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Any way forward? 2

I need to clear up possible misunderstandings about love and racism. Words so easily slide and twist.. Millions of people have been displaced by different causes from homeland to an alien culture. For  most one’s culture means much of one’s identity.. The loss of beliefs, language, traditions, habits, styles and tastes can be like the loss of oneself. If these are despised then the newcomer’s reaction may be depression or despair The hosts can have similar feelings. Each group is in love with incompatible needs as neighbours. To resolve.the conflict is rarely easy. When it is used by power-seeking political forces it becomes a vicious game in which both groups become victims. However, many examples show that the individual can reach across the divide. Nelson Mandela has shown us the way.

My grand-daughter, Thalia has just come to see me from Australia. She s a nurse in Alice Springs. The violence and abuse of drugs and alcohol widespread among the native Australians stem from the loss of their sustaining culture. Some 100 miles west in the vast desert traditional healers still practise their art today. the knowledge on which their healing is based is opened in this publication.

The language, the sacred tools. the spirit/soul experiences are far removed from the conceptual scheme of our scientific world. Yet the two work together in local hospitals using all the resources of modern technology. Each is apparently open to the capacities of the other, both facing unanswered questions, the nature of the physical world and the self that addresses it and the nature of the spirit.

Awake!

 

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