When the dust was removed, inspiration came
- This page is part of an ERW course, Principles of economic restoration.
- By John Eagles, November 23, 2010
It's always amazing to me how this works. After some weeks of cleaning and sawing and screwing and hammering, finally the room for making creative woodwork is finished. The room is meant as a place of training first of all. It's not just to make things but also to set up an economic foundation for our future training center that now only still is an old and decayed farmhouse. The particular training in this room will be to learn to make things with wood and other materials. Some people are helping me and we went through quite some spiritual struggles before the room got finished. I believe the spiritual attacks and accompanying confusion and feelings of hopelessness had to do with wrong concepts about making money. These thoughts are settled in our world and also in the spirit world and in order to begin something new, one has to work one's spiritual way out from the old and hopeless ways.
There is still a purity in the native way of producing things. Many natives give their heart into beautiful creations of all kinds, whether these are clothing, ornaments, pots or tents. Natives don't get paid much for this. Their reward always has mostly been in the gratitude of their own relatives and friends who could use these objects. In the modern world we need money, lots of it to pay bills for strange things such as insurances, taxes of the weirdest types, pensions, licenses etc. etc. That amount of money isn't generated by production methods in which people give all their heart but much too much time.
But i believe it is just right to be creative in a native way. That's why i gave the project the name 'Native Creative.' In some way the world of economics must change and appreciate again when people put their love into the things they make, even it costs too much time and brings too little profit.
So we set out sorting things, literally going through boxes with thousands of used screws and other metal objects as needed for woodwork. The work seemed endless and useless but eventually we got all things neatly into tens of little wooden boxes and had put labels on each of them. We repaired some old woodworking machines and gave a place to each tool and instrument. Then the miracle of inspiration came. Suddenly we received inspiration and got hope and vision and ideas how to set up this Native Creative way of economics. It was a miracle how not only the physical dust had settled but also the spiritual clouds.
How all this will proceed? I don't know yet but i'll keep reporting as things move forwards.
