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Now don't get your partisan dander up. This essay is not in support of any party's candidate. It is commentary on how the people of this nation must govern themselves, and also be conscientious stewards of God's Creation, if we are to survive as a democracy.
Beginning in the summer of 2001 Beloved Women of the Creek People in the Southeast began having repetitive visions of a dark future ahead. A Beloved Woman is one, who has been blessed by the Master of Breath (God) with the gift of healing and especially strong communicative skills with the spiritual dimension. Our monotheistic beliefs and civilization probably date back to at least 500 BC. We have another heavenly gift in that especially righteous ancestors become Guardian Angels for those who seek a spiritual path.
On Monday, September 29, I sent an email to each member of the Creek National Council and to the executive leaders. In it I summarized the prophecies received by the Beloved Women over the past seven years, and how they all were coming true. I told them that a catastrophic financial collapse was eminent, and that it would be followed by Americans dying from lack of heat this winter and by food shortages beginning in the Spring, because of the breakdown in the financial and transportation systems. The primary purpose of the letter was for them to begin planning production of energy and food that was not dependent on regional networks and transportation.
I also urged the leadership to go back to the Spiritual Path of the Creeks in which men and women were elected leaders because of their especially strong commitment to putting the welfare of the community as a whole, above their own acquisition of power and wealth. The traditional Creek concept of a true leader is directly comparable to the Messiah‘s admonition that the greatest servant should become the leader. It is also applicable to the United States today!
Specific Creek political traditions relevant to our situation today are:
Both men and women could be elected to any position of leadership, except military ones.
Each elected leader and each official of the government (yes, we had bureaucracies in the mound building days!) should never be influenced by bribes or threats in the making of decisions or the allocation of resources. Accepting a bribe was punished by banishment or execution.
It was the responsibility of the elected leadership that no person within the province should go hungry or go untreated for ills.
It was the responsibility of the people to work diligently at the production of food on their farms, but also share their clothing, vegetables and meat to those in need, or even hungry travelers.
Every member of the community, except the sick, was expected to be re-baptized (even in winter!) prior to attending council meetings, religious ceremonies or sacred dances.
Each elected leader was required to publicly announce their sins and failures as a person prior to entering a council meeting, temple or Sacred Square (a plaza bounded by covered bleachers).
Also, elected leaders were required to publicly forgive any person in the community, who had sinned against them or their family, prior to entering the council chamber, temple or Sacred Square.
The leadership was expected to enter the council chamber in full humility for the responsibility placed upon their shoulders. Arrogance or self-aggrandizement were grounds for impeachment.
The CEO of the province, known to us as the mikko, could not take any action, or make any law without the full consent of the elected assembly. Any unilateral act of diplomacy or instigation of war by a leader or a minority of officials, was punished by immediate impeachment.
All members of an assembly had to be stone, cold sober when taking a vote. At the opening of the assembly, each consumed a jar of an indigenous tea (Sacred Black Drink) that had four times the caffeine of coffee. Afterward, the members of the Assembly said a prayer asking the Master of Breath to give them wisdom and to not act selfishly.
Perhaps, most important, the Creek People considered themselves part of the Creation, not lords over it. Each person was responsible for the welfare of the natural environment and obligated to maintain the existence of all living species. A prayer was said after any animal was killed for food. Nut and fruit orchards were planted near villages to replace trees cut for firewood.
I have feeling that when the National Council members first received the emails, they thought I was a nutcase, who had best stick to writing history books and building town models for their museum.
However, the next day the Dow Jones average dropped 777 points. 777 is one the most sacred numbers of the Creek people. You wouldn't believe the interested emails I have received since then from Oklahoma! LOL
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