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Bliss
The
realization of your Bliss, which is your True Being,
comes when you
can live any passing moment of your life
without being influenced by
any Fears, Desires, or Social Duties
to live any particular way.
As adapted by
Sitting Owl from the Quote By:
Joseph Campbell
Sitting Owl's Editorial
Just a short editorial this time.
I have been in contact with Frank Cullen of Thoughtful Themes, a
supplier of some very thought provoking information. I have included
some of this work, and hope to include more in future issues.
I am feeling very blessed to have permission from Rangimarie (Rose)
Turuki Pere to reprint her Maori Teachings. I hope to make a regular
addition of this wisdom.
What Has Happened
to My People
By: Melinda
A. MacBeth
What has happened to my people?
Has liberation overtaken us
So much that men have lost their identities?
And modern learned psychologists,
Following their books
With the reverence of a bible,
Gotten so socially blind
They cannot see the path to hell they pave?
What has happened to the value of
Life, property and privacy,
Helping thy brother, loving thy mother, and
Doing unto others?
What has happened to the right of
Parents, teachers and the common law?
As I lock my doors for safety,
I cannot help but wonder
What has happened to my people?
I ask no questions.
I accept whatever you give me.
I do whatever I am told to do.
I do not presume to change anything you think, say or do; I file it
away in perfect order, quickly and efficiently, and then I return it
to you exactly as you gave it to me.
I am the reservoir into which you toss anything your heart or mind
chooses to deposit there.
I work night and day; I never rest, and nothing can impede my
activity.
The thoughts you send to me are categorised and filed, and my filing
system never fails.
I am truly your servant who does your bidding without hesitation or
criticism.
I cooperate when you tell me that you are ‘this’ or ‘that’ and
I play it back as you give it. I am most agreeable.
Since I do not think, argue, judge, analyse, question, or make
decisions, I accept impressions easily.
I am going to ask you to sort out what you send me, however, my files
are getting a little cluttered and confused. I mean, please discard
those things that you do not want returned to you.
What is my name? Oh, I thought you knew!
I am your subconscious.
Regarding consciousness,
it is unfortunate that today our mode of thinking is that
consciousness only comes from the head, mind or brain. It doesn’t!
The brain is an organ that directs consciousness in a certain
direction, and the mind can ramble on in strange ways and want things
that the body and soul do not want. There is also a body
consciousness, for example, when we eat certain foods, the bile knows
whether or not there is something there for it to go to work on.
In Dr. Peter O’Connor’s book; ‘Understanding The Mid-life Crisis’,
he says:
"For the first half of their lives males have been heavily
conditioned into believing that the conscious mind is the centre of
their universe and that the ego in particular is the ruler of this
universe.
"I find in this modern fixed-belief system, that the conscious
mind is the centre of the psychological universe, and the ego the
ruler of the system, a strange parallel with the ancient view (some
400 years) that the earth was the fixed centre of the universe and the
sun, planets and stars rotated around it. It is as if man has simply
shifted this erroneous belief into the realm of his personal universe…
In many ways Jung can be seen as being to psychology what Copernicus
is to Astronomy."
The problem in middle age, when the body has reached it’s climax of
power and begins to decline, is to identify yourself not with the
body, but with the consciousness of which the body is just a vehicle.
And in growing old there is the fear of death. But this body is a
vehicle of consciousness, and if you can identify with the
consciousness, you can watch the body go like an old car. But it is
predictable. And then gradually, the whole thing drops off, and
consciousness rejoins consciousness.
Out in the bush, where I now live, you can see all sorts of different
consciousnesses relating to each other. There is a plant
consciousness, an animal consciousness and a mineral consciousness,
and we as humans share all of these because we eat these things, we
assimilate, absorb, these energies along with the matter.
Regarding consciousness, Fred Alan Wolf says that:
“I
realised that my body is a materialisation of my unconsciousness. My
body is not a symbolism of my unconsciousness. It is my
unconsciousness.” This
gave him the connection between how addiction and the unconscious are
related, saying; “Our
bodies become addicted to material substances. In the same way, our
consciousness becomes addicted to material form. It is an addiction
or, perhaps less strongly put, a desire to have something rather than
nothing.” But this
opens up a whole new subject about a social problem that can be solved
with an understanding of Shamanic Consciousness.
A brief description of this altered state of consciousness can best be
described in the following passages. The first of which is from ‘The
Truth About Shamanism’ by Amber wolf, and the second is from’
Shamanism – A Beginners Guide’ by Teresa Moorey:
Shamanic
consciousness
"To understand the sacred, other world journey of the shaman, it
is necessary to first understand shamanic consciousness. To begin
with, consciousness is usually divided into two primary types:
"1. The focused, waking consciousness in which we are alert and
aware of our surroundings,
"2. The unfocused, non-waking consciousness in which, we are
either dreaming or unconscious of our surroundings."
"Simply put, shamanic consciousness blends the focused awareness
of waking consciousness with the unfocused flow of dreams, inner
vision, and non-waking consciousness….
"Shamanic consciousness is a special altered state of
consciousness in which the shaman is able to view his/her surroundings
as a non-ordinary reality. The shaman is aware of the concrete levels
of reality that include the everyday world of humankind. The shaman is
also aware of the abstract world of Nature energies and Spirit.
"For the shaman, both the concrete and abstract levels have
significance, meaning, and validity. The shaman has the ability to
draw information and wisdom from all levels, and the abilities to not
confuse them with each other….
"Carl Jung, the great Western psychoanalyst and mystic, once
compared the mind of man to a large apartment building. While most
people in an apartment building are familiar with a few floors and a
few other residents of the building, very few know them all. The
shaman, as an explorer and experimenter in mind and consciousness,
strives to “visit all the floors and residents.” He/she is then
able to return to his/her own “apartment” without getting lost."
Psychology
"The shamanic state, especially at its inception, has been
likened to forms of mental illness, such as schizophrenia. There are
several points in connection with this. Firstly, while the shaman may
begin her career in crisis, she certainly does not remain so, for the
point of shamanism is controlled spirit-flight and effective use of
transcendent states. Secondly, any ‘dualistic’ perception within
society, such as good/bad, spirit/matter, light/dark, which occurs in
many cultures, is bound to provoke crisis in one whose mystical
experiences go beyond this resolution into opposites, at once unifying
them and rendering them meaningless. Third, our attitude to such
illnesses as schizophrenia may just be misleading, for though these
conditions entail an undeniably great degree of suffering, we totally
fail to consider any possibility of the sacrality of these states or
the possibility of spiritual revelation in connection with them –
for instance, Mongolian lamas may advise the mentally unbalanced to
become shamans…
"As a mediator between the comprehensible and the
non-comprehensible, the unnameable, the shaman could make a perilous
world seem manageable."
For a detailed understanding of shamanic consciousness I would
recommend reading ‘The Eagle’s Quest’ by Fred Alan Wolf.
Joseph Campbell says that the whole world is informed by consciousness
and that meditation is the transformation of consciousness. Saying
that:
“All of life is a meditation, most of it unintentional. A lot of
people spend most of life meditating on where their money is coming
from and where it’s going to go. If you have a family to bring up,
you’re concerned for the family. These are all very important
concerns, but they have to do with physical conditions mostly. But how
are you going to communicate spiritual consciousness to the children
if you don’t have it yourself? How do you get that? What myths are
for, is to bring us into a level of consciousness that is spiritual…
Every God, every mythology, every religion is true in this sense; it
is true as metaphorical of the human and cosmic mystery.”
This Great Mystery can never be explained in any other form because
myths and dreams come from realisations that have to find expression
in symbolic form, and because they are manifestations of the energies
within us, moved by the organs of the body including the brain.
The following, I believe is the crux to understanding life and why we
have all the problems that we do. If you can follow it, it will also
explain the importance of understanding the duality of our existence.
People say that seeing is believing, but they have it wrong because
believing is seeing. Each of us creates the reality we see from our
beliefs. Recording a clear image of an object in our mind creates an
object clearly in the world. We see what we want to see. This is
something like thinking of an ice cream. If you think it clearly
enough and often enough, you will go and get one at any cost. Creating
one in the real world.
According to Fred Alan Wolf, it is in Mythos, Mythic Time or Mythic
Reality that nothing physically exists except as all possibilities.
This is the Quantum Body, or consciousness, where will and intent live
together in our conscious mind. However everything exists physically
in Cronos as the real truth in our unconscious, mechanical ‘body-mind’,
with cellular memories, desires and fears, but no will or intent, or
heart and soul. So everything that actually exists, does so at the
price of having no conscious knowledge of itself, and therefore relies
on sending messages to our conscious mind that only acknowledges, or
sees, what it wants to. So everything in our conscious mind is in the
form of symbols and metaphors, and is factually false unless it has a
direct communication with the unconscious ‘body-mind’. This
communication is what is known as Shamanic Consciousness, and can be
accessed when the body-mind is dying or thinks it is dying, as it
prepares for it’s next stage of the universal cycle of
consciousness.
May You
Have
Enough happiness to keep you sweet,
Enough trials to keep you strong,
Enough sorrow to keep you human,
Enough hope to keep you happy,
Enough failure to keep you humble,
Enough success to keep you eager,
Enough friends to give you comfort,
Enough wealth to meet your needs,
Enough enthusiasm to look forward,
Enough faith to banish depression,
Enough determination
to make each day better than yesterday.
A
person’s education is based on his or her experiences and
understandings.
The University of Ancient Hawaiki is the universe. Education in this
context knows no boundaries.
Aroha –
Unconditional love is derived from the presence and breath of the
Godhead.
Aroha
is critical to survival and true strength of whanaungatange (kinship
ties, extended family across the universe.) It is essential to survival
and total well being of the world community.
Te
Reo – Language, Communication
Language
is the lifeline and sustenance of a culture. It provides tentacles to
link up with everything. It is a form of empowerment as well as a mode
of transmitting values and beliefs of a people.
Mauri – Life’s
principle, thymos, psyche
Each
individual and all living things have a mauri or life principal that
needs to be appreciated and respected. How carefully we feel for and
consider the mauri of each person and thing affects health, self-esteem
and fruitfulness.
Toning, Over-toning, Chanting, and Drumming have been used for eons by
indigenous peoples of the world. In addition to the above mentioned
techniques, crystal and metal bowls are still used today by the Tibetan
monks to create healing by using a padded mallet around the rim of these
special bowls. The didgeridoo, an ancient aboriginal wooden instrument,
is widely used for healing ceremonies as well as entertainment. Tuning
Forks, which are said to stimulate the vestibular nerves, the basis of
our sense of space, proportion and balance are, sometimes, the tool for
modern-day therapists.
Sound therapy is being revisited as an extremely powerful tool for
personal growth and transformation. Many holistic practitioners believe
we are each a vibrational energy system whose patterns of intention,
consciousness and information can be expressed dynamically through the
human voice. It is believed that sound vibrations can directly align all
energy fields, especially when using our own voice. Not only will toning
increase energy in the body, well being and healing, but also if used
for positive means, can help with the healing of another.
As noted in Sound as Medicine, “Toning is a practice, which refers to
the intentional elongation of a vowel sound using the voice. In other
contexts, it is a term used to refer to stimulating health, invigorating
the body, or as in a ‘tonic’ a medicine to balance the body. Toning
is usually done with one tone, which differentiates it from chanting
which involves multiple notes in sequence. This is a process of allowing
one’s own voice to find and produce notes needed by one’s own body.
Don Campbell states that when we do this for long periods “…we can
stimulate the limbic area [of the brain] to reduce stress and give us a
sense of well-being.
“Toning creates a deep sense of being bonded within ourselves. We can
reach a state of contentment in a safe and fully aware state of mind.”
Stephen Halpern suggests singing in the shower: “The hard reflective
acoustical surfaces in the bathroom enhance the voice. Just toning
certain vowels by hitting a low note and creating a gradual glissando to
a high pitch will trigger some interesting responses in the body.”
Toning in a group creates a synergistic effect. When two or more people
create separate harmonics, a third harmonic occurs. Barbara Marciniak,
in her book, ‘Bringers of the Dawn’ states, “When you tone with
others, you have access to the group mind that you did not have prior to
making the sound. It is a gigantic leap in consciousness. The key word
is harmony. When the entire planet can create a harmonic of thought, the
entire planet will change and return to the power of the group mind and
the simultaneous empowerment of the individual. Over-toning is another
aspect in which we can learn to project these harmonics into another
person with whom we are working. Just as one can project healing energy
through touch, as in Reiki, the same can be done with the voice. This is
a powerful aspect of over-toning learning to project sacred sounds for
healing another.”
Toning and over-toning uses vowels to create the tones used. They are
AHHHH, AAAA. EEEEE, IIIII, OOOO, YOUUUU. The EEEE sound is meant to
reverberate in the throat. This is created by pressing the tip of the
tongue up against the roof of the mouth while making the EEEE sound. It
can actually be felt in the chest.
It is best to do each vowel sound three times using deep, full, breaths.
I know some people who do this at the start of each day as way to ‘jumpstart’
their bodies and brains. This practice is said to be very healthy for
the body, centring and rejuvenating and helps balance the energy centres
(charkas).
Didgeridoo
The didgeridoo is the oldest
known instrument in the world, dating back to at least 40,000 years ago.
Before the Europeans visited Australia 200 years ago, this instrument
was known only to the Aborigines of Australia. At ceremonies, or
corroborees, the didgeridoo provided musical accompaniment to dances,
telling stories of creation and other myths of their culture and of life
on Earth. The Aborigines have described the sound of the didgeridoo as
“recreating creation” through the continuous tone, insuring the
cycles of life on Earth would continue and flourish. The Aborigines
consider themselves as the care-givers of the Earth, stewards of this
planet and all of its various life forms. Playing the didgeridoo is part
of this continual prayer, which constitutes their cultural life focus.
Circular breathing is a process of taking air in through the nose while
squeezing air out of the mouth to keep a continuous stream of air
circulating. A good example of how to do this would be to take a
mouthful of water, and squeeze a fine stream out like a fountain. While
doing this, take a quick breath in through the nose while squeezing the
cheeks to keep the stream going. Another example would be to put a straw
in a glass of water and blow bubbles then keep the bubbles going as you
take in a quick breath through the nose.
Once this technique is mastered, it can be applied to the didgeridoo or
any wind instrument, which seals the lips completely (saxophone,
trumpet, tuba, trombone, clarinet, etc.).
An important thing to remember is that it is not essential to circular
breath in order to play the didgeridoo. It is more important that one
can produce a tone easily, clearly, and begin to get creative with it
before attempting to circular breath. It will be much easier to first
get completely comfortable with playing the fundamental tone, and allow
circular breathing to evolve later.
Singing Bowls
Typically,
fine handcrafted brass and other metals are used to create bowls, which
produce beautiful singing tones. Another type of bowl is made out of
crystal, and sounds much like rubbing your finger around the dampened
edge of a wineglass.
Michael Ferguson, therapist, states; “Some people have found that
playing crystal bowls while toning or harmonising the voice with them,
creates a sort of “internal massage” which seems to facilitate and
activate the body's ability to heal itself and increase its vitality. My
clients have told me that doing this helped them to feel more
comfortable with their voice and enter into a deep space of silence and
receiving. It seems that the sound creates a field of peaceful
resonance, clearing the mind and fostering a meditative state.
“People have told me that playing bowls in their house helped to clear
out any “dissonant” energies, and helped them to relax after a busy
or stressful day.
“I have also seen individuals who never considered themselves to be
“musical” but were greatly empowered by playing these bowls. They
are quite beautiful to hear and simple to play. Some have also reported
that it has assisted them in learning how to sing!”
Quartz crystal contains the full spectrum of light, reported to be
related to the seven energy centres (chakras) of the human body. The
human body is composed of mainly liquid crystalline structure bones,
blood, DNA, as well as the crystal-colloidal structure of the brain.
Eva Rudy Jansen, in her book, ‘Singing Bowls 1990’, documented the
effect of Tibetan singing bowls on the human brain. It was found that
among tones produced by these bowls, there is a measurable wave pattern
equivalent to the alpha waves produced by the brain state associated
with deep meditation.
Quartz crystal is an extremely accurate transmitter of electromagnetic
energies, and is therefore used as the foundation of timekeeping systems
(for example, modern watches). This same electromagnetic field exists
within all life forms, and listening to the pure vibration of these
quartz bowls can potentially assist in balancing and integrating these
energy fields of the body
By: Raven Wi’
In Life's
Garden
Count your garden by the flowers,
never by the leaves that fall.
Count your days by the golden hours,
don't remember the clouds at all.
Count your nights by stars,
not by shadows.
Count your life with smiles not tears,
and with joy through all your life.
Count your age by friends not years.
In the beginning of all things,
Wisdom and knowledge were with the animals;
For Tirawa, the One Above, did not speak directly to man.
He sent certain animals to tell men that he showed himself
Through the beasts, and that from them,
And from the stars and the and the moon,
Man should learn.
Tirawa spoke to man through his works.
(Chief
Letakots-Lesa of the Pawnee tribe to Natalie Curtis, c.1904)
The
above passage was taken from: ‘The Way of The Animal Powers –
Historical Atlas of World Mythology’ by Joseph Campbell. This and
other works by Joseph Campbell are the major sources of my
understanding of mythology and therefore of life. This is because,
in my opinion, no one knows mythology, and especially primitive
mythology, like Joseph Campbell. He understood life and the
importance of myth so well that his work was the major influence in
my own transformation.
Myths, like dreams, visions and to some extent channelling, come
from the energies of the universe that are manifest in symbolic or
metaphoric images. As Joseph Campbell says in ‘The Power of Myth’: “Myths
and dreams come from realisations of some kind that have then to
find expression in symbolic form.”
Carl Jung referred to dreams ranging from personal archetypes of the
unconscious to universal archetypes of the unconscious. It is the
personal archetypal images that come from our cellular memories,
subconscious or unconscious to create our personal dreams, and it is
the universal archetypal images that come from our spirit, soul or
higher consciousness and that are common to all human beings from
all times that can be considered mythological. Myths are society’s
dreams.
According to Joseph Campbell, myths serve four functions, which are:
1/
The Mythical Function, realising the wonder of the universe, and the
wonder of yourself as a living symbol of the Creator. “If
mystery is manifest through all things, the universe becomes, as it
were, a holy picture. You are always addressing the transcendent
mystery through the conditions of your actual world.”
2/
The Cosmological Dimension. This is today the concern of science, to
show the shape and nature of the universe. But it must be shown in a
way that allows the mystery and the experience of awe to still come
through.
3/ The Sociological
Function, where the myth is supporting and validating a certain
social order. This is where myths vary from one place to another and
from one culture to another. According to Joseph Campbell, it is
this function that has taken over in our current world, and is out
of date, in all the pages and pages of rules on how to behave and
what you should wear etc.
4/
The
Pedagogical Function. This is the function that everyone must try to
relate to, and gain from the wisdom of nature, realising the
brotherhood we have with plants, animals, minerals and all living
beings of the universe. This function of myths is the one that can
teach us how to live a human lifetime under any circumstances, as it
teaches us the stages of life from birth through maturity and death
to rebirth.
Today’s ‘New Age’ movement has sparked a lot of interest in
spiritual matters, because spirit is the healing force of life that
creates harmony in the world. It’s therefore natural that healing
and spirituality go hand in hand, and there is indeed a great need
for this healing energy, not only for all of humanity, but for all
of life on and within the earth, for our Mother Earth is the one
that gives us all the matter and substance of the material world,
and it is our Father Spirit which lives and breathes through this
material world.
Enlightenment, Ascension etc. are all verbal explanations for the
unexplainable experience of oneness with all life in the material
universe or with the spirit of God, Great Spirit, Creator etc.
Everything in our experience of life is an illusion because it is in
symbolic or metaphoric form. Our physical body is a symbol of God;
it is the manifestation, in symbolic form, of the never-ending
circle of life.
When we quit thinking about our own preservation, and ourselves we
undergo a truly heroic transformation of consciousness, and what all
the metaphors and symbols in dreams and myths have to deal with is
that transformation of consciousness of one kind or another. Myths
are, and have always been, here to help us understand life; the only
trick is to find the message that is behind the metaphors and
symbols of the mythological stories.
Because all native people worldwide relate intimately with the
nature of earth and sky, they all have a shamanic base; in fact, all
different religions began with a shamanic base, but in varying
degrees have missed the messages within the mythological stories and
religious texts. It is the native cultures that have kept their
simple shamanic ways of understanding the nature of the universe.
The shamans of the world have been given different names in
different cultures, just as the different cultures have different
names for God. The Native Americans refer to them as Medicine Men
and Women; the Traditional Aboriginals refer to them as Clever Men
and Women.
These shamans are those people who have been called to the spirit
realms often va a type of schizophrenic crack up, and from this time
on they become personally familiar with all the natural forces,
energies, or spirits of the universe. This is because their
consciousness spends a lot of time travelling with spirit to the
many realms of The World Tree, from the Under-world roots of birth,
death, survival and unconscious energies to the Upper-world fruits
of higher consciousness and being at one with The Creator, God etc.
Most people, on the other hand, spend most, if not all, their
conscious time and effort in the Middle-world of conscious thoughts
but visit these other worlds at night in dreams. The Middle-world is
governed by our normal material five senses, but there are another
five mythical senses that shamans use, which I will go into in the
next issue.
The shamans and mystics of the world are equivalent to the artists
and poets of our modern Western culture, in fact, the shamans of the
past have been responsible for much of the rock art and mythological
stories that are still relevant to us today, if only we can
understand the messages behind the symbolism. These shamans,
mystics, artists and poets have experiences with the spirits of the
‘Other-worlds’ in an altered state of consciousness, then come
back to the Middle-world of physical consciousness to try to
communicate to the rest of us, what they experienced and learnt from
the Other-worlds, which is always experienced in symbolic or
metaphoric form.
It is because of this symbolic nature of dreams and mythology that I
teach no belief system, I only ask everyone to experience their own
worlds, discuss or share their experiences as best they can and to
follow their own path of heart, or as Joseph Campbell calls, their
BLISS.
The most important underlying aspect of Shamanism and all of the
native mythology is the connectedness of all things, and the
experience of nature, both the human nature within and the universal
nature around us. The best example of discussing this connectedness
is with the words Chief Seattle as follows:
“The president in Washington sends word that he wishes to buy our
land. But how can you buy or sell the sky? The land? The idea is
strange to us. If we do not own the freshness of the air and the
sparkle of the water, how can you buy them?
“Every part of this earth is sacred to my people. Every shining
pine needle, every sandy shore, every mist in the dark woods, every
meadow, every humming insect. All are holy in the memory and
experience of my people.
“We know the sap which courses through trees as we know the blood
that courses through our veins. We are part of the earth and it is
part of us. The perfumed flowers are our sisters. The bear, the
deer, the great eagle, these are our brothers. The rocky crests, the
juices in the meadow, the body heat of the pony, and man, all belong
to the same family.
“The shinning water that moves in the streams and the rivers is
not just water, but the blood of our ancestors. If we sell you our
land, you must remember that it is sacred. Each ghostly reflection
in the clear waters of the lakes tells of events and memories in the
life of my people. The water’s murmur is the voice of my father’s
father.
“The rivers are our brothers. They quench our thirst. They carry
our canoes and feed our children. So you must give the rivers the
kindness you would give any brother.
“If we sell you our land, remember that the air is precious to us,
that the air shares its spirit with all life it supports. The wind
that gave our grandfather his first breath also receives his last
sigh. So if we sell you our land, you must keep it apart and sacred,
as a place where man can go to taste the wind that is sweetened by
the meadow flowers.
“Will you teach your children what we have taught our children?
That the earth is our mother. What befalls the earth befalls the
sons of earth.
“This we know: the earth does not belong to man, man belongs to
the earth. All things are connected like the blood that unites us
all. Man did not weave the web of life; he is merely a strand in it.
Whatever he does to the web, he does to himself.
“One thing we know: our God is also your God. The earth is
precious to him and to harm the earth is to heap contempt on it
creator.
“Your destiny is a mystery to us. What will happen when the
buffalo are all slaughtered? The wild horses tamed? What will happen
when the secret corners of the forest are heavy with the sent of
many men and the view of the ripe hills is blotted by talking wires?
Where will the thicket be? Gone! Where will the eagle be? Gone! And
what is it to say good-bye to the swift pony and the hunt? The end
of living and the beginning of survival.
“When the last Red Man has vanished with his wilderness and his
memory is only the shadow of a cloud moving across the prairie, will
these shores and forests still be here? Ill there be any of the
spirit of my people left?
“We love this earth as a newborn loves its mothers heartbeat. So,
if e sell you our land, love it as we have loved it. Care for it as
we have cared for it. Hold in your mind the memory of the land, as
it is when you receive it. Preserve the land for all children and
love it, as God loves us all.
“As we are part of the land, you too are part of the land. This
earth is precious to us. It is also precious to you. One thing we
know: there is only one God. No man, be he Red Man or White Man, can
be apart. We are brother after all.’
O’ Great Spirit Whose voice I hear in the winds,
And whose breath gives life to all the world,
Hear me! I am small and weak, I need your strength and wisdom.
Let me walk in beauty,
and make my eyes ever behold the red purple sunset.
Make my hands respect the things you have made
and my ears sharp to hear your voice.
Make me wise so that I may understand the things
You have taught my people,
Let me learn the lessons You have hidden in every leaf and rock,
I seek strength not to be greater than my brother,
but to fight my greatest enemy, myself.
Make me always ready to come to You with clean hands and straight
eyes,
So when life fades, as the fading sunset,
my spirit may come to you without shame.
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