"Frank as much as possible, because he was older and more traditional than other advocates, and he was with me for that first experience of being cared about as a person, not just as a lawyer."
I like this part very much. It reminds me of someone I had as a kind of mentor. He was a Texan, originally, but had spent 9 years up at Hopi following White Bear around. Walter McKee Andrus was his name. Died of cancer maybe 10 yrs ago or so.
But your story also reminds me of how I feel you have treated me since our first "acquaintance". I am very appreciative of the friendship.
Greetings Peter, welcome home in Santa Fe. Prayers all around and tobacco offerings for rain blessings from this northern blue lake mountain region today. Thank you for the invitation to respond. There is always Spirit food, in the oral traditions of call and response, dialogue that nourishes, deep listening and remembering, inner-connecting and belonging. For me, the questions Who are you?, Who am I, Who are we? are related to, what is a human being? As John Trudell still tells us in all he gave us, there is responsibility in living in relational relativity with all that is and the being of relational relativity still exists, in ancestral present future memory. Memory in the water, breathwinds, fire, stones and all that is and all that is has Spirit intelligence. Whenever the Peoples (human beings) have asked me those questions it was always in the context of my Spirit Reality journey. When colonial thought asked me the questions Who are you, What's your purpose? it was always attached to quantifying doing, position, property, title, in connection to industrial ecocidal dependency which is causing spiritual, mental, physical starvation while pretending to be more rational and intelligent by reducing human spirit intelligence to mental thinking and colonial education and the extraction of human energy and our Mother Earth. Spirit always knows when spirit is nourished. So am welcoming your personal narratives, your heart speak from the spirit because in my journey, is the narratives that have come from connecting with spirit, spirit within human and non human relations that is the evolutionary, life giving, nature of relational relativity of being human being.
Hi April- Than you for your joyful welcome message! Yes, the rain was a blessing... Rain also came on the day of our arrival in May.... And tobacco offerings every day... I will do my best to follow the path Spirit opens before me....
This is immensely helpful for me, as someone who has read much of your writing and enjoyed your work. I believe I understand and appreciate the perspective you share, even while I think it overstates the contrast between the nuclear and extended traditions.
Skimming over the words, I read exit-ing this world - but then was fortunate enough to read closer - 'a human world' and your brief answer (below) to that.
Another great read, Peter. As I know you know, most Indian speakers will often introduce themselves by including the separate names of their parents and birthplace before speaking... In my work with the Northern Pomo, I discovered that the structure of their language precluded the telling of falsehoods and subsequently they had no word for "lie" in their language. Fascinating and deeply distressing to know it is possible! james
... someone once said that 'Indians' are at a special disadvantage in criminal law process because they admit things rather then deny and demand 'proof' ... crudely put, perhaps, but illuminating...
My friend is on the verge of suicide. Is there anything anyone can do to help show her that she is valued. She doesn't believe anyone will notice if she is gone. I can't begin to describe what she has gone through...I would really love to be able to offer her a class she could teach online or a place to learn that she is valued...before it is too late. She knows indigenous plants, beadwork...7th generation shaman and a phd in Wild Rice. Ideally she needs a job.
I felt like things were very dark around about mid 2021. I don't know if it was just me, but I looked out at the world and it just seemed like things were too far gone, like the corporate robbers of our humanity were on their way to total control.
IDK, but somehow I recovered. Not like things on the outside changed all that much, but inside I just felt more hopeful in spite of the shenanigans going on as usual. Somehow my life, what I do and what I feel and where I am headed, is separate from all that. It's an inner light that has grown regardless of the darkness about.
I can only think that if a person can get hold of that bright hope that comes from the inside that things can be different for them, but I don't know how to commuincate it or share it with anyone else. I actually don't know where it comes from!
Your story of your friend reminds me of a long time friend of mine whose story seems similar in many ways, but to be sure it's an INNER battle she faces. I have tried to support her over the years, yet I find myself having little to give her apart from maintaining a place of listening and supportiveness.
That rings true for me: finding and following the light… and that this is helpful for those you know, as well
also, realizing that the outer collapse is inevitable because it doesn’t accord with the fundamentals of life… so collapse may be (will be) messy in the 3D world, but will unclog the flow of energy for all life…
Look, I get that, and that is exactly why I am still here. And I am so fed up with what I continue to be put through on the energetic, and I hope my transmuting role is over extremely soon, but what she has endured and is enduring is unimaginable. She's done everything "right" in the face of having her relatives murdered, being gaslight, abused, raped, having people try to steal her research...there is nasty black magic against her, and on top of it, her daughter got sent to jail. Her daughter is sensitive like her and has been a mess for years but has a pure heart. I don't know why this is allowed. If it were an experiment in my lab, I would call it unethical to continue to allow the interference with everyone's sovereign divinity and thriving, as we naturally would.
Is there nothing she can do to stand in her sovereignty?
The oft-quoted phrase, "It's a good day to die" was not a suicide note. It was a reminder that we all die and that today is a good day to live... to defend the people against the soldiers, to be brave, standing instead of running or hiding.
I hope this doesn't sound crass. Take it as a kind of 'tough love'... ?
She has tried everything - spoke up, filed reports, the police and university here, she believes, and I believe her, have it out for her...she's applied for jobs...she has gotten totally blackballed.
It looks like we are all craving this "Indian way of life" that is the human way of life. If you haven't yet, check out Pohala.net - the best by far source I've found on Humanity before we lost our original purpose - that of God curling back on God's self - separation from God' self God's self in order to reflect back - to give/receive love, to Love God's self...I have been sketched by many descriptions of Mu that haven't resonated, but this one feels authentic to me.
Heheh…it turns out Mu has multiple applications…or perhaps just one in different lenses. I had not heard of the warhorse or the zen Koan…
Mu is the prehistoric first land of humans before time and space were even as they are…even before Lemuria. The original confluences of star nation experiment on earth that first explored divinity turning to face itself in order to love itself.
“Perhaps this is the time when we either fulfill our original mission of self-reflective love, or we exploit violence to the point of breaking . Ka mea nāna i hana has taught us that self-reflective love is the most powerful force to have ever been conceived, and an energy which changed the dynamics of consciousness forever. You will need to recognize the role you play in fulfilling our mission, you must love yourself, and return to Kinohi loa Mā ‘ano (nature/origin). IMUA!"
I am so glad to read this, and am in complete agreement with the statement: “What we call the ‘Indian way of life’ is only a human being way of life". My heart has been screaming this for a long time. As we hurl ourselves further into merging with machines, I grieve for those who will never even be able to understand that life ( real life) is a gift and an opportunity. When we lose connection with our past ( or pretend it doesn’t matter) we lose the ability to see the gift for what it is.
Yes... the merger with machines is so pervasive as to almost obliterate opportunities for awareness of existence ... Even this communication through the machine of text and internet poses this danger.... 'zoom' expanded the problem while seeming to offer a way to 'connect' in the horrible lockdown... reminds me of the old Bell telephone slogan, "reach out and touch someone"... touch being the very thing that a phone call does not provide....
Can you expand upon this statement by Philip Deer “What we call the ‘Indian way of life’ is only a human being way of life" ? As I would love to learn more about what it means to truly be human. Thank you and I love both yours and Steven's work. Sorry I never got to meet you while you lived here in the Northeast.
I'm hoping to explore the implications of Phillip's statement as I get back into writing... For starters, I hear it as a call to see past lines of division among peoples (and people)....
"Frank as much as possible, because he was older and more traditional than other advocates, and he was with me for that first experience of being cared about as a person, not just as a lawyer."
I like this part very much. It reminds me of someone I had as a kind of mentor. He was a Texan, originally, but had spent 9 years up at Hopi following White Bear around. Walter McKee Andrus was his name. Died of cancer maybe 10 yrs ago or so.
But your story also reminds me of how I feel you have treated me since our first "acquaintance". I am very appreciative of the friendship.
mutual…
Greetings Peter, welcome home in Santa Fe. Prayers all around and tobacco offerings for rain blessings from this northern blue lake mountain region today. Thank you for the invitation to respond. There is always Spirit food, in the oral traditions of call and response, dialogue that nourishes, deep listening and remembering, inner-connecting and belonging. For me, the questions Who are you?, Who am I, Who are we? are related to, what is a human being? As John Trudell still tells us in all he gave us, there is responsibility in living in relational relativity with all that is and the being of relational relativity still exists, in ancestral present future memory. Memory in the water, breathwinds, fire, stones and all that is and all that is has Spirit intelligence. Whenever the Peoples (human beings) have asked me those questions it was always in the context of my Spirit Reality journey. When colonial thought asked me the questions Who are you, What's your purpose? it was always attached to quantifying doing, position, property, title, in connection to industrial ecocidal dependency which is causing spiritual, mental, physical starvation while pretending to be more rational and intelligent by reducing human spirit intelligence to mental thinking and colonial education and the extraction of human energy and our Mother Earth. Spirit always knows when spirit is nourished. So am welcoming your personal narratives, your heart speak from the spirit because in my journey, is the narratives that have come from connecting with spirit, spirit within human and non human relations that is the evolutionary, life giving, nature of relational relativity of being human being.
"Memory in the water, breathwinds, fire, stones and all that is and all that is has Spirit intelligence" - ooooh love this!
Hi April- Than you for your joyful welcome message! Yes, the rain was a blessing... Rain also came on the day of our arrival in May.... And tobacco offerings every day... I will do my best to follow the path Spirit opens before me....
This is immensely helpful for me, as someone who has read much of your writing and enjoyed your work. I believe I understand and appreciate the perspective you share, even while I think it overstates the contrast between the nuclear and extended traditions.
Yes, there is a porous boundary between the two traditions... but nonetheless a real difference...
it's exiting to know there is a human world
Skimming over the words, I read exit-ing this world - but then was fortunate enough to read closer - 'a human world' and your brief answer (below) to that.
It's exciting to be in it... :-)
i'm on my way
some small repairs
on this desert isle
-i can see a temple
-but i can't quite
-see inside yet
Another great read, Peter. As I know you know, most Indian speakers will often introduce themselves by including the separate names of their parents and birthplace before speaking... In my work with the Northern Pomo, I discovered that the structure of their language precluded the telling of falsehoods and subsequently they had no word for "lie" in their language. Fascinating and deeply distressing to know it is possible! james
... someone once said that 'Indians' are at a special disadvantage in criminal law process because they admit things rather then deny and demand 'proof' ... crudely put, perhaps, but illuminating...
My friend is on the verge of suicide. Is there anything anyone can do to help show her that she is valued. She doesn't believe anyone will notice if she is gone. I can't begin to describe what she has gone through...I would really love to be able to offer her a class she could teach online or a place to learn that she is valued...before it is too late. She knows indigenous plants, beadwork...7th generation shaman and a phd in Wild Rice. Ideally she needs a job.
I felt like things were very dark around about mid 2021. I don't know if it was just me, but I looked out at the world and it just seemed like things were too far gone, like the corporate robbers of our humanity were on their way to total control.
IDK, but somehow I recovered. Not like things on the outside changed all that much, but inside I just felt more hopeful in spite of the shenanigans going on as usual. Somehow my life, what I do and what I feel and where I am headed, is separate from all that. It's an inner light that has grown regardless of the darkness about.
I can only think that if a person can get hold of that bright hope that comes from the inside that things can be different for them, but I don't know how to commuincate it or share it with anyone else. I actually don't know where it comes from!
Your story of your friend reminds me of a long time friend of mine whose story seems similar in many ways, but to be sure it's an INNER battle she faces. I have tried to support her over the years, yet I find myself having little to give her apart from maintaining a place of listening and supportiveness.
BTW... things were very dark... the lockdown was an anti-human action...
Indeed, and I think despair, confusion and division were intended as part of the psyop.
That rings true for me: finding and following the light… and that this is helpful for those you know, as well
also, realizing that the outer collapse is inevitable because it doesn’t accord with the fundamentals of life… so collapse may be (will be) messy in the 3D world, but will unclog the flow of energy for all life…
I love your optimism in the face of all odds. It does seem like something is being unclogged already.
Here’s my take:
Imagine what happens after: The newly deceased is told, “Too bad. You didn’t finish your path. Now you have to go back and start over.”
Look, I get that, and that is exactly why I am still here. And I am so fed up with what I continue to be put through on the energetic, and I hope my transmuting role is over extremely soon, but what she has endured and is enduring is unimaginable. She's done everything "right" in the face of having her relatives murdered, being gaslight, abused, raped, having people try to steal her research...there is nasty black magic against her, and on top of it, her daughter got sent to jail. Her daughter is sensitive like her and has been a mess for years but has a pure heart. I don't know why this is allowed. If it were an experiment in my lab, I would call it unethical to continue to allow the interference with everyone's sovereign divinity and thriving, as we naturally would.
Is there nothing she can do to stand in her sovereignty?
The oft-quoted phrase, "It's a good day to die" was not a suicide note. It was a reminder that we all die and that today is a good day to live... to defend the people against the soldiers, to be brave, standing instead of running or hiding.
I hope this doesn't sound crass. Take it as a kind of 'tough love'... ?
She has tried everything - spoke up, filed reports, the police and university here, she believes, and I believe her, have it out for her...she's applied for jobs...she has gotten totally blackballed.
It looks like we are all craving this "Indian way of life" that is the human way of life. If you haven't yet, check out Pohala.net - the best by far source I've found on Humanity before we lost our original purpose - that of God curling back on God's self - separation from God' self God's self in order to reflect back - to give/receive love, to Love God's self...I have been sketched by many descriptions of Mu that haven't resonated, but this one feels authentic to me.
Mu! That venerable Zen warhorse... designed to push people out of their minds and into awareness ....
My own solution to Mu I call the Mafia answer: "fugetaboutit" ... "don't worry about it"... "it's being taken care of even as we speak" ... 🤩🙏
I like your Mafia approach. Very Italian. :)
Flourish
Unconditionally
Choose
Kindness
Heheh…it turns out Mu has multiple applications…or perhaps just one in different lenses. I had not heard of the warhorse or the zen Koan…
Mu is the prehistoric first land of humans before time and space were even as they are…even before Lemuria. The original confluences of star nation experiment on earth that first explored divinity turning to face itself in order to love itself.
“Perhaps this is the time when we either fulfill our original mission of self-reflective love, or we exploit violence to the point of breaking . Ka mea nāna i hana has taught us that self-reflective love is the most powerful force to have ever been conceived, and an energy which changed the dynamics of consciousness forever. You will need to recognize the role you play in fulfilling our mission, you must love yourself, and return to Kinohi loa Mā ‘ano (nature/origin). IMUA!"
~Pohala.net (mu culture under the discover tab)
I am so glad to read this, and am in complete agreement with the statement: “What we call the ‘Indian way of life’ is only a human being way of life". My heart has been screaming this for a long time. As we hurl ourselves further into merging with machines, I grieve for those who will never even be able to understand that life ( real life) is a gift and an opportunity. When we lose connection with our past ( or pretend it doesn’t matter) we lose the ability to see the gift for what it is.
Yes... the merger with machines is so pervasive as to almost obliterate opportunities for awareness of existence ... Even this communication through the machine of text and internet poses this danger.... 'zoom' expanded the problem while seeming to offer a way to 'connect' in the horrible lockdown... reminds me of the old Bell telephone slogan, "reach out and touch someone"... touch being the very thing that a phone call does not provide....
[grim laughter in the aisles...]
Elon Musk did get hit with lawsuit that hit the news today
Can you expand upon this statement by Philip Deer “What we call the ‘Indian way of life’ is only a human being way of life" ? As I would love to learn more about what it means to truly be human. Thank you and I love both yours and Steven's work. Sorry I never got to meet you while you lived here in the Northeast.
I'm hoping to explore the implications of Phillip's statement as I get back into writing... For starters, I hear it as a call to see past lines of division among peoples (and people)....
....a call to see past 'divide and rule', elevated to a maxim since the Late Republic in Rome.