Listen to the ancient voices.
When the ancestors walked the earth they new this world as a living being. Their “mother” who gave them life. Indigenous peoples around the world understood this and learned to live in harmony with their environment. The elders heard the ancient voices and regulated the use of the land and the of other creatures who shared it with them. They could not conceive of a people who would rape the mother and take as much as they could from her. They spent more of their time in community than in gathering food and knew the meaning of wisdom. In time cities grew. Nations flourished. Rulers dominated. Crowded together, they needed more food and land to sustain them. They took it from their neighbours and enslaved the less fortunate to till the soil and care for the food animals for them. Huge machines grew from the intelligent species. Advancement brought freedom for some and greater poverty for others. Wars were needed to create more “free-holdings” and cement the power of those in char