The Curse of Columbus
Galeano, Eduardo
The Upside-Down World Eduardo Galeano The Curse of Columbus Did Christopher Columbus discover America in 1492? Or was it the Vikings before him? And before the Vikings, what about the people who...
...He will show that fear and lack of trust alone condemn men to the present dangerous conditions which threaten their existence...
...He will show that man has come from the highest source and is equipped with all the potential of Gods...
...Maitreya is not alone in urging change and reform in the world...
...But the Request was read in the middle of the night from the mountain in Spanish and without an interpreter, in the presence of the notary but no Indians, as they were asleep, miles away, and hadn't the faintest idea what was awaiting them...
...They know, too, that they are not alone, that their prayers are being answered, and that something wonderful and sacred is happening on planet Earth...
...In Guyana, according to Sir Walter Raleigh, there were people with eyes in their shoulders and mouths in their chests...
...Peter in his place, and that the successor of St...
...Because they wore no clothes, were gentle, and gave away everything they had, he concluded they lacked the capacity for reason...
...Whoever said otherwise was given thirty lashes, fined 10,000 mar-avedies, and had his tongue cut out...
...Perhaps the most revealing episode in the history of the Americas occurred in 1563 in Chile...
...Official history relates that Vasco Nunez of Balboa was the first man who saw both oceans, standing on a peak in Panama...
...In Venezuela, according to Pedro Simon, there were Indians with ears so long they dragged on the ground...
...The Black Code prohibited the torture of slaves in the French colonies...
...The Indians were such savages that they ignored the fact that they had to obtain a visa, a certificate of good behavior, and a work permit from Columbus, Cabral, Cortes, Alvarado, Pizarro, and the pilgrims of the Mayflower...
...How will they find Maitreya's analysis of their position and problems...
...Meanwhile, Maitreya prepares to engage with all that hinders man's progress and well-being, with all that prevents the expression of his divinity, and also with man's own fear and frailty...
...Man's divinity — Deep in the consciousness of all men* is the awareness of the divine...
...Until not long ago, October 12 was Race Day...
...But the gallows and pillory set up in the center of every Main Square were even more affecting...
...And before the Vikings, what about the people who lived there...
...With each word uttered, his beneficent force flows, from heart to heart...
...How will men respond...
...Even so, how can Maitreya touch the hearts of the millions needed to change direction...
...When the U.S...
...Were the inhabitants of that area blind...
...Had it been empty before...
...Slowly but surely, these ideas are taking root, and educating large masses of hitherto uninterested and uncommitted people...
...Many wise men and women are responding to his thoughts and energy and propound, widely, his ideas...
...And because he was certain of having discovered the Orient by the back door, he believed they were Indians from India...
...Thus some affirm readily the existence of the divine while many reject, often heatedly, the reality of all that cannot be known, measured and understood by their five senses...
...But does such a thing even exist...
...Didn't they exist...
...Angleria, who wrote the first history of America, though he never set foot there, also affirmed that in the New World there were people with tails, and these tails were so long the natives could sit only in chairs with holes...
...Useless and unnecessary is argument and debate...
...What is race but a useful lie to exploit and exterminate one's neighbor...
...In the Amazon, according to Christopher of Acuna, the natives' feet were shaped backwards, heels forward and toes behind, and according to Pedro Martin de Angleria, women mutilated one breast to be able to fire their arrows better...
...entered the Second World War, the American Red Cross decided that the blood of black people would not be accepted in its blood banks...
...And they called them savages...
...Thus will he call on men to change...
...Has anyone seen, by chance, black blood...
...With what women will you make them...
...Peter was the Holy Father, and that the Holy Father has shown favor on the Queen of Castilla, who rules all this land...
...Christopher Columbus said he saw on the shores of Cuba sirens with men's faces and chicken feathers, and supposed that not far from there men and women had tails...
...For this reason, they should go from here or pay tribute in gold, and if they don't or if they stay, war would be declared on them, and they would be made slaves along with their wives and children...
...Afterwards, during the second voyage, the admiral promulgated an act establishing that Cuba was part of Asia...
...The answer lies in the potency of his energies...
...Who gave maize and potatoes and tomatoes and chocolate and the rivers and mountains of America their names...
...This occurred on the eve of the assault on each village...
...Indians besieged the fortress of Arauco, depriving the Spanish of food and water, yet Captain Bernal refused to surrender...
...We will make them bear children who will be your masters...
...The conquistadors demanded that America be something it wasn't...
...It explained to the Indians that God had come to the world and left St...
...With some, it is nearer the surface of the mind...
...that men must recognize themselves as one, one group, sons of the one father...
...Francisco Pizarro...
...that the simple act of sharing will bring justice and peace to their troubled world...
...Afterward, Race Day became the Day of Encounter...
...But they were not wrong about this...
...They find it difficult to explain but know with growing certainty that they live in the aura of the divine, and that all will be well...
...Thus will he speak...
...Shouldn't they be called rapes or violations instead...
...The document of June 14, 1494, stated as evidence that the crew Eduardo Galeano, a Uruguayan writer and journalist, is the author of "The Open Veins ofLatin America"and "Memory of Fire...
...Hern?n Cortes...
...They sense that the stressful and dangerous conditions of today are nearing their end, that beyond the fear and failures of our time is a new and better world to be fashioned and that it will be so fashioned...
...And they treated the Americans as if they were what they imagined the pagans of the Orient to be...
...Thus is Maitreya's way being prepared...
...Were colonial invasions encounters, whether those of yesterday or those of today...
...The Laws of the Indians, which protected those in the Spanish colonies, were quite moving...
...They may know not the name, or even of his existence, but, responding to his energy, are aware of a new and spiritual climate in the world...
...the Indian chief asked...
...Today, many are sensing, more and more, the presence of Maitreya, whose energies penetrate all the planes of consciousness...
...But it wasn't to torture them but to educate them that slaves' masters whipped their backs and cut their tendons when they fled...
...that, freed from the fear which holds him in thrall, man can build a civilization worthy of his divinity and creative genius...
...Never before has a teacher of such power stood before the world...
...in others it lies relatively unknown and undiscovered until some major event or stimulus awakens it from sleep...
...Because Columbus didn't understand what the Indians were saying, he concluded that they didn't know how to speak...
...of the three ships recognized it as such...
...The reading of the Request for Obedience was very convincing...
...His truth calls forth the truth in the heart of the listener, and in the crucible of their shared divinity is recognized as truth itself...
...Were the people who were already living there mute...
...The invaders called the original Americans idolaters because they believed that nature is sacred and that we are the brothers and sisters of all those with feet, paws, wings, or roots...
...From the stockade he screamed out, "There will be more and more of us...
...The notary, Hern?n Perez de Luna, attested, and the sailors who could write signed at the bottom...
...With yours...
...We have been told, and still are, that it was the pilgrims of the Mayflower that populated America...
Vol. 71 • October 2007 • No. 10
