& What does
‘indigenousness’ mean in one’s ordinary everyday life?
I find the need to live in or near nature somehow – connected to it …
I need to live in a society where the population is like 50/50 – 50% indigenous, 50% white, so I can be a 'cappuccino conversationalist' and talk shi* at times and then experience the other;
- where like in the ‘horse trust technique’ … in silence things are sorted out already …
- where you can just let go, relax, totally be yourself and feel connected without a need to say anything than just the necessary now-related minimal …
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“Indigenousness” meaning that one doesn’t actively need to beeee indigenous, to already be one.
So there is no need to parade identity markers unless on special occasions for some purpose.
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Perhaps the art closest to my heart (where I live) is TI, Torres Strait art.
It makes me feel connected to Life, Universe and Everything - in a manner of “all your planets lining up for you” in a right way ....
& I don’t have to become a TI to feel it, as the artwork & the artists are the conduits of it …
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Bk5JZzu0SVE
Like David says (9:34 – 11:00)
“When you dance, it is not actually you dancing – it is them dancing and them telling the story … you only become the vessel … “
And this is the beauty of it.
‘You’ don’t have to beeee anything. Meeting this artist, he is not beeeing anything either … and you both can just be your totally ordinary
empty normal selves …
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c__wrZU44VU
Whereas among the “whites”,
you always have to beeee something, and after a while this totally stresses me out if I do not get a release from it. Besides, this focus on beeeing something blocks the spiritual sense of “seeing” the person …. Or seeing this total natural transparency of ‘us’ …
So when I meet or see ‘indigenous’ “beeeeeing indigenous”, I kinda just roll my eyes and go into a coma at that dual wall or block … and this image automatically arisies:
https://ibb.co/G3TdQ6N
And you do see that all the time … in overt and covert ways heh.
I really do not know what posses them … perhaps they think, they can beeee anything they wish to be?
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When “I” became an empty vessel – letting
‘them’ come through – it was Siberian & some specific Saami stuff that came through. Everything I was told (in anger by many) I am not or am not supposed/allowed to be. So I was a bit of an enigma to myself in them days, until I finally learned where it was coming from ..
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