Grandmother, Teach Me Patience | Loretta Afraid of Bear Cook & Jyoti Ma

Grandmother, Teach Me Patience | Loretta Afraid of Bear Cook & Jyoti Ma

Podcast host by Eamon Armstrong Life is a Festival

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In times of chaos and trouble, look to the grandmothers for wisdom, compassion, and above all, patience.

On June 4th, a few days after protests against police brutality roiled across the country, I sat with Loretta Afraid of Bear Cook of the Oglala Sioux Nation and her sister Jyoti Ma, convener of the International Council of Thirteen Indigenous Grandmothers. We came together in a virtual circle of the sacred fire to better understand how to respond to these times of anger and confusion as we seek justice.

On the podcast, Loretta and Jyoti speak of patience and the right relationship with the Earth and all her creatures and peoples. We discuss our current cultural moment and what is being asked of us. Loretta shares deep wisdom about Oglala Sioux traditions, including the famous Sundance, a four-day ceremony of purification, and self-sacrifice. I ask how the children of colonizers can make amends, and also how to cultivate patience in the process of seeking justice without falling into passivity.

Loretta Afraid of Bear Cook is the faith keeper and holder of the Afraid of Bear/American Horse Sundance Pipe and has led Sundance with her husband Tom for the past 20 years. She is a cultural specialist on the board of The Paha Sapa Unity Alliance and The Black Hills Initiative, whose mission is to return the sacred Black Hills to the Great Sioux Nation.

Jyoti is the Grandmother Vision Keeper of the Center for Sacred Studies, through which she co-founded Kayumari, a spiritual community in both America and Europe. She helped to convene the International Council of Thirteen Indigenous Grandmothers and is the founder of The Fountain, whose mission is to restore an economic model that is based on reciprocity and collaboration.

Jyoti and Loretta both serve as delegates on the Mother Earth Delegation of United Indigenous Nations.

As you listen to this podcast, I invite you to make time for the wisdom of these grandmothers and utilize your own patience and humility for the complexity of their storytelling.

 

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Timestamps

  • :11 – Open with a prayer

  • :19 – Jyoti Ma speaks of racial healing, from the white nation and black nation to the great-granddaughter of Custer begging for forgiveness from the Cheyenne

  • :35 – Loretta Afraid of Bear Cool speaks of patience and how her Oglala people carry a bundle in mourning until her throat stops hurting.

  • :46 – Loretta speaks of community: Community is the first tool of survival, Loretta speaks of all the important Oglala ceremonies from Tossing the Ball to the Sundance

  • :56 – The reason for the Sundance and the colors of the medicine wheel

  • 1:04 – How can the children of colonizers make it right or at least walk with grace if we cannot make it right?

  • 1:19 – Jyoti speaks of bringing Elders to festivals like Lightning in a Bottle

  • 1:26 –  How do we cultivate patience without passivity?

“Peace Nana” by Luisah Teish

“Peace Nana” by Luisah Teish

Alafia good people:

This greeting asks that we have good health and be at peace with our neighbors.
We are blessed to be on this beautiful planet, together at this most important time. It is our blended energies that keep the rhythm of Life playing as we dance to the music of the spheres.

Imagine now the Joy of the Creatrix, Our Mother, as she shaped us, colored us, named us, and provided the inspiration in us to create a variety of cultures.
At this time, when our Existence is threatened, let each examine the gift of our respective cultures, the wisdom of our minds, and the power of our spirits, and join hands around the globe.
Please accept this poem as a prayer.

Peace Nana

Iba’che NaNa Womb of Creation
She Who Gave Birth to All Things.
From your dark depths the first spark came into Being.
Your luminous Egg exploded in the midst of Eternal Night.
Its joyous dance formed the great lights.

You Who Gave Us Sun and Moon, Earth and Sky, Body and Spirit.
Awaken from your sleep Deep Night.
Lift your eyelids and see our plight.
The children of Earth are in need of your guidance.
They await the feel of your hand.
They roll their eyes in great suspicion,
in anger and fear they strike out.
Their hearts are hard, their hands are trembling.
Amidst the rubble of war, they cry out.

Hear me Great Mother, hear your daughter.
Open your starlight thighs. Draw us back into your vulva.
mold our heads,
pat our behinds.
Change us, every cell and spirit ’til Peace possess our minds.
Blow your perfumed breath upon us,
wash us in the deep blue sea.
Suckle us on milk and honey,
oil us with the balm of love.

Return us then to this green garden,
Oh Beautiful, Generous Mother,
but this time
give us also the wisdom to see your reflection in each other.

Luisah Teish
Peace Prayers: Meditations, Affirmations, Invocations, Poems, and Prayers for Peace.
edited by the staff of HarperSan Francisco: Carrie Leadingham, Joann E. Moschella, and Hilary M. Vartanian
1992.
ISBN 0-06-250464-9

Pgs 50-51

In order to manifest Alafia (good health and peace) I am asking every person to say a prayer in their own tradition asking for the end of human cruelty. Let the tendency to be cruel grow weaker in us, pray it dissipates, melts, rolls down and out of our Consciousness. Let us clean ourselves of the great diseases-Fear and Hatred. Then call upon the power to change ourselves on a cellular level and let us evolve into Beings who are naturally Compassionate.

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Luisah Teish is a storyteller-writer, an artist-activist, and spiritual guidance counselor. She is an initiated elder (Iyanifa) in the Ifa/Orisha tradition of the West African Diaspora.
She is the author of Jambalaya: The Natural Woman’s Book of Personal Charms and Practical Rituals, and she co-authored “On Holy Ground: Commitment and Devotion to Sacred Land” with Kahuna Leilani Birely. Her most recent work is “Spirit Revealing, Color Healing”, a book of Zen Doodles.

Wisdom Offering from Elizabeth B. Jenkins about Q’ero Prophecy

Wisdom Offering from Elizabeth B. Jenkins about Q’ero Prophecy

Offering from Elizabeth B. Jenkins about Q’ero Prophecy and how the Global Healing Paqo Ops are contributing to Prophecy!
Coincidentally there is an inaccurate and misleading post going around FB that is being touted as THE Q’ERO PROPHECY –and I have been asked to put forward the Prophecy as it was taught to me by my Elders.
Here are a few words on the Q’ero Prophecy and how the Global Healing Paqo Ops are contributing to Prophecy!

The prophecy in full was held by Don Andres Espinoza of Q’eros and Don Benito Qoriwaman of Wasao, two of the greatest Fourth Level Andean Masters of the last century. It was recovered and translated by Juan Nuñez Del Prado in the early ’80s, and transmitted to me in 1991.  The prophecy says: when the Paqos (initiates) see the signs in the mountains of receding snows the PACHACUTI (reversal of world order) will begin. This happened on January 1 of 1990, signifying that the Pachacuti would begin August 1 of that same year. 

The Pachacuti is meant to bring about the dissolution of the structures of the 3rd level (our current level of spiritual development) and through the Tukuy Ayniniyoq–Great Exchange of all cultural gifts on earth–bring about the Taripaypacha–the meaning of which is forthcoming below.
This Prophecy is participatory and energetic so it is changed by how we change. In other words, what we do has great impact on what happens and we are acting inside the prophecy right now. The Andean Masters tell us that most of human society on planet Earth is currently at the third level of spiritual development, a sort of spiritual adolescence wherein we blame authority and see it as outside ourselves, feel a victim (or perpetrator or rescuer), our primary emotion is FEAR, we see our situation as static and feel helpless to make any difference, and we are focussed on our own National security. The Prophecy and the Wisdom Tradition from which it comes, provides the spiritual tools and shows us the way forward to evolve into the 4th level. The Fourth level is described as the Tukuy Ayniniyoq, which means the great exchange of all the cultural gifts and abilities of every culture of the world. It is called the Taripaypacha meaning “the age of meeting ourselves again,” and it is the time of restoring the harmony between human society and Mother Nature.
Now what does it mean to arrive to the 4th level? It means we choose Love over Fear every time. We take responsibility for our lives—no more victims. We own our shadow and no longer project it onto others. It means we stabilize the resonant field of our bubble with the entire planetary field. We are inclusive, we reject no one, we can eat and digest every Hoocha (heavy–often called negative–energy) and fear none. At the fourth level we can walk into any Church, Synagogue, Mosque, Temple, Sweat Lodge, Long House, or Hawaiian Heiau, and feel the same devotion because we are directly connecting with the living energy of the divine, no matter the form. There are no more religious wars at the fourth level and no war between the sexes because male and female are known as YANANTIN, or life giving complimentary energies, not opposites. The Fourth Level Initiate creates connection and harmony wherever s/he goes. New solutions appear at the fourth level that were not available to the 3rd level way of thinking. The Fourth Level is the Inka measure of an adult. The 4th level refers to an initiation in which we release our human mom and dad and receive Pachamama (Mother Earth) and Inti Tayta (Father Sun) as our mother and father and all human beings literally become our brothers and sisters. That would be full attainment of the 4th level. Examples of humans fully arrived to 4th level are few; the Dalai Lama, Mother Teresa are some. At the first level we resonate our energy field with our birth family and small village, at the second level we resonate our bubble with the larger human group and mountains and rivers of our city, at the third level we resonate our identity (literally our energy field) with our entire country–that’s why this is our current state of development. At the fourth level we resonate our energy field with the entire planetary energy body.
The Prophecy states that when enough people (like a critical mass) arrive to the 4th level this will create the energetic womb required for the fifth level initiates to emerge. Fifth level initiates have the power to heal every illness every time with one touch. Don Benito told his students that a fifth level initiate could simply walk into a room (for example the United Nations) and conflicts would find resolution just by the impact of her/his energy field. The fifth level healers are prophesied to emerge at huge Festivals around Peru where humans are collaborating in sacred ceremony with powerful Nature Beings at these sacred sites. The exchange of energy is said to create an enormous energy field that allows the fifth level capacities to emerge. Further, 12 fifth level healers will emerge and must join together to perform the Mosoq Qarpay (New Initiation) to bring about the sixth level initiates, enlightened leaders who literally shine with their own light. The enlightened leaders will restore the world of humanity to harmony with Nature: this is the part of the Prophecy known as The Return of the Inka–actually referring to a sacred couple that is foretold to emerge. Something like a high King and Queen who govern according to the laws of Nature and the benefit of the people.  Believe it or not, this story is literally performed every year as a ceremonial play in countless villages throughout the Andes over the last 500 years, since the conquest of the Spanish. I feel this speaks to the collective memory of life lived in harmony with Nature and Natural laws and our deep desire to return to that state.
The wisdom of the Q’ero that tell us how our bodies are designed to resonate with the forces of Nature and join together to perform powerful ceremonies of healing and harmonization with the Global Nature beings, known as the TEQSE APUS, the Natures forces that everyone on Earth has equal access to. Mother Water lives in our tail, Mother Earth in our belly, Father Sun in our hearts, Mother Wind, Moon, and Stars, in our throats and Father Cosmos in our heads.  They give us tools to work with great intention COLLECTIVELY to harmonize ourselves with nature, to fully resonate our bubbles with the planetary body via our Global Healing Ops and practices. Every Full and New Moon, we contribute to the global energy field and move along the process of the prophecy, and now we are working EVERYDAY helping to create the “womb” that will allow the emergence of the fifth level super healers.
This beautiful Prophecy of the Andean people is what has motivated my life day and night over the last 32 years to serve as I was asked, a chaka runa, or bridge person to share these teachings in the great TUKUYANINIYOQ and help along our collective development.
These are the practices that I was hopeful to share at Glastonbury that can unite our powerful selves together and align with the forces of Nature to bring ourselves forward. The practices are delicious and ecstatic. The invitation is always open and I have
Put up a freely accessible Global Healing Ops video to allow anyone to join us anytime they may feel called.
With great love, hope and trust in Mother Nature and human goodness.
Elizabeth

 

Elizabeth B. Jenkins,

Farmer, Author, Director of Wiraqocha Foundation

Kurikindis Message

Kurikindis Message

Kurikindi has shared with us about the worry he feels for the new generations, that are our kids, and he considers this to be a priority in these times.

He shares about the Eagle – Condor Prophecy and how this vibration of this prophecy is very high right now in South America.

He understands that the prophecy is given but it has not been fully or deeply understood yet, so after the encounter of the Eagle and the  Condor occurs to bring harmony to the Earth, there will be an encounter of the Condor of the Earth and the Intergalactic Eagle, and that will be another era.

He explains it exists now a very high vibration that is occurring in the Amazon, and many portals are now being opened in South America, and a lot of the new beginnings will come or start in the South of the Americas.

Kurikindi shares that the Covid19 has affected the planet and this too will pass, but another one will come (another virus)stronger than this one, and so we need to get prepared, we will have enough time for that, he says, because when the other one comes, even the strongest will succumb and it will be a time of much death on the earth.

The seeds have been planted, but many of them need to be constantly watered so they can develop, and that is why now we as humanity are feeling the element of the Water moving so strong.

Kurikindi shares he is very clear in what he says, that he can see all of this he is sharing very clearly.

Kurkindi feels that today things are very different, they have shifted, and the voice of the jungle and of the mountains of South America will come out with great strength to the world, that is his vision.

Thank you.

Traduction by Eleonora.

Mindahi Bastida’s TOLTEC Wisdom Message

Mindahi Bastida’s TOLTEC Wisdom Message

Toltec timekeepers knew about the 26 thousand year cycle of the precession of the equinoxes. That is the time it takes for our planet to be aligned to the same north star back again. It consists of five cycles of fifty-two hundred years. We have just completed the fifth of these cycles, which for the Toltec was known as the fifth Sun. It was composed of ten cycles of five hundred and twenty years each. The last cycle started in 1492 and ended in the year 2012.

Toltec timekeepers knew about the 26 thousand year cycle of the precession of the equinoxes. That is the time it takes for our planet to be aligned to the same north star back again. It consists of five cycles of fifty-two hundred years. We have just completed the fifth of these cycles, which for the Toltec was known as the fifth Sun. It was composed of ten cycles of five hundred and twenty years each. The last cycle started in 1492 and ended in the year 2012.

They knew that it would be a time of destruction and degradation. They knew that the last fifty-two years would be the worst, for by then every single aspect of Creation would be completely eroded. They knew that starting on 2012, year 1 Flint, Mother Earth would start a thirteen-year cycle of cleansing until year 1 House, which is 2025. This cycle was announced as 4 Movement, because it refers to the Four Elements moving powerfully together, which means, Earthquakes, Fires, Hurricanes and Floods.

As you can see, I have not mentioned people as agents of that destruction and degradation. But we know that we are participating in the cycles of life with Mother Earth. So, the destruction that started in this continent of the Americas in 1492 led to the degradation of biocultural traditions, exerted by civilizations that had chosen to stop respecting and relating to the cycles of life. Those civilizations thought that their purpose in life is to achieve salvation, and that it did not matter to kill, destroy, or extract, if by doing that they could get a place in heaven.

But now that they have polluted their own water, their own air, their own soil and their own fire, now that they have polluted their own bodies, their own organs, their own cells and their own genes, they are crumbling as a civilization. Mother Earth will continue to go through her cleansing process.

Those of us who have kept to the Toltec ways, have been preparing for a long time. We have kept our medicinal systems, we have kept our food systems, our sacred sites and our sacred calendars.

We accompany Mother Earth in her cleansing process with much respect, acknowledging that this is her time, and we are paying close attention to all that is unfolding during these thirteen years. We are sharing what she is communicating with everyone, and whoever is ready to listen and take in with wisdom and humility, will know what to do, how to behave, what to change in their way of life.

All of us have a chance to rise to a new level of consciousness, with an attitude and a renewed commitment of living with Mother Earth.

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