…When you read these stories, stay
within your heart, not your mind, for your mind will never understand how
people can coordinate themselves over thousands of years and how complex human
events can realize themselves without any human planning.
But your heart will know. Within
your heart is all knowledge and all wisdom.
For sure your heart will know the
Truth and hopefully will respond.
I am using my life stories to give
you inspiration to help you find the place that is in both of our hearts. When
you are in your heart, nothing needs to be done to bring change; it will happen
automatically and with grace.
To reach your heart, as every
indigenous tribe I know has told me, you must first remember your Divine Mother.
If you remember this first great
understanding of all indigenous people on Earth, then the inner meaning of what
is given within will appear.
Your Mother is alive and very much
conscious— extremely conscious, beyond what twenty-first-century industrialized
man understands.
Earth is not a rock; she has a name
and a personality in the cosmos. And believe me, she knows your name. And it is
her spirit, the spirit of Mother Earth, that is behind each one of these
stories.
It is She who created these stories
that, woven with thousands of other stories from other men and women worldwide,
will surely lead to an entire transformation of humanity.
When you finish these stories, how
could you not know how much your Mother loves you?
And in gratitude, how could you not
offer your service to your Mother’s needs?
Ceremony: Finally, the awesome significance of
ceremony. Mankind long ago lived not from the
mind, but the heart.
It was dreaming that created the
world, but now it is thinking that is shaping our way of life.
The old way has tremendous power
that most of us have long forgotten, and, as you will see in these stories, it
is possible that unless we remember the old way, we may be faced with an
imbalance that will not resolve itself until we do.
From the day that Adam and Eve were
created, taking care of the “gardens” was their inherent purpose. And as
humanity slowly developed over hundreds of thousands of years, this initial
purpose has never changed or faltered.
Taking care of Mother Earth
eventually crystallized into what is now recognized as ceremony. And ceremony
to all primitive and indigenous cultures over the entire world has always been
understood to hold the essence of a tribe’s responsibilities to their
ancestors, of course, in their hearts all the way back to the first man and
woman.
In my tribe, the Taos, a ceremony
was held every year on September 30, a day that was given the name “San
Geranamo Day.”
The Taos believed that this ceremony
was absolutely necessary to be completed or the Earth would literally spin off
of its axis and all would be lost for all people on the planet.
People would come from all over the
world to watch the “Indians” climb this incredibly high pole, a 100-foothigh
tree stripped of all its branches and buried in the earth about eight feet, so
that it stood vertical in the way it grew.
From hanging ropes, four Indians
would attempt to climb this pole and through this ceremony give the Earth
another year to round the sun.
It was a beautiful and dangerous
ceremony that pulled people from all over the world to this pueblo, but did
they really believe that if the Indians didn’t climb this pole that all would
be lost?
Hardly. Perhaps one or two. But most
of the world believes that indigenous ceremony is superstition and something
that has no grounding in science.
To the Indians (Native Americans),
however, this is the truth of their reality. They believe it in every cell of
their bodies.
Mankind has moved away from the
heart of the world to the logic of the mind, and their belief is in the
chemist, the physicist, and the mathematician. Science has proven to them that
all this ancient belief in ceremony is simply ignorance.
And yet modern man has created, with
its great science, which it is certain is the ultimate “truth,” a world on the
brink of total destruction in less than two hundred years and perhaps only a
few years left to exist if something drastic is not done.
Whereas ancient man, with its silly
ceremonies, managed to sustain itself for millions of years.
Perhaps if we wish
to survive at all, we should consider this ancient wisdom, at least to
understand, even with our logical mind, how it is possible that ceremony
actually can create a world in balance.
As a Native American in a white
body, I have followed the indigenous ways, as they have shown me the secret to
creation. It is not the mind that is so brilliant, but the light of the world
that comes from the heart.
Creation always begins in the heart,
and then it is transferred to the mind. We have forgotten our essence, and if
we do not remember it very soon, our great technological mind will lead us into
a world of massive pain and worldwide destruction.
A world without heart is a
mechanical world separating itself from the Reality.
What follows are stories of
remembering our intimate interconnection with God and the creation process.
My stories are given to you so that
you also will remember and return into the harmony and flow of the Universe.
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