Teachings 7
These teachings that Grandfather David taught me let me see into some very deep things that I did not understand. They helped me to get closer to figuring out what the spiritual ways of Indigenous people are about, what they are saying and talking about. I finally figured out some basic things about where these traditional elders were coming from. The center of these ways is surrounded by a circle. They are about a mystical unity; a sacred state of mind that merges into experiential Oneness. It is holy.
The power of these ways is very real and very profound. They even alter the physical body or not the matter of the body but the perceptions of the body. These medicine ways and spiritual teachings can change our way of seeing and touching and knowing and relating to everything in creation. When a person lives with traditional spiritual societies the power of the unity of the group can cause that person to merge into the presence of the Great Spirit, and become one with the group. This is what power of unity a village or community of truth traditional Indigenous people have. This is the unique gift and special power of indigenous people; it is how they will illumine the whole Earth. Only they have this gift and power; the Creator placed it in their hands. The world need only humble ask. When they participate internationally we will all be healed.
An indigenous village can dissolve the ‘separate identity’ of an outsider and absorb them into that oneness. When that happens, when an outsider become one with the spiritual pulse of the sacred unity, that is when mystical experiences begin to happen. Animals can speak to you. They can talk from their mind to you and you hear them and understand them like they speak English or Indian or whatever you speak. Also, spirits can whisper in the wind and say beautiful things that touch into your heart. You can sense the ancestors and see signs of them in odd ways because we are not even separate from them either.
More commonly, a oneness with nature can be known. Your mind can be as big as the sky and your body as large as the field or forest or desert plain that you stand within. The sky and earth are not separate but part of one circle. Your body can feel the plants and the stone and water like you feel your veins and fingernails and stomach. Your body can know that it is bonded with the spirit of the land. Your mind moves in the breeze and feels the whole sky. We cannot talk much of these things. You can only know what it is if you experience it yourself personally. No words will say anything about it. Only your conscious, wakeful spirit can know oneness directly. Once this does happen, that’s when you know its not just jumbled words or nice ideas that our elders talk about. It is the truth. It is the fact of how reality works and what it actually is. We’ve only been mis-educated is all. We just forgot.
But one thing is for sure. When we come to know ourselves as more than a separate piece of a broken puzzle, when we reconnect and our mind is a hundred million times more aware and it is large inside the earth and fills the sky or we feel and know the thoughts of our relatives without needing to speak, that is when we know that the next world is one with this world. Reality lets us understand this in our intuitive faculty. They say, “Those who have gone before us, and those who will come after us, and us, are an unbroken circle.” that is what the ancestors tell us. When we realize this, then we want to make something very beautiful to leave behind here. We want to plant a garden of Eden or paradise that will grow forever. When we act or think in this world, we are already planting these seeds. they are entering into the soils of the womb of Reality. They will grow. They will germinate. They will bear fruit. and those seeds will sprout as well. ad infinity. so we are already planting gardens for the coming generations without knowing it. We want beautiful things in that garden. We want it to be a garden of life, with colorful flowers of many shapes and forms, beautiful emotions to delight the little ones, the children, who sojourn in that garden. We want singing birds and rainbows and love to stir the hearing of those kids and to make them look at each other and smile. We want to live for the future generations; and for ourselves, we want to live for them. Their sadness and happiness will be ours in the end; we are part of an unbroken circle.
The power of the heart is the first and greatest of all the powers of creation; this is the indigenous power. When it awakens, the power of belonging is quickened and comes to life; the power of the universal kinship of humanity will heal the Earth. The collective unity is a power with no equal on heaven or earth. It will unite the heavens and the Earth; paradise will return and the kingdom of God, the plan of the Great Spirit, will be firmly established.
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Extraneous teachings or practices to be discussed later:Can’t mix water makes men go crazy with Indian medicine
chemicals: 3 times in life tears holes in the soul; this confuses the spirit.
tobacco on drum given pipe other sacreds then can make or obtain to give.
Womb tombs and Eagle whistles. Microcosm old traditionalists never have much pretty fans single feather only sometimes; humble but people are forgetting about them.Elders not much acknowledged anymore; too many middle aged adults, too much interest in power, prestige, and political favoritism, rather than genuine good of tribe and community, or future generations and spiritual ideals of belief system, tribal morals aborted. We are forgetting the most important elements of native culture. We are forgetting the things that really matter. We are forgetting our elders; we are cheating and neglecting them. We are only cheating ourselves by doing this. We are loosing our own reason, purpose and direction when we forget them; that’s how we end up loosing out and hurting ourselves. Our elders should be the first and the last, they should conduct our events and hold the honorary seat always. They should be asked to oversee and decide how things be done always. We are only here to serve and support them; by doing this they see to it that we all benefit; we do not want to run the show unless they ask us to do it. Hands bless people pinch of tobacco or cornmeal. Or sprinkle water dance follows circle out Money in blanket group give back to food providers, cooks, caravan drivers, ‘drivers’ money counted and delivered by anonymous selected by host, divided and distributed with thanks; like nonprofit of community to keep sources going, reimburse them. Children central to group focus; continually addressed, involved first and often solely, treated with great respect and hope placed in; soon they will be standing here and we will be a memory. put sweet fruit juice in baby’s mouth to calm it; happiness. cared for and nurtured, create a tranquil mind and focus, faith in baby. When we take a deer or a moose or an elk, nothing is wasted; everything is used.
what called chiefs were typically storytellers, singers, historians, and great communicators who were able to organize the people to agree on a cause and action; they were leaders but by persuasion, sensibility, truth and influence not command. Lift your right hand up and turn around (clockwise following it around) but don’t do it because I told you to, do it to respect yourself. How to end ceremony in seven drum and dreamer religion; Roy.
Recurring theme; compose:
Our language is very important to us; our words are very sacred. Watch what you say and how you say it. Our words are the most powerful thing in existence; they change the world.Our songs are very important to us; we have teach them to the children. They are who we are; they teach us to live. They have the words of our ancestors in them; they are our bible; they are us. When the children learn them, they become us.
We have been keeping this prayer within us for a long time. that’s why were here. It brought us together. Its manifesting itself through us because it lives in us. We need to hold onto it and feed it. Then it will expand and reach other people. We heard it somewhere and it got into us. If we keep it alive, it will heal the word. Others will learn to love and accept all people. Others will find ceremony and pray. Black, yellow, and white, next time of red. Meek and humble will rise up and heal the world. It will be the time of the Earth people, the red people. The white people created the machines, the red people will give that machine life and feeling and purpose. We are one people with different callings, as individuals and as races. The races are beginning to merge nowadays, as it was said would happen. Teaching and prophesies say. “We are the ones we have been waiting for”, said the spiritual leaders of Hopi people. There is one of the last generation of those blessed persons still living. the others have left us. May there lives and spirits remain with us still, and help us with our prayers.
Some people say there are no spirits. they are wrong. There are spirits on both sides, good and bad. out of place can hurt us. medicine people can restore balance. make human world good. Soil is good, dirt is soil out of place. A river supports life, a flood destroys homes, crops and land. When the spiritual order of things is not properly attended to by humans; spiritual forces may be displaced and like an angry bear harm or even kill. A human can call this disorder ‘evil’; it is our own evil however as we were told to attend to the spiritual and natural worlds as stewards of harmony.
the ringing of a bell causes bad spirits to leave. Use it before gatherings of people (smudging works the same way); medicine bell. cold water hands and hair before working on anyone else in healing ways .
