Here we depart from
the known and embark on forging medicine relationships with the
essential healing qualities of the plant beings directly. So much
information of loving substance and value has been lost to us,
forgotten, hidden from us, punished, co-opted or discredited and yet
many alternative restorative and healing continue to reveal themselves
as 'new' or surface in the grass roots research labs of suffering and
need, our own and that of others. Courage must be summoned to think
deeply about want and need. Talking, reading, observing the good old
ways of establishing honest relationships with every aspect of a
condition and then stepping out with new eyes, trusting, testing and
flexing the new muscle of intuition first on small conditions and then
the larger and then the largest. There is no one else to look to but
ourselves, collectively, to initiate the Spirit Talks, rebuilding and
restoring strong and vital connection and communication with all of the
other living things with which we share the planet. We are seriously out of
touch with the natural world and continuously moving more seriously out
of balance with the whole. We can and must take these steps for our
survival. Our survival means stepping put of ignorance, desensitization
and feelings of entitlement..anything and everything we can identify
that contributes to real or imagined feelings of separation with
anything. We are want and need driven, always. These wants and needs
will serve us well when order and connection is desired with the natural
world, the animals, our ancestral helpers and Spirit guides and the
plant beings in particular. The restoration of honorable communication
with the plant beings is of paramount importance and of the guidance
presented here, found elsewhere and intuited is especially successful,
perhaps the plant beings or being will come forward, reveal themselves
and talk to you. Then you're on your way. That's the way is always was.
The plant beings will then state exactly how they can be helpful and to whom and
why...they will say when and how they should be picked, stored, prepared
and spoken to..they will teach the forgotten words and songs that
should accompany picking, preparation and application. That's the way it
goes when it goes well.. This is a true restoration of balance and
harmony through a mind, heart, body and Spirit driven initiative in
concert with native beauty, the Medicine Wheel Teaching or a structure
your choice, design or vision, for our heartbeat and the heartbeat of
the Mother Earth are one.
WE MUST WALK WITH HUMILITY. WE MUST DO THIS IN ORDER TO SEE AND
HEAR ALL THINGS CLEARLY, AND PUT AN END TO THAT WHICH IS NOT REAL.
THE ORIGINAL INSTRUCTIONS
Now
comes the work of setting these things we shall call the Original
Instructions in place and tending them with attention and highest
consciousness.
All beings are born with a set of
original instructions. The clear physical instructions which which we
all arrive are DNA and heredity patterning. We, like all beings contain,
produce and reproduce adaptive potential to successfully meet a wide
variety of growth conditions from birth stresses, the vulnerabilities of
youth, reproductive opportunities, sickness, old age and transition
activities. Within our specific lineages are past histories charting
the major evolutionary shifts. Science and medicine are able to measure
and evaluate current and future cellular data shifts and now, even
extends it reach to enter original seed packaging and manipulate base
genetic structure in order to legally extend ownership of the developed
seed stock for profit in the field and marketplace. The former seed
stock contains and reproduces itself according to its original
instructions while Genetically Modified seed stock does not. We intend
to follow the original instructions and put an end to that which is not
real.
We are choosing to continue measuring our steps to meet and journey within the mystical outlines of the original instructions.
Personal choices and affinities of religion and culture shall remain such.
Within this text the major theme is The Original Instructions as
revealed and made manifest in the Creator's first gift to us, the
two-leggeds ..., most beautiful and enduring gift of the unknowable
cosmos within which lives and is breathed alive: Our Mother Earth; Our
Father Sky Sun; Our Grandmother the Moon; the Star Beings; the cognizent
and powerful elementals .. Water, Fire, Wind, the Green Beings, the
Directions .. Spirit Helpers ...all beings who live upon, above and
within this Mighty Gift-The Medicine Wheel of Life.... Ho,
Mitakweasin..my Relations, I ask you to overlook any omissions or
mistakes in this, the naming...there are so many..and I am still
learning how to become and live as a complete human being.
And now, I will pause to think on these things.
Thursday, October 20, 2016
October 17 -- Spirit Talk: Book Signing
Thursday, October 6, 2016
The Ceremony of Picking and Gathering 'IN A GOOD WAY'
THE CEREMONY OF PICKING AND GATHERING 'IN A GOOD WAY'
Picking and gathering have long been among humankind's primary tools for providing food. The basic nature of the sacred give-away and receive principle is the model for our approach to the plant people, the skebyak, and the natural world.
The plant people go a long way toward offering and providing us, the two-leggeds and others, with the physical materials we need to live life 'in a good way'. Plant fiber provides assorted fiber for the weaving of clothing, nets, mats, basketry, footwear, hammocks, housing, cordage, snares and traps. The plant people share their bodies that our own might live and medicines by which to maintain, heal, and restore health and balance.
The green beings hold all wisdom and knowledge. The Mother Earth and all beings that live upon and within her body have their own unique medicine ways and it is of these ways that we seek to learn the languages, uses and songs. Our Mother is a sentient being with an evolutionary path of her own and when sufficiently sensitized it is possible for us to feel her heartbeat through the soles of our feet and entire being.
In order for us to make orderly and honorable approaches to each living thing we must first understand ourselves for this is what we bring forward in dialogue and intent by way of introduction. The text of Spirit Talk is designed to offer and provide sensitization models, histories, identifying, arriving at and holding appropriate thought focus, charting some designs of personal ritual and time management, suggest structures of meaningful ceremony in the context of individual biology and life style, observing and creatively participating in the cyclical dynamics of the seasons, to encourage song, dance, music..these are some of the ways by which we may begin to accurately and healthily track our minds, authentically and honorably present ourselves to ourselves, actually, and then to all other beings. Seriously consider these suggestions and the practices set forward in the earlier Seasonal writings. Experiment with them for personal veracity, test them out, through your own Spirit Talk. Make requests and prayers for inspired and illuminated pathways.
The Direction of the West, the Physical, Medicine and Introspection
Color: Black or Dark Blue
The Harvest
The Animals often associated with this direction are the eagle and the deer however, many people find that personal affinities with each of the directions may reveal themselves in time. The Medicine Wheel design offered on these pages are of a universal nature. Personal colors and animals may be added alongside the universal motifs, as experience, familiarity and intuition accrues with the seasons. This is a direction of deep return and recognition. The West receives us in our mysterious entirety, our harvest, and we may also journey out to the West and visit.
The Hard Road of Life
West, the final direction in this cycle, links the physical plane-west with the mental plane-east. This is called the hard road of life and where it crosses the good red road is where the sacred Flowering Tree lives. That's us, especially when we have walked all of the Roads for we must not deny walking any of the paths. Here and now is where we can aspire to make our return to the home center and merge with the Tree of Life.
The Tree of Life
All of the previous teachings, labors, and observances are approaching a return connection with the Spirit Dream origins of the year, Winter. With the arrival of Autumn we reach a culmination of medicines and seasons. Our harvests, the time of gathering and picking is among the most mysterious, secretive and familial beings, the beings of seed. We can join our essences with theirs, our dualities, singularities, multiplicities and universalities unique and connected upon all directions of the Medicine Wheel but especially, the direction of the west, in the autumn. Everything is coming together and we begin to make ourselves ready to meet the demands and rewards of the hard road of life walk, that another cycle can draw to an orderly close, be complete, rest, prepare and fire the new seeds with inspiration, jointly.
Picking and gathering have long been among humankind's primary tools for providing food. The basic nature of the sacred give-away and receive principle is the model for our approach to the plant people, the skebyak, and the natural world.
The plant people go a long way toward offering and providing us, the two-leggeds and others, with the physical materials we need to live life 'in a good way'. Plant fiber provides assorted fiber for the weaving of clothing, nets, mats, basketry, footwear, hammocks, housing, cordage, snares and traps. The plant people share their bodies that our own might live and medicines by which to maintain, heal, and restore health and balance.
The green beings hold all wisdom and knowledge. The Mother Earth and all beings that live upon and within her body have their own unique medicine ways and it is of these ways that we seek to learn the languages, uses and songs. Our Mother is a sentient being with an evolutionary path of her own and when sufficiently sensitized it is possible for us to feel her heartbeat through the soles of our feet and entire being.
In order for us to make orderly and honorable approaches to each living thing we must first understand ourselves for this is what we bring forward in dialogue and intent by way of introduction. The text of Spirit Talk is designed to offer and provide sensitization models, histories, identifying, arriving at and holding appropriate thought focus, charting some designs of personal ritual and time management, suggest structures of meaningful ceremony in the context of individual biology and life style, observing and creatively participating in the cyclical dynamics of the seasons, to encourage song, dance, music..these are some of the ways by which we may begin to accurately and healthily track our minds, authentically and honorably present ourselves to ourselves, actually, and then to all other beings. Seriously consider these suggestions and the practices set forward in the earlier Seasonal writings. Experiment with them for personal veracity, test them out, through your own Spirit Talk. Make requests and prayers for inspired and illuminated pathways.
The Direction of the West, the Physical, Medicine and Introspection
Color: Black or Dark Blue
The Harvest
The Animals often associated with this direction are the eagle and the deer however, many people find that personal affinities with each of the directions may reveal themselves in time. The Medicine Wheel design offered on these pages are of a universal nature. Personal colors and animals may be added alongside the universal motifs, as experience, familiarity and intuition accrues with the seasons. This is a direction of deep return and recognition. The West receives us in our mysterious entirety, our harvest, and we may also journey out to the West and visit.
The Hard Road of Life
West, the final direction in this cycle, links the physical plane-west with the mental plane-east. This is called the hard road of life and where it crosses the good red road is where the sacred Flowering Tree lives. That's us, especially when we have walked all of the Roads for we must not deny walking any of the paths. Here and now is where we can aspire to make our return to the home center and merge with the Tree of Life.
The Tree of Life
All of the previous teachings, labors, and observances are approaching a return connection with the Spirit Dream origins of the year, Winter. With the arrival of Autumn we reach a culmination of medicines and seasons. Our harvests, the time of gathering and picking is among the most mysterious, secretive and familial beings, the beings of seed. We can join our essences with theirs, our dualities, singularities, multiplicities and universalities unique and connected upon all directions of the Medicine Wheel but especially, the direction of the west, in the autumn. Everything is coming together and we begin to make ourselves ready to meet the demands and rewards of the hard road of life walk, that another cycle can draw to an orderly close, be complete, rest, prepare and fire the new seeds with inspiration, jointly.
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