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The Lesson of Cecil The Lion – Trophy Hunting and The Evolution of Consciousness
by Steve Bromberg (with Michaella Scott)
Wake Up World
It’s a fact; we humans have it within us to be hunters. Hunting and gathering food is part of our human heritage, and there are still indigenous cultures alive today that survive this way, living from the land in harmonious accord with ancient tradition — ‘the old ways’.
However most of us are no longer living ‘the old ways’. Our humble tribal lives have been thoroughly modernized by the agricultural, commercial and industrial practices of western post-industrial culture. Many of us live in cities, so we don’t have to hunt for our food. Instead we have people producing and transporting our food for us; we simply go and gather it up from corporate food outlets and pay for it as we need it.
During the times of ‘the old ways’, while the men went out and hunted prey, the women and children would gather whatever wild foods and other useful things they could find growing in their area, and take them home to make things and add to the family food supplies.
Nowadays however, shopping (the modern equivalent of gathering) is perhaps the closest many of us ever come to expressing those instinctive old ways, and perhaps this biological imperative is one reason why so many women – the tribal gatherers – love to shop, gathering together items and bargains to take home to their families.
Chasing The High
Today, for the vast majority of us, there is no need for hunting prey, so we use our old programming in ways that would be quite foreign to the remaining indigenous tribes of today. For many of us, the hum-drum of modern ‘matrix’ life is so dissatisfying, so lacking in deeper meaning, that we actively hunt down experiences that will activate our primal instincts and give us those emotional ‘somethings’ we are lacking — an adrenaline rush, a sense of fulfillment or achievement, or a level of personal satisfaction we don’t get from our daily grind. We find that we are at our happiest when we are involved in these pursuits.
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Every Day is Earth Day
Source: http://www.riseearth.com/2015/09/the-lesson-of-cecil-lion-trophy-hunting.html
