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Continued from page 59- Gays: Guardians of the Gates
Let us look at the earth differently, and we will find out
gradually that these people that are bothering us today
are going to start taking their posts. They know what
their job is. You just have to get near them, to feel that
they don’t vibrate the same way. They are not of this
world. They come from the Otherworld, and they were
sent here to keep the gates open to the Otherworld,
because if the gates are shut, this is when the earth,
Mother Earth, will shake -- because it has no more
reason to be alive, it will shake itself, and we will be in
deep trouble.
Bert: Christianity has separated spirit from body and
spirit from Earth. And earlier you talked to us about
Christianity suppressing your culture. So there’s a
suggestion here that suppression of homosexuality
would be the way for the Christians to shut down the
gateways, shut down the spirit, and shut down our
connection with the Earth.
Malidoma: Yes! That’s right! Christianity stresses
postponing living on earth, as if we are only here to
pack up our baggage and prepare for a life somewhere
else "out there." Jesus Christ is right here, man! And of
course anyone else who knows more, who knows
better, will be suppressed.
And you start with the gatekeepers. You take the
gatekeeper and you confuse his mind. You threaten him
and you throw him in the middle of nowhere. Then
nobody knows where the gate is. As soon as you lose
the whereabouts of the gate, then you have a culture
going downhill. What keeps a village together is a
handful of "gays and lesbians," as they call them in the
modern world. In my village, lesbians are called
witches, and gay men are known as the gatekeepers.
These are the two only known secret societies. These
are the only groups that will get together as a separate
group and go out into the woods secretly to do
whatever they do. And if they find you during their
yearly symposium, they have the right to kill you.
Unless they go out on their yearly symposium, the
village cannot be granted another year of life. They
have to go out to do what they do, in order for the
village to feel safe enough to live the way it has lived
before. This is why, to me, we’re playing with our
lives.
Bert: So our culture may not be granted another year of
life.
Malidoma: That’s right! Every year it feels like the
number of years that this culture is entitled to live is
getting smaller. So God only knows how close to the
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chasm this culture is. This constantly- reiterated
discomfort and hatred for the gay person is again
another indication that every year we might as well be
prepared for the apocalyptic moment when the stars
start to fall to the earth. You see, unless there is
somebody who constantly monitors the mechanism that
opens the door from this world to the Otherworld, what
happens is that something can happen to one of the
doors and it closes up. When all the doors are closed,
this earth runs out of its own orbit and the solar system
collapses into itself. And because this system is linked
to other systems, they too start to fall into a whirlpool.
And the cataclysm would be amazing!
Ask the Dogon, they will tell you that. The Dogon.
They’re a tribe that understands this so well, it’s
amazing, mind-boggling. And it is a tribe that knows
astrology like no other tribe that I have encountered.
And the great astrologers of the Dogon are gay. They
are gay. There is a dull planet that, in its orbit, is
directly above the Dogon village every 58 years. Who
knows that, but the gay people.
I mean, I’m not just trying to make gay people look
fine. This is the truth, man! I’m trying to save my ass!
Why is it that, everywhere else in the world, gay people
are a blessing, and in the modern world they are a
curse It is self-evident. The modern world was built by
Christianity. They have taken the gods out of the earth
sent them to heaven, wherever that is. And everyone
who aspires to the gods must then negotiate with
Christianity, so that the real priests and priestesses are
out of a job. This is the worst thing that can happen to a
culture that calls itself modern.
Bert: That theme came up earlier with you and Martín,
the Mayan shaman here, that if a modern society wants
to shut down another culture they will go out and kill
the keepers of the ritual.
Malidoma: Oh, yes! Because they know that this is
where the life-pulse of the culture is. This is where the
engine room of the tribe is. So if you go and bomb that
place, then the whole mechanism shuts down. That’s
pretty much what’s at work in the third world, and what
has happened here with the Native American culture.
And the thing about it is that humans are going to be
begetting gatekeepers, no matter what. This is the
chance that we’ve got. So maybe that means that
sooner or later we’re going to wake up to the horror of
our own errors, and we’re going to reconsecrate our
chosen people so that they can do their priestly work as
they should. Otherwise, I just don’t understand. I just
don’t understand. My position about it is not so much
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