Native American Spirituality

[Spirit Dancer]

"Wakan Tanka never stops creating."
--Archie Fire Lame Deer, LAKOTA
The Medicine Wheel teaches about change. It says that which is created will fall apart; that which is loose, will be used to create new. In other words, everything on Earth is participating in a constant change that is being directed by an order of laws and principles which were originated by the Great Spirit. We humans are equipped with natural change abilities. We have the ability to vision; we can use imagination and imagery; we can change belief, attitude, habits, and expectations. We need to know ourselves and we need to know how we work inside to enable us to change naturally.

Great Spirit, teach me to change in harmony.

[Spirit Dancer]

"It is not through the great skill of the hunter himself that success is achieved, but through the hunter's awareness of his place in Creation and his relationship to all things."
--Thomas Yellowtail, CROW
If only the human being could understand the power of proper relationships, the need for power and control could be abandoned. It's not what is going on that matters, but how we look at what is going on. It's our relationship to it that counts. Nothing in the world has any meaning except the meaning we give to it. To be more effective at this, we need to consider our relationship with the Creator. Our relationship to the Great Spirit determines how we will perceive the meanings we put to places, people, institutions, and things. We need to let the Creator tell us and guide our thoughts about these relationships. Any relationship that we have that is causing problems means we need to pray for a new point of view.

Creator, let me see the world and the people through your eyes.

[Spirit Dancer]

"We need to save those Elders who cannot speak for themselves -- the trees."
--Haida Gwaii, Traditional Circle of Elders
The trees are the Elders of the Earth. Go to the forest or to the mountains and find a young tree. Then find an old tree. Spend time with each. Sit by the young tree and listen to your thoughts. Then move to an old tree and listen to your thoughts again. Just being in the presence of an old tree, you will feel more calm. Your thoughts will contain wisdom and your answers will be deeper. Why is this so? These old trees know more, have heard more, and are the Elders of the Earth. We must ensure these trees live so we can learn from them.

My Creator, help me to protect the trees and listen to them.

[Spirit Dancer]

"If there is a shadow of a doubt someplace, that will cause a weakness."
--Wallace Black Elk, LAKOTA
In the Spiritual World there is a spiritual Law. The Law says; like attracts like. This means whatever mental picture we hold inside our minds we will attract from the Universe. To make this Law work we must maintain a constant picture. If we picture or vision something, and along with this picture we have doubting thoughts, our vision will not happen and we will get EXACTLY what we picture or vision. The Law always works. A doubting vision will not materialize what we want. A vision without doubt will always happen. This is a spiritual Law.

My Maker, today, let my vision become strong.

[Spirit Dancer]

"So we are connected to the moon. That gives us power, a connection to the Earth and the moon, men don't know about."
--Cecilia Mitchell, MOHAWK
The Elders tell us that the Woman has access to special powers. The Earth Mother gives her love in a special way to the Woman. The Moon also gives special powers to the Woman. She uses these powers to nurture, heal, and guide the people.

Great Spirit, today, give a special Blessing to our Women.

[Passionaria]

FROM CHIEF ARVOL LOOKING HORSE

19th generation Keeper of The White Buffalo Calf Woman Pipe


****A Great Urgency ****To All World Religious and Spiritual Leaders ******

My Relatives,
Time has come to speak to the hearts of our Nations and their Leaders. I ask you this from the bottom of my heart, to come together from the Spirit of your Nations in prayer.

We, from the heart of Turtle Island , have a great message for the World; we are guided to speak from all the White Animals showing their sacred color, which have been signs for us to pray for the sacred life of all things. As I am sending this message to you, many Animal Nations are being threatened, those that swim, those that crawl, those that fly, and the plant Nations, eventually all will be affected from the oil disaster in the Gulf.

The dangers we are faced with at this time are not of spirit. The catastrophe that has happened with the oil spill which looks like the bleeding of Grandmother Earth, is made by human mistakes, mistakes that we cannot afford to continue to make.

I asked, as Spiritual Leaders, that we join together, united in prayer with the whole of our Global Communities. My concern is these serious issues will continue to worsen, as a domino effect that our Ancestors have warned us of in their Prophecies.

I know in my heart there are millions of people that feel our united prayers for the sake of our Grandmother Earth are long overdue. I believe we as Spiritual people must gather ourselves and focus our thoughts and prayers to allow the healing of the many wounds that have been inflicted on the Earth. As we honor the Cycle of Life, let us call for Prayer circles globally to assist in healing Grandmother Earth (our Unc'I Maka).

We ask for prayers that the oil spill, this bleeding, will stop. That the winds stay calm to assist in the work. Pray for the people to be guided in repairing this mistake, and that we may also seek to live in harmony, as we make the choice to change the destructive path we are on.

As we pray, we will fully understand that we are all connected. And that what we create can have lasting effects on all life.

So let us unite spiritually, All Nations, All Faiths, One Prayer. Along with this immediate effort, I also ask to please remember June 21st, World Peace and Prayer Day/Honoring Sacred Sites day. Whether it is a natural site, a temple, a church, a synagogue or just your own sacred space, let us make a prayer for all life, for good decision making by our Nations, for our children's future and well-being, and the generations to come.

Onipikte (that we shall live),
Chief Arvol Looking Horse
19th generation Keeper of the Sacred White Buffalo Calf Pipe

[Spirit Dancer]

Every part of this country is sacred to my people. Every hillside, every valley, every plain and grove has been hallowed by some fond memory or some sad experience of my tribe. Even the rocks, which seem to lie dumb as they swelter in the sun along the silent shore in solemn grandeur, thrill with memories of past events connected with the fate of my people.
---Chief Seattle, SUQUAMISH
Native people say the Earth is sacred. Some places on Earth will feel more sacred than others. You can often feel the sacredness of these places because of what has happened on them. If you do a ceremony on a certain place and return later, whatever happened before will still be there to help you. Even if someone you didn't know did something on the Earth and you come along later, the powers will be there to help you. This is why the Earth is sacred and these special places are sacred spots.

My Creator, let the powers of the sacred places help the people today

[Kast]

As some of you know - I am 1/4 Native, I am a Native lost in the white man's world. I have a delimina today as I know what the 'spiderwebs' are that the Hopi speak of, it is not the interstate system nor the www... it is something in the microscopic world that man has put out into all things from his chemtrailing.

I am researching air and water, what is in the chemtrails are matching modern disease artifacts. The Hopi predictions go in order in time - man has literally crisscrossed the skies to create their 'spiderwebs', next comes the same wording in which we are crisscrossing with 'rivers of rocks that make pictures in the sun' - this is the dispersants and soon to be what they spray over our oceans to put out the fire and to break up the oil.

The Hopi say they need to know what their prophecies mean in order to be 'safe', they do not understand some of their words. Next - the sea turns black, that is easy enough to understand, and then next - people will flock to the Hopi for answers, some of the lost Natives will return to their roots. The Hopi think this has already happened.

Below is an air sample in a petri dish, the water bubbles @100x is where condensation forms on the lid and the synthetic material in our environment, this is what man has created to spread and interact with our air, water, soil and food, here is the Hopi's spiderweb prophecy. I am half way around the world, and this is most everywhere in the world within 300 miles of chemtrailing. Most people are not visibly affected by these environmental properties however they are present in most all of us on the planet:

http://my-stuff-dot-com.com/05_11_212.jpg

I am putting this out not to scare people but to help bring people out of their ignorance so that you might also be 'safe' according to their prophecy and of how you are being deceived and not told the truth, your media and government is corrupt - they are hiding what is going on from you. They are spraying disease and tranquilizing chemicals on you non-stop and in your water to keep you complacent and beaten down.

All Natives know something is amiss in the environment and that man is on a path to self-destruction because he is on a self mission, aka - the world of the 'insane'. All of the trees in America are infected with this, (see: whitecanker.net) the white men in control have no respect for life in any form.

[Spirit Dancer]

"Each day, whatever I am doing, I am always praying and thinking of Great Spirit."

--Thomas Yellowtail, CROW

Have you ever tried going through your day and carrying on a conversation with the Creator? Many of our Elders live in prayer. They talk to the Creator like the Creator is their best friend. It is easiest to do this if we pray in the morning and ask the Great Spirit to direct our thinking. When the Creator is involved in guiding our lives, we will have less stress, anxiety, and tension. Maybe this is something we would like to try today. "Oh, Creator, look at the Sun, how beautiful you have made it. Oh, look at this child, isn't she just beautiful! Well, Creator, I'm not sure how I should do this task, what do you think? This person is starting to irritate me; I need your help to redirect my thinking. Thanks for returning me to a peaceful mind." Remember, the Creator also has a sense of humor.


Grandfather, Grandmother, let me walk in prayer.

[Spirit Dancer]

"Behold, my bothers, the spring has come; the earth has received the embraces of the sun and we shall soon see the results of that love!"
--Sitting Bull, SIOUX
Spring is the season of love. Spring is the season of new life, new relationships. It is the springtime that really reacts to the new position of Father Sun. New life forms all over the planet. Life is abundant. New cycles are created. Mother Earth changes colors, the flowers are abundant. It is the time for humans to observe nature and let nature create within us the feeling of Spring. We should let ourselves renew. We should let go of the feeling of Winter. We should be joyful and energetic.

My Maker, let me, today, feel the feelings of Spring.

[Spirit Dancer]

There comes a time in life
when we can turn the other cheek
and walk away, or stand up and fight.
Never did I think my heritage and belief would
be slapped into my face, but it has.
My fight, is the fight for life within my
family, to beat cancer.
As a wise sage told me, words are like knives they cut deep
into the soul, they cannot be retrieved once spoken,
with that when there is no fight left, walk away.
Spirit Dancer

[Spirit Dancer]

nah-dv-ga na-s-gi di-gu-go-di-s-gi a-ya

di-gu-go-di-s-gi ni-hi o-wa-sv i-gv-yi


and in english....


Do not judge me
judge yourself first

[waxnrope]

Originally Posted by Spirit Dancer

There comes a time in life
when we can turn the other cheek
and walk away, or stand up and fight.
Never did I think my heritage and belief would
be slapped into my face, but it has.
My fight, is the fight for life within my
family, to beat cancer.
As a wise sage told me, words are like knives they cut deep
into the soul, they cannot be retrieved once spoken,
with that when there is no fight left, walk away.
Spirit Dancer

I have a similar fight, yet wish to fight for you. You are the leader of my tribe here, and our Wise one. I will pray for guidance ... We are with you, even should you walk away.

[Spirit Dancer]

Originally Posted by waxnrope

I have a similar fight, yet wish to fight for you. You are the leader of my tribe here, and our Wise one. I will pray for guidance ... We are with you, even should you walk away.

Thank you WnR
I'm not walking away from this thread, it is who I am.
Not sure about being a leader, just leaving the words
of our elders. Those who know me in real time know
I live my life the same as I am on here, no difference.
Being wise comes with age and lessons, I've learned
them well, and have studied under great sage people.
Awarding me with the ability to walk away and be at peace.
There are situations that warrant it.

[Spirit Dancer]

"The faces of our future generations are looking up to us from the earth and we step with great care not to disturb our grandchildren."
--Traditional Circle of Elders
The leaves, when they are finished with their life on the trees, will return to the Earth. The leaves that return to the Earth are the future trees. So inside the Mother Earth are the future forests. The human, when finished with its life on the Earth, will return to the Earth. So in the Earth are our future grandchildren. Knowing this, we should be respectful of the place where our future generations live. Only take from the Earth what you need. Every time you pick a plant or Medicine, leave an offering and leave a prayer. Be respectful and walk in a sacred way.

Great Spirit, teach me to respect the place of future generations.

[Spirit Dancer]

"We have an old saying, Everything living must die. Only the rocks and mountains are forever."
--Archie Fire Lame Deer, LAKOTA
The Creator designed all life to happen in a circle. For example, the cycle of life for the human being is Baby, Youth, Adult, Elder, then we die. The trees and the leaves happen in a circle; the leaves bud, then the leaves mature, next the leaves change color, and at last they fall off the tree to return to the Mother Earth. The birds bear their young, raise their young, then they die. The salmon are born, swim to the ocean, live their lives, swim back to the spawning grounds, then die. All aspects of the Life Cycle should be honored.

Great Spirit, today, let me enjoy today.

[Passionaria]

This is dedicated to Spiritdancer and Waxnrope from the depths of my heart I send prayers of: love, care, nourishment, support, timely intervention, resources, and the strength of heart to see you through this difficult journey. I am here for you both, always, with much LOVE.........

Pashi

[Passionaria]

Black Lodge Singers- mighty mouse


Black Lodge Singers- Looney Tunes


black lodge singers- spongebob squarepants

[friskyfemme]

Originally Posted by Spirit Dancer

Thank you WnR
I'm not walking away from this thread, it is who I am.
Not sure about being a leader, just leaving the words
of our elders. Those who know me in real time know
I live my life the same as I am on here, no difference.
Being wise comes with age and lessons, I've learned
them well, and have studied under great sage people.
Awarding me with the ability to walk away and be at peace.
There are situations that warrant it.

Spiritdancer,
My sister you walk in wisdom and blessing. Each of us starts from the womb shedding our skin as we grow. When we are young we must touch every flower, see every insect, dance every dance so we can learn about all of the goodnees surrounding us. We store this in our minds as we grow until we become aware that living is the true blessing and understanding the circle of life guides us to make the most of our days. As we grow grey, we teach our children so the wisdom continues to grow with each generation. Truth stands the test of time. It is the same in the beginning as now and as will be.
It is tough to hold to beliefs that others do not understand. I share your trust in the Elders that the naysayers will soon sit in the circle with open hearts.

May Great Spirit wrap you in blessing and heal you.

[Spirit Dancer]

Originally Posted by friskyfemme

Spiritdancer,
My sister you walk in wisdom and blessing. Each of us starts from the womb shedding our skin as we grow. When we are young we must touch every flower, see every insect, dance every dance so we can learn about all of the goodnees surrounding us. We store this in our minds as we grow until we become aware that living is the true blessing and understanding the circle of life guides us to make the most of our days. As we grow grey, we teach our children so the wisdom continues to grow with each generation. Truth stands the test of time. It is the same in the beginning as now and as will be.
It is tough to hold to beliefs that others do not understand. I share your trust in the Elders that the naysayers will soon sit in the circle with open hearts.

May Great Spirit wrap you in blessing and heal you.

Sister
You are very wise and the words are true, this circle of life continues and
the blessings and words that draw us together remain.
Our dance, our time to speak from the elders lessons, and share visions are now. This day I thank you for your words of wisdom.
wa-do u-lv
Thank you Sister