December 2009 Blog Posts (20)

Traditional teachings - "It's all about me!!!"

UNDERSTANDING THE CONCEPT OF SELF

Our physical body is a gift from Creator and we must respect it as a gift for it carries power. We must attain to it properly; we must nourish it, respect it and learn the laws and skills to keep it healthy. It is our responsibility to ensure that it is not tarnished by alcohol, drugs, promiscuity, or addictions of any kind. There are traditional medicines found on the land that can help us heal from any sickness that comes our way. It is our… Continue

Added by Robert Kakakaway on December 31, 2009 at 6:18am — 2 Comments

Forecast 2010

James Howard Kunstler's Forecast 2010 is worth reading. He is the author of The Long Emergency and provides some guidance at the end of the article on how we need to come together.

The year ahead-- Just about everything which evaded fate via gamed numbers, budgets, and balance sheets in 2009 seems destined to hit a wall in 2010. To pick an arbitrary starting point, it is hard to see how states like California and New York can keep staving off monumental changes in their scale of… Continue

Added by Phil Lane Jr. on December 30, 2009 at 8:21pm — 4 Comments

Medicine Bowl

Medicine Bowl

Healing

Medicine Bowl of healing cures,

of visions,dreams,and what endures

Beyond the Void of time and space

You bring the healing of every race.

For Seers and healers the water you hold

Brings ancient wisdom now retold.

For seekers and for those in need ,

Your healing unguent brings reprieve.

The Teaching

The Medicine Bowl is a Traditional tool used by the seers,

Dreamers,and Medicicne People of Native America. A… Continue

Added by Kristin Amber Dawn Maire Hill on December 30, 2009 at 8:03am — No Comments

Traditional Knowledge - Old Skool???

Traditional Knowledge Keepers (Elders)

Our traditional knowledge keepers are the pride of our nation. They are the teachers of law and protocol; they are the doorway, connection to ceremony, way of life, and connection to the spiritual realm. They are the helpers of Creator and are respectful of all beings. They have different ways of teaching because they are gifted with different ceremonies and help us understand ourselves. As human beings we are considered the weakest link in… Continue

Added by Robert Kakakaway on December 29, 2009 at 9:30pm — 1 Comment

The Shift of the Ages: 2012

Herewith I would like to share the wisdom of the Maya people. I feel blessed that this Grand Elder shares his wisdom with all of Us. I am looking forward to the New Period on this Planet, let's make this Planet full of Love and Light! Enjoy:

The Shift of the Ages film shares the Mayan Cosmo-Vision and Prophecy through the wisdom and teachings of Grandfather Cirilo Perez Oxlaj, also known as Wandering Wolf, Grand Elder of the living Maya.

The National Mayan Council of Indigenous… Continue

Added by Larissa Belo-van Beek on December 29, 2009 at 10:33am — 2 Comments

Now

So what I can say is that life can be cruel. This came from my father. Now I am in a good place. I wish he was here to see it. Today my life is so good I don't know what to say. I have so much Love in my world. To reinforce this, Sandy is a wonderful mystery. Before I can think of what I need she provides. 

Today is the day after our gathering. We invited our kids and grandchildren to join us. This celebration was profound. They came and we ate bison plus chicken. Sandy made videos… Continue

Added by John Francis on December 25, 2009 at 11:36pm — 2 Comments

For those who pray

For those who pray

Who pray because water reminds him

Who sees in a flash a feeling good presence

To try again with a soft heart

To put down the insurmountable fear

To stand like a tree firmly rooted.

To remember your ancestors your

Constellation to hear your song unsung

For your woman.

Who pray because air comes for her

Blows her through the wind chimes

Hanging on the clothes line Her… Continue

Added by Carol Petersen on December 25, 2009 at 11:30pm — 2 Comments

The Waters

Soft, gentle rain gathering into murky pools

Now flowing together as a happy brook

Laughing, jumping as it trickles down

Giving life to all it touches.

Brook meets brook, together one inseparable

They press forward moving rock and all

Crashing over, plummeting down they fall

Creative, destructive, unbridled passion.

All they touch, forever changed

Valley to canyon, canyon to gorge

Manic toward home, oblivious oblivion

Alpha and… Continue

Added by Russell F Cowgill on December 24, 2009 at 8:09am — 2 Comments

Responding to Fear Of The Future and 2010 Perspectives !

Barbie-Danielle DeCarlo commented incitefully to an earlier blog:

I'll admit this can be some 'terrifying' news (which, etymologically speaking, has it's roots in 'terror') and can freak some people out.

When people get freaked out, they get paralyzed. There are a few who can transcend that feeling and forge ahead. How, then, can we share with our brothers and sisters, the urgency of the need for co-created change without scaring the bejeezus out of people (by which… Continue

Added by Phil Lane Jr. on December 22, 2009 at 10:01pm — 6 Comments

TOP TRENDS TO WATCH FOR IN 2010

:TOP TRENDS TO WATCH FOR IN 2010

The “Crash of 2010”

In November of 2007, we predicted the “Panic of ’08.” There was a panic. In November of 2008, we forecast the “Collapse of ’09.” In March ‘09, the global equity markets collapsed. But before they could crash all the way to the ground, a scaffold of emergency props was erected. An unparalleled array of government cash infusions, rescue packages, bailouts and incentives papered over the crisis.

Today, even as… Continue

Added by Phil Lane Jr. on December 22, 2009 at 10:35am — 10 Comments

A bit of wisdom

I sure hope you are feeling better. Keep taking care of your health don't let other's who are unwilling to take responsibility for their actions knock you over. Stay peaceful, reassure yourself. You are loving, kind and considerate...Reassure your body and keep moving forward.

No one should fight our battles for they are all inside us and must be dealt there. Within... Keep reassuring yourself even if you do this all day. The magic of the moment will sweep your mind clear so your… Continue

Added by Carol Petersen on December 18, 2009 at 11:30am — No Comments

Wiped Out

My tribe is gone because we were rubbed out. Their knowledge is imbedded in my genes and being. I grew up dreaming of their ways. The Earth and They were One. Those dreams persist.

Now I labor with those memories. As a kid I felt a longing to return to a simpler way. I was good with being outdoors with nature. My mom opened the door and I was out. I walked in a dream world of old memories being reactivated. I felt and lived in those moments and was again alive.

My tribe is… Continue

Added by John Francis on December 16, 2009 at 12:47am — 1 Comment

Spiritual leaders going home

I am sad to bring more news of two of our spiritual leaders going home. This past week Larry Red Leaf and Durwin Whitelightning Left for the Spirit World. I was close with both. On 12/19/09 I will conduct a Sweat Lodge "In Loving Memory" for both these Spiritual Warriors as well as celebrating the Winter Solstice. I am grateful for the time I spent with each of them in Ceremony and in our personal lives together. Mitakuye Oyasin

Added by N Gene Dunning on December 15, 2009 at 8:24pm — 2 Comments

medicine

I am looking for a good website to order my medicines from Grey Wolf gave me one thats no longer running. Any suggestion?

Added by hawk flying who sees on December 15, 2009 at 12:03pm — 2 Comments

The Whirling Rainbow prophecy (www.whirling.ning.com)

On May 10th, 2009 upon my return home from the International Indigenous Leadership gathering "Proteting the Sacred" I observed and photographed a Rainbow around the Sun...my heart and mind were so full of blessings and teachings from the gathering I felt this Rainbow on such a clear cloudless and warm day had significance. I did some research on the web and found that a Rainbow around the Sun on a cloudless day is very rare and not due to the usual reasons for a Sun Dog (a spot of rainbow or a… Continue

Added by Karma Chodzin Lalo on December 14, 2009 at 5:30pm — 3 Comments

'Hyperspace safe womb'

I have been experiencing consciousness as weather phenomena inside of me.

During one of my imaginary wandering on Dec 9th I realized I must not give up the those early visions about Norway and the fantastic quest/vision I received after ceremony at Teotihuacán. For a moment my attention was focused on the far out region of Norway and I imagined a light, a glow and a crystal emanating from a point in the sky to the… Continue

Added by Carol Petersen on December 11, 2009 at 11:30am — 7 Comments

Yerba Mate

There is an old Guarani Indian legend that relates the origins of the Guarani in the Forests of Paraguay. According to the legend, the ancestors of the Guarani at one time in the distant past crossed a great and spacious ocean from a far land to settle in the Americas. They found the land both wonderful yet full of dangers; through diligence and effort they subdued the land and inaugurated a new civilization.

The Guarani tribes worked the land and became excellent craftsmen. They… Continue

Added by Carol Petersen on December 11, 2009 at 10:42am — No Comments

Trees

Trees

I am in love with trees. They sit as quiet sentinels in our forests and attest to the glory of life. We connect with then on our walks in the forest. They are stout and silent. But in a pine forest they speak profusely. I have been halted in my tracks by the overwhelming perfume of their essence.

Not to diminish the glory of the Creators work in producing other trees; I have to admit a special connection with pines. The cone is food for squirrels and also makes for a… Continue

Added by John Francis on December 10, 2009 at 9:30pm — 3 Comments

Grandmothers

Grandmothers

My thoughts are with the Grandmothers. They, in their end time are connected with Creator. They manifest this as Love. In this regard they are a well-stream of information. Our last words tend to be Mom related. So many of us spring upright from our death bed and in our last breath say “Mommy.”

But mommy is the daughter of Grandmother. She learned her ways from her mom. Caught up in the knocks of an indifferent life stream, our moms did the best they could to… Continue

Added by John Francis on December 7, 2009 at 9:31pm — 2 Comments

Letter home regarding the huge success of the development of 13 Deeper Social Networks in the Philippines....

I wanted to share this letter I wrote to my dear Mama and Papa. I believe sometimes a letter to a loved one provides a much more intimate and heartfelt description of the places and experiences one has! Hope you enjoy sharing my encounters in the Philippines! Much Respect and happy reading to you all! -Francisco Violich

Nov 30, 2009

Hello Hello!!!!!!!

We have been having a wonderful time here in the Philippines!!! The program was a huge success, so much that the… Continue

Added by DYC Francisco Grant Violich on December 2, 2009 at 4:00am — 1 Comment

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