I evoke the example of Aboriginal Australians in my defense of indigenous religious traditions since my discovery led me first to study Aboriginal beliefs.  Given that there are, potentially, tens of thousands of discrete indigenous groups in the world, it would not be possible for me to comment specifically on every tradition.

After deciphering iconography in Australian petroglyphs, however, I found it necessary to reflect on what Aboriginal Australians reported about their own traditions.  Regrettably, indigenous traditions have suffered tremendously in the last century, and only a fraction of what was once known has been retained.

The temptation to syncretize regional traditions into a cohesive set of traditions has done damage.  Attempts to “revive” and “save” indigenous traditions are a reflex of modern academia which always attempts to bind all knowledge in a single volume.

The literary conventions of the world’s major religions reinforce the aesthetics of the “book”.  Scholars and indigenous “advocates” thusly conspire to “legitimize”, to “formalize” indigenous traditions in publishable manuscripts.  I admit to cringing every time I witness efforts by accredited academia to rescue an indigenous group from its apparent illiteracy by saddling them with the latest, syncretic compendium justifying indigenous cultures.

My discovery proves, first and foremost, that nearly every indigenous group in the world, no matter what continent we are considering, was a constituent of a literate civilization.  Indigenous literature was just not recorded in phonetic writing on sheets of paper.

In the case of Aboriginal Australia, the literature of what may prove to be the continent of Mankind’s origins requires no interpretation from me.  Every principal character in Aboriginal Lore is replete in the Iconographic Record.  On Christmas Day of 2023, after the Madre De Occidente reveals her secret, the ramifications of The Dreaming will be drawn into exquisite focus.

What I provide here is just a primer for an epiphany to come.

No concept of Aboriginal Australian beliefs has suffered greater than The Dreaming under the 20^th century reflex to make Indigenous Australian Beliefs relevant in the modern world.  In attempts to coopt Indigenous Australians into the World Tribal Movement, accredited academia is doing unmitigated damage to a spiritual concept shared and revered by all the world’s major religions.

So profuse and conflicted are modern interpretations of The Dreaming that orthodox consensus appears not to exist at all. Predictably, progressive interpretations are more inclined to interpret The Dreaming as an induced semi-lucid state, not unlike that achieved by indigenous “shamans” in pagan Asia, pagan India, pagan Arabia, pagan Europe or in the Americas in pre-Columbian times.  The progressive tact has been motivated by a desire to “legitimize” racist tropes regarding indigenous drug use.

In the United States I have watched in horror as progressive scholars have reinforced the conclusion that the “Vision Quests” of indigenous Americans were drug induced meditation ceremonies.  Progressive academia even openly advocates for legislation rendering the ritual consumption of hallucinogens lawful for indigenous peoples.

The First Nations of the Americas will want to pay particular attention to the Madre De Occidente on Christmas Day of 2023.  Vision Quests are not drug induced meditative states.  I praise my Lord and Savior for delivering me to this discovery, for no other reason than to deliver indigenous Americans from this dangerously racist trope.

Insinuations of indigenous use of narcotics has resulted in generational damage and constitutes the 21st century’s equivalent of “Fire Water” and “Heapum Wampum”.  In the 20th century, laws were written granting special privileges to indigenous Americans to monetize sales of alcohol and gambling on tribal lands, in order to benefit tribal peoples.  The same is now being proposed for the cultivation and sale of marijuana, peyote and narcotic mushrooms.

Whispered into the ears of impoverished tribal leaders is the word “reparations”.  Advocates for legalized gambling and recreational drug sales insist that indigenous groups would be serving markets catering to European Americans, but it is ever and always the youth of indigenous groups who pay the price.  

One can only grieve for what is about to happen once recreational drug cultivation and sales are legalized on indigenous lands.  

Today, as my discovery goes live on the internet, the First Nations of the Americas are seduced into reinforcing pagan syncretism in exchange for lucrative research grants from the humanities department, attracting tourists to their tribal lands, and establishing a foothold on the internet with influencers.  The result has been the gradual reduction of indigenous rites and ceremony to lack luster role-playing for paying audiences.

Don’t even get me started on “indigenous art”.  Regrettably, indigenous artists are being encouraged to “innovate” on traditional themes just to please an increasingly hungry market for indigenous aesthetics.  On a vacation I took recently in Alaska, I was dumbfounded to discover that the ‘authentic” Tlingkit carvings in the souvenir shop were all “hand carved in Sri Lanka”.

I may be wrong, but I am probably safe assuming there are few if any of Alaska’s Tlingkit craftsmen living and working from Sri Lanka.

Once again, I will not need to write a single word in rebuttal to the “Shamanization” of Native Americans.  Native American Iconography will do all my speaking for me. Native Americans were not “Shamans”.  Nor were they “tribes”.  Shamans and tribes are concepts imposed on indigenous Americans by progressive academics who, for all the right reasons, drew all the wrong conclusions.

Progressives across two centuries have infantilized indigenous groups, adopted them as their cause de jour, then poured indigenous beliefs into a racist mold of their own making.

It is good that the elders kept the ways. 

My discovery shatters the “Shaman” mold and clarifies how indigenous Americans were achieving their visions.  More importantly, we will all witness precisely what Native Americans were “seeing” in their visions.

Just like in the Americas, progressive academia has sallied forth in support of Aboriginal Australians and led them down this same, infantilizing course.

According to all Aboriginal sources I have studied to date, The Dreaming is not a narcotic induced meditative state.  Nor is The Dreaming an induced cognitive state.  In Aboriginal Australian beliefs, The Dreaming is precisely what it claims to be, a natural dream state.  And, while it is true that among Aboriginal Australians individuals attempt to induce dream states for the purposes of divination, such attempts are found in every religious tradition in the world, and probably throughout time.

My audience will find that, in Aboriginal descriptions of The Dreaming, Aboriginal clergy are referring to the dream state with which we are all familiar.  Aboriginals believed, like every major religious tradition believes, that the cognitive phenomenon we all experience as dreams was an interval, if not a place, between the world of the living and the afterlife.

Afterlife could be construed as overbroad in many cases, and I yield to that criticism but, in nearly every case where an afterlife would be seen as inconsistent with a given context, the more precise meaning reveals belief in a Celestial Dimension, a dimension of existence which can only be perceived during The Dreaming.

Aboriginal clerics will also confirm that Aboriginals do not regard The Dreaming as “tangible”, in the sense that it is material or even physically consequential, but it is nevertheless “real”.

Psychologists will insist that dreams are entirely unreal in that they are comprised of semi-lucid and apparently random processes our brains experience as they clear out the daily tension between experience and memory.

I insist we allow efficacy to be the judge.

Mind you, accredited academia has had their say.  Accredited academia has reduced nearly every indigenous tradition in the world to a form of proto-psychology, a scientific discipline on the cusp of realizing its 20^th century form.  Accredited academia has firmly planted indigenous beliefs in untenable ground.

On Christmas Day of 2023 it will become apparent for all to see that the “tribes” of the world are really dominions of Kingdoms in Realms the world forgot.

Believers will want to pay particular attention to what will occur in Australia following the reveal.  The moment the “Shamanization” of Australia’s Aboriginals is rendered a fool’s paradise, the relevance and importance of The Dreaming will become obvious for all to see.

Believers will want to devote their scholarship to a study of The Dreaming since every major religion of the world appreciates dreams as sacred and reveres efficacious results of dreaming as a form of Divine Intervention.

Psychologists will insist any efficacy derived from dreams is merely the result of thought processes not burdened by the inhibitions of the conscious mind.  This conclusion of the behavioral sciences will only compound already racist tropes about indigenous people. 

Not only will accredited academia attempt to explain away religion as a “poor man’s psychology”, but will brand everyone, regardless of religious tradition, a repressed victim of “traditional values”.

It will be proposed by progressives that everyone should strive to achieve uninhibited, conscious thought processes, rather than waiting around for dreams to occur naturally.  Through therapy and narcotics, the snake oil salesmen will propose, individuals can achieve their intellectual optimal.

I offer that Christmas Day of 2023 will not be the end of a battle, just the resolution of a battle currently underway.

Accredited Academia will be busy for decades trying to sort out their own mess.  In the meantime, I advise every believer to trust their eyes, trust the religious cannon of their chosen tradition, and judge for yourself.

If the clergy of the archaic world were not experiencing “visions” in semi-lucid states, what precisely were they experiencing, and where did their wisdom truly come from?  Is it possible that all we are about to learn is endemic to the human intellect, or is knowledge being imparted, as our ancestors all insist it was, from a Divine source?

I will not attempt to answer the important questions for you.  Just be aware, these questions form the crux of a matter every religious tradition has attempted to answer across the ages.

Enough for now.

Respectfully,

An Unknown Soldier