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Introduction Healing, cleansing, awakening, remembering is as simple as drinking a glass of water. No more complex than that. But I will warn you with this introduction. I'm a shaman. I come from shaman families, and if you read the Water book, I will be working on you. I'll be describing what you can expect on your way to achieving a readiness for God.
On level one, my words communicate straight-up, left and right, above and below, but I have another mind on top of this one that I am speaking to you with. I'm using it to work on your psychic self at the same time you're reading. I'm planting seeds with words, and I'm cultivating and watering the ground in your mind while you're reading, so you will grow deep roots and high branches, so you will not fear going into the below (subconscious), so you will not fear going into the above (superconscious), so you will not be afraid of the Mother or the Father.
This is not ordinary reading. By reading on from Water to Air, you are giving me permission to help reorder your mind, to make it possible for you to see all of the land's history, to see how this natural history has influenced you and shaped your thoughts, to see how all the thoughts that shaped the modern world have afflicted you with a prejudice toward a new future. By the end of the Water book, the seedling will be ready to emerge into the Air.
Because time is short, I will be very direct with my words. You either catch the bug and read on or not. If you get perplexed, I suggest you stop and pick it up later. Don't read on like this is a novel, a work of pure fiction, and you're waiting for the punch line, the solved riddle or the pretty ending. Read it like your life. Read it like your grandparents' life. Read it like your ancestors would, back in their old places and times. And wonder, like them, where they came from and how they came to be there. Read it like the first people would who invented the first language, and wonder why they did that... language. What was the purpose of them creating a language together? Go back to the beginning of everything and everyone, and ask questions.
We're going to cover a lot of territory in this book. It's necessary and I hope it won't bore you. In later books, I will go into more detail on single topics. I'm going to take words you use and give them specific meaning. Check the glossary to refresh your memory. We are going very deep because at your core is where the confusion begins. The world didn't confuse you. People didn't confuse you. The only thing that confused you was this. As you grew, you lost touch or connection with your own core. You weren't supposed to store all the knowledge of the world in such a small brain. But within your core is a connection through which you can receive all the knowledge there is or ever will be when you need it.
So, if you're confused, it's because you forgot how to get to your core. But with my words, I'll take you there, if you'll go. I'll tell you what to pour water on that needs cleansing. I'll tell you what to pour water on that needs nourishment. Maybe they're the same thing, cleansing and nourishment.
If you stick with it, you'll know what a shaman is, and I won't need to draw a box to put around it and limit it. I won't need to define it. If you stick with it, you'll know what a medicine person is, whether they ever put medicine in your mouth or not. You'll know why and when to ask for help from Spirit. You'll know what their domain is. You won't need to go to a doctor for a nosebleed that won't stop or an infection that won't go away. When we're done, you won't worry yourself about disease. You'll know what healing is. You'll know what wellness is. And you won't have much need for sickness anymore.
So there you have it. That's my ulterior motive for your mind. That's what I'm doing to you psychically while you're reading these simple words. Oh, you think, read anything you want. Thoughts have no power. Words are nothing. Humm... think again.
With your decisions, you make yourself sick or well. Those decisions are made based upon the thoughts you think and the words you speak. You may not remember having made those decisions, and maybe you didn't make them with words at all, but those decisions are now what form the words that come out of your mouth or remain hidden as you sit thinking.
Avignon cheap hotelsI give you this strong introduction because I want to warn you, once again. If you don't want healing, don't read this book. If you want to be entertained, well, go to the movies. If you like the two books thus far and think there's a story in Water, well, forget it. I told you my story in Fire and in Earth, so that you would know who I am. Now that you have read my story, perhaps you can trust me as you would a physician whom you know far less about, who treats your physical self and never anything more.
If you just want to be physical, don't read on.
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The reason why you may not feel totally at home or secure on this land of the Turtle Mother is because the land remembers everything. Twisted perception and lies in books of history cannot change the truth. This land was taken over through deception and murder. That energy is stuck to the land until these mistakes are corrected. This unsettling energy is why your home may not feel peaceful and why your children may want to always move away. To correct this imbalance that past wars (hates) have caused, the Sundance Ceremony evolved to ease the future suffering of the children, through prayer and self-sacrifice now.- | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | Web Design Toronto - DUI Attorney - Transparent ToasterTo explain, I want to now tell you about sundancers. But first, I want to say this. The Sacred Ceremony of Sundancing is each person's challenge of pouring water on the fire of their life and the earth's life. It is about will... bringing a personal will with sacred songs and sacred breath to the Tree of Life, for all the people. It is here a person takes a stand, offers everything, risks everything, goes without food and water for four days and nights each summer for four years, singing and dancing in the hot fire of the summer sun, and at the end of four days of ceremony, offers a little of their own flesh and blood.
This is strong medicine, and the dancers' intent is powerful. And because they were willing, they get some healing. To the degree that their motivation is pure and innocent, is the degree to which the Door of Knowledge is opened.
This is the path of purity. And it's done without drugs or medicines. The only drug allowed to this day, by most intercessors, appears to be tobacco. But why anyone on a fast would want tobacco--except that it does, temporarily, make you less hungry--I'll never know, because along with this good effect also comes a raging thirst. However, most indian folks consider tobacco, sacred. And it is, as an offering. Tobacco is an offering when smoked in a Sacred Pipe Ceremony and used as a sacrament. But rolled up in little papers and smoked in addiction, well, I think that even in sundancing, tobacco should be given up for four days. Then it truly becomes an offering again.
Now, I know many of you have great interest in the "Good Red Road," and that you want to be accepted into an "indian" understanding of spirituality without really having to walk "the way" to get there. For you, this is the way I see.
Go now in vision in your mind to the edge of any reservation, and sit on your side without food and water until the correct someone comes for you. Ignore any attempts to dissuade you by anyone from either side. If removed, go back. Stay through the seasons, if you must. Sustenance will appear if need be, or not. Endure any deaths of the ego or assaults your mind or anyone else's could mount against you. Be pure. You only want to learn from their teacher. Someone will come, and does... when they are moved to.
So, here they are. You endure their questions and the intimacy of their language that you do not know. You are fooled by their intent with it, or not. You are not angry when their insults hidden by language are realized. You speak only to your intent to learn from a spiritual teacher, a medicine person. More abuses and insults come from the many who now gather to taunt you about past events, with the mimicry of the personality types of old tormentors that still try to overwhelm their culture and erase its spiritual nature. As you re-live with them in vision those moments, all that they experienced in the past and still face to this day, you choose to run or stay. If you stay, you then see how you have insulted each tribal member by seeking a spiritual teacher without learning the lives of each member first, as if they had nothing to teach and were of no value in themselves. When you learn from each one, then maybe they will take you to the one they love and revere as spiritual teacher... maybe.
Afterward you can say, "I don't know why such a great people should waste their energy in anger and hatred on me anymore, for I see everything you show me is true, and I defend nothing that has happened in the past as if it were good for any. I do see how your energy of anger helps to keep out the ignorant and the foolish. You are wise."
After you can be your words all the way through, you will know that everyone in the tribe is the spirit of the teacher. In your joining them is the learning you seek.
Do this exercise for real in your psyche first. Then you won't have to go botherin' no people with your physical self and the weight of your ignorance. Psychic joining don't cost or weigh nothin'. Nobody goes anywhere to get it.
These are further suggestions, in case you have more direct involvement with "indian ways." Maybe you will have joined the spirit of the people, but remember you aren't it. Don't start thinking or acting like you're it. It's their history, not yours. Don't attempt to use the spirit of their lives as if you'd lived it.
You may be invited to a Sweat Lodge or an Inipi Ceremony. You may get healing in a Yuwipi Ceremony. You may even participate in a Sundance Ceremony yourself. All well and good. But don't ever try to own what you learn and posture to others that you've learned it, or you ain't learned nothin' yet!
You may even try to live as we once lived, dress or talk like someone red or brown, but you ain't foolin' nobody but yourself, 'cause the spirit of it ain't in the livin' like it. It's in the being of it. You can join it, and we're honored you would care enough to endure it with us. But be you, where you are, as you are, sharing and teaching as you do... honestly, truthfully, impeccably... like we are doing to the best of our abilities. It's good to share realities. We are all expanded with it. But be humble.
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