Because we are all connected
Maybe this will work.
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From Chief Arvol Looking Horse
19th generation Keeper of the Sacred White Buffalo Calf Pipe
(Wolakota.org )
World Peace and Prayer day
Honoring Sacred Sites day
June 21, 2010
www.wolakota.org
Time has come to speak to the hearts of our Nations and their Leaders. I ask you this from the bottom of my heart, to come together from the Spirit of your Nations in prayer.
We, from the heart of Turtle Island, have a great message for the World; we are guided to speak from all the White Animals showing their sacred color, which have been signs for us to pray for the sacred life of all things. As I am sending this message to you, many Animal Nations are being threatened, those that swim, those that crawl, those that fly, and the plant Nations, eventually all will be affect from the oil disaster in the Gulf.
The dangers we are faced with at this time are not of spirit. The catastrophe that has happened with the oil spill which looks like the bleeding of Grandmother Earth, is made by human mistakes, mistakes that we cannot afford to continue to make.
I asked, as Spiritual Leaders, that we join together, united in prayer with the whole of our Global Communities. My concern is these serious issues will continue to worsen, as a domino effect that our Ancestors have warned us of in their Prophecies.
I know in my heart there are millions of people that feel our united prayers for the sake of our Grandmother Earth are long overdue. I believe we as Spiritual people must gather ourselves and focus our thoughts and prayers to allow the healing of the many wounds that have been inflicted on the Earth. As we honor the Cycle of Life, let us call for Prayer circles globally to assist in healing Grandmother Earth (our Unc'I Maka).
We ask for prayers that the oil spill, this bleeding, will stop. That the winds stay calm to assist in the work. Pray for the people to be guided in repairing this mistake, and that we may also seek to live in harmony, as we make the choice to change the destructive path we are on.
As we pray, we will fully understand that we are all connected. And that what we create can have lasting effects on all life.
So let us unite spiritually, All Nations, All Faiths, One Prayer. Along with this immediate effort, I also ask to please remember June 21st, World Peace and Prayer Day/Honoring Sacred Sites day. Whether it is a natural site, a temple, a church, a synagogue or just your own sacred space, let us make a prayer for all life, for good decision making by our Nations, for our children's future and well-being, and the generations to come.
Onipikte (that we shall live)
Chief Arvol LookingHorse
19th generation Keeper of the Sacred White Buffalo Calf Pipe
http://www.wolakota.org/menu.html
Mitakuye (my relative),
I, Chief Arvol Looking Horse of the Lakota, Dakota and Nakota Nation, would
like to ask for this time for you to understand an Indigenous perspective
in reflection of what has happened in America, what we call "Turtle
Island".
For the past six years, my work has concentrated on an effort on uniting
the Global community, through a message from our sacred ceremonies in
recognizing a day of World Peace and Prayer on June 21st as a time to unite
spiritually, each in our own ways of beliefs in the Creator. We have been
warned from the messages, passed down from Ancient Prophecies of these
times we live in today, but also a very important message of a solution to
turn these terrible times around.
To assist you in understanding the depth of this message involves the
recognition in the importance of Sacred Sites. It is important that you
realize the whole interconnectedness of what is happening today, in
reflection of the continued massacres that are occurring on other lands and
our own Americas. I have been learning about these important issues of
Sacred Sites since the age of 12, upon receiving the Sacred White Buffalo
Calf Pipe Bundle and it's teachings.
Our people have strived to protect Sacred Sites from the beginning of time.
There needs to be an understanding in the concern of the protection of
Sacred Sites that goes deeper than just the issue of Shrines built by
humans. Our people have built similar objects and Shrines to identify and
to remind the significance in the power of the Sacred Site. We have also
witnessed them being destroyed for many decades, but we also realize it is
what is underneath them that is important. These places have been violated
for centuries and have brought us to this predicament that we are in
concerning the unstable Global Level thus far. Look around you, our Mother
Earth is very ill from these violations and we are at a brink of destroying
a healthy and nurturing survival for generations to come, our children's
children.
Our ancestors have been trying to protect our Sacred Site from the
continued violations called the Sacred Black Hills in SD, "Heart of
Everything that is". Our ancestors never seen this site from a Satellite
view, but now that those pictures are available with modern technology, we
see that it is in the shape of a heart and when fast forwarded it looks
like a heart pumping.
The Dine have been protecting Big Mountain, calling it the liver and now
that the coal is depleting, we are suffering and going to suffer more from
the extraction of the coal and poison processes used in doing so.
The Aborigines has warned of the contaminating effects on the Corral Reefs
from Global Warming, which they see as Mother Earth's blood purifier, our
sacred water is being polluted.
The Indigenous people of the Rain Forest relay that the Rain Forest are the
lungs and need protection and now we see the Brazilian Government approved
the depletion of 50% of this Sacred Site.
The Gwich'in Nation has an issue of oil drilling in the Arctic National
Wildlife Refuge coastal plain, also known to the Gwich'in as "Where the
life begins!"
The coastal plain is also the birthplace of many other life forms of Animal
Nations. The death of these Animal Nations will destroy Indigenous Nations
in this territory.
As these destructive developments continue all over the world, we will
witness many more extinct Animal, Plant and Human Nations, because of the
misuse of power that mankind has made and their lack of understanding the
"balance of life". The Indigenous people warn that these destructive
developments will cause havoc globally. There are many, many more
Indigenous awareness's and knowledge of Mother Earth's Sacred Sites,
connections (Mother Earth's Charkas) to our spirit that will surely affect
our future generations. These people are still suffering from this
contamination and their livelihood is being destroyed as I write this to
you. There needs to be a fast move toward other forms of energy that are
safe for all Nations upon Mother Earth. We need to understand the whole
picture in the type of minds that are continuing to destroy the spirit of
our whole Global Community. Unless we do this, the powers of destruction
will overwhelm us.
Our Ancestors foretold that water would someday be for sale. Back then
this was hard to believe, since the water was so plentiful, so pure, and so
full of energy, nutrition and spirit. Today we have to buy pure water, and
even then the nutritional minerals have been taken out; it's just empty
liquid. Someday water will be like gold, too expensive to afford. Not
everyone will have the right to drink safe water. We fail to appreciate
and honor our Sacred Sites, ripping out the minerals and gifts that lay
underneath them, as if Mother Earth were simply a resource, instead of the
Source of Life itself.
Attacking Nations and having to utilize more resources to carry out the
destruction in the name of Peace and elimination is not the answer! We
need to understand how all these decisions affects the Global Nation, we
will not be immune to it's repercussions. To allow continual contamination
of our food and land, is now affecting the way we think. A "disease of the
mind" has set in World Leaders and many members of our Global Community,
with their understanding that a solution of retaliation and destruction of
peoples will bring Peace. In our Prophecies it is told that we are now at
the Crossroads, either unite Spiritually as a Global Nation, or be faced
with chaos, disasters, diseases and tears from our relatives eyes.
In times of disasters it is sad to say that it is the only time that we
unite spiritually, but we must not taint it with anger and retaliation. We
are the only species that is destroying the Source of life, meaning Mother
Earth, in the name of power, mineral resources and ownership of land, using
methods of chemicals and warfare that is becoming irreversible, as Mother
Earth is becoming tired and can not sustain any more impacts of war. I ask
you to join me on this endeavor. Our vision is for the Peoples of all
continents, regardless of their beliefs in the Creator, to come together as
one at their Sacred Sites at that sacred moment of what is known as the
Summer Solstice of June 21st, to pray and meditate and commune with one
another, thus promoting an energy shift to heal our Mother Earth and
achieve a universal consciousness toward attaining Peace. As each day
passes bringing us to this day of concentration together, I ask the Global
Nations to begin a Global effort, in knowing that each and every one of us
are making a daily effort in waking to a gratitude of another day, that is
gifted to us and begin to remember to give thanks for the Sacred Food that
has been also gifted to us by our Mother Earth, so the nutritional energy
of medicine can be guided to heal our minds and spirits.
This new millennium will usher in an age of harmony or it will bring the
end of life as we know it. Starvation, war and toxic waste have been the
hallmark of the Great Myth of Progress and Development that ruled the last
millennium. To us, as caretakers of the heart of Mother Earth, falls the
responsibility of turning back the powers of destruction. We have come to
a time and place of great urgency. The fate of future generations rests in
our hands. We must understand the two ways we are free to follow, as we
choose the positive way or the negative way -- the spiritual way or the
material way. It's our own choice -- each of ours and all of ours. You
yourself are the one who must decide. You alone -- and only you -- can
make this crucial choice. Whatever you decide is what you'll be, to walk
in honor or to dishonor your relatives. You can't escape the consequences
of your own decision. On your decision depends the fate of the entire
World. You must decide. You can't avoid it. Each of us is put here in
this time and this place to personally decide the future of humankind. Did
you think the Creator would create unnecessary people in a time of such
terrible danger? Know that you yourself are essential to this World.
Believe that!
Understand both the blessing and the burden of that. You yourself are
desperately needed to save the soul of this World. Did you think you were
put here for something less?
In a Sacred Hoop of Life, where there is no beginning and no ending!
Mitakuye Oyasin,
Chief Arvol Looking Horse
19th Generation Keeper of the Sacred White Buffalo Calf Pipe
-------------------------------------------------------
From Chief Arvol Looking Horse
19th generation Keeper of the Sacred White Buffalo Calf Pipe
(Wolakota.org )
World Peace and Prayer day
Honoring Sacred Sites day
June 21, 2010
www.wolakota.org
Time has come to speak to the hearts of our Nations and their Leaders. I ask you this from the bottom of my heart, to come together from the Spirit of your Nations in prayer.
We, from the heart of Turtle Island, have a great message for the World; we are guided to speak from all the White Animals showing their sacred color, which have been signs for us to pray for the sacred life of all things. As I am sending this message to you, many Animal Nations are being threatened, those that swim, those that crawl, those that fly, and the plant Nations, eventually all will be affect from the oil disaster in the Gulf.
The dangers we are faced with at this time are not of spirit. The catastrophe that has happened with the oil spill which looks like the bleeding of Grandmother Earth, is made by human mistakes, mistakes that we cannot afford to continue to make.
I asked, as Spiritual Leaders, that we join together, united in prayer with the whole of our Global Communities. My concern is these serious issues will continue to worsen, as a domino effect that our Ancestors have warned us of in their Prophecies.
I know in my heart there are millions of people that feel our united prayers for the sake of our Grandmother Earth are long overdue. I believe we as Spiritual people must gather ourselves and focus our thoughts and prayers to allow the healing of the many wounds that have been inflicted on the Earth. As we honor the Cycle of Life, let us call for Prayer circles globally to assist in healing Grandmother Earth (our Unc'I Maka).
We ask for prayers that the oil spill, this bleeding, will stop. That the winds stay calm to assist in the work. Pray for the people to be guided in repairing this mistake, and that we may also seek to live in harmony, as we make the choice to change the destructive path we are on.
As we pray, we will fully understand that we are all connected. And that what we create can have lasting effects on all life.
So let us unite spiritually, All Nations, All Faiths, One Prayer. Along with this immediate effort, I also ask to please remember June 21st, World Peace and Prayer Day/Honoring Sacred Sites day. Whether it is a natural site, a temple, a church, a synagogue or just your own sacred space, let us make a prayer for all life, for good decision making by our Nations, for our children's future and well-being, and the generations to come.
Onipikte (that we shall live)
Chief Arvol LookingHorse
19th generation Keeper of the Sacred White Buffalo Calf Pipe
http://www.wolakota.org/menu.html
Mitakuye (my relative),
I, Chief Arvol Looking Horse of the Lakota, Dakota and Nakota Nation, would
like to ask for this time for you to understand an Indigenous perspective
in reflection of what has happened in America, what we call "Turtle
Island".
For the past six years, my work has concentrated on an effort on uniting
the Global community, through a message from our sacred ceremonies in
recognizing a day of World Peace and Prayer on June 21st as a time to unite
spiritually, each in our own ways of beliefs in the Creator. We have been
warned from the messages, passed down from Ancient Prophecies of these
times we live in today, but also a very important message of a solution to
turn these terrible times around.
To assist you in understanding the depth of this message involves the
recognition in the importance of Sacred Sites. It is important that you
realize the whole interconnectedness of what is happening today, in
reflection of the continued massacres that are occurring on other lands and
our own Americas. I have been learning about these important issues of
Sacred Sites since the age of 12, upon receiving the Sacred White Buffalo
Calf Pipe Bundle and it's teachings.
Our people have strived to protect Sacred Sites from the beginning of time.
There needs to be an understanding in the concern of the protection of
Sacred Sites that goes deeper than just the issue of Shrines built by
humans. Our people have built similar objects and Shrines to identify and
to remind the significance in the power of the Sacred Site. We have also
witnessed them being destroyed for many decades, but we also realize it is
what is underneath them that is important. These places have been violated
for centuries and have brought us to this predicament that we are in
concerning the unstable Global Level thus far. Look around you, our Mother
Earth is very ill from these violations and we are at a brink of destroying
a healthy and nurturing survival for generations to come, our children's
children.
Our ancestors have been trying to protect our Sacred Site from the
continued violations called the Sacred Black Hills in SD, "Heart of
Everything that is". Our ancestors never seen this site from a Satellite
view, but now that those pictures are available with modern technology, we
see that it is in the shape of a heart and when fast forwarded it looks
like a heart pumping.
The Dine have been protecting Big Mountain, calling it the liver and now
that the coal is depleting, we are suffering and going to suffer more from
the extraction of the coal and poison processes used in doing so.
The Aborigines has warned of the contaminating effects on the Corral Reefs
from Global Warming, which they see as Mother Earth's blood purifier, our
sacred water is being polluted.
The Indigenous people of the Rain Forest relay that the Rain Forest are the
lungs and need protection and now we see the Brazilian Government approved
the depletion of 50% of this Sacred Site.
The Gwich'in Nation has an issue of oil drilling in the Arctic National
Wildlife Refuge coastal plain, also known to the Gwich'in as "Where the
life begins!"
The coastal plain is also the birthplace of many other life forms of Animal
Nations. The death of these Animal Nations will destroy Indigenous Nations
in this territory.
As these destructive developments continue all over the world, we will
witness many more extinct Animal, Plant and Human Nations, because of the
misuse of power that mankind has made and their lack of understanding the
"balance of life". The Indigenous people warn that these destructive
developments will cause havoc globally. There are many, many more
Indigenous awareness's and knowledge of Mother Earth's Sacred Sites,
connections (Mother Earth's Charkas) to our spirit that will surely affect
our future generations. These people are still suffering from this
contamination and their livelihood is being destroyed as I write this to
you. There needs to be a fast move toward other forms of energy that are
safe for all Nations upon Mother Earth. We need to understand the whole
picture in the type of minds that are continuing to destroy the spirit of
our whole Global Community. Unless we do this, the powers of destruction
will overwhelm us.
Our Ancestors foretold that water would someday be for sale. Back then
this was hard to believe, since the water was so plentiful, so pure, and so
full of energy, nutrition and spirit. Today we have to buy pure water, and
even then the nutritional minerals have been taken out; it's just empty
liquid. Someday water will be like gold, too expensive to afford. Not
everyone will have the right to drink safe water. We fail to appreciate
and honor our Sacred Sites, ripping out the minerals and gifts that lay
underneath them, as if Mother Earth were simply a resource, instead of the
Source of Life itself.
Attacking Nations and having to utilize more resources to carry out the
destruction in the name of Peace and elimination is not the answer! We
need to understand how all these decisions affects the Global Nation, we
will not be immune to it's repercussions. To allow continual contamination
of our food and land, is now affecting the way we think. A "disease of the
mind" has set in World Leaders and many members of our Global Community,
with their understanding that a solution of retaliation and destruction of
peoples will bring Peace. In our Prophecies it is told that we are now at
the Crossroads, either unite Spiritually as a Global Nation, or be faced
with chaos, disasters, diseases and tears from our relatives eyes.
In times of disasters it is sad to say that it is the only time that we
unite spiritually, but we must not taint it with anger and retaliation. We
are the only species that is destroying the Source of life, meaning Mother
Earth, in the name of power, mineral resources and ownership of land, using
methods of chemicals and warfare that is becoming irreversible, as Mother
Earth is becoming tired and can not sustain any more impacts of war. I ask
you to join me on this endeavor. Our vision is for the Peoples of all
continents, regardless of their beliefs in the Creator, to come together as
one at their Sacred Sites at that sacred moment of what is known as the
Summer Solstice of June 21st, to pray and meditate and commune with one
another, thus promoting an energy shift to heal our Mother Earth and
achieve a universal consciousness toward attaining Peace. As each day
passes bringing us to this day of concentration together, I ask the Global
Nations to begin a Global effort, in knowing that each and every one of us
are making a daily effort in waking to a gratitude of another day, that is
gifted to us and begin to remember to give thanks for the Sacred Food that
has been also gifted to us by our Mother Earth, so the nutritional energy
of medicine can be guided to heal our minds and spirits.
This new millennium will usher in an age of harmony or it will bring the
end of life as we know it. Starvation, war and toxic waste have been the
hallmark of the Great Myth of Progress and Development that ruled the last
millennium. To us, as caretakers of the heart of Mother Earth, falls the
responsibility of turning back the powers of destruction. We have come to
a time and place of great urgency. The fate of future generations rests in
our hands. We must understand the two ways we are free to follow, as we
choose the positive way or the negative way -- the spiritual way or the
material way. It's our own choice -- each of ours and all of ours. You
yourself are the one who must decide. You alone -- and only you -- can
make this crucial choice. Whatever you decide is what you'll be, to walk
in honor or to dishonor your relatives. You can't escape the consequences
of your own decision. On your decision depends the fate of the entire
World. You must decide. You can't avoid it. Each of us is put here in
this time and this place to personally decide the future of humankind. Did
you think the Creator would create unnecessary people in a time of such
terrible danger? Know that you yourself are essential to this World.
Believe that!
Understand both the blessing and the burden of that. You yourself are
desperately needed to save the soul of this World. Did you think you were
put here for something less?
In a Sacred Hoop of Life, where there is no beginning and no ending!
Mitakuye Oyasin,
Chief Arvol Looking Horse
19th Generation Keeper of the Sacred White Buffalo Calf Pipe