Yes we are here in the now...but while im here i will live life in a manner that no harm will come to fellow beings in this world. While i am alive in the here and now i will protect and defend all fellow beings from harm. While i have to eat...i also realize that some being has to die in order for another to live. I also realize no beings life is to be taken for any other purpose than nourishment...realizing this i see that the beings life is to be taken in a sacred manner. I also realize that my turn will come to give myself so that other beings may live...realizing this i know that life is a dance in which all dancers- the beings-share the stage equally...realizing this i see that life is precious and every being has an equal right to live, thrive and to flourish. I see that other beings, many, many others have come before us...laying the foundations for this intricate, intimate web of relationships to coexist...and that we as humanity will also lay ourselves down so that others may follow. In the end our lives turn into dust...but living life in a sacred manner gives back to the community...to help keep it resilient...to make life possible for others. This is the true heritage everything leaves behind...the community intact. With this realization i know that life will go on, yes, life has been set back, but far from being extinguished, it is resilient and will bounce back in its gorgeous celebration of diversity. Realizing that all life follows natural law in order for life to flourish...i also realize that which does not follow these laws goes extinct. To be aware, to realize what my life actually is, what all life means...is to finally have true peace. Realizing the world was not made for just humans...but made to be shared by all life forms is a shattering revelation. Realizing that something has to die in order for me to live causes me to look deeply inward...to contemplate my existence...to ask the unaskable. I have realized that in order to live i must also give of myself...give back to the web of life...for that, in the here and now is my eternal home. Realizing that forever i shall remember, that forever i shall live, nestled in the womb of mother earth.....

............ We are everything...sharing in the sacred fire of life with all beings...the whole of the universe is in all beings...every being a reflection of the great mystery...every being alive in its own unique ways...all the ways of being connected thru the cosmic umbilical...identity is to be realized as the place that inhabits you...your tribal self is the land and beings which is the the whole of that place...Basic truth, ultimate value, ecological laws...walking in a sacred manner...is just being in the universe...a total, holistic worldview...one that puts humanity in its proper place...to follow the original instructions put forth at the birth of the universe...that is humanitys home...to not live as an outlaw...but to be realized as the whole itself...to live within the boundaries the laws impose on all life...the tribal self is humanitys oldest and original true identity...rooted in the land and in all life...seamlessly intertwined and embedded in the fiber of all being...we are the now......to reveal the way of the universe...to forever walk in a sacred manner...we are life in its infinite gorgeous ways...there is no becoming for we already are...the sacred fire of life is the spirit that moves through all things...inhabiting the true self...spirit will never die...what we see in the world... Is the whole of the world...thats where we reside, in the bosom of the mother...amidst brothers and sisters...the four legged, the finned, the feathered, the green beings and everything that is the world of life...is who we are...what we are made of...loving yourself is loving the all...for there is where true peace, love and freedom reside...amongst the all...flesh and blood, one thing...soil and rain, one thing...night and day, one thing...living and dying, one thing...my life and your life, one thing...sun and moon, one thing...us and the universe, one thing...always forever, the whole of it all, interwoven in all things...one thing, many things , then one thing again...one thing forever

The universe is awake...we remember what we are...where we are...we remember our purpose. We remember that we need not become anything...for everything already is. We remember that beyond the gates...beyond the confines of the mind that is this culture, there is our true home. We need not go anywhere for we are already here. We remember that deep within...a burning desire flowers...waiting to howl into the world a love of life...a love of being. The universe awakens in our spirit a harmonic...the sacred song of galaxies, worlds, beings...of life being born. We remember what the true path, the way...is.   We remember the path is a walk where humanity is bound up in the lives of all that is....where humanity is no more important than the life of everything else. We remember that life is a deep existence...involving an intricate dance of cooperation and reciprocity. We remember that life is gorgeous in its myriad diverse ways...we remember dancing in the sacred web of life...as the whole rejoicing with itself. We remember the sanctity of the all...the ecstacy. We know because we are. To remember is to be in the sacred mind...to revel in life. To know is to know the true reality of being...the essence that is life pours across the cosmos. All life forms strive to become their full potential...intimately and intricately dancing their ways across the mother earth. They know in order to live... their dance must be bound by all that is...bound by the laws put forth by the great mystery. They remember the dance...for to stop dancing is to stop living. The flesh and blood...the mind and spirit...belongs to all that is. Forever to remember that within all resides great mystery...we can never live without...we can never think we are alive alone. To remember the beauty and deepness of life. To stop remembering and just be. Be the roar that is the sacred fire of life...the howl which erupts from deep within...and traverses the infinite ...to be heard and felt...to be walked and lived...in a sacred manner.....

In my heart the knowing burns...like a flame with no end...engulfing my being with a truth, a basic truth...burning as hot as the sun for it is borne of the same sacredness...a basic knowing of what is...of who i am, of my place as the whole. I once refuted what i am...refused the whole...thinking i knew when i didn’t even know I was lost. Consumed by the passion to just be...this is a journey of simply living. There’s no need for attachments for these become distractions which lead to confusion. The fire of truth, of being, the sacred fire of life burns strong and fierce, can never be extinguished.  For truth is embedded in the land itself... so identity is embedded in the land... so the land is embedded in me.  For the land itself is salvation...tribalism is the way the land lives thru the human. It is the human way the land experiences the world, the universe...the way it experiences itself. The land looks thru the eyes of all that is...the heartbeat of all that is...directs the lives of all. The culture that is the new tribalism ...is the world rising up. Prophets, messiahs, saviors, religions, hope...baaahhh. Nonsense...everything just needs to be left alone. To live and let live...in my being i know where i stand...in the middle of everywhere holding hands and dancing with everything. My flesh and  blood is the land...I know I can never be apart...i know i can never live without it. I am ecstatic in my infinite diverse beings...beings are ecstatic in their experience of the world thru me. I know wildness is found deep in my being...it can never die...it lives and burns...this I know to be a sacred truth. The ember burns...it is called life...enshrouding and permeating my flesh, blood...my heart, spirit...my mind, thought. I know i can never be more than the land has made...has allowed. I know my life begins with the land and ends with the land... goes back to the land...joyously. I know i rejoice as all others rejoice...as a chorus...a symphony...living and loving each and every moment. To deny the moment is to deny life...is to deny love. I know my existence has to benefit, enhance...what already is.

When people start to look within...to really see who they are...to find their place, to belong...they will begin to understand and know true mature love.

The Path to Sanity Begins with Awareness of the Tribal Self

Introduction