David Zielinski took this mystical photo of the area known as the McCain Wilderness which is really Kumeyaay land as reflected by it’s prehistoric La Rumorosa rock art.
Free Presentation on August 6th at 7pm ONLINE. Link is below for you to sign on and learn something remarkable about your local Kumeyaay people. How they entered, obtained knowledge or wisdom from what we call the Spiritual World and used it to help their community. These experiences were recorded in what we see as rock art in the mountains and deserts of eastern San Diego County. Please come look at this highly visual presentation for the San Diego Sierra Club. ![]()
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ONLINE August 6 Friday 7:00 pm ![]()
"La Rumorosa Rock Art: Kumeyaay Shamanistic Expressions" Kumeyaay Native Americans have lived In the San Diego region for at least 10,000 years. They survived and flourished partly because of their spiritual shamanistic system of beliefs. This system is reflected in the rock art that survives in the deserts and mountains east of the City: what can they show us? The presentation will draw on data from 160 sites which cover about 2250 La Rumorosa rock art panels (lots of great photos). And will include content related to the worldwide pattern for shamanism, using new research coming from all over Eurasia. ![]()
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The presenter, Dr. Don Liponi [biochemistry], has studied rock art for the past 50 years under the tutelage of such legendary teachers as Bob Begole, Michael Kelsey, Fran Barnes, and most importantly the Kumeyaay people. Don lamented 12 years ago that: "because I could only visit Utah or Arizona on vacations, out of desperation I realized that there was a huge vacuum in Kumeyaay-Patayan archaeology and rock art right in my own neighborhood of southern California, southwestern Arizona and northern Baja." Don proceeded to organize a group of more than 50 professionals, Native Americans, and avocationalists to recover the rock art of these "lost cultures".![]()
Program will be live streamed on Sierra Club SD Chapter Facebook Home page www.facebook.com/pg/sierraclubsd/ You can Post questions/comments there during & after the program. (Video will be at www.facebook.com/sierraclubsd/videos).
I hate reading these things. They make me physically Ill. This and way too many other things have been perpetuated by this country for 500 years on virtually every other culture, nonwhites [I refuse to capitalize it any more and suggest the same. Proper nouns are capitalized. We aren't proper by anyone else's definition], women, gays, Asians who come from a wide number of cultures, Blacks, and of course, my friends, the Native Americans. We are the colonialist paradigm. We want something, we take it, if you are anywhere on this planet, in your home or with your family, be warned, if you have some resource, or anything else we want, we will take it, because God told us we have dominion. Look at that word - DOMINATE. See God told us it was ours to begin with. To these Whites that own the world,and there are millions of "Trumpets" in this country. We will take it all away from you on a whim or in rage or in greed. ![]()
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And I hate dumping on you. I need to say it now, because in a week or month or next year because little is being done in this country to protect whatever freedom the pure in heart may have, may also become a genocide. Even if 100% of the people vote next year, is it even possible, for us to win? It barely makes any difference, because this evil has grown so strong, I am not sure we can win another election. I think the problem is that most of the government is working to destroy democracy, which for the Native Americans they have never had as you can see in this article. We think the KGB or the East Berlin Secret Police are bad? We are worse. You think Hitler was a horror - well he was, but not compared to America. None of this is in the past, if we don't call attention to it, it will soon be our future. I am wron?, I hope so, but I doubt it. I thought if we only get rid of Trump, then If only Biden gets elected, then if we only win Georgia, if we only defeat COVID, then certainly people will see the good things that Democrats are doing, maybe the 2022 Midterm election will give us enough votes to ignore Manchen, if only they put Trump in prison, a man responsible for a modern genocide equal to about 10% of Hitler's if you only count COVID. Even Hitler did not genocide his own race. When we start adding up his evil including his abandonment of the Kurds on the battlefield in a way we forced them to fight, hundreds of thousands fled and tens of thousands died. And there were many other victims across the world that we could have helped or stopped other maniacs such as Putin, Trump #2 and Un, Trump #3. I hate to tell you this, America has never been a democracy for the majority of people that live in America, and it is a dictatorship for any one else in the world. We are only concerned with materialism, nothing deeper or meaningful. Like Marley said, some people are so poor that all they have is money. That is America. Had we only listened to a smarter more spiritual people as the Native Americans, etc we might have learned something better, but we are a stupid, petty, self-serving group, or half us are, the half that is the power hungry part. The rest of us live at their whim. I am speaking in generalizations and approximations, this post is long enough. The point, after all of this, where is redemption?
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