Prepare to learn the lost language of Heaven, which the Old Testament says was scattered over the face of the Earth by the Fall of the Tower of Babel.
And the Northwest Coast Tribes are calling you to enter our POTLATCH!.
WHY POTLATCH?
A series of columns by jesusjamey, aka Tgaa Kuum X'nangs
A Chinese sign for crisis also means opportunity, so be open to achieving the change the new President promised to the World as you discover the truth about things you didn't know existed. A hidden history will be unveiled and the tone of my articles are set by Bible, in Revelation 5, in promises that these times would befall many, and no one would "open the book" until Christ returns. You are about to embark on an even greater "revolution" than the one which wrested the authority over your territories, from the English King.
The local newspaper once published my column, Why Indian? introducing the ideas and reasons behind recent advances in Canada and this Province, in their relationship with the Indigenous People. Our progress is certainly admirable against the terrible conditions endured by the Tribes as they were emerging from, what we describe as our Dark age, but a stagnating stalemate has set in, without net gains for either of the original communities of British Columbia, and the Treaty Process is devolving into an expensive placebo. Returning to the topic now, at the point I left off in 1975, I will explain why and how, the once illegal Potlatch is the right solution to that stand-off. In fact, Potlatch must pick up right where its institutional processes stood, when our Native culture was interrupted by the Canadian colonial experiment.
In my final message in Why Indian? I said trying to complete a social system based on Canada's claims of right would eventually bring the economy to its present economic crises, and that the better, and right course develops our Land Title regime on the proven Supreme Court ordered Indian Titles, as described by Kitksan in Delgamuukw vs. R. There's a simple efficient formula for order: Law is subject to Land Rights, and Land Rights are determined by Ecology, while our Human Ecology is properly derived from ideas by which populations move together from lower to higher economic productivity. That scientific formula can be reduced to the sets of beliefs held by a community in its Religious Faith, or to avoid offending believers, to their story, or our Adaawk, which serves to draw and hold all of its Individuals together in one unified society.
I contend that Canada reached the highest level of civilization in history, and around the world, by applying Christ's teaching in the form of Common Law, but Indian Title remains unresolved to that law. I further attest that our Constitution, with the rights it recognizes, affirms, and protects, is actually suitable to any and all countries around the World, and so applied, will draw the population of the Planet together in a new global union of laws, but how could we convince other Governments to adopt our system? That’s the job of the revived Potlatch, which can be seen to have united the once warring Indian Tribes from Californa to Alaska.
Readers wondering what this means to them are assured that I will clarify their issues in following columns. Meanwhile, one and all, Native Indians and the most recent New Canadian Citizen, along with dissatisfied Individuals around the World, should research the concept of Potlatch, within the strict proviso of the inevitable return of Jesus Christ, understanding that doing so recombines the Ecology of the First Peoples with the statutory powers of the British Legal system of Common Law, in an easily adopted relationship to our Chief of Heaven.
That's the story; our story, and it is about to become the Adaawk of a new and peaceful Planet.
Why Potlatch II
What do I mean by Potlatch, and especially by raising the point of Christ's return?
Both topics mark the uncertainty of archaic, relatively ancient concepts from opposite sides of the World, uncertainty that is born out of arrogant notions of Human supremacy over nature. We are actually nearer both of these antiquated ideas than we think, since they both address peace and Ecological balance; Potlatch provides a forum in which enemies come into social contact with each other around territorial claims and disbursal of resources, among otherwise violent competitors; Potlatch achieves what Jesus stipulates as our highest virtue: loving our enemies, and caring for the weak, within celebratory demonstrations of the art and talent of competitively motivated Individuals.
But why do I insist that Jesus Christ is essential to the process?
Democracy and democratic processes which by their design, must lower the common social denominators, are inconsistent with the necessary upward evolutionary drive required to maintain our position on the Planet as top beneficiary, and the engineer of the environment. Recent downward trends in the ecological conditions most suitable to human habitation, are direct results of the socio-economic error of trying to satisfy all the desires and wants of growing populations. Correcting the economy requires adjustment of the priorities of the global society, from those of the whole group, to those of the single Individual, which sets up a crisis of how to distribute diminishing powers to all members of the community in proportion to the available resources in the Ecology. That criteria can't be advanced by representative governments, simply because all such administrations impose their own needs on the economy as a priority, distorting the natural hierarchy of power and rights within their respective constituencies; these administrations' bottom line leaves less benefit available to the average citizen. So regulation of society ends up in the hands of administrations which by design, lack integrity to control themselves, let alone impose limits on the community. As economic feedback from the system stresses more and more members of the society, their quickest solution to the problem is to revolt and divorce themselves from the larger constituency, and form self-governing sub-states, but that response is only valid in the one single case, where each solitary Individual governs her or himself, which is the pure state of Nature, but absent the engagement of highly evolved individuals who are naturally obedient to Rule of Law, such an order would be chaotic, and that is the reason to learn the teaching of Christ.
On my claim and argument that Christ represents the perfect Human character of a self-governed Being, the problem shifts from how to teach, and control the whole population, to instituting His teaching within a single forum able to both teach and assert Christ's character to each and every Human person in the world. Adaawk, the community story or Religion, restores the natural method of allowing the social Ecology of self-driven individuals to evolve into a civilized community in harmony with the natural ecology. In the model of Potlatch, each individual takes responsibility for their own rights and benefits, and no remote authority imposes its needs and desires on people, or on the land.
Potlatch III
Potlatch demonstrates how the needs and the powers of the Hearth, meld into discrete contexts of the land and resources necessary to sustaining Individuals and Families, and whole populations at the same time, in given territories, based on the size of territory needed to feed that Family, within the whole extended community, but an overlooked feature is how Potlatch addresses needs of neighbouring communities, which might launch an attack if their needs weren`t met for any reason. Processes built into the inter-Tribal culture that was formerly connected by Potlatch, successfully unified the Northwest Coast Peoples from Alaska to Northern California, centered in the regions of Haida Gwaay and the Skeena and Nass Rivers. The fact that Salish People once occupied most of the Province but on Contact, were found to be restricted to the Fraser-Vancouver Island area, with the Totem culture on the increase until outlawed by Canada, signals Potlatch as a relatively recent imperializing process; I say Potlatch is post-Christ, and reached here with a single Family, the Family of Temlaham (see Marius Barbeau). The corresponding fact that Canadians were moved to block Potlatch, establishes that the culture of Potlatch had power to compete with, and negate the British Empire. Potlatch has to be taken as a liberating influence which dulled any attraction felt by Natives to adopt the European model of economic culture, with their statutory and industrial and mercantile features, which left participants either too rich or too poor. In fact, a reverse osmosis was observed, as Chiefs were happy to adopt, and adapt Christian European ways and economies to Potlatch.
We view and study the past through lenses of the Art form and Mythological remnant of culture. Haida poetry and drama are virtually identical to all other advanced cultures around the World. The dominant theme depicts the position of Humans in relation to Nature, using the same stories found in high opera and prose; for example, Swan Lake is told by Haida poets almost exactly the way it is danced by the Russian Ballet. The stark message to be gleaned is not so much that ancient cultures share these themes, but that modern democratic and consumer cultures have not developed similar culturally advanced messages, but only mirror their rampant violence and social disease in modern art and popular entertainment, trading on their lack of ecological teaching. When Al Gore sets out to publicize the threat of Global warming, he employs academic lectures, not artistic and emotional performances which can penetrate to the hearts of the people, who then on their part expect Gore, or the Government to resolve the danger for them. Gore`s method operates on the premise that Science has to prove the facts that matter in a democratic assembly before the threats are real, even while Governments lack power to reach individuals where they feel the pain or pleasure needed to move them to action. Myth and story which draw the mind into the same context as the impending crisis, is necessary to the agenda of uniting enough free thinking Individuals to alter the entire world`s consciousness, and thereby to recreate Nature in our image.
Potlatch focuses personal and corporate powers directly on these ecological and socio-economic issues.
Potlatch (IV)
Western education is based on the incorrect premise that Humans must control other Humans, which in itself is an irreconcilable paradox, since it depends on the establishment of a dominant minority and a submitted majority. Strict Rule of Law contradicts the actual operating assumption behind popular democracy, since popular elections allow imposters to insinuate themselves into power by subtle means applied over time, and by the deliberate inequitable disbursement of benefits and penalties. The obvious method of extorting control from the natural units of the Individual and the Family and the Tribe, is to take children from their parents and indoctrinate them with belief in false ideas, creeds and dogma, and this is the role of mandatory education. This role is served in tyrannies by the concepts of Churches, Nations, and public heroes, each of which serves to attack the soul of any person who is targeted, either as entitled to join an elite, or to be disqualified from it, and so there is scape goating and there is petting, in order to produce elites and corresponding others, or outsiders, leaving a silent majority vacillating between fear of ostracism and being desirous of inclusion in the elite.
Open and subtle Tyrannies alike, divert energy and capital to enforcing the illusion that the majority is free to choose their leaders, but the fact is, popular democracies lack any capacity to identify and select competent leadership, since their definitions of competence are unnatural and distorted by false beliefs, and are advanced by any version of a false story that will be swallowed by the population. This is why we always hear Indigenous Societies clamouring to assert and express their own mythology and culture, and even though Governments may eventually grant recognition, in claiming to be multi-cultural, systems of Mandatory Education merely continue to stress and enforce the dogma that an elite alone has authority to allow others to practice their culture within the dominant system of the entrenched order of power.
Two features of natural Human culture, exemplified by Potlatch, effectively both destroy the infrastructure of any false authority, while simultaneously teaching and establishing natural Ecological authority.
Potlatch involves Individuals in natural community forums of association and assembly, where they find their position relative to the rights of their peers, and relative to their Ecological rights, in contrast to having States rights assigned to them by the usurpers. Where so-called democracies purport to offer Human rights, and freedom to vote and elect leaders, Potlatch provides a direct path to authority which contains ways and means of placing the most competent individuals in offices that are appropriate and suited to using the Ecology in the most economic way, including the economy of distributing benefits. The only barrier to success of Potlatch, in modern times, is lack of Adaawk, absence of a single unified story, and that void is filled by our only true Hero, Jesus Christ.
Potlatch V
This column resolves Potlatch and Scripture into a single language based on the dimensions of past, present and future, within the Universe of Infinity, and Matter and Story, in such a way as to identify the content of Absolute Truth. Recognize that Modernity is marked by a total absence of any truth, and that our present bevy of leaders is dedicated to challenging any claims by Individuals that they have or know the truth. Science has reached its pinnacle in Quantum Mechanics, but their theories really only declare that Scientists are unable to say what the Universe is, or what it is doing, while all the followers of the world's Religions are dedicated to their own conclusions, rather than to any ideal culture or law.
Recall the story of the Tower of Babel saying that Humans possessed a perfect language but lost it when they came too close to Heaven, scattering people all over the Planet, each with their own language. That story accurately describes the modern world, but we have to follow the Scriptures further and take notice of Revelation 5, which predicts the time when Christ opens the seals of the truth and reveals Heaven to the world again. This cues us, not to look for the truth directly, but first relocate the perfect language, and then tell ourselves the truth in terms of that language. Well, we can safely say that there's one form of language which doesn`t, and cannot lie, and that language is Mathematics, the language of Numbers. This conclusion lines up with, and corresponds to Revelation 5.
Readers are now asked to divert themselves to the discrete dimensions of their own truth, which encloses them within the Universe where we experience an illusion of day and night, and are held to the Earth by gravity, but we find ourselves confused by inconsistent Human doctrine and dogma. The greatest Human achievement we know is the Life of Jesus Christ, who is responsible for moving us beyond violence to Rule of Law. When Jesus says: I am the Way and the Truth and the Life, He offers the World a single defining dimension which we can choose to follow or not, and for the purpose of this column, which is averting the impending social and economic collapse of Ecology, I urge Readers to add that assertion to their own belief, and relate to life on Earth according to His Truth. Accepting Jesus as your teacher replaces the existing contracts imposed on us by other Humans, and His Teaching encourages each of us to take reference from the Man who taught, not dominating dogma, but about our relationships within the real physical, and spiritual, and social realms, in which we live our lives.
After all, we are both the primary cause of world conditions, and the victims of the Ecology our own actions are producing. We have the power to conceive of, and establish Heaven on Earth by becoming a single united People with one Adaawk.
{continued: How Numbers Make the Universe}