#1138 - Black Eyed Peas and Sadhguru | In Conversation

[00:00:00] Welcome to the podcast, Sadhguru of Mystics and Mistakes.

[00:00:16] Wow, hooray, Jai Jayawite, Marcus. Hello, my name is Marcus. I'm from the Osage nation,

[00:00:22] Potawatomi, Delaware and Puerto Rican on my grandfather's side, but I've always been an advocate and educating myself more about my history and my ancestry. And now to be able to speak on Indigenous Peoples Day, I'm just very honored and to speak to this amazing man, Setguru, who's been on an amazing journey to learn about Native culture.

[00:01:43] I want to say thank you, Marcus and Tabb. Well I must say that I'm sorry that I had not heard your music because you know my life has been so busy means 365 days I'm non-stop on.

[00:03:02] So there was a time when I used to listen to Western music immortal. That was a great message that you delivered, Tab. I'm sure I think your crowd must be, your followers must be very young people all over the world. And I'm glad that message has been delivered to the youth of this world. Hey, thank you. You know, our music has a huge demographic of, you know, from 60 to 50 to 30 to

[00:05:27] I'm here. I'm here to tell that we're not allowed to see you here, man. Good glad to see you here healthy and well

[00:05:31] We're really glad to see that I'm telling you thank you my heart I'm saying it's really wonderful that you're back in healthy and well again back at your you know I

[00:05:38] Kicked its butt man, and I stood strong with this horrible disease

[00:05:43] And I said you're not gonna take me out because I got more fighting

[00:06:43] to make sure we frame as we spend this time together is that this is going to be a fireside chat. This is a time for us to kind of talk around.

[00:06:46] Only I got fired. You guys, you guys have no fire.

[00:06:50] I got the water.

[00:06:54] Water is life.

[00:07:00] Water is life, meaning with Choni.

[00:07:02] Yes. But right off the bat, I that leads to you traveling through all... you're right now on a twenty-two-day American tour kind of where you're traveling, these different indigenous communities. Can you tell us a little bit about like what sparked that and the places that you've been? I must tell you this, this is in 2003.

[00:08:20] I was writing a book. that's been the most painful moment in my life. I've never seen that kind of pain that ma... that Indian spirits... I know the Native American spirits standing there like that. So then I wrote this poem and I did something with that force. Shall I read the poem to you? Please, please. It's called America.

[00:09:41] The brooding darkness of these woods fed upon the native blood. my life. And on that day, I decided I should know more about what happened. And as I explored this, I realized that this, you know, this region in Tennessee was called a Trail of Tears. And we were looking for a land to set up our center. And we set it up right there at the beginning of Trail of Tears. So where I've spoken about this in the past, it may

[00:11:02] be somewhere on the YouTube, I said, it is saying. In a moment when you're very happy, you are a wonderful human being. The moment you're unhappy, you're capable of being a nasty human being. This is true for every human being, isn't it?

[00:12:22] Absolutely. Forty millennia is not a joke. You can't obliterate a culture like that. You know what? Unfortunately, here in the US, even Americans don't know what life on the res is like, or about indigenous people, or what native people, modern day native perspectives. They've been so disconnected because Indian reservations,

[00:13:40] or res life is so disconnected from city life,

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