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Feminine Principle
“The woman is the foundation on which nations are built. She is the heart of her nation. If that heart is weak, the people are weak. If her heart is strong and her mind is clear, then the nation is strong and knows its purpose. The woman is the center of everything.”
It’s time for the women to gather together, heal, and then come heal the men. This indeed, is beginning to happen. Females are breaking their silence. The Grandmothers are coming together, dreaming and initiating future gatherings to bring back the balance and restore natural order.
2012 has shifted the energies on this planet to a slightly positive & feminine dominated orientation that is in alignment with the Galactic Timepiece in accordance with the laws of our Quantum Universe.
The power of Women is returning! The Sacred Feminine energy is back! The women will teach the men the lost art of… Creationing!
DIVINE FEMININE
The sacred interchange of energy of The Great Mystery flows from spirit to matter, and from matter back to spirit. Matter symbolically represents the womb of the Mother. The Mother anchors the energies released from spirit (Father) into matter (Mother). She brings the formless of spirit into form. The Devine Feminine is the highest expression or aspect of man & woman and we need both the Father & Mother for wholeness & balance.
THE ROLE OF WOMEN IN LEGENDS & STORIES
Though the American Indian cultures were often separated by thousands of miles, two common themes persisted; a deep personal connection to Earth and a sense of oneness with all beings and the processes of nature.
Central to most Native American origin stores is that of woman being attributed as the “Mother”, or woman as “Nature”, woman as ancestral mother of tribe or clan, woman as bestower of culture, woman as the “Warrior Maiden”, etc.
In some stories, Spider Woman or Grandmother Spider existed in the Original Womb Void at the beginning of time and spun her web while singing the world into creation, sometimes with the help of her two daughters (Ut Set & Nau Ut Set). In other legends, Grandmother Spider made the four different races from colored clay (red, white, black & yellow).
Grandmother Spider is the creative female energy at the center of all spirit & creation. In other legends, the Mother aspect is honored, as with the Keres, a Pueblo tribe.
The Oneida have a legend honoring the Warrior Maiden aspect of the Divine Feminine. An Oneida maiden (Aliquipiso) nobly sacrifices her life to save her people. When their ruthless enemy (the Mingos) invades their land, the Oneida flee into the mountains. The Great Spirit appears to the maiden telling her how she can lead the enemy into a trap so that they can easily be destroyed. It involves great personal sacrifice, and at the end, her life.
Legends & stories are central to American Indian culture and provide an oral means for transferring culture, history and tradition from one generation to another. Tribal leaders & medicine people also use stories to provide guidance for operating in and understanding the universe. Some stories prepare them for daily life, others forewarn of different supernatural entities, or of animal or plant entities they might encounter.
Legends & stories teach the right & wrong way to proceed in the natural & supernatural worlds, preparing Native Americans for their own experiences. Humans, animals, plants, spirits, supernaturals, and deities like Spider Woman and Corn Woman, are all connected and interconnected in the Great Web of Life.
WOMEN & MOON TIME
From a Native perspective, women’s periods are called being in one’s “moon time”, which refers to the monthly moon cycle. The moon goes around the Earth, perfectly, 13 times a year. In the Solar-Lunar calendar there are 13 months, 28 days each month. The female’s biological cycle is 28 days as well. She is in sync with the natural procession of nature.
The forces opposed to unity consciousness imposed the Gregorian Calendar on indigenous (Pagan) people to break their connection to Mother Nature. This calendar was introduced in 1582 by the Pope. It, of course, is a 12 month calendar.
In most Native cultures, moon time is considered to be a sacred time; a time of inner purification. Moon time for a woman is considered a ceremony in itself. It represents the power of birth and the power of life. Women are “life-givers”. Moon Time is a time of inward purification; a time of prayer, of actually asking the moon for guidance & assistance. At this time, women have to be careful not to take in negativity. The Grandmother Moon is there for guidance.
It is also very important that women in their Moon Time do not participate in ceremonies; including touching or handling any sacred objects (pipes or medicine). Menstruation signifies the power of birth, whereas ceremonies often signify a spiritual rebirth. The two do not mix. Ceremonies are about creating outward energy while moon time is about inner prayer. A lot of ceremonies also involve the sun, while Moon Time solely involves the moon.
MEDICINE WOMEN
When the general public thinks of Native healers & "Medicine Men”, they normally don’t associate medicine with women. The truth is, some of the greatest medicine people were & are women.
Traditionally, Medicine Women were the local psychologists, therapists, physicians and marriage counselors. In some tribes, the Medicine Women were given the responsibility of making warrior shields, for it was believed that they had special powers that would give those war shields added protection for the owners.
The practicing of medicine ways was a full time job. The well-being & emotional balance of the tribe belonged to the Medicine Woman. In return for her services, she was cared for by the members of the village. She always had food, shelter, her needs met, assistance when it was needed and special spirit gifts that showed the honor & respect of her people.
The art of being a Medicine Woman has not been lost. There are more practicing Medicine Women alive today than ever before using the same old natural ways combined with today’s new healing technologies. There are herbalists, naturalists, aroma therapists, massage therapists and those who teach spirituality, awareness, meditation skills, etc. The Medicine Women continues to care for their families & loved ones with all the tools available to them so they can walk in balance and live life in health & harmony.
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“Spiritual Unity of Tribes” gatherings
“I was standing on the highest mountain of them all, and round about beneath me was the whole hoop of the world. And while I stood there I saw more than I can tell and I understood more than I saw; for I was seeing in a sacred manner the shapes of all things in the spirit, and the shape of all shapes as they must live together like one being. And I saw that the sacred hoop of my people was one of many hoops that made one circle, wide as daylight and as starlight, and in the center grew one mighty flowering tree to shelter all the children of one mother and one father. And I saw that it was holy.”
Another gathering lineage of great importance to inter-tribal unity consciousness is the “Spiritual Unity of Tribes” gatherings, founded by Tlingit elder, James Wilbur Walton (Khaalaaxh), who was a leader of the Kaagwaantaan Wolf House of Sitka.
In 1953, James read the book “Black Elk Speaks”. He was so taken by the teachings of unity of all peoples and by Black Elk’s vision, as it was relayed in the book, that he went to the Sacred Black Hills, in South Dakota, to find the family of Black Elk and to determine if the book had accurately portrayed Black Elk’s vision.
Henry Black Elk, the grandson of Black Elk met with James and confirmed Black Elk’s vision. From that time on, James dedicated his life to bringing about a rebirth of traditional indigenous teachings in order to affect the health of his people and in order to help bring Black Elk’s vision into reality.
In the early 1980s, James traveled across the United States, talking to elders and spiritual leaders of many tribes to learn more about the spiritual prophesies and to garner a better understanding of the meaning behind those teachings. Whenever he spoke with elders he sought permission to begin holding sacred gatherings.
In 1988, James consulted with the Cree Elders (Saulteaux) on the Pasqua Reserve in Saskatchewan, Canada, including the family of James Iron Eagle and his son Harvey Iron Eagle. He spoke with them regarding the many prophecies of the indigenous people and the time of their fulfillment. It was Grandmother Iron Eagle who was the first in this family discussion to recognize that “the time had come”.
It was initially believed that only the medicine people and the elders would gather together to consult, and then teach and lead others. But Grandmother Iron Eagle and other elders on the Pasqua Reserve felt there wasn't much time remaining; that there had to be Gatherings “now”. Understanding must be given to all mankind, and as many as possible must be included. The elders said things must be done "in a good way" so that the prophecies could be fulfilled as they had been revealed.
The guidance of the elders was followed and the first Spiritual Unity of Tribes gathering was held on the Pasqua Reserve, outside of Saskatchewan, Canada, in 1989. As of 2016, there have been hundreds of Spiritual Unity Gatherings held worldwide, including two in Siberia, several in Alaska and 17 in Australia.
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Eagle meets Condor prophecy manifests
NORTH & SOUTH UNIFICATION
“The Eagle and the Condor” prophecy is an ancient Amazon prophecy that speaks of human societies splitting into two paths, that of the Eagle and that of the Condor. The path of the Condor is the path of heart, of intuition, and of the feminine. The path of the Eagle is the path of the mind, of the industrial, and of the masculine.
The prophecy says that the 1490’s would begin a 500 year period during which the Eagle people would become so powerful that they would virtually drive the Condor people out of existence. This can be seen in the conquering of the Americas and the killing & oppressing of indigenous peoples in the subsequent 500 years, up to and including today.
The prophecy says that during the next 500 year period, beginning in 1990, the potential would arise for the Eagle and the Condor to come together, to fly in the same sky, and to create a new level of consciousness for humanity. The prophecy only speaks of the potential, so it’s up to us to activate this potential and ensure that a new consciousness is allowed to arise.
This “Eagle & Condor” prophecy is remarkable in that it marks the first truly international indigenous prophecy widely embraced by both Native & European-descended peoples.
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EAGLE QUETZAL CONDOR GATHERING
A INTER-TRIBAL PROPHECY
The prophecy of the Eagle & Condor is told within many traditional indigenous cultures of North, Central and South America. They all point towards a time when the human family will face the choice of evolutionary transformation or destruction. This time is now!
One version of the prophecy comes from Lauro Hinostroza, a Peruvian healer who now lives in Mexico City. It states that in the historical cycles of the Incan peoples at the end of the eighth Pachakuti (each Pachakuti corresponds to five hundred years), the Eagle peoples would dominate the Condor peoples for one Pachakuti.
This coincided with the arrival of Europeans, with their extractive economy & industries, leading to the exploitation, depopulation, and even genocidal eradication of the indigenous peoples of the Americas. The reign of the Eagle peoples was foretold to nearly bring into extinction the Condor peoples of the South.
The prophecy continues with the claim that the tenth Pachakuti, from the end of the twentieth century, would be a time for the peoples of the Condor and the Eagle to fly and mate together in a creative symbiosis to restore and regenerate the Earth community.
One marker of this opening of the tenth Pachakuti is the emerging unification of indigenous peoples & traditions, North & South, as well as the “indigenizing” of Westerners previously with a lost native consciousness of connection to the Earth and its larger, non-human community.
THE MAYAN TIMEKEEPERS
The Mayans have an Eagle & Condor prophecy as well, and their prophecy also correlates with a window of time & date that we are all familiar with, December 21, 2012. This date did not mark the “end of the world”, it instead delineates the beginning of a new world cycle.
In 1985, the Mayan Elders actively began to make preparations to organize an inter-tribal ceremony that would close the last world cycle “in a good way” via a gathering of tribes from North, South & Central America. In doing so, the transition into the new world cycle would be a smoother ride.
In addition, the Eagle & Condor prophecy would also be fulfilled as prophesized. The Eagle & Condor would fly together in the same sky.
PATRICIO DOMINGUEZ
Don Patricio Dominguez (Piro Manso Tiwa), from New Mexico, had an unforeseeable encounter with a Mayan Elder in the early stages of the Mayan’s organizing efforts. This meeting eventually led to his assignment of being the North American coordinator for the first gathering (and subsequent gatherings) initiated by the lineage of the Mayan timekeepers.
Patricio was born 1949 in a small “traditional” community and was cultured by his parents, grandparents and his great grandmother, who lived until he was 13 years old. At the age of five, Patricio was presented in a public ceremony to the medicine men to be blessed as a man of spiritual knowledge. Patricio, later in life, married a Navajo lady who was also raised with native traditional values. He presently is on the Board of Directors of a few non-profit corporations and on the advisory committee of the International Indigenous Coalition.
PATRICIO & THE MAYAN TIMEKEEPERS
Don Patricio Dominguez has witnessed the reunification of the Eagle & Condor via his organizing efforts with the Mayan Timekeepers. From his vantage point, a great deal of disclosure can be told regarding the present state of inter-tribal unity consciousness. He has given a few talks in regards to this subject matter, which will be briefly summarized here.
Mayan people in ancient times were given the very important assignment of keeping time. Others indigenous tribes were given other tasks, like being the keepers of wisdom, the keepers of social dances, etc. They all held pieces of the puzzle. They all were given sacred instructions.
In 1985, a call from the Mayan Timekeepers went out through the Americas, North, Central & South; it’s time to prepare for the new world cycle by closing out the last world cycle “in a good way”. The 26,000 year cycle is completing! All the tribes need to get together to perform ceremony and pray together to open the new age, the Golden Age.
Patricio, as North American coordinator, had the extremely difficult task of recruiting U.S. & Canadian tribes to participate in the ceremony. Many of these tribes, due to B.I.A.-type politics and previous termination & assimilation attempts, were not to receptive and opted out of the inter-tribal gathering process. Many poor excuses were given; however, some tribes did respond and eventually participated in the unity process.
In 1992, five hundred years after Columbus first arrived in the Americas, the first gathering of Indigenous Elders, from North, South and Central America, was held. This gathering was problematic and ended up becoming the “unofficial first gathering” to lay the ground work for the official gathering to take place in 1995. 4 North American tribal delegates, representing four tribes, attended this first unofficial gathering. The Maya had around 90 tribal delegates. Tribal delegates from the South were also in attendance. It was a 10 day gathering.
It was agreed at this “unofficial first gathering” that future gathering locations would rotate between North, South & Central America since transportation was problematic for some elders and others did not want to risk traveling into Central America, which was a dangerous place to visit due to the civil wars and pro-communist revolutions that have occurred. It was also decided that it would take 3 gatherings (North, South & Central) to complete the process of closing out the last world cycle “in a good way”.
[Gathering One]
1995, “Gathering One” (1st meeting of the Continental Council of Indigenous Elders) was held in Tical, Guatemala (Central America). 5-10 delegates from North America, 60 from South America and hundreds from Central America were in attendance.
[Gathering Two]
1997, “Gathering Two” (2nd reunion of the Continental Council of Indigenous Elders) was held in the Colombian Amazon (South America).
[Gathering Three]
1999, “Gathering Three” (3rd reunion of the Continental Council of Indigenous Elders) was held in New Mexico (North America). 300 tribes were represented.
This third gathering was organized by Don Patricio Dominguez. He, previously, was blessed in ceremony around the council fire with the bastone (staff), which gave him the mandate to proceed with organizing next and final gathering.
Gathering Three took Patricio six years of fundraising at a cost of $300,000. He had a staff of 15, along with 100 volunteers, 15 security guards, 9 kitchen helpers and 6 people behind marketing & promotion.
At the end of Gathering Three, the last world cycle was closed “pretty much” “in a good way”, although Patricio says the process was admittedly “a little rough” and they did “the best they could”.
It was agreed at this gathering that the “gatherings” and gathering lineage & legacy should continue. Now that the last world cycle was closed out “in a good way” it was decided that the next gathering would focus on the further reunification of the Eagle & Condor.
[Gathering Four]
2009, the 4th gathering “Return of the Ancestors” (4th reunion of the Continental Council of Indigenous Elders) was held in Northern Arizona. This was a gathering of the Eagle & Condor.
The bastone was previously passed to a South American (Bolivia) delegation, but after 6 years they were not successful in their organizing attempts, so the bastone was then ceremonially passed to Adam “Yellowbird” to organize in North America.
Unique to this 4th gathering, was the invitation & representation of other tribes outside of the Americas.
Back in 1985, when the call from the Mayan timekeepers went out through the Americas to close the last world cycle “in a good way”, the Maya stated in their call that “not one person should be left behind. After Gathering Three, Patricio came to the realization that the Maya were not actually stating that not just one person from a native group be left behind. They meant, not one person from “any race” of people (the Rainbow people) should be left behind. Thus, Patricio assisted the 4th gathering in its effort to represent all the tribes on Mother Earth, which included Pacific Islanders, Asians, Europeans, Africans, etc.
[Gathering Five]
2015, the 5th gathering was held in Sedona, Arizona. The Quetzal bird, considered divine and associated with the "snake god" Quetzalcoatl, was flying amongst the Eagle & Condor at this event, thus this was a gathering of the “Eagle, Quetzal & Condor”.
During this gathering the mandate to organize the next gathering was given to a young lady from the Peru delegation. This time a bastone was not passed, instead the young lady opted for a jar of ashes from the council fire to be passed on to her in good faith.
GATHERING LINEAGES
These 5 gatherings that Patricio helped coordinate are tied into the gathering lineage that traces back to the original 1985 call from the Mayan Timekeepers to close out the last world cycle “in a good way”.
There are other gathering lineages that have come and gone. Some are alive & active, while others are hard to keep track of, or are held in secrecy.
One past historical gathering relating to the Eagle & Condor, was held by the Echa Tah Echa Nah (The Mighty and Wise One), the Great White Chief of the Chigaraguan people. He organized 2 mass inter-tribal meetings in Mexico in 1939 & 1940 with an estimated audience of 150,000-250,000 people and was covered by news outlets, like Life Magazine. In attendance were people as far north as Alaska as well as South Americans.
CONFEDERATION OF ELDERS
The bond between the Eagle & Condor has been birthed again as a result of the Mayan-initiated gatherings and from other similar unity events, like the Spiritual Unity of Tribes gatherings. Now it’s time for greater inter-tribal unity, both spiritual & political. The time when tribes can live independently has passed. Now is the time for pan-Indian unity!
Since 2009, Don Patricio Dominguez has expressed his intentions to assist in the formation of an organized confederation of elders (League of Peoples) so that all the tribes can more efficiently stand united together as a “united front” in their struggles to defend their land, their customs and their spiritual traditions against governments & multi-national corporations.
As it presently stands, the Mayan-initiated gatherings and other similar unity events are loosely organized with no clear agenda items in place that are universally & collectively agreed upon by all of the tribal elders.
South & Central America in general have better inter-tribal political organization. North America, ever since the Unity Caravan days of the late 60’s & early 70’s, has lost much of its pan-Indian cohesiveness due to the aftermath of U.S. termination & assimilation policies and other divide & conquer methods that were employed to oppose inter-tribal unity consciousness on Turtle Island.
At present, according to Patrico, the same old problem keeps coming up at the gatherings. The council meetings never seem to produce a viable structured organization to keep the connections that formed at these gatherings alive.
UNIVERSAL GUIDELINES, PRINCIPLES & AGENDA ITEMS
There are, however, many efforts in place to foster pan-Indian unity and to create universal guidelines, principles, agenda items, etc. that will set the unity movement on a positive & progressive trajectory, in alignment with traditional core values.
For example, the “Fourth Way” initiative:
Chief Phil Lane Jr. is a traditionally recognized Hereditary Chief & elder. He is a member of the Ihanktonwan Dakota & Chickasaw Nations and is a citizen of both the U.S. & Canada.
Chief Phil Lane, Jr. is an internationally recognized indigenous leader in human & community development who founded the Four World's International Institute an organization dedicated to "unifying the human family through the Fourth Way."
Instead of indigenous people pursuing the path of “Assimilation”, “Resignation” or “Resistance”, the Fourth Way is “Empowerment” & “Constructive Development” that will lead to sustainable peace, social justice and shared economic prosperity. This Fourth Way has always been known and advocated by indigenous spiritual leaders.
What is relatively new is that now there are many political leaders of indigenous movements across the Americas who are open to the “Fourth Way” and this is very hopeful. The other 3 pathways (Assimilation, Resignation & Resistance) they have tried and it only created deeper misery & suffering for their people.
The “Fourth Way” is a path the indigenous cannot walk alone; it is to be traveled jointly with other supporting NGO’s, governments, business communities, international funding agencies, etc.
INTER-TRIBAL UNITY REVIVAL
Despite the death of many Traditional Elders & political tribal leaders in the 60’s, 70’s & 80’s and the demise of Unity Caravans in 1973, there has been a growing pan-Indian unity revival.
This revival was triggered by a cosmic event in accordance with the Galactic Timepiece. That event was the named the “Harmonic Convergence” and it took place on August 17 & 18, in 1987.
This name was given to label the first globally synchronized meditation, which was orchestrated by José Argüelles. The dates correlated to an exceptional alignment of planets in our solar system.
The timing of the Harmonic Convergence correlated with the Mayan calendar, with some consideration also given to European & Asian astrological traditions. The chosen dates had the distinction of marking a planetary alignment with the Sun, Moon and six out of eight planets being "part of the grand trine."
According to author, Tony Shearer (Lakota), the dates of the Harmonic Convergence was the end of the “9 Hells” and the beginning of the “13 Heavens” in the Aztec Calendar, which meant the end to the eradication of the wisdom of Mesoamerica.
Today, Mesoamerica (Quetzal) teachings are popular everywhere, as well as the wisdom teachings of the Southern Condor & Northern Eagle. Inter-tribal gatherings, events, ceremonies, websites, organizations, Facebook groups, etc. are too numerous to name.
LEADERSHIP
The key towards moving forward is to establish good spiritual leadership to lead the masses through the process of Purification. The reunification of the Eagle, Quetzal and Condor and the appearance of leaders who have converged to fulfill this prophecy indicate that the forces of inter-tribal unity consciousness are leading humanity on the right path.
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Hopi Elders speak… we have been warned
HOPI ELDERS IN HIDING
In Hopi land, David Monongye transitioned in 1982 and Thomas Banyacya followed in 1999. By the late 90’s tribal politics & B.I.A. interference made it difficult for Hopi Elders to openly share their prophecies to the 4 directions.
In 1998, three anonymous Hopi Elders (grandfathers) appeared “live” on the Art Bell “Coast To Coast” AM radio show. Robert “Ghost Wolf” (Metis) coordinated the interview. There was a lot of controversy about these elders stepping out and speaking to the world. They had some death threats made against them for their desire to speak out publically.
Ghost Wolf explained to Art Bell, “It’s very dangerous for the Hopi grandfathers to speak over the radio, but they believe that we as humanity have reached a point in our progression via Earth changes that it’s important to get the messages out. It’s important for the children of the world. It’s important for all of us to hear what they have been trying to say, now, for many years.”
“There have been many threats, for various reasons, to these elders who are having the courage to come out and speak these prophecies to the world. We are trying to keep them and their families safe, and also keep them from being inundated by harassment from people who feel, perhaps, that these messages should not be shared with everyone in the world. This is why they are here now talking to us.”
HOPI PROPHECIES EXPLAINED
The following are highlights taken from the Coast To Coast AM interview:
As the interview began, Grandfather #1 told Art Bell, “It is our time to bring forth the message into the world. It has been taught to us by our elders, from way back. That is why I have chosen to step forward and bring out the message today. There are people out there who are leading two lives, who are there to stop us from putting forth the message, but it is the elders that taught us the wisdom, that are telling us to do this now for you and the rest of the world.”
Grandfather #2 (75 years old) disclosed, “Through the elder’s teachings & wishes, the elders wanted to let this become public at a time when we were close to the End Times. So, I have decided to take this upon myself to let go of these things, in hopes that there would be a number of people that would understand & realize what is going on and start praying. We are very close to it and we are, right now, going through hard times.”
In regards to Earth Changes, Grandfather #2, announced, “It is time for the End Times that was prophesized and through the dreams that were given to us also. Through those dreams, we are learning that we are getting very close to the End Times.”
He went on to say, “The Earth Changes will take place in such a way, you know, that this whole planet, here, will become a different type of planet because of the changes in itself. It has happened before, we went through these changes and we were taught that we weren't supposed to go back to the same routine that we had gone through in the past life. The corruption we went through in the past is the same as what we are going through today. There is so much corruption, out there. These are the things that lead us to the Earth Changes.”
Art Bell asked Grandfather #2 whether prayer or becoming spiritual in nature will stop the Earth Changes. He replied, “It is not a matter of quick change. If you wanted to change now and turn your life around with prayers, it will help a little with the alleviation of much terrible outcomes of cataclysms. There is a lot in store for all of us and the intensity of this will be a lot less if we can all settle down and behave, and not be involved with the corruption.”
Grandfather #2 talked about prophecies that are on the horizon. “We are going to come upon World War III, it’s coming, and starvation is definitely a part of this thing. The weather change, it’s erratic now, and it’s not what it should be. This weather climate, itself, it's actually taking care of the crops already in a way that we're losing it. That's part of what’s leading us into starvation because the crops will not produce.”
Art Bell asked when the prophecies where predicted to manifest. Grandfather #2 answered, “Well, it's been said that there is no exact time & date for these things to take place but the year 2000 is a close approximation of the time that all of this will start to take place. The teaching from the elders was that they talked about everything happening at once, but it will happen like a domino effect.”
Grandfather#2 went on to say, “It has been known that this had happened a long time ago, but in our prior world, it happened before, you know, the same things that we had gone through. According to the teachings, we were not supposed to follow in the same pattern and were to keep ourselves from going astray from our teachings. These weather patterns that we talked about, and cataclysms that take place, are not really set in order, but all the signs are out there. Anyone can see that it is taking place and it's only going to get bigger.”
Spreading the messages of Hopi prophecies & teachings has been difficult. Grandfather #2 elaborated, “The children don't really believe in anything, even what we're trying to teach them. They look at you but they have a different opinion about these things and they don't believe us. It's hard to try to teach the young ones and even grown-ups, the adults, are in the same situation. Corruption took place in the school systems and all over. Corruption of the mind has led to the way we are going.”
Grandfather #1 chimed in. “Even the children will go against their own parents. These are the things that have been prophesized. The children will start turning against their own parents, and that's what's happening, that's what you're seeing out there.”
Art Bell asked, “Could this be happening to us, also, because we have reached a fantastic level of technology and have changed from spiritual to materialistic human beings, where our technological knowledge exceeds our spiritual wisdom?”
Grandfather #2 replied, “Yes. That is happening in today’s world! We are misleading ourselves. We are walking away from the spiritual, leaving only the material side of things. This is happening to the Hopi Nation as well.”
Art Bell requested an explanation of what the Earth will be like after Purification is over. Grandfather #2 had this to say, “Well, the outcome of this, after purifying time, the lifestyle will change, more or less. Those people who have been working, you know, with the evil and the dark side are going to be eliminated. Only those that are walking on the path of oneness and believing in oneness with a good heart, those are the ones that are going to continue.”
Grandfather #2 went on to say, “Togetherness is what will come about! We are going to come back to what was once before. Like what Adam & Eve came upon in the Garden of Eden, where everything will be flourishing, even the flowers and the vegetation. Everything will be back to normal.”
Art Bell relayed a question from the audience. "Given that we are in the End Times and that there will be much turmoil, violence, death and destruction. Is there anything that we, the living, can do to prepare our souls for the long path that we will all walk down after our physical lives end?"
Grandfather #2 responded, “Our teachings that were given to us, we have strayed away from it. So now, how are we supposed to alleviate many of the consequences that we have created? It's going to be too late for us to try to turn around and walk that spiritual path.”
“We were supposed to be on that path from way back. We should have been changing ourselves quite a number of years back because it just doesn't happen overnight, for a person to change, to walk a path, the chosen path. Also, just overnight the Creator isn’t going to believe in you. He has to look at you, you know, your heart is the thing that has to change and it's not going to change overnight. These are the things that are very hard for a person to change. If you haven’t done it by now, it’s too late to start changing.”
INTERVIEW CONCLUSION
At the close of the interview, Art Bell asked Ghost Wolf, “Grandfather seemed rather clear when he said that it is too late. He said that quite clearly. It is too late? In other words, is it irreversible?” Ghost Wolf replied, “Absolutely! You can't turn the path around, now, but perhaps what we can do is govern the way we walk down that path and the impact of what we hit. As far as changing it and escaping it, there's no escaping the eventuality, the realities that we're going to be experiencing.”
Ghost Wolf closed the interview by saying, “I would hope that the people & Indian Nations begin to realize the importance of coming back to their spirituality and the need of the Earth and the children for us to wake up and to open up our hearts, again.”
INTERVIEW AFTERMATH
Today, in the aftermath of this historic radio 1998 interview, we can clearly see the signs that the coming “Purification” is near. The question remains; are we going to gather our nations together with one heart & one mind? Are we going to soften the blow of the “purifier”?
Prophecies are road maps, with the intention of showing us what the future will look like if we don’t change our present behaviors & attitudes. At this time, quantum leaps of consciousness are occurring in small but significant numbers. Inter-tribal unity gatherings are blossoming!
Many are doing the dreamwork to co-create a brighter future for the next 7 generations. Our destiny is ultimately in our hands to a certain degree. Let’s do our part via Spiritual Activism to turn the tide and make gentle waves. We can do this!
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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 Eleazar Williams
One of the great Tuscarora medicine men was Eleazar Williams (1880-1968), a Sachem Chief of the Turtle Clan. He studied medicine under the tutelage of Juh G’wa Dee (Cayuga) from the 6 Nations reserve in Canada.
Eleazar was the father of Mad Bear’s friend, Ted Williams (1930-2005). Just like Peter Mitten, Mad Bear (Medicine Man) had a high degree of respect & admiration for Eleazar and the lighthearted, yet humble way in which he practiced Native American medicine.
The Williams family had a great sense of humor and they were fun to be around. This probably had an influence on Mad Bear as well. The Williams, like many Tuscarora families, were both Baptist and traditional. They managed to preserve & maintain their traditional customs & beliefs, while practicing Christianity.
Eleazar, like many medicine men of the time, did his medicine work in private. On the Tuscarora Reservation, the community knew of Eleazar’s practice and some people would seek his assistance from time to time, however, the society at large was fearful of medicine, especially witches. The Salem Witch trials of 1692 drove the practice of medicine underground in many native east coast communities. Some medicine people were even killed by their own people who feared “witches”.
Mad Bear was a student of Eleazar, although at this time we don’t know too much about the personal interactions they had together. Eleazar wasn’t a traveling companion, like Peter Mitten was to Mad Bear.
Fortunately, his son Ted witnessed a lot of his father’s amazing medicine work and overheard many of his medicine stories.
Medicine runs in the William’s family. Ted had an uncle, Charley, who was gifted at medicine as well. Among Charley’s many talents, he had the ability to communicate with birds and to heal people through prayer. To support his family, Charley couldn’t afford .22 bullets to hunt with, so he learned how to charm (hypnotize) his animal prey by pointing his finger in their direction and freezing them right in their tracks.
Ted Williams was a happy-go-lucky individual like his father. He actually devoted himself to medicine himself, late in life. He became a member of the False Face Society in 1970 and passed on some of his wisdom teachings through two published books; “The Reservation” (1976) & “Big Medicine from Six Nations” (2007).
Ted’s work is very much appreciated, considering that the old Tuscarora language, culture and living traditions are disappearing, lost to written history. Ted was dedicated to keeping alive the traditional wisdom of his people. He adamantly stated, “If the Tuscaroras need something and want it back, it will come back.”
Michael Bastine became a friend of Ted’s in the 1990’s and he told many stories to him about his father. The stories that he & Mad Bear would share about Eleazar gave Michael the impression that this man’s medicine was indeed legendary.
MEDICINE OF STEEL
Eleazar’s nickname in the 20’s & 30’s, up on the Tuscarora Reservation, was “Steel Plant”. As an herbalist (medicine man) he knew that in the wild, certain plants would be accompanied by almost identical looking plants that would grow close by. The latter is the plant that contains the “medicine of steel” with greatly enhanced strength; it hides by growing next to closely identical plants. Eleazar would often pick the plants that grew in this special combination, and so, his medicine was “made of steel”.
Eleazar eventually bequeathed a small grey accountant book over to Mad Bear that was kept hidden most of the time. After Mad Bear had passed, Ted Williams, later on, wanted to find this book because in it contained many of his dad’s secret instructions for collecting medicinal herbs. Ted knew his request was too late, because after Mad Bear crossed over, his house was unfortunately ransacked & looted. Everything of value to Mad Bear was taken out of the house.
BRING BACK “BLUE DOG"
When Ted Williams was a young boy, 6 or 7 years old, a new puppy come into his life, named “Blue Dog”. While Ted’s dad was at work, Blue Dog ran out into the street and was hit by a car. Blue Dog had died.
Eleazar soon arrived home and received the sad news from his son who was in tears. Ted was crying really bad. He just loved that little puppy. He asked his dad, understanding that Eleazar had special abilities, “Dad, can you anything? This is the best dog I have ever had. He was such a great dog.” Ted’s crying & pleading continued up to the point where his dad was so emotionally moved that he gave in and agreed to collect some medicine for Blue Dog.
When Ted’s dad returned, they crushed up the medicine together. Eleazar then mixed in a little water with herbs, and then while chanting in Tuscarora, he opened up Blue Dog’s mouth and pushed the medicine in. He then began to massage the puppy.
Shortly, thereafter, Blue Dog began convulsing & shaking his body. Eleazar instructed Ted, “Don’t hold Blue Dog, he’s going to get sick.” Ted wanted to hold Blue Dog but he listened to his dad and followed his instructions.
Blue Dog then staggered over to the bushes and started heaving. After the puppy left the bushes he started wagging his tail. Blue Dog took a long nap that day; he was now back into Ted’s life.
Eleazar had a talk with Ted about the doctoring he performed on Blue Dog. He said, “I don’t like to do stuff like that. We shouldn’t turn back the pattern of the Creator just because we want to.” Then Eleazar explained the concept of free will and the way that the Creator balances things. He also assured Ted that “the Creator won’t let us do anything that would tip the balance of things.”
EXPOSING THE GERMAN SABOTEURS
During the early 1940’s, Eleazar worked at the Bell Aircraft Corporation (aerospace) near Buffalo, New York. They did research on aerodynamics & flight; trying to figure out how to make planes travel faster. The facility employed German engineers.
Eleazar knew that some of these Germans were sabotaging the company’s research. He didn’t know exactly which ones were doing it.
At home, Eleazar pulled out his Ouija (Weegie) Board. He would use this board on rare occasions, usually to find missing items. Eleazar then lit some incense and chanted in Tuscarora. He asked the board to name who the saboteurs were. The Ouija Board directed him to the letters on the board that spelled out the names of the Germans who were guilty of sabotage. Eleazar turned 2 or 3 names over to his bosses when he returned to work.
The company bosses started watching the German engineers who were named by Eleazar. Sure enough, they caught the German saboteurs in the act of destroying company property & research.
EVEN NIAGARA FALLS MAFIA DESERVE SOME DOCTORING
Up in the Niagara Falls area, tourism brought in a lot of money to the area and the mafia had a piece of the action. One time they came to Eleazar and said, “We have someone who is very sick and we want to know if you will help him.” He told them to bring the guy over and he’ll see what he can do. Eleazar doctored the guy and he recovered. The Mafia was so grateful they said, “Whatever you want, you got it. You just tell us whatever it is.” Eleazar told them, “I don’t need anything. I have everything I ever needed in this life.”
Eleazar’s response was not something the Mafia was used to hearing. They kept on coming by Eleazar’s house in their big limos, attempting to offer him money or to take him out to eat. Eleazar explained that they made a small donation after he performed his doctoring. This covered the amount he spent on herbs used for the healing. According to Eleazar, this satisfied the exchange and everything is OK. He said, “If I accept anything more I’m going to lose my ability to help people.”
WITCHCRAFT PRE-WORLD WAR II
In the 6 Nations, the term “witch” and “witchcraft” refers to the practice of using “black magic”, as in the use of magic involving the invocation of evil spirits for evil purposes. Much of this practice has died out. The secrets of this trade have not been passed down to the younger generation. Eleazar’s generation, and Mad Bear’s to some degree, was the last to experience the scary phenomenon of witchcraft.
Some witches were frauds. They pretended to have great medicine in order to make money. However, there were some real legit witches that had incredible powers, like having the ability to shoot objects into other people’s body. This was especially true in Canada.
Eleazar Williams was married to 2 other women, prior to marrying Ted’s mother. The previous women had both passed away. One died of a tumor. The other was certainly witched. One evening, Eleazar’s wife woke up in the middle of the night, letting out screams and fainting. As soon as she was back conscious, she sat down on the toilet and excreted out of her body a six-inch shiny black lizard.
This terrifying experience most likely prompted Eleazar to practice medicine; to counter the common witches of his day.
Another story of witchcraft was told by Eleazar. He knew a medicine man, Chief Pat Sandy (Cayuga), from the Six Nations reserve in Canada. A woman came to him with great pain coming from her back. She had been witched! Pat removed a one-inch thorn that was lodged in her back.
Pat, using his intuition, rolled the thorn up in a strip of cloth and dipped it into a batch of medicine he prepared. He then pushed the thorn & cloth into an emptied out shotgun shell. Pat instructed her to place this shell into her gun and at dawn, the following morning, shoot the shell, to the east, at a 45 degree angle. He said she wouldn’t be bothered after that.
Sure enough, the witch left the lady alone. Now, however, the witch was bothered and in pain. She appeared at Chief Pat Sandy’s doorstep. Ironically, the witch wanted his help to remove the thorn that was now lodged deep into her back.
ELEAZAR WILLIAMS & THE LITTLE PEOPLE
Eleazar Williams was reputed to have had a lifelong guide & tutor among the Little People (Elves). His relationship with the Little People began when he was a child. One day when Eleazar was a boy, his father had no one to watch over his son. He had to go to work that day cutting down trees, which is a dangerous job. Afraid that his venturesome boy would get hurt hanging out at the lumberyard, he dropped young Eleazar off at a “special tree”. His dad instructed Eleazar, “Just wait by the tree till I’m out of sight. You’ll have playmates all day.”
As Eleazar’s dad’s horse & carriage pulled away, Little People began to appear in front of young Eleazar. They were coming out from the other side of the tree, as if they had a doorway back there somewhere. They played all day. It was magical & delightful! The Little People taught him lessons about nature and he was assigned a friend who played at his side the whole time. When young Eleazar’s dad could be seen approaching in the distance, the Little People went back into hiding.
WILLAMS MEDICINAL UNDERSTANDINGS: CANCER CURE
Through Ted’s later medicinal work and reflection on his father’s practice, we have greatly benefited by gaining a better understanding of herbal medicine.
Ted recalls seeing pharmaceutical drug representatives visiting his father, Eleazar, and attempting to bribe him for his remedy to cure Cancer. Each time he refused their dirty money. Eleazar understood that their motive was financial gain and not healing. These drug companies would rather shelve a Cancer cure, than freely release the cure into the hands of the public, which would deplete their customer base.
Eleazar also understood that the medicinal herbs are living conscious entities that have a choice in the matter. Even if he did pass on his remedy to the drug companies, the herbs would probably not have behaved in that manner that the drug companies would expect. They would have been ineffective.
WILLAMS MEDICINAL UNDERSTANDINGS: GATHERING PROTOCOL
In order for medicinal herbs to work the practitioner needs a pure heart & pure intention first. Then, in private, without being watched, the practitioner must talk to the herbs and seek their assistance in the medicine work. If they are in agreement, the practitioner should then proceed to take only what is needed for his procedure, and only if there is enough plant medicine growing to be picked in the first place. The last step is for the practitioner to leave behind a proper exchange, like Sacred Tobacco.
Certain great & powerful plant medicines are very touchy. They cannot have anyone with the least bit of disbelief in them, see them. Nor can you speak of them to anyone who has this disbelief. Disbelief dilutes any plant medicine to the degree of the disbelief.
Plant medicine should not be made fun of and teased; otherwise, they might completely disappear from the location where they were previously gathered. They hide!
WILLAMS MEDICINAL UNDERSTANDINGS: SACRED TOBACCO
Plant medicine is also aware if you are bringing them a gift of Sacred Tobacco (Nicotiana Rustica) or a comparable exchange, like a pre-1964 silver coin. Sacred Tobacco likes to hide as well, and sometimes it will not grow, if the practitioner does not have purity in thought & action. Certain plant medicine will hide until they sense the presence of Sacred Tobacco.
When Ted’s father moved houses, at a distance of 2 or 3 miles, he found that his Sacred Tobacco which had grown in his previous yard, had transported itself, on its own accord, into his wife’s new flower garden. Mother Nature is a mystery and Sacred Tobacco is held in high regard in her plant kingdom.
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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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BIKBAYE- Integrating Initiations (self-discovery)
Integrating Initiations
Conversations with Bikbaye Inejnema
Presented by CoCreavatars!
Edited by Jessica Mortell
It has been the goal the entire time [to integrate the initiations]. And it's a non-ending path of discovery. Trial and error of identifying the exact ways of doing that.
I do know, and wholeheartedly carry the understanding that initiation is the path to a higher understanding of who we are. It’s the path to development, evolution, transcendence. The only way to reach those plateaus is through initiation.
Having a basic understanding, a deeper understanding of the precepts, the purpose of initiation, it exposes different methods of investigation. And that's what initiation is. It is us investigating. We are looking for ways of raising our qualities, and that is something that we're all doing on a daily basis whether we are aware of it or not. We are working towards raising our qualities and evolving.
Initiation mindset is, if you are a guest in someone's house and they offer you the bed or the floor, you take the floor. The non-initiation mindset is, if someone offers you the bed or the floor, you take the bed because you are looking for the most comfort.
Sometimes comfort and gratification are a barrier for long term growth and development.
The floor may be a little uncomfortable, but it's firm, so when you are laying there, and even if you're turning over at night you are using your muscles. Wow, we have a big bed and I still sleep on the floor. And, especially if you're on the ground outside, you connect in a different way. There should be nothing comfortable about initiation.
The Initiation of Homelessness
Further down the line, there's been initiations that took place outside of the country. That was challenging because everything about the environment was so different. In some of those areas I didn't know anyone.
One of my initiations I went to London. I had a one-way ticket and a dream, and that was it. I didn't know anyone there. I didn't know where I was going to stay. But there’s a knowing , and I knew that was somehow that was part of my initiation. I went over there and I stayed a little over a year. During that time I was homeless. And that was an incredible experience.
I learned incredible survival skills, skills that are ancient skills, that I would have never known had I not experienced homelessness.
I was in another country, not knowing anyone, no cell phones, no money and
surviving off Snicker bars and chips with vinegar for several months. During that time of wandering and sleeping on benches where I could, I met individuals who were in low and destructive mind states. By me not having any destination and just walking around at 2:30 in the morning in some neighborhood I didn't know where I was, I ran into a stranger and we had a conversation. And little did I realize that, that conversation distracted him from going to commit suicide, which he was about to do before we met.
And then being taken in by a poor European woman in this little apartment. The entire apartment was maybe 400 hundred square feet. She had a mongrel dog who was handicapped named Jack. She had a weasel, and a cat. A daughter and a son who were in prison. And she said, hey, there's this couch. It looked like a couch out of the junkyard with springs sticking out of it. And she said, it's not much, but you're welcome to it. And that couch looks like a waterbed to me.
We stayed up every night drinking hot cocoa and laughing until the sun came up. And that was a great experience and initiation for me.
Navigating and Integrating Initiations
through the Knowing
[What helped me through that experience] was a knowing. That's the only thing that it was. I came here with that knowing, but I didn't know it at the time. It was a deep knowing what I was subjecting myself to because I felt perfectly safe the entire time.
There was literally no fear. It was an excitement I had while going through that experience although it was tough and challenging. Now I can look back on it and talk about it and I know all of the lessons that I got from it, and I've integrated all of those lessons from that part of my initiation.
That knowing, I don't think that's something that we can we control. A knowing is always there. It's always been there. We can tap into it in deeper ways, but that knowing is in all of us. So the deeper we can tap into that knowing, That's what takes away the fear.
Fear is at the root of all of our inadequacy. Fear is at the root of all of our misunderstandings.
If we dialogue long enough, we can get an understanding. But many don't want that understanding. Why? Because we all have a knowing and we either embrace it, or we run from it. When we embrace it, and the challenges that come up, we can navigate a little easier. We know where it's going to end up based on where we are and the sequence of events. That knowing is the bigger picture. It's not so much something that is right in front of our eyes that we can see with these [physical] eyes. The knowing comes from this eye [third eye].
And with that knowing, the fear dissolves because knowing whatever our biggest fear is, the knowing comes through understanding. And it comes through many of the things in initiation. It contributes to that knowing over time.
That knowing knows. And that's not something that you can teach. And sometimes it's hard to articulate. As you can see, I'm struggling now and I'm a poet. I shouldn't be struggling with words, but I am because that knowing is where all of our medicine is. That's what all of our strength is. Because that knowing, it activates everything else that you are part of, that entire fabric. It activates it in a way that fits the vibrations of that knowing and it reverberates and things manifest. And the strength that we need to get through things, it happens without the effort.
When things are effortless that's when they are in harmony. When we are in harmony with the knowing, that’s when it becomes an aid and a tool to move past anything that comes up.
Are you tapped into your knowing? If you are tapped into your knowing, then you wouldn't see me any different than yourself. You wouldn't see my challenges any different than your challenges, or the way I move past my challenges any different from the way you move past your challenges.
If we're not tapped into the knowing that's where there's doubts, fear, uncertainty about who you are. Because it's not about the world. None of this is about the world. It's about you in the world. The world doesn't need any more lessons. We're here for that.
We can see without these eyes, we can see the past and the future. How about that? Eyes closed, we can see the past and the future and see it visually, right? We can talk without moving our mouths. And hear if we covered up our ears. If you said Bikbaye in your mind, you can hear yourself say that. That's the source. And that's the knowing, the part of us that allows us to move through those challenges.
Little by Little
That knowing is the destination. That's what we want to pursue, and it's through these applications, through these technologies, and slowly integrating them little by little. Next thing you know, you wake up and there's this greater sense of
enlightenment. It's like wow, it happened overnight.
No, it happened little by little and every step we can take closer to that knowing we start to see everything else, even visual reality start to shift. But the knowing is through here [third eye]. That's something that is cultivated.
We've been able to integrate what people would call meditation, now they updated it and call it mindfulness, into the schools out here in LA, and it was amazing.
Now imagine you have all 4th and 5th grade boys and there’s energy everywhere. Many of them have also been diagnosed with ADHD, anxiety and other behavioral disorders, just due to their environment. The attention spans were like 5 seconds, and either they're fighting or they're yelling or they're cursing. The schools where we had our program was where they needed it the most.
So I had to make it a competition for them to buy into it. So it's like, OK, let's see who can just sit quiet for the longest in your chair. Whoever can do it, you get a prize. They're not even really focused on the reason why are we doing, but they do it. And now they gained some confidence about themselves, like wow, I was able to sit quiet for three minutes, whoa.
And next week or two weeks later, let's see who can sit down with their legs folded and with their back straight and just be quiet. Now we do that, and they're in competition. So we did that, and now sit on your knees and do it. In 5 seconds they’re falling all over like oh no, this hurts, ouch, ouch.
Before the end of the program year, they all were able to sit on their knees, eyes closed quiet for 15 minutes. We shocked the entire school administration.
So how do I integrate? This is one of the methods, using their strengths and knowing they’re in competition with each other about everything. Let's use that energy to get good outcomes.
Initiation planted a deep understanding that the energies that we use to do good are the same energies that we use to do bad. That same fire we came here with is always going to be with us. It's really about redirecting the same energy. We redirected their energy of competition in a way where it became something they can benefit from.
Integrating Ancient Technology into the Modern World
Updating ancient technology to fit where we are now and where the world is now, and the cycle that we have entered. We're only going deeper into that cycle of consciousness. Actual tangible, practical examples demonstrate fusing the ideas and knowledge of initiation into the circumstances that humanity finds itself in this moment.
There's not many that are integrating our ancestral technologies in modern times. It's not due to not knowing how. You know how the technology works. But yet still, how does it fit in into this environment to where it makes sense? Because it has to make sense to people.
We only move on what makes sense to us.
Portals
One of the ancient technologies that we use are portals. Visually, these portals look like a shrine, but they are ancestral portals. We honor the ancestral spirit. There's a veneration that we consistently share and give to all of our ancestors. In understanding that because they are no longer in the flesh does not mean that they are absent. And we understand that they're even more powerful where they are now than they were while they were here in the flesh. Reaching them, nourishing them, clothing them, and feeding them, they in turn do the same thing for us.
Prenatal Destiny
And it's updated in the sense that we understand that there's not just one destiny. There's a prenatal destiny, and then there's a conditional destiny that every human being has. A prenatal destiny is a destiny that was given to a human being 7 generations before they were born according to our teachings. And it was given to that individual through the Father’s, Father’s, Father’s, Father’s, Father’s, Father’s, Mother. So it comes from the Mother 7 generations back through the father's bloodline. And that particular destiny is based on what was going on at that time. Meaning whoever that mother was when you go back seven generations, whatever is going on at that time, those were the wishes, or the destiny that she set for her descendant who wasn't to come for seven generations.
Conditional Destiny
This is where the conditional destiny comes in, and that's the updated technology. Because the conditional destiny is when we are able to make those connections with the ancestral spirits and take whatever it is that we're seeing now, the things that we want to see in our lives, the things we don't want to see in our lives. And when we give them their offerings it shifts the destiny to become more updated based on what is going on now.
The destiny is not written in stone, it's more written in sand with ancestral spirit versus just in stone, just by itself.
For example, if someone is addicted to substances, and I know many individuals,
young and old, that are and have been for a long, long, long time. I've heard people react to those situations, in a way where to justify the person being in that state for so long, It was just God's plan. Or God still has a plan for this person. Or this is just how it was supposed to be.
And we say no. It wasn't supposed to be that way. And we're gonna turn this thing
around, but we're gonna need divine intervention with this. And that comes by way of the ancestral spirit. So that is one example of an update of a technology.
Herbal Technologies
Another technology are the natural herbs that we use for healing. That is something now that we're starting to see more of an integration of but at the same time, it still hasn't been an explosion to where our common fellow human being would look in that direction first, before looking in the modern healing tradition conventional direction. We have a lot of work to do in that arena, but it has been a wonderful, fantastic, and sometimes painful experience integrating that aspect of the technology. Because sometimes you are forced to watch people that you care for suffer, when the suffering wasn't necessary, but because of the conditioning to go to the more conventional means of health care.
That's the frustrating part. We are losing so many of our Elders and Wisdom carriers, and youth at very early ages. They are becoming more ill when it doesn't have to be the case. But the beautiful part of it is when I am able to offer a space where a person would feel comfortable enough to say, OK, Bikbaye, I'll try it, just because it’s you I’ll try it. And for some that did that, to see them witness the results and have am epitome and they never went back to the old
approaches. That's gratifying.
With our Conscious Youth we had a program in several of the elementary schools here in LA. It was an after school rites of passage program. I used to bring herbs to the school and show the children and high school students as well. I’d come and talk about it and let them know what are the healing properties in this medicine. We would even talk about common illnesses - the common cold, headaches – and share natural ways of addressing all of them. And when it can be presented in a tangible way where the person can walk away from the understanding that wow, with $5 I can go to the supermarket and get everything I need to heal myself versus the stress of getting on insurance and going and getting medicines. then this becomes a way of integrating [ancestral technologies] as well.
When we can demonstrate how practical it is that's what we all are attracted to, what is tangible for us. Convenience is one of those things you have to keep in mind as well.
So through integrating natural ways of healing ourselves through educating individuals of things that are very practical within their reach. Most of the time I'm working in the homeless sector and youth sector. All of the individuals come that comprise those populations, if whatever it is that we're doing to try to offer anything for them to hold onto for them to reconnect to, we have to make it plain and tangible to fit their situation.
Integrating Language
So one of the ways that I also integrate is the language. I'm speaking of the Medu Neter, which is the hieroglyphic language of ancient Egypt, that can be translated to the sacred writings, the holy writings. Its not a traditional name.
Medu translates to language. Neter is where the word nature is derived, but Neter is the only way we know how to say God. If you are saying multiple gods is nettaru, the “u” makes it plural in that language.
This language allows us to do more than just communicate. It stimulates through vibration certain passages of our brain that allows for a smoother flow of blood and to get to these areas that are pretty restricted of blood flow. As those passages are stimulated the blood can get to these areas our brain actually grows because it's a muscle, and we're able to use a much greater capacity. So when I'm in the schools or anywhere, it can be a zoom training that I'm facilitating, I will integrate just by starting with how to say greetings, and that's “ujjayi”. I'll stick with that and every morning when I come in for a week, ujjayi. And then I'll say OK today you gonna learn to say goodbye. So for the whole year they may get 20 words. And those 20 words are like a treasure.
The Challenges of Integration
It was painfully challenging once my paradigm started to shift. When I started my initiation with my master, who passed away in 2009, I was really excited to share so much new information that we were not taught in the schools, we were not taught in our churches. I grew as a Christian going to the Baptist Church. My whole family were churchgoing folk. So when I came into the new information through initiation, I was excited to share. In a way I felt like I hit the jackpot and I wanted to share all of this money that I just won.
But in doing so, it's a little difficult because the opposite effect happened and backfired. All of the stigma that comes with an awakening came. That made it very challenging for me because I felt like I just had to keep it all in for myself. And I knew that everyone could benefit from it, not just me, but everybody could if they only accepted it. In my mind, I felt you have to accept this, doesn't this make perfect sense?
I had to navigate through that without taking it personally. And it took me a while to get to that point, because not only did I take it personally, it was hurtful.
But that turned out great because as a result of continuing through initiation and advancing over the years, the same people who didn't understand, now they have a deeper understanding and are very respectful. They honor and invite me for conversations about the same things that they used to say man, you crazy, you
brainwashed.
Integration is Wholeness
We are one, We are Same
Whoever I am interacting with, they are the same as I. Meaning that there's no difference between anyone that is in my environment and myself. For that reason, I feel that there's a certain connectivity that we all have whether we are aware of it or not. So being able to tap into that oneness in those moments, it's not something that we necessarily have to control at that point. The integration happens in those moments when we find ourselves in total harmony with whatever it is that we are communicating, whoever we're communicating to. Once we can harmonize ourselves with the environment, the integration of that happens very organically.
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Recommended book and podcasts on African Spirituality
Malidoma Patrice Some was born in a Dagara Village, however he was soon to be abducted to a Jesuit school, where he remained for the next fifteen years, being harshly indoctrinated into Christian ways of thought and worship, the same ways that corrupted European pagan communities. The story tells of his return to his people, his hard initiation back into those people, which lead to his desire to convey their knowledge to the world. "Of Water and the Spirit" is the result of that desire; it is a sharing of living African traditions, offered in compassion for those struggling with our contemporary crisis of the spirit.
Embracing the Legacy of Malidoma Patrice Some:
(Bridging Worlds through Wisdom)
Introduction: Malidoma Patrice Some, a gifted teacher, healer, and author, left an indelible mark on the world through his profound insights into the intersection of indigenous wisdom and modern life. Born in Burkina Faso in 1956, Malidoma Patrice Some's life journey was a testament to his commitment to bridging the gap between traditional African spirituality and the challenges of the contemporary world. As we reflect on his legacy, we find inspiration in his teachings, rituals, and the wisdom he shared with the world.
The Bridge Between Worlds: Malidoma Patrice Some's life was a bridge connecting the rich tapestry of indigenous African traditions with the complexities of modern society. His work aimed at fostering a deeper understanding of the spiritual and cultural heritage of his people while encouraging dialogue and mutual respect between diverse communities.
Wisdom of the Dagara People: At the heart of Malidoma Patrice Some's teachings is the profound wisdom of the Dagara people, an ethnic group in Burkina Faso. He shared the Dagara cosmology, emphasizing the interconnectedness of all things and the importance of maintaining balance with the natural world. Through workshops, lectures, and writings, he brought this ancient wisdom to a global audience.
Rituals and Healing: A central aspect of Malidoma Patrice Some's legacy lies in his commitment to healing and ritual. He facilitated rituals that aimed at restoring harmony and addressing spiritual imbalances. By blending traditional practices with contemporary insights, he offered a unique approach to healing that resonated with individuals seeking a holistic understanding of well-being.
The Wisdom of Ancestors: Malidoma Patrice Some placed a strong emphasis on honoring ancestors and recognizing their guidance in navigating life's challenges. His teachings encouraged individuals to reconnect with their roots, acknowledging the wisdom passed down through generations and understanding the role of ancestral influence in shaping one's journey.
Authorship and Education: In addition to his oral teachings, Malidoma Patrice Some authored several books, including "Of Water and the Spirit" and "The Healing Wisdom of Africa." These works continue to serve as valuable resources for those seeking to delve deeper into African spirituality, traditional healing practices, and the integration of ancient wisdom into modern life.
Conclusion: Malidoma Patrice Some's legacy endures as a beacon of wisdom and unity. His teachings remind us of the importance of honoring diverse cultures, reconnecting with our roots, and embracing a holistic approach to healing and well-being. As we reflect on his life, let us carry forward the torch of understanding, respect, and interconnectedness that he so passionately ignited. In doing so, we honor not only the legacy of Malidoma Patrice Some but also the enduring wisdom of the indigenous traditions he championed.
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Recommended books on Native American Spirituality
“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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