Not only human beings, but all life is equal

Oren Lyons, the chief of the Shenandoah, said this to the United Nations in 1977.

Power is not manifested in the human being. True power is in the Creator. If we continue to ignore the message by which we exist and we continue to destroy the source of our lives, then our children will suffer. I must warn you that the Creator made us all equal with one another, and not only human beings, but all life is equal. The equality of our life is what you must understand and the principles by which you must continue on behalf of the future of this world. Economics and technology may assist you, but they will also destroy you if you do not use the principles of equality. Profit and loss will mean nothing to your future generations.

I do not see a delegation for the four-footed. I see no seat for the eagles. We forget and we consider ourselves superior, but we are after all a mere part of the Creation. And we must continue to understand where we are. And we stand between the mountain and the ant, somewhere and there only, as part and parcel of the Creation. It is our responsibility, since we have been given the minds to take care of these things. The elements and the animals, and the birds, they live in a state of grace. They are absolute, they can do no wrong. It is only we, the two-leggeds, that can do this. And when we do this to our brothers, to our own brothers, then we do the worst in the eyes of the Creator. – Oren Lyons

More on topic from Beyond Meds:

● Ecopsychology – an intro

● Navajo chant

● The best natural healer turns out to be nature

Also from Beyond Meds, posts that feature Joanna Macy’s work with ecopsychology:

● The great turning: the shift from industrial growth society to a life sustaining society

● We can come home again

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