Clarifications
Clarification One – The Law of Opposing Forces
‘When you have a group of people sitting around a circle and they all agree with one another – you only have half a circle’
(Ancient Cree Wisdom)
The above snippet of wisdom from my Woodlands Cree ancestors was typical of the general ethos and worldview held by Indigenous tribes of the American northwest. The snippet is indicative of the respect natives held for the ‘Law of Opposing Forces’ which prescribed an opposing viewpoint in order to foster necessary changes within a given situation, community, society or culture.
The circle has traditionally been the foundation of Indigenous cultures – their drums, hoops, creation stories, sun-dances, powwows, lodges and tepees, the four stages of a life cycle, etc. Circles everywhere. And no less significant was the circle’s role in the areas of governance and management. All gatherings and meetings, whether political, social, inter-tribal, judicial or concerning band management were conducted around a circle. The circle was not a random idea that just occurred out of thin air…it was a well thought out format for gatherings because it gave everyone a seat at the table and a voice – regardless of the differing viewpoint of the speaker. This format ensured that all points of view were heard and at least considered for their possible contribution to the larger conversation around the table.
The radical and somewhat unorthodox collection of essays contained within this sub-site were never intended to be imposed upon or ‘shoved down’ anyone’s throat. The original intention was to make better sense of the world in which we live. It is my sincere hope that this re-examination of human history can be added to the circle, added to the general conversation here in the twenty-first century. A number of insights, opinions and conclusions expressed herein will be considered by some (perhaps many) to be extreme and undeniably apocalyptic. The terms ‘extreme and apocalyptic’ are quite appropriate when assessing any system predicated upon interference with the fundamental laws of nature.
Clarification Two – On Blame and Fault
In other essays dealing with controversial subject matter similar to the ‘The Sinking of the Good Ship Lollypop’, I have added a necessary clarification stating that there is no blame or fault assigned to early modern humans regardless of the firestorm they unleashed here on Planet Earth. That our distant ancestors were in fact unwitting and unsuspecting participants in a major biological ‘quirk’, an aberration, an anomaly. And that it was nature, and a sequence of naturally-occurring events that created the aberration…not humans.
A change in ocean currents caused extreme drought and loss of the forest canopy (in Africa) during the Late Miocene…which then caused a group of primates to begin foraging for food on the open plains and savannahs…which then caused the primates to become bipedals (walking on two feet)…which freed up their hands and opposable thumbs….which then led to tool making and weaponry. These were all naturally-occurring events which got the ball rolling. The earliest hominid strain (Sahelanthropus chadensis) that first began branching away from the established primate genus (the Great Apes) had no choice but to ‘go along for the ride’.
And yikes! What a ride it was.
The hominid brain began to grow exponentially…it took three or four million years just to adapt genetically and anatomically to bipedalism. Then the hominid brain’s growth began to accelerate with innovations including the invention of fire, the transition to a meat-based diet, tool making, weaponry, language and communal hunting. The bulk of these innovations occurred around the time of Homo habilis (2.5 million years ago) who ushered in the modern era of the Homo sapiens and the ideological age.
The modern era of the Homo sapiens and the ideological age sounds like something to be celebrated…it was anything but. Since the Late Miocene (eight-million years ago) when the hominid strain began branching away from the primates, our brain virtually exploded in size by the unfathomable rate of 300% (350cc primate to 1350cc advanced Homo sapien). In the 150 million year history of placental mammalians (that’s us) no other mammalian brain has grown (relative to body mass) by more that 10-15% in the same time-frame. So that 300% growth rate easily qualifies modern humans as a biological aberration…a freak of nature.
This whole unfortunate and unforeseeable set of circumstances happened on nature’s watch. The accelerated brain growth (post-H. habilis) endowed the early modern human brain with unprecedented ability to arbitrarily synthesize (construct) ideas. And the rest, as they say, is history. There is an abundance of information included in this sub-site pertaining to events which occurred from that fateful moment when early modern humans first introduced the element of interference in the form of ill-conceived ideas which led to the inventions of agriculture and raising livestock.
(Author’s Note: The proof, in terms of the assertion that genus Homo was, and still is a biological aberration, lies in the ability to connect the dots between two irrefutable historical events. The first event was the explosive growth of the hominid brain over a relatively brief time-frame (which also ushered in the Ideological Era) and the second event is the current meltdown and collapse of the human system. We are talking about extremes here. The extreme nature of the biological aberration (the first mile-marker) connects perfectly with the extreme nature of the meltdown and collapse of western civilization (the second and current mile-marker). These two markers act as bookends, within which is chronicled a unique period, a unique era in all of natural history – the era of the super-humans – and in that wider context, the tumultuous and violent era stands out like a sore thumb).
The Blind Spot
The science is strong…the history is incontestable. Nature – via a sequence of naturally-occurring events – did create a biological anomaly. That anomaly quickly spun out of control and we unfortunate and somewhat clueless humans got caught up in it. And yes, it seems we had no choice but to ‘go along for the ride’.
But, a pivotal question posed by this document deals with this issue of ‘choice’ versus ‘no choice’. The Ideological Era – which began with H. habilis and tool making – embodied all the periods, epochs and revolutions defining modern human history. These included the introduction of human interference, the invention of agriculture, the stratification of human societies, the Industrial Revolution and even western civilization itself.
And granted, we were unwitting and unsuspecting participants. But how is it possible that a major, paradigm-shifting biological aberration somehow managed to – not only unfold – but to maintain its destructive trajectory without someone, anyone (of note), stopping long enough to question what they were doing. To stop long enough to question the simple ethics (the right and wrong) of a system that was wholly predicated upon the dubious foundation of interference.
That question covers an awful lot of ground, an awful lot of history, from H. habilis all the way through to today’s modern, advanced, industrial, technological super-humans. Is it possible that our subspecies has become so mesmerized and hypnotized by the novel, yet destructive forces of ideology, invention and innovation that these forces have created a collective ‘blind spot’, a unique strain of myopia which makes it impossible to understand that the ability to arbitrarily construct synthetic ideations can never be (and will never be) in accordance or abidance with the fundamental laws of nature. To repeat, ideas (being solely based upon imagination, concepts and linear thinking) are in fact the absence, the negation and the antithesis of pure reality. Conversely, nature and the universe were both founded upon pure reality and therefore do not need vacuous constructs (notions and ideations) in order to function or to unfold.
Clarification Three – The Indigenous Perspective
‘The Divine energy that moves though the universe… moves through me.’
One of three accepted axioms which uphold quantum law states that energy has no future and no past, existing only in the present moment. This axiom concurs with the above position that an idea is the absence, the negation and the antithesis of pure reality. Ideations and linear thinking are both created in a cerebral vacuum…and are therefore vacuous in nature. Modern, advanced, progressive, hyper-ideological super-humans spend way, way too much of their time lost in the fog of imagination, concepts, ideations and linear daydreams, and precious little time in sync with the Divine energy surging through their temporal forms.
Many ancient cultures, including North American Indigenous societies were grounded in a quantum understanding of the universe. They referred to the universal energy that moves through and unifies all of nature as the ‘Great Spirit’. Einstein’s term for this phenomenon was the ‘unified field’. The Indigenous approach to understanding this universal field of energy (the Great Spirit) was experiential…not theoretical…not ideological.
The Indigenous methodology (known as the ‘vision quest’) for making contact with the Great Spirit (while the subject was alive) included various tools and techniques (e.g. silence, solitude, fire, drumming, breath, etc.) which were used to bring the wandering, linear mind into the present moment – the only time frame in which the Great Spirit (or quantum reality) exists.
Dennis Lakusta
July, 2025