There are certain realities that must be addressed in order for the world to move forward as One. These realities have been created by the super-conscious agreement of large soul-groups comprised of smaller collectivities and individuals inhabiting this planet, engaged in a mutually beneficial karmic drama drawn out over many hundreds and thousands of years. The origins of this passion play are lost in mists of time, subject to multitudinous explications and storied retellings, but the ramifications of it remain with us.
The world we live in is an end result of the diffusion of the world’s people from one location upon the planet to many, according to both scientists and mythologists. According to American Indian lore, each group was given a charge relating to the 4 directions and other esoteric correspondences. Succinctly, the yellow race was sent East and given charge of wind and so became knowledgeable about all things having to do with the body, breath and energy. The red race went West and was given charge of earth and became knowledgeable about the planet, its animals and all things growing therein. The black race sojourned South and was given charge of water, its emotional, psychic and physical properties and the white race migrated to the North, there to learn all there was to know about fire, its properties, manifestations and usages.
As the planet’s population grew, each group achieved its core aim, existing apart for millennia to consolidate and manifest these understandings in preparation for the time when they would again come together. It took an extraordinarily synchronistic coalescence of technological innovations – contributed over time by all of the races of humanity – to create the conditions necessary for this Great Return to 
be effected. Ostensibly, it was the “discovery” of the Americas by the Europeans and the Trans-Atlantic slave trade that created the multiracial civilization which has now reached its apex upon the Western lands of this planetary body. But it took the nautical innovations of the Chinese (rudders, masts, etc.), chemical innovations by the Africans (gun-powder, steel) and the land already inhabited, cultivated and explored by the American (South and North) Indians for these Times to become fully manifest.
Another prophecy shared not only by American Indians but by people across the world, pertains to the birth of the Rainbow Tribe. Of course there are different terms for this new people upon the face of the earth, different ways of describing their coalescence, but the prophecies are similar in noting that they will gather in the Western lands, they will be comprised of people made up of the four races and they will come together to consolidate the total knowledge of humanity as one, bring back together that which was split asunder during earlier Ages of the planet.
There are many in the current New Age movement who believe that their group is the manifestation of this prophecy. However, despite their belief, in order for the prophecy to become manifest, all of the conditions of the prophecy must be fulfilled. These conditions include the following primary aspects:
1. The Gathering must occur in the West.
2. The Gathering must be comprised of all of the primary racial groups on the planet.
3. The Gathering must be based upon knowledge that leads to a new way of life based upon unity consciousness and planetary sustainability.
For these conditions to be fulfilled, it is necessary for those who aspire to or consider themselves to be a part of the Rainbow Tribe to recognize at which stage of this process of gathering they currently represent. The material conditions shared in common as expressed by multiple traditions (American Indian, Esoteric European, Egyptian/Metu Neter, Greek/Hermetic, etc.) are relatively straightforward, but the spiritual conditions are a bit less so.
It is easy enough for individuals to gather together in a group, to look around and see people who look like them and think like them and, ostensibly, speak of unity consciousness. These people may also speak of shared knowledge, the divine feminine and indigenous wisdom. They may also seem to act in a manner that embraces a sustainable future and decries a continuation of the current death-culture. But words are easy. It is when actions are called for that the determination must be made as to whether Truth is present or not. The type of truth that is often most subjective and relevant in this land of contradiction has to do with that which has kept the People divided for so long. The political, economic and social echos of prejudice, xenophobia and institutional racism.
No one in this movement called the New Age ever wants to talk about it. It is the elephant in the room, the uncomfortable truth that remains relevant and stymies all calls for unity and reconciliation. Whenever such a discussion is begun, it is often the case that those who feel as if guilt is being as signed to them personally react in a negative and toxic manner and the supposed goodwill implicit in spiritual gatherings is immediately nullified. The victim-consciousness template that actively challenges the oppressor modality shares culpability in the continuation of the drama, with the inability to come to any real resolution between the two sides due to the sheer emotionality and primarily subconscious nature of the problem, the raison d’etre comprising the entirety of this karmic structure’s dark yet evolutionary purpose.
It is precisely because of this almost subliminal and visceral response that discussions of race elicit that it is important to call it to the forefront of the discussion, in order to draw forth the collective demons that it awakens. In this manner, it is possible to take on the segregative facilities of the Control System and actively and energetically combat the prevailing compartmentalization that relies upon divide and conquer methodologies to keep humanity in a state of low energetic flux and limited potential transformational capacity. While there is often some token representation of diversity amongst the different ideological components comprising New Age movement, a yellow, red or black face if not in the room then at least in the organization, the continued relevance of cultural racial discrimination is the karmic time bomb that threatens the very foundations of any spiritual movement that considers itself truly concerned with unity consciousness.
The uncomfortable truth is that, while individual racism has certainly subsided in the last 40 plus years since the post WWII freedom movements and the end of legal segregation in the United States, many individuals still harbor conscious and unconscious prejudices or stereotypes against those of other racial groups. Not only that, but institutional racism – the structural codification of segregative behaviors, i.e. public and private sector discrimination – remains implicit in all of the continuing inherent discriminatory practices in job hiring, the criminal justice system, housing and recreation. As individuals engage in these areas of people activity without a conscious awareness of the prevalence of institutionalized racism, they are actively promoting and endorsing it by their very participation in these modes of societal production. By the neighborhoods we live in, by the stores we shop in, by the social organizations we belong to, we advertise to the world what we believe and who we are, whether we realize it or not.
A more apt and spiritually relevant description of the different typologies of humanity seems more accurately divided between those who possess the capacity to experience empathy and those who do not, but the more visually deterministic difference is, of course, skin color. I use the term race advisedly and converse to the scientific pronouncement that there is no such thing as race, only ethnicity, since we are all one human race. Perhaps that is so on the purely scientific level, but colloquially, the term remains widely employed and relevant. Subsequently, the continued existence of the Global White Supremacy System is not only still a relevant factor in the explanation of social and economic disparaties the world across, it explains the essential contradiction of a New Age movement that possesses, highlights and continues to harbor many xenophobic and supremacy-oriented ideologies that have their origin in segregative and racist philosophies from earlier and more discriminant eras.
These racist philosophies have morphed in the New Age to take on more universal aspects, as streams of supposedly ancestral genetic superiority are said to have originated upon other planets and within distant star systems. These belief systems are typified by the glaring omission of representatives of all of the races of humanity throughout the rest of the cosmos, but also state that genetics are the currency of the galaxy – an obvious and glaringly xenophobic paradox – thereby subliminally justifying similar threads of ideological dominance and suppression here upon the earth. By so doing, they tend toward the justification of all of the ills of discrimination, segregation, enslavement and superiority complexes that have bedeviled humanity for so many 
millennia, indicating that these things exist beyond the earth and so they must be, if not positive realities, then at least they are pervasive wherever 3rd Density consciousness exists. Whether or not these realities exist is not the point. The point of our current existences here upon the earth is spiritual evolution, the importance of which should necessitate our elevation beyond all discriminatory practices and systems of knowledge, no matter who else in the galaxy or universe practices them for whatever reason.
Because of this reality, spirituality as expressed during this current era is divided, even in the “melting pot”-like Western countries. Reds have their prophetic traditions, ceremonies and earth-centered systems of sorcery and magical practices, while Blacks have cobbled together a disparate collection of ideologies and beliefs centered upon ideals of melanated spiritual ascendancy grounded by their emotional and empathic inter-connectedness. Yellows have long traditions of esoteric beliefs pertaining to energy and physical movement existing within multiple energetic dimensionalities and Whites have incorporated many of these traditions into pre-existing indigenous European belief systems, resulting in a New Age tradition comprised of combinations of all of the above, made unique to them by the infusion of what seems to be an unconscious trend towards continued racial separation and a new and supposedly inclusive form of ethnocentric supremacy.
In this context, indigenous knowledge becomes an owned commodity, available for procurement and appropriation, the ceremonies of Reds, Blacks and Yellows become common spiritual property for all – i.e. the New Age movement – to change, modify and employ, regardless of the inherent dangers of practicing foreign systems with a limited understanding of the cultural and historical context and methodological particulars. The spiritual traditions of the Ages, perfected as practiced over many millennia of experimentation within the geographic crucibles inhabited by each of the different racial groups, become the fodder for instant egoistic gratification masked as potential spiritual ascendancy. This is of course a relic of the commodity-based and consumption-oriented nature of Western society and, therefore, contains as a key aspect of its expression an often unconscious desire to materially consume, even in the context of spirituality, in order to fill the gaping emotional and spiritual void that currently exists within so many yearning for something more.
The purifying quality of fire has been the purview of the Whites and is the driving mechanism behind the current technological and social revolution that has overtaken the world in these times of multiversal change. This evolution of communicative processes has led to a world-wide discourse resulting in the further clarification and condensation of belief into the clarity of purified knowledge sieved through the crucible of collective experience. Fire cleanses and burns away the dross, transforming the essence of materials in preparation for the Rebirth. The ability of fire to clear away the underbrush of ancient and unnecessary belief systems to make way for the relevant and the new, to bridge the gap between what was and what will be is the manifestation of the Northern imperative, as the other directions contribute their unique essences to the collaboration of the People in the reawakening of our collective self and the recognition of one race, one greater soul group comprised of four smaller groups, each unique, each absolutely necessary for the collective awakening of All.
These times could not have come into being without each of the four directions, without each of the four races. But now, it is the task of each individual of conscience to become overtly aware of the remaining aspects of separation-consciousness that seek to continue the trends of division. It is time for us to actively make the effort to bridge the gaps not only between different racial groups but between different aspects of ourselves and between our conscious and unconscious awareness. We must become awakened to who we are, or, as the Ancients prescribed so vociferously, man, woman, Know Thyself. We must seek out those aspects of ourselves where we unconsciously comply with segregative institutional norms, where we take on aspects of victim consciousness, where we agree with oppressor or oppressed viewpoints, where we partake in inherently separative activities.
The hatreds of the past must be transcended in order for the prophecies to be fulfilled. Those who do not manifest the fullness of Unity Consciousness, those who do not deal with their own learned behaviors of separation, are not those who will participate in the manifestation of the Rainbow Tribe. The evolution of consciousness is just that and requires a death of the Self in order to truly become a part of one’s lived reality. This death of the Self means that all learned behaviors, all stereotypical thought processes, all segregative desires must be exorcised from one’s consciousness and recognized for what they are; fear and separation-based adaptations to conditions that represented the Old World and that are inimical to participation in the creation of the New World. The Rainbow Tribe will be comprised of individuals from all races, equally, not just one, with a few representatives of the others.
People must choose to come together despite their differences in service to humanity as a whole. This is possible, despite the weight of history which separates us. As we come together as one tribe in order to manifest planetary knowledge individually we will find that the light information collected and codified over millennia is accessible to us all for the purpose of contiguous spiritual enlightenment and evolution. The Afrocentric Kemetian must find common cause with the Celtic Druid, the Qi Gong Practitioner must find resonance with the Navajo Shaman. It is not too difficult: it only requires the release of the old, familiar baggage, which first requires the admittance of culpability and the ownership of said baggage. When you are able to look around yourself and see yourself as one component yet integral aspect of the whole, equal with all of those surrounding you, then you are existing within the conditions necessary for the manifestation of that reality that the prophecies herald as the quintessential sign of the times. Then and only then, will the Rainbow Tribe exist as a microcosmic resonance to our macrocosmic vibratory existence as an integral expression of Unity Consciousness and Oneness manifest within the Realms of Duality.
The cult of Individualism has a long and sordid history within the evolution of social consciousness. As the culmination of succedent eras of cultural and economic appropriation, Globalism succeeds in its transference of values and ideals stemming from Western moral and ethical mainstays across a planetary spectrum, its technological sophistication masking a very basic, human drive toward excess accumumation of material wealth based upon an underlying fear of deprivation. The Evolution of Corporate Entities as agglomerative collectivities amassing obscene amounts of wealth for a priviledged few stands at the apex of a pyramidal hierarchy of intention that represents the impetus of a materially-based culture millenia in the making. The inbred xenophobia of the Globalist system is, perhaps, an indirect result of a consciously directed effort to dominate and control the world’s markets through economic and political control. In addition, the widespread dissemination of western media (movies, music, etc.), the English language as the language of the Global Era, clothing and foodstuffs through Aid agencies (USAid, Goodwill, etc.) serve to foster an appearance of encompassing benevolence, affecting all aspects of material culture in societies subject to the good will of the developed nations.
Given Globalism’s perceived multicultural veneer, some discussion of cultural appropriation and the theft of the black body may be helpful. The hoary beards of hook-nosed Elders nestle upon cloaked and sunken chests hoarding hardened hearts that hearken back in time to the early formation of Christianity, the Middle Ages of Europe (Ashkenazim and Sephardic Jewry, the Talmud) and beyond; the Curse of Ham and the experience of the Moorish Invasions of the Iberian Peninsula lighting the way to the Triangular Trade Era, otherwise known as the Maafa, and the accumulation of wealth and power west of the Atlantic ocean, in the Americas.
In today’s parlance, and, as an example of cultural appropriation, Hip Hop’s domination of the Global scene is seen as an affirmation of the multiculturalism and inclusivity of the Globalist agenda. The unspoken assertion is, “look at the African-Americans, blinging and singing, rapping and tapping their way to the heights of material success. If the children of slaves can do it, anybody can!” Appealing directly to the sensual and economic, hence, material, aspects of the Self, the forms of Hip Hop expression represents the dreams and desires of their primary consumptive audience. The shift in emphasis from conscious Hip Hop – in the late 1980s – to “Gangsta Rap” and “Booty music” reflected a conscious decision on the part of music moguls across the spectrum as this music became more popular with white, suburban teens far removed from the Urban jungles referenced in those sordid, misogenistic and formulaic fantasies of fast women and easy money gleaned from a burdgeoning and, possibily, govenment-instigated dope game. This shifting of of Hip Hop’s primary audience from black American to white American (who make up between 60 – 70% of all Hip Hop music purchased, by most estimates) audiences mirrors earlier examples of white American cultural appropriation of black American musical innovations in America, namely, Jazz and Rock and Roll.
Continuously subject to such stimuli, the outer Selves of individuals of all races become saturated, immersed within this virulent stew of xenophobic programming that acts to reinforce the institutional biases of a system that finds certain groups of people at the top, and other groups of people at the bottom. In the Now, to the eyes of many, it seems that what had previously been evident as societally and institutionally enforced segregation and repression has now become a self-perpetuating cycle of poverty and disfunction. What is usually left out of the equation, though, is the Multimedia Effect (ME) and its insidious effect upon marginalized populations. Taken alongside historical realities ranging from the devil’s deal of integration, where black communities were divided rich from poor and children bused from their neighborhoods to suburban or cloistered neighborhoods, to the questionable influx of different types of drugs into previously thriving black communities, the constant bombardment of the outer Selves, sheltered by black bodies, continuously reinforces their status within a society that sees them primarily as entertainment fodder and criminals, as reflected by the current makeup of prison populations the country across.
In the perpetuation of stereotypical articles of belief, negative images of African Americans are a mainstay on television and in movies, not to mention embedded within the substratum of institutionalized cultural interactions that comprise our daily walks thru our illusory worlds. What is the effect of these images are upon us, as a whole? More generally speaking, in the contemplation of societal roles – and the status of individuals within stereotypically inclusive categorizations based upon gender, class, ethnicity and race - to what extent are we each responsible for and to our self and societally designated groups? How black are you? How white am I? How gay or straight are we? How old do we have to be? How solid is that supposed normative construct that defines the abnormality of cultural production by peripheral groupings, also societally constructed and maintained?
As Abraham Maslow described in his hierarchy of needs chart, Many things contribute to the decision-making process. From individual and collective consciousness to economic class and caste, or race and ethnicity, we highlight the connections between the individual and society and how our social consciousnesses are a conglomeration of beliefs and understandings that are externally-oriented and developed, resulting in conflicting tides of inner versus outer truths that leave us foundering as we attempt to reconcile our seemingly oppositional perceptions. Of particular import in this perceptive process is the influence of the media.
Since we make a conscious choice in the interpretation of what we see and experience, when we think about it, it becomes obvious that we make that choice based upon our perceptive rendering of related past experiences and the beliefs we have come to hold because of those experiences. Since our interpretations of those experiences occurs within a societal context, these interpretations are then subject to the mores of that society, and the sub-group(s) to which we belong. If I define myself as an African (Black)-American, all of my past experiences are interpreted, by me, through the lens of my experience in this world as a Black American. And for you, your lens may be through the experience of this world as a Native American, Liberian, French, and or any number of numerous national and international groups and sub-groups, be they gay, catholic, conservative, liberal, agnostic or other.
Why alienate family and friends, just to befriend a member of an out-group? Why should I, as a black American, befriend a white or asian American? In the biologically determinative arena of social darwinism, there is no reason at all to do so, and, in fact, it is counter-productive to one’s own self and group interest. In this viewpoint, human qualities such as altruism and love (philos, eros and agape) are incomprehensible deviations from a pure self-interest that exists more in theory than in reality, given the undeniable and pervasive human propensity toward reaching out to people of different backgrounds on the basis of shared interest, curiosity or some deeper, more nebulous feeling of connectivity.
