who knows the source of water. Becomes

51:55

just to lives. How

52:14

does the one who knows that clouds

52:16

are the source of water become established

52:18

in themselves? They know the

52:20

potter and the pattern reinforces their release

52:23

now due to all of us. Law

52:26

is the larger pattern as

52:28

it reflects in Us. We

52:30

feel it in us. And. When

52:32

it's heels a distant we sing it

52:35

out and the world around us reverberates

52:37

And that reverberation leads us home. Our

52:43

song goes to the clouds as

52:45

we walked our homeland civic. I'm

52:47

group of women. I

52:49

quoted this in the Trevor

52:51

All episode and I'm going

52:53

deeper into and now the

52:56

clouds collect the sound they

52:58

say and later it will

53:00

read just feel into that.

53:02

the clouds collect the sound

53:04

and later it was made

53:06

accumulation. Of.

53:08

The Rings. In

53:10

the ceremony we sing the song

53:13

and then another clan sang. Saw.

53:17

It gathers in and eventually

53:19

arranged. As we walk the

53:21

sound of are walking goes

53:23

up klaus our sounds, our

53:25

voice or footsteps, the sound

53:27

of our existence. Or woman and. We're

53:31

seeing. Like.

53:38

A vibration of our existence. Singing

53:43

to the. Because

53:47

when they hear miles after.

53:51

Knowing the cloud is there, Knowing

53:53

that we are always. In

54:00

law. Law, the

54:02

guy with a group of. Rules

54:06

and connections that bind us together. It's

54:11

a respect. The law tells

54:13

us that we are always connected even

54:16

as we separate, even as the cloud.

54:19

This is in the song spirals, the

54:22

law and the song spirals like the

54:24

clouds. The gather and separate tell us

54:26

to live life to its fullest. Life

54:29

is precious and we must do

54:31

what we have to do before

54:34

we go so that later when

54:36

we're gone, others will respect us.

54:40

The. Clouds tell us what to do.

54:42

What does that mean? What?

54:45

Does the movement of clouds have to do

54:47

with respect? And living kindly

54:49

and walking oil. There's.

54:52

An inextricable relationship between

54:54

knowing the movements of

54:56

nature. Pattern of

54:59

Law. And knowing what

55:01

it means to walk through this world

55:03

while. So. That as

55:06

podemos a mother says. Our.

55:08

Views as vast as the sky.

55:12

And. Are conduct as is fine as

55:14

barley flower. The

55:16

law translates from the dance who

55:19

the cosmos to the dance of

55:21

how we treat others, the experience

55:23

of connecting to this world of

55:26

great cycles. The rapturous connection to

55:28

greater cycles takes us to the

55:30

place of empathetic connection where we

55:33

want to sell our custodial role,

55:35

where we want to reinforce are

55:37

deep connectivity to each other. Me

55:40

to use a new to me.

55:42

It doesn't matter if we disagree.

55:45

We. Are wisps of cloud that

55:48

as be held in the same

55:50

sky? Let us

55:52

be held You and. There's

55:55

a word and the while period

55:57

language say lengthen Corner and. The

56:00

Law: The word Walla

56:03

that describes feelings of

56:05

trust. He's happiness, gluttonous

56:07

satisfaction that slow. With.

56:10

Law is properly observe and all

56:12

things in creation are moving and

56:14

work and army. The.

56:17

Hopi express the understanding of living

56:19

in harmony with the law of

56:21

nature as and you're gonna have

56:24

to forgive my pronunciation. Next words,

56:26

the Hopi express that as know,

56:28

void, the. Klingon

56:30

refer to it as Shogun. Additional

56:33

big and creep people call it

56:35

Mint Obama to see you in

56:37

or a good Life. Which

56:40

also translates as innocent are

56:42

that way Activists were no

56:45

no would you explain to

56:47

continuous rebirth. She

56:49

goes on quote to tenants

56:51

are essential to this paradigm.

56:54

Cyclical. thinking. And

56:56

reciprocal relations and responsibilities to the

56:59

Earth and or creation. Cyclical.

57:02

Thinking common to most indigenous or

57:04

land based cultures and value system

57:06

is an understanding that the world

57:08

close and Frankel. Within.

57:10

This understanding is the knowledge that what

57:12

one does today will affect one in

57:15

the future on Earth Perth. Reciprocal

57:17

relations defies responsibilities and ways

57:19

of relating between humans and

57:22

the ecosystem. Simply

57:24

stated, the resources of the

57:26

economic system, whether they be

57:28

wild, race, or gear, are

57:31

recognized as animals, and as

57:33

such gifts from the creator.

57:35

There must always been this

57:37

reciprocity. So

57:41

we have responsibilities. Not

57:43

arbitrary human imposed responsibilities,

57:45

but responsibilities to the

57:47

larger flow of the

57:49

cosmos to a line

57:52

to a living matrix

57:54

around us. Define balance

57:56

within. it's great architectures

57:58

within it's season. And

58:01

cyclical flows. In

58:04

the episode called Inanimate Objects

58:06

or Inanimate Or Objects Rosen,

58:08

I talked about how waking

58:10

up to inanimate world isn't

58:12

just about seeing ferries everywhere,

58:14

it's about understanding that were

58:16

being watched. It's about

58:19

understanding I am in of

58:21

living vibrational matrix and everything

58:23

I do matters. That's

58:25

the order at been poured into. The.

58:28

Order as been born into is

58:30

not actually a blank slate. It

58:33

is the responsibility. Deaths

58:36

are owed. Relationships exist that

58:38

we're entering into upon taking

58:40

our very first breath. Relationships

58:43

that may have been established

58:45

generations and generations and even

58:47

lifetimes before. So

58:50

if someone asked me what it

58:52

means to embrace and animate vision,

58:54

I could talk about waking up

58:56

to a living world. I could

58:58

talk about nature, spirits. I'm ecstatic

59:01

states and wonder and trance. And

59:03

I do talk about these things.

59:05

Pay. For I

59:07

could just as easily say

59:09

that animist, he is about

59:12

law order and that just

59:14

to mess with postmodern minds

59:16

and recover and religious minds

59:18

and humanist minds. Maybe.

59:20

I'll start doing know. What's.

59:22

An Mcl about. Beautiful. Soundscapes

59:25

singing back to nature. Know.

59:28

It's about law order and dead.

59:31

But. Of course to pay

59:33

art death to nature. Requires.

59:36

That we saying. And. Though he did. It

59:39

requires or. Nature

59:42

requires from us and our from

59:45

this is being. That's

59:47

the beauty of Lord

59:49

Roberto. Colossal says quote

59:51

existence all existence begins

59:54

and debt and something

59:56

else having borrowed from

59:58

something. First

1:00:00

and foremost to life. Itself.

1:00:03

Between are now Dead

1:00:05

and Earth, The Cosmic

1:00:07

Order There is a

1:00:09

restless leverage. Debt

1:00:12

is born out of order and given

1:00:14

back to order otherwise the balance would

1:00:16

be of sad and life could continue.

1:00:20

It's a process that takes

1:00:22

place at every instance. the

1:00:24

elaboration an exchange of a

1:00:26

substance that can be called

1:00:28

ana who'd been incorporates with

1:00:30

in in the word, the

1:00:32

gesture of offering the yielding

1:00:34

of the substance itself. But

1:00:37

if there is no beginning will

1:00:40

there ever be in and know

1:00:42

for every offering leaves a residue

1:00:44

and this residue sets off a

1:00:46

further chain. And ah, I

1:00:49

take and give her as.

1:00:52

I'm responsible in the sensitive vibrational matrix

1:00:55

from what I put forth. and what

1:00:57

a claim as. I

1:00:59

want to kill on what I gather

1:01:01

and when I break apart and will

1:01:03

join together and how I plan the

1:01:05

parade and what I create and in

1:01:08

this living web of cause and effect.

1:01:10

Access as concert. Failure

1:01:13

to offer back as cause. This

1:01:16

is right that the heart of

1:01:18

Animist understand. That.

1:01:21

Is. Always threatened by forces

1:01:23

of uncluttered that could imagine

1:01:25

that Roman A and on

1:01:27

which negates the following where

1:01:29

you know that the and

1:01:32

a top of it would

1:01:34

be a monitor. What humans

1:01:36

can do is to support

1:01:38

be in support exist. There's

1:01:40

a huge and vital importance

1:01:43

in human beings remembering their

1:01:45

responsibility and living responsibly and

1:01:47

to resist those that would

1:01:49

threaten you know. That there

1:01:51

are values in the world,

1:01:54

there are perspectives that actually

1:01:56

degrade the integrity of the

1:01:58

world. That. Quite literally, Grated.

1:02:00

And because it degrades the integrity of

1:02:02

the world, it also involves the kind

1:02:04

of degradation of the human spirit and

1:02:07

the insult to the inner integrity of

1:02:09

beings. You know? it's probably to talk

1:02:11

about that for awhile that. The

1:02:14

ridicule in the sarcasm officers does

1:02:16

this that nice be resisted Them

1:02:19

Those are. The forces of

1:02:21

unrest that the if you will and so

1:02:23

I think there's as the kind of call

1:02:25

to say yes to the world by resisting

1:02:27

that was says no to the world. It

1:02:30

can be difficult for Western humanist

1:02:32

minds to really grasp because we

1:02:34

really want the deep wisdom of

1:02:37

the ages to speak to us

1:02:39

of liberation, freedom from death, rather

1:02:41

than responsibility and order. We really

1:02:44

want to find world views and

1:02:46

ideologies that reinforce our predilection towards

1:02:48

individualist freedoms. So. We extract

1:02:51

pieces of animate traditions that

1:02:53

seem to us to reinforce

1:02:55

what we want to hear

1:02:57

about. Freedom says fold any

1:02:59

quote, Modernity, parents ever more

1:03:01

convulsively the slogans of Freedom.

1:03:04

Considered. To be irreconcilable with any

1:03:06

sort of concession towards the concept of

1:03:09

any higher order. And

1:03:11

this reflects his freedom.

1:03:13

Impulse runs deep. But

1:03:15

there's a simple truth here. Animate

1:03:18

traditions are based on modernist notions

1:03:20

of freedom. Animate

1:03:23

traditions are utterly based

1:03:25

on steeped is replete

1:03:27

with law, No

1:03:30

man of directly tells me that

1:03:32

adherence to law is how Aboriginal

1:03:34

tradition has survived for seventy thousand

1:03:36

plus years. Living. In

1:03:39

deep release analogy with list.

1:03:41

But that doesn't mean just

1:03:43

hanging out, being free on

1:03:45

the land. It means that

1:03:47

there are protocols around absolutely

1:03:49

everything. And don't see her.

1:03:51

My friends were not talking

1:03:54

about judiciary law. Were.

1:03:56

Talking about something so much more

1:03:58

luminescent. Some. The area

1:04:01

so much freer. Were

1:04:03

talking about the clans. Talking

1:04:06

about the stars. Quote.

1:04:09

For. Torres Trade Islander is

1:04:11

the sun, moon, and stars

1:04:14

form all law for navigation,

1:04:16

calendars, weather prediction, seasons, food,

1:04:19

economics, ceremonies, and social structure.

1:04:21

This knowledge underlies all Torres

1:04:23

Strait Islander traditions as recorded

1:04:26

and handed down through traditional

1:04:28

songs, dances and desires. stars

1:04:30

for many cultures are not

1:04:33

just things for Germany cricketer

1:04:35

wish upon fanciful invitations to

1:04:38

dream of how far. You

1:04:40

can go and how your some they

1:04:42

gonna make it and mary that handsome

1:04:44

prince have a reality show or whatever

1:04:46

it is that were taught dream about

1:04:48

these days. To. Shoot for the

1:04:50

stars You know in many traditions,

1:04:52

stars or beings and the great

1:04:54

web of inter being. And.

1:04:57

Those beings have histories, and those histories

1:04:59

are embedded in the fabric of the

1:05:01

sky. And therefore the fabric

1:05:03

of consciousness. And. Those stories

1:05:05

run the full spectrum of the

1:05:07

experience of being. The

1:05:10

stars or story the echo

1:05:12

and reverberate brightly with the

1:05:14

consequences of with. With.

1:05:17

The struggle to transform. With.

1:05:19

The value of selfless giving. They.

1:05:22

Echo with birth story and death

1:05:24

story. They. Echo the

1:05:26

tales of tricksters, stories of excess

1:05:29

and stories of balance. And

1:05:31

the stars reinforce both seat in

1:05:33

arguable fact have a greater pattern.

1:05:36

And what happens to those who veer from

1:05:38

it? The

1:05:41

constellation Orion and multiple

1:05:43

tradition serves as a

1:05:45

big reminder of what not

1:05:47

to do, how not

1:05:49

to overstep nature emanate.

1:05:51

Story In that story reverberates

1:05:54

with responsibility. Responsibility

1:05:56

not as a dry abstract

1:05:58

burden. Responsibility as

1:06:00

the very slow of life.

1:06:04

Quote: Everything in Law and

1:06:06

Life requires constant effort and work.

1:06:08

from good governance and decision

1:06:10

making among leaders to maintaining harmony

1:06:12

with your own family and

1:06:14

peace within society. The Southern Cross

1:06:17

is a permanent reminder like

1:06:19

an And Corn say that

1:06:21

we must always strive to our

1:06:23

observance of law to achieve

1:06:25

and sustain this. Imagine

1:06:29

looking up at the sky

1:06:31

and seeing not only the

1:06:33

invitation to hope and dream

1:06:35

of faraway things but to

1:06:37

feel tangibly ones interconnection. And

1:06:39

in that interconnection is a

1:06:41

great responsibility, but it is

1:06:44

a responsibility that is never

1:06:46

tackled. Alone. Alone.

1:06:50

With that alone. Ever

1:06:53

seen that single cloud? That

1:06:56

loan cloud? Is it alone?

1:06:58

Or is it a punctuation

1:07:00

mark of a great conspiracy?

1:07:04

Is it is singular expression

1:07:06

of interconnection. Just. Like you

1:07:08

and I. Just. Like you

1:07:11

and I'm beloved. Interconnection,

1:07:14

Everything is offering to

1:07:16

something else. Everything arises

1:07:18

from something else. From.

1:07:22

Tic not han. If. You

1:07:24

are a poet. You will see clearly

1:07:26

that there is a cloud floating in

1:07:28

the sheet of paper. Without a cloud,

1:07:30

there will be no rain. without rain.

1:07:32

The trees cannot grow And without she's

1:07:34

we cannot. me. Cloud

1:07:37

is essential. The

1:07:40

clouds you that she's paper

1:07:42

series. So we can say

1:07:44

that the cloud and the

1:07:46

paper inter are interviewing as

1:07:48

a word that is not

1:07:50

in the dictionary it. says.

1:07:54

But if we combine the prefix into

1:07:56

with the burbs be we have a

1:07:59

new verb. In her be

1:08:01

without a cloud We cannot. Have

1:08:03

prefer so we could say as of cloud.

1:08:25

Every citizen release of the everything

1:08:27

is everything is a doing everything

1:08:30

else Everything goes into debt to

1:08:32

everything else and received. For

1:08:36

the gods, Must

1:08:41

also. Her home to the

1:08:43

devaluation of. Cosmic offering.

1:08:47

The Gods. To have answers

1:08:49

or Bears Guards Corps. Searched

1:08:53

least substance is. Not

1:08:55

limited to earth does intermediate

1:08:57

space between earth and sky

1:08:59

pervades the whole cosmos are

1:09:02

so most you ocean the

1:09:04

can be recognized the mood

1:09:06

to. See

1:09:09

the Milky Way? That

1:09:11

Cloud Jade fires Every

1:09:14

fire up. There are

1:09:16

so every fire. See

1:09:20

the clown. Cook.

1:09:24

Around every place.

1:09:28

Please. Every

1:10:04

place marks a place of sacrifice.

1:10:07

Every place is the place where

1:10:09

one sacrificed her body on the

1:10:11

author of immediacy. Every

1:10:13

place lists you up and takes you

1:10:15

in. And reinforce his responsibility

1:10:18

as much as it opens a

1:10:20

path to freedom. So

1:10:23

story embedded in the stars.

1:10:26

In the Land and Water and

1:10:28

Cloud charts a path for human

1:10:30

beings through a world of forces

1:10:32

and distractions and dangers and a

1:10:34

thousand ways to go straight. Story

1:10:37

reminds us were No Better than

1:10:39

anyone Else and tells of what

1:10:41

happens and culture after culture for

1:10:43

all time. When someone starts thinking

1:10:45

they are. Story.

1:10:47

Makes you live right. As

1:10:50

Keith Basso recounts and wisdom

1:10:52

suits, places known then up

1:10:54

speaks about how some medically

1:10:56

embedded law is an Aboriginal

1:10:58

tradition. This. Is deeper

1:11:00

than simply growing up with a

1:11:02

respect for nature. So.

1:11:05

Deeply embedded the law of the

1:11:07

Land. That

1:11:09

to violate law for

1:11:11

many was so medically

1:11:14

untenable. And

1:11:16

you terrified of breaking the law?

1:11:19

Because the ramifications of that

1:11:21

and the judge in the

1:11:24

jury and not necessarily. Your

1:11:27

fellow people. Did

1:11:29

the spirit and in so strong

1:11:31

that mean the night. That

1:11:34

if you do do something

1:11:37

wrong you within yourself and

1:11:39

come the gadget to. Because

1:11:42

of your consciousness and new

1:11:44

sub conscious. Nags

1:11:46

away at you and says you

1:11:49

can. Be. Told

1:11:51

a lie. You've

1:11:53

eaten the ones. And

1:11:56

you just became to spy

1:11:58

room. The yours

1:12:00

is them a new and

1:12:03

it had police and completely

1:12:05

collapses and breaks down. To

1:12:08

the point way you. Get

1:12:11

into a fetal position. Because

1:12:13

you just can't keep it. And

1:12:16

you die. Oh

1:12:18

that's a strong on. Hold

1:12:20

it for a moment. And. Then

1:12:23

let it disperse like cloud. Maybe.

1:12:25

It'll gather when the time is right for us to

1:12:27

gather. If you've

1:12:30

heard a story and that story made you

1:12:32

bow your head before the waterfall. Or

1:12:35

before the high wind swept

1:12:37

peaks than that story was

1:12:40

humming with law. Story infuses

1:12:42

us with respect. not an

1:12:44

abstract respect, but an embedded

1:12:47

self respect for a world

1:12:49

of great forces so steeped

1:12:52

in law are aboriginal children

1:12:54

says know that from a

1:12:56

very early age they're taught

1:12:59

to be profoundly aware of

1:13:01

their own shadow. So.

1:13:04

As a child, you're given. To.

1:13:06

The greatest gifts that a child

1:13:09

can be given. To

1:13:11

set them up. For. The rest

1:13:13

of their lives. One of those gifts.

1:13:16

Is. The ability to. Never.

1:13:19

Put. Yourself First, you're always

1:13:21

looking to weapons and

1:13:24

been totally responsible for

1:13:26

your own. Added

1:13:29

that happen. You

1:13:31

listen carefully and you will

1:13:33

hear what it is that

1:13:35

allows you as an individual

1:13:37

to do. Basically.

1:13:40

And not necessarily in this of it. And. You're

1:13:43

not allowed to put your shadow

1:13:45

on it depicts. And

1:13:48

you're taught his for when you're

1:13:50

old enough to understand I care

1:13:53

for We're putting shadow. And

1:13:55

that can sound different for us

1:13:57

and the Western world, right? differ?

1:14:00

Wave child rearing and just feel

1:14:02

for a moment. What deeper,

1:14:04

somatic, embedded reminder of the

1:14:06

fact that actions have consequences.

1:14:09

That. What you do matters could

1:14:11

there be than growing up physically

1:14:14

aware. Of where you are

1:14:16

throwing shade. Seems. Like

1:14:18

a lot of folks these days, never grew

1:14:20

up learning that there are consequences to throwing

1:14:22

shade. Know. What I mean. Or

1:14:29

the time you to. Your.

1:14:31

Mean toward. Not even

1:14:33

sweet. Your shit. Most.

1:14:35

Definitely avenue. So.

1:14:38

You become a person who

1:14:40

these learning discipline and yourself

1:14:42

disability because you look where

1:14:44

is that person or the

1:14:46

time you buy it's almost

1:14:48

he married by the time

1:14:51

you seven you can run

1:14:53

through group of people running

1:14:55

his did your bail carry

1:14:57

you and not but you

1:14:59

said l anymore because once

1:15:01

you doing is you're looking

1:15:03

for everyone else. In the

1:15:06

last person you're thinking about.

1:15:08

Is yourself pretty straightforward? know

1:15:10

rocket science to swap we

1:15:13

him cope with all com.

1:15:17

Now the other discipline. To

1:15:20

get to the point where

1:15:22

you are responsible for your

1:15:24

own happiness is when you

1:15:27

understand that you aren't. Least

1:15:29

that she dad's sisters are

1:15:31

instructed by your great great

1:15:34

Grandmother to find seeds from

1:15:36

a little plant. That

1:15:39

has aromatic. That

1:15:41

means you press belief and smell it. Ah

1:15:45

spirit sad. Valve

1:15:48

find your plan and your

1:15:51

great great grandmother at a

1:15:53

teacher And that teacher as

1:15:56

told Head and at one

1:15:58

day. The child will

1:16:01

be born and carries the same

1:16:03

nine said stage and your teacher

1:16:05

is your say your friends mental

1:16:08

naval let you down no matter

1:16:10

what am I help you to

1:16:12

understand. That the

1:16:14

best way to learn through

1:16:17

experience. Time since.

1:16:21

The don't keep my can

1:16:23

lead science a static and

1:16:25

loud rock those seeds from

1:16:28

that aromatic plan directly above

1:16:30

way your plus center is

1:16:32

buried. So our

1:16:35

placenta with buried under different traits.

1:16:37

So when we talk about a

1:16:39

family tree with and took the

1:16:42

one with a straight line speed

1:16:44

to married and made a sibling

1:16:46

the children were talking about a

1:16:49

tizzy country and for my own.

1:16:51

Personal family. it's the territory

1:16:53

beauty. It's also interesting as

1:16:56

that placenta is in the

1:16:58

ground in the dripped Found

1:17:00

a century that trade tykes

1:17:03

entire thread, find a new

1:17:05

routes and come up nutrients

1:17:08

and taken from that placenta

1:17:10

five days find failure rate's

1:17:12

into the tree so what

1:17:15

is then assign placenta that

1:17:17

noted you as an in

1:17:19

defeat your. Is now

1:17:22

also in that tree. So he

1:17:24

had the oxy ribonucleic asset that

1:17:26

we refer to as the And

1:17:29

as he is now in the

1:17:31

tree. You cannot have a closer

1:17:33

relationship with something in the natural

1:17:35

world. Then for it and Terry

1:17:38

he'll sign a Anna. This is

1:17:40

part of that first love. This

1:17:42

is part of that Marriage is

1:17:44

is part of any food. You

1:17:47

know this is part of that

1:17:49

little piece of country that. You're

1:17:51

connected to spirits and

1:17:54

these away be expended.

1:17:57

G A List. Because

1:18:00

as you travel in that

1:18:02

six season cycle, you travel paths.

1:18:04

That in Sister Who told

1:18:07

the bright bright red mist. The

1:18:10

deal would be born and carried the same.

1:18:12

And. The same sweet of tight. As.

1:18:15

Like. Is that

1:18:17

beautiful? So law

1:18:20

travels through find Cedar can

1:18:22

access literally atomic li and

1:18:24

anatomically to the world around

1:18:27

us. Law is how

1:18:29

the baby knows to reach for

1:18:31

the mother's breast. Where is that?

1:18:33

No one? Is it genetic known?

1:18:36

Yes for scenes themselves

1:18:38

are spiraling ladders as

1:18:40

unfurl around. Ah,

1:18:43

Law is in the matrix. trees,

1:18:48

Seen the holy architecture that

1:18:50

drives the new on still

1:18:52

to as. Seen

1:18:54

tries and the only possible

1:18:57

way to respond to. Quote.

1:19:02

The need for people to approach

1:19:04

life with underlying respect and humility

1:19:07

as the ceremonies teach is essential

1:19:09

for. Proper folks. Ceremonial.

1:19:15

Participation. Starts from it's. Because

1:19:18

babies are said to crawl with. Law

1:19:21

And Dancing. In public,

1:19:23

ceremonies is encouraged as soon as

1:19:25

a toddler to walk. Ceremonial

1:19:28

participation? What is

1:19:30

law? Without ceremony?

1:19:32

Without ritual without

1:19:34

sacred Enact. How

1:19:37

can law seep into both?

1:19:40

How can the seriousness

1:19:42

of responsibility and the

1:19:44

deep alleviation of individual

1:19:47

burden possibly be embodied

1:19:49

without ceremony? Why

1:19:51

would we care about the law of

1:19:53

the Land if it's something happening it

1:19:55

out there To everyone else? We've got

1:19:58

to feel it in our been. In

1:20:01

the deepest part of our bones. Oh.

1:20:09

There's. Always a seal. What

1:20:11

law is out. There.

1:20:14

Is no. Laws

1:20:16

danced. Law is some. It's

1:20:18

impossible to extract law firm.

1:20:20

It's spiritual roots. The sweat

1:20:23

of our ritual spaces should

1:20:25

rain back down upon. You

1:20:27

should feel steam should rise

1:20:29

from the freaks and of

1:20:31

prayer spaces. Steam should rise.

1:20:33

Know steam, Know. We

1:20:36

have to exhaust ourselves until our

1:20:39

heads or bowed and we pass

1:20:41

the night into the dawn together.

1:20:44

And we rise to a world of humming

1:20:46

birds. We

1:21:04

can have all the

1:21:06

abstract conversations we want

1:21:09

about ecological law, and

1:21:11

unless it's been so

1:21:13

magically and embedded felt

1:21:15

ritually reinforce through ceremony,

1:21:17

he won't stick. I'll

1:21:19

say it very plainly:

1:21:21

Climate science won't stick

1:21:23

without ritual embodied in

1:21:25

Act With. So

1:21:27

that word berta that we're

1:21:30

exploring before that is adam

1:21:32

illogically related. Art and order

1:21:34

is also related to the

1:21:36

word ritual. Ritual is

1:21:39

the path back to the artful

1:21:41

order of creation to the patterned,

1:21:43

artful miss of creation. Art.

1:21:46

Order Ritual. It's. Also

1:21:49

interesting and in return implies kind

1:21:51

of activity of being in the

1:21:53

world where some other traditions can

1:21:55

turn away from being in the

1:21:57

world that the record implies. The

1:22:00

arsonist implies, well you can be an artist

1:22:02

yourself. Your own life can be art zero.

1:22:04

My can be a work of art. and

1:22:07

so it implies a kind of action can

1:22:09

have an active engagement with the world. And

1:22:12

in Ancient Indian kind of a

1:22:14

primary way to do this was

1:22:16

to perform secret risks and on

1:22:19

got goddesses themselves lived there divine

1:22:21

lives within his own. So

1:22:24

it's portrait of by offerings to

1:22:26

fires and the surface. Again this

1:22:28

ideas sacred activity within the world

1:22:30

can have that a world the

1:22:32

affirming activity expressed in the age

1:22:34

or through ritual than secret ceremonies

1:22:36

a hostile is the foundation for

1:22:38

asks for it kind of a

1:22:40

socialistic ways of being in the

1:22:43

world that support the goodness of

1:22:45

the world rather than ways of

1:22:47

being in the world. Fracture in

1:22:49

his counsel. Quality of it. When

1:22:53

I spoke with native activist and author

1:22:56

Jose but it'll he emphasized how much

1:22:58

ceremony is tied in with law. There.

1:23:00

Is a law without some type

1:23:03

of spiritual practice that reinforces law.

1:23:05

But. A lot of conversations on

1:23:07

law. Want. To leave out

1:23:10

the ceremonial part. So. In

1:23:12

the past two years, Right

1:23:14

Indigenous Long has entered into

1:23:16

the Discussion or global Environmental

1:23:18

law. And Indigenous law

1:23:20

and indigenous thinking are being used

1:23:22

as a framework for discussions on

1:23:24

environmental and social justice in some

1:23:27

circles. And this is

1:23:29

a good start. I'm. Totally

1:23:31

in favor of it. But. It

1:23:33

also misses something. Law

1:23:35

as I understand, it is more

1:23:37

than a template for how to

1:23:39

treat watersheds and to restrict sam

1:23:41

and overfishing and approach ecology in

1:23:44

terms of it's material as the

1:23:46

goal release analogy. At it's

1:23:48

heart Law is the acknowledgment and

1:23:50

embodied and next mint of the

1:23:52

breath of life that is the

1:23:54

architecture of the world. The

1:23:57

acknowledgement that spirit moves everything.

1:24:00

Infuses everything and I have

1:24:02

to enact sad me too.

1:24:04

So if you just take

1:24:06

the material ecological applicability and

1:24:09

you leave out the whole

1:24:11

spirits are you missed the

1:24:13

heart of the laws of

1:24:15

cosmos? And as usual maternity

1:24:17

wants to adopt everything but

1:24:20

a core saying because the

1:24:22

core thing is animus. He.

1:24:26

Natural Law says Stephen

1:24:28

Law defines the relationship

1:24:30

between humans between humans

1:24:32

and nonhuman entities and

1:24:35

with spiritual. Sources: Spiritual

1:24:40

forces which can only

1:24:42

be interacted with ritually

1:24:44

and ceremonial. So

1:24:47

the term natural law is popular

1:24:49

these days, right? But once it's

1:24:52

abstract and from place and ritual

1:24:54

abstracted from the body and from

1:24:56

the breath of life. People.

1:24:59

Can take natural law to be in whatever

1:25:01

they want. Ears. Were were

1:25:03

at with what sometimes called natural

1:25:06

law. The last seemingly

1:25:08

wants to adopt the ecological

1:25:10

and material part and leave

1:25:12

out the spirit and ceremonial

1:25:14

part. The spiritual

1:25:16

but not religious crowd sometimes seems

1:25:18

to want the free spirited part

1:25:20

without any of the structure. The.

1:25:23

Political Riot wants to claim spirit

1:25:25

as theirs. And own

1:25:27

a vision of natural law that is

1:25:30

totally removed from it's roots. Natural.

1:25:33

Law as the law of the jungle.

1:25:36

The Law of the Open Market. Libertarianism.

1:25:39

Permission to do whatever we want,

1:25:41

Free from accountability. And. Let's

1:25:43

just say no traditional understanding I

1:25:45

know of his have reviewed the

1:25:48

law of nature that way. You

1:25:50

know, as part of the F

1:25:53

L, one of those constitutional. Sas.

1:25:56

As I am. Defender of freedom

1:25:58

and protector of a common. In against

1:26:00

the tyranny of state and

1:26:03

all it's with. Taxes

1:26:06

go yeah. The social safety

1:26:08

net. Oil I'd spit butter.

1:26:10

Respect for the elderly, able. To

1:26:13

the whole multicultural panoply, to.

1:26:16

You. He. Wants freedom.

1:26:19

With. No responsibilities. Some,

1:26:22

There's only one person on Earth

1:26:24

that Santana. The

1:26:27

president. Pay these suits

1:26:29

you filing for? Yeah, you're

1:26:31

right to be a baby.

1:26:39

The. Traditional cultures don't tend to

1:26:41

be particularly Libertarian. I mean, I've

1:26:43

actually got a couple of native

1:26:45

friends who are now Libertarian, so

1:26:47

they might be loading up their

1:26:50

rifles right now, but traditionally I'm

1:26:52

talking it's of free for all

1:26:54

doesn't tend to be the ancestral

1:26:56

worldview. so what is natural law

1:26:59

was more than climate science. More

1:27:02

than the god given right to do whatever

1:27:04

we want whenever we want. Or.

1:27:06

The reason that festival dude won't wear

1:27:08

a condom. Natural law

1:27:10

is a deeper understanding of

1:27:12

how the land actually worth.

1:27:15

The. Movement of nature is the ultimate

1:27:17

determined or of truth. Not.

1:27:19

Your truth, my truth but

1:27:21

would actually last would actually

1:27:23

harmonizes with the way the

1:27:25

living land unfolds over time

1:27:27

and natural laws, the ceremonial

1:27:29

and act mint of that

1:27:31

understanding. The. Enactment of law

1:27:33

itself until humans and land

1:27:36

reverberate as one thing. Through.

1:27:38

This barometer We can start

1:27:40

to understand what laws. What

1:27:43

human laws are upheld by

1:27:45

the land. And. What laws

1:27:47

do not pass the actual test of cause

1:27:49

and effect. Remember. How need to

1:27:51

said? Let's take the idols one by one and

1:27:54

shake them and see if they ring. Let's

1:27:57

see if the laws ring.

1:28:00

And if the land range

1:28:02

in response. Like

1:28:05

does the land a ring. In

1:28:07

response when I say everyone is

1:28:09

entitled to the pursuit of happiness

1:28:11

as it says in the Declaration

1:28:14

of Independence, why would anyone want

1:28:16

to spend that much time pursuing

1:28:18

happiness? Pursuing and

1:28:20

happiness and like two different things:

1:28:22

To me. That law

1:28:25

speaks of the culture that

1:28:27

will exhaust pursuing happiness of

1:28:29

frantically like pass. That law

1:28:32

doesn't really. Does

1:28:35

a law that allows billion dollar

1:28:37

corporations to exist free from accountability

1:28:39

in a universe of death. And

1:28:41

along with the law alone. How

1:28:44

about a law that permits

1:28:46

want and environmental devastation? Tyson

1:28:49

Yoga, Port of On to

1:28:51

marry ground for combo marry

1:28:53

women who has done a

1:28:55

whole lot of work on

1:28:57

long as saying quote Sadler

1:28:59

law is incomplete because it's

1:29:01

possible even commonplace. To. Commit

1:29:03

immoral and on ethical acts

1:29:05

of destruction, That. Are not

1:29:08

illegal. If one can devastate

1:29:10

a forest, relocate and kill it's residents

1:29:12

and all that is legal and there

1:29:14

seem to be no debt incurred. Than.

1:29:17

That law bears no resemblance to

1:29:19

how Nature Fox's. So.

1:29:22

Natural law is the alignment

1:29:24

of law to the actual

1:29:26

man. And. The alignment

1:29:29

of the law makers ceremonially to

1:29:31

that living pulse of law. For

1:29:34

how can our lawmakers hope to

1:29:36

get anything done if there are

1:29:38

no offerings? first? If

1:29:41

there is no ritual, if

1:29:43

there are no gratitude and

1:29:45

allow know circles as sweat

1:29:47

pouring and exceed, those laws

1:29:49

are doomed to disperse before

1:29:52

they ever read. Do our

1:29:54

forms of governance acknowledge spirit

1:29:56

to they acknowledge and living

1:29:58

world. Are they anchored

1:30:01

in ceremony? Here's what Was A

1:30:03

Meadow says about the interweaving of

1:30:06

the law of nature to community

1:30:08

and ceremony. Indigenous government

1:30:10

has so much to do

1:30:13

with attention to. The

1:30:15

Natural world. For. Activities for

1:30:17

economic activities or there's planting

1:30:19

and harvesting and bandying or

1:30:21

fishing or farming. Generally there's

1:30:24

some blitzer hasn't do with

1:30:26

activity. And. Is to

1:30:28

traditional is is working. All.

1:30:31

Of those have a ceremonial

1:30:33

foundation attached to them so

1:30:35

fear the longhouse you have

1:30:37

the mid winter such as

1:30:39

happen midwinter ceremonies they are

1:30:41

turning of it dashes and

1:30:43

five years or renewal we're

1:30:45

resume cause of the way

1:30:47

was just heard that sees

1:30:49

then comes the blessing of

1:30:51

the seeds ceremony really rings

1:30:53

who seeds and I see

1:30:55

the changes happens of with

1:30:57

then they're saw glancing ceremony

1:30:59

the on the strawberry. And

1:31:01

when the suburbs first come out and

1:31:03

like that through this to the year

1:31:05

as things are happening. That had

1:31:08

to do with normal life. Their.

1:31:10

Ceremonies attached to them. That

1:31:13

have a whole cycle of

1:31:15

ceremony, sometimes overnight and often

1:31:17

all day long. House cats

1:31:19

for and There's No. The

1:31:22

ceremonies includes dancing include the

1:31:24

music, speeches, her. Grandmother's.

1:31:27

Chiefs different was put each other

1:31:29

up speed to explain things and

1:31:31

a ceremony has his own and

1:31:33

which well as he that enlivens

1:31:36

quite a bit. Curious cycle, spiritual

1:31:38

basis know mine and bear it

1:31:40

it's get enlivened by as I

1:31:42

didn't refocus by it. The

1:31:45

Law as you find it

1:31:47

again going to this example

1:31:49

of the Great Last Piece which

1:31:52

is the basis of the airport

1:31:54

to fantasy government of six

1:31:56

nations united each with it's

1:31:58

own clan systems and it's

1:32:00

own cheese that me in represent

1:32:02

older than ages and these days

1:32:05

twenty one reservation communities that happens

1:32:07

and a spiritual context. Stars

1:32:10

of the For Back A Burning Their Face

1:32:12

giving address. There's no meaning that doesn't start

1:32:14

with the tobacco burn. So. Already

1:32:16

you have that as the basis.

1:32:19

The basis is what are we

1:32:21

doing here today? We're putting our

1:32:23

minds together to give thanks to

1:32:26

this element. This element. This element

1:32:28

is on what makes it the

1:32:30

creator. the unseen force race bird

1:32:33

some places walk on. Tonto isn't

1:32:35

Lakotas like that? There's

1:32:38

ceremony attached to. Men

1:32:40

who thinks of life. If there's

1:32:42

gonna be a burst and midwives have

1:32:44

ceremonies this the folks burn tobacco and

1:32:46

and have a cycle of songs to

1:32:49

lot of burst my license a physician

1:32:51

or midwife I'm almost always those are

1:32:53

singing going on. the men are outside

1:32:55

single that baby into into been there

1:32:57

are songs ago. was that sort of

1:33:00

the causes are you rich in bringing

1:33:02

these things out and creating the. Spiritual.

1:33:06

Openness, For. Things

1:33:08

to to happen and then is

1:33:10

not lost on people that are

1:33:12

those times. When there's a

1:33:15

lot of of that. Motion

1:33:17

Like Motion. Things.

1:33:19

Happen. Signals happen,

1:33:21

Messages happen the have a

1:33:23

real binding. Reality He

1:33:25

No. Coincidences.

1:33:27

Happen. People in a no

1:33:30

go area their decision still has his

1:33:32

discussing the on him. And

1:33:34

just knowing. Because his in

1:33:36

the culture in our smell be

1:33:39

surprised Caesar and the more you

1:33:41

concentrate know about ceremony the more

1:33:43

you like to guide you Day

1:33:45

that with it because. Of

1:33:47

bring saw a lot of your

1:33:49

day to concentrate in a spurious

1:33:52

thankfulness. Everything in the universe was

1:33:54

to be appreciated. One of the

1:33:56

principles of that, so you have

1:33:59

that. The Old Alive

1:34:01

appreciation and everything you have

1:34:03

been. Reciprocity as a major

1:34:06

concept and everything among among

1:34:08

humans, among families, communities and

1:34:10

with nature with was everything

1:34:13

in the world that reciprocity.

1:34:15

big one admire villages of

1:34:17

it in places where people

1:34:20

meet in the morning early

1:34:22

morning and everybody tells her

1:34:24

dreams to the elder a

1:34:27

player post sidner listen to

1:34:29

the dreams. And then the

1:34:31

corresponding to the day and the calendar.

1:34:33

my account. And what would that mean?

1:34:36

Sin and what time of the neither well

1:34:38

as a narrative or was a seat was

1:34:40

a worse and means was just a village.

1:34:42

Industries are going on in Us a Dutch

1:34:44

government. Does actually

1:34:46

dormant in a sense of how

1:34:48

our village gets organize and in

1:34:50

the morning well we're gonna plan

1:34:52

does feel today the ceremony go

1:34:55

with him and helps on so

1:34:57

on and and as reciprocity. Appreciation.

1:35:00

And gratitude, recognition of death and

1:35:02

offering recognition of the great laws.

1:35:05

The world that is song and

1:35:07

dance together and that then makes

1:35:09

it's way into the community and

1:35:12

how we treat one another and

1:35:14

how we embody interconnectivity. This perhaps

1:35:16

is what binds human beings together.

1:35:18

It's what makes life, life. It's.

1:35:21

What human beings are. Of

1:35:24

those story before but at Geneva

1:35:27

again seventy seven and when it

1:35:29

was a conference the first conference

1:35:31

ever notice seventy seven were indigenous

1:35:33

delegation came and presented meant largely

1:35:36

around human rights issues horrible things

1:35:38

going on at the time for

1:35:40

Brazil's what a Mall and you

1:35:42

name it. Very. Directed

1:35:44

at and in the answer. And they did, people.

1:35:47

Fall a One what afternoon? The human

1:35:50

rights lawyers even the native ones were

1:35:52

trying to defined of. The.

1:35:54

Sense of community that there was going on

1:35:56

in the. In the conference

1:35:58

and one on fellas that up

1:36:00

for why I think or unity

1:36:02

comes from our mutual history of

1:36:04

oppression or his usual histories of

1:36:06

oppression. That. Was. Isn't

1:36:09

enough definition? People starting to nod

1:36:11

and. And. This elder from

1:36:13

the Senate condition One of the

1:36:15

Six Nations Corbett Sundance seat he

1:36:17

he got up is no he

1:36:19

says no Mrs. That's. What

1:36:21

Happened To us? For.

1:36:24

That know who we are. As

1:36:27

what happened to us. The

1:36:29

share who we are tomorrow advise you to

1:36:31

come to my tobacco burning. First. Thing

1:36:34

in the morning and with Thanksgiving address.

1:36:37

And. Common the I'll show

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you. And sure enough,

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early morning allow the elders when

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are we among them favored and

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and others. Showed

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up for. Classics.

1:36:51

Oration: know earplug say skating

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is address which. Is

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precisely about another Why was principles

1:36:57

which his. Appreciation

1:37:00

of Appreciation of Being

1:37:02

alive almost every ceremony.

1:37:04

Is ever done in the in

1:37:06

the of world either as well

1:37:08

Think so. I can point to

1:37:10

any that are not always begin

1:37:12

with the threat of focus of

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of offering appreciation. Are

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breathing for being alive, for

1:37:19

the food, for the water,

1:37:22

air. For the

1:37:24

stars for the sun,

1:37:26

Earth. For.

1:37:29

What tyson to gather. Intelligence,

1:37:31

The sizes together. Somehow this

1:37:34

all of that comes together.

1:37:37

And as appreciation and Nasa

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Thanksgiving address it starts. the

1:37:42

people first and then years.

1:37:44

the shroud of medicines, The

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trees, four legged. Goes

1:37:50

up into the cosmic family,

1:37:52

amazon and the moon muslim.

1:37:55

other mean it's a prayer

1:37:57

that my own procedure there.

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The surmount to approve about

1:38:02

a secret been cheated or

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nemeses tobacco burning. That's exactly

1:38:06

what he prays is exactly

1:38:08

what he does. And

1:38:10

as you go to the Maya.

1:38:13

Their. Days the ceremony of of

1:38:15

the my and days for that

1:38:18

particular day And and do see

1:38:20

that alter. The

1:38:22

form of the alters same.

1:38:26

And that was at the

1:38:28

the burst of farmers this

1:38:30

moment of the international Indigenous

1:38:32

move. December

1:38:34

of seventy Seven. first time ever

1:38:36

and yet they're in the United

1:38:39

Nations of the place stop when

1:38:41

the delegation came in and feels

1:38:43

amazing thing to. And

1:38:46

the first. Admonition

1:38:48

to the. Western

1:38:50

World. To the

1:38:53

white man as he said

1:38:55

was. About the fate of

1:38:57

Mother Earth. Is

1:38:59

so we have choose from So

1:39:01

Human rights issues, assassinations, everything I

1:39:03

going on among the Hughes so

1:39:05

if we came to talk about

1:39:07

that but our first concern. Is

1:39:10

what. We're. Doing to the Mother

1:39:12

Earth. Or size

1:39:14

I felt the or lions and well

1:39:17

known I don't bother cheese. I

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still seat for the Force Legacy Know

1:39:21

seat for the ego Us You know

1:39:23

seat fearful rhetoric on. Or

1:39:26

authority to say great speaker saw

1:39:28

them. Yes one or and Lion

1:39:31

stood up before the United Nations And

1:39:33

Nineteen Seventy Seven He said this, I

1:39:35

do not see a delegation for the

1:39:37

for footed. I see no

1:39:39

seat for the eagles. We.

1:39:42

Forget and we consider ourselves

1:39:44

superior. but we are after

1:39:46

all a mere part of

1:39:48

creation and we must consider

1:39:51

to understand where we are

1:39:53

and we stand somewhere between

1:39:55

the mountain in the and

1:39:57

somewhere and only their as.

1:40:00

And. And

1:40:03

fifteen years later he said

1:40:05

this. It seems

1:40:07

to me that we are

1:40:09

living in a time of

1:40:11

prophecy. a time of definitions

1:40:13

and decisions. We are the

1:40:15

generation with the responsibilities in

1:40:17

the option to choose the

1:40:19

path of life for the

1:40:21

future of our children, or

1:40:23

the life and path that

1:40:25

defies the laws of regeneration.

1:40:27

Natural law he says will

1:40:29

prevail. The law of the

1:40:31

seed and regeneration. We

1:40:34

need the courage to change

1:40:36

our values to the regeneration

1:40:38

of our families, the life

1:40:40

that surrounds us. We must

1:40:43

join hands with the rest

1:40:45

of creation and speak of

1:40:47

commons responsibility, brotherhood, and peace.

1:40:49

We must understand that the

1:40:51

law is the seed and

1:40:53

only as true partners can

1:40:55

we survive. The

1:40:59

law is the seed the

1:41:01

law of regeneration feel into

1:41:03

that growth, death regeneration with

1:41:05

in the balance of all

1:41:07

things so that all things

1:41:09

we plan must be in

1:41:11

alignment to this great law

1:41:14

or it will eventually be

1:41:16

balanced so that it is.

1:41:18

So let us take the

1:41:20

empty laws and take them

1:41:22

and see if they ring.

1:41:25

Does any vision of governance any

1:41:27

vision of success that does not

1:41:29

account for the whole living web

1:41:31

ring with law. When. Steven

1:41:33

Pinker says things have never been

1:41:35

better. You know, the world view

1:41:38

that because life expectancy is up even

1:41:40

though it's not. And your

1:41:42

chance of being murdered his less than

1:41:44

it was in England. and sixteen forty,

1:41:46

that things are better than they've ever

1:41:48

been. Does. The Land

1:41:50

Ring in response. For.

1:41:53

Me I feel a lot of

1:41:55

ancestors silently shaking their heads. You

1:41:58

can't talk of the success that any

1:42:00

given part of the system without talking

1:42:02

about the whole system. You.

1:42:04

Can't talk about success without looking

1:42:07

at the interconnected web of ceremony

1:42:09

and art and community, without looking

1:42:11

at his debts are being paid

1:42:14

and offerings made if this. Whether

1:42:16

the ritual is rising up to

1:42:19

Four Marine, If the people are

1:42:21

being replenished and not falling victim

1:42:23

to cynicism not plagued by anxious

1:42:26

isolation, is there levity in the

1:42:28

hearts of the people? Are the

1:42:31

people becoming cynical? Or they morose

1:42:33

and down trodden. This

1:42:35

is serious stuff. It's not. Oh wait

1:42:37

and right, a hypothetical book about how

1:42:40

have we just use reason than trust

1:42:42

the market? Everything's gonna work out great.

1:42:45

It's. Serious stuff. If we want the

1:42:47

whole system to function, we're going

1:42:49

to have to sift the discussion

1:42:51

from what we get to do.

1:42:54

To how to manage relationships

1:42:56

and curb excess and offer

1:42:58

back. In order to

1:43:01

preserve and overall balance. Because

1:43:06

that great balance will curb

1:43:08

access one way or another,

1:43:10

with or without our cooperation.

1:43:13

And. So we're gonna have to

1:43:15

talk about spirit, about ritual,

1:43:18

about ceremonies, about how law

1:43:20

is embodied in the neck.

1:43:22

Law is serious. there's no

1:43:24

escaping law. Law is the

1:43:26

thing that changed for media's

1:43:28

to the rock all of

1:43:31

us promethium was to our

1:43:33

own broth. The. Eagles

1:43:35

eat our livers. They feed.

1:43:37

They fly. And.

1:43:46

Law is serious. How

1:43:52

do you talk about the most serious

1:43:55

thing there is and conveyed that it

1:43:57

is lighter than air. And.

1:44:00

The as a clown it is the freedom

1:44:02

within the song. That

1:44:04

it offers a grin and burdening.

1:44:07

That that fun for the name

1:44:09

is not exactly what we're used

1:44:11

cause freedom. That unburdening

1:44:14

happens through an even deeper

1:44:16

connectivity. How do you convey

1:44:18

that the latest, the most

1:44:20

cloud like more ever feel

1:44:22

is in a highly structured

1:44:24

ritual designed to remind you

1:44:26

of your responsibility even as

1:44:29

it dissolves you into the

1:44:31

sparkling. New minutes of my.

1:44:35

How do you convey that?

1:44:37

law is eternal and my

1:44:39

name is inescapable. His birth

1:44:41

and death. And

1:44:44

yet translucent as moonbeam as

1:44:46

late as when you take

1:44:49

that back off last. May

1:44:53

we be on bird and

1:44:55

beloved. May we

1:44:57

be on bird and does clouds

1:45:00

bear no bird and but to

1:45:02

forums and gathered coalesced and split

1:45:04

open them to the. For

1:45:07

when the heart at last as

1:45:09

wade as the egyptian say it

1:45:11

will be against of feather when

1:45:14

the hard as weighed against a

1:45:16

feather how will my heart me.

1:45:19

When your heart and last as we'd

1:45:22

against us other however your heart be.

1:45:25

How do you convey without having

1:45:27

felt that and ritual that when

1:45:30

we talk about law are talking

1:45:32

about the most finding thing there

1:45:34

is an the most spaces. About

1:45:39

the thing that is most binding and

1:45:41

most freeing And what? Do

1:45:44

we talked of the breath? How

1:45:47

you can feel and your next breath.

1:45:49

All the layers and gradations of freedom.

1:45:53

And then steal how you have

1:45:55

no choice but to breed. How

1:45:58

do you convey that? You and. They are

1:46:00

precisely as free as one node of

1:46:02

music in the midst of an intricacies.

1:46:07

How this guy says to the clouds you

1:46:09

will have all the space you could ever

1:46:11

want to the express. Or

1:46:14

you will also be eternally. Mountains.

1:46:17

What do we do in

1:46:20

this last ephemeral world? This

1:46:22

shining web of interconnectivity seen

1:46:25

again, dance, again, do the

1:46:27

ritual again. Water evaporates, again,

1:46:30

rains down again. This is

1:46:32

how we reverberate within the

1:46:35

law of the Living Land

1:46:37

around. This

1:46:39

is how we renew, replenish.

1:46:42

You We do it over and

1:46:44

over again because. Of that

1:46:46

sounds familiar. That's how

1:46:48

it rains. I.

1:46:58

Asked. A

1:47:01

nice keepers freedom. Of

1:47:04

the. Discipline that

1:47:06

is afraid of. Getting

1:47:08

one of the paradox. That

1:47:11

and poor discipline. We can

1:47:14

be kind of held captive

1:47:16

to various forces, sort of

1:47:18

external to ourselves, words or

1:47:20

internal to ourselves. It will

1:47:23

push your suppose some and

1:47:25

draws a woeful from and

1:47:27

in or integrity. The

1:47:30

foundational discipline of the jazz musicians