JIHAD

A Jihad is about the spiritual battle within one's self to become a better person. The radical fundamentalists that the United States government recruited in Arabic countries for our means and purposes have bitten us in the ass. For many years we were openly training young radical Arabic men in Georgia, USA in the School of the Americas up until the year 2001; the year we got bit from behind, and struck from above. Generals in the Bush administration in 2001 throughout, at least 2003 were making the Christian religious claims to justify invading Iraq as the administration floundered about trying to find the right argument to get Americans on their side.


It was an awful time for thinking people the world over who knew too much about American duplicity. Those of us from diplomatic circles were alarmed at the deep levels of ‘not knowing’ among the average American citizen. Millions of American citizens had no idea about the legacy of our foreign policies, and swayed so easily to the sales approach for the wars in Iraq. In both Bush administrations, as is the norm, the Christian Church and her white leaders, mostly, were courted to win their constituents over to support invading Iraq. The catch phrases were straight out the Bible. The “Anti-Christ”, “Armageddon”, and on and on they ranted intentionally disarming intelligent thought, discourse, and blurred an historical gaze and perspective about what is really going on, thereby circumventing the responsibility we have towards others as a super power.

So deeply ingrained into the American psyche is this truth about ourselves that when 9/11 happened Americans were incapable of seeing the opportunity to seek, find and begin to work for peace, true peace in the deepest sense of the word, and the life-concept of that word. We are paying, and will pay more for the cost of not knowing, not being willing and able to know, and understand a worldview balanced, and rooted in the deeper principles of the sacred feminine, and the sacred masculine, and the role of the Peace Keeper, who came to this land a few centuries ago and showed us how to balance the war-like spirit that dominates our culture. - Gregory E. Woods, Keeper of Stories

Native American conjurer