I have had the rare privilege of receiving the most ancient teachings known to humankind. Those teachings are at least 25,000 years old and barely alive. The Druids of ancient Europe and the Medicine people of almost all the indigenous people of the world taught the same thing to their children and adolescents in, sometimes, very elaborate rites of passage ceremonies lasting more than a year during which adolescents were taught how to raise a family. Those teachings were essential to the proper upbringing of the next generation, to ensure that they would be treated with love and respect throughout their lives and that problems, whenever they arose, were treated properly making sure that belligerents received the attention they needed. The emphasis was on the most important period of human development, pregnancy and early childhood. Some cultures consider children as Sacred. In the Cherokee Nation, the word for child literally translated means Sacred One.
A recent archeological discovery tells us how old this knowledge is. In the North of Italy at the end of the second world war, a Canadian soldier cleaning up after the German army was pushed out, was emptying a cave used by the Germans to store munitions. Once all the surface equipment had been removed, he started digging and found 6 statuettes made of different materials representing pregnant women. He put these statuettes in a shoe box along with his note as to where and when he found them and took these back home to Canada. This man died around 1990 and while his children were going through his personal belongings, they found the shoe box and its contents. They thought that the statuettes looked very old and decided to turn them over to a local museum. The statuettes were carbon dated and found to be 25,000 years old.
An archeological expedition was organized and 6 more statuettes were found. In 1995 I was invited to attend the unveiling of the archeological exhibit of those statuettes. After the ceremony, I was asked what I thought this culture might have been like. I said: ''Any culture that would make statuettes representing pregnant women must have had a great deal of respect for pregnancy, the birthing process and childhood. Such a culture must have been very peaceful; they would not have wars, heroes, and any need for fortifications or cities. They did not have a history to write about or ruins to leave behind.''
The Algonquin people are an example of this, they don't have much of a modern history and they never fought against anyone unless they were defending their lives. Many of these cultures are just barley alive; I met Druidesses from France and Scotland in the summer of 1997. Their teachings about women and children are essentially the same. For several millenniums, they have kept their traditions alive, costing many their lives. When genocide is committed, a little bit more of their wisdom is destroyed and the human race becomes poorer.
The opportunity being offered is that scientific research is now proving that dependence to all the endorphins is the cause of most of the problems. All of the animals transmit these dependencies to their offspring. Adrenaline addiction is how the hunting instinct is transmitted to the predator. The human race has been using adrenaline addiction to fuel the power of its empires. We must now chose another way to raise our children, if we don't, we will destroy ourselves and many other species of plants and animals.
When compared to the immensity of the universe, planet Earth is but a small grain of sand. This universe will not even miss our disappearance as a race. We, on the other hand, need this place to continue our evolution. I can assure everyone that the joy of discovering true happiness after so many years of pain and suffering is well worth it. If we destroy this Earth, where will future generations go to continue their journey? Will we damage other ecosystems? Will we be allowed to go somewhere else?
The human soul comes into this world through a woman's body; it come filled with an intense desire to know love. Pregnant women carry at least two souls, theirs and that of the unborn child; a soul filled with divine love and eager to share it us. Women and children are very sacred, more sacred than any of the temples men have built to honor their Gods and the writings that describe them and for which too many are prepared to kill or die for. To all those women living in fear and despair I have to ask you: Do you really want your children to be born to such suffering?????? If not, then refuse to give birth to any more children until peace is brought back to your family, your community, your country.... your life.