Dedicated Listener
Northern New Mexico, USA - Superimposed Nation State on Indigenous Continent
USA
Pat McCabe, Weyakpa Najin Win, Woman Stands Shining, is of the Diné Nation and makes her home in what is now known as New Mexico, in the Southwest United States. A radical bridger, called to propose that paradigm for the way of being human presence in n Mother Earth is a choice, she makes the case for a Thriving Life Paradigm in her work as international speaker, teacher, and ceremonialist. Calling on deep Indigenous Sciences of Sustainability, or "mad love affair with Earth," she is a deep listener of Vision and Instruction from the Larger Community of interrelated Life, Earth, Cosmos and the Spirit Helpers. "I want to be lead now, I understand that it is not about my proposals, plans, and good ideas. I want to be led by spirit and the intelligence of Mother Earth now."
Offer
Based on ancestral knowledge and ceremonial insight, I propose from what some may call "Original Instructions." The core basis of my culture rests on the idea that I cannot be well if you are not well. This is speaking to the deep interrelated, interdependent, deeply relational nature of Mother Earth construct. Modern world paradigm has developed believing that some can be well, thrive, have and hoard wealth, and still have a life to live and interact with and within. There is a denial, and an ignorance, that has come out of false indoctrination programs about the reality of our situation. I am a voice for the principals and understandings that guided and directed the most successful human sustainability presence on the planet that we are aware of, to date. This knowledge has been under brutal attack, with attempted genocide, and supremacies of every kind. I would much rather that my grandparents and great grandparents were attending this meeting, with the Thrivng Life Paradigm, the knowledge, the prayer intact, but in their lifetime, their voice could not, would not, be heard. So I'm afraid, all you get is me. But I am willing.
NEED
Anthropocentrism. A large part of my work is re-proposing that we, the five fingered ones, rest within a very large community of life. All of the members of the sacred hoop of life around us have knowledge, wisdom, and intelligence about how to be moving in concert as single organism called earth. Cultures who have had true sustainability, that is, living in place in relative health, harmony and happiness for 1000 years or 5000 years or 10,000 years or 20,000 years, have considered the community of life as teachers and had practices to make inquiry and receive teaching. Most of these successful cultures of sustainability also acknowledged a spiritual realm and received guidance and direction from that community as well. Additionally, the larger community also includes Cosmos and human beings have contributed and participated in this conversation between earth and cosmos, as part of our function, and raison d'être since time immemorial. Much of this understanding and methodology is forgotten - and not by accident. Much of solution finding does not acknowledge these practices that have given us any previous success we might have had. It is time that they be remembered reproposed and reconsidered.
Call-to-Action
My first call to action would be to have whatever endeavor you come out of here with to include how it will preserve or not further decimate and destroy the human library of understanding of how to be a thriving life presence on the planet, which is contained within indigenous, language, culture, and relationship to place. My second call to action would be to ask how can you/we make space for Earth logic/cause-and-effect, Life logic/cause-and-effect, Spirit logic/cause-and-effect, Cosmos logic/cause and effect into our thoughts, feelings, words, actions, beliefs.
