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In Greek mythology the centaur named Chiron
strove to bridge daily life with spirit life.
Working in our era under the conceptual umbrella
of Chiron Communications,
I reach in similar directions as writer, teacher, storyteller.
I invite you to adventure in spirit via Odyssey of the 8th Fire
Engage the call of the land via Deep Agroecology
Prospect the archival depths of Chiron’s Cave
Check out my Youtube channel
Or ponder the possibilities described in my books
Excelsior ~ Steven McFadden
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Here’s one way of expressing America’s ancient teachings in a soundbite: There will come a time when the Earth grows sick. When it does a tribe will gather from all the cultures of the world. They will believe in peaceful deeds, not words. They will work to heal the land. They will be the warriors of the rainbow.
Over the centuries many of the elders of the Americas have dreamed that people of all colors and faiths would come together on the land and heal the earth.
I’ve long felt that these mythic notions are in many ways what the good food-community food movement is about. It’s not just providing clean food so people might have strong bodies and minds, but also about right relations, and directly involving people in healing the earth — or otherwise inspiring them to empower ambassadors (farmers and gardeners) to touch and heal the earth on their behalf.
The rainbow tales are not prophecies, but rather understandings or teachings. The stories originate from many visionary elders of the Americas, figures such as Black Elk, Weetucks, White Buffalo Calf Woman, Quetzalcoatl, Crazy Horse, White Shell Woman, and Eyes of Fire. The understandings have been passed on through the generations to the present. They continue to inspire hope, vision, and positive action among human beings.
Thus, it seemed to me auspicious when earlier this week The Harlem Writers Guild announced the release of a new ebook version of one of my early works that weaves together a great many of these teachings, Legend of the Rainbow Warriors.
Legend of the Rainbow Warriors is a true account of the pluralistic myths and mysteries of the Americas. As critics have noted it’s also an exploration of how those archetypal teachings are resounding through real time.
Legend of the Rainbow Warriors is now available for immediate download in an array of ebook formats — as well as print formats — from either iUniverse.com or Amazon.com
BOOK REVIEWS
“I urge everyone…to read this small yet exceptionally powerful book.” – Odyssey Magazine
“This is one of those books…once you’ve read it you will wonder what you had been thinking of the world before that time. It is informative, inspirational, wise and genuinely important.” – One Heart
“…McFadden offers insight and hope. Further, he speaks to the power of individuals to address the overwhelming and complex problems facing us today—locally as well as globally.” – Headline Muse
“An extraordinary book. We recommend that it be read by all college students and their professors who are concerned about future life on earth. – Cynthia Knuth, FONA
“…you will want to reread it often and keep it handy for reference… Although the prophecies were made many years ago, they ring true for those who are living in today’s world.” – Amazon customer
This original compilation–a small treasure titled Native Knowings–offers a concise and contemporary compendium of some key North American (Turtle Island) wisdom teachings to help support people through this era of transition.
“I ask you to listen,
not just with your minds.
I ask you to listen with your hearts,
because that’s the only way
you can receive what it is,
what we are giving.
These are the teachings of our hearts.”
– Frank Decontie, Kitigan Zibi Anishinabeg
What do some of the venerable, deeply rooted wisdom teachings of the Americas offer in our era of transition?
This Soul*Sparks small treasure offers an array of thoughtful messages, a compilation of keys that everyone has opportunities to turn. We’d be wise to understand and then to weave their enduring insights into the fabric of what we are creating for ourselves, our children, and our children’s children
The words of contemporary elders, in particular, sound a note of urgency. Native Knowings is available through this link.
My old friend and teacher, Grandfather William Commanda, Ojigkwnong, now age 95, will soon have another vital meeting with officials of the Canadian Government concerning his vision for Victoria Island (Asinabka).
Like the other key visions which have punctuated Grandfather’s life, the vision for an international healing center at Victoria Island has profound global importance.
Victoria Island is a jewel of nature, strategically located in the middle of the river that runs through downtown Ottawa, Canada’s capital city, under the shadow of Parliament Hill, where the government of Canada meets. For countless centuries, Victoria Island was a traditional spiritual meeting ground for the Algonquin peoples.
Grandfather envisions returning the island to its spiritual purpose by establishing an inclusive City Park, a Historic Interpretative Site, and International Peace Center at the Sacred Site of Asinabka -Chaudière Falls. The center would host programs and processes for individual, group, and planetary healing, development and peace.
Grandfather Commanda is the senior Algonquin Elder in this territory. Since 1970, he has been the Keeper of three sacred wampum belts of spiritual and historic importance: the Seven Fires Prophecy Belt, the 1701 Friendship Belt and the Jay Treaty Border Crossing Belt.
I first met Grandfather in 1989 when I interviewed him for my book, Profiles in Wisdom: Native Elders Speak About the Earth. We then became closer friends in the mid-1990s as we participated in a prophetic and historic walk from the Atlantic Ocean to the Pacific – The Sunbow 5 Walk for the Earth (Odyssey of the 8th Fire).
Over the decades, Grandfather has earned wide international respect as a visionary and healer. Most recently – May, 2009 – he was honored by being invested as an Officer of the Order of Canada by the Governor General of Canada. The Order of Canada is the centerpiece of Canada’s honors system and recognizes a lifetime of outstanding achievement, dedication to the community and service to the nation.
Grandfather and his friends have been working for over ten years to develop the vision for Victoria Island, and now, in 2009, they feel the time is right to take another big step forward.
Many people and groups – Algonquin and non-Algonquin, from Canada, the U.S.A. and a host of other nations — have written to the Canadian Prime Minister, and other government officials, seeking to have this vision realized. More letters and expressions of support are needed and welcome now.
Victoria Island served as an important sacred ceremonial place for the original peoples of the land. It seems the land has been waiting for the ancient communal fires to be re-kindled..
With Grandfather Commanda’s vision to build a peace and healing center, comes an opportunity to cleanse and reawaken the land, to ignite the fires for a circle of all nations, and to help spark a culture of peace. Meegwich.
The sacred place of the vision: Chaudiere Falls between Ottawa and Hull in Canada.
Copyright 2007 by Steven McFadden
While Leon Secatero was teaching at a conference in early February, he experienced a stroke. He eventually lost consciousness and found himself on the other side.
According to observers, Leon’s stroke began to manifest while he was talking in front of the group at the Travelodge hotel in Ottawa, Ontario. They saw him slow down, and then have difficulty remembering and speaking. Leon later lost consciousness. People at the conference immediately cared for him, arranged medical assistance, and began praying and doing ceremonies.
Strokes happen to people when blood vessels are blocked by clots, which restrict the flow of glucose and oxygen to the brain. Because strokes can impact the brain the way a heart attack impacts the heart, they are sometimes referred to as a brain attacks.
When Leon experienced his stroke and journeyed to the other side, he found himself among an assembly of Wind Walkers–the spirits of the many elders and medicine people he has known over the decades of his life. The Wind Walkers had knowings they wanted to share. Their communications helped illuminate Leon’s understandings about the sacred path leading into the next 500 years…
Leon Secatero is an elder of the Canoncito Band of Navajo, To’Hajiilee, located
west of Albuquerque, New Mexico. Years ago he founded the Spiritual Elders of Mother Earth, a group in consonance with the ancient teaching of the Americas concerning the eagle and the condor, and the healing link these noble birds symbolize for peoples of the south and north.
Leon Secatero, author photo 2006.
In early February, 2007 Leon traveled north to the capital city of Canada. He had been invited to speak at a conference on the theme “Respecting Mother Earth Brings Unity,” hosted by Canada’s Indigenous Cooperative on the Environment (ICE).
At the conference, Leon joined with other native wisdom keepers such as Mishomis William Commanda (Algonquin), Chief Arvol Looking Horse (Lakota), and Liliana Madrigal of the Amazon Conservation Team. Together these knowledge holders shared key cultural and environmental teachings – teachings that could be of immediate and enduring value to the industrial-digital culture as it now experiences a shockingly rapid deterioration of earth’s vital support systems.
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I interviewed Leon for several hours in mid-April here in New Mexico. He told me that while he was unconscious in Ottawa he made a journey to the other side. This is where he encountered the spirits he spoke of as Wind Walkers, a reflection of the close association between wind and spirit in the culture and language of the Navajo (Diné).
Leon told me that when he journeyed to the other side he saw the Wind Walkers sitting in circles. As far out as he could see, the Wind Walkers sat grouped in progressively larger concentric circles. There were clouds of light, like a dome, stretching over all of these circles. Leon saw many recently deceased Navajo elders, as well as the spirits of people who had died years ago. He saw also the spirits of elders and medicine people from all the different cultures and spiritual pathways around the world.
“Many people talk about seeing the other side,” he said. “I know this was the other side. The things I saw on the other side were very beautiful. I saw the glass world, the crystal world, and many different colors of light. The Wind Walkers were able to use this. They used the colors of light – the energy vibrations — to heal.”
“For a while when I talked about sacred things like this,” Leon said, “I used words like ‘revelation’ and ‘prophecy.’ But those words do not represent real indigenous thought. More appropriately, I would speak of ‘a way of being,’ or a ‘knowing’ — the knowing that’s in us. ”
Leon told me he saw the Wind Walkers take corn pollen in their mouths to bless their words before they spoke to him. “The elders talked about positive things, focusing on the positive to make things happen, to bring in good energy so that life will continue. They said to use song, prayer, dance to focus on positive thought, and to help us go forward on the path to the future in a good way, in a sacred way.”
“What I was shown was the way we should be, how we must be to influence the future, and also to influence all the plants, the animals, the waters, the air and the fire. It’s important. I came to a knowing that the only way you can have the power, is through the color and the light of positive thought and energy. Put all your concentration on this, not other things. Put your concentration on the positive. That’s how it’s done.”
For several years Grandfather Leon has been developing a book he has entitled The Sacred Path for the Next 500 Years. When I interviewed him in April he told me, “before I was rushing the book, and in some ways I was encountering blockages because of that rushing. Now I have the key to go beyond the blocks so that the book can be completed and come out through a publisher.”
“All the indigenous knowings, or prophecies that have been passed down talk about a time when the five-fingered ones (human beings) would be so caught in the illusion of separation that they would forget their original instructions. This forgetting has caused terrible suffering for everyone and everything. It is very important for us to reconnect our life and our ways.
“Things are changing, and in the midst of this the most important thing is the sacred path to the next 500 years, creating that path in a sacred manner with positive thoughts and actions. We have experienced negativity on a mass scale. There is social illness; there is great pain and suffering in our world. Those kinds of negativity and social illnesses we do not need to take along this new pathway into the next 500 years. If we do, we only become sicker.
“We can put everything forward that is sacred. You and I have to do it. Our children — and the generations that are coming — are waiting for this gift. So we are going to have to hold hands and go in one direction to give it to them.
“Everything that I saw while I was with the Wind Walkers, and that I see now about what’s going on, everything that’s alive: I see their purpose, their beauty, and their limits. I see nature, the whole universe, so wisely and fully developed to bring us everything that we need for life. I am even more deeply grateful for the way things are in nature, the cosmic order. The ways we are limited, and the ways we are open. I really appreciate the intelligence and purpose of the whole universe. That’s a feeling that has deepened for me since my stroke.
“What is so very important in our lives now — just like water, we need it all the time — is recognition that there is sacredness in every form. When you put all that together you have a process of what I call ‘sacredization,’ a fundamental recognition of the sacredness of all things. That, I feel, is a part of our original instructions as human beings.
“This is the time that we call the Winds of Change,” Leon told me. “It’s important to stabilize our way of being, the way we think, the way we do things. We can do that by deliberately planting positive seeds of culture and relationship and sacredization, seeds that will help carry us to the next 500 years.
“It’s the beginning of the end of the wars, the terrorism that we know. That will be a thing of the past. These are the greatest foundations we can build for our children, so we can really be human beings, and bring this destiny about. We need to cleanse ourselves, heal ourselves, and everything around us, especially our Mother Earth. Our Navajo Blessingway says that: ‘everything is forever.'”
“For the next 500 years the winds of change are blowing,” Leon said. “Many of us have knowings about this. In fact, it’s a knowing we all have, but that most people ignore. They are confused, and they look the other way. But the knowing is there for all of us.”
“We are all asking ourselves ‘what do we do next?’ Our ending time has come, and we are now asking for the best possible way to restructure, reset, and put things back on track that give strength to us. So we have a huge task. We are going to have to come together. This pathway into the next 500 years has to be open, so that we can bring in sacredness. We want to make a beginning, a pathway, a blessingway for this next 500 years. That’s the task that is before all of us right now.”
On his journey among the Wind Walkers Leon recognized the spirit of Grandfather Martin Martinez, a Navajo Medicine Man who passed over just a few months ago in November, 2006 at the age of 96. Leon had known Grandfather Martinez through his life – a friendship of 42 years–and he respected and loved him deeply. Leon had been deeply grieved by grandfather’s death.
“It was back in 1964 when I first met Grandfather Martinez. “I was about 16 then,” Leon told me. “Grandfather Martinez had come to Canoncito, my home community, to be part of a rodeo. He was a calf roper. I remember, he came with his family to the rodeo grounds to camp out. Everybody did that back then.
“Then while they were there camping in Canoncito for a few days,” Leon recalled, “Grandfather Martinez drove over to visit with my grandfather one evening. He was driving a 1948 Ford pickup truck. He asked my grandfather about getting some sheep so they would have meat in their camp. We had 300 – 400 sheep then. He picked one up, put it in the pickup and left. A couple of weeks later Grandfather Martinez visited us again, this time to bring some papers concerning vision and plans for the community. That began a long friendship.
“Even then,” Leon said, “I knew that Grandfather Martinez could see inside me, and that he could see inside other people, too. He knew right away that we were going to be doing things together.”
Grandfather Martin Martinez of Haystack, New Mexico was widely renowned for the many decades over which he sang the Blessingway, the Nightway, and other songs and ceremonies of the Navajo traditions. “He always brought light to every situation,” Leon recalled. “He always had clarity and insight to bring to the challenges we faced.”
In later years, among many collaborations, Grandfather Martinez, his wife Janice, and Leon helped create and facilitate the history-making Sodizin Ceremony, and video documentary. The ceremony took place on the flank of Tsoodzil, the Turquoise Mountain, also known as Mount Taylor in New Mexico. This sacred mountain marks the south direction of the Four Corners of Turtle Island (North America), and is brimming with natural and spiritual forces.
The 2004 Sodizin Ceremony brought together people of all colors and faiths in respect and harmony, giving them an opportunity to assemble as a spiritual and ecological vanguard. “With that ceremony,” Leon told me, “we brought in the colors, the patterns and tones of healing energy, and activated them throughout the world.”
Leon continued telling the story of his journey to the other side. “I was aware of myself in that dimension, as I was with the Wind Walkers in their circles. I felt happy,” he said. “I wanted to stay with them. But I was told I needed to go back. It wasn’t time yet. They all told me to turn around and to go back.
“I told someone on the other side, ‘I have done my job. There are other medicine people that can teach about this 500-year thing, who fully understand. Then I told them my job was to bring people together. But they sent me back to do what needs to be done, to help bring the wholeness.”
“They started to walk away, and I wanted to go with them,” Leon said. “I tried to catch up with them all, to follow them and go with them. But soon I started looking back. and it was as if there had been a shell that I had entered and was coming out from, a beautiful pearl shell.
“They ordered me to go back. The clouds streamed by, and below me I saw thousands of buffalo. They were white buffalo. Their feet drumming the earth made thunder and zig-zag lightning. They told me, ‘I’m your own medicine.'”
“When I was on the other side, one thing that Grandfather Martinez and the other Wind Walkers talked about among themselves, and began to sing, was a Navajo song that goes ‘nil-yah.’ It’s a song that most of our medicine people sing. That song was given to us when time began, and it still heals.
“When a person loses consciousness,” Leon explained, “they put a white blanket over the person, and then they sing that song. The word nil-yah means “it is put there.” The song is about energy or light vibrations that are ‘put there’ into a person’s mind, and how that is done with respect and beauty through the sacred words and song. It’s a song to help re-start the path of life, and its a beautiful understanding of my people.
“Through this song the medicine people are able to recharge a person’s batteries, to help make them ready for more of life. The person who has lost consciousness often responds by waking up, recovering. That’s what happened to me. The medicine people were singing this song. They sang the song for me and I came back to this world.”
The Wind Walkers warned Leon. They said that he would feel sad when he got back to physical life. Some people are happy to go back, they said, but you will feel sad for a while.
“When I came back from the other side and began to re-awaken in this world,” Leon told me, “I felt like a baby being born. For a while, when I heard bad news or good news, I really took it to extremes. But I’m able to control that now. I’m more in balance.”
“The doctors determined that I had a stroke, which affected the right side of my body. That side stopped moving, and my mind became cloudy. I feel that I have been recharged,” Leon said. “Very gradually I came out of clouds and began to see the green world, trees and watersS¹When I got back to the hotel in Ottawa, where the meeting was held, I didn’t know where I was. But the people there helped me, and from there I got home six days later.”
As we talked, Leon told me he wanted very much to express his gratitude to all who have helped him. “Many people young and old, men and women, elders, medicine people, people all around the world, have been very generous to me. They were there for me in my time of need. They were there for me.
“I appreciate their support, prayers, all that they have done. The people in Canada, the Assembly of First Nations and Canadian indigenous people, were so kind and helpful. My heart is filled with gratitude for them. Words are not enough to say, thank you. But I say it, ‘thank you.’
“People have come to my house many times to take care of me, and to bring me healthy food. I came to recognize that when you are sick, it is good and healing even just to look upon the people who come to visit, just to see people who care about you. That has made an impression on me, and I deeply appreciate those who have shown their concern, love, and respect.”
“I have been able to get my health back from their help and support. My right side is stronger; it’s still a bit clumsy but it’s getting there. My memory bank is being brought back together, so I can transmit more fully what I have received.
“So to all the people and all my relatives, all my children, I say ‘Thank you. I am alive. I am again ready to walk with you, to seek the future, to bring in hope, to bring in peace and love. The next phase of our development together belongs to all of us and all the living things, and it will be a beautiful time when we plant seeds wisely for the next 500 years.”
RESOURCES
Indigenous Cooperative on the Environment (ICE) http://www.icenetwork.ca/
Sodizin Ceremony – documentary http://www.friendsoftheindigenouselders.com/Ceremony/Ceremony.html
Medicine Wheel story and Sodizin Ceremony http://www.chiron-communications.com/communique%209-2.html
Basil Braveheart (Cante Tinza), an Oglala Lakota elder, plans to visit Santa Fe, New Mexico the weekend of February 10-12, 2006 to conduct Hocokat-Ton-Yan Wicozanni (Healing in a Circle).
I spoke with Mr. Braveheart by phone a couple of days before his visit. He told me that while he is in New Mexico he will guide teaching circles through an in-depth exploration of ceremony and ritual. He said that in this context the foundational focus of the weekend will be the honoring of feminine balance.
“There’s a profound imbalance in the world,” Braveheart said. “Because of masculine-patriarchal dominance, the feminine principle has been repressed. Thus we see an absence of relatedness, affection, and intuition. These aspects are essential for balance.”
“These spiritual concepts have a connection with the scientific concepts of Quantum Mechanics,” he said. “Native peoples have always seen the Creator present in all directions and in sacred motion. Ritual and ceremony are all about relatedness. In them we use symbols and images, and through these means people are introduced to a more compassionate way of relating to each other, to the sacred, and to Creator.”
“Quantum Mechanics is motion,” Braveheart said. “At the level of molecules, atoms, superstrings and such, all is in motion. Nothing is static. All of the universe is always in motion. My people have always understood this, and our rituals and ceremonies are an expression of our understanding, and a way to come into better relation with all that is. We have words in our language to describe this, and to communicate about it.”
“Indigenous people understand that Creator is revealed in all of Creation — in the air, the fire, the water, and the earth. We need to share these ways with the world.”
Braveheart has prepared himself for teaching via the traditional ways of the Lakota, and also has acquired two Masters degrees in education. He works extensively with veterans suffering post-traumatic stress disorder, as well as with other people who have addictions. Recently he has begun to travel to teach about Native American spirituality.
The weekend circle is being sponsored by Inyan Oyate Foundation, and will take place at the Ghost Ranch Conference Center, 401 Old Taos Highway, in Santa Fe.
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By Steven McFadden – copyright 2005
I had the opportunity to visit this week with Hosteen Leon Secatero. We sat down together for lunch during an honoring ceremony held at the Albuquerque Museum in New Mexico.
Leon, an elder from the Cañoncito Band of the Navajo, talked with me about the next 500 years, and also about the next five months.
Our conversation was sparked by the recent pronouncements of Sydney Has No Horses, a Lakota Medicine Man. Mr. Has No Horses spoke on October 17, 2005 to a tribal council meeting on the Cheyenne River Reservation in Eagle Butte, South Dakota.
According to widely disseminated internet postings, at that meeting Mr. Has No Horses declared “within six months, we are going to be living in a hell of a world.” He told of his visions that warned about a tsunami hitting the West Coast, about Yellowstone’s Super Volcano erupting, about mammoth storms and earthquakes that would strike, about a meteor that would smash into the earth, and more.
By mid-November the message of Mr. Has No Horses had spread across the globe through the internet. Many people were responding with consternation.
When I met with Leon at the museum—where he was formally honored by the Council for International Visitors for his years of work as an ambassador of friendship for America—Leon told me he has been getting dozens of phone calls from people who are worried about this message. “They want to know what to do,” he said. “They want to know how to respond wisely to what they have heard.”
After getting all these phone calls, one way Leon chose to respond was to plan to gather and share his understandings alongside his old friend and colleague, Don Alejandro Cirilo Perez, Oxlaj, of Guatemala, a Mayan elder and sacerdote. Thus, early next month Grandfathers Leon and Alejandro will meet with people in Santa Fe, New Mexico to talk about this message, and also to talk about prophecy, revelation, and our era of earth changes.
Don Alejandro is a Daykeeper. Recognized before birth, he was trained in the traditional way to work with the elegant mathematics of the Mayan calendars leading up to the year 2012, just seven years ahead when the calendar will return to zero. He is charged as a primary keeper of the teachings, visions, and prophecies of the Mayan people.
I have known Don Alejandro since the early 1990’s when I set off on an extended pilgrimage with him to many of the pyramids, caves, and temples of the Yucatan Peninsula in Mexico. He was a gracious and knowledgeable traveling companion.
Known also as Wandering Wolf for his global travels, Don Alejandro is a remarkable human being. His brown eyes fill with fire when he speaks of our earth and our responsibility to take care of it.
When I interviewed Don Alejandro for my book Legend of the Rainbow Warriors, He told me that indigenous cultures around the world hold in their oral traditions an understanding that civilizations have risen on Earth many times in the past, and then fallen. He said that these civilizations fell apart primarily because they developed and employed technology without wisdom or respect for nature; then the natural world became profoundly unbalanced. “Once again,” he said, “we are in a period of time when technology dominates life and is generally being applied without wisdom.”
“Big changes are coming in this frame of time,” Don Alejandro told me. “All the elders know that. That’s why it’s important to talk now and to remind people to respect Mother Earth, and to stop destroying the water, air, and mountains. We are in times of big change for the Earth, big earthquakes and hurricanes and also big conflicts in politics and war. Politicians promise changes, but we know that at their big meetings, done in the name of making things better, they do not make changes that work. It’s the same old thing. The people must make the changes themselves.”
At the museum this week, as Hosteen Secatero and I spoke at greater length about Don Alejandro, Sydney Has No Horses, and visions of global change, Leon said one of the things he is undertaking now is to help prepare people for our journey on the sacred path of life for the next 500 years.
“We have come again to an ending time, the ending time of the last 500 years according to our indigenous calendars. It is a time to return to the wisdom and teachings of the earth,” Leon said. “So many spiritual elders are carrying teachings now, but there are not enough pathways for them to meet with other people and share. I want to do something to help with this.”
In reference to Sydney Has No Horses, Leon said, “many spiritual elders are having visions and dreams like this now. It is not uncommon. So that is something to consider carefully. We need to bring these messages to the center so that all who are ready can share in them. Things can get way out of proportion, and be distorted. We need to establish a context.
“The journey we are beginning now is for the next 500 years. What will be the sacred path that people will walk over the next 500 years? Even in the midst of all the changes taking place and all the things falling apart, we are building that foundation now. That’s something important for us to remember and to focus on. If we don’t do it, no one else will.
“All anyone needs to do is look around,” Leon said. “We have been destroying nature systematically for many decades. Now nature is destroying us with winds and storms and earthquakes and volcanoes. All that was known a long time ago. The elders have been telling us for years that this would come. Now it’s here and it’s hurting us.
“We need to take a close look at this and then really come to terms with ourselves,” Leon said. “To move ahead into the next 500 years we must leave some things behind or they will contaminate or even eliminate the future. We cannot go forward if we keep destroying the earth. But we must also ask, what is good and healthy and helpful? Those good things can be part of our foundation, part of our pathway into the next 500 years.”
RESOURCES
Original message of Sydney Has No Horses –
http://www.indianz.com/board/topic.asp?TOPIC_ID=16371
National Council for International Visitors
http://www.nciv.org
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Copyright November, 2005 – Steven McFadden – Chiron Communications