Our Tribal Destiny

Isn't it clear that we are wired for tribalism?

We're not wired for democracy. We're not wired for nationalism, corporatism or globalism. We're wired to be a local tribe, dancing around the fire.

Every gathering you ever experienced as truly ecstatic was a tribal experience, was it not? Let this joy, not the state or the corporation, be our model.

Just look at Iraq, Syria, Egypt, the Horn of Africa, and what is happening in America. Humanity's experiment in nationalism has failed. Nations are breaking up into bio-regional tribes. Have you considered that this may be a positive, not a negative, evolutionary step?

The nation-state, even the democracy, is just a shell game, a front for the autocracy of Socialism on the left or Corporate Plutocracy on the right. But the tribe is the indissoluble building block, the proton of human community.

As nation states shake apart, the next step is not the democracy, but the tribal circle. Going tribal is evolution, not devolution. We don't cycle back to the past, we spiral forward to a new ring of the dance.

We learn from the ancestors to form local shamanic circles, tap local sources of green energy, and organize local communities, looking to our village elders, not national politicians, for leadership.


When we discover our tribal roots, our branches grow into the stars. The star people are organized not in the pattern of the modern state, which is just a mask of empire, but in tribal confederacies. When they see that we have awakened from the delusion of modernism, they will re-establish contact with us through shamanic visionary Circles of chant, meditation and sat-sang, where they will teach us to be tribes again. 

Brother, sister, give in to the pull of what flows through both blood and stars! We don't communicate with the star seed by watching the skies for UFO's, but by meditating in a ring. It is not through technology but through sat-sang that we rejoin the intergalactic tribal confederacy.

The human brain will re-connect its latent tribal circuitry. In the microcosm, the tribal community will pattern itself on the brain's neural pathways. In the macrocosm, the tribal community will reflect the network of the galaxies. A shamanic song circle is a fiery vortex whose collective energy is the luminous synapse connecting heaven and earth.

Gather in a shamanic ring at your local village commons or in the near-by woods. Meditate and chant, creating a vortex to invoke the intergalactic elders. Forage and gather green energy, plant vegetables, build yurts and longhouses. Reach out to other tribes, forming confederacies and cooperatives to care for the environment, to re-distribute wealth, and to share goods and services throughout the land. The revolution is to dance. The technology is to sing. The radical act is to be present. The government is a circle of friends.

Then the star people will join you in celebration, turning your circle into a multidimensional spiral of ecstatic wisdom.
Painting: Tribal Dance, K. C. Aryan