Email written by Jahrun Chilam Balam to daughters Helena and Ruby on 2008.08.21
Helena and Ruby {
There is something else that I wanted to pass on to you today that just happened to blossom in my mind tonight.
I have a lot of things. . . you know what I mean . . .right? Stuff. So much stuff. Very nice things that used to be in the Seabeck House, that right now I am paying money to hold them in a storage unit. Stuff in storage.
While I have worked very hard to gather those things, your mother has been working very hard to help me to just let go of those things.
I am so grateful to her, because, without even knowing it, she has been very wise at leading me to a great understanding which is simply this:
WHAT OUR PARENTS TAUGHT US TO DO IS WRONG
and . . .
OUR PARENTS MADE US FORGET THE SPIRITS WHO WE REALLY ARE
Yes. When I was little... I remember that I had no money to worry about, no great things I had to protect or store in some building, no job to go to, no taxes to pay, no insurance (what the heck are taxes and insurance anyway?), no papers to have to shuffle around, there were no bills to pay for the light that shone down on my hair and skin that was coming from the warm sun, and there was nothing to pay for finding the very special stones in the driveway.
At times I was hungry, but the big people fed me food that was out of a package or can and I remember just knowing that it was very, very bad. It was dead . . . it almost never seemed like food at all.
Actually, I knew very much about the things my mom and other people gave me or made me use and how they treated me and perceived me, and I knew then that it was almost all poison, but I did not know or understand these WORDS. I did not know the words to tell them HOW it was hurting me.
Advertisements want you to keep believing the lie that what your mommy and daddy made for you was actually good. It was not good. Actually, it was made to poison us.
It did not really matter anyway, because the big people did not know how to listen to our understanding of the truth. But I remember that I did know The Truth, and now I remember it again.
The truth is that EVERYTHING IS CONNECTED IN THE ENTIRE UNIVERSE IN WAYS PEOPLE DO NOT UNDERSTAND. The things that people are doing to themselves, to each other and to the planet are not natural. There is a disease that keeps spreading to every child that is born.
So, now you are here . . . as a child . . . knowing the truth, too. I have provided you with some ways of holding onto the truth, but that does not mean that you, too, will not forget it because of all the tricks that are played all around you every single day, like the New Jersey beaches, rides and water slides, Mc Donalds, toys, TV shows, clothes, shoes, rings and earrings, lip gloss, pocket books and hair spray and all the other things that your friends seem to be doing that you will probably want to do too, because you think that is the only way to have friends.
Do you want to know what I understand? Okay here it is:
We each have a spirit that is part of a whole spirit.
The Earth is our birth sac for our spirit to be born in a body.
We are meant to learn how to take care of a whole planet.
I did not really need to go to school. If my parents were really so smart, why didn't they spend more time with me and understand me and teach me?
Teachers that are paid to teach do not actually know how to really teach. They just keep the children who are the most angry and upset from distracting everyone from the stupid lies they are trying to tell you. Did you ever wonder why almost all the teachers are girls? What do they actually know how to do?
Men kill and women help them to kill and poison because they keep buying the stuff men make and teaching it to the children. It is very unfortunate that women keep buying men's poisons. They just do not know how to stop and be pure women. They are always buying stuff. Who makes the stuff? What is in the stuff? What does it do to us, our babies and our planet?
I learned that I did not really need to dress like everyone else. The jeans and cordorouy and shirts NEVER felt comfortable to my skin.
I know now that I did not really need to eat the foods my parents fed me, because there were always so many plants all around me in nature that I could actually eat! I just did not know. Actually, it seems that almost no one knows. Do the teachers really know anything that is truly important to keeping life on this planet healthy?
I did not need to get presents for birthdays and Christmas, because these toys were actually made to break soon and the plastic and metal bits would end-up as trash soon and then go to a land fill dump. Where do diapers go? Why are babies made to wear them?
Actually, I did not need to be forced to think that I needed anything at all.
I did not need to "get good grades" in school.
I did not need to get "cooler" stuff as I got older and older.
I did not need to go to college. There were super smart teachers who everywhere that were far smarter than the ditz-brain teachers in school.
I did not need to work "jobs" that only served to add to the Earth's sickness.
I did not need a car to take me round and round to places that want money.
I did not need plastic.
I did not need candy.
I did not need Disney World and Cinderella to know that there was real magic in the plants and especially in the thicker forests.
But the adults were dumb. They do not see, hear or feel the magic. They only live a life of being angry about the magic they forgot. They are angry and don't know why.
I needed a mommy and daddy that could see the magic.
My daddy could see the magic.
My mommy could not see the magic.
I did not need a mommy that took my daddy away.
BUT I GOT ALL THIS.
Right now, I understand again, the way myself understood as a child, that the only thing that I need is simply to be connected to nature to be both healthy and happy.
Do you see that these are really part of the same thing?
Work.
Go to college.
Get a job.
Get your car.
Get a bigger job.
Get more papers to file away.
Get more people from more companies trying to trick you into giving them the money from your job.
Have a baby.
Get a bigger job that makes more money.
Get tired of being unhappy.
Get old.
Who worked to make the money to get the Seabeck House? And, where did it go?
No one ever told me about this stuff when I was a child.
But, I knew it was happening and could see it happening to all of the big people around me.
I saw the "Big Kids" climbing onto this ride before they could even see it themselves. Don't you see it happening to them?
I could see that the big people and growing children were very unhappy.
They try to pretend that they are happy.
I never felt very good when it was happening to me.
It didn't make me happy.
I know that you already see this and you know this.
That is how I am able to sleep.
You see the sickness everywhere.
I know you aren't ever fooled.
It is time to stop taking things that we know is not good for the health of our planet.
It is time to start being kind to everyone, but to speak our truth.
It is time to stop following what the big people tell you, because right now, they are almost always wrong, because they have been tricked into leading you into the same tricks.
Any questions??? Better ask now because the final exam is tomorrow morning. Ha ha ha!
} Jahrun
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