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Monday, January 21, 2008 - post date

Emanations From the Center

In Oklahoma there are round-ups and forced deportations of Central Americans in the enforcement of the harshest state anti-immigrant law, yet enacted.

There is a bitter irony that this is being done to people who are essentially American Indian people, and that this is being done in Oklahoma.

The state draws Central American people because it is known in Central America that Oklahoma is Indian Country.

Central America was the center of the pre-Columbus world of the Americas. Indian people in Oklahoma have always felt, been moved by the cultural, spiritual emanations from the .

The Great Cheyenne Chief Quanah Parker, born in the sacred Wichita Mountains in South West Oklahoma, found Peyote Religion in Mexico.

Severely wounded during the last armed Indian uprising on the Southern Plains, Quanah Parker took refuge in Mexico. There a cuarandero, a peyote shaman, helped heal body and mind. In his healing vision Quanah Parker saw the Hebrew tribesman Rebbi Yeshua ben Yusuf - who gave the medicine.

In fighting for the legalization of Peyote religion in the state of Oklahoma Quanah Parker testified that the power of the medicine was that it made people in all ways healthy and helped people lead lives that were more Christ-like.

Quanah Parker knew it was never about being a Christian – it was always about becoming The Christ.

A great wall is being built between the The United States of the Homelandt and Central America. It will fall it will fail as did the Great Wall of China, Hadrian's Wall, the Berlin Wall.

There's something about the universe that doesn't like walls.

And a wall can never stop the emanations from the center.