by JPL » Wed 24 Sep 2008, 15:16:46
$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('JustaGirl', 'V')M - What does this quote mean?: "Openings" held secret by Native Americans start to get opened / activated by them. Doing so now. Will escalate. What are openings?
Oh that bit's easy. What he is basically talking about is a Shamanic Journey - not all of it is to taken literally. The 'openings' are symbolic entrances into the spirit/under world into which non Native-Americans can now go (on invitation).
It means, in plain English, that they will share with us their knowledge (if we wish it) of tradition, ritual, nature-magic etc. This might help us with our own (Christian) spiritual crisis (symbolised by the boiling skies) but first we have to cast off our own beliefs and go through a death/rebirth experience (the burial in the ground and rebirth through a firey world is an easy to interpret Shamanic theme).
It's actually pretty good stuff, I like it, I think this guy is really trying to reach out to people like us and explain in simple methaphorical terms how dire our own crisis really is. But you also have to be able to interpret the underlying message (grin).
JP