CAT-LION

This spiritual teaching is taught through the Spirit of the Lion, Head Spirit of all Cats on Earth. Notice, that all of the Cat Family, share a majority of characteristics, however, the Cat that wears the mane, marks it as the main teacher for all cats. Different characteristics develop due to the geographical area one is placed in, because the cats of different areas learn to live in harmony with the other Natural Spirits in the specific area(example: the Manx Cat, taught the Manx People of the Isle of Man). The Lion’s Great Spirit teaches us about Family Pride and the Needing/Kneading of one and other. In this teaching we try to demonstrate where Native People learn some of their medicine teachings. For Christians this is a teaching written with Christ as the Lion of Judea in mind. Take what you like and leave the rest.


This is a spiritual writing and is meant to be read a minimum of four times. This is a very .short version of a much longer teaching of the Lion. The Lion teaches everyone how to set up an army.


THE LION, PROTECTOR OF TRUE PRIDE, TEACHER OF OUR NEEDING OF ONE AND OTHER

With His golden colour, fiery mane, and great strength, the Lion is the symbol of the Sun/Son of God, the Word (Jesus/Son of God, no matter what Name you know Him by) of the Creator God. He was given a Voice of Thunder, making him Lord of his domain. The Lion is the maned Godhead and Great Spirit of all Cats on Earth. The Spirit of the Lion teaches the courage of conviction and holds the reigns of war. Every action of a warrior, king, or god is based on Love, to cause Peace, Harmony and Family Pride. Given the reins/reigns of power during a time of war, He is a Lord of War, acting to prevent war. The Lion is the Defender of the Nobility of Pride, Protector of Peace and the Restorer of the Glory of God. The Lion is the Guardian of the Children of Earth, who are true to the Family and Pride of the Creator God. It is through family pride, the Lions and Warriors of God, learn of the true meaning of needing one and other through the oneness of their hearts, minds, bodies and souls.

True Pride is knowing, our line of descent is from the Lion of God, the Protector of the Pride and Glory of God. Everyone acting as one, to carry out the will of the Creator God, become His Great Spirit. We as His children are made in the image of the Creator God and we are immortal in spirit and like Him, we live forever. As the lion begets lions and the eagle begets eagles, the Children of God, like God are gods.

We as pure and perfect Spirits of Light, know, that no other kinds of spirits, can emanate from a pure and perfect God, but pure and perfect spirits. The Creator God, is the Father of all Creation, the Source of all Knowledge and the Source of all Life, and the Universe is the embodiment of His Great Spirit of Light. Pride in anything other than our eminence, as Spirits from the Creator God and our Oneness with Him, is false. False pride is never lasting, forever fleeting, illusionary and not real. True Pride is knowing and accepting the Truth of God, and living by the Word of God. We are not entities unto ourselves and life does not depend solely on our existence. God made all Living Things to be His Children with pride and no less important in purpose than mankind. They too (plants, rocks, insects, birds, trees, etc.) have a right to be here.

The maned or head lion is the main protector of the pride, given to him by God. He is a courageous, spiritual leader who maintains order and unity, by instilling true pride in the family he was given to protect. Making them his pride and joy. He was given great strength and physical prowess to protect his family from outside influences, influences that interfere with harmony and destroy the unity of his family. He has compassion, the kindness and mercy he shows through the wise use, of the power of life and death He was granted, over all living things within the sphere of his territorial domain. He breaks the neck of a zebra with one blow from His paw, never allowing the prey to suffer. He culls the weak, injured, sick and infirm from families outside of his immediate family, providing sustenance for his pride, leaving the main body of the other families healthier, stronger and intact. Through the elimination of any flaws that exist in the regime of his family and in all families within the sphere of his influence, He protects the pride and honour of his family, ensuring there will always be food enough to keep all families within His domain well fed and cared for.

The Lion is a Steward of Power, given the Voice of Thunder that all life on Earth may know his majesty is in the Word of God. When he roars, the earth shakes. All who hear his voice, heed his words, for were he to whisper, it would remain a command. Roaring, he issues forth his territorial right of possession, announcing to all that may not know of His title or His prestige, to accept his authority, as their King. He is magnanimous, roaring to let his prey know he walks among them, seeking those who would surrender their lives so others might live. He was given his physical power, mane and spiritual strength by the Creator God, and it was He, the Lion, who chose to use His gifts in their proper manner. Respected is He, for He chose to become Lord of His Domain, through the Power of Love and True Pride, and through His Word. His Word is Truth. Content only, when all life in his kingdom is safe and cared for, he purrs with tenderness, whispering words of love. In righteousness His tongue is sharp, like a rasp, and His searing words can cut you or strip you of your skin. He does not allow any indifference to His command nor have His name taken in vain, for in His name is everything He was given by God. He was not elevated by His own kind but accepted by them. It is only through God and by God, anyone is elevated or made King.

Warlords are the Warriors of the Creator God. If the head of a family acts without the council of their family’s heart, they will place their family at great risk. For without the Lioness, the heart of the Family of Pride, the family runs the risk of acting without love and regard for all life, placing your family and everyone else in the territory, in peril. The females, guide His pride by teaching His children order and disciplines which become the formidable forces of his army of Love and Light. Providing the food that sustains the power of His pride, for without their love and caring, he would be without an army. Without their assistance, guidance and advice, He could not hold onto His kingdom or the power of His reign. Then darkness, death and destruction would divide and devour His Pride. When there is no heart, you do not need a head. This is a principle of war. This shows all that it is not the fault of the followers, when things go wrong but the fault of the leaders, who have lead them to their demise. The governing principle of the Lion’s Kingdom is consensus, the taking into account of all life, basing all of His decisions on the respect for all life, even when hunting.

The Lioness, matriarch of a pride of lions, is a skillful hunter and tactician of war, inherently knowing that the unparalleled unity of her family is their strength and her pride. Her conviction is to cause stability by ensuring the oneness of her pride, making them one in heart, mind, body and soul. By placing great importance upon and enforcing an unwavering discipline on the established order of her family, causing fluid movements and unerring accuracy with which family objectives are carried out. Her ability to use their every strength and weakness to advantage, makes her the principle caretaker of the military precision and order, needed to execute their lightning attacks and complex maneuvers. She trains her family to be efficient providers and effective protectors of their own domain. Every member of a pride works in harmony and oneness with their family, for the Power of Unity and the Wholeness of Family Pride.

The Lions practice an ordered form of eating, based on nutritional requirements for health and survival. Like all good Mothers, lionesses teach their young to eat the foods in order of nutritional value. The first food eaten being the most beneficial in maintaining a balanced diet and healthy body. "Starting with their vegetables", when a kill is made, the first thing to be eaten is the intestine, containing partially digested greens stuffs. These concentrated greens are useful as roughage and are extremely high in vitamin content.

After the intestine is eaten, the lions turn their attention to the flesh, starting at the hindquarters, which usually have the highest protein value and most solid meat. Lions eat forwards towards the head, where there is less meat per pound. Eating the softer bone and cartilage assuring their calcium intake, to strengthen their bones and teeth. This procedure ensures a good meal, in case uninvited guests happen by, insisting on their portion and turning a family dinner into a communal feast. If a lion while feeding gets too large a chunk of meat in its mouth, they use their dew claw to hook it out, much like a toothpick. The Creator provides everything we need for our health and well-being, for as He loves the Lion, He loves All, every living thing, dearly.

The order in which meals are eaten in a large pride, when the population is high, and food is plentiful begins with the lions eating first, in order of rank, taking the entrails with the highest vitamin content in order to lower their population to maintain a balance with their food supply. The lionesses feed next and the cubs take what is left. When food is scarce and a lioness is on her own, the cubs will eat first, taking the high vitamin entrails to ensure a high survival rate among the cubs and ensuring the survival of the pride. After a feast, when food is easy to come by, Lions will leave food for the members of other predating families under their protection. All of the Creator's Spirits are taught that life is based on sharing and sacrifice, and this is their way of showing their love for others and their way of caring for the good of All. When hyenas or other large predators out number and manage to persuade the pride to let them share in their family meal it quickly becomes a noise filled community feast, a banquet fit for a king. Key/ki-ing/ is what they do, they align them selves in order of family rank; lions, hyenas, vultures, wild dogs, on down to the beetles and ants.

What would a banquet be without Ants, but a waste? Ants are the keepers and restorers of the sacred hills and the workers of the Earth. In respect for the animal, who gave its life so others might live and become greater, for their gift, grace, presence, and humility, they show their thankfulness and respect for life to the Creator and nothing is wasted. This allows the animal that gave its life to fulfill its purpose, to become a part of everyone and everything in heart, mind, body and soul. In sacrificing His life, he became a part of them, for whatever we eat, becomes us. In this way all are taught to share our food and feast, with one and other.

From the moment of their birth, cats know love, through their need for one and other. Immediately, after the birth of the lion cubs, their mothers lick and clean their children forming the bond of love for life. The litter of lion cubs are groomed and cared for, on a daily basis, by their mothers, placing family pride in their hearts and minds, through the tenderness of care and the wisdom of love. The licking of one and other, during grooming, is the molding of their souls into one. This maternal trait of goodness, becomes the basis of their love and courage, which they will carry with conviction throughout their lifetimes. They will never forgo or compromise their family unity or pride. These principles make a family strong and an army invincible, for an army is a family composed of many families made one under God Knowing they need her, their mother, they show the need of her love, with the gentle massaging of her breasts, while being fed. That the cubs know not to rip and tear their Mother's breast with their sharp claws, shows their inherent control of power and their respect for love and life.

Through the Spirit of the Cat, we were given the Message of the Mass-Age. The kneading of the physical body for one and other, works out the aches and pains acquired through the stress and strain of everyday life. This is called massage or the laying on of hands and has the power to heal. The word[PJ1] Massage, comes from the age of Mass, a time when matter came together and we were given mass, through prayer, for prayer makes everything matter through God. It also has to do with the fact that your body is the sacred temple for your Spirit and the Spirits of the Creator God to flow through. We were given bodies to enjoy the physical world the Creator made for us. Our bodies are sensory organs, devices capable of assessing the thoughts of the Creator, for our continual health and well fare.

Through massage we work out foreign particles of matter, giving support to weakened areas of the heart, mind, body and soul. If it does not matter to the mind, it does not matter to the heart, and it does not matter to a soul, therefore it just does not matter or become physical. Through the message of love, we massage the heart. With words of love you are given knowledge, knowledge that can become the wisdom of the heart. Wisdom is the power we understand with our mind. The grooming of one and other shows the love and caring we have for one and other, by bringing to the surface, the tender-ness and beauty of each other, through physical massage. All love, feeds and cares for the soul, kneading the wisdom of truth and the power of light into the soul.

When Mankind invented mirrors, introducing self-love and vanity to the world, the beauty of his own reflection, blinded him to the beauty of others and the beauty of all things, causing him to be self centered and to neglect the caring for his family and friends. Mirrors are tools of Illusion. When a woman stands before a Mirror, she perceives herself to be larger than she is and when a Man stands before the same Mirror, he perceives himself to be thinner than he is. The Mirror is a tool of vanity that holds the spell of self-deception. You will get a better reflection of yourself when you gaze into a pool of water. Before the Mirror, all family members, their animals included, needing care, to keep their bodies, hair and clothing in repair were helped by everyone in the family. Never did we walk away from an imperfection in the appearance or health of our family. With the help of family and friends, one can break All spells.

Grooming and kneading one and other shows the tenderness of caring. Caring for one another causes the bonds of love and trust, dis-spelling stress and dis-ease. No one can beat love into a child, nor can they beat respect into a stone. Through the tenderness of caressing a child or a stone, you can bring out their beauty from within. When you place love in one’s heart, correcting one’s mind with knowledge, kneading the body with tenderness and protecting the soul, you bring forth beauty. All beauty in Life is the Spirit of God.


WRITTEN BY Paula Johnstone-Whitehawk

Also known as Lightening Woman
1998 

I am the male puma who lies upon the Earth. I am a person who had made a male puma of his body. The knowledge of my courage has spread over the land. The god of day sits in the heavens. I sit close to the god of day. When men make me their god, all deaths die as they travel the paths of life.

An Osage Ceremonial Song

And I think in this empty world there was room for me and a mountain lion. And I think in the world beyond, how easily we might spare a million or two humans, And never miss them. Yet what a gap in the world, the missing, white frost-face, of that slim yellow mountain lion!

Quote from the "Turtle Island Alphabet" by Gerald Hausman

The Ghost Dance Way

I wrote the following in April 2. 2007 it was a Full Moon in Spring, a Holy Day.

I am sharing now. It came with a Song, which I keep. And I claim Artistic License...so with Respect. Peace.

The Ghost Dance Way

The Resurrection, 
The Rejuvenation,
The Renewal,
Of The Nations, 
Of the Mighty Turtle Island Nation,
Was Promised and will be,
As stated by The Great Spirit's Royal Decree,
Promised and Proclaimed, 
By His Messenger, Wovoka.

What does it mean to Dance?

Dancing is a Way of expressing Joy. 
Dancing is the Movement of the Stars in the Heavens on their journey across the Sky.
Dancing is the Raindrops skipping on the Earth to replenish and purify.
Dancing is the Prayers we Humbly offer to the Earth/Great Spirit, hoping that He will hear and answer.
Dancing is a Spirit Song, a Fast, a Prayer, A Promise kept.
Dancing is a Spirit Dance, an Earthdance, a Raindance, a Sundance, a Healing Dance, a Dreamdance, a Creation Dance of Love.
Dancing is the Life on Earth taking place daily between the Pole Stars.
Dancing is a Way of Walking, a Way of Walking in Beauty, a Way of Living Love.
Dancing is a Way of Knowing, a Way of Light coming through Us from Above,
A Way that emanates from the Essence of our full Hearts, Reaching out to meet and greet others of our Kind or Not.
Dancing is a Song that Perfumes the Spaces between our Breaths,
Which forms the Harmonious Sounds and Movements to Please the Great Spirits' ears.
Dancing is a Sharing, a Bond that grows between People that Respect One and Others.
Dancing is a Warriors Dance, justified in Righteousness and Resurrection, won in Mercy.
Dancing is a PeaceMakers Dance, Solid, Truthful, Present, a Gift of Love.
Dancing is a Cry for Justice, for injuries Lost and Forgotten, Remembered and Forgiven.
Dancing is a Longing, for the Best if Days, when All Life is Vigorous, Growing and Renewed.
Dancing is a Game. Not of Chance but of Choice, of the Chosen, to Make Life, live Again.
Dancing is a Sacred Way, the Present day way, of doing our part to help the Ones past to Return.
Dancing is a Restoring Way, doing Everything possible, to help the Animal Spirits Return.
Dancing the Bison Return, Dancing the Bison Remains!
Dancing is laying your Tobacco Prayers, smoking your Pipe, purifying in a Sacred Way.
Dancing is a Holy Way, the Way of letting the Great Spirit do what needs to be done, while we back off, egos and ids away, His Will today!
Dancing is a Way of Putting on a new skin, Becoming a New Kind, a new Being, a Purified One, the One the Creator intended One to be.
Dancing is a Way of Transforming into the Spirit Being the Great Spirit thought You to be, when He called you by Name.
Dancing is His Divine Spirit shining through You and around You, until only the old Ghost of You, is left behind.
Dancing is a Balanced Way, a Way of Wholeness, a Way of Thinking, of All others.
Dancing is the Way of the Future, Seven Generations away, throughout the Universe.
Dancing is the Way of All Our Relations, a Way of Seeing Oneness!
Dancing is the Ghost Dance Way, the Sacred Circle Way, where we do Little but Pray, Pray, Pray!
Dancing is the Ghost Dance Way, a Living Way, where we Dance, Dance, Dance!
Dancing is a Ghost Dance Way, a Beauty Way, where we disturb Little and Love, Love, Love!
Dancing is a Ghost Dance Way, the Peaceful Way, where we Live, Live, Live!

In Sharing, 
Paula Johnstone-Whitehawk 
Aka Lightening Woman
October 29. 2014

Rock Throwing

There are Three Families living in a Beautiful Valley filled with Abundance. For a long time the Families live in Harmony. Each of them are very different from one and other. So they believe.

As time passes and they grow Fruitful, well one is a little more Fruitful than the other two...but they are all Fruitful.

Anyway, the least Fruitful family starts to get a little envious of the one with the most. He starts grumbling over tea to his other neighbour. Pretty soon the two are dissatisfied with their Fruitfulness.

So they decide to do some sneaky night raids to even up the score. The Richer Family doesn't respond at first. Maybe they were generous, or maybe they did not notice the things that were gone.

As time moved on, one day the other Family awoke and found they were missing some of their Fruit/wealth. As they looked for it, they found it over at the poorer neighbours, and they took it back right away. No one talked about what was going on. All Trust between the previous conspirators was broken.

Once again each Family grew and over time as Families do they taught their Children their Personal History.

Once again it seemed the Families lived in Harmony.

As Life would have it, the Same spirit of Envy rose again, through the same Fruitful Family as before, for the Rich Family had so increased in Fruitfulness, that it was difficult for anyone to ignore.

This time the Envious Family was on its own for the trust had been broken and the Families all had long Memories.

Determined to get a larger piece of the Fruitfulness, the Family stepped up its attack and threw Stones while they tried to grab more Fruitfulness.

The Rich Family did something odd before response. They went to their Fruitful neighbour and asked for help in dealing with their problem.

Happy for the Alliance to the Richest neighbours, and secretly delighted that they could payback the poor neighbour who back in Memory had perhaps wronged them (although it was never proven) they agreed and quickly started throwing Rocks too!

Soon the two neighbours were spending much of their time throwing Rocks Back and Forth! They spent so much time throwing Rocks that they didn't notice their Rich Neighbours got Richer and Richer.

One day though, one of their Children noticed and started to point it out. Both neighbours put down their Rocks for a moment and when they reached for the next Rock they turned as One and threw the Rocks at the Richest of their neighbours.

This gave them Great Satisfaction! They threw so many Rocks that over time they forgot why.

Until the Day the Richest Neighbour turned and started throwing Rocks too.

Since they were so Wealthy, the Richest Families Rocks were bigger. Plus as their Rocks kept being thrown, they still had time to harvest more & more Wealth, which perpetuates ongoing Envy.

Now All three Families living in the Area have been throwing Rocks for so long, No One knows why or how to stop any more.

All they all know is;they are Sore, Sorry, and Sordid.

They have thrown Rocks for so long that Every other Fruitful Neighbour has been dragged into the Story. EveryOne has an opinion, yet no One knows how to Stop the Rocks that seem to Fly on their Own!

I think they All need to Put the Rocks down long enough till they ReCall that they are Neighbours and Relearn what it means to "Love Your Neighbour as You would Love YourSelf!" And Live in Harmony and Peace.

Peace! Be Unto You.

Change Brings Nations to Humility

Heartache and mental anguish are washing over the land as described in newscasts, tweets, magazines and social networks throughout the global community.  Misery is described through tears, elegance of language, and arrogance in demeanor by confused populaces.  Trials prevail while refining individual personalities and redefining family situations and global worlds.

As in the days of old, the challenge to regenerate systems of governance, weigh heavily on the populace.  Nations can only be renewed when the individuals making up the nation are changed.  This can be a humbling experience.

Change is dramatic.  Change can be symbolically likened to Birth.  More so a Re-Birthing, typified by snakes sloughing off skin; tender yet dangerous, hyper-sensitive to any breeze that blows and sore from the exertion, transformed by growth yet still a snake after all the struggle. Or perhaps a Time of Change is more like Resurrection.  Resurrections are rare events.  They seem to capture a populace by surprise.  Resurrections are controversial.  It seems everyone has a ‘personal’ opinion about the resurrection, while resurrections have a way of involving everyone on some level, whether they know it, believe it or not. Resurrections forever initialize Change on the entire World.

From the record numbers of people willing to stand up, camp, protest, be arrested, die or become martyred, all the while united with strangers and without one true leader shows that this Change will not be birthed in ease.

Sharing discontent, milling with others helps individuals to weigh their hearts and share concerns and discover solidarity of purpose.  The individual is moved to see that the whole community is endangered.  This emboldens at first, determines second, and then invigorates the will. Then through revelation fear grows for those awake. They are afraid of redefining old, comfortable systems of governance, which will bare hardship and sacrifice in their personal world even though they can see gaping holes in the systems that be, brutal injustices, and mind numbing problems.  Everyone mistrusts each other, as the entire population individually struggles to stay on top of the game.  All the while they know the system they want change for is corrupted, that leaders are failing the people, and special interest groups struggle to have their skewed political agendas survive above another’s.  The individual cries for change.

The cries for Change grow louder every day. Cries from those affected by homes foreclosed, education expenses rising or disappearing altogether, health benefits taken away, social systems crumbling, jobs lost, and the numbers of homeless and hungry, increase at alarming rates. At the same time people wonder why the Earth itself, seems to add to their burdens, with too much heat, too much water, new disease, earthquake groans, and tempest storms.  Meanwhile addictions soar, the seedier side of humanity falls to greater lows, and violence surrounds life and the numbers of lost and dead grows greater. It seems everything is against them and the cries grow louder.

Each and every day, threats of impending doom grow. Once proud Nations tremble and shake, admitting with trepidations precarious situations, making them beg for help and look for answers.  With countries swimming in debt, wobbling on collapse, humbled to admit their greed and defiant corruption, the greatest fear adds to the symphony of distress, the fear shared by the many, the sudden yet predicted failing of Monetary systems. This plants the seeds of revolution as demonstrated in cities across the Nations.  North America is no exception to the rule.  When pressed hard enough, all things will crumble. Money and Economies are not the end, they are merely the Idol and the Worshipers.

Many think and others know that Only Heaven can save them now. Quote “It is easy for a great number to be routed by a few, indeed in the sight of Heaven deliverance, whether by many or few, let us not fall into revolution, except if it be a revolution of the HEART.”

So what I say now please take to Heart. Out of pain rises Peace.  When one’s life seems to be spinning out of control ask yourself, who are you? Out of the vast pool of humanity, are you acting for your personal world or for the future of everyone? That question might slow down quick responses to negative situations, and cause you to root out the truth for your actions and watch the actions of others.  Self-control is needed to map new destinies.  Better to listen, exchange ideas, to forge new dreams, to create a new destiny, than fall into the trap of hostility and blood.  When people can no longer tolerate wrongs and keep them hidden, they will find ways to Change the situations they find themselves in. Nothing One does is ever truly done in isolation.  Everything causes ripples.  New answers come from within.  When the world acts with speed, slow down.  In this way one will not just be swept along, they will live life in the calm place, in the eye of the storm.  Minds can be fooled and ruled; only Hearts will live Free.

What can one do?  One can look within and awaken their sleeping Hearts.

One can choose to act in humility or One can be humbled. Change is constant and necessary when the stage or purpose it was made for has reached its highest good.  Then it is remade, refreshed, rebirthed, and resurrected.

The choice is a gift from the Ruler of the Universe, and King of the World, The Almighty, the One and Only.

Love Always and Live Forever! Peace.

 Thought to meditate on...

“Man sees the face, God knows the Heart is all One: for victory in war does not depend on the size of the fighting force: it is from Heaven strength comes.”
“The little the virtuous possesses outweighs all the wealth of the wicked.” PS. 37:16

Food for Thought still Relevant for Today

You must speak straight so that your words may go as sunlight into our hearts.
Chief Cochise
Ciricahua Apache

When we talk about the environment, we have to talk about spirituality…even things like food and spirituality go together. Why did God make this world? Are we going to spoil His gifts-trees, animals, water? Spirituality has to take the place of greed.
Joe Cardinal
Cree

Only a radical reversal of our attitudes towards nature can help us. While it is comforting to see the nations of the world meet and begin to deal with our environmental catastrophe, we may even mow be too late to change the conditions we have created.
Vine Deloris, Jr.
Nakota Sioux

All men were made by the same Great Spirit Chief. They are all brothers. The Earth is the Mother of all people, and all people should have equal rights upon it.
Chief Joseph
Nez Perce

We were on pretty good terms with the Great Spirit, Creator and Ruler of All…We saw the Great Spirit’s work in almost everything: sun, moon, trees, wind, and mountains.
Sometimes we approached Him through these things. Was that so bad? Indians living close to nature and nature’s ruler are not living in darkness.
Tatanga Mani (Walking Buffalo)
Stoney

I believe the Earth will renew herself and things will go back to the old way of the Indian. You will not see it, but I will.
Albert Lightning
Plains Cree

The Creator put us here with so much for our use and gives us a route to go by, but our own self-will is strong….we are always being tested as we prepare for the next world….harmonious, healthy, societies find it natural to help each other, because its members have peace of mind knowing that they are a single expression of the Creator.
Wallace Mountain Horse
Blood

The Indian needs no writings; words that are true sink deep into his heart where they remain.
Four Guns
Oglala Sioux

Teach your Children what we have taught our Children; that the Earth is our Mother. Whatever befalls the Earth befalls the Sons of Earth….We are a part of the Earth and it is a part of us. We belong to the Earth. There is no death only a change of worlds.
Chief Seatle,
Squamish

Do not misunderstand me, but understand me fully with reference to my affection for the land. I never said the land was mine to do with as I choose. The One who has the right to dispose of it is the One who created it. I claim a right to live on my land, and accord you the privilege to live on yours.
Chief Joseph,
Nez Perce

It was good for the skin to touch the Earth and the old people liked to remove their moccasins and walk with bare feet on the Sacred Earth.
Chief Luther Bear
Sioux

Our basic reason for being here as Indians, as whites, as any race, is to recognize our responsibilities to our Creator; to raise our children in His image, according to the laws He gave us, and to relate to all people and to all things around us within the framework of those laws.
Harold Cardinal
Cree

Good words do not last long unless they amount to something.
Chief Joseph,
Nez Perce

In the life of the Indian there was only one inevitable duty-the duty of prayer, the daily recognition of the Unseen and Eternal. His daily devotions were more necessary to him than daily food.
Charles Alexander Eastman
Santee Sioux

Although a lot of people think that the Grandfathers have abandoned us, what with all the bad things that have been going on in the Indian World, these Spirits have always been with us. It is we who would have forgotten about them.
Chief John Snow
Stoney

If the Great Spirit wanted men to stay in one place he would make the world stand still…
Chief Flying Hawk,
Oglala Sioux

Respect, Elders and Elder Spirits

This writing was first placed on the internet by me in 1996. I feel this writing is more relevant now. So I am placing it here for further contemplation. This is a spiritual writing and is meant to be read a minimum of four times. This is only a partial teaching of the wisdom of Respect.

Respect Life!

Respect is taking into account what affect any thought, word and deed will have on life before you move to take action or open your mouth to express your thoughts. Respect is taking into consideration whether your decisions to act would be beneficial or detrimental, to all forms of life. Respecting all life shows you love and care, for life. Love is respecting All Spirits in the Universe, and understanding you are related to All Life in Oneness.

Respect is consensus. Consensus is not a political process or a game wherein you get to hold up your hand, until you have been coerced to agree with others, through a form of philosophical persuasion, or by simply being out-waited, or having your arm get tired, forcing you into compromising your convictions, by being forced to agree to things you know in your heart are wrong. Consensus is showing you respect life and that you will take into account, the effects your decisions and actions will have on every form of life. Accept only good thoughts, words, and deeds, which will bring forth and generate a life of beauty and love.

Respect is accepting the order of life, knowing there will always be Greater Spirits than yourself to guide and protect you, throughout all of your lifetimes. It is the Creator who is the Source of all knowledge and the Source of all life and the Center of the Universe. You are merely a Spirit who emanates from the thoughts of the Creator God. Knowing from whom you are descended, holding this in your mind and heart makes you humble, not the bowing and scraping or the wearing of rags that most believe defines humility. Humility is a form of respect and a sign of great intelligence, for everyone can see that the Universe does not revolve around them. To be humble, is to accept humility.

To be Human you must accept humanity. You are one of a kind, this is your kind and you are one of them. Humanity is the acceptance your spirit emanates from the Sol/Soul of the Creator. The Creator is a being of Light and you are a being of light. The Creator lives forever, you live forever. The Creator is perfect, and you made in his image, is perfect, for no other kind of spirit emanates from a perfect being except a perfect spirit. Saying "I am only human" is an excuse to do wrong and a denial that you are descended from the soul of the Creator God.

Respecting yourself is accepting who you are. You are related to all the Spirits in the Universe, whether they be as numerous and small as blades of grass or as singular in oneness as the Sky. You are related to all of these. They are "All your/my Relations." What you do to one, you do to yourself and all of Mankind. Like a seed you were given the potential and the power to generate life, through God. For from one seed, a tree will grow, which will grow into a forest and if allowed to grow uninterrupted would blanket the Earth in trees, providing small worlds for life, likened unto the Universe. A Mouse knows the Order of the Universe because his World is likened unto the Universe. Mice are equal in importance in their world as Mankind is, in their World. At this time they are more than equal to Man in this respect, for they live in harmony with all Creation, unlike Mankind who goes against Creation, destroying all life for the use of making material possessions and for the maintenance of their own personal empires. The seed, tree and forestation of Earth, provide life for living Beings and all of these Beings are beneficial to Mankind.

You are a Spirit that emanates from the Creator and you are born through Earth, your first and true Mother. You are a Spirit flowing through a Body. You are some One, not some Body. If you want to meet Somebody, go to the morgue and you will meet some Body there. With the breath of life, you become some One, one spirit that flows through a body, here on Earth to learn how to love and grow greater, in the greater ‘Body of Oneness’. Your spirit is born only once, for like your Father, the Great Spirit, you live forever, flowing through many bodies throughout your many lifetimes. Spirits regenerate every seven years, never becoming older, making them forever young. There are no old spirits, only spirits that pre-date other spirits. The closer your spirit was born to the beginning of Creation, pre-dating all other spirits that came into existence at a later time, would make you the Elder of a Tribe upon your return. The Creator is the only one that makes you who you are, an Elder or Pre-dating Spirit.

All Elder Spirits returning to this world are reborn in the physical bodies of babies and when they are recognized, are to be respected and treated as the Elder Spirits that they are. These ‘small ones’ are very powerful beings, as they are pre-dating spirits. They have to enter this world in the same way as other spirits, flowing through a new body. This doesn't change the fact that they pre-date others. Do not let their appearance or size fool you.

Through example, an Elder and Great Spirit, the Skunk, reminds you to see beyond the obvious. For every time you encounter the Skunk, in his smallness, he quietly demands your respect and if you think you are more powerful, try to bully or harm him. When he sprays you, you will walk around alone for quite awhile, contemplating his lesson, marked by his ‘teaching of respect’. Having demonstrated your lack of respect to all others, by marking you for all to smell, this great spirit shows that he was even given the power to banish you from your own people. The Skunk will force you to take the time away from your kind, to rethink your actions and correct your way, before your actions are copied by others, multiplying becoming a greater wrong.

Having been an effective teacher, you will give the small one and his relatives a wide berth on your next encounter. The skunk’s reputation as a great teacher rides before him on the wind, saving many in the family of Man, from this up close lesson on respect. The skunk wears the colours of his conviction, black and white, much like robes of office for all to see. Black is the colour one wears when requesting respect, when one asks to be taken seriously and white is the colour of spirituality, showing the pureness of purpose. This great spirit, the skunk, faithfully teaches all others a lesson of respect, fulfilling their purpose given to them by the Creator God.

Elder Spirits are the Leaders and the Spiritual Mothers and Fathers of their Tribe and are far wiser than any Younger Spirits, for they have gained knowledge from living many more lifetimes. Younger Spirits in older bodies are not the Elders of the Tribes of Mankind. You are not the Body. Bodies are merely the vessels through which your spirits flow. Elders are called Grand Mothers and Grand Fathers. The word grand means great, not old or grey. It is the title given to a Pre-dating Spirit who has generated many offspring, through whom their spirit flows. This is what an Elder Spirit is. They are not elected but elevated by the Creator.

This does not take away from the need to respect our physical Elders, as they too are deserving of our respect, for their experience in this lifetime. Having fulfilled their obligation of supplying you and your spiritual relations with bodies to flow through, it is your duty to respectfully listen to all they are to teach you. Therefore they are to be listened to with respect, treated with kindness and honoured as your spiritual guides on Earth. Your Mother represents the Earth and your Father represents the Sun, as your physical family is based on the Order of the Universe. Whatever you do to the Lesser Order in the Universe, you do to the Greater Order of the Universe. You are to honour and respect your physical Mothers and Fathers. Do this willingly and out of love for one and other. This will make your Earthly family strong in oneness.

You were born once as a Spirit at the beginning of time, and before you were ever born as a human being, you were many other beings first. You were supplied with a different bodily form in each lifetime. In this way the Creator taught you how to live in harmony with one and other and all life. Whatever beings you were, you still are. If, you were an Ant in a past lifetime, your spirit still flows through an Ant in this lifetime. You are descended from many spirits. They form your spirit system. Some peoples still have records of the major spirits they are descended from, for they were recorded on their family shields, crests, flags, heraldry, totems, etc. You must always remember that you live forever, for in remembering this, you are motivated to cherish all life, for you return continually to share in life with all others. What you teach your Children becomes the World you return to!

Should you disrespect the life of a lesser being and harm them physically, know that you may be harming yourself or someone dear to you. You are a spirit that lives forever, for you exist continually throughout all time, on every level of the Universe that you have ever existed on. Whatever existed, still exists because if it didn’t you would not be here now. Destroy one level of the Universe closer to the beginning of time and you will destroy all levels of life that were generated from that level in time. You are related to every living thing. Do not kill Lesser Beings indiscriminately. We are all related through the Oneness of the Universe. Care for all of Our Relations!

Listen respectfully to your teachers in life, speak respectfully of life, act respectfully toward all living things. Know that you have the power to cause the future of every living thing, and it would be wise to make your decisions based on the respect for all life. Respect all Life, for You are Life. Those who do not respect life do not deserve to share in life. You are the Children of God and the Reasons for Creation. Life Should Respect Life. Listen with respect, speak with respect, act with respect, for respect creates harmony and causes closeness amongst you. When you respect one and other, you produce harmony, which shows caring, becoming love, growing greater to Oneness. In Oneness, we will sing the Song of the Universe, “One Heart, One Mind, One Soul" and share in Peace and Heaven on Earth.

WRITTEN BY Del Ashkewe and Paula Johnstone-Whitehawk Permission is given to copy these writings provided they are left unchanged and in their entirety. Copyright November 20, 1996

Creator Father,

Look at our aloneness
We know that in all Creation
Only the human family Has strayed from the Oneness of the Sacred Way
We know that we are the ones who must come together
To walk in the Sacred Way once more.
Creator Father, Sacred One,
Teach us love, pride, honour and respect,
That we may heal the Earth and heal each other.
Chi Meegwetch, Thank You

An Ojibwa Prayer

The Ghost of Gluttony and his Family

The Ghost of Gluttony has cast his shadow over the homes of increasingly indolent Nations. The Children of Gluttony are the goblins of Indolence, Misery, Indulgence, Greed and Voracity. Illusion is the wife of Gluttony. The Children of Gluttony hide behind their Mother’s skirts as Gluttony leads them in his insatiable quest to bind Souls and to eat the Hearts of Love.

As in any type of war one needs to first identify the enemy. One doesn’t want to defeat a by-product of the Enemy. Obesity is a by-product of the evil family of Gluttony. Other by-products of Gluttony are all the Diseases that Gluttony and his family spawns, such as Diabetes, Cancer, Heart and Stroke, Alzheimer’s, and all types of Addictions. In order to defeat Gluttony you have to know his name and see through the one he hides behind…his partner the Spirit of Illusion.

There is an army of Evil that grows larger and has made plans to further their agenda for control of the Earth and All Life. Part of that evil army is very active in the World of Man. They work hard each day to further the agenda of Gluttony, while those that are asleep or lost in Illusion’s skirts are being swept into a deep hole. Each day One must choose wake up to see through Illusion and give no heed to her Children. Her Children are placed in our Path to cause weakness and defeat. We must choose our strategies to defeat this evil Family of Spirits for Our survival and for Our Loves.

“A hungry man is not a Free Man”. Nor is a Man that has indulged to the point of Glut! Notice how the Child Indulgence can bring you to his father Gluttony. Indulgence has learned how to use guilt to deceive the Mother’s and Father’s of the Nations. Indulgence loves irresponsibility. Indulgence keeps people in long debates about liberalism and leniency, details and conflicting studies kept to divert right actions, that are known by the Heart. Indulgence teaches One to favor themselves and their wants above all Others, even One’s own Children. Indulgence points through his mother Illusion, that every want, favor or privilege rightfully belongs to Self without concern for Others. Eventually, the One listening to Indulgence even looses site of what’s good for their Individual Body (Soul, Heart and Mind-Self Care), for their Cultural Body (Family, Tribe), for their National Body (Nation, Country) and for their Universal Body (The Greater Soul we all Share in, God, Oneness).

The hand that lures belongs to the Child Greed. Greed has grown extraordinarily large and has become filled with the False power of his mother Illusion. Greed likes to possess every One and every thing in his path. He has eyes he shares with Others through his cousin Lust. They make the weak envious and desirous of things One doesn’t need or belongs to another. Through their mother Illusion, they like to falsely justify their right to hoard while Others do without. Greed is an Opportunist. Greed will take every opportunity to exploit, without principles or consequences. Greed is forever hungry and never satisfied. Greed desires to possess the very Body your Spirit flows through. Greed’s hidden agenda is to enslave every One and rob One of every possession One has. Greed and Lust eat up every Ones Future. Morals and Sharing are not concepts that Greed understands.

Greed’s sister is Voracity. Voracity is a consuming Spirit. Voracity has a gaping mouth and an insatiable appetite for destruction. Voracity likes to eat, consuming ever increasing amounts, never satisfied whether she is eating Food, Trees, Metals, People or Countries. Voracity is unethical and doesn’t know the meaning of Constraint. Voracity seeks to destroy and devour the Environment and World Health. When Voracity is hiding behind her mother’s skirt, the skirt of Illusion; she likes to keep every One busy. She will use wars, personal and political, social and immoral. She likes to keep every One occupied in Illusion, lying that she is liberating them when in fact she keeps every One agitated and fear filled. Terrorism and Religion have become her allies. The methods of confusion, fear and hatred, are the tools Voracity wrecks havoc with.

Indolence is the habitual lazy one in Gluttony’s family. Indolence has learned many tricks to keep her appetites fed while lying about. Indolence likes to play the push and pull game. She has learned how to manipulate those she wants to destroy. She has developed a large strategy of getting into the Minds and Hearts of every One. She knows that One is what One eats, too. She learned from watching her brother Indulgence, that what one feeds the eyes and ears, will destroy the Body of Mankind too. She also has figured out that her best friends Infamy, Gossip and Sloth, will work in her favor. Together since they like sitting around, they help the Media and Entertainment industries. Playing push and pull, they developed a built in sensitivity for public reaction and cynicism. They have become so good at push and pull that millions of their followers participate in the willful destruction of Lives, private and public. What their followers haven’t realized is the largest weapon they use is Propaganda. Indolence’s mother Illusion has shown her how to have everyone pay for the wires that keep them hooked to their couches, while their Bodies grow wide and their Mind’s get lost in ego and id. Once Indolence has every One bound in the wires, she sucks and feeds them, pushing and pulling, until Indolence consumes them.

That is when Misery joins the foray. Misery loves to feed on left-over’s. When Gluttony and Illusion, with the help of Indulgence, Greed, Voracity and Indolence, are finished eating; Misery who likes company, moves in to see what is left over.

Misery is really close to her mother Illusion. Misery is the pet of the family. Indulgence loves to help her when she needs to wallow in self pity, he is always there. Greed allows Misery to eat from his table, only Misery knows he has incestuous intentions. Voracity likes to help Misery throw tantrums and makes excuses for her destructive behavior. So Misery prevails in Gluttony’s house. Misery has many friends. Misery is a Miser. She resents her friends and just uses them, enabling them to become co-dependent. She doesn’t care for others and only uses them as she is afraid to be left alone. Pain, Suffering, Agony, Distress, Depression and Calamity are a few of the friends she uses. Illusion has taught Misery how to manipulate Corporations and Governments to cause every One anxiety. Misery has had so much experience over the years that most of the Earth labors to see the difference between the Corporations and the Governments. They are so close that their aims seem to be the same. Misery was shown by Greed that they want to eat Gold . Misery feeds their Populaces and she gets to wallow in the Blood, Sweat and Tears, left behind them. The Non-Entity Corporations and Governing Bodies share with Misery while they live off more and more Victims in their quest for ever more Gold . Gluttony, Illusion and Greed are filled with false pride for Misery. Misery has a large appetite.

Well, now you know the Family of the Ghost of Gluttony. One can defeat those that they can Identify. Name the evil One wants to Pray away and defeat those that are allied with them. Knowing their weapons of destruction and their favorite games, can be of help to every One that needs to break the bonds of Gluttony and those spells his partner Illusion may have placed on You and Yours.
One becomes what One eats! Fill your Minds, Hearts, and Souls with Spiritual Thoughts and your Body will be filled with Light, Love and Health.

Exercise/Exorcise Your Spirit of Gluttony, Illusion, and the goblins they gave birth to. Empower the Holy/whole some Spirit of Self Control. Empower Kindness, Respect, Goodness, Love, Faith and Hope. Focus on Love of The Creator of All Life and the Positive in Life on Earth. Envision Heaven on Earth. Take steps to Free yourself from debt and the wires and thoughts holding you down. Encourage One and Others. Nourish the Spirit! Teach One and Others about the Goodness in Living Right. Eat the Blessings of God as His Children. Feed on the Love for Family and the Fruit that a Family can bear. Hunger no more. Eat the Food of Freedom and drink the Wine of Justice. Our heritage is to live in a Good Land, on a Fruitful Earth, cared for by every One for our Children and for our Future, the next 7 Generations. We are to live in the Body of Oneness, the natural home of Harmony and Balance. Let the Creator of All Life, the God of Sacred Laws, sustain and nourish Our Lives and Loves! Peace.

Love Always and Live Forever,
Paula Johnstone-Whitehawk, DNM®, Doctorate of Natural Medicine®
RNP®, Registered Naturotherapy Practitioner®