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Paradise? |know that the history we learn Inschoolls full of battles, slavery and Insane ideas of power. But remember that these so-called “ancient histories” only go back six to eight thousand years. A short time in our long history. All of those conditionings that we all wear as civilization are actually only a thin veneer over our real but hidden selves. The undistorted hurnan animal Is no more “out of control” than any of the Earth’s children. Nor are we less natural than any bird or fish. The Long Memory > are many techniques around these days for re- viewing past lives. Whether these memories are the memory of your immortal soul or perceptions of more physical patterns held In the genetic structure, or a mix- ture of both, is hard to say. My own “long memory” came from learning how to think In non-verbal languages... specifically the lan- guages of smell and visualisation. Nothing Is ever forgotten... by the head, yes, of course It is... but somewhere In your body Is the smell... the real memory of everything that has ever happened to you. The long memory unfolded as a series of connected dream images, at first during sleep. then also during GAIA - The Living Earth Oe of the common threads In prehistoric thought Is that the Earth Itself Is a living being. In all our root cultures the governing body was a circle of the people... con- vened at a place of power... a place that focuses the Earth’s awareness... similar to our body’s acupuncture points... usually through the medium of an elder tree or stone... with the conscious mind of Earth itself. NEXUS New Times Six - Spring 1988 Life’s Search for Life Part 4