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Becoming an apprentice… learning traditional medicine
“I have consistently found that it is very important to listen, observe quietly and refrain from questions. Native people are very keen observers. They do not barrage their teachers and elders with questions. Instead, they watch and listen. It is a cultural learning modality born of experience and one worth noting.”
With all the years that Michael Bastine spent with Mad Bear (Medicine Man), he never once heard him say what anyone should or shouldn’t do. Mad Bear would give caution at times, but he respected free will. Mad Bear never tried to portray himself as an authority figure.
Due to this mutually respectful relationship, Michael and Mad Bear’s other apprentices had the opportunity to learn traditional medicine ways in an environment that was sacred and built on trust.
OBSERVATION
As Mad Bear allowed his apprentice Michael Bastine to observe his life and see with his own eyes what he was doing, Mad Bear really didn’t give a lot of answers. Michael learned by making the connections on his own. This is how he received the answers to his many questions. This is the only real way of learning the traditional way.When you make the connections on your own, you discover things by yourself, it is a lasting achievement. This is how Michael Bastine began to understand the inner workings and all the elements that were a part of Mad Bear’s medicine work. Mad Bear blended these elements and they all began working in unison. His medicine work was like an orchestra; so diverse and on so many levels.
Michael defines “medicine” as being the life force that exists in creation and the life force that exists in the person. The interwoven relationship between these two life forces develops over time. This is why the title of a “medicine man” is usually not given until the practitioner reaches the age of 70 years old. Even then, the practitioner will usually not refer to himself as being a “medicine man”.
Traditionally a student of native medicine does not make verbal requests to learn specific things; instead the teacher intuitively picks up on the requests, and when the time is right, and if deserving, the student is shown and his learning advances. This requires patience on the part of the student, genuine humbleness and reverence for all things sacred.
LEARNING TAKES TIME
It took a number of years for Michael Bastine to gain the trust of Mad Bear. He had to demonstrate to Mad Bear that he was trust worthy and his ego was in check. It was very important to Mad Bear that Michael would make use of his medicine teaching in the highest and most respectful way.
It also took years for Michael to absorb & process the information he picked up from Mad Bear along the way. Mad Bear was always on the run. Michael would often leave town with Mad Bear at a moment’s notice.
Michael learned from his apprenticeship with Mad Bear that taking in too much information too soon can overwhelm and impede our progress. He said that learning is a gradual process; we have to grow with it.
NATIVE AMERICAN TEACHINGS RUN PARALLEL
Michael Bastine is Algonquin. He was raised a Christian. His conversion towards Native American Spirituality was primarily influenced by Mad Bear and the Haudenosaunee people. Michael had a chance in 1990 to speak with William Commanda, a respected Algonquin Elder, spiritual leader and Band Chief of the Kitigan-zibi Anishinabeg First Nation in Quebec (near Maniwaki) about this possible contradiction.
William Commanda assured Michael, “You are learning things which are very similar to the teachings and the traditions of the Algonquin. There are a few differences, but that’s what they are ‘differences’. They still have the same understanding and the same premise of approach that parallels with all the Native American teachings.”
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Psychic Self-Defense
SELF PROTECTION
Psychic Self-Defense is a necessary part of taking care of one’s self. It does not have to be scary or creepy. It is a positive act of self responsibility. The more one becomes Conscious and open to greater levels of understanding, the more light they will shine on areas of darkness that were previously in the shadows. The negative elements that exist in Creation do not like to be exposed and will try, karma permitting, to harm those bearers of light that get in their way.
In this 3rd dimensional world, we live in a state of duality (Yin & Yang). We all hold elements of both the light and the dark, within our eternal beingness. We also have the ability to choose our own thoughts and we have been given free will by the Creator.
At times, we all have moments of vulnerability & weakness when our shields our down. That is OK! The important thing is to work on becoming better human beings, learn from our mistakes, bounce back and surround ourselves with good people, friends and family. This goes a long way towards combating the negative and avoiding physic attacks. We have the power if we have trust in ourselves and in the Great Spirit.
Medicine Men especially fall victim to psychic attacks if they are not careful or if their ego gets in their way. Men like Mad Bear & Rolling Thunder especially had their share of close calls, as a result of how far they were able to push the envelope, delve deep into the psychic realm and expose the dark forces of opposition.
Though experience, Medicine Men have learned how to deal with psychic attacks. Sometimes, they simply step out of the way.
PARADIGM & BELIEFS
Psychic attacks can happen to anyone; however, the appearance of witchcraft & dark magic are curiously mostly limited to regions of the country where the paradigm & belief system of “witchcraft” & “dark magic” exist, like in the Haudenosaunee territory or in the American Southwest.
According to Ed Mcgaa (Oglala Lakota), “You go into the Southwest. Those tribes down there have had more than 400 years of contact with the Spanish church. They have even picked up skin-walkers, a variety of Navajo witch, and evil spirits. We, the Sioux people, don’t have a devil and don’t have evil spirits. Our concept of the Creator is that the Creator doesn’t make such a thing (as evil spirits). We have never seen a devil. I don’t care if the White Man believes in it. That doesn’t mean that I have to believe in it. I believe in what I see.”
Ed continues, “Have I seen the Creator? I have never seen the Creator directly. I don’t expect to, but I see every day what the Creator makes. I can pick up a bouquet of flowers and know that the Creator is very kind & artistic. Bees come and sniff the honey and birds sing. Those are all beautiful expressions of the Creator. So the Great Spirit gave me my life. Why should I fear it? I don’t fear the Creator. I don’t fear evil spirits and yet, we (the Sioux) have contact deep within the spirit world.”
LIVER IN THE TREE CURSE
Mad Bear’s efforts towards establishing inter-tribal unity consciousness were not limited to unifying the Red Men. He sought the unity of all people and all races. Not all of his native brethren were in agreement with Mad Bear’s pursuits. As mentioned earlier, the influence of the B.I.A. controlled tribal system caused reprehensible damage to Native American Spirituality, introducing the concept of race (skin color) into matters of the heart. Some native practitioners of medicine used their powers in negative ways to counter Mad Bear’s activities.
Mad Bear lived in a couple of different houses on the Tuscarora Reservation, where he practiced his medicine. His people would refer to his homes as “Fort Knox” because of the fortified reinforcements he built to secure the walls and points of entry. It was presumed that his houses were protected by medicine as well, not to mention, 2 False Faces were on guard.
Mad Bear took special ceremonial care for his place, in particular, the doorway and other small pathways where air could travel, like the keyhole and the bottom of window sills. This was to avoid spells, curses or supernatural influences directed against him.
Around 1978, when Michael Bastine was first getting to know Mad Bear, he heard an odd story from one of their mutual friends.
Outside of Mad Bear’s house at twilight, this mutual friend and Mad Bear looked up at tree in the yard and noticed an odd & terrifying organism hanging off of a tree branch. It looked like an internal organ, like a liver, and it was making a sound like it was trying to speak, even though it didn’t have a mouth.
Mad Bear said, “Uh-oh.. I know right away what I got to do.” Mad Bear quickly went back into his house and conducted a private ritual for 30 minutes, while the mutual friend stayed outside.
Mad Bear then came back outside and approached the tree. He talked to the liver-looking organism in Tuscarora. Words in a ghastly, hissing voice came back to Mad Bear from somewhere in the same language. When Mad Bear was finished with his inquisition, he dismissed the liver-looking organism with a backhanded, open-palmed gesture, like a karate slash. Mad Bear commanded, “Get out of here and go back to who sent you.”
The liver-looking organism began to float upward and a breeze caught it, sending it out towards and over a nearby hill.
Not long after that incident, maybe a week later or so, reports came back from Canada that a Mohawk was accusing Mad Bear of “witching him” due to a series of accidents & illnesses that were occurring to him and his family. They started to call & write to Mad Bear, pestering him to take his “medicine” off of them, even bribing him with money. Mad Bear replied back, “I can’t do anything about this. It’s what you sent me. I just turned it around. When you start things, you better be able to stop them.”
MICHAEL’S SPOOKY OVERNIGHT AT MAD BEAR’S HOUSE
Toward the beginning of Michael Bastine’s apprenticeship with Mad Bear, he and a few other of Mad Bear assistants were invited to stay overnight at Mad Bear’s house on the Tuscarora Reservation, in Lewiston, NY. All that Mad Bear had told them ahead of time was that he needed their help with a certain ceremony.
The assistants arrived at sunset. Mad Bear had coverings over the windows so no light would seep through. He told them, “If any of you have any plans before tomorrow morning, you better let me know right now. Once we’re in for the night, we are in.” Everyone agreed to the arrangement. Mad Bear then covered the front door keyhole & corners with duct tape.
At 9PM, Mad Bear served tea to everyone out of a teapot. In the cup it looked no different than the herbal brews one could get from a local health food shop. It looked & tasted a bit like green tea, but it didn't have any traces of leaf in it. It was probably made out of some fungus or mushroom, Michael figured.
Mad Bear said, “A couple of the elders have been having some trouble; medicine trouble of some sort. It’s real bad for some of them. Usually these folks can figure out what’s going on, but this situation’s different. I’ve been asked to take a look into it. It started right after that (U.N.) conference some of us went to in New York City, and I can’t help thinking there might be some connection.”
The conference Mad Bear referred to was the Fifth Spiritual Summit, an event commemorating world religious traditions sponsored by the United Nations in 1975. It had a special focus on the indigenous, the “Third World” and wisdom teachings that the elders could bestow upon the world’s political leaders. In attendance were representatives of many world traditions, including Mad Bear and a contingent of Native American elders from all over North America, like David Monongye (Hopi), Beeman Logan, Rolling Thunder, John Fire Lame Deer, Leonard Crow Dog, etc.
Mad Bear was not to sure that world’s politicians would give credence to the messages of the native Traditional Elders, but he thought it was a good thing that the U. N. made the gesture; and the conference with such an elevated title was outwardly a success. But Mad Bear explained that behind the scenes, there were some people in attendance who did not have the best intentions in mind.
A suspiciously short time after attending the spiritual summit, some of the western Native American elders started to suffer both physical & psychic difficulties. Most of them were decades older than Mad Bear, then in his forties. The fact that they could neither defuse this assault nor identify the source was not only troublesome, it was curious. While physically frail, these were some of the most illustrious elders in North America. Not all of them, though, were specialists in taking defensive measures to deal with psychic attacks (black magic).
Mad Bear continued his discussion with his assistants. “I just need a little help with this ceremony, which is why I got you guys along. I need to see what happens when we all take this potion and spend the night here. It helps me figure stuff out.” Michael never observed Mad Bear actually drinking the tea himself. Mad Bear just served the tea and watched. “Now we can all go to sleep, or talk, or anything we want,” said Mad Bear. “But we can’t go outside. Don’t even try to go out, not till the sun is up.”
Mad Bear then cautioned, “You might hear some things tonight that will scare you. You might hear some things that will try to get you to do something. Either way, it’s only going to be an illusion. Whatever you hear, don’t try to go outside. Don’t look out of the windows. If you hear a voice, even if it’s someone you love, even someone who’s dead, don’t even answer it. It’s only a test, but this is real serious. Don’t say one word back to it, no matter what you hear. Even if it gets really bad, just stay calm, and try to go back to sleep. Responding to it will make it get a lot worse. You don’t know how much worse.”
Michael Bastine didn’t notice any effect at all from the tea. It did make everyone tired though, so he and the other assistants went to bed early. They all woke up, several times in the night. Mad Bear stayed up and was awake all night, just watching & listening.
“That was the weirdest night I ever spent,” said Michael. “I heard pounding on the walls & windows. It sounded like there was a family picnic out there. I heard people I knew outside talking. Sometimes they were asking me things. A couple of times I heard something (footsteps) running across the roof. But when I’d describe it, other people (in the room) didn’t always hear the exact same thing. I’d hear horses’ hooves and they’d hear pounding. I’d hear somebody singing and one of them would think it was a lost cat.”
“But I don’t think that was the worst of it. It freaked out the other guys a lot worse than it did me. One guy was sure he heard his brother outside in the yard, and there was no way he could have gotten there that night. The other guy heard dead people in his family calling him. He thought his grandmother was talking to him just on the other side of a window, and she’d been dead for years. But it was real hard for them to sit still, as scared as they were. Everything was trying to get them to open up a door or window and go out or look out.”
“Every time I looked over at him, Mad Bear was up, listening to everything. A couple of times somebody tried to make a move, and he was always there to remind us to stay still. I don’t think he drank any of the tea. I don’t remember seeing him do it.”
“That was the weirdest night I ever spent. Anywhere! But I stayed with Mad Bear and the medicine ways. I figured it couldn’t get any worse than that. But the other guys sort of dropped out. You just didn’t see them over at Mad Bear’s anymore.”
“You know, that was Mad Bear,” Michael said in retrospect. “When he was doing something really extreme like that, he always liked to have people around. Even if the people he had with him didn’t know medicine, it helped him. It was like their energy could be combined with his and it made him a lot more powerful.”
Michael concluded, “It turns out that Mad Bear actually did figure out who was behind the situation that was affecting the elders who had attended that conference, and he also knew why they were at it. It surprised everybody when he finally told us the name of the person, though I don’t think he was that surprised. It turns out that the source of the bad medicine was this black lady who had appeared at the U. N. conference herself.”
“This lady had worked closely with Martin Luther King Jr. before his death. She held a government job at the time of the conference, and she might have had some familiarity with the African American medicine traditions. Or else, she recruited somebody else who did know them. Nobody knew about that side of her, and I know Reverend Martin Luther King Jr. wouldn't have gone for that if he was alive. I think once they identified the source Mad Bear got it turned around. But for a while it was a real serious situation."
Years later, Michael met with his friend Ted Williams (Tuscarora) and happened to discuss the particular herb that Mad Bear put into his tea for the overnight sleepover. Ted recognized the herb from the way Michael described it. It was a plant herb, typically associated with witchcraft. Medicine men will rarely use it, but they have respect for this herb and keep an eye on it.
Mad Bear brilliantly & carefully used this herb to bring out into the open and identify the U.N. lady who was using her witchcraft to mess with the Traditional Elders. For Mad Bear’s protection, he brought in a support team of assistants. Their collective energy formed a defensive shield that allowed the source of the witchcraft to be identified, without harm being done to Mad Bear and his overnight guests.
STOLEN MEDICINE BAG
Mad Bear always carried with him a medicine bag, which he used for healing, divination, medicine and psychic protection. He had a total of 3 medicine bags. Each one had a specific purpose, depending on what kind of trip or assignment Mad Bear was undertaking.
At the 5th Spiritual Summit in New York City in 1975, a conference of world religious traditions, sponsored by the United Nations, Mad Bear’s medicine bag (case) was stolen. He had a young Native American assistant watch over it, who had suddenly fell sick due to a physic attack, and he was magically bamboozled as to how the medicine bag left his protection. Mad Bear doctored him up then left to go find the culprit.
Mad Bear was later seen with his medicine bag back in his hand. He said he had to use some medicine to find it. No other explanation was given.
TINY MEDICINE SACK TO BE WORN AT ALL TIMES
Mad Bear always wore a tiny sack (medicine bag) on a cord around his neck, sometime hanging outside of his shirt, other times on the inside. This was his immediate line of personal defense. He never let anyone else touch this sack and he never took it off in public. The one time he did, was when he was washing up, splashing water on his face after doing a lot of work around the house. He then sat down on a picnic bench to eat a sandwich, forgetting to put his medicine sack back on around his neck, and then suddenly he was bit by a strange-looking insect.
Mad Bear was admitted to the hospital with a high fever, kidney failure and other serious complications. He was seriously weakened for a while after he returned home. It turns out that the ant that bit him was a particular ant that can kill cattle with its bite. This type of ant has never been seen up north before. Someone with malice towards Mad Bear must have transplanted that ant onto his property in hopes that the ant would attack and kill him.
EXPLODING MEDICINE SACK & NECKLACE
Previous to the ant bite, Mad Bear gifted Joel Friedman, from Wisconsin, a medicine sack (bag) to be worn around his neck. During the time of the ant bite attack, Joel’s medicine sack exploded into pieces. Joel immediately wondered if Mad Bear was in trouble. While Mad Bear was out of reach, due to his hospitalization, Joel sought out a psychic to get a better understanding of why his medicine sack blew apart. The psychic told him, “There must have been an urgent need. The man (Mad Bear) called upon all possible available resources (for healing), and this force was torn free and drawn back.” Thus, the medicine sack exploded.
Not long after Mad Bear recovered from his ant bite a Cross-Cultural Conference was being organized to unite spiritual leaders from all the 4 directions. A gifted healer by the name of Ethel Lombardi was invited by Doug Boyd to attend and she volunteered to do a special healing for Mad Bear, while at the gathering.
During the Cross-Cultural Conference in September of 1978, Mad Bear’s assistant, Marty, fell victim to a psychic attack. Forces opposed to inter-tribal unity conscious were targeting the Traditional Elders. Their spiritual power was too strong, so the psychic attack fell upon the weakest link, who happened to be Mad Bear’s assistant, Marty. Michael Bastine was Mad Bear’s driver during this time. His apprenticeship with his mentor, Mad Bear, was just beginning.
Ethel Lombardi decided to skip the Cross-Cultural Conference, sensing that Mad Bear was going to face a challenge there and it would be better for her to do her healing from a distance. While the conference was underway, she began her healing session, directing her attention on Mad Bear. Immediately, her squash-blossom necklace blew apart. Again, Mad Bear must have called upon “all possible available resources” to assist his medicine work and this force torn free Ethel’s necklace in an attempt to draw the medicine from the necklace back to the conference where he was working on finding a solution to the psychic interference.
ATTACKS ON MAD BEAR NEUTRALIZED
Over the years, Mad Bear gotten himself a reputation as somebody no one should mess with. It was as if a sense of fate or karma worked on those who tried to attack him.
An assassination attempt was made on his life, back on the Tuscarora reservation. Bullets were shot at his house by a drive-by gunman. Mad Bear’s house was fortified not only for physic attacks but also physical encroachments as well. Mad Bear wasn’t hit, but the gunman drove into a ditch nearby and was badly hurt in the process.
Mad Bear’s style of personal defense was advanced, very Zen-like. He seemed to defuse aggression. He doesn’t put out any aggression towards anyone, so he doesn’t receive it back, in most cases. Once, however, he was in council and an enraged Native American came at Mad Bear with knife. It was drawn so fast and the attacker was charging so fast, no one else could intercede. Mad Bear opened his arms wide as if welcoming a long-lost friend. The would-be-assassin walked right into Mad Bear’s warm & loving embrace. The knife’s edge slapped absently along Mad Bear’s back and the attacker returned to his seat, blinking & dumbfounded.
Mad Bear told his friends, out the side of his mouth, “Don’t try that on your own. It took me years to work that one out.”
TEAMWORK TO COMBAT ATTACKS BY AN UNSEEN ENEMY
In late March of 1972, Rolling Thunder left the Grateful Dead’s ranch house in Novato and walked into the woods. He was weak and his hair begun to gray rapidly. During the past several weeks, he was too busy to defend himself against the efforts that were being made to destroy him. He was hoping to remain aloof from the destructive unseen force that was on his trail. R.T. passed out.
The forces opposed to inter-tribal unity consciousness, in this case, a small Indian faction, not more than few individuals, were out to sabotage the efforts of a group of inter-tribal Traditional Elders, including Rolling Thunder & Semu Huaute (Chumash), to establish a foundation to preserve the traditional culture & teachings of Native Americans. The Grateful Dead threw a benefit concert on March 5th at the Winterland Ballroom, in San Francisco, to donate funds to the foundation.
The money raised ended up going into the wrong hands, into the possession of the saboteurs. It was an inside job by an Indian chairperson and her lawyer of the newly created inter-tribal traditional foundation. This faction began calling Rolling Thunder at Grateful Dead’s office threatening to burn the place down and warned that R.T.’s life was in danger. They also threatened to burn down Grateful Dead’s office.
Rolling Thunder began to feel that the opposition had a “sorcerer” amongst their midst and they were using black magic to weaken & disorganize him and others in his circle. Things progressively got worse and R.T. ended up unconscious in the woods. A dog from the ranch house fortunately bit into Rolling Thunder’s fan and delivered it over to Spotted Fawn, his wife. R.T. was found.
It didn’t take long after Rolling Thunder recovered from the psychic attack, for him to call in reinforcement. Mad Bear to the rescue!
Mad Bear drove up with Semu Huaute from Los Angeles to Rolling Thunder’s aide in Berkeley. Richard Oakes arrived separately. R.T. ended up having a full house of medicine people from many tribes. The moon phase was not right for the first night to perform ceremony. Mad Bear suggested that a morning sunrise ritual would be more appropriate.
The sunrise ceremony was performed and a non-acceptance of bad medicine was its focus. There was no need to conjure up a counterforce, or to destroy the sorcerer or his powers. The evil would return from where it came.
Mad Bear suggested that they take the ashes from the fireplace where the sunrise ceremony took place and bring them into the courtroom where the money for the foundation would be contested. Mad Bear strategized with the group on how to place the ashes from the ceremonial fire under the seat of the chairperson who stole the foundation’s money. She and her lawyer will both be attending the trial.
The hearing took place at the Alameda County courthouse. Mad Bear sat besides the chairwomen and smiled at her so dramatically that it became necessary for her to smile in return. He held his hand out and introduced himself to her, even though they already knew each other. Mad Bear warmly shook her hand, even though she was not entirely receptive.
Mad Bear, after greeting the chairwoman, then pushed his chair back against the wall and sat with his arms folded upon his large stomach, smiling widely at everyone who looked his way. He retained that smile through the entire proceeding. Even when many people were arguing at once and the air became tense. Mad Bear’s expression remained unchanged. He was obviously working his medicine, unbeknownst to the others in the courtroom who were pre-occupied with the course of events.
During the middle of the hearing, 3 young Indians, who were friends with the chairperson, entered the courtroom. One of them was shorter than the other two. Mad Bear fixed his gaze upon the shorter man and he, in response, tried to duck and avoid Mad Bear’s concentrated gaze. The dodging looked like a ridiculous game. Mad Bear suddenly thrust out his hand and pointed. As if mesmerized, the young man came right up to Mad Bear’s finger. Mad Bear shook his hand in a friendly manner. As Mad Bear made contact with the man, this shorter man jerked his hand away from Mad Bear as though his hand had been burned by fire.
This shorter man stared curiously at this hand then retreated back to where his other 2 friends were standing and he nervously kept rubbing his hand on his Levis pants & jacket.
This young man was actually a “sorcerer” who had come to make medicine against Rolling Thunder. But Mad Bear with his beaming face and laser ray gaze had caught him, stopping the sorcerer in his tracks.
Mad Bear had actually put the ashes from the ceremonial fire into his pocket and wiped his hand over them before shaking the hands of the chairperson and the young sorcerer. The beef these two had with Rolling Thunder was due to his association & sharing of indigenous teachings with Whites. Their bad medicine that was put on Rolling Thunder was now ineffective thanks Mad Bear’s ingenuity and his team of medicine men that came to R.T.’s aid.
The hearing ended that day with the lawyers agreeing that the settlement should be concluded by the lawyers.
Mad Bear later revealed to Doug Boyd that he had previous dealings with the young sorcerer (the shorter man), the aspiring witch doctor, who showed up at the courtroom. They encountered each other on the island of Alcatraz.
During the Indian occupation of Alcatraz, on November 20, 1969, Richard Oakes’ little step-daughter, Yvonne, died from an accident. She fell to the ground from a high stairway. Mad Bear later went to Alcatraz to reconstruct what had happened there, and the meaning behind the circumstances leading up to the little girl’s death.
Mad Bear prepared a ceremony on the island one night and everyone involved in the event was supposed to be at the fireside. That was a part of the ceremony. The entire episode was to be reenacted that night.
As the ceremony proceeded, Mad Bear began to see more of the people involved and their various purposes. Among the protestors were some who had come to Alcatraz to represent different causes, and Richard Oakes was their opponent. His daughter had met a tragic death that had been intended for her father, Richard.
Mad Bear could see the entire episode unravel as though it were happening again, but there was one important character missing at that particular fireside reenactment.
Mad Bear knew he would eventually have to appear, and eventually he did. This character had been in the building at the time of the ceremony, conducting his own ritual upstairs in order to avoid Mad Bear below. His ritual failed and he was defeated. He staggered to the stairway, choking & gasping, and doubled over the railing in pain, begging to be released as he was pulled down the stairs toward the ceremonial fire.
After sharing this Alcatraz story with Doug Boyd, Mad Bear assured Doug that the bad medicine the chairperson and this young sorcerer were throwing towards Rolling Thunder was now finished. Mad Bear said that this was not because he and his medicine people did anything to them. Instead, he said all they did was to ensure that Rolling Thunder would not receive the results of their work, and it naturally went back to them instead. This is the principle of cause & effect at work.
Mad Bear shared, “The purpose of good medicine is to make it simple. There’s no need to create an opposing destructive force; that only makes more negative energy and more results and more problems. If you have a sense of opposition, that is, if you feel contempt for others, you’re in perfect position to receive their contempt.”
“The idea is not to be a receiver. You people have such anger & fear and contempt for your so-called criminals that your crime rate goes up & up. Your society has a high crime rate because it is in a perfect position to receive crime. You should be working with these people, not in opposition to them. The idea is to have contempt for crime, not for people.”
“It’s a mistake to think of any group or person as an opponent, because when you do, that’s what the group or person will become. It’s more useful to think of every other person as another you; to think of every individual as a representation of the universe.”
Mad Bear concluded, “Every person is plugged into the whole works. Nobody is outside it or affects it any less than anyone else. Every person is a model of life, so the true nature of a person is the nature of life. I don’t care how low you fall or how high you climb economically or academically or anything else, you still represent the whole thing. Even the worst criminals in life imprisonment sitting in his cell; the center of him is the same seed, the seed of the whole creation.”
Note: It has now become well documented that the 1960’s Hippie Movement was a socially-engineered operation by the C.I.A. and other secretive agencies for the purpose of conducting psychological warfare, subversion and control over Western Societies. Attempts were made by these agencies to co-opt Native Spirituality.
Mad Bear, Rolling Thunder and other elders, who were involved in inter-tribal unity efforts, were targeted to some degree by subversive agents. Fortunately, these elders, for the most part, were not detoured from their spiritual path, and the prophecies they carried were successfully passed on to the next generation of traditional elders. In addition, many “Hippies” who were introduced to Native Spirituality, took great interest in the Prophecies and helped keep these prophecies alive to this very day.
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Learning Indian Medicine from Peter Mitten
One of the greatest Cayuga medicine men was Peter “Mitten” John (1904-1974). Mad Bear (medicine man) had a high degree of respect & admiration for him and the humble way in which he practiced Native American medicine. Mad Bear was his student and he learned much by observing Peter Mitten in the field and took part in many grand adventures with him, as his trusty sidekick.
A TEACHING MOMENT WITH PETER MITTEN
Mad Bear had a close-knit working relationship with Rolling Thunder (1916-1997) aka R.T. (Cherokee), who lived in Carlin, Nevada. Author, Doug Boyd, written a book about R.T. and his medicine in 1974. Outside of this connection, Mad Bear & R.T. were friends with another medicine man, Semu Huaute (Chumash), who lived in California. He was the founder of the Red Wind Intertribal Medicine Camp, San Luis Obispo County.
Semu Huaute (1908-2004) was born into the Owl Clan in the mountains of Santa Barbara, California. His father was a respected healer of the Road Runner clan. His apprenticeship began with the elders of the Owl Clan and continued with medicine people & elders from the Chumash, Yaqui & Aztec Indian peoples.
Semu Huaute was also an established Hollywood actor and appeared in numerous films & TV shows. Semu was an iconic figure! Rumor has it, via several sources, that Carlos Castaneda (fictional author on Shamanism), used Semu for some of his “Don Juan” references.
Semu Huaute 1st met the Hopi Traditionalists in August of 1956 when he, along with Craig Carpenter (Mohawk), attended the Hopi “Meeting of Religious People”. Craig later in 1961 convinced Rolling Thunder to bring a group of Western Shoshone leaders to attend a Traditionalist meeting in Hopi land.
A solid connection was established between the shores of the eastern Atlantic Ocean via Mad Bear, through the southwest via the Hopi Traditionalists & Rolling Thunder, to the western shores of the Pacific Ocean via Semu Huaute.
A valuable teaching moment occurred between Peter Mitten and Semu Huaute, witnessed by Mad Bear. This story, now being told, is not meant to take anything away from Grandfather Semu’s legacy. Instead it’s being told to shed insight on the steep learning curb, akin to a mountain, that medicine people climb in their ascent towards becoming advanced wise elders of great wisdom & balance.
Semu Huaute, earlier in his medicine path, came up to the Iroquois territory and he found favor with one of Peter Mitten’s daughters. Semu was sort of a ladies’ man and his used his charm to win over Peter’s daughter. Peter did not take kindly to that. He also found out that Semu was practicing medicine in the Haudenosaunee Territory and this was not acceptable without asking permission 1st, which Semu did not.
Semu was using medicine to get Peter Mitten’s daughter to comply with his wishes. They began a courtship and Semu wanted her to go back to California with him.
Prior to this, Semu had been practicing medicine at his temporary trailer home near Mad Bear’s house. He was waiting to move into his block home on the Tuscarora reservation.
At this location, inside the trailer home, Semu was showing off his medicine skills. He was sitting around with other locals, chatting about events in Tuscarora Country. Semu turned to one of the guys in the room and said, “Come on; let’s go outside.” The guy couldn’t get up. He got out of his chair but he could only crawl and he managed to crawl outside. Semu Huaute was demonstrating some of the powers of his medicine to show what he can do.
When word got out to Peter Mitten about this, he left his 6 Nations Reservation, near Brantford, Ontario, and headed over to Semu’s trailer in Lewiston, New York, to pay him an unexpected visit. When he arrived, Mad Bear & Semu were together inside Semu’s new trailer, sitting down having a conversation. Peter intended to show Semu “what to do” and “what not to do” with his medicine.
Keep in mind that Peter was of a small stature, a small guy. Semu on the other hand was this big guy, tall and physically fit. Peter was fully aware that Semu was trying to escort his daughter out of town.
Peter Mitten, once invited in, confronted Semu, in front of Mad Bear. Both Mad Bear & Semu were seated. Peter said, “I understand you are doing things around here without permission.” Semu kind of hemmed & hawed, and replied, “Well it’s just a little exercise.” Peter Mitten responded back, “I want to teach you a lesson. Come outside!” This time, Semu couldn’t get up. He had to crawl out of his chair and he crawled all the way to the outside of his trailer.
Peter walked a little way from the trailer. Semu crawled over to him. Peter grabbed Semu’s pant leg to help him get upright. Peter, before escorting him up said, “I’m just letting you know, you don’t do these kinds of things in other people’s territory, when there are other medicine people here. You ask permission first. That’s how we do it! We don’t just go into somebody else’s territory and do this.”
Then while Semu was being helped to stand up, Peter grabbed Semu’s medicine bag, which was hanging from his belt, and yanked it completely off. Holding the medicine in front of Semu’s face, Peter said, “Your medicine in this territory is nothing more than rusty bolts & nails.” Peter Mitten then twisted the bag open, and out from inside Semu’s medicine bag, were rusty bolts & nails.
This was a valuable teaching moment for Semu & Mad Bear. This type of occurrence is part of what goes on amongst medicine people. The advanced & wiser medicine men have one basic expectation that they impart on novice medicine men in training. Use the medicine correctly!
Medicine Men are not to demonstrate for entertainment or ego-related purposes. They are supposed to use their powers to doctor the community, the elements and those who are in need.
The medicine does not takes sides, but if you use it incorrectly, be prepared for that medicine to come back and eventually be used on you. In that case, the medicine has a teaching moment of its own to share.
This example of a teaching moment was the way in which Semu learned, as a novice medicine man in training. He saw that his medicine bag was “nothing more than rusty bolts & nails”. He probably did not appreciate his lesson at the time; it most likely took some reflection on his part for his lesson to sink in. Semu left the Tuscarora Reservation & Haudenosaunee Territory real fast after his interaction with Peter.
Mad Bear learned as well. Even though he knew the protocol of asking “permission”, when it was demonstrated back to him by Peter Mitten to Semu, Mad Bear was able to witness & observe the protocol in action and not just in theory.
The true powers of medicine men when entrusted to the Great Spirit, is truly unlimited. The expanse is so broad that the humans endowed with medicinal & magical abilities have to put their own limitations on to what they are going to do with their journey. They need to find out what in particular they are good at, specialize in that area and work within the parameters that will get the job done.
Sometimes, these medicine men may even going beyond the parameters that they set for themselves, depending on the situation and the particular need. There is so much happening out in the Quantum Universe, however, that sometimes these men, and gifted women, can take on too much. Therein lies the danger. Medicine people have to be mindful that they are human, even though they may have superhuman capabilities.
PETER CALLS OUT THE ANCESTORS
In 1971, highway work was being done on a section of Interstate 81. Not only was it cutting into the Onondaga’s territory but it was messing with sacred grounds. The Onondagas tried to speak with the state authorities, but road construction kept going, regardless of these talks.
The potential pathway for the highway work was already graded and covered with crushed stone, when Peter Mitten & Mad Bear came to the rescue. They informed their Onondaga brothers that they were going to “call upon the ancestors”. This was one of the most powerful ceremonies that they could perform and it was not to be taken lightly.
Peter & Mad Bear gave this action a lot of forethought. They went to the Onondaga Elders and asked permission to call up the dead on their territory. They looked at the stages of the moon and whatever else. They did all the proper ceremonies beforehand, announcing their intent.
They went around, the day before, and told everybody to stay inside after sundown, not to come out until daybreak. They told people to keep a special eye on children and their animals, who could be much more sensitive to the medicine. Then they asked the dead to walk.
People in their homes felt the spooky effect. Some heard sounds, a horde of footsteps walking on the loose stone. Others curiously opened their shutters after dark and saw a faint migration of pale shadows and trees rocking though no wind was blowing. It was awe-inspiring & terrible. It lasted until the early dawn.
The first crews to show up early that morning before sunrise caught an eyeful and immediately left work. In the words of a witness, “The workers messed their pants. Stones were rolling as if people were kicking them.”
As a result of Peter Mitten & Mad Bear’s “calling of the ancestors” ceremony the highway project made a change. They shifted the construction about a ¼ mile in order to avoid the Onondaga’s territory.
Lesson to be learned; the ancestors are here to help us if we need them, as long as we keep looking out for them.
[Caledonia]
The ancestors, in fact, returned in 2009 to assist Six Nations protestors during their occupation of a parcel of 6 Nations land (Haldiman Tract) in Caledonia, Ontario, which non-Indians were attempting to convert into a residential subdivision. One morning in April, despite fruitful negotiations between the Iroquois Confederacy Chiefs and city officials, 45 Indian protesters (of all ages) were awoken by a violent police raid. 6 Nations protestors fought back and eventually more 6 Nations supporters came to their aid. The police retreated.
It was later revealed that some of the police officers witnessed, during the morning raid, an occurrence which they can’t explain. Even though, in reality they only faced 45 protestors, they admit to seeing thousands of upset Indian people (6 Nation ancestors) dressed in traditional clothing, on horses and on foot, advancing towards them.
This experience from the raid was so dramatic & unbelievable that 6 police officers from one division ended up taking a leave of absence from work. To this day, they refused to police Caledonia.
PETER CALLS IN REINFORCEMENT
At one point in 1969, on the 6 Nations Reservation of Grand River, Peter Mitten was getting a lot of complaints from people in his area that the mounted police Royal Canadian Mounted Police (R.C.M.P.) were riding around on their horsebacks with weapons. This made some of the reserve residents uncomfortable. So Peter Mitten contacted Mad Bear for reinforcement to assist him with addressing this situation.
Mad Bear suggested to Peter that the women cook up a nice feast, a big meal, and invite the R.C.M.P. officers to join in the cookout. Mad Bear said that he would come up to the reservation and participate in the festivity.
The opportunity arrived. While the 6 Nations women were feeding 2 visiting police officers from the R.C.M.P., inside a dining hall, Mad Bear & Peter Mitten were applying their medicine on them, akin to “Jedi mind tricks” from the Star Wars movies.
Mad Bear said to the officers, “You know, we are getting some complaints from the residents here on reservation about you guys riding in here with your guns. Could you guys just set your guns on the table over there? And, I got an idea that might get the people to feel a little more comfortable. What we will do, just as an exercise, like a demonstration. We’ll cuff (handcuff) you 2 Mounties and make it look like you are under arrest.” The 2 officers agreed to Mad Bear’s request.
Meanwhile, unbeknownst to the 2 officers, news reporters were gathered outside. They were tipped off about the “arrest” of R.C.M.P. by local residents of the reservation, prior to the dinner event. This was a part of Mad Bear & Peter Mitten’s plan.
Mad Bear then said to the 2 officers, “We’ll just walk you outside with your handcuffs on, and the residents will be watching. They’ll see you with the handcuffs on and they’ll say… Oh good! They (Mad Bear & Peter) are fixing this problem.” Again, the 2 officers agreed.
When Mad Bear & Peter walked the 2 handcuffed Mounties out of the front door, they were greeted by the press who were taking pictures and asking questions. Mad Bear addressed the media and brought attention to jurisdiction issues regarding the police riding into sovereign 6 Nations territory, carrying weapons. Mad Bear said that these 2 Mounties were under house arrest.
Word quickly reached the higher-ups in the R.C.M.P. and they were quite embarrassed to have to deal with the aftermath of having 2 of their very own arrested by 6 Nations traditionalists, led by Mad Bear, the co-conspirator of the 1959 occupation of the 6 Nation’s Old Council House.
The Head Commander of the R.C.M.P addressed the media and in regards to Mad Bear he said, “I’m contemplating having you deported.” Mad Bear laughed at this and responded, “To where? This whole continent, this whole land is one land. We didn’t divide it. You guys drew that line. So where are you going to deport me to? We don’t recognize that border.”
PETER & HIS INVISIBLE HAT
That same year, following the house arrest of 2 Mounties incident at the 6 Nations reservation, and after Mad Bear returned home to Lewiston, New York, Chief William Commanda (Algonquin) from the Kitigan Zibi Anishinabeg First Nation in Quebec, announced that he was hosting a segment of the 6 Nations sponsored Unity Convention at the Maniwaki Indian Reserve. Mad Bear announced that he was planning to addend and carry out his duty to the “nation”.
The Head Commander of the R.C.M.P. stationed Mounties at the Peace Bridge border crossing, to prevent Mad Bear from entering the country. Photographs of Mad Bear were distributed to all the Mounties. The North American Unity Caravan, heading into Canada to attend the rally, were going to get thoroughly inspected.
News reporters also came to the border crossing, hoping to catch the newsworthy Mad Bear in the crosshairs with the R.C.M.P.
Peter Mitten came down to Tuscarora and picked up Mad Bear. He put his wide-brimmed black “magic” hat on Mad Bear’s head. This hat was supposed to make Mad Bear “invisible” (unrecognizable) to the Mounties on the border. Peter said, “Don’t take the hat off and don’t talk to anybody.” So Mad Bear wore the hat and together they approached the border crossing. Sure enough, they got stopped by the obtrusive R.C.M.P.
The Canadian Mounties looked over their car. A Buffalo (N.Y.) reporter in a vehicle in back of their car shouted, “Hey! That’s Mad Bear in that car.” The Mounties looked at Mad Bear but didn’t recognize him. Mad Bear couldn’t resist. He said, “What are you doing?” They replied, “We are looking for Mad Bear.”
The Mounties gave the car a final look, studying everyone’s faces more closely, not recognizing Mad Bear, and they said, “Go on!” But as the driver of the car, Peter Mitten’s daughter, attempted to move the car forward, the car stalled because Mad Bear & Peter’s collective medicine (“Jedi mind tricks”) overpowered the car’s engine. The car couldn’t be restarted.
The Mounties kept waving their hands to move the car along but they saw that the car was not moving due to mechanical problems, so they called a few other Mounties over to assist. These Mounties ended up pushing the car, with Mad Bear inside, over the border and into Canada.
In reference to Peter’s invisible hat, Mad Bear recalled, “Every time that guard looked at me, it felt like sand was sprinkling down all over my face. What he (the Mounty) saw was someone else.” Mad Bear held on to Peter’s invisible wide-brimmed black hat after the border crossing affair, probably to use it on other adventures with Peter Mitten.
PETER & HIS MYSTERIOUS POTION
Richard Oakes (Mohawk), the leader of the 1969 Occupation of Alcatraz, fought to unify American Indians and educate people about cultures indigenous to the western hemisphere. Mad Bear was his mentor and helped structure Richard’s philosophy.
On June 1, 1970, Richard got into a fight with some Samoans (Bula Bula Boys) in a tavern in San Francisco. Richard’s head was hit with a pool stick. This was the 3rd attack on his life since he started his fight against large corporations in the west to regain land that belonged to the Indian people. In fact, this bar fight occurred on the same day that the Pit River Indians filed a $5 billion claim to land that they say was theirs.
Richard Oakes ended up in the Cedars of Lebanon Hospital, in a deep coma, and the doctors there could do nothing for him. Whatever was damaged in his head had caused his whole body to go rigid, tightening up every muscle in his body, and exhausting him to death. He was burning up more calories than the doctors could pump into him with his IV.
The doctors told Annie Oakes, Richard’s wife, that they could do nothing for him, and he would die in a couple of days. Annie told them that Indian medicine men were on their way over to help Richard, but the hospital doctors said that they would not permit the assistance. She pleaded with them and her strongest argument was that the hospital had definitely thrown in the towel, and “why not give Indians a chance”.
The hospital doctors finally consented to allow the Indian medicine men, Mad Bear, Thomas Banyacya and Peter Mitten, to work on Richard, but they wanted to know what they were going to do. Mad Bear, Thomas Banyacya who assisted him, and Peter, told the doctors that they wouldn’t understand what they were going to do, and there was no way to tell them about it. Peter only spoke through Mad Bear in his Cayuga language.
Mad Bear then fought with the hospital to keep the doctors & nursed out of Richard’s room. You can imagine the malpractice fear that this request triggered with hospital. Their request to doctor Richard Oakes alone was granted, only after, Peter & Mad Bear agreed to sign documents stating that they would assume full responsibility for whatever happens to Richard as a result of their medicine work.
Eventually, a small laboratory was sequestered, and Peter Mitten went about preparing some herbs they he had brought along in his suitcase. Mad Bear brought in a pair of birds to fly around the room, per Peter’s request.
Peter Mitten put together a small vial of a green-blackish liquid potion and he took that to Richard's bedside, where he disconnected the IV tube and began to drip the green-blackish liquid directly into Richard's Oakes' body via the opened IV tube.
Prior to Peter’s doctoring, Richard had turned as white as a piece of paper, after his several days of laying in a coma with every muscle in his body going absolutely rigid. As the Indian medicine entered Richard’s body, a red spot appeared over his heart; then it began to expand outward as the color returned to Richard's body. As this ring of red expanded, the muscles underneath the red area just fell into relaxation, until finally his whole body just relaxed and he literally sank into his mattress.
When Mad Bear allowed the hospital doctors into the room and they saw the green blackish liquid mixture going down the tube into Richard's arm they began to panic. But Mad Bear & Thomas Banyacya managed to keep the doctors in check. They asked questions pertaining to Peter’s IV tube replacement, but Peter would just say things to them in his native tongue that they couldn’t understand.
Richard Oakes at this point, was asleep. Peter Mitten had Mad Bar translate for him. He told the doctors that now Richard will have to continue sleeping for 4 or 5 days. The hospital doctors agreed and the medicine men left.
After Richard’s miraculous recovery, he and his wife and 4 of his children returned back to the St. Regis Mohawk Reservation. He briefly toured with the White Roots of Peace movement through the New England states.
Richard Oakes told the Watertown Times on October 15, 1970, that he now wants to dedicate his life to assisting east Indians regain their heritage and fight against injustices perpetrated against them. Richard Oakes said that he feels the Indian movement in the west has been successful, that it “formed the type of catalyst necessary for the re-taking of Stanley & Loon Islands in the St. Lawrence River (New York)." Richard also mentioned to the paper that he wanted to see the return of the wampum belts that belong to the Haudenosaunee people, which were taken from them. He said, “If you want to learn about your Indian heritage you should not have to go to a museum or to the archives of the State of New York."
Watertown Times reported that Richard’s moving back to the east does not mean that he has severed ties with the Indian tribes he worked with in the west, but that he hopes to bring about a larger nation of all Indian people.
On September 20, 1972, Richard Oakes was tragically shot & killed during a fight with a YMCA camp manager in Sonoma County, California. The camp manager had a reputation of being rough on native children.
PETER & HIS DISAPPEARANCE ACT
Mad Bear, Thomas Banyacya & Peter Mitten originally flew into the Bay Area to doctor Richard Oakes. Prior to their flight they were in Oklahoma. Peter began to get intuitive messages that his help was needed in California. He knew that this territory was not his medicine jurisdiction so he ignored the call. Since Peter couldn’t be reached the “Indian Way”, a physical native representative came all the way from the Bay Area to Oklahoma to personally request his services. Peter agreed.
On the airplane flight, a disappearance act occurred with Peter Mitten. He momentarily was “unavailable”. This really shook up the flight attendants because he came up missing during their head count.
Peter Mitten had earlier informed Mad Bear that he had brought some berries that would make him invisible. During the flight it was possible that Peter was working on his medicine via teleportation; maybe working on several different things all stacked up at the same time. It was not usual for Peter to multi-task in this way. So, it’s possible that Peter lost track of time with his medicine work and physically disappeared on the 3rd dimension of time & space.
From a Quantum Physics standpoint, it is understood that time is not linear but cyclical. Time travel is probable and a lot of money is spent on secret “black” military projects, like the Philadelphia Experiment, to use “time” for their tactical advantage.
Mad Bear got a kick out of Peter Mitten’s momentary disappearance and other metaphysical occurrences, because he knew these kinds of happenings were real and now other people were starting to experience the phenomena of what these guys (Medicine Men) can really do.
PETER & HIS BREATH OF LIFE
In early 1970’s, a boy from the 6 Nations Reservation (Canada) was hit by a car, while driving his bicycle, and was apparently killed. Paramedics were loading the boy’s lifeless body into their ambulance, despite the boy’s mother’s attempts to get the medics to leave him on the reservation.
Mad Bear & Peter Mitten came on the scene, it happened in front of Peter’s house. Peter called out, “Put him down!” The paramedics set the boy back down. Peter bent down over the boy, nose to nose, and put something in his mouth. Then he blew his breath over the boys face. He commanded, “Open your eyes; come back to us!” Nothing happened. “Come back; I told you! You come back here and open your eyes!” The boy’s eyelids began to flutter. Peter continued, “Open your eyes! Open them all the way, but don’t move until I tell you.”
The boy awakened, disoriented and attempted to get up. Mad Bear & Peter held him down and calmly talked to him, while they worked to assure that all levels of the boy’s spiritual self were back in place for good. Once the boy gained his cognition, he was released to the medics and taken to the emergency room. The miracle healing that occurred via Peter’s “breath of life” was never officially acknowledged by the hospital. He did, however, receive some visits by hospital staff when they were in need of healing.
PETER & MINIATURE ANIMALS
In Peter Mitten’s world, “Miniature Animals” jumping in & out of places in his backyard for the Little People, were a part of his reality.
After Peter Mitten had passed away, it was his wish for his son to take over his medicine practice and look after the Miniature Animals in the backyard of his home. Peter’s son declined to follow his father’s medicine path, even though he too had witnessed the Miniature Animals & Little People in his father’s yard.
Mad Bear pointed out to Peter Mitten’s son that he had a “gift”. He explained that these multi-dimensional Miniature Animals “allowed” themselves to be seen by him, and thus they are essentially communicating that it would be permissible by them for him to take on his father’s role and work with them. Still Peter’s son declined the offer. He said he did not feel comfortable with taking on his father’s practice & medicine path. This was unfortunate, but was an honest assessment by his son and Mad Bear honored his wishes.
Mad Bear went ahead and held a ceremony for the Little People & Miniature Animals to close the portal in Peter Mitten’s backyard, from which these entities were time jumping in & out of. He didn’t want an unattended open portal to disturb or interfere with the everyday life & activities of others.
PETER & THE TORNADO
When Peter Mitten passed away on April 1, 1974, Mad Bear was out of town in Ohio and was driving a VW bug on his return trip home. Mad Bear witnessed a rare tornado that touched down close to the highway and blew his car off the road. Immediately, he recalled Peter in the past telling him, “When I leave, you’ll know that I left because a very strong wind will tell you.” Mad Bear knew he was given a sign of Peter Mitten’s passing. Sure enough, when Mad Bear arrived home he learned that Peter had made his departure; he “walked west”.
This is the way medicine people stay connected on other levels. They share signs & synchronistic experiences together. All possible within the Quantum Universe that we all share.
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MEDICINE PEOPLE SUPPRESSED
American Indians and medicine men have had their religions & spiritual practices suppressed (sometimes violently) and denied. They could even be jailed and thrown into an insane asylum. With the formation of the United States and the adoption of the Bill of Rights which speaks of freedom of religion, this freedom has been denied to Indians based on the notion that they were not citizens and therefore this freedom did not apply to them. The period of time from 1870 to 1934 can be considered the Dark Ages for American Indian Religious Freedom.
The passing of the American Indian Religious Freedom Act on August 11, 1978 allowed Indians & medicine men to practice their spirituality out in the open, however, suppression of Native American Spirituality still continues today with restrictions on certain medicinal herbs deemed illegal, like Cannabis & Peyote. Only the Native American Church (Indian & non-Indian members) has permission by the Feds to utilized these sacred sacraments.
During Mad Bear’s time, as a young man, traditional medicine people & Longhouse members were the outcasts of the god-fearing Christian Iroquois society in the late 1940’s. Their “old ways” and practices were kept underground. The word “elder” was not even a word that was commonly spoken of back in those days. Despite the obscurity, the elder traditionalists were an incredible resource of knowledge for Mad Bear. They were like a living library. He soaked up all their teachings like a sponge and kept the medicine practices close to his heart at all times.
MAD BEAR PRACTICES MEDICINE
Tuscarora medicine men do not have secret medicine societies like those of the Seneca. Mad Bear was allowed to join in their societies at the Tonawanda Reservation. He became a member of the False Face society.
Mad Bear eventually became popular on & off the Tuscarora reservation for his curative medicine powers. People came to him to cure their mental, physical and spiritual ailments. Mad Bear did his healings for others on Saturday & Sunday mornings. It was normal to see a line of cars parked outside of his home with people waiting to get treated.
Mad Bear did other medicine work of his own at other times of the day. He was known to be nocturnal at times; on the other end of the spectrum, Mad Bear would be up before daybreak, ready to greet the morning sun.
Mad Bear’s medicine ceremonies, like those of the traditionalist medicine people who he associated with, always worked since they were only performed when needed; they were treated with the highest respect and never done just to show off. Medicine was serious business, though Mad Bear would often do it with a smile and a sense of humor, which is medicine in its own right.
Mad Bear and his traditionalist medicine counterparts were also protective in keeping the sacred elements of their work private. They openly shared only the elements that were necessary to be given to the 4 directions, per their prophecies in accordance with the Galactic Timepiece. These medicine men knew what lines not to cross in order to preserve their sacred medicine teachings for the next 7 generations.
Mad Bear and the traditional medicine people took great risks in coming public. Not only were they a target of the U.S. government who wanted to keep the Red Man down, they were targeted by some members of their own tribes who opposed their openness. Some thought the timing was not right. These folks, unfortunately, lacked an understanding of the prophecies and the cycles of time that relate to the Galactic Timepiece.
As a result of the targeting of medicine people, they would often cloak their gatherings, up until the 1980’s, as cultural gatherings or pow wows. The medicine element was kept on the hush-hush.
TOBACCO LEAVES
Mad Bear wouldn’t begin his treatments before sunrise and he would never work past sunset. His routine involved asking his guests some basic questions to get them comfortable & loosened up. He then would throw some tobacco leaves into a glass of water and he would peer into it.
The sacred tobacco Mad Bear used was different from most common tobacco. Mad Bear would hold the tobacco in his hand and talk to it, reminding the tobacco of its sacred function and investing it with a special purpose and a sense of mission.
PLACEBO EFFECT
Psychic ailments would usually require a ceremony with wood or herbs being burned. Physical ailments, on the other hand, would normal involve a prescribed herbal treatment that would serve as the remedy.
Michael Bastine once asked Mad Bear what percentage of the herbs does the healing. He replied back, “Ten percent! Have you ever heard of the Placebo Effect? Now that’s real medicine!”
Michael, now understanding the Placebo Effect, explained that when you as a healer connect to a person on another level, and you convince them that what you are going to give them (the remedy) will completely cure their condition, not just improve it, they will be completely cured.
The Placebo Effect is now causing complications with the F.D.A. approval of pharmaceutical drugs. If you are a drug company attempting to pass a new drug through the F.D.A. approval process, your drug has to be better than the placebo. The Placebo Effect at the time that the F.D.A. set up their standards was at 30%. This meant that 30% of the time the test subjects were given sugar pills it had the same effect as the pharmaceutical drug. So in order to get F.D.A. stamp of approval your drug has to test at 31% or above. Now, due to the acceleration of human consciousness, via our position within the Galactic Timepiece, post-2012, the F.D.A. is ignoring the Placebo Effect in their approval process because the test subjects are testing at 60% and higher.
MAD BEAR AND HIS MEDICINE
Mad Bear would never give a performance of his medicine powers. If he was challenged to demonstrate his abilities by critics or curious bystanders, he would say, “If you want to see a show, get a ticket for the circus. What we (medicine men) are about is the message.”
Mad Bear would sometimes send people to other healers if he felt that they would not follow through on his specific directions. Some of his prescriptions were irrational and had to be followed to the letter.
Mad Bear often forgot about the readings he gave in his past, even some of the most remarkable ones. He said once that he deliberately forgets because he does not want old cases to cloud up his mind and get in the way of new ones. Mad Bear’s healing work had to be mentally exhausting as well, so forgetting about past readings was probably beneficial to his mental health as well.
Mad Bear would never let 3rd parties sit in on his healings. Occasionally, some people passing through or close by, like Michael Bastine, would witness some of his incredible curative powers.
WITNESSING A MAD BEAR MEDICINE TREATMENT PT.1
One example that Michael observed was with a 90 year old German-American women who came to Mad Bear seeking a remedy and attempting to avoid surgery. She had a bowel obstruction. To gain her confidence & trust, Mad Bear looked at the tobacco leaves, and he used his clairvoyant abilities to describe back to the lady in detail what type of meal preparation habits she had at her home. This caused her to laugh and say, “Are you looking in through my windows?” Mad Bear laughed and said, “No. I see it here through the glass and that’s what I’m reading for you.”
While Mad Bear was doing his reading, peering into the tobacco leaves, he was also utilizing his clairvoyance to see if this German-American woman was going to follow the instructions that he intended to give her.
At the end of the lady’s reading, Mad Bear asked Michael if he knew how to prepare Okra. Michael did and was given special instructions by Mad Bear to concoct a slimy Okra side dish for her to take home and eat along with her other meals.
Before the German-American women returned to see Mad Bear again, and after eating all of the Okra, she went into the hospital to have her obstruction checked. The doctors told her that the obstruction was gone; they don’t know what happened. Mad Bear related to Michael that the slime in the Okra was identical to the layer of mucus in our bowels. He explained that as people get older, the layers of mucus in their bowels tend to deplete and that was the problem for the lady that came to be treated by Mad Bear.
WITNESSING A MAD BEAR MEDICINE TREATMENT PT.2
A cab driver came to Mad Bear for a tea (tobacco leaves) reading. He said to Mad Bear, “If I didn’t have bad luck, I wouldn’t have any luck at all.” Mad Bear went ahead and started the reading and said, “I see you have a new ring.” The cab driver responded, “Yeah, one of my fares didn’t have any cash. He really needed a ride so he offered me this gold ring to pay for the cab ride and I accepted it.” As Mad Bear was looking though the glass jar at the tobacco in the water he commented, “Well, the man was sharing his bad luck with you too. That’s why you are having all these troubles.”
Mad Bear instructed the cab driver to take his ring off and put it on the table. The cab driver complied. Mad Bear called Michael Bastine over and said, “Take a look at this.” Strangely, there was a piece of tobacco that became waterlogged and sank to the bottom of the glass jar. Michael had never seen that happen before in any of Mad Bear’s readings. He said, “Wow, that’s pretty incredible.”
Mad Bear asked Michael, “Do you know where the cedar is stored? Go ahead; boil some water and throw some cedar in it. After the pot cooled down, Michael set the pot of cedar water down on the table in front of Mad Bear. Mad Bear said, “Watch this.” He picked up the ring from off the table and as he started to dip the ring into the cedar water, the waterlogged tobacco in the glass jar began to regain its buoyancy.
The deeper the ring was pushed down into the cedar water, at the same time and at the same speed, the waterlogged tobacco would correspond by rising upward and rejoining the other tobacco floating on top of the water in the glass jar.
In science, when something is waterlogged, the only way to regain buoyancy is to take the object out of the water and dry it out.
IMPROVISED MEDICINE
Mad Bear, as well as his mentors, like Peter Mitten & Eleazar Williams, would use medicine in ways which would not typically be standard practice. He had an incredible perception on how to use things & elements in an innovative way. When it came to protocol, Mad Bear must of figured that there were no rules in medicine saying that he can’t, so he proceeded to experiment and found that sometimes the medicine would respond favorably when he would deviate from traditional ways of healing. There were no reference points available to explain how his improvised doctoring worked; it just did.
MEDICINAL KNOWLEDGE
The medicinal plant knowledge that Mad Bear had was beyond comprehension. For example, Michael Bastine recalled one walk he took with Mad Bear where he learned an incredible amount of information in just a single stroll through the woods. Mad Bear would always caution Michael on these walks by saying, “Just be careful. People learning plant medicine try to take too much in too quickly. My recommendation is to only learn 3 plants in a year. You need to know each plant’s life cycle throughout the year. You need to know everything about each plant you are studying. What does the plant look like when it sprouts? What is the best part of the medicine, such as the roots, the flowers or the stems? When is the best time to harvest? Is the plant to be used medicinally or for other purposes?”
Mad Bear also explained to Michael that plants have copy cats that appear to look the same, but actually contain properties that will have an opposite reaction to a person when applied medicinally. Mad Bear explained that you have to carefully observe plants in this case, to see small minute differences in their physical appearances.
Mad Bear said that some ailments are female ailments, and others are male ailments. Then you have to find the corresponding female or male plant to match. The whole process of harvesting medicine is very complex. Sometimes you don’t pick the root; you pick the leaves & stems. There are moon phases that need to be taken into consideration, the stage of life that the plant is in, what direction to approach the plant, etc.
Mad Bear was very protective of his plant medicine. He would talk in circles sometimes to avoid others from eavesdropping if his discussions involved medicine. If other medicine people, outside of a few insiders, would ask Mad Bear about a particular medicine treatment, which involved several plants, he would never give out the full recipe or the portions of his plant medicine. He was especially protective of allowing his medicinal plant knowledge to get into the hands of the F.D.A. or pharmaceutical drug companies who are not looking out for the public interest; instead their interests are on financial gain & corporate greed.
Today’s U.S. health care costs are at least 200 billion dollars a year and involves the costs of the drugs themselves, the injuries they cause and the appropriate law suits that follow. The perpetrators of this fraud are the pharmaceutical companies acting in tandem with the FDA, doctors paid under the table by “Big Pharma” and gullible doctors willing to write off-label prescriptions based on the hype they hear from “Big Pharma” sales reps.
PHOTOGRAPHIC MEMORY
Mad Bear’s prolific medicinal knowledge, as well as his knowledge in treaty law, prophecies, etc. can be attributed to his use of photographic memory, which we all possess but few have learned to acquire the skill of memorizing.
When Michael Bastine first met Mad Bear he would carry around a little note pad and he would write things down, take notes. Mad Bear didn’t say anything right away, but after the 4th or 5th visit he asked Michael, “What are you writing down? Michael said, “Items that I think are extremely important. Things that I really need to remember.” Mad Bear remarked in a humorous way, “Is there anything wrong with your brain?” Michael replied, “I don’t think so.” Mad Bear said, “Then use it! What if you lost that piece of paper? If it’s really important and you need to know it, then your brain will remember it. Let your brain do that!”
STACKING THE DECK COSMICALLY
A key part to Mad Bear’s success in the medicine realm was that he knew to pay attention to all the minute details in life. Instead of jumping right in to tackle a situation, he would first strategize and make preparations.
Mad Bear observed the circular movements of nature (such as the seasons) and the stars (Astrology). These details had an influence over the way in which he would approach & perform certain activities. Michael Bastine referred to Mad Bear’s process as “stacking the deck cosmically”.
Some examples; years back around Winter Solstice, Mad Bear brought into his house a stray dog and observed its behavior. Before the solstice, this dog would circle in a counter clockwise direction before it would lie down. After the solstice, this dog would circle this time in a clockwise direction and then lie down.
There is a connection between the 10 day ceremony when someone passes or is born and the 10 days in which new born puppies, kittens, wolves, etc. don’t open their eyes. There is a time period in which a variance of going in between worlds comes into play. It’s like they are deciding if they are to stay in this world or go back. It’s the same with humans. That’s why in some cultures there was an old custom of not giving a name to a new born child until the 10th day. Or after someone passes, while in the spirit realm, a part of them sticks around on the Earth plane for 10 days and they go revisit everyone who they have met during their lifetime.
ORGONE ENERGY
Mad Bear would observe the trees & plants to access the health (Orgone Energy) of the area in which they were growing in. He would watch their movements in the wind, their color & posture. If the trees bent down in despair, seeking their Earth Mother, like they did in Los Angeles, this was a sign that the air is polluted and the land is prone for earthquakes.
Psychoanalyst Wilhelm Reich discovered “Orgone Energy” in the 1930’s, and understood it to be the “universal life force” behind all living things in the universe. Wilhelm’s work was shut down by the F.D.A. in 1954. Medicine men, like Mad Bear, as well as other medicine men, have always intuitively understood the concept of Orgone Energy and have applied this understanding to their native practice of medicine and of being caretakers for Mother Earth.
TRAVELING WITHOUT A SUITCASE
Many stories exist about Mad Bear’s ability to “travel without a suitcase”. It was well known to other medicine people that he could travel that way.
Mad Bear told his friend Ted Silverhand (Tuscarora), “I don’t know where I’m going sometimes. When I do get ready to go, I’ll be driving down the road and will pull over to the side of the road and I’m just gone, I leave, and then somebody else (one of his assistants) will drive the car back home.”
Mad Bear out east, when he traveled this way, would leave his key in the ignition, and then shortly after call from a payphone out in California or another remote location, requesting that his car be picked up.
Mad Bear was known to have bilocation abilities as well. People on the Tuscarora Reservation would see Mad Bear sitting on his porch, taking a nap. They would come back a little later to look for Mad Bear and he was nowhere to be found. Other people on the reservation would say, “Well, Mad Bear left on a trip. He wasn’t there.” But later that same day, Mad Bear would run into these same people and would give them a detailed accounts of things that were occurring many miles away at St. Regis, a 300 mile distance from Lewiston. During this same period of time, Mohawks reported seeing Mad Bear on their Akwesasne Reservation in St. Regis.
Did Mad Bear have the ability to shape-shift as a bear or an eagle? We do not know. Before the invention of the automobile, it was said that many medicine people would shape-shift to travel long distance.
Many myths & legends of Indians “traveling without a suitcase”, shape-shifting and becoming invisible (to dodge Cavalry gunfire) do exist. These stores may be possible if one considers that we may actually exist within a holographic reality. Our reality may actually be a lower density dream that we have collectively agreed to participate in. This is an ancient wisdom teaching & understanding, which is now beginning to be verified by Quantum Scientists who study the Quantum Universe.
On September 17, 2013, a physics breakthrough emerged that is so significant, so all-encompassing, it renders our existing worldview as irrelevant as the flat earth. Two physicists, Nima Arkani-Hamed & Jaroslav Trnka, essentially proved that space & time do not exist, at least not in the way we now think. What appears to be a visible universe, with a clearly defined past, present and future, is not real. The Universe is actually a holographic projection of a single geometric form, which these two physicists call "The Amplituhedron." If this is the case, it would mean that this projected geometric form is the originating fractal of all creation, of all the fractals in the cosmos. If this is the case, this could be the secret to traveling without a suitcase or shape-shifting.
Ted Silverhand, a Tuscarora Seer, remembers a time that he was with Rolling Thunder on the West Coast and R.T. had to get in touch with Mad Bear. Rolling Thunder went out on the balcony and lit his pipe to call Mad Bear in. 3 hours later there was a loud knock on the door. It was Mad Bear!
Rolling Thunder had this to say about his friend Mad Bear; “He has a reputation as a world traveler, and as someone who sometimes just disappears. Sometimes we’ll know where Mad Bear is, and sometimes we won’t. And sometimes he’s just not around, anywhere at all. Yet he can be reached. One medicine man reaches another in a spiritual way, in a way where there‘s no days or miles.”
DREAMTIME
What is known about Mad Bear is that he did a lot of work in dreamtime via Lucid Dreaming & Astral Projection (remote viewing) which is a common practice among medicine men and much science is available to verify this psychic phenomenon.
A “lucid dream” is an extremely vivid dream, where you are aware that you are dreaming. Once a lucid dream occurs, and the dreamer knows it, endless possibilities await.
When Mad Bear was asked a question or an issue was brought to his attention by someone who needed help, Mad Bear would say, “Well, I got to take some Dream Medicine.” Then he would find a place to lie down. It would appear that he was taking a nap. After he was done resting, he would come back to the person he was helping and give them the information he retrieved during his dreamtime.
Mad Bear became so efficient with his dreamtime medicine that he really didn’t have to travel much with his physical body to conduct his doctoring and information retrieval.
ASTRAL PROJECTION
The concept of “astral projection” has been around for thousands of years, going back to the monks of India & China. It is an “out of body experience” that allows an individual as a spirit to roam freely from the body, outside of linear time, while they are in a semi-sleep or trance state.
Astral projection has been used by militaries to obtain enemy secrets. Army officer, Major Ed Dames, worked for Military Intelligence’s Remote Viewing Unit and was able to find everything from hidden biological weapons labs to missing P.O.W.’s.
The People’s Republic of China scientists, using very sensitive light-detecting devices were able to gage photon activity in a room that was being remotely viewed by someone in a distant remote area.
During the times when the remote viewer accurately described his “target” in the room, the number of photons in that room surged tremendously, 100 to 1000 times above the normal background level of “virtual photons”.
One example of Mad Bear’s ability in astral projection happened in August of 1977, when Doug Boyd lived in Topeka, Kansas, and had moved into a new house where he had an office & drop-in center for the Cross-Culture Studies Program. Mad Bear gave him a call from his Tuscarora home in New York. He told Doug, “I thought I’d drop in and pay a visit. So I went ahead and took my Dream Medicine.” Mad Bear went on to describe in detail Doug’s dining room, kitchen, the carpets, the chairs, his “puja” room upstairs, etc.
Mad Bear even had the ability to astro-project while awake & conscious. Michael Bastine shared an experience he witnessed with Mad Bear in this regard. He was on the road with Mad Bear, heading to a store to go shopping a few miles away from Mad Bear’s house. Then Mad Bear said, “Somebody just pulled into my driveway. Jeez.. I don’t recognize the car. Let’s go back.” Michael turned the car around and they headed back to Mad Bear’s house. Sure enough, there was a car in the driveway, a white Lincoln. A man got out of the car and Mad Bear instantly recognized him. It turned out that this man bought a new car and that is why Mad Bear didn’t recognize the car in his astral projection.
Michael commented that after a while, Mad Bear’s amazing astral projections and other psychic phenomena, like this new car incident, became so routine, that they lost their surprise value. Michael eventually stopped questioning the things Mad Bear would say & do, and began to develop a trust for the truths he was able to observe as his apprentice.
TELEPATHY
Mad Bear had a great ability to read people’s mind and to see into things. He was certainly telepathic. Anyone who has ever had contact with Mad Bear found that he would bring topics into the discussions, which they were holding in the back of their minds.
Mad Bear also had the ability to read the mind of a computer. Michael Bastine recalls that he once took Mad Bear to the phone company to obtain a new phone number. Mad Bear would change his phone numbers often, due to the many harassing & intimidating calls he would receive.
Prior to visiting the phone company, Mad Bear wrote a number down on the back of a matchbook, which is a number he wanted to use as his new phone number if it was available. He also wanted to make sure that this new number has been the longest out of use by anyone. Mad Bear passed the matchbook over to Michael for safekeeping.
After waiting for a while at the phone company, a worker brought out computer paper, the old kind with holes down the side. This worker said he found a number that has been out of use for more than a year and it was the oldest phone number available that they have on file. He showed Mad Bear & Michael the number. Mad Bear then asked Michael for the matchbook. Sure enough, it was the exact phone number that was selected on the computer paper. The worker looked “pretty darn funny”. He said there was no way Mad Bear could have looked that number up. Mad Bear said, “Of course I can. All I did was look it up, the same way you did, only a little more like a dream.”
Dr. Nikolai A. Kozyrev (1908-1983) made scientific discoveries that help explain the phenomenon of Telepathy. These discoveries were kept secret by the Soviet Union during the Cold War. It was only after the fall of the Iron Curtain that his discoveries were slowly revealed to the West.
Dr. Kozyrev discovered “Torsion Waves” which are not electromagnetic in nature and does not relate to gravity. This new form of energy is a spiraling non-Hertzian electromagnetic wave that travels through the vacuum at super-luminal speeds, a billion times faster than light.
Dr. Kozyrev found that human thoughts & feelings are generating torsion waves as well. He has been able to measure torsion waves that were caused by sudden human emotional changes. Dr. Kozyrev’s discovery proves that “consciousness” is related to ether vibrations.
Science is now beginning to understand that our very thoughts & emotions create “Torsion Waves” that travel at super-luminal speeds to the far ends of the universe. Torsion waves may become the physics for Telepathy. Since Torsion Waves can physically affect matter, it may also be the explanation for Psychokinesis, the ability to mentally change physical objects.
FALSE FACES
Mad Bear was a member of the Iroquois False Face Society via the Tonawanda Reservation. He had in his possession, 2 False Faces (Medicine Masks) that he kept at his home. He was a culture keeper, so he most likely had been entrusted with these 2 masks by the society.
Members of the False Face Society act as group spiritual healers, they are like the National Guard of the medicine people.
The False Face Society is very secretive and much of their medicine ways are kept internal. What we do know is that the False Face medicine masks are not ordinary masks. These masks have a life of their own; they are living spiritual entities that must be treated with great care & respect. Some False Faces even have hair that grows.
Putting these medicine masks into a glass museum display would be as cruel & senseless as putting a lion in a steel cage. It didn’t work out to well in the past when museums attempted to display False Face masks that they acquired through disreputable means. In one instance, these “caged” masks in a museum got restless & agitated and the glass displays started to crack.
They began moving around in the night, even trading places between themselves. The False Faces began to make distinctive disconcerting whistle calls and poltergeist activity occurred around them.
In another instance, on March 29th, 1911, the New York State Library on the 4th floor of the state capitol building in Albany had a disastrous fire. It was the 5th largest library in the world and it housed False Faces. After the fire was put out, much of the libraries finest books, state records and vast Native American artifacts collections were destroyed. The False Faces medicine masks were entirely untouched by the catastrophe.
Mad Bear took very good care of his 2 False Faces. He would caution guests to behave well around them. He would even on occasion conduct ceremony to calm these medicine masks down when their energies would stir up for various reasons.
Michael Bastine temporarily took care of Mad Bear’s 2 False Faces in 1979. Mad Bear was weak from psychic attacks that were directed towards him due to his unity work. He left Tuscan, Arizona, and after meeting with Michael at his Tuscarora home he traveled to Akwesasne to stay with Chief Tom Porter (Mohawk). There he received healing from his medicine friends on the reservation. Michael followed Mad Bear’s exact protocol for the caretaking of these masks. Mad Bear informed the 2 False Faces of the temporary change in guardianship. The transfer of care with these 2 False Faces was a gesture of respect & trust between Mad Bear (the Elder) & Michael (the apprentice) in both directions.
AN INTRODUCTION TO THE LITTLE PEOPLE
“Little People” (Elves) have been part of the folklore for many cultures in human history, including Ireland, Sweden, Norway, Greece, the Philippines, the Hawaiian Islands, Flores Island, Indonesia and Native Americans in the United States. The Iroquois, have legends regarding a race of "little people" who lived in the woods near sandy hills and sometimes near rocks located along large bodies of water, such as the Great Lakes.
Many of these indigenous cultures have identified mythical locations of highly charged geomagnetic anomalies, where psychic phenomena are prone to occur. The Iroquois territory seems to be a hotbed for these occurrences.
To Iroquois medicine people & story tellers, Little People are powerful & real, to be revered as forces of the natural world. These spiritual beings are envisioned as humanlike “devas” somewhere between the status of human beings and that of the spirits or the gods. They are known to materialize and dematerialize. Little People are tricky and they like to play with children. They will assist older humans if the proper protocol of respect & ceremony is performed.
Few Iroquois today will talk openly about their ancient mysticism, especially in regards to the Little People since they are among the most sacred & private traditions of the 6 Nations people.
The topic of Little People should be no surprise, considering the Quantum Universe & Galactic Timepiece that we are all living in and experiencing. Not to mention, the many archeological skeletal findings of little people (very small bone structure) & giants, which academia refuses to acknowledge and is not permitted to disclose.
LITTLE PEOPLE & THE LITTLE “MAD BEAR”
The seeds of Mad Bear’s medicine path were planted by his grandmother, who was a caretaker to the young Mad Bear and his many siblings (a large family). His dad passed away in accident when Wallace “Mad Bear” Anderson was around five years old. Eventually, step brothers & sisters were added to the family unit.
Mad Bear’s family was basically Christians who also had some affinity with “traditional” values, like many on the reservation. Mad Bear’s grandmother would take him with while she would collect “medicine”. She was a practitioner of traditional medicine. She did a lot of close work with the young Wallace Anderson and observed his mannerisms, his unique characteristics and basic nature.
His grandmother gave Wallace the nickname of “Mad Bear”, based on her observance of him. The Tuscarora people had no existing longhouse at the time, so there was no official practice of Tuscarora Indian name ceremonies. Thus, Wallace’s “Mad Bear” name was not an Indian name. It was strictly a nickname that stuck with Wallace his whole life. Ironically, his physical appearance & personality closely resembled a bear as well.
Wallace’s grandmother would often say to him as he was growing up and often getting into trouble, “Doggonit… Wallace! Every time you get into a conflict or an argument you act like a little mad bear.” So it was his innocent childlike misbehavior as a kid that gave him the permanent label of “Mad Bear”.
While accompanying his grandmother on her medicine collecting excursions into the woods, she would on occasions drop the young Wallace off on his own by an escarpment (steep slope) were there was divots of stone. Water would collect there. She told him that there would be “playmates” who would meet him there. They did! They were the Little People.
At first Wallace would notice the water rippling, without there being wind and no one else around. Then the water, out of the divots, would start to splash accompanied by “little voices”. Wallace questioned his grandmother about his playmates and she said, “Those are the “Little People. I told you that they would come out and spend time with you.”
In the beginning stages, Wallace was not too friendly with the Little People and he would growl at them like a little bear. This was another reason why his grandmother nicknamed him “Mad Bear”.
These encounters with the Little People and his grandmother’s influence did indeed plant a seed in Mad Bear’s medicine path, but it would take years for him to actively seek out this path. First, he had to explore puberty and the trails & tribulations of adolescence.
CARETAKER FOR LITTLE HUMAN SKULL
On a few rare occasions, Mad Bear would allow a few of his close confidants, like Michael Bastine & Doug Boyd, to take a peek at a tiny human skull that he kept in a small, purple, plastic box on a closet shelf. This skull had a complete set of teeth and its cranium was the size of a ping-pong ball.
Mad Bear would not give much detail about the little human skull. He said it was part of a cache containing other tiny bones & artifacts that were found in the 1820’s during the digging of the Erie Canal, near Syracuse. The tiny human bones caused a 12-man crew of excavators to run like mad from the spot and probably retire from the business of excavating.
The collection made its way into the hands of the Onondaga and the tiny skull of the Little People ended up with Mad Bear a couple of generations later for safe keeping & cultural preservation. On rare occasions, Mad Bear would use the tiny skull in ceremony.
MOON ROCKS NOT TO BE MESSED WITH
In the early 1970’s, Mad Bear received a call from a friend of his in the Pentagon who had heard from the Smithsonian Museum that there were some disturbing activity with the N.A.S.A. acquired Moon Rocks. This friend explained that the Moon Rocks were growing, and they were expanding so fast they were breaking the cases that they were stored in.
Mad Bear said that this is some of the danger with the technologies that the people have today. They don’t think about the consequences of their actions and they don’t bring the sacred into any of the activities that they are doing. N.A.S.A.’s approach in dealing with the moon was strictly from a scientific position. This was incorrect! They thought that they owned the moon and could take whatever they wanted from it. At the very least, they should have made an offering in exchange for what they took.
Now Mad Bear was being called in to remedy the situation. He had an in-depth conversation with his friend on the phone and most likely made a few phone calls and took corrective ceremonial actions to address the grave mistake that N.A.S.A. had made. The ceremony would have been focused on appeasing & welcoming the Moon Rocks to their new surroundings and showing them gratitude for the elements of life that they bear.
Ironically, the U.S. government has no problems eradicating the practice of Native Medicine, but it will not hesitate to call in a medicine doctor when it suits their needs.
EARTHQUAKE PREDICTION
Mad Bear was an Earth empath. An empath typically absorbs energy & emotions from the people, places and things around them. Earth empaths pick up energies from the Mother Earth herself, and earthquake related headaches & illnesses are not uncommon. This is "geosentience", which is clairsentience for Earth energies.
A geosentient or Earth empath picks up the pain of the Earth, which is going through a lot of discomfort at this present time. There is also a great deal of emotional turmoil going on with humanity as a whole, and these intense emotions also affect the Earth & weather patterns.
When Doug Boyd and Mad Bear were in Los Angeles for a few speaking engagements, Mad Bear one morning, at 5AM, rang Doug’s hotel room and requested to talk to him over coffee. Doug met with him and noticed that Mad Bear looked groggy & exhausted. Mad Bear told Doug that he had to leave immediately. Doug didn’t really understand the urgency and reminded Mad Bear that he has made a few commitments that have already been scheduled. Mad Bear replied, “Doug, you don’t get it. I’m dying here, can you understand that? I only got a few hours to live! I was trying to handle this without scaring you. Either I leave or I die.”
Mad Bear was able to immediately vacate the Los Angeles area, just in time to avoid an earthquake that hit the Southern California region.
DOWNED POWER LINES
Michael Bastine’s neighbor worked for the power lines company and he did not like to work on power lines inside the Tuscarora Reservation because of Mad Bear. It turned out that there were disagreements between the Tuscarora people and the power line company over a project that they were preparing for the reservation. Once the power line company was spoken to and they refused to cooperate, the Tuscarora’s fought back via the use of Mad Bear’s medicine.
The power line project ran into unexpected obstacles, including baffling malfunctions with the power line company’s equipment. When a bulldozer was touched by an eagle feather, along with a prayer in Tuscarora, it would not run again and had to be junked.
When the power lines were finally up, the power wouldn’t flow between two of the towers, though no perceptible flaws in the system could be detected. The crews working on the power lines were also getting spooked, seeing apparitions around them in the trees. Many crew members chose to quit the company rather than work at the troubled Tuscarora site.
MAD BEAR CLEARS HOUSES
When Mad Bear was called to “clear” a house of unwanted or negative elements, he would use cedar for his smudging ceremonies. He made sure that children & pets were out of the house. He also would make sure that a door or a window would be left open just a crack.
Once in South Buffalo, Mad bear forgot to leave open the airways and towards the end of his smudging session the smoke from his smudging forced its way up an attic, lifting a trap door and completely blowing out a window, along with its frame.
MAD BEAR MAKES IT RAIN
Mad Bear, like many other great medicine men, had the ability to call in the rain. This ceremony was done for various purposes. Mad Bear would say that the proper way for a council to open is through “a soft female rain. An opening rain! It works like purification and a blessing for the council.”
Mad Bear indeed brought the rain in for the Council Grove conference in Kansas that he & Doug Boyd attended in 1976. At his lecture, Mad Bear also brought attention to the fact that the conference opened with a gentle female rain and then he explained its role in “opening” the conference. Mad Bear also gave them the forewarning, that even though the weather looks fine now, it will rain “cats & dogs” at the close of the conference. He said that it will be a “male” rain, just the way a rain is supposed to come after the close of council.
At the close of the Council Grove conference a heavy rain did come. It actually rained “cats & dogs” as Mad Bear predicted.
At the “Gathering of Nations” Unity Caravan event in August, 1972, Mad Bear addressed the local audience, many of which who were Mormon and said, “The Great Spirit will send a gentle rain upon you the day after we leave here.” When Mad Bear and the Unity Caravan left, and on the following afternoon, the Great Spirit did indeed send the gentle rain as promised. The second day, a very beautiful double rainbow came with the gentle rain in the east.
LAUGHTER IS THE BEST FORM OF MEDICINE
Besides having the physical features of a bear, Mad Bear had a fun & childlike approach towards enjoying life, and at times could be quite humorous, like “Yogi Bear”. He made people laugh and feel at ease. He was comic relief. Mad Bear’s appeal was universal and his smile was infectious & irresistible. He energized people! And kept the energy flowing.
The Japanese monk, named Jison, who briefly interacted with Mad Bear & Doug Boyd in New York & Kansas, referred to Mad Bear as being, “Old like an ancestor and plays like a boy.”
Doug Boyd referred to Mad Bear’s medicine being “empathy”. Combine empathy with humor and you have a winning formula.
Even science researchers now believe that laughing causes the body to release beneficial chemicals called endorphins, which counteract the effects of stress hormones and cause blood vessels to dilate. In a similar manner, laughing boosts the immune system and reduces inflammation, which is thought to increase the risk of various health problems.
According to Doug Boyd, Mad Bear was a bridge maker. His real work was relationships & friendships.
A TRAVELING MEDICINE MAN
Typically, medicine people are reclusive, even among their own tribe. They would not normally travel all over the place, meet people, give talks and organize. Mad Bear did all that!
Up until Mad Bear’s time, medicine work was not out in the open due to the repression medicine people potentially faced by the government & B.I.A. agents who denied them their rights to Native American spirituality. Medicine Men who shared their medicine with non-Indians were also targeted by some of their own Native people who opposed cooperation with the “white man”. Mad Bear defiantly organized to turn the tide and bring Indian spirituality out into the open, backed by inter-tribal unity.
Mad Bear’s medicine traveled around the world. By 1967, at age 39 he already traveled around the globe 8 times as a Merchant Marine. Through his many travels he was able to observe many medicine practices and he was able to incorporate these understandings into his own medicine.
Outside of healing injuries & illnesses, Mad Bear’s real work was relationships & conflict resolution. He wanted to break the ice between the divisions that separate people, and he used the teachings of the Great Peacemaker, Deganawida, to do just that. Mad Bear’s rolodex of personal friends, celebrities & acquaintances was enormous.
He utilized these connections to build the “American Indian Unity Movement”, a name that Mad Bear gave to his overall unity work that encompassed his many attempts to build unity coalitions & united fronts.
MAD BEAR OPERATED ON THE MICRO & MACRO LEVEL
Unique to Mad Bear, was his ability to not only operate on a micro level of healing individuals and working with the elements within a localized time and place, he was blessed with the ability to work on a macro level to affect the consciousness paradigm of a whole people. Not only did Mad Bear spark an Indian Unity Movement for the Red Man, he envisioned a cross-cultural program that would unite all races of man. That vision is now manifesting in the present. Mad Bear was truly one of the greatest medicine men of our time. He was an “American” pioneer, deeply rooted to Turtle Island and firmly connected to his Earth Mother.
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“You were chosen to be a Medicine man long before you came into this body on this Earth. You have a duty and a responsibility to follow the calling. If not you will hurt your family, your people, and the spiritual function and design of the Universe. Sure, it’s a tough life. Your own Indian people will make fun of you, they will talk bad about you; they will probably even call you a phony or something. But the Great Creator Knows, The Mother Earth knows, your relations in Nature knows, the numerous people from all walks of life you will help, heal and teach will know; and you will know. That is all that really matters. And when things get tough in life you will just have to grin and bear it. That is one of the ways for a true Medicine Man. You take on the suffering, the fear, the hate, the anger, the pain, the confusion, and the sickness of the people. That is why you are different. And you can’t run and hide from it. You were put here on the Earth to do a job for the Great Creator. Like it or not, you’ve got to be strong and just do it.”
Today the image of the Native American medicine man or women is a media icon, often romanticized by Hollywood, with idolized characteristics of being respected, impressive, patient, transcendent & nearly omniscient. This can be the case, but these people are still human and they have flaws like all humans do. Author Doug Boyd, who wrote books on Mad Bear (1994) and his west coast medicine companion, Rolling Thunder (1974), made a life study devoted to long-range investigations of traditional & esoteric ideologies. He knew very well what differentiated the iconic medicine man from the real McCoy.
Doug Boyd (1935-2006) was a close friend to both Mad Bear & Rolling Thunder (R.T.). He traveled all over the world and was a student & friend of adepts & healers of many traditions & cultures. Doug possessed incisive wit and was a master storyteller. He could share personal tales of telepathic experiences & communication, rainmaking & psychic healing from his many years of experience working with and learning from culturally diverse yogis (like Swami Rama), monks, psychic healers, and medicine people. He was a student of some, a mentor to many, and a friend to more.
A good place to start, to grasp the role of a medicine person and the road he or she must travel, is Doug Boyd’s combined books on Mad Bear & Rolling Thunder. These classic biographies paint a definitive picture, in short and in brief. Of course, it would take many books & years of study & sacrifice to learn the intangible secret art behind the medicine craft.
Rolling Thunder’s medicine in many ways was complimentary to Mad Bear’s and they were very close friends & allies to the end. They sometimes traveled together, giving lectures & doctoring others. Mad Bear & R.T. even went to Australia together to speak at a conference.
Rolling Thunder was about 10 years older, so he was a mentor to Mad Bear, although in many ways they were equals on the medicine path.
Rolling Thunder’s grandfather was a traditional Cherokee chief. R.T. early on learned medicine from Amoneeta Sequoyah, the last grandfather herbalist of the Eastern Band of Cherokees.
Later on in Nevada, he learned more medicine from 2 renowned teachers in Nevada, Silver Wolf & Phillip Grey Horse. Even later, he received additional teachings from Frank Fools Crow (Oglala Lakota), Amoneeta Sequoyah (Aminitus Sepuoia) and David Monongye (Hopi). Once Rolling Thunder married Spotted Fawn (Shoshone), his 2nd wife, he began to learn the medicine ways of the Shoshone as well.
Around 1966, Rolling Thunder, Semu Huaute (Chumash), Craig Carpenter (Mohawk) and occasionally, Thomas Banyacya (Hopi) & Mad Bear, in recognition of the Whirling Rainbow Prophecy, reached out to the hippie counterculture emerging in San Francisco & Los Angeles. This also attracted the support of the Grateful Dead, Bob Dylan, Joan Baez and other cultural icons of the late 60’s.
It was Doug Boyd’s book on “Rolling Thunder” and the appeal of his native (Algonquin) Catholic parents that persuaded Michael Bastine, in 1976, to skip out on his attempted conversion to Pentecostalism, and become an apprentice for Mad Bear so he could learn the traditional Indian ways.
There are additional books written on Rolling Thunder’s incredible journey that expand upon Doug’s work and indirectly provide greater insight on the discipline that Mad Bear must have followed in order to obtain the high degree of proficiency that he was able to display with indigenous medicine.
Dr. Stanley Krippner & Sidian Morning Star Jones (R.T.’s grandson) wrote “The Voice of Rolling Thunder”. R.T. himself, along with his last wife, Carmen Sun Rising Pope, wrote, “Rolling Thunder Speaks”. In this book, R.T., in his own words, referred to Mad Bear as being “one of his greater teachers”. This was quite a compliment!
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(1972 Unity Caravan, Utah)
[First Inter-Tribal Unity gathering… American Indians & White Americans meet]
Speaker/Mad Bear: Time is ever so short! You must, right now straighten this out, between yourself, the Creator and my people. We are gathering our nations together! You must gather yours together! To return back to the spiritual way of life; to return back as the Creator has intended. Or this whole world will be destroyed.
We are here today under our grandfather the Sun who is our witness and we have come here to deliver a message to all of you people, to all of our brothers & sisters to tell you that there are many things that are happening in this world now, and that we who are close to the forces of nature, close to the land and the spirits, and close to the Creator, know how to interpret these things, according to our prophecies.
Our Unity Caravan to begin with, began on August 21, 1967, at the Tonawanda Indian Reservation, near Bethany, New York. We called an emergency council, an emergency convention. We sent notices to all of our brothers & sisters, to come and meet with us because we saw a great problem facing our people. At that time, there was a bill, which was introduced into Congress. It was known as the Indian Resources and Development Acts of 1967.
Many of our nations refer to this bill as the Termination Bill or the Omnibus Bill, because it was so broad in its language, and if this bill would of passed, today, there would not have been an Indian reservation in the United States.
We would have lost all of the very little land, which our people, now, still hold on to, and still value so dearly. We, Indian people, believe that this Earth is our mother, that without her help, all life will die. Everything comes from our mother the Earth. Many times our people have neglected to take care of our mother Earth. Many times our other brothers and sisters from across the waters have not had that feeling from the soul and the heart, and the mind to the attachment of our mother the Earth. And there have been many things that had happened to this country.
There have been vast areas, thousands and thousands of acres of topsoil that has been ruined because of ruthless mining, and all these other things. Our mother the Earth has suffered terribly. Mines have gone in and taken the minerals from her ground. The wealth of these resources has not been put to proper use.
Today, my people, those few in number, representing less than one-half of one percent of the population of this land, are forced to live in poverty. Many of my people do not even enjoy three square meals. Many have no clothes. Many have no shoes. Many are hampered by other things that are respected by the economic world.
But we still are rich, rich in spirit, rich in heart, and rich with a feeling of closeness with the Creator. And according to the prophecies, one day we will stand again as a mighty nation. We are now gathering our people, as it was planned in 1967.
And this North American Indian Unity Caravan has toured its nation, and will be completed on September the 4th of this year at the Kahnawake Mohawk Indian reservation in Montreal, Quebec. We will have completed one hundred and fifty seven thousand miles of travel.
We have met with many nations and many people, and I must tell you people here, the community, that this is the first time that we have permitted a meeting with non-Indian people.
We want you to know this. Time is short! We have to tell you these messages. We are involved, according to our prophecies, with a responsibility of gathering of our Indian nation to salvage something of this world, which is about ready to be destroyed.
We have to do this duty. This is our obligation! And our leaders have told us that we would face many trials. We would face a lot of trouble & difficulties, hardship, and this has happened.
They have told us that we would see this country, as it really is, we would see the people, we would recognize the truth, we would see the fulfillment of prophecies, we would go through high winds, floods, hailstorm, fire, and all these forces of nature, that are now being activated.
Speaker/Mad Bear: Purification can only come about by wind, water and fire. That is what is happening to this land. That is why we tell you there is not much time left. You must get your people together! You must believe this. Because all you have to do is look around and see what has happened.
We are living in a dangerous time! If you continue to ignore this, you will have to pay the supreme price. If you do not get back and consider the first people; my Indian people, you will have to pay this price.
A great spirit has placed us here upon this land with very special instructions. He has told us that Mother Earth was handed to us by her for the protection and for the benefit of our future generations, of our children’s children, who are not yet born.
Today we will wander through the cities. We find hundreds and hundreds of our people, full bloods who have no nation to claim, who have no land to stand on, and who have no religious way of life.
This is wrong! This is one of the great crimes that have been perpetrated against my people. The sacred people, sacred fires, sacred ceremonies all go together. Without one the other cannot operate, cannot function.
It is a sad day when we see our own native people, our native Indian people, hitch hiking on these highways, walking through these cities, as vagrants in their own land.
A great spirit gave this land to us. It belongs to us, and if this mess is not straightened out soon, many lives will be lost by the forces of nature, because the great spirit will take this land back, purify it, and then return it to our people.
This is our problem! For twenty years, we have studied all about the prophecies and listened to them, and basically they are all the same. To our Indian people, we do not involve ourselves in the real estate or the selling of land, because it’s too sacred to us.
Every part of this country is sacred to my people. Every hillside, every valley, every plain and grove has been held by some fond memory or some sad experience of my tribe.
And even the rocks, which seem to lie dumb as they swelter in the sunshine, along the silent seashore, are thrilled with the memories of past events connected with the lives of my people.
The very dust under your feet responds more lovingly to our footsteps, than to yours, because it is the ashes of our ancestors. Our bare feet, our every conscious thought & sympathetic touch resonates with our ancestors. The soil is rich for the life of our kindred.
The glad, happy-hearted maiden, and even the little children who rejoiced here for a brief season, and whose very names are long forgotten still love this beautiful world that gave them being. They often return to visit, guide and comfort us.
Day and night cannot dwell together! The red men have ever fled the approach of the white men and the changing mist on the mountainside flees before the blazing sun.
However, today we come here. We extend our hand of friendship and brotherhood to all the people who are created by the same creator. We ask that you open your hearts, that we open our hearts, that we put our minds together as one, and try to straighten out these great wrongs which were and are still being perpetrated against my people.
Many of our people have recently has some strong visions, some hesitations, some great messages, some dreams which have told us that time is ever so short; that you must, right now, straighten this out, between yourself, the Creator and my Indian people, or you will be lost.
You must recognize what our people are doing. We are gathering our nations together! You must gather yours together! To return back to the spiritual way of life! Return back as the Creator has intended! Or this whole world will be destroyed! Only those that are strong, those that still follow the sacred ways will be saved, as it happened in the other worlds before this.
We have traveled this country and have seen many things which remind us of how many took place in those other worlds. We have seen volcanic ash, we have seen volcanic stones, and we have seen signs where the whole land was once covered with water.
We have seen where the ice age hit; the continental divide. These are the evidences of what we are talking about. We have recordings, rock carvings that are spread out all over this land, and for twenty years our people have been gathering the information on these. Thomas Banyacya, one of our religious leaders, have many pictures of these rock carvings that will one day stand against any deed on this land.
These rock carvings tell of a beautiful life that our people once enjoyed, when we were all in harmony with the Great Spirit. It records the events of things that have happened, and we can trace these rock carvings and prove to the world that our people were here on this land, that we never came from Asia, but were here and placed here by the Great Spirit. We were once living and enjoying a great civilization so far advanced from anything that the world has to offer us now. We were living here for at least 500,000 years before Christ.
Recently in a documentary by MGM which premiered on April 27th, entitled “In Search of the Lost World”, they presented before the TV audience of the world some proofs that the Indians even had launching pads for their inter-space travels. They had vehicles that propel from an unknown force. They had spaceships that travel interplanetary.
We have evidence to prove that we have the best calendar that was ever created by men. We have evidence to prove that we have contributed over three quarters of all the edible food, fruits, vegetables and plants of this land. Without the many gifts from the American Indians to the world, civilization would perish within a matter of hours.
We call upon all of you people to listen closely as we discuss our prophecies.
Speaker/Mad Bear: We believe that there are many things that are going to happen soon. Many have already happened! It is said that when our nation begins to rise, that we would even take the minds of the children of the white serpent. We would see many things happening, we would see our pine trees begin to die from top to down. We would also see them bend down with their tops facing Mother Earth like a cane.
To us, we know how to read these signs. To us this indicates that the spirit of that tree no longer wants to live in this polluted air, and has bent down to ask Mother Earth to take her back. To us, this means earthquake. And it has happened time and time again, wherever this tree has bent down.
Our people watched these signs! Right now we are asking the people to leave the cities and go back to your Indian way of life because all hope seems to be lost. This country is in trouble! It has lost spiritual contact with the Creator.
Gather your minds together! Do not any longer participate in programs or actions that are aimed to destroy my people. Do not participate any longer in this genocide of my people. Too many of my people have died!
There was a time when my people covered this whole land. But that time has long since past, the greatness of our tribes now almost forgotten.
I will not dwell no more over our timely decay, nor reproach my pale faced brothers while hasting it, for we too may have been somewhat to blame.
When our young men grow angry over imaginary wrongs, and they sprinkled their faces with black paint, their hearts also become disfigured and turned black. Our old men are unable to control them, the same as when your people pressed & pushed my people westward. But let us hope that the hostility between the red man and his pale faced brothers may never return. We would have everything to lose and nothing to gain!
Your religion was written on tablet stones by the iron finger of an angry God. Our religion is the dreams of our old men given to them at the silent hours of night, by the Great Spirit, and is recorded in the hearts of my people.
There are many things that we could tell you in the way which we believe, but we know that according to our prophecy, the Great Spirit has told us that this land will be returned to our people. And we hope that not too much life, or none perhaps, will be destroyed by this process. But we must all get together and make it right for the Creator before it’s too late!
[Post by Mackboogaloo]
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