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An Introduction to the Dagara Medicine Wheel

Traveling across this country and working with people on a variety of issues, one of things that I have discovered, is that, in the absence of a true community, that is to say, a context in which people can come together and share the kind of things that they have in common, what happens is that a person who is really finding his or her psyche expanding (you can call that a "spiritual awakening" if you want), is really thrown into the kind of world that I live in. It is like being thrown into two worlds.

The conservative world does not recognize this kind of awakening. Therefore you find yourself at odds with everything else. At best you are looked at us as a "weird" person. I looked up this word in the Oxford dictionary, and found out, that actually, its not bad. :) It is not bad to be weird. :) It actually means originally "being wired." So basically, your come to understand that it means that you are powered up. :) So somehow those people who wake up with the spirit and think that it is diminishing to be called weird, they should really come together and celebrate being weird. :)

Recognition of one's own self hood is now entering the public arena. I believe that a new global village, or global tribe, is now creating itself. Who is orchestrating this? I don't know, but I have a great sense that indeed there are lots of souls perceiving this who are very serious about waking up into something that will give us the greatest chance to survive. This is why some people have to admit to being weird, and to take it to the next step, wherever that next step is.

Of course, that will mean eventually stepping aside for a while from the rather imperialistic tendencies of the mind, and allowing the heart and soul to do the thinking for a while. What may be yielded in there will contain some more exciting material. I know it is very difficult for a mind accustomed to telling us what to do, a mind accustomed to judging every new step we take, to relinquish control to a heart and soul that is beyond logic. But waking up into spirit means saying good bye to old logic. The kind of logic that is being constructed by the mind becomes quite inadequate. This is what the heart keeps telling us very regularly because the feeling of the heart cannot be mapped by the ego.

Now this may seem too far fetched, but I'm trying to catalogue some of the key places where modern people differ from the indigenous world. The indigenous world view and wisdom could be useful to modern people who have slipped into the other side without knowing what happened. I think that it is a blessing to wake up feeling that somehow there is a pull towards some serious, deep confirmation. . . . .

If you become open to layers and layers of dimensional reality, and have a way to embrace it, your life will be kept constantly exciting. Anything that is out there in normal reality, however glamorous it seems to be at first, after being in the midst of it for a while, sooner or later, it stops being glamorous to your eye. Your eyes get tired of looking at it. Somehow the excitement runs out. But in spirit world you really never get enough of it, because there is so much that is not discovered. I can retell my life story for you to see that these things are exciting, but what is important is that there is a combination between excitement and fear. They go together. If something is clearly mapped out from the beginning, then 60% of this excitement is out. It is a known territory. What kind of excitement is there in that? But that which you jump into without prior, complete knowledge of the various steps you are going to have to go through, that is likely to be exciting. . . . .

The important thing is that we have to accelerate this kind of initiative because of the kind of responsibility that is always linked to this awakening. It is not just for the heck of it that someone wakes up into this kind of reality. It is for a specific kind of responsibility. It has to do with contributing to the global healing that is becoming crucial for the future of the world that we live in. So the faster one opens oneself up for this reality, the better it is going to be. This is not a private planet. It is a community initiative. . . . . .

We have come to a kind of intersection, an intersection which is very crucial in the history of our world. Everywhere people say that great change is coming. The little experience I have had traveling across this country has revealed that there are lots of people who are craving for a deeper connection. This is not something that anyone should take lightly because what it means is that somehow allot of us are already picking up signals that are coming from deeper space, or somewhere around us, I don't know. These people are therefore privileged because they are awake enough to record the message. Their task is to be able to begin sending the message back. Their task is to start talking back, not take it out to other people who may still be a sleep, to tell them, listen, I picked up this message, what do you think? Well, they are going to think that you are weird. : ) Then send you back home, after charging you for the hour. :) Then you find yourself thinking that maybe he's right. :) Maybe you're weird, and therefore you're very confused. So again this just scrambles the channels. Recording the news means to keep the lines open. It is a real loss when spirit dials our number and finds out that we wouldn't listen. :) Every time its busy, some major thing passes us, walks away.

This is why I try and say in what ever way I can, that expanding our consciousness right now is not something to take like a hobby. It is something that should become the base of our lives. It should be given the same serious character as is found in the indigenous world. I have come to realize by living here and going between here, and the village, why it is that in my village people spend 75% to 85% of their time either doing ritual, or talking about ritual, or recovering from ritual. :) The point is that you become so versed with these types of things, that once you understand the importance of it, nothing else really matters. Nothing really matters, and so you know where your energy goes, or should be going and you work at doing that. The more you do it, the evidence changes, and the confirmations that you encounter become strong enough to motivate you to get back into it. I've come to relate to it as a pretty good way of being addicted. A human being cannot escape addiction. We each have one or two. So its good to add ritual to our addictions. Something of this sort, because then we guarantee ourselves a chance to actually get there, to check in with the spirit.

If there are groups here and there who do ritual as a community gateway to spirit, I think it is important for them to be open to others. In that way the circle can come to reflect the beginning of the kind of community that is going to be part of the global community we have talked about. Its going to happen one way or another. It could be rather mellow, or it could be forced upon us. . . . .

The future does not entail forgetting the past, to the contrary, it is more like going into the past. At least that is my sense of it. By going into the future you bump right into the past. . .

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