Peter E. Pflaum - Golden Globe - The Synergy Network
http://www.wiredbrain.net/  pflaump@cfl.rr.com
 
CHANGE THE OLD WAYS:

The spirit world is a reflection of the human condition. As
Campbell's "Hero with a 1000 Faces" demonstrates the sacred
tales are of passage into the sub-conscious. Hidden
passions from our non-verbal part of the brain that evolutionary
genetics created. These are very powerful forces that influence
behavior - dreams and relationships. Culture shapes and limits
expression of these "primitive" passions. The noble savage is
just as prone to struggles between desires and social conventions
as were the Victorians and puritans. It is not caused by
civilization and its discontents but every society must work out
ways to socialize wild passions. Some societies are under more
pressure - stress than others. Man is not pure and society a
repressive force (Rousseau) or a blank slate (Locke) or a wild
man (Freud) but a complex animal with a big brain. This brain
make us self conscious, judgmental. We must have rules to live
and customs to live together. When the rules and customs no
longer are competitive we have a cultural crisis (Kultura Krig).

The Seneca understood psychodyanmics as well (or better)
than Freud. They understood the functions of dreams as
windows into hidden desires. When they lost faith in
themselves and their Great Spirits to protect them. The
people and culture were dying.  The evils of drink, witchcraft,
violence, abortion, and love potions were causing no end of
trouble. It was the lost of faith that was the basic problem.
Have we also lost our way? Lost contact with the great spirit and
the rules of the game.

In the Old testament the idea is clearly presented that a people
have a covenant with their creator. It was the same for the
Seneca.  There are rules by which the game of life is played. 

Gen 9:9 "I now establish my covenant with you and with your
descendants after you and with every living creature that was
with you-- the birds, the livestock and all the wild animals, all
those that came out of the ark with you-- every living creature
on earth.(NIV) 

Gen 9:12 And God said, "This is the sign of the covenant I am
making between me and you and every living creature with you, a
covenant for all generations to come: I have set my rainbow in
the clouds, and it will be the sign of the covenant between me
and the earth. Whenever I bring clouds over the earth and the
rainbow appears in the clouds, (NIV)

Exodus 24:8 And Moses took the blood, and sprinkled it on the
people, and said, Behold the blood of the covenant, which the
LORD hath made with you concerning all these words. (KJV)

WHEN THERE IS TROUBLE, IT IS BECAUSE THE PEOPLE HAVE BROKEN THE
COVENANT - NOT DONE AS THEY WERE TOLD. NOT FOLLOWED THE LAW AND
CUSTOMS - NOT OBEYED THE PRACTICE SET FORTH IN THE LAW.

Exodus 34:10 And he said, Behold, I make a covenant: before all
thy people I will do marvels, such as have not been done in all
the earth, nor in any nation: and all the people among which thou
art shall see the work of the LORD: for it is a terrible thing
that I will do with thee. (KJV)

Lev 26:15 And if ye shall despise my statutes, or if your soul
abhor my judgments, so that ye will not do all my commandments,
but that ye break my covenant: (KJV)

LOOK OUT! There are reasons for the rules. If we break the rules
there are serious consequences.

Lev 26:16 I also will do this unto you; I will even appoint over
you terror, consumption, and the burning ague, that shall consume
the eyes, and cause sorrow of heart: and ye shall sow your seed
in vain, for your enemies shall eat it. And I will bring a sword
upon you, that shall avenge the quarrel of my covenant: and when
ye are gathered together within your cities, I will send the
pestilence among you; and ye shall be delivered into the hand of
the enemy. (KJV) (and a lot more unpleasant things - the devil
will get you !)

YOU GET THE IDEA - DISOBEY AND YOU ARE IN A LOT OF TROUBLE!
BUT IF YOU REPENT AND GO IN THE WAY OF THE LAW, THERE IS HOPE.
(Father knows best - clearly X theory management style)

Isaiah 35:3 Strengthen ye the weak hands, and confirm the feeble
knees.  Say to them that are of a fearful heart, Be strong,
fear not: behold, your God will come with vengeance, even God
with a recompense; he will come and save you. Then the eyes of
the blind shall be opened, and the ears of the deaf shall be
unstopped. Then shall the lame man leap as an hart, and the
tongue of the dumb sing: for in the wilderness shall waters break
out, and streams in the desert. (KJV)

CONFESS 

Lev 26:40 If they shall confess their iniquity, and the iniquity
of their fathers, with their trespass which they trespassed
against me, and that also they have walked contrary unto me;
And that I also have walked contrary unto them, and
have brought them into the land of their enemies; if then their
uncircumcised hearts be humbled, and they then accept of the
punishment of their iniquity: (KJV)
(the Visions on 241 ff are of a trip to heaven  on the milky way
and talking to the spirits. The spirits told Handsome Lake these
things, what to do to save the world and himself and his people.) 
APOCALYPTIC VISIONS - EVANGELISM  -REPENTANCE - RENAISSANCE
THE NEW COVENANT (Clinton used those words)
AND YOU CAN BE FORGIVEN; AND START A NEW LIFE -
Isaiah 35:4 Because I knew that thou art obstinate, and thy neck
is an iron sinew, and thy brow brass; (KJV)

Isaiah 35:13 Mine hand also hath laid the foundation of the
earth, and my right hand hath spanned the heavens: when I call
unto them, they stand up together. (KJV)

Isaiah 35:17 Thus saith the LORD, thy Redeemer, the Holy One of
Israel; I am the LORD thy God which teacheth thee to profit,
which leadeth thee by the way that thou shouldest go.  O that
thou hadst hearkened to my commandments! then had thy peace been
as a river, and thy righteousness as the waves of the sea: (KJV)

Isaiah 49:10 They shall not hunger nor thirst; neither shall the
heat nor sun smite them: for he that hath mercy on them shall
lead them, even by the springs of water shall he guide them. And
I will make all my mountains a way, and my highways shall be      
exalted. (KJV)

IF YOU PROMISE TO DO RIGHT IN THE FUTURE:, you are forgiven -
there are rules and we must follow them - all cultures know what
they are - honor thy parents -be a good parent - peace and amity
- sobriety, marital fidelity, observance of contract, hard work,
orderliness, cleanliness. respect for tools, patience with wrong
doer, a very Quaker view and necessary for economic survival.
(page 276)
This was the message of Handsome Lake. STRAIGHTEN up or else - an
vision of heaven and hell. (The broad even way goes to hell, the
narrow hard way leads to heaven.)
 
THE SOCIAL MESSAGE was to behave, work hard and save money. (No
whiskey). LEARN THE WAYS OF THE WHITE MAN. The moral is we need
to confess that we are fallen in our ways - promise to do better
and learn new methods from those who are most successful. The
Friends brought new technology to the Indians. They set up
experimental farms. The quakers did not try to convert the
natives and respected the religion. Quakers believe that every
man has the spark if the spirit in their soul - it can come out
in different ways.

They took up farming and did much better. From a band of drunk
savages they became respectable citizens. But the pressures of
Christian missions and land greed would not let them be. The
great removal (A. Jackson's plan to push all Indians west) put
more pressure on the tribes.

Isaiah: False Prophets - how can you tell?
Isaiah 44:25 who foils the signs of false prophets and makes
fools of diviners, who overthrows the learning of the wise
and turns it into nonsense, (NIV)
or 
Isaiah 44:25 That frustrateth the tokens of the liars, and
maketh diviners mad; that turneth wise men backward, and
maketh their knowledge foolish; (KJV)