Does the pre-Columbian Native American lifestyle align with your inner heart?

is it easiest to find in the way we are living nowadays or in a lifestyle indigenous groups of people of various cultures embraced?

Viewing another's lifestyle on TV or in a magazine or a book can certainly ring a bell deep inside. But how that would pan out in reality is another question. In my mind, one would have to move in with them to actually live like they do. Our form of classical conditioning here in the states may be such that it would be a rather unruly obstacle in such an endeavour like switching cultures. This I do not mean to be a blanket statement. I just have no way of knowing until I do it. Ones success or failure might well be reflected in how much you have incorporated another culture's patterns into your own lifestyle. Hard to do the real thing no doubt but some are doing it. Even the simple things like the placement of a pyramidal structure in the room or Indian relics that strike a chord deep down and you must have them for a keepsake or occasional trips to other areas of interest or even the music you listen to may offer a clue to a future resolve. But once there, you will still be you and have to handle under new circumstances and opinions, rituals, leadership your own being's spiritual progress.

The Mayan, Aztec, Incan cultures resonate with me pretty strongly and quite often I wish I could experience them first hand. I have vivid dreams of a past life or a future one? with an Indian family in Bolivia. But that is as far as it goes... occasional urges to move, but where? As far as lifestyle, I am doing what my inner sight has brought me to. Both physically and spiritually it is quite difficult.

Mandalas, self constructed, bring much peace to me. They take me deep within whether physical or mental. Jung said they represented the unconscious self and that realm is more real than the one we see. The unconscious is where all the deepest memories are stored and memory is a large part of enlightenment.

Those people live in socialism. The hunters bring in the food and ALL get to eat. The basket makers make the baskets and ALL get to have a basket. They live together as a group, working towards the common good and nobody uses their greed and power to rise above anybody else. I think that is how we are supposed to be. The Dead Sea Scrolls , in the tales of the Patriarchs says that the fallen angels taught men to make coins from gold. There is no page in the bible that shows God telling man to come with a form of currency to use against each other, so that we can keep track of how much somebody owes us. That concept is of the devil. The strong should do the hard work, the weak the easy work and the old should just sit around and teach the children about how society works. The tribals have a far superioir system to what we live in

This is such a beautiful question and the answer is yes! If only people would study and do some research to see just how wonderfully in balance things were prior to the arrival of the europeans arrived. The Olmec, Maya, Incas, and Aztecs amongst many others, thrived in the pre-columbian americas and left evidences of advanced and powerful empires that were in tune and harmony with both nature and the universe. Which is proof that it can be done.

Probably because the Native Americans were not ones for written records - their history was preserved in the people themselves, passed on with story-telling. When the Europeans arrived they killed most of the people and the stories were, very regrettably, lost with the memory of the people.

I agree with The Elements' observations --- beautifully put.

There is something truly enchanting about the lifestyle/existence of those people --- a special closeness to the Universe that might have been lost to us in modern times; then again, maybe not if we dare to look.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XPd9be8R5bA&feature...

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No it doesn't align with my heart. I've read where Indians killed the mentally challenged, people who lied, people who stole, people who insulted, sold women, etc. It was a very barbaric culture. While this culture is sinful and materialistic to say that earlier cultures were more peaceful and uncomplicated is a little naive.

Yes, in ways it does, not a prisoner of a system.

No.

Jesus Christ gives me perfect peace, no one else.

I should say not.

no Im Methodist...