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| Lisa A.- Grey Eyes Pennsylvania posts 2506 7:24 am April 23, 2011
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as a member here who just loves our Real Faeries forum here- I thought it would be special to have a section on the Hall of Knowledge for our Native American , Aborigine and other Tribal Cultures spiritual Wisdom. The Creator has spoken to them through the ages (including now) and unlike modern so called "civilized man" — they have been listening.
Here is something from Black Elk of the Native American Lokuta Tribe I found very profound- 
Elder's
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"Each creature has a
medicine, so there are many medicines. Because they are so close to the Creator,
they are to communicate that medicine. Then they bring help and health."
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The Elders say everything has a
purpose and everything has a will. We should never interfere with purpose or the
will of everything. Every plant, creature, animal, insect, and human being has a
purpose to be here on the Earth. Each has a special medicine to contribute for
the good of all things. Each person also has good medicine, a special talent, a
special gift. These medicines are to help others or to help make us healthy.
What is your special medicine? |
Creator, today, help me discover
and use my medicine to serve a greater good.
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Member | SpiritOfNature South Africa posts 118 7:48 am April 23, 2011
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This is a wonderful post and I personally have great respect for all the tribal cultures of the world.
I love how you said -
"The Creator has spoken to them through the ages (including now) and unlike modern so called "civilized man" — they have been listening."
It reminds me of a thought I've had about man who has been trying to "westernise'' the ''savages'' of Africa and America and all the other places in the world whilst those ''savages'' where the ones who actully had it right- living in complete harmony with nature and seeing themselves as one with everything rather than above it. Civilized man got it wrong. If I had one wish it would be to give the land and way of life back to those people. We don't deserve it.
Here's a quote by a Wintu Woman from the 19th century that kind of sums up what I was trying to explain:
"When we Indians kill meat, we eat it all up. When we dig roots, we make little holes. When we build houses, we make little holes. When we burn grass for grasshoppers, we don't ruin things. We shake down acorns and pine nuts. We don't chop down the trees. We only use dead wood. But the white people plow up the ground, pull down the trees, kill everything. … the White people pay no attention. …How can the spirit of the earth like the White man? … everywhere the White man has touched it, it is sore."
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| Lisa A.- Grey Eyes Pennsylvania posts 2506 8:35 am April 23, 2011
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OMG, I totally agree with that Wintu woman!!!!
Sadly the white man has been permitted to have his/her way with Mother Earth, but I do not feel this is going to be permitted for long- I believe that mankind's unbridled greed is going to be permitted up to a point- then the Great Spirit is going to say "Enough" and thing are going to start toppling over fast. The Earth is already starting to cleanse herself , which is why there are so many disasters occuring at a greater and greater place. We are not only experiencing earthquakes within the Earth, but also figuratively speaking in all of mankind's strongholds- such as our economy and World systems. They too will eventually come toppling down eventually as well even though mankind will try to find band aide approaches to prevent that- it will still happen .
When all has been toppled and the cleansing period is complete, is when restoration, and healing will begin on Earth- and through the Great Spirit, it will again be like the Garden of Eden. Humans will probably live more like how the Elves live than how our civilization is now- The Elves seem to live in harmony with Nature and trees- - probably even having tree houses and incorporating trees into their architecture. It will be just beautiful!
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Member | BlindBlue Minnesota posts 96 1:01 am June 15, 2011
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Most humans have lost respect for mother earth. She provides everything for us to survive and asks nothing in return. Native Americans had it all right. They not only used mother earths’ gifts scarcely but they thanked her continually. Their deep respect for the earth and what she provides both good and bad is what we all need to learn to do. We need to connect better. I’ve tried to as much as I can. Making beauty out of simple already beautiful things found in nature. I make dream catchers. The only man-made parts are the wax cord and glue everything else I find in nature. I’m even thinking about making my own arrowheads. Native Americans inspire me!
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Member | Hamsakala U.S. posts 197 2:59 pm June 15, 2011
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Hi Lisa, hi BlindBlue, and everyone else!
I agree, I am saddened by the disrespect and lack of appreciation for our Mother Earth ( or Gaia). She gives us everything and asks nothing in return.
We drill and strip mine her. We pollute her and kill her animals.
People are denying global climate change and are saying "Drill, baby, drill" about the Alaskan wilderness and the oceans.
People are such arrogant fools. It needs to stop. People need to change. We need to love and respect eachother, our animal brethren, and Mother Gaia.
Let's spread love and help the veil to come down. Mankind needs to amke a great spiritual evolutionary leap to save us all.
Namaste,
Kala
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Member | Faecat Texas posts 673 12:24 pm June 16, 2011
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BlindBlue said:
Most humans have lost respect for mother earth. She provides everything for us to survive and asks nothing in return. Native Americans had it all right. They not only used mother earths’ gifts scarcely but they thanked her continually. Their deep respect for the earth and what she provides both good and bad is what we all need to learn to do. We need to connect better. I’ve tried to as much as I can. Making beauty out of simple already beautiful things found in nature. I make dream catchers. The only man-made parts are the wax cord and glue everything else I find in nature. I’m even thinking about making my own arrowheads. Native Americans inspire me!
Same with me blindblue. I have 3 dream catchers above my bed. I also wanted to start making arrow heads.
To all I know this is going to be silly but have you've ever heard Colors of the wind by Pocohantas? Here are the lyrics.
You think I'm an ignorant savage
And you've been so many places
I guess it must be so
But still I cannot see
If the savage one is me
How can there be so much that you don't know?
You don't know …
You think you own whatever land you land on
The Earth is just a dead thing you can claim
But I know every rock and tree and creature
Has a life, has a spirit, has a name
You think the only people who are people
Are the people who look and think like you
But if you walk the footsteps of a stranger
You'll learn things you never knew you never knew
Have you ever heard the wolf cry to the blue corn moon
Or asked the grinning bobcat why he grinned?
Can you sing with all the voices of the mountains?
Can you paint with all the colors of the wind?
Can you paint with all the colors of the wind?
Come run the hidden pine trails of the forest
Come taste the sunsweet berries of the Earth
Come roll in all the riches all around you
And for once, never wonder what they're worth
The rainstorm and the river are my brothers
The heron and the otter are my friends
And we are all connected to each other
In a circle, in a hoop that never ends
How high will the sycamore grow?
If you cut it down, then you'll never know
And you'll never hear the wolf cry to the blue corn moon
For whether we are white or copper skinned
We need to sing with all the voices of the mountains
We need to paint with all the colors of the wind
You can own the Earth and still
All you'll own is Earth until
You can paint with all the colors of the wind
I think this is a perfect example of how we really should be.
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| Lisa A.- Grey Eyes Pennsylvania posts 2506 10:22 pm June 16, 2011
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Wow, that Colors of the Wind song from Pocohantas always brings out the tears in me ! It is Sooo true!!
whoever wrote that has a definite connection with our Creator!
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| Lisa A.- Grey Eyes Pennsylvania posts 2506 10:27 pm June 16, 2011
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BlindBlue said:
Most humans have lost respect for mother earth. She provides everything for us to survive and asks nothing in return. Native Americans had it all right. They not only used mother earths’ gifts scarcely but they thanked her continually. Their deep respect for the earth and what she provides both good and bad is what we all need to learn to do. We need to connect better. I’ve tried to as much as I can. Making beauty out of simple already beautiful things found in nature. I make dream catchers. The only man-made parts are the wax cord and glue everything else I find in nature. I’m even thinking about making my own arrowheads. Native Americans inspire me!
How beautiful!!
I have a dreamcatcher over my bed– they are truly beautiful :-) One of the things the faery/elven ones gave to me the first year I found out that they are real- (the year of my first encounter) was beautiful things from nature mysteriously laying at my feet on the roadside where I walk– and there was no explanation as to how these things appeared there out of nowhere. One of them was several beautiful opened walnut shells revealing a perfectly shaped heart inside–as though carved, (but that's how the shell formed as it grew) also a beautiful stick that was sliced on top to splay out like a wand. I kept that in my faery's garden with a crystal inserted in it– I have it inside my room now to protect it from the elements.
THe faeries showed me how the greatest gifts we humans have is all around us in Creation and Mother Earth- this is the lesson the Faery want us to learn– and what the Native Tribe cultures learned way ahead of us.
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Member | BlindBlue Minnesota posts 96 1:44 am June 17, 2011
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You are right Lisa. The Natives knew thhe real way of life long before us. Watching everything in the world now is painful but one step into the woods and it washes away. For me making the dreamcatchers is another connection and I give them to friends and family. Each one has a differnt story that I try to connect to the world around us to get their attention to what we need to do to make everything better. It's amazing what a stick, web, and several feathers can do to a child's imagination : ) To get them thinking is what's best.
Faecat I've always loved that song! It's so peacful! Pure poetry and one of the main reasons why Pocohantas was a great movie. The connecctions with sipirts and the natural world. Let us all learn from disney movies! : ) No really there are some deep and important points in some of those movies. (I liked the wolves XD)
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Member | Faecat Texas posts 673 2:07 pm June 20, 2011
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I found a seed pod that is the cutest thing! I saw it on the ground turned over and I just knew to pick it up! I think the fae gave it to me because I was picking up trash left by people the local nature park. I put it in my fae space but I had to take it down. It looks like a little face with 2 tiny holes half the size of my pinky nail. The lady who took me with her said How cute it looks like a little face! I also found a stick that was redish instead of the brown That was around it.
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Member | Faecat Texas posts 673 11:53 am July 5, 2011
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I found this
http://www.crazycrow.com/craft…..casins.php
Thought it was pretty cool and native american inspired
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Member | Faecat Texas posts 673 9:54 pm July 15, 2011
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Ok so i know this post is now inactive but I have found the PERFECT thing
http://www.nativetech.org/drea…..minst.html
It's a full instruction guide on how to make your own dream catchers!
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Member | artsings1946 posts 25 11:29 am July 19, 2011
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Oh, I find all of this so spiritual. I have to say my Dad was very much into the environement, way way before it became fashionable. I don't know where he got that from, probably from another life. He always had an organic garden, loved to work on a farm when he was a teenager, taught us not to waste "Mother Nature's" resources, like water and such. And, he was not a native american, so this kind of spiritual awareness (even though he wouldn't understand what the heck I was talking about) is in all peoples, all cultures … it's like a remembering for us, an awakening if you like. We are all one, it's just that some of us (all of us to some degree) have forgotten where we came from and who we really are. We are all connected, and by "we" I mean the plants, animals, rocks, plants, the universe….everything is all connected.
I think Fairies and their realm is very much into our Mother's welfare….they are nature's gatekeepers, don't you think? Anyway, they are very connected to nature's realm.
Well, my two cents, everybody has their own path to follow.
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Member | themiddlewoodsyone Naola posts 87 3:16 am July 29, 2011
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One thing i've learned from Native American spirituality is that nothing can really be owned, in reality everything is always shared.
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Member | DakotaRisingMoon Windsor, ON, Canada posts 831 5:42 pm August 11, 2011
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I love how Native Americans though as animals higher than them, and would treat all beings with respect. These days people are far from that. Sometimes I wish we could just live like they used to a long time ago.
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Member | poppy_23 U.S. posts 40 9:22 pm August 11, 2011
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DakotaRisingMoon said:
I love how Native Americans though as animals higher than them, and would treat all beings with respect. These days people are far from that. Sometimes I wish we could just live like they used to a long time ago.
i wish people today could share the same respect native americans have for nature, but i am glad to live in the time and culture i do it has its flaws, but just imagine how many of your friends and family would be dead young do to disease and ilnesses easy to treat today, but were fatal back then and the things like the higher infant mortality rate, living now is a blessing for us we just need to learn how to live in harmony with the earth and how to give back.
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Member | DakotaRisingMoon Windsor, ON, Canada posts 831 9:34 pm August 11, 2011
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poppy_23 said:
DakotaRisingMoon said:
I love how Native Americans though as animals higher than them, and would treat all beings with respect. These days people are far from that. Sometimes I wish we could just live like they used to a long time ago.
i wish people today could share the same respect native americans have for nature, but i am glad to live in the time and culture i do it has its flaws, but just imagine how many of your friends and family would be dead young do to disease and ilnesses easy to treat today, but were fatal back then and the things like the higher infant mortality rate, living now is a blessing for us we just need to learn how to live in harmony with the earth and how to give back.
True, technology today does make life easier, and we have many cures for diseases now and more knowledge, but I still like the idea of living naturally, and using herbs as medicines, being more spiritual, living in groups, respecting each other and nature, and how earth was less poluted.
These days the media is going all negative, talking stupid and people are very judging (racist, sexists, homophobic, and judmental when it comes to brain or other disorders.)
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Member | poppy_23 U.S. posts 40 9:53 pm August 11, 2011
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it would be nice, but we cant waste time saying we wish and media will always be that way it always has been that way not worth having a cow over if someone truly wishes to they will learn that each person is precious in their own right
if you wish then make it happen it can be acomplished, but do not expect it over night all we can do is try to start fixing things operating as catalyst for the lives of our future children to live how we wanted to
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Member | themiddlewoodsyone Naola posts 87 2:22 pm August 14, 2011
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many prophecies have happened, prophecies of healing, and of peace
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Member | themiddlewoodsyone Naola posts 87 8:35 pm August 14, 2011
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So I've decided I'm changing my name to Healing Wind Slanted Goat, in accordance with a recent dream, Halawin for short,
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