Can we really approach the Lakota Indian gods in a sweat lodge ritual? Can we really approach the Hindu god Shiva by chanting „om namah shivay“? Are these forces even comprehensible to us without having grown up in the corresponding cultures? Do we even „vibrate“ appropriately to be able to resonate with these eternal circles and thus go beyond the purely manual activity – the ritual, the chanting? How close are we to our native forces at all? The earth and the sky on which and under which we were born. How close are we to our own vibrations? How far are we able to resonate with ourselves alone? Haven’t our feelings and perceptions already been standardized from the outside and divided into right and wrong, desired and undesired? Isn’t it these external norms, whose focus has been directed towards material fulfillment of duty, that we follow far too much and blindly? Because it is easier or because we simply don’t know any better?
I think we can certainly unite with Wankatonka. I think we can certainly enter into true resonance with the great Indian Shiva. We can do this simply because Wankatonka and Shiva – and all the other gods – are universal and valid everywhere. They are as much a part of our spiritual experience as they are for the Indians and for the Hindus. Only with us they are nameless. Only it is so: If we cannot experience ourselves spiritually even here in our four walls, then every ritual and every mantra is meaningless and does not come beyond the pure doing. If we have learned again to enter into resonance with ourselves, then no God, no matter how exotic, is foreign to us anymore, because we experience him directly through our soul perception. There it does not play the slightest role where on the globe he is called like…