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Thursday, March 24, 2011

ANCIENT WISDOM, NEW VISIONS




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Monday, March 7, 2011

Why They Pray With the Stones

Inside an enclosure secure is kept the sacred stone painted red and enriched with other items as hair. The primary container is made of a buckskin pouch worn around the neck, and sometimes other Helper stones are kept in the medicine bag hung from a tepee pole inside. These other sacred stones were to help in curing illness, predicting what will happen in the future, locating lost people or objects, and healing people spiritually. It is through intention and/or a dream that one finds his sacred stone, which is usually found on top of high buttes. When the stone is found, a unique, original song was created for it by the medicine man. That’s how sacred stone and its song is to be used together during ceremonies. The song is always sung with any request of the stones. Here, when someone is ill, prayers are said and tobacco amongst other things is offered. This way the stone communicates in fluent, original Lakota which usually only the medicine man understands.

The stone is solid like no other matter at hand, entirely original, and when heated with fire with sprinkles of water, it gives off steam as perspiration from a man when heated up. Thus it is from the stone’s breath that many men live.

Circular in shape, the sacred stone bears witness to many things. It is related to the sun, moon and earth not only in their roundness but also in their skan, their motion without beginning and without ending. It affirms eternal truths that together with Wakantanka, the Divine Spirit, everything is possible. The sacred stone draws you in that to honor creation is to honor the Creator, Wakantanka. Thus, the stone lives on without dying, seemingly indestructible.

These circular stones used in this way as described in the article should not surprise anyone. Other peoples have used wood carvings in many shapes and metal sculptures in varied configurations considering these sacred also. However, the round stones were formed naturally in some mysterious way and therefore sacred. The Lakota Medicine man had a name for the circular stone - Inyan Hoksila = Rockboy.

In the same way the day-sun is respected, its yellow eyes can see everything. Whenever it’s ready, it retreats. When day-sun does retreat, the night-sun in turn does look downward. The shape of the sun and moon and Grandmother Earth determined the hocoka, the sacred circles of Lakota life.

Also, the trees were respected in the same way. A long time ago a tree was seen walking and heard singing and thus was considered sacred. The one who saw this told the story in the following way:

“Sitting there observing the scene, I gazed at the one tree when taken aback, I heard singing from the trees and the one tree shuffled a ways. Looking intently I saw it was one of the large trees singing.” This he saw and heard and immediately he offered tobacco and also wrapped a ceremonial blanket around the sacred tree. And as high as he could reach he painted the tree with the sacred paints, praying on these words, “Have compassion for me, that I may live a long life.” And from that time on the tree is considered esteemed and cherished.

Spring water holes are the haven of some shielded beings. Hairy creatures all over their bodies, they never come out but live always at the bottom of the springs. Without eyes yet they could devour whatever came their way. From them the springs flow. Whenever they wished they moved locations underneath the ground. The old location has no more water but the new place gushes. The spring’s waters in the winter is hot and in the summer ice cold. One drank water from this place only with the proper respect. Without respect, drinking the water then would bring some illness upon one. It is because of this that one prays before taking any of its water. In times past they brought back one of the beings who lived in the springs and set it up in a tepee where waters sprang up and swirled around the lodge. Without warning it killed many of the people. They would feed the being but without moving it would devour the food. It never moved staying in a prone position. This is the reason why the wiwila hot/cold spring waters are valued and respected.

Conclusion

From the Pre- and Post-Modern tradition of the Titunwan Lakota Wisdom Keepers. Among many others consulted were Psa Kokipapi Garnett (Garnett Black Bear) and Unpan Hinziwin (Agatha Holy Bull).

Wicahpi Wanjila- Leroy C. CurleyWicahpi Wanjila - Leroy C. Curley
03/04/2011

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Tuesday, February 22, 2011

Middle East Turmoil?


Public outrage; violent clashes between militaries and citizens; toppled leaders; and, millions of people - young and old - flooding the streets demanding change. What's happening in the Middle East? What could possibly stir such abrupt and unrelenting discontent?

Over the past couple weeks, I’ve absorbed endless amounts of analysis of what’s happening across the Middle East, and why it’s happening. The most common explanations include the obvious (i.e. youthful indignation, the economic downturn, the widespread adoption of Facebook, etc.) as well as the purely speculative (i.e. agitating by the Muslim Brotherhood, etc.). I believe these explanations are partially correct, but I believe to focus on them exclusively is to miss the forest for the trees.

To fully understand what's actually happening, we need to pull the lens back and focus on the big picture: we’re not just witnessing the culmination of thirty years of dictatorship, or three hundred years of dictatorship. People are better connected through technology, but they’re even better connected through shared suffering. Remember: the riots in Tunisia were initially sparked by sharp spikes in grain prices. As such, the Tunisians weren’t just angry citizens, they were starving citizens. And it was precisely this desperation which pushed them over the edge.

The vast majority of people on Earth live well below poverty. According to some statistics, almost half the world lives on less than $2.50/day. An overwhelming majority of the global population is said to live on less than $10/day. Making matters worse, as unemployment increases and as desperation ensues, prices only go further up and resources become even more scarce. Urban slums are growing much faster than urban areas on the whole. Shockingly huge numbers of people live without access to drinking water, sanitation, etc. According to World Bank statistics, the world’s wealthiest consume approximately 76% of resources; and, the world’s vast middle consumes 22% of resources. Thus, the world’s poorest are left to fight over the remaining 2%. Monumental shifts in resource availability owing to dramatic natural disasters, resource exploitation, pollution, etc. push an already dangerous situation into ever more desperate territory.

Population, which hovered near 2 billion people for several thousand years, has sky-rocketed to almost 7 billion currently, with 9 billion predicted in approximately two decades. Population leapt from 3 billion to 7 billion in the last fifty years alone. And these aren’t your average cavemen either, they’re folks like you and I, born in need of nutrition, water, milk, iPods, bicycles and all the rest. They’re born with an enormous debt on their heads, and their traditional livelihoods have been placed under financial duress (or altogether stolen) by massive international conglomerates. They’re flooding already dense population centers searching for work where there simply isn’t any to be found.

And why isn’t there any work to be found? Is it corrupt leadership? A lack of education? Is it systematic repression imposed by wealthy nations in order to exploit the resources of so-called developing nations? Yes! and, No! No! No! It’s resources, plain and simple. It all comes down to resources. Everything you see, touch, hear, and taste comes from natural resources. One way or another, everything comes from the Earth – including the constituent ingredients of all man-made materials. We’ve been pulling on those resources with single-minded determination and industrial strength for more than a century, and they’re gone.

Our oceans are over-fished, poisoned, and polluted. Only the smallest of the super-fish (marlins, sailfish, etc.) remain. Mountains are knocked over weekly, and large swathes of forest disappear overnight. Experts across the globe are reporting declining production, shortages and/or hoarding of essential commodities such as staple grains, oil, phosphorous, and rare earth metals. We’re consuming faster than we replenish. And, while we’ve been warned incessantly against resource deprivation over the last century of industrialization, we’ve largely ignored those warnings (for obvious interests), and we’ve done NOTHING to counteract the most damaging effects. It’s just that simple.

There is no leadership and no economic recovery to eagerly await while there are no viable visions for the future. There will be no new homes when there is no wood to frame with, nor energy to heat with. There will be no new jobs without baseline commodities to exchange. No innovation without materials to innovate with, and energy to drive said innovation. There will be no comfort while so many are uncomfortable.

The system we once knew isn’t collapsing, it’s collapsed. The economic downturn is not a leading indicator, it’s a long-after-the-fact ripple effect exposing the harvesting of all available equity by a knowledgeable few.

Corruption and strategic repression are depressing, but starvation and thirst will make a man do almost anything. In fact, the situation in the Middle East is so obviously bad that average citizens are leaving their jobs in droves to flood the streets demanding change. They’re not responding to Facebook, they’re responding to a deafening call of emergency distress. People are broken and desperate, and they have no choice but to revolt. African and impoverished Latin nations will likely hit the streets next. It’s not going to get better as regimes fall, it’s only going to get worse.

And why should you, dear reader, care about the plight of the suffering? Because you’re a warm-blooded humanitarian? Because seven billion friends are much better than seven billion enemies? No?

Care because nothing will save you other than yourself. Care because we can actually solve our problems by simply working happily together; by walking together, holding hands and hearts. Care because the only things proven to stem population growth and quell unrest are education, empowerment, economic stability, and happiness. And the only way to create education, empowerment, economic stability, and happiness in a world without traditional remedies, is to drop everything and work together in forces of hitherto unforeseen scale to improvise and overcome as this emergency dictates we must.

Make no mistake: this isn’t conspiracy theory. This is plain, carefully reasoned logic; and, I challenge anybody – nay, I beg anybody – to please prove me wrong.

Do you get it? Do you see the big picture? and what does it mean to you? Stay tuned to One World In Concert for more info (and positive solutions) coming soon!



David DavidsonDavid Davidson
02/22/2011

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Monday, January 17, 2011

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"I am convinced that the universe is under the control of a loving purpose and that in the struggle for righteousness man has cosmic companionship."
Martin Luther King, Jr.

HAPPY BIRTHDAY BELOVED TEACHER AND FRIEND. OUR WORLD IS INFUSED WITH YOUR SACRED LIFE.
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Friday, December 31, 2010


Why celebrate the New Year once a year when every moment is a new millennium of possibilities waiting for you to manifest?

Ask yourself:

What is the difference between your experience of existence and the whole Truth?

You think you still have a thousand serious moves,

Where there is only One move left now

to become 
your Infinite Being,

through the Heart.

Jump In!

Abundant Blessings
Peace

Wednesday, October 13, 2010

Sound Healing, Session 4


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SESSION FOUR: LUCID STILLNESS

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Thursday, September 30, 2010

As The World Turns...


Can you feel the dynamics of the New World Order coming to light? The past few weeks have brought more change to our planet than any sequence of days in recent memory. "How?" you ask. Read on, Dear Reader, read on...

Several stories have emerged over the past couple weeks which have truly captured my imagination. Contrary to the insipid trolling employed by the US mainstream media, the real story at the heart of the future of the world is not in the antics of the American Tea Party, or the confused desperation of Democrats struggling to understand their role in spreading malaise and discontent. Indeed, the true story of Life makes our petty domestic politics seem pedestrian by comparison.

The Law Of The Land is changing, and changing quickly, with significant ramifications to be played out over the coming century. Your life is now shifting, and you need to understand how...

Efforts to resolve disputes on Arctic waterways are being pushed forward as sea ice retreats. Coinciding with the recent UN Mid-East Peace Talks in New York, Russia held an International Arctic Forum designed to establish claims, resolve differences, and ostensibly move the process of resolving Arctic disputes in a productive direction.

As Guardian News reports, "Russia's prime minister, Vladimir Putin, has dismissed claims that the Arctic is a new strategic battleground and called on the world's five Arctic powers (US, Canada, Norway, Russia and Denmark/Greenland) to resolve their rival territorial claims according to international law.(1)"

Nonetheless, Russia is preparing floating nuclear power plants capable of sustaining up to 200,000 people(2) in drilling platforms, ice breakers, research missions, and security operations, etc. in pursuit of dominance of the region as well as its claim to the Arctic's disputed undersea Lomonosov Ridge. "Russia, Canada and Denmark all plan to file separate claims to the UN to show that the underwater mountain range – and its vast oil and mineral deposits – are an extension of their sovereign territory,(1) " details Guardian News.

Additionally, Guardian News informs a deal was sealed between Norway and Russia under which "both sides agreed to demarcate their sea borders in the Barents Sea and Arctic Ocean.(1)" The deal ended a 40-year dispute and, perhaps, further clears the path for Russia to dominate the region. At the very least, Russia's posture displays the inevitability of Arctic development as the planned ecological trajectory for the next century.

The retreating ice of the Arctic Circle is enormously significant in the human time-line. Previously un-navigable Northern passages linking the Atlantic and Pacific Oceans have recently opened in summer months: promising to forever alter the future of aquatic life, int'l shipping routes, commercial exchange, availability of extraction resources, and the balance of maritime power. The Arctic will inexorably impact every significant decision made in the foreseeable future.

This unparalleled resource represents the last great power source - and potential power struggle - for countless eons of human civilization, the grand culmination of a species' work. The Five Arctic Powers' claims aside, the emerging Arctic drama is a milestone of immeasurable importance (and a story we'll continue to follow at One World In Concert).

China is buying Pakistan. Here's a story that simply hits you in the side of the head... one you might never have seen coming. Could it be that China will almost effortlessly claim the prized Himalayan territory so violently contested by Pakistan and India? As reported in a recent essay on Project Syndicate, China has been investing billions in infrastructure in the Kashmir region with the hopes of at long last expanding its reach directly to the Arabian Sea - thereby allowing for even greater influence over international trade and power in the next century(3).

Seething all-consuming war is brewing in the Middle East and Africa - making the calls for Israeli/Palestinian peace ever more urgent(4). Fueled by a wide array of tensions, not least among them religious antagonism and desperate resource deprivation, extremist groups in nations such as Yemen, Afghanistan, Somalia and many others have become wildly destructive improvised explosive devices impatiently awaiting detonation upon the slightest provocation.

Moderate nations in the immediate vicinity - as well as domineering super-powers seeking resources and security - stand trapped in the middle. Out-gunned, out-numbered, and peering almost helplessly over the brink of near-total destruction.

Troubling as these problems may seem, there is tremendous cause for hope, optimism and renewed vigor. Perhaps, our path to the future may not strike across the land in a bold swath of destruction as has historically been the case. Rather, we may flow into the future like water through the walls of a canyon that the very same water had taken centuries to form: following the path of least resistance, steered by the purposeful avoidance of known dead ends and untenable consequences.

The world is a complex living tapestry composed of trillions of sophisticated parts operating on advanced fractal algorithms. Significant shocks of the system trigger ripple effects of seemingly infinite resonance. Economies falter, development slumps, and ecosystems ail as the world holds its breath; struck dumb by the awe-inspiring perplexity of current events and pending tribulations. Nevertheless, the world is re-aligning itself in preparation for yet another New World Order of unprecedented growth and prosperity.

Nations seeking Peace and Security are forming new strategic allegiances, the likes and global proportions of which we've never seen. America has recently strengthened its ties to India and Saudi Arabia through energy and arms deals. Prominent Arab nations including U.A.E., Jordan, Morocco and others are seeking new roads to peace, passionately encouraging the resolution of the Israeli/Palestinian dilemma, and drafting a vision of the world in which the three Abrahamic religions peacefully and harmoniously co-exist.

Moderate nations are circling their wagons to ensure stability, security, modernization, prosperity and growth - and marginalize threats - in the midst of massive crises owing to lack of water, deluge, religious and political tensions, economic disaster and much more.

The time is now to passionately resist the deafening and nearly relentless calls to Dumb Down. Enlighten Up, instead; hitch your wagon to the success of terrestrial species and sustainable ecologies. Act now to help shape the vision of a peaceful, prosperous and secure planet - free to roam the galaxy with happy, healthy and loving human passengers well into the distant future.

David DavidsonDavid Davidson
09/30/2010

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