A Holistic Aboriginal Kosmogenic Directive
The Tree of Life Guardianship is functionally designed as a holistic modality; it devises solutions tailored to meet the needs of grassroots communities and native villages. it assesses the cultural, spiritual, and ecological components of collective communities and the impact these elements exert on tribal village life.
The TLG believes that employing Native Americans in the process of Indigenous land conservation is the best way to ensure the success of nature conservancies over the long term. “Indigenous Native Americans helping World Indigenous communities” is the cornerstone ethic of the Tree of Life Guardianship foundation.
The reasons for this are many: Native Americans are much revered internationally; this is especially true among the indigenous populations of the world. There exists mutual understanding between all native people due to cosmological similarity, belief system and practice. Native Americans are extraordinarily sensitive to the degradation and destruction of nature; they are sympathetic to land loss issues, and innate advocates of conservation, culturally; this is especially true among native traditionalists.
Due to international admiration Native Americans command a strong environmental presence; they have a conspicuous advantage for effecting behavior in educational efforts leading to responsible ‘community stewardship’ practices. Community stewardship, among both indigenous and local landowners, is indispensable for guaranteeing long term ecological management programs. Unless tribes and local landowners become personally involved in sustainable conservation practices, preservation is often more hypothetical than actual. The cultural demeanor of traditional Native Americans offers natural advantage, empathetically, in cooperative endeavors to preserve indigenous land. Due to cultural erosion throughout Native America, and in other indigenous territories of the world, Native Americans can greatly benefit from indigenous cultural advocacy programs; just as world indigenous culture can benefit from Native American involvement; cultural exchange is mutually beneficial.
The TLG purveys remedies that address immediate and long-term social needs. The organization moderates its resources to advance regeneration of collapsed tribal cultures and to help maintain the integrity of the few, intact, ancient societies which remain.
The cosmologies of intact aboriginal cultures reverberate with charges of spiritual vibrancy that can serve as ‘paradigms of recollection’ for spiritually impoverished tribes. They contain life-pulse potentials capable of resuscitating the dead. The forces unleashed in ceremony, and through communion with the natural world, restore spiritual wholeness through cyclical patterns of re-visitation. Ceremonies beautify and heal the wounded.
The TLG keeps a number of native healers and ceremony persons within its gracious rankings. It relies on the guidance of chiefs and spiritual leaders working within it and in a supportive capacity. It exemplifies a modality of holism familiar to the people it works to serve.
It works cooperatively with other nonprofit organizations in order to organize and stream-line its central ambitions. It relies on the ultimate directive of native elders and spiritual leaders to garner confidence in its perspectives and pursuits, and works in league with grass-roots community efforts in order to acquire necessary power in accomplishing it objectives.
The principal directives embodied by the TLG portray it holistic vision and the array of solutions necessary for the regeneration of health and harmony among the nations of indigenous peoples of the world.
The TLG is composed of Indigenous people and prayer people who possess innate knowledge of the suffering that affects dying tribal communities. The TLG membership has an instinctive sense, derived from personal experience, of what it takes for indigenous people to survive—against all odds. The TLG has an enormous reservoir of energy and dedication drawn from the fiery tempests of agony that native people have long endured and the beauty that perseverance has sheltered. The TLG, by virtue of its membership, has a clear sense of what is required for native people to survive. Its acts from the heart, through penetrating vision, to save lives.
Its will is bound to the Source it serves (Spirit; God). Its form is shaped of heaven light, its energy derived from the underworld (necessity). It moves freely upon the land, by impetus of divine decree, agents of life—a roving band of healers and servants—seeking to sustain life, looking for ways to restore health to native people, and to Mother earth. It breathes mysticism and feeds on pragmatism; Its roots entangle soils of indigenous activism; its leaves and branches outstretch, poised in the sunlight of the divine Heart and Mind.
