Separates the men from the boys.

Just now getting back to you concerning your response to my introduction of Empire of The Summer Moon.

Your response included: “Haven’t read it but I just read an excerpt. It is interesting that they went from dominant to submissive in a generation. They followed the old rules – kill your enemies. The better way is to outsmart them. Turn them. Make them submit.”

I mentioned the book on this site because their gender social dynamics was extremely different from ours. Among other behavior we would find strange, their women would literally mutilate themselves and sometimes commit suicide if their husband was killed in battle.

They went from dominate to submissive in a generation mostly due to small pox, cholera, alcohol, and the invention of the Samuel Walker Colt 45. Historically, submission has has occurred only after much death and destruction or widespread awareness and acceptance of inevitable domination.

Chief Quanah Parker is central to the book and in the latter part of his life he “turned” became quite successful and respected in white culture.

you, like Tolle and the other “softer hearted” spiritual folks only get it half way because you assign a moral value to a chemical reaction (love).

love?

read more Ghandi, and believe it or not Tony Robbins. your identity (like Tolles) although redefined is still every bit the prison of his (and yours) old one.

you want to walk the way, you have to see and feel all of it and reject the identity traps and selection bias you seem caught up in.

a human who’s collective ego and evolutionarily distilled limbic survival instincts are predicated on recognizing simple patterns still has a lot of work to do.