Original Invitations

Rather than Ten Commandments, beginning with loving YHWH, iconically accessible and yet mysterious as ecosystemic Earth, Native Americans and perhaps all original people mutually deploy Original Instructions, both matriarchal and patriarchal, intended to become prescriptive only as the Golden Rule of cooperative learning grows descriptive for each one listening for how these creation and self/other management stories inform our days and nights as naked immigrants invited on and in this Turtle Island. These creation instructions, not commandments, begin with Gaia's invitation to do as She loves, to scatter our best seeds rooted in healthiest nutritional needs to follow where and only as long as these grow, developing seeds of their own to further compost scatter and to avoid those which ossify into full-blown egocentric ethnocentric anthrocentric addictions, hoarding out what began as healthy need and grew to dominate our habits of mind and body becoming capitalizing wealth through pirating what began as good times as good seeds but turned into transparent addictions to self-powering over Earth's nature, Original Invitations to health as wealth, and not texts and LeftBrain lists and lexicons of not all that original commandments to violently hoard fertile stealth as if this were healthy self-wealth esteem. Grace can only be truly heard as sacred invitation. To listen for love as a command, whether from self or God or other or Earth as one whole deep and richly wise ecosystem, sets up a double-bind competing cooperation competition between need and emerging addiction to self-idolatry, between enslavement and self-serving aristocracy, perennial addictions to overcoming aching loneliness, rather than becoming cooperative rest, listening for Earth's invitations into deeper and richer voiceless grace.