∞ Long ago, the woods and the mountains — the waters — were, for our people, living ‘doorways’ to the world(s) of origin. Directly. No stories. No books. No machines. No Authorities. Undeclarable. Beyond all of religion and fiction entirely. Then, something else happened. We invented compasses. Instead of and before, above of and inside of… enacted relationships. We built ‘cities’, and we conscripted slaves to build pyramids and coliseums. Within or atop the pyramids, we ‘paid prices’ for ‘having knowingly done wrong’. Or worse, we celebrated men, women, or a man-city — as gods. We built fake mountains, and we enslaved the living people of the land, and nature, to accomplish and sustain this. We built fake amphitheaters, which became, eventually, ‘the television’ where we played fake ‘versions’ of being human, intelligent or even alive. Because no one was doing any of that any more. And then, these went inside our minds. And then… our minds »became them, and their endless likenesses. Instead of or in conflict with our actual intelligence and humanity. We need to re-establish and remember the mountains. The waters. The forests. We need to make authentic compasses of living intelligent relation. And we can. But first, we will need to see into some peculiar aspects of history, an inclination we would never allow or join, and our long and often blind servitude to its results. Instead of anything even modestly resembling reality, nature, humanity, intelligence… or even… orientation.