Exploring the modern day humanocentric wordview, exposing the corruption of mainstream 'environmentalism' and 'sustainable' technologies and offering some wisdom from our ancestors for the path ahead
I have not read it thoroughly, and I will re-read it many times because there’s so much great information in here, and also so thorough. But as you say, not comprehensive even still. Just want to make one point, and it makes me wonder, because Colonialism, greed, and anthropocentrism are definitely root causes to the evil, but it was a certain brand of Christianity that came in and was used as a justification. Later that changed to something else. And even amongst the gilded sects of Christianity such as the Jesuits, there were individuals who really did care about the culture and the people, and who also helped preserve parts of the culture and language, by doing the good work to connect with the locals. And I also wonder, if it was not European, a.k.a. Roman catholic driven Christianity, would it have been a different approach to the humanity aspect? I say that, because there are many places in the world, where native people are being crushed, when in particular, or the Palestinians, or the Armenians, who are very old or ancient people, and largely Christian in the case of the latter especially , and they are being subjugated by other religious belief system that claims superiority as a justification to destroy them.
I think the assault on the good humans and the people who live close to their lands and buy their land, is still in full swing, and perhaps even more exacerbated these days. All over the world. And now there is a new assault on the land in North America, which is egregious and highly toxic, damaging for a long term. Perhaps it’s time to bring the buffalo back, as a natural solution, giving and living for the land first, and March back against tyranny.
Thank you very much for this, just some thoughts to share that came up as I got through most of it. I will share this and discuss with friends. 
Harsh realities are required to wake up the recently red pulled. 'Saving biodiversity' is being used as a weapon. Sadly, saving and protecting biodiversity is all that actually matters, ever, period.
This post sickened me to the core and yet I came away at peace! That's because I was thoroughly shocked and mortified about the Buffalo war, the lithium mining and the ridiculous wokey green bollox agendas sweeping through all our lands. However, the stories about the ancient Celts and their Ogham language (which I will one day be studying through my online course with the Order of Bards, Ovates and Druids. I'm at Bardic level and will study for Ovate next, which includes the Ogham work) and ended with the beautifully optimistic video from Charles Eisenstein, which, thankfully gave me hope for humanity, if we be but grateful for a start. Thank you for your thought provoking words.
Nice job here Gavin. I wish I had time to write the manifesto comment that it deserves, because the topics touched on have been in my wheelhouse for decades now.
I like the way you transparently tackled your own hypocrisy in being a witting or unwitting accomplice to all this wrongness, for we all are, as I am now typing in to the Moloch "User Interface"!
I often wonder - when it comes down to it - what is more important to humans (our kind of humans, at least, if you understand me) : to do good or to be included? The "elites" love to subvert and weaponize these attributes, as we've seen both of late as well as in the historical experience.
Because if we were truly willing to withdraw consent, we would walk away, cut the cable, turn off the switch, and stop feeding the beast. We know this intellectually (some of us do at any rate), but it would mean severing ourselves from the "Body", the mass of "other humans" who are all participating, reluctantly or enthusiastically, in the destruction.
I think, after much deliberation and reflection, it will take something bigger than us to make that Cold Turkey decision for us. For now we will, as humans do, rationalize and take half-measures and do what we can under the circumstances.
Meanwhile, you may wish to include these in your post or just regard them if you have not yet:
1) Schooling The World: The White Man's Last Burden by Carol Black et. al. 2010
Gavin, you are such a kindred spirit. Beginning with always referring to our Mother Earth as "she," not "it." I read through this once and will return to watch the videos later. Written with unabashed truth in all its ugliness. I'm going to go walk in the woods and clear the grief from my heart after reading this. I am so ashamed of the human race. xo
Wow, I added your post to one I wrote yesterday. People need to believe that we are not in a "All for one, one for all society." - The Three Musketeers https://denutrients.substack.com/p/illumi-who
Wow I will probably cross post this. You sure are speaking my language! It shocks me how few people are making these basic existential connections that seem so blatantly obvious and so obviously crucial. The Buffalo!
Traditiuonal Ecological Knowledge is what provided for the vastness of human adaptation throughout the world. I have worked just a handful of times with Ali Meders-Knight who is bringing back traditional fire management practices to northern California, and I seriously learned more in one day with her than in two permaculture design courses and years of trying to implement the concepts. Permaculture takes such knowledge and generalizes it into principles that then get taught on an abstract level and takes years to sort out. In TEK, you gather in a group and do a couple of fun simple things together, and you realize you have just demonstrated 15 permaculture principles and stacked a hundred functions with tangible results like helping an edible landscape regenerate from nearly barren rocks.
The diversity of experiences I have had with indigenous ceremonies also testify to the vast wisdom of traditional cultures in allowing for manifestations of healing that a western mind would have a hard time imagining. Rain dances, or Curings as they are known, are no joke, and are but one example of what is possible through group intention and prayer, rhythm, drum, dance of bare feet on the Earth, and I don't even know what - staying true to ancient ways of managing self-organizing systems of energy flow and resonant field generation?
What I do know is that there were some 500 nations here each with their own particular medicine ways, and those I have been involved with taught me more than all my church days about what it truly means to be human on this Earth. And these ways have not been lost - they have been heroically preserved throughout generations of genocidal pressures also beyond most westerners imaginations. These technologies if you can call them that, including TEK, are in my mind our best hope for regnerating the Web of Life from the poisoned nub it is being brought down to. The only other thing I would add is in line with the major other point of your essay and that is befriending the other relations and their wisdom on this Earth, the power of our many relations in animal, plant, microbiota, and especially the fungi kingdom who were found even surviving inside the destroyed Chernobyl reactor. They will surely be our allies in regenrating living ecosystems as they were so central in past global extinctions when after 90+ percent of life was destroyed, they began again.
May we work together to pass something on to future generations. I just reached out to Lyla June Johnston, by the way, to thank her for her recent talk and offer whatever I might toward evolving of TEK networks forward. So yes, count me in, and shout it from the rooftops. I am an organic farmhand and local food donations organizer in rural Indiana, as well as a qigong teacher, bard, group facilitator, and so on. We are hosting a seed exchange this weekend - heirlooms encouraged! And if there are ways we might collaborate, let me know!
the lithium mines are the same colors....as the Ukranian flag...wow....life don't lie.
I have not read it thoroughly, and I will re-read it many times because there’s so much great information in here, and also so thorough. But as you say, not comprehensive even still. Just want to make one point, and it makes me wonder, because Colonialism, greed, and anthropocentrism are definitely root causes to the evil, but it was a certain brand of Christianity that came in and was used as a justification. Later that changed to something else. And even amongst the gilded sects of Christianity such as the Jesuits, there were individuals who really did care about the culture and the people, and who also helped preserve parts of the culture and language, by doing the good work to connect with the locals. And I also wonder, if it was not European, a.k.a. Roman catholic driven Christianity, would it have been a different approach to the humanity aspect? I say that, because there are many places in the world, where native people are being crushed, when in particular, or the Palestinians, or the Armenians, who are very old or ancient people, and largely Christian in the case of the latter especially , and they are being subjugated by other religious belief system that claims superiority as a justification to destroy them.
I think the assault on the good humans and the people who live close to their lands and buy their land, is still in full swing, and perhaps even more exacerbated these days. All over the world. And now there is a new assault on the land in North America, which is egregious and highly toxic, damaging for a long term. Perhaps it’s time to bring the buffalo back, as a natural solution, giving and living for the land first, and March back against tyranny.
Thank you very much for this, just some thoughts to share that came up as I got through most of it. I will share this and discuss with friends. 
You strode into my ether and breathed it in.
You saved it in a sacred place deep within.
You took my heart and many ancestor tears,
And splattered them on the page full of dreaded fears.
You saw my tribe painted in woad,
Fighting for trees, streams and toad.
You cried when the Roman sword came down,
Upon my broken skull and frown.
I've died a thousand deaths since then.
Among warrior souls like sheep in a pen.
But still I make the battle cry -
Die damned Romans, die, die, die.
I wrote this for you. The Celts of Britain salute you through the ages, can you feel them smile?
Thankyou Gavin.
Harsh realities are required to wake up the recently red pulled. 'Saving biodiversity' is being used as a weapon. Sadly, saving and protecting biodiversity is all that actually matters, ever, period.
This post sickened me to the core and yet I came away at peace! That's because I was thoroughly shocked and mortified about the Buffalo war, the lithium mining and the ridiculous wokey green bollox agendas sweeping through all our lands. However, the stories about the ancient Celts and their Ogham language (which I will one day be studying through my online course with the Order of Bards, Ovates and Druids. I'm at Bardic level and will study for Ovate next, which includes the Ogham work) and ended with the beautifully optimistic video from Charles Eisenstein, which, thankfully gave me hope for humanity, if we be but grateful for a start. Thank you for your thought provoking words.
Nice job here Gavin. I wish I had time to write the manifesto comment that it deserves, because the topics touched on have been in my wheelhouse for decades now.
I like the way you transparently tackled your own hypocrisy in being a witting or unwitting accomplice to all this wrongness, for we all are, as I am now typing in to the Moloch "User Interface"!
I often wonder - when it comes down to it - what is more important to humans (our kind of humans, at least, if you understand me) : to do good or to be included? The "elites" love to subvert and weaponize these attributes, as we've seen both of late as well as in the historical experience.
Because if we were truly willing to withdraw consent, we would walk away, cut the cable, turn off the switch, and stop feeding the beast. We know this intellectually (some of us do at any rate), but it would mean severing ourselves from the "Body", the mass of "other humans" who are all participating, reluctantly or enthusiastically, in the destruction.
I think, after much deliberation and reflection, it will take something bigger than us to make that Cold Turkey decision for us. For now we will, as humans do, rationalize and take half-measures and do what we can under the circumstances.
Meanwhile, you may wish to include these in your post or just regard them if you have not yet:
1) Schooling The World: The White Man's Last Burden by Carol Black et. al. 2010
https://youtu.be/UAGTaC2yGFQ
(Sorry for the YouTube Links, couldn't find it elsewhere)
2) Filmaker's Website: http://carolblack.org/schooling-the-world
3) Willie Dunn: The Ballad of Crowfoot (National Film Board Canada)
https://youtu.be/l-32jc58bgI
4) "There You Go" - Survival International
https://youtu.be/uFU2iQcFv7U
Gavin, you are such a kindred spirit. Beginning with always referring to our Mother Earth as "she," not "it." I read through this once and will return to watch the videos later. Written with unabashed truth in all its ugliness. I'm going to go walk in the woods and clear the grief from my heart after reading this. I am so ashamed of the human race. xo
Wow, I added your post to one I wrote yesterday. People need to believe that we are not in a "All for one, one for all society." - The Three Musketeers https://denutrients.substack.com/p/illumi-who
I have such a yearning for this kind of knowledge and ... life.
Thanks for this!
The buffalo slaughter makes me cry.
Wow I will probably cross post this. You sure are speaking my language! It shocks me how few people are making these basic existential connections that seem so blatantly obvious and so obviously crucial. The Buffalo!
Traditiuonal Ecological Knowledge is what provided for the vastness of human adaptation throughout the world. I have worked just a handful of times with Ali Meders-Knight who is bringing back traditional fire management practices to northern California, and I seriously learned more in one day with her than in two permaculture design courses and years of trying to implement the concepts. Permaculture takes such knowledge and generalizes it into principles that then get taught on an abstract level and takes years to sort out. In TEK, you gather in a group and do a couple of fun simple things together, and you realize you have just demonstrated 15 permaculture principles and stacked a hundred functions with tangible results like helping an edible landscape regenerate from nearly barren rocks.
The diversity of experiences I have had with indigenous ceremonies also testify to the vast wisdom of traditional cultures in allowing for manifestations of healing that a western mind would have a hard time imagining. Rain dances, or Curings as they are known, are no joke, and are but one example of what is possible through group intention and prayer, rhythm, drum, dance of bare feet on the Earth, and I don't even know what - staying true to ancient ways of managing self-organizing systems of energy flow and resonant field generation?
What I do know is that there were some 500 nations here each with their own particular medicine ways, and those I have been involved with taught me more than all my church days about what it truly means to be human on this Earth. And these ways have not been lost - they have been heroically preserved throughout generations of genocidal pressures also beyond most westerners imaginations. These technologies if you can call them that, including TEK, are in my mind our best hope for regnerating the Web of Life from the poisoned nub it is being brought down to. The only other thing I would add is in line with the major other point of your essay and that is befriending the other relations and their wisdom on this Earth, the power of our many relations in animal, plant, microbiota, and especially the fungi kingdom who were found even surviving inside the destroyed Chernobyl reactor. They will surely be our allies in regenrating living ecosystems as they were so central in past global extinctions when after 90+ percent of life was destroyed, they began again.
May we work together to pass something on to future generations. I just reached out to Lyla June Johnston, by the way, to thank her for her recent talk and offer whatever I might toward evolving of TEK networks forward. So yes, count me in, and shout it from the rooftops. I am an organic farmhand and local food donations organizer in rural Indiana, as well as a qigong teacher, bard, group facilitator, and so on. We are hosting a seed exchange this weekend - heirlooms encouraged! And if there are ways we might collaborate, let me know!