Imprisonment, Guns, and Discrimination - Evolutionary Solutions to Barbaric, Archaic Practices and Mindsets
Try to put yourself in the other person’s shoes
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Our brains are really interesting. We tend towards liking people in our “in-group”, and hating people who are in our “out-group”. We also judge, have prejudices, and bigotry.
However, typically, most people don’t know what the other person has gone through. They judge without knowing the person’s story. Their ancestral history. What they have gone through.
If you can, try to put your consciousness in the heart of somebody you dislike. Imagine what they have gone through. Does your heart soften?
I start with this, because I want to speak about the laws on guns in America, and also worldwide.
Don’t you think guns are against the Law of Nature? You can kill somebody without knowing their story. You can easily just pull a trigger and kill, even a little child. Rather than like a lion who actually has physical fitness, or our ancient African ancestors who created a spear and could run and actually match in ability. Humans have used guns to kill people they don’t even understand or know, as they did with colonialism, destroying empires of knowledge, wisdom, and intelligence across the world. They didn’t talk with them, do a cultural exchange, learn about their incredible scientific knowledge, but rather just wanted their land so killed them all. Is that good or right? No, of course it’s sinful.
Guns are very dangerous. They separate you from the person you are targeting. You do not have any diplomacy, any conversation, any humanity, any heart-building opportunity.
Especially with alcohol (when spirits, demons can take over your body), you can easily kill a child or your wife or your friend who pissed you off that day. These weapons could ruin your entire life!
I also think that these guns are killing the voices of women in the South. Men have guns. This would dampen a woman’s power to speak her mind to him. He may kill her because of his own ego being threatened by her intelligence.
Additionally, the police force and army are extremely hypocritical. Why don’t all those “law enforcement officials and army men” target Goldman Sachs and the rich rather than the poor people of the USA (mainly blacks), South America, North Africa, etc.?
The rich get away with ingesting tons of drugs (I know from experience), while the police and army goes after the poor and those who have tribal traditions of sacred medicines. It’s really a bizarre situation.
These racist police are taking fathers away from poor black people. This is a dismay. Sinful. Awful. Can you put yourself in the shoes of that African American family who loses their father just for smoking cannabis? How does your heart feel?
This actually happens. It’s barbaric. It’s cruel it’s unkind.
Also, many black fathers are in jail due to cannabis, or marijuana. However, cannabis is used in many sacred traditions, including Hinduism. It is a calming, creative, sacred medicine. You can read more about it in my article here.
Also, regarding the Laws of Nature, are guns actually a good idea, and are they a sign of power, or are they a sign of not being naturally in tune with nature and laws of the universe?
For example, did you know at the Battle of the Little Bighorn, the Lakota Sioux, with their allies the Cheyenne and Arapaho, with bows and arrows, won against US General Custer’s guns?
The Native Americans showed their masculine strength outright. They were and are an extremely sacred group. They had developed masculinity naturally.
Guns have a speed and ability that is so fast that a little boy can pull a trigger and kill someone. That’s not masculinity. That’s disgusting.
Who actually has real masculine power? A little boy with a gun shooting randomly because he is subjugated under an egomaniac, or a tribe that was able to survive peacefully and successfully in harmony with the local environment?
Eventually the USA colonialists brought in enough little boys with guns to commit genocide to the Sacred Lakota Sioux.
The colonialists gave them a little parcel of land — the land that was least arable, because of selfishness to their “in-group”. They put them in strict schools and infiltrated them with the Bible. Then they turned into homeless people and alcoholics. They destroyed their entire way of life, and forced them away from their sacred land of the Black Hills.
There are and were no fair reparations for the genocide that happened in the United States of America against Native Americans. (I have heard a rumor going around that the government gives money to Native Americans every month, but it’s not true.)
There are no reparations for the slavery that happened in the United States of America. Instead, after all that work they did in the fields to build our nation, the African Americans are taxed! Can you believe it? It’s so hypocritical and indecent.
Shouldn’t there be a repayment system for the work they did? Imagine you farming for hours and hours a day, getting whipped, for years and years, and not getting paid. What does your heart feel? Was that right? No, it was sinful, awful, horrible.
Maybe we should care a little bit more about the people we hurt.
Maybe we should rethink gun laws.
Maybe we should rethink what masculine power really is.
Maybe we should try to understand other people better and get to know them and their story and culture.
Maybe we should try to atone for our evil sins and karma and see how we can help these sacred tribes with schooling, documenting their Native languages, and educating the public about what really happened so they are not racist, but compassionate (I am from South Dakota, from the Black Hills, and I know this is actually real.) People are racist against extremely sacred people who went through genocide. That’s inhumane, it’s ignorance, it’s disturbing behavior.
Can you put yourself in the shoes of the Jews and Gypsies who were put through genocide in Germany? Doesn’t everybody think that was awful? Then why not think what the USA colonists did to the Native Americans was awful? Who is really barbaric? Are you or people in America hypocritical? Again, this is a brain issue. Education issue. Heart issue.
Be open to changing your stance from racism to loving your neighbor.
This brain issue is similar to some Americans hating Islam as an entire religion and the Middle East as an entire region, without knowing who they are or what they stand for, due to the terrorist attacks. Yet, Americans don’t blame themselves or Christianity or Judaism for colonization and genocide, which is terrorism. This is extremely hypocritical! It would be helpful to know that there can be egomaniacs in each religion and culture.
It’s similar with the brains in India and Pakistan. They are kin, they have mated. Then the British came, the Europeans started creating states with no knowledge about local tribalism and with egotism about their own interests, and then India and Pakistan who are like brothers and sisters ancestrally to each other now hate each other. It’s kind of ridiculous.
It’s also similar to what’s happening with Russia and Ukraine over Crimea. These are tribal, ethnic, ancestral issues. We may need to rethink the “map” that the Europeans haphazardly drew for the entire world, not knowing anything about local cultures. For instance, In Peru and Bolivia, there is a lake called Lake Titicaca and it is divided by a border. The people cannot even take a walk around the lake. This is a problem. These are sacred people and it is a sacred site. Border issues can cause people to go to war. Perhaps we should rethink borders, or have open borders. Perhaps Crimea could have an open border with Russia and Ukraine. Perhaps Peru and Bolivia could have an open border at Lake Titicaca. Let’s get creative, think futuristically, evolutionarily, and beyond what Europe, who was ignorant to local traditions knew. Allow the ancestral, tribal people to decide.
I wouldn’t blame any one religion, and turn your back against your neighbor. I would get to know that person, and see who they really are.
I’m sure maybe you who is reading this, and the Tribes, would have other good ideas about what would be fair for reparations for the Native Americans. I’m sure you who is reading this, and the African Americans have good ideas about what would be fair for reparations for the African Americans. Don’t you think it’s time? Don’t you think it’s just, right, and fair? Feel into your heart.
In Conclusion, I suggest we amend the US Constitution and disarm America. They are being used not in the intention set by Our Founding Fathers.
“The Founding Fathers intended the Second Amendment to protect the right to bear arms for a citizen militia and for individual self-defense against tyranny and common threats. Their intent was for an armed citizenry that could resist a potentially oppressive federal government and defend their own lives and property, as they feared that a standing army could become a tool of oppression.” — Google AI
These guns are instead threatening the voices of women in the South. These men with guns drunk on alcohol are ruining families because men can get out of control and kill people. These guns can be used by racist policemen against black people just because they have a neural pathway of ignorance.
This obviously is not the same intention as was written in the constitution.
So obviously, we need a new amendment.
Please meditate on this conclusion, share this article with anybody you know, congress, cultural centers, etc. and let’s see if we can end racism and fatherless families in the United States of America.
With Gratitude,
Ashley Heacock, Researcher, Writer, Mentor, Guide
MIT Sloan School of Management, MBA
Harvard Kennedy School of Government, MPA
The George Washington University, BA Economics, BA International Affairs
Contact: ashleyheacock@gmail.com
Website: awakeningconsciousness.community
