The Old Crow and the Old Oppressor (Part 1)

An Alternative History of Progress.

By Ty Bell

First, a short glossary of terms:

Babylon: a system that elevates Control as the highest form of the good. A system whose god is, in essence, Control. Elevating human power over the power of Life itself, Babylon is a system of thinking and being that lacks reverence, humility, and alignment with Nature.

The Old Oppressor: The voice in the collective that seeks only to maintain the past, and present structures of Babylon control. The voice that resists awakening and uses force to prevent it, because of how its own power is threatened by the integration of the new truths that are revealed.

The Old Crow: The voice in the collective that affirms the new awakenings, but cautions us about where they will lead, in a Babylon system. The Crow embodies the wisdom of Natural Law, that instinct present in all beings. The Old Crow is the one who is painted black in the minds of the people, dismissed and mistaken by the awakening people as the Old Oppressor.

They Came With Democracy….

And the Crow came to affirm: yes, you are coming to understand.

The Old Oppressor’s ways of tribal rule and birthright hierarchies do not align with Natural Law. You’re coming to understand, in your awakening, the principles of Equality and Free Will.

But take heed: In the Babylon system of control, your ideal of Democracy will seed a new brand of supremacy that will accelerate the dissolution and distortion of your ancient wisdom and cultures. Your people will continue to crusade and colonize in the name of this new ideal that assumes the moral authority to indoctrinate and transform cultures by force, just like the theocracies of old. Take heed, and do not follow this cult of Babylon Democracy.

The people did not did not listen, because they could not hear.

They confused Old Crow with the Old Oppressor.

His cautions were mistaken as a refusal to accept the new awakenings. The newly awakened ones were ready to move forward.

And so, they carried on.

They came with Separation of Church and State……

And the Crow came back to confirm: yes, you are coming to understand.

You’ve taken your myths too literally. This has put perverse power in the hands of your religious authorities. The Old Oppressor’s religious supremacy, indeed, violates Natural Law. Your literalism is blinding you to your connection to all beings, and obscuring the Truths your stories once encoded. It’s replacing the humility you once had with a destructive pride. You are coming to further understand the principles of Equality and Free Will.

But take heed. Babylon secular government will be based on the same religious supremacy as the Old Oppressor’s, but in disguise. By presenting itself as rational it will claim to supersede religion, paying lip service to welcoming them all, yet limiting them to a private sphere. The Truths encoded in your stories will be all but forgotten. Your public life will lose touch with all that is sacred and beautiful if your institutions bow only rationality and efficiency as their gods. With no reverence to a higher power greater than the knowledge possessed by the minds of your elites, your communities, once built and maintained as offerings to the sacred, will become devoid of meaning and purpose. Public life will become superficial and empty, and this will fuel apathy, alienation and cynicism among your people. It will also set off a backlash by those of you that sense the wrongness of the sacred being diminished, but know no other way to preserve it other than by the religious hierarchies of old. So your culture will be perpetually split and divided.

The people did not did not listen, because they could not hear.

They confused Old Crow with the Old Oppressor.

His cautions were mistaken as a refusal to accept the new awakenings. The people were wounded by years of oppression at the hands of the Old Oppressor. They were ready to move forward with their new awakenings.

And so, they went along.

They came with Education…..

And the Crow came once again to confirm: yes, you are coming to understand.

The Old Oppressor’s ways of restricting knowledge to an elite few, indeed, violates Natural Law. You are beginning to see that knowledge is rightly free and accessible to all, and that barriers against it are unnatural, and unwise. You’re awakening to see that by freeing the access to knowledge and affirming the potential genius and creator in all human beings, you are evolving out of a dark age of restrictive hierarchies. You are realizing, in your awakening, that depriving anyone of knowledge has a negative impact on the whole, for your greatest potential awakens when knowledge is freely available.

But take heed: In the Babylon system of control, your Education ideal will pave the way for the further destruction of your tribal and family cultures. Your Education ideal will be exploited to program your children to become homogenous worker drones for the industrial-market machine, rather than free creative human beings. It will apply the use of force to assimilate your children into the new religion of rational materialism. Education by an authority that bows only to these new gods will not make your people wiser. Your children will be deprived of generational wisdom and experience by a system that narrows the scope of knowledge to trivial facts and left-brain analysis. All other forms of knowledge and wisdom will be dismissed, and then over time, erode. Your creative brilliance and cultural wealth will be diminished by these new gods. Your connection to family, land, and culture will be eroded and many new wounds will be inflicted if you follow this cult of Babylon Education.

The people did not did not listen, because they could not hear.

They confused Old Crow with the Old Oppressor.

His cautions were mistaken as a refusal to accept the new awakenings. The people were wounded by years of oppression. The Crow was painted black in the minds of the newly awakened people who saw only through the lens of the Old Oppressor’s inflictions, and the yearning for healing and restoration.

They were ready to move forward with their new awakenings.

And so, the people went along.

They came with Industrial Food……

And the Crow came yet again to confirm: yes, you are coming to understand.

The old ways are no longer working for your growing population. It would be painful for your newly awakened hearts to allow people to go hungry, because you are developing a broader sense of social responsibility, beyond your immediate families and tribes. You need to develop new ways of feeding your people that embody this generosity and understanding of your connection with all beings. You see that feeding all people is a noble ideal that aligns with Natural Law. This is the principle of Oneness, and you’re beginning to get it.

But take heed: In the Babylon system of control, this ideal of ending world hunger and maximizing the efficiency of food production will lead to disaster. Your people will lose their connection to the Earth, and your health will deteriorate. You will become dependent on a food supply that depletes the soil, the water, the air, and the very bodies you seek to feed. A system that bows to gods of materialism and efficiency will only deplete your lives and your land of beauty, reducing food to its materialistic function. Your forests and gardens will be replaced by mono-cropped wastelands that erode biodiversity, which will create the need for more chemicals which further deplete the land, and your bodies. Your people will be displaced and scattered throughout concrete jungle landscapes where the only foods available could hardly be called foods anymore at all. You will forget how to participate with Nature to survive, and you will come to accept consumption as a normal and rational way of being. The health of your land, your water, your communities and your bodies will be destroyed. You will grow dependent on this new class of elites that will perpetuate this destruction to amass and maintain power. Take heed, and do not follow this cult of Babylon Industrial Food production.

The people did not did not listen, because they could not hear.

They confused Old Crow with the Old Oppressor.

His cautions were mistaken as a refusal to accept the new awakenings. The Crow was, yet again, painted black in the minds of the newly awakened people who saw only through the lens of the Old Oppressor’s inflictions, and the yearning for healing and restoration.

They were ready to move forward with their new awakenings.

They were too captivated by their new knowledge and too weary from the oppression of old, to discern.

And so, again, the people went along.

They Came with Medicine….

Yes, the Crow came once again, to affirm.

You’re remembering your roots in alchemy. Not only can you use plants to heal – you can work with the elements creatively in ways that your Old Oppressor didn’t allow you to see was possible! This new knowledge has great potential. You’re also deepening in your compassion and understanding that if it’s possible to help a fellow being, the a heart calls you to do it. You’re awakening deeper to the principle of communal responsibility. You’re seeing that through creativity and cooperation, you can make lives better not only for your village and tribe, but for your entire human family. You’re seeing that greater collective well-being is possible for your species by removing the barriers that the Old Oppressor imposed with regards to human ingenuity. Caring for people outside of your immediate sphere is a core tenant of Natural Law for, as you’re coming to see, you are all One.

But take heed: Your medicines, in the Babylon system of control, will further deplete your ancient knowledge. It will erode your culture of personal responsibility into a culture of victimhood. Health will come to be equated with dependency on a new culture of experts. They will be the new authorities that your people will imagine provide, or deny health. You will forget your abilities to heal yourselves and you will lose the community bonds you share through births, deaths and illnesses. In a system that bows to this new god of efficiency, these life events will all become ‘medicalized’ – removed the community and placed into a sterilized, objective spaces devoid of sacredness and connectivity. Reductionism and materialism will eclipse all of your ancient knowledge and understanding about what it means to be human, to the point that you will imagine your bodies to simply be machines, in need of maintenance and management by experts. Your people will grow sicker, weaker and more dependent on their cures. The system will give rise to a new class of elites who will perpetuate this dependency cycle to maintain their power, at the expense of your health and your sovereignty. Take heed, and do not follow this cult of Babylon Medicine.

The people did not did not listen, because they could not hear.

They confused Old Crow with the Old Oppressor.

His cautions were mistaken as a refusal to accept the new awakenings. The Crow was once again painted black in the minds of the newly awakened people who saw only through the lens of the Old Oppressor’s inflictions, and the yearning for healing and restoration.

They were ready to move forward with their new awakenings. They were too captivated by their new knowledge and too weary from the oppression of old, to discern. And the new elite, who sought to gain power from this new development, exploited their confusion and ensured that the people would not hear. By convincing the people that Old Crow was an ally of the Old Oppressor, speaking only to apologize for his continued reign, these new elites didn’t need to use force to silence Old Crow, for the people did the silencing for them.

And, so, once again, the people went along.

To Be Continued….