The following poem is as direct a way as possible of imparting the essence of the indigenous world of Australian Aborigines. Usually the teaching is not quite so direct. But the critical essence is that of our inseminating motivation in using Animist methodology; and that fact that such motivation has essentially always been fully Human.
Want Not Ill
I can want
A multitude
Of things
Perhaps only because
Of having been given
But what is it
I can be
Willing to want
If not just will to work to belong
Among who are at one with God
Is what will cure me
Of ever wanting what was wrong
Whether to be cured by
Learning the opposite
Through positive re-enforcement
Reconciling to truth meant
Or by learning how I orient
Into what I will not
Want to be permanent
By being causal to want of
For just the right length
Of time until
I awaken to conscious fear of ill
The reason this single and obvious aspect of indigenous Australian teaching is being made so very explicit today, is because there are those whom abuse our culture, but portraying us as always liking to fall into any want which might be thrust upon us. The fact is that the conditions in which we can encourage one another to accept enactment of specific wants, are those conditions in which there is a set up such that the experience provides a lesson about why not to want certain modes of mental patterning.
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The copyright is not for sharing in this instance, it must be attributed, and it is always NOT FOR PROFIT, true to the Spirit of every true intiation into the tradition of the Prophets.
