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The Convergence of Five Hands: Flowing Past the Hero Trap into Collective Sovereignty

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The Convergence of Five Hands: Flowing Past the Hero Trap into Collective Sovereignty The raiders struck under the dark of the moon, vanishing into the volcanic hills with the entire wealth of the clan. The village youth ran in ten different directions, tiring themselves against the stones, achieving nothing. Five brothers stepped forward—one could hear a reed bend leagues away, one could read the scratch of an ant on bare basalt, one had arms of ironwood, one smelled smoke on the wind, and one held the medicine of mist. Yet, left alone, each brother was entirely helpless against the canyon pass. How many of us in modern life are running ourselves into an early grave trying to be all five brothers at once? We take pride in saying, "I don’t need anybody, " while our physical bodies, our families, and our institutions bleed out in silence. We are living out an exhausting, imported ghost story of solitary grit, convinced that asking for shared labor is an admiss...

Life (can't remember whether i posted this or not)

Life is a river/
Flowing around obsticles/
Seeking out the sea/

This life is a blessing and we must embrace it. We must learn to embrace the flow knowing that in the end we will end up in the sea. What is the sea? The sea is simply the source from which we all came from. The sea is our reward for the course we have taken. Sometimes we have to flow around obsticles, other times we have to smash through them, but at all times we have to keep the end in mind. If not we can get trapped in the flow of events. Rivers must flow and stay in motion or they will go stagnent and kill everything that is around them.

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