We are Spirit

As I was checking e-mails the other day I noticed there was a Sweat Lodge this Saturday.  I mentioned it to my partner and we had a discussion that led me to check out a website for the Institute for Cultural Awareness.  Once there I was led to an interview.  As I was reading this interview of Adam Yellowbird DeArmon, I had one of those aha! feelings.  That is what I will share with my readers.  Below are a few quotes from this interview and my thoughts to follow.

"One of the most important messages that we are receiving from the Elders at this time is about our SELF...  that it is time to reprogram, restructure, refocus the reflection back to our SELF.  It is about healing the memory.  When we do it for our self, we can then move forward and also do it in our family and our community and beyond."  


"The Elders are also speaking about the connection between the body, heart and spirit... how they are all essential in healing this memory."


"But by focusing on the body and getting it into divine alignment with the heart, that connection to spirit is instantly brought through.  It is not that we have to go anywhere to find spirit, it is already here... we are already it. "

(These few paragraphs are quotes from an article at www.ica8.org, click news updates, Dancing with the Earth through Times of Change, Ron LaPlace interviews Adam Yellow bird DeArmon)

 Right on, We are Spirit - Spirit is us!  Let Spirit Lead the Way.  When I first left my life in Minnesota I came to realize I needed to just stop doing and be.  To accept that I did not need to have it all figured out and that it was okay to just relax.  It was a way to find who I was.  Not my occupation, not my position in my family or any other label I had put on myself at that time.  Who was I?  Then came who am I in relation to others?  But first it was all me.  I found out I am an artist, a painter and a poet.  I am also a teacher, a healer... a "Spirit" in a human body.  A part of GUS(God Universe Spirit) not separate from.

"it is time to reprogram, restructure, refocus the reflection back to our SELF"  When I read this, it reminded me of the term re-learn, that friends and I have used, but re-program is much more accurate.  I have taken the time to look at my belief structure, where it came from and how it fit into the world today.  I found for me much of it did not fit.  A lot of our schools teach us through memorization "programming".  We do not teach our children how to reason, to problem solve, to think for themselves.  We do not know as a people how to identify and discuss our emotions our feelings.  We know how to communicate on an intellectual level, but not on a feeling level.  Politicians and the news media have soundbites.  Many of us do not know how to listen beyond a sound bite. 

I have looked at my education formal and cultural and decide for myself what fit with the loving being I want to be, not with the being I was.  My view of life and what is important to me is much different today then it was 10 years ago, yet all of my experiences are important.  They made me who I am, so no regrets, just changes in perspective.  I have found life to be an amazing journey.  I have had wonderful teachers, strangers, that taught me the gift of trust and encouragement.  I learned to love myself first and then share that love with others.  I continue to learn about so many things and I realize it is all of the information that surrounds me that I want to share with my readers.  Sooo...

Another website I would like to recommend is, www.shiftoftheages.com. The shift of the Ages film shares the Mayan Cosmo-Vision and prophecy through the wisdom and teachings of Grandfather Cirilo Perez Oxlaj, also known as Wandering Wolf, Grand Elder of the living Maya.

The Institute for Cultural Awareness, of which Adam Yellowbird is President, sponsored Wandering Wolf and the the film crew to Sedona a few years ago and invited the community to participate in lectures and ceremonies.  During the visit, I was able to attend most of them.  I truly felt blessed to be in the presence of this gentle yet powerful man.  The world is not coming to an end, it is changing, and rapidly, but we all know that, right?  Wandering Wolf is traveling the world to get the Mayan Prophecies out to the people.  Our world is indeed in a time of change and his message is very important.  It is our responsibility to heal ourselves and to heal the Earth.  We are the ones that have injured her it is time to take care of her.  What Adam said, in his interview I think is important, in my words, through healing ourselves we begin the process of healing our families, our neighbors, all of humanity and our lovely Mother Earth.  And so it is.