Post by Okwes on Jun 3, 2007 15:40:01 GMT -5
*Healing: An Alaskan Prophecy*
From an article entitled, "Let Goodness Take Its Place"
by Larry Merculieff
www.viewzone.com/alaskan.html
www.viewzone.com/thomasomills.html
Larry gave this speech to a meeting of Aleut elders who had assembled to
hear his important message. Larry began his speech in the Aleut language
with the saying, "The afternoon tastes good." He continued...
"You are the second group of people that have invited me to talk on
something that is very special. I have been asked to give you some
messages from the spiritual leaders of the Hopi and [also the] Maori
people from New Zealand. When I went up to Canada one and 1/2 years ago,
I went there to be with the Stony Elders. They invited me to go there.
While I was there, they said the Hopi and Maori sent the messenger to
meet me. I do not know why _me_, but they gave me some messages to bring
back here to Alaska. They must have known things that I do not know or
can not see yet. And this is one of the things that I think they knew:
that I was going to be invited to speak in places like this.
One thing to know before I start. The people who are here today are here
for a reason. It is no accident that you are going to be here to hear
this message, and it is up to you whether or not you want to use this
message of wisdom that has been given by the Hopi and Maori. If you do
not use it, I would ask you pass it along to others.
I used to write my speeches, you know, when I left the University. They
train you to write everything down. As Commissioner, you have to write
everything down for the public record. I stopped doing that when an old
man, Howard Luke, and I were exchanging tape recordings with each other.
He sent me this tape and said, "Anybody that gets up in front of a crowd
of people and has to read from a piece of paper has no business being up
there!"
So for the first time in my 43 years, today, I say "OK, the papers are
going to be put away." I will speak from the heart. There is a great
deal of wisdom in speaking from the heart instead from a paper. It was a
relearning for me. I learned it very well, I think. When I have to speak
before a group, I never know what I am going to say. The only thing I
can do is clear my mind, clear my body, and pray for the messages given
from the people that I have been sent here to give the messages for. And
I pray to the Creator to help. When I came here, I also prayed for the
help of the Spirit of the land; The Spirits of your ancestors; The
Spirit of the river; The Spirit of the animals; The Spirit of the trees;
and The Spirit of the wind, because each area of the world has their own
guardian. Even this group now has it's own guardians. They are here now
they are sitting with us, and so, I ask for their help when I talk.
The Hopi and Maori sent a messenger, her name was Beverly, to meet me
when I was up in Canada. The messages come from the Hopi, Maori and the
Stony Elders, who are part of the great Sioux Nation in Alberta, also
from the White Bison Society. I will explain what this is.
What the Hopi [and the] Maori wanted us to know here in Alaska and all
the villages, is that we are moving into the what they call the *World
of the 5th Hoop*. The Navajo called it moving into the 5th World. Maybe
amongst some of the elders of the Athabascan people there are similar
things that are being said about this time. It is a message of hope.
They know of the sicknesses that made them suffer. They know of the
fights that have been going on between the organization and the
villages. They know of the struggle between villages and within regions
and between regions. They know about the alcohol abuse and accidental
deaths due to alcohol, the suicides, the high blood pressure, failing
health, heart problems, all these things that our people in Alaska have
been facing. In my years working for my people, I have traveled all over
the State. And it is pretty much the same everywhere... the kind of
problems we are experiencing.
That is not what this message is about. They know about our business in
the villages. This message is a message of hope. They say that moving
into this time, of the World of the 5th Hoop, is a time when all the
four sacred powers are going to be reconnected. They are the
red-white-black-yellow. They wanted me to know that, among the Hopi,
they are the keepers of the sacred stone tablets for the sacred red
power - that includes all of us. They wanted me to know that they have
the sacred stone tablets in Tibet, in the mountains, kept by the Tibetan
Monks, in the same way that the Tibetans have their sacred stone tablet
with the Hopi.
There are four sacred stone tablets that were given. The sacred black
color has theirs in a small village in Africa. They cannot exchange it
with the sacred white color because they lost theirs. But the Hopi
wisdom keepers say that they are soon to find this stone. Very soon in
this time. If you look at the maps where the people of Hopi live and
Tibetans live, [it] is exactly on opposite parts of the world of the
Mother Earth. The Hopi word for love is the Tibetan word for hate. And
the Tibetan word for love is the Hopi word for hate. The same word, but
exactly opposite meanings. They say that this is necessary to help keep
the balance of Mother Earth. And that there are keepers of this balance
that are around the world like us.
In moving into this time of the World of the 5th Hoop, it is going to be
a time of great healing. There is going to be great healing that is
going to start, and the Hopi say that it is going to start in the North.
I have learned just recently that it is going to start in Alaska.
The Hopi told me that this time of great healing is going to be shown by
several signs. One is when a *hoop of a hundred eagle feathers* is
completed. And I have met the person from the White Bison Society in
Colorado, who are the keepers of this hoop. I met the person while I was
in Anchorage. While we were having dinner, a lady came in from Kodiak
and she had an eagle feather in her hand. She said, "I know this had to
go to some special place, and I guess it is you." And [she] gave it to
this guy who was sitting there. His mouth dropped open. He could hardly
speak. He said that this was the eagle feather that was to be the axle--
the center point in this hoop of 100 eagles that was described to him
exactly by the wisdom keepers. The eagle feathers numbered 57 at that time.
Since that time, two more [feathers] have come from Alaska. One from an
all white eagle. This white eagle had called to this man. (This is true,
as I was a witness.) He was a white man. He calls me up and he says, "I
do not know why I am calling, but this morning I looked up in my yard
and there were 13 ravens in a circle. And in the middle of the circle
was an eagle." He said he knew that was pretty weird. He had never seen
anything like it. The people in the village had never seen anything like
this. This was just about a month and a half ago. He said that he had
heard the story of the hoop of the 100 eagle feathers. He said, "That
night the tribal chief delivered to me the dead eagle." That morning he
saw the eagle alive, surrounded by 13 ravens, [but] that evening, it was
delivered to the camp. He did not know why. And so he heard of the story
and knew that, if he asked permission properly, one of these eagle
feathers was to be delivered to this hoop. And so it was. A person who
was on his way down to Colorado delivered the white eagle feather or the
feather from a white eagle. So now there were two feathers delivered.
In this time of healing, the message of hope from the Hopi [and] Maori
and the Stony Elders, I was invited to Sacred Ceremony by the Stony
Elders. The youngest was 77 and the oldest was 106. No one spoke any
English during the whole time I was in the Sacred Ceremony, which lasted
3 hours. They spoke English one in the middle, and the person who spoke
said "I am speaking English for the benefit of our friends from Alaska."
We know that your people in Alaska, in many villages, believe that they
have lost their culture, the cultural wisdom and their ways. We are
praying to the Creator. We want you to know of the message that has been
given to us so that you would take it back to Alaska.
The message that they received for us is that our cultures are not dead.
All the wisdom that has been collected in our cultures, since time
immemorial, is being kept for us, waiting for us, to awaken in our
spirits. We will awaken our spirits again. When that happens things will
be revealed of the old wisdoms. Things that have been forgotten for a
long time are going to be brought back; Art- Music- Song- Dance-
Storytelling- Spiritual- Wisdom- knowledge, and the wisdom of how to
work with Mother Earth, will all be restored.
They also want us to know that among the Hopi and Maori there are people
who do nothing but pray 24 hours a day, 7 days a week, 365 days a year,
every year of their lives. That is all they do. In rotation, they pray
around the clock for other people. In this prayer is where they have
seen some of these things that are about to happen. The healing that is
going to take place, the advice that has been given to us, is "Seek not
to fight evil-- do not fight it-- let goodness take its place." So when
we see bad things happen and when we fight those bad things, what we do
hurts everybody. Fighting evil has spiritual energies that go to the
ends of universe, affects everybody in the community.
When I come into community, I can feel the energies that are created. We
are all affected by it. You know, sometimes you watch little kids when a
stranger walks into the room [and], all of a sudden, the child just
cries. Sometimes this happens, or, they love the stranger. What they are
doing is taking their God given, Creator given, way of talents, skills,
gifts, to feel the spirit of the other person. Because everybody give
out these energies. So we have to, they say, be very careful. This is
part of the wisdom amongst the great Athabascan People and most
indigenous people throughout the world. We must take care of how we
think-- how we feel.
The signs of this time of healing that is to start are:
When the children bring back the spirit to the village; when the young
start speaking with the wisdom of the elders; when the leadership
energies start shifting to the feminine side; when this hoop of the 100
eagles feathers gets completed. And when the White Bison shows up. These
are all the signs of the movement from the 4th to the 5th Hoop.
Now, I know that some of this is in language that you may have not heard
in your lifetime. But I know inside, you will recognize these words to
be true. Your intuition is going to tell you what I am saying is true.
The world for the last 4,000 or so years has been stuck in the male
energy side. The male energy is thinking from the brain. It is a
management from the top down. It is more aggressive. It does not use
intuition or feelings from the heart. It is a different kind of energy.
It is not a bad energy. It is just different than the female energy.
Female energy is healing, nurturing, loving, caring, touching, sharing.
And that the world spiritual leaders know now that these energies have
been male and now have shifted to the female side.
The center of the top of the energy entrance to the Earth Mother is here
through Alaska. The spiritual leaders say that a host, hosts of angels,
are coming through Alaska-- spreading out throughout the world for this
healing to take place.
I see what is happening to our young people. I spent most of my life
thinking I was a leader, for 25 years working for my people. I realized,
when I finally woke up, I was not a leader because I was stuck in the
same place with the same kind of sickness they had.
Harold Napoleon, who wrote the book, _The Way of the Human Being_, talks
about the Great Death. Why, people ask, are we suffering like this
today? Why are our kids this way? Why are we having this alcohol
problem? It is easy to understand when you get back in touch with your
heart. Harold Napoleon talks about the time of the Great Death. My
people faced it. Eighty percent of our people were wiped out in 50
years. We still have stories of those times. How many men can a musket
ball kill? The Russians were betting about the Aleuts, so they lined
them up back to back, shot point blank, and the answer is 9. There is
one community where the Russians went to take all the women and girls
for their sex slaves. The women and girls said, "No, this will be a
violation of our spirit!" And they all got on top of a cliff and jumped,
in mass, and died. There is a story in a village in Akutan, where it
used to take a year to build meat boats from hide. It was one of the
most sophisticated kayaks in the world. It took a year to build because
it had to be dependable. They had to go out on the high seas for weeks
on end. They knew this, and the Russians knew this. The fur traders, who
were greedy, went into the village at night and destroyed all the boats.
The village starved to death. There was one old woman who survived out
of 300 people.
So we have these stories. The first people who were killed among my
people were the Shaman and their apprentices. Because of their religion,
or way of life of spirituality, the Russians did not understand so they
destroyed it. They thought it was a threat. Can you imagine our people
who are survivors-- we are survivors here today, having gone through
that time-- experiencing for 50 years, 8 out of 10 people dying in a
horrible way? Your loved ones? Your grandchildren? Your children? Your
mother? Your wives? Your husbands? [All] dying by horrible ways for 50
years? Year after year, seeing horrible death? And being subjected to
all this? The American doctors have a name for this now, they call it
Post Traumatic Stress Syndrome.
The Vietnam Vets have also experienced this syndrome. The veterans, when
they came back from Vietnam, were depressed. They took drugs. They took
alcohol. They withdrew from their relationships. They could not be close
to people because it hurt too much. They did anything to escape their
feeling and what they were thinking. When they did that, they separated
from their spiritual side. When this happened, the depression started.
So they experienced this in Vietnam after 2 or 3 years. Sometimes people
had 4 trips over there. Our people experienced it for generations. Not
only did we _not_ have the support that the Vietnam Vets had, [but] they
still had their culture intact when they came back.
Our cultures were eliminated, or attempted to be destroyed. So that the
survivors, who had survived, were without hope. Having gone through such
misery and pain, the only thing they could do to defend themselves, the
only way they knew how to defend themselves, was not to feel.
I know and I understand it. Harold Napoleon understood it. Many of you
understand it. Because as a child, like many of our people, grew up
in a family the abused alcohol. And the first thing that I did as a
child to defend myself was to shut off my feelings. They were shut off
for over 20 years. And when that happened, it is a state of constant
depression and addiction. Addictions can be cigarettes - alcohol - TV -
noise; big loud music, and even thoughts could be an addiction. Anything
to take us away from feeling right now the way we feel. We try to run
away from it. That is what happening when you see a kid walk down the
street with big earphones blasting and they are not hearing anything
else because they do not want to be here. No.
The wisdom keepers say that the only place to find the power of the
Creator is to be present in this moment. If we have fears, we are
projecting them into the future. Into a future time that does not even
exist. If we have guilt, we are living in the past, for the past things
we did. We are not living now. All the spiritual keepers, of all groups
in the world, be they Buddhists, be they Islamic, be it part Red Pack,
be it medicine pack-- you name it-- say [that] the only way to find the
power that has been given to us from the Creator is to *be here, now*.
Not to escape.
So you see, this addiction that has happened from the Great Death, the
survivors are separated from their feelings. Can you imagine the kind of
children they raised? It was hard for them to love and be close to
another because they were afraid. "If I became too close and love
somebody, they would be destroyed, and I would suffer the pain all over
again. So, they stayed away from that feeling. Those kids grew up and
had their own kids, and from generations to generation to generation,
until today, we have the legacy the inheritance of this spiritual
sickness that was given to us a long time ago. And so the answers from
the wisdom keepers is to *work at being present* and that will first
revive the key.
The spiritual keepers also say that the first step towards healing
yourself, before you can heal others or help heal others, is to *love
that which we may hate or who may hate me*. We may hate ourselves. We
may hate an organization. We may hate the people from outside who have
interfered. We may hate somebody. The first step towards this healing is
to stop the hate and turn it into love. And it will transform
everything. This spiritual sickness that we have is going to move now.
It is going to change.
There are some predictions in the sacred stone tablets among the wisdom
keepers about what is going to happen here in this World of the 5th
Hoop. Not only are we going to have this healing but the Earth Mother is
going to shake in a way that it has never shook before. It is going to
move in a way it has never done before. There is going to be a lot of
fear because of this, and the wisdom keepers want me to convey that,
when this happens, we should not be afraid. Because, what is happening
is that the Earth Mother is trying to help us remove the stuff that we
have stuck in our bodies, inherited from the spiritual sickness of
generations and generations out. And one of the ways that we do that is
to scare the life out of us. This is why there is going to be time for
healers.
Healers are being called from all over. Women are now taking their place
as the original healers around the world and some of the strongest
original healers are starting here in Alaska. Not only [will there be]
the shift to the feminine side of leadership, but the women are going to
start taking their place as healers. I think this is an exciting time.
The Dalai Lama went down to Yakutan during the last change of the moon,
with all the spiritual leaders, to pray for this time of the shift, this
time of healing. And he has 'chosen'-- and this is the words that they
use, which are hard to understand-- he has chosen to take the spiritual
energies that they have been keeping in Tibet and move them from Tibet
and bring them here to Alaska. Which they did a few weeks ago. The
reason they did this is because the Chinese are wiping out the Tibetan
Monks and destroying all the temples. So the Dalai Lama moved its
spiritual energy here to Alaska, because this is the place where the
healing is going to start. And this is the place where all the Angels
are coming in by hosts. This is the place where the hoop of a hundred
eagle feathers will be finished. And, interestingly enough, some of the
healing ways are being revived from all the cultures. People are being
woken up.
How do we start this healing? When you are quiet within yourself and you
sit next to the river-- ask. Do not be afraid to ask. Ask the Creator.
Ask whoever you feel is your higher power, "Please help me find the way
because I do not know how to heal." "Make me your history." And when you
ask that, with humility in your heart, you will get it. You will find
it. And it will be given to you, you will see this healing starting to
spread like wild fire. It is just exciting. Exciting to see. And the key
to it is *staying here, now*.
Now, last thing I am going to say: I ran the village corporation in St.
Paul for 10 years. I was city manager for 4 years. We started from no
economy out there. In 1983 the government pulled out. That was our only
economy. They pulled out and we lost 80% of our jobs. That year we had
100 suicide attempts out of 600 people. We had 4 people who killed
themselves. We had 3 who were murdered-- things that had not happened in
our village for 150 years! The last person ever murdered in our village
was over 150 years ago. And it all happened in this one year. Big
shaking up. And we thought, the leadership thought-- including me--
that, if we worked to bring the economy back so that everybody got a
good paying job, our kids would return to our village. And that it would
solve our problems. We had growing alcohol problem, 60% of
population [were[ alcoholic and 1/3 of our kids have Fetal Alcohol
Syndrome. We had suicide attempts all the time. I have been to 44
funerals here in 4 years-- 44 funerals! Goodness sakes.
So what we learned from this and what I want to share with you is what
happened when we got our economy [back]. We have the strongest rural
economy in the State of Alaska right now. Our /per capita/ income is
$34,000.00-- $34,000.00 per person! That is what was accomplished in 10
years. But did it solve our problems? No. The spiritual sickness is
still going on. The money only feeds the addiction. We have a community
that is already addicted in some way because of the spiritual sickness.
We have inherited this sickness from the time of the Great Death.
Bringing money in, in large numbers, will fuel the addictions just like
gasoline to fire. It will make it worse. Bigger. Because it is what we
do with the money. Look at St. Paul. We are buying cars. Everybody has
got a car now. We bought, maybe, 300 cars in last 3 years. Everybody has
got 1 or 2 TV sets-- big ones. Everybody has got 4-wheelers. Everybody
has got boats. Everybody has got nice clothes. Everybody has got nice
houses. Things. Everybody has got things. But yet they are saying, "We
are not happy. What is wrong?" What is wrong is [that] we were looking
outside for feeding for a hunger inside-- a hunger that we did not
understand. And that hunger is the hunger of the spirit.
When we have addictions, it is a hunger to fill the spirit. It is like a
big stomach inside you that wants to feed all of the time. And no matter
how much we feed it with these addictions, [it] is never enough. And it
just goes down and down and we get so depressed that we feel we can not
get out of it. At that point, you die either physically or your die
spiritually. Hopefully, many people will not have to go through that.
So, that is the message that I have brought to you. This is a message of
hope and a message of good wisdom. Remember, our cultures are not lost.
The wisdom of it is already here with us. We just do not know it yet,
because we are spiritually sleeping.
From an article entitled, "Let Goodness Take Its Place"
by Larry Merculieff
www.viewzone.com/alaskan.html
www.viewzone.com/thomasomills.html
Larry gave this speech to a meeting of Aleut elders who had assembled to
hear his important message. Larry began his speech in the Aleut language
with the saying, "The afternoon tastes good." He continued...
"You are the second group of people that have invited me to talk on
something that is very special. I have been asked to give you some
messages from the spiritual leaders of the Hopi and [also the] Maori
people from New Zealand. When I went up to Canada one and 1/2 years ago,
I went there to be with the Stony Elders. They invited me to go there.
While I was there, they said the Hopi and Maori sent the messenger to
meet me. I do not know why _me_, but they gave me some messages to bring
back here to Alaska. They must have known things that I do not know or
can not see yet. And this is one of the things that I think they knew:
that I was going to be invited to speak in places like this.
One thing to know before I start. The people who are here today are here
for a reason. It is no accident that you are going to be here to hear
this message, and it is up to you whether or not you want to use this
message of wisdom that has been given by the Hopi and Maori. If you do
not use it, I would ask you pass it along to others.
I used to write my speeches, you know, when I left the University. They
train you to write everything down. As Commissioner, you have to write
everything down for the public record. I stopped doing that when an old
man, Howard Luke, and I were exchanging tape recordings with each other.
He sent me this tape and said, "Anybody that gets up in front of a crowd
of people and has to read from a piece of paper has no business being up
there!"
So for the first time in my 43 years, today, I say "OK, the papers are
going to be put away." I will speak from the heart. There is a great
deal of wisdom in speaking from the heart instead from a paper. It was a
relearning for me. I learned it very well, I think. When I have to speak
before a group, I never know what I am going to say. The only thing I
can do is clear my mind, clear my body, and pray for the messages given
from the people that I have been sent here to give the messages for. And
I pray to the Creator to help. When I came here, I also prayed for the
help of the Spirit of the land; The Spirits of your ancestors; The
Spirit of the river; The Spirit of the animals; The Spirit of the trees;
and The Spirit of the wind, because each area of the world has their own
guardian. Even this group now has it's own guardians. They are here now
they are sitting with us, and so, I ask for their help when I talk.
The Hopi and Maori sent a messenger, her name was Beverly, to meet me
when I was up in Canada. The messages come from the Hopi, Maori and the
Stony Elders, who are part of the great Sioux Nation in Alberta, also
from the White Bison Society. I will explain what this is.
What the Hopi [and the] Maori wanted us to know here in Alaska and all
the villages, is that we are moving into the what they call the *World
of the 5th Hoop*. The Navajo called it moving into the 5th World. Maybe
amongst some of the elders of the Athabascan people there are similar
things that are being said about this time. It is a message of hope.
They know of the sicknesses that made them suffer. They know of the
fights that have been going on between the organization and the
villages. They know of the struggle between villages and within regions
and between regions. They know about the alcohol abuse and accidental
deaths due to alcohol, the suicides, the high blood pressure, failing
health, heart problems, all these things that our people in Alaska have
been facing. In my years working for my people, I have traveled all over
the State. And it is pretty much the same everywhere... the kind of
problems we are experiencing.
That is not what this message is about. They know about our business in
the villages. This message is a message of hope. They say that moving
into this time, of the World of the 5th Hoop, is a time when all the
four sacred powers are going to be reconnected. They are the
red-white-black-yellow. They wanted me to know that, among the Hopi,
they are the keepers of the sacred stone tablets for the sacred red
power - that includes all of us. They wanted me to know that they have
the sacred stone tablets in Tibet, in the mountains, kept by the Tibetan
Monks, in the same way that the Tibetans have their sacred stone tablet
with the Hopi.
There are four sacred stone tablets that were given. The sacred black
color has theirs in a small village in Africa. They cannot exchange it
with the sacred white color because they lost theirs. But the Hopi
wisdom keepers say that they are soon to find this stone. Very soon in
this time. If you look at the maps where the people of Hopi live and
Tibetans live, [it] is exactly on opposite parts of the world of the
Mother Earth. The Hopi word for love is the Tibetan word for hate. And
the Tibetan word for love is the Hopi word for hate. The same word, but
exactly opposite meanings. They say that this is necessary to help keep
the balance of Mother Earth. And that there are keepers of this balance
that are around the world like us.
In moving into this time of the World of the 5th Hoop, it is going to be
a time of great healing. There is going to be great healing that is
going to start, and the Hopi say that it is going to start in the North.
I have learned just recently that it is going to start in Alaska.
The Hopi told me that this time of great healing is going to be shown by
several signs. One is when a *hoop of a hundred eagle feathers* is
completed. And I have met the person from the White Bison Society in
Colorado, who are the keepers of this hoop. I met the person while I was
in Anchorage. While we were having dinner, a lady came in from Kodiak
and she had an eagle feather in her hand. She said, "I know this had to
go to some special place, and I guess it is you." And [she] gave it to
this guy who was sitting there. His mouth dropped open. He could hardly
speak. He said that this was the eagle feather that was to be the axle--
the center point in this hoop of 100 eagles that was described to him
exactly by the wisdom keepers. The eagle feathers numbered 57 at that time.
Since that time, two more [feathers] have come from Alaska. One from an
all white eagle. This white eagle had called to this man. (This is true,
as I was a witness.) He was a white man. He calls me up and he says, "I
do not know why I am calling, but this morning I looked up in my yard
and there were 13 ravens in a circle. And in the middle of the circle
was an eagle." He said he knew that was pretty weird. He had never seen
anything like it. The people in the village had never seen anything like
this. This was just about a month and a half ago. He said that he had
heard the story of the hoop of the 100 eagle feathers. He said, "That
night the tribal chief delivered to me the dead eagle." That morning he
saw the eagle alive, surrounded by 13 ravens, [but] that evening, it was
delivered to the camp. He did not know why. And so he heard of the story
and knew that, if he asked permission properly, one of these eagle
feathers was to be delivered to this hoop. And so it was. A person who
was on his way down to Colorado delivered the white eagle feather or the
feather from a white eagle. So now there were two feathers delivered.
In this time of healing, the message of hope from the Hopi [and] Maori
and the Stony Elders, I was invited to Sacred Ceremony by the Stony
Elders. The youngest was 77 and the oldest was 106. No one spoke any
English during the whole time I was in the Sacred Ceremony, which lasted
3 hours. They spoke English one in the middle, and the person who spoke
said "I am speaking English for the benefit of our friends from Alaska."
We know that your people in Alaska, in many villages, believe that they
have lost their culture, the cultural wisdom and their ways. We are
praying to the Creator. We want you to know of the message that has been
given to us so that you would take it back to Alaska.
The message that they received for us is that our cultures are not dead.
All the wisdom that has been collected in our cultures, since time
immemorial, is being kept for us, waiting for us, to awaken in our
spirits. We will awaken our spirits again. When that happens things will
be revealed of the old wisdoms. Things that have been forgotten for a
long time are going to be brought back; Art- Music- Song- Dance-
Storytelling- Spiritual- Wisdom- knowledge, and the wisdom of how to
work with Mother Earth, will all be restored.
They also want us to know that among the Hopi and Maori there are people
who do nothing but pray 24 hours a day, 7 days a week, 365 days a year,
every year of their lives. That is all they do. In rotation, they pray
around the clock for other people. In this prayer is where they have
seen some of these things that are about to happen. The healing that is
going to take place, the advice that has been given to us, is "Seek not
to fight evil-- do not fight it-- let goodness take its place." So when
we see bad things happen and when we fight those bad things, what we do
hurts everybody. Fighting evil has spiritual energies that go to the
ends of universe, affects everybody in the community.
When I come into community, I can feel the energies that are created. We
are all affected by it. You know, sometimes you watch little kids when a
stranger walks into the room [and], all of a sudden, the child just
cries. Sometimes this happens, or, they love the stranger. What they are
doing is taking their God given, Creator given, way of talents, skills,
gifts, to feel the spirit of the other person. Because everybody give
out these energies. So we have to, they say, be very careful. This is
part of the wisdom amongst the great Athabascan People and most
indigenous people throughout the world. We must take care of how we
think-- how we feel.
The signs of this time of healing that is to start are:
When the children bring back the spirit to the village; when the young
start speaking with the wisdom of the elders; when the leadership
energies start shifting to the feminine side; when this hoop of the 100
eagles feathers gets completed. And when the White Bison shows up. These
are all the signs of the movement from the 4th to the 5th Hoop.
Now, I know that some of this is in language that you may have not heard
in your lifetime. But I know inside, you will recognize these words to
be true. Your intuition is going to tell you what I am saying is true.
The world for the last 4,000 or so years has been stuck in the male
energy side. The male energy is thinking from the brain. It is a
management from the top down. It is more aggressive. It does not use
intuition or feelings from the heart. It is a different kind of energy.
It is not a bad energy. It is just different than the female energy.
Female energy is healing, nurturing, loving, caring, touching, sharing.
And that the world spiritual leaders know now that these energies have
been male and now have shifted to the female side.
The center of the top of the energy entrance to the Earth Mother is here
through Alaska. The spiritual leaders say that a host, hosts of angels,
are coming through Alaska-- spreading out throughout the world for this
healing to take place.
I see what is happening to our young people. I spent most of my life
thinking I was a leader, for 25 years working for my people. I realized,
when I finally woke up, I was not a leader because I was stuck in the
same place with the same kind of sickness they had.
Harold Napoleon, who wrote the book, _The Way of the Human Being_, talks
about the Great Death. Why, people ask, are we suffering like this
today? Why are our kids this way? Why are we having this alcohol
problem? It is easy to understand when you get back in touch with your
heart. Harold Napoleon talks about the time of the Great Death. My
people faced it. Eighty percent of our people were wiped out in 50
years. We still have stories of those times. How many men can a musket
ball kill? The Russians were betting about the Aleuts, so they lined
them up back to back, shot point blank, and the answer is 9. There is
one community where the Russians went to take all the women and girls
for their sex slaves. The women and girls said, "No, this will be a
violation of our spirit!" And they all got on top of a cliff and jumped,
in mass, and died. There is a story in a village in Akutan, where it
used to take a year to build meat boats from hide. It was one of the
most sophisticated kayaks in the world. It took a year to build because
it had to be dependable. They had to go out on the high seas for weeks
on end. They knew this, and the Russians knew this. The fur traders, who
were greedy, went into the village at night and destroyed all the boats.
The village starved to death. There was one old woman who survived out
of 300 people.
So we have these stories. The first people who were killed among my
people were the Shaman and their apprentices. Because of their religion,
or way of life of spirituality, the Russians did not understand so they
destroyed it. They thought it was a threat. Can you imagine our people
who are survivors-- we are survivors here today, having gone through
that time-- experiencing for 50 years, 8 out of 10 people dying in a
horrible way? Your loved ones? Your grandchildren? Your children? Your
mother? Your wives? Your husbands? [All] dying by horrible ways for 50
years? Year after year, seeing horrible death? And being subjected to
all this? The American doctors have a name for this now, they call it
Post Traumatic Stress Syndrome.
The Vietnam Vets have also experienced this syndrome. The veterans, when
they came back from Vietnam, were depressed. They took drugs. They took
alcohol. They withdrew from their relationships. They could not be close
to people because it hurt too much. They did anything to escape their
feeling and what they were thinking. When they did that, they separated
from their spiritual side. When this happened, the depression started.
So they experienced this in Vietnam after 2 or 3 years. Sometimes people
had 4 trips over there. Our people experienced it for generations. Not
only did we _not_ have the support that the Vietnam Vets had, [but] they
still had their culture intact when they came back.
Our cultures were eliminated, or attempted to be destroyed. So that the
survivors, who had survived, were without hope. Having gone through such
misery and pain, the only thing they could do to defend themselves, the
only way they knew how to defend themselves, was not to feel.
I know and I understand it. Harold Napoleon understood it. Many of you
understand it. Because as a child, like many of our people, grew up
in a family the abused alcohol. And the first thing that I did as a
child to defend myself was to shut off my feelings. They were shut off
for over 20 years. And when that happened, it is a state of constant
depression and addiction. Addictions can be cigarettes - alcohol - TV -
noise; big loud music, and even thoughts could be an addiction. Anything
to take us away from feeling right now the way we feel. We try to run
away from it. That is what happening when you see a kid walk down the
street with big earphones blasting and they are not hearing anything
else because they do not want to be here. No.
The wisdom keepers say that the only place to find the power of the
Creator is to be present in this moment. If we have fears, we are
projecting them into the future. Into a future time that does not even
exist. If we have guilt, we are living in the past, for the past things
we did. We are not living now. All the spiritual keepers, of all groups
in the world, be they Buddhists, be they Islamic, be it part Red Pack,
be it medicine pack-- you name it-- say [that] the only way to find the
power that has been given to us from the Creator is to *be here, now*.
Not to escape.
So you see, this addiction that has happened from the Great Death, the
survivors are separated from their feelings. Can you imagine the kind of
children they raised? It was hard for them to love and be close to
another because they were afraid. "If I became too close and love
somebody, they would be destroyed, and I would suffer the pain all over
again. So, they stayed away from that feeling. Those kids grew up and
had their own kids, and from generations to generation to generation,
until today, we have the legacy the inheritance of this spiritual
sickness that was given to us a long time ago. And so the answers from
the wisdom keepers is to *work at being present* and that will first
revive the key.
The spiritual keepers also say that the first step towards healing
yourself, before you can heal others or help heal others, is to *love
that which we may hate or who may hate me*. We may hate ourselves. We
may hate an organization. We may hate the people from outside who have
interfered. We may hate somebody. The first step towards this healing is
to stop the hate and turn it into love. And it will transform
everything. This spiritual sickness that we have is going to move now.
It is going to change.
There are some predictions in the sacred stone tablets among the wisdom
keepers about what is going to happen here in this World of the 5th
Hoop. Not only are we going to have this healing but the Earth Mother is
going to shake in a way that it has never shook before. It is going to
move in a way it has never done before. There is going to be a lot of
fear because of this, and the wisdom keepers want me to convey that,
when this happens, we should not be afraid. Because, what is happening
is that the Earth Mother is trying to help us remove the stuff that we
have stuck in our bodies, inherited from the spiritual sickness of
generations and generations out. And one of the ways that we do that is
to scare the life out of us. This is why there is going to be time for
healers.
Healers are being called from all over. Women are now taking their place
as the original healers around the world and some of the strongest
original healers are starting here in Alaska. Not only [will there be]
the shift to the feminine side of leadership, but the women are going to
start taking their place as healers. I think this is an exciting time.
The Dalai Lama went down to Yakutan during the last change of the moon,
with all the spiritual leaders, to pray for this time of the shift, this
time of healing. And he has 'chosen'-- and this is the words that they
use, which are hard to understand-- he has chosen to take the spiritual
energies that they have been keeping in Tibet and move them from Tibet
and bring them here to Alaska. Which they did a few weeks ago. The
reason they did this is because the Chinese are wiping out the Tibetan
Monks and destroying all the temples. So the Dalai Lama moved its
spiritual energy here to Alaska, because this is the place where the
healing is going to start. And this is the place where all the Angels
are coming in by hosts. This is the place where the hoop of a hundred
eagle feathers will be finished. And, interestingly enough, some of the
healing ways are being revived from all the cultures. People are being
woken up.
How do we start this healing? When you are quiet within yourself and you
sit next to the river-- ask. Do not be afraid to ask. Ask the Creator.
Ask whoever you feel is your higher power, "Please help me find the way
because I do not know how to heal." "Make me your history." And when you
ask that, with humility in your heart, you will get it. You will find
it. And it will be given to you, you will see this healing starting to
spread like wild fire. It is just exciting. Exciting to see. And the key
to it is *staying here, now*.
Now, last thing I am going to say: I ran the village corporation in St.
Paul for 10 years. I was city manager for 4 years. We started from no
economy out there. In 1983 the government pulled out. That was our only
economy. They pulled out and we lost 80% of our jobs. That year we had
100 suicide attempts out of 600 people. We had 4 people who killed
themselves. We had 3 who were murdered-- things that had not happened in
our village for 150 years! The last person ever murdered in our village
was over 150 years ago. And it all happened in this one year. Big
shaking up. And we thought, the leadership thought-- including me--
that, if we worked to bring the economy back so that everybody got a
good paying job, our kids would return to our village. And that it would
solve our problems. We had growing alcohol problem, 60% of
population [were[ alcoholic and 1/3 of our kids have Fetal Alcohol
Syndrome. We had suicide attempts all the time. I have been to 44
funerals here in 4 years-- 44 funerals! Goodness sakes.
So what we learned from this and what I want to share with you is what
happened when we got our economy [back]. We have the strongest rural
economy in the State of Alaska right now. Our /per capita/ income is
$34,000.00-- $34,000.00 per person! That is what was accomplished in 10
years. But did it solve our problems? No. The spiritual sickness is
still going on. The money only feeds the addiction. We have a community
that is already addicted in some way because of the spiritual sickness.
We have inherited this sickness from the time of the Great Death.
Bringing money in, in large numbers, will fuel the addictions just like
gasoline to fire. It will make it worse. Bigger. Because it is what we
do with the money. Look at St. Paul. We are buying cars. Everybody has
got a car now. We bought, maybe, 300 cars in last 3 years. Everybody has
got 1 or 2 TV sets-- big ones. Everybody has got 4-wheelers. Everybody
has got boats. Everybody has got nice clothes. Everybody has got nice
houses. Things. Everybody has got things. But yet they are saying, "We
are not happy. What is wrong?" What is wrong is [that] we were looking
outside for feeding for a hunger inside-- a hunger that we did not
understand. And that hunger is the hunger of the spirit.
When we have addictions, it is a hunger to fill the spirit. It is like a
big stomach inside you that wants to feed all of the time. And no matter
how much we feed it with these addictions, [it] is never enough. And it
just goes down and down and we get so depressed that we feel we can not
get out of it. At that point, you die either physically or your die
spiritually. Hopefully, many people will not have to go through that.
So, that is the message that I have brought to you. This is a message of
hope and a message of good wisdom. Remember, our cultures are not lost.
The wisdom of it is already here with us. We just do not know it yet,
because we are spiritually sleeping.