Offbeat gold theory

Gold has always been an object of desire since it was first discovered, as it is of beautiful color and possesses a brilliance that is unparalleled. I was curious as to where gold came from so I did a little research and found out that the only time gold is ever “created” is during the death of a star, which is a galaxy-rippling event. What happens when a star dies is it sends off huge amounts of subatomic partials(protons, neutrons, electrons) that when sailing through the vacuum of space condense into atoms, mostly iron as it is the simplest configuration, but some gold is formed in this process in the same way. The gold that is then sailing through space eventually collides with another celestial body, for sake of simplicity lets just say earth. Being as I consider stars to be the “gods” of the universe I tried to elaborate more symbolically on this process.

So gold essentially is a gift from the heavens that exists only in finite quantities, and its limited supply then causes a desire for or a greed complex to arise. So we spend millions of man-hours just to dig it up this basically useless metal, just because it exists in finite quantities, fueled by ones desire to possess more than the next. The U.S. government in fact likes gold so much they have a hoard of over 147 million ounces of the stuff.

So then I come back to gold being a gift, in that it was given to us, but for what purpose. I have many off beat theories and could spend days explaining them but basically I see it as a test. The bible tells us to not love earthly treasures, like gold for example. So gold exists as a test in our understanding of the grand scheme, wealth in this plane will produce no fruit after death. So it is only those who see the underlying latticework abstain from greed, as those less informed see it as something they want or need because others do as well, just cogs in a redundant machine.

I think that about as far as I need to go in explaining this idea, infer what you will.
-David Eiserman November 29th 2007

"A Time Before Deception" #3

As I was reading I read about land ethics of the North and South American Indians. According to the Cogi of Peru, "The Great Mother taught us right and wrong. Now they are digging up the Mother's heart, and her eyes and ears. Stop digging and digging." There land ethic is simple. The believe "if we act well, the earth will survive. If we do not, it will not." I believe that many of the ills of the earth are due to human activity. I try to do my part to protect it in my small way, but sometimes one can feel like 'whats the point?' if most everyone else is not doing their part. However, when the Cogi say if we act well, the earth will survive, that gives me hope that my small part and other people who feel the same way will make a difference. I do wonder how things would be like if our government had the same simple philosophy. Afterall, they know dern well right from wrong. They just choose to ignore. If they didn't would we be having the environmental crisis of today? It just makes me sad to think of what the earth is going through...she is trying to heal herself.

"A Time Before Deception" #2

Check these Totem Poles out!


In the 'Indigenous Forms of Communication' section of the book I came across a paragraph about totem poles. They are not what one usually thinks of as a form of sacred communication and that is what sparked my interest. That is why I want to do my research paper on totem poles.


~Krista Sweet

"A Time Before Deception" #1

I read the book in its entirety by the time of midterms. In the 'Early Communication' section of the book, there is a quote that intrigued me. It is as follows, "Many religious people believe that humans have "fallen" from some more perfect state and claim that we have devolved. That is, we have lost our higher powers of long-distance communication-- communion with all animals and understanding the rhythms of nature." It is so true. I beleive that we have become so detached or devolved because I know I am guilty. However, I can also say that I have caught glimpses of the being one with or communing with nature and know that I love it and would love to make a stronger connection there. Sometimes it just seems like too much too ask....especially with all these other obligations hanging over my head...

The ressurection of the dead

The ressurection of the dead reading we went over in class got me thinking about what exactly was being said in the text. The meaning of course is relative to the reader, but this is what I got out of it.
“But Christ has indeed been raised from the dead, the firstfruits of those that have fallen asleep.”, firstfruits can be defined as the first results in a undertaking, the undertaking being death and result being the resurrection. “…all die, so in Christ all will be made alive…” is subsequently stated in the letter meaning that when one dies he is also made alive in the body of Christ. Later it is said that the end will come when all of Christ’s enemies are “under his feet” or destroyed, the enemies being: dominion, authority, power, and finally death, all of which are human constructs. So what I hear when I read this is that when all humans are with Christ (or dead) we are all finally one and there is no longer a limit to what is real and not real. The limit comes from ones static views of existence, which come from our inability to create but innate desire to understand as fact. Reading this caused me to visualize this idea of oneness, as a fraction that I believe is quite apt. 1[god]/(Christ or # of souls with christ)/(# of souls total)). So with this approximation the end or lastfruit is when god is made whole and “God may be all in all”, as it was before man was created, when the fraction also equaled one. So this made me think about what had happened to god when man was created. Before man god was able to created matter from nothing and because man is a part of god the creation of man caused the fraction to no longer equal one. Hence God lost his power to create and gave the power to manipulate and understand (hands and eyes) to his children, and it is only after oneness is once again established will god regain his power to create, the world as an objective object will cease to exist, for when there is nobody to see the world then does it exist. If no then it seems the cycle must repeat anew.
I know it’s a tangent but I think I made some good points

David Eiserman November 27 2007

Zuni and Hopi Indians sacred places

I am reading a book called "The Way of the Shaman" by Michael Harner. It is very interesting and goes into detail the accounts of the author in his journey to becoming a Shaman. In it it goes into talking about the Zuni and the Hopi Native Americans, and how virtually every home would have a very similar Kiva, which is their ceremonial chambers (church). The means by which you got to the kiva differed on the tribe, but usually a sipapu ( hole) led down into the kivas. These sipapu's are "symbols representing the mythical opening into the Lowerworld" and the Lowerworld is where Shamans go to perform their rituals, they get here by a conditioned altered state of consciousness called the Shamanic State of Consciousness (SSC).
Stephen Brock