I don't know but I do know that there seems to be a lot of negative posts, and conflict between a few members, you know who you are.
When I lived in the USA, I had some and still do to this day first nation friends. These people were in their 70s, and still today in the messed up world we know, lived still by their old ways.
In a sweat lodge with the heat almost to the unbearable point, Running near started to teach. Spiritually bringing up the way they perceive life. All things on this mother are equal, we are here to respect life, family, and our old.
True.
If you have noticed anything in your travels you should be aware of what the white people have done to our mother, which began the moment they stepped off the boats. They are not nor will ever be connected to the soil or nature of our mother. There is too much fighting and greed in today's world, with a severe neglect of their surroundings.
As the host gets hotter sitting there listening.
People have lost their souls and wander not knowing what it is to be alive within yourself, that is because you have lost the most important part of your lives, a connection.
I'm sweating seriously now. He continues. Illness is most caused from what you call anxiety and mental stress, all diseases stem from within.
Even that ringing in your head, being with yourself in deep thinking or meditating as we call it, will bring a mindful peace.
You need connection with mother.
Remove your plastic rubber shoes, take off your socks, now strip down. Step out of the lodge and submerge yourself into that stream.
Damn that's cold.
Now go stand in the dirt, and lose all thought you may stand for as long as is needed. My arse is freezing.
But the more I lost myself in my own mind I felt a force from the ground up through my entire body.
As I stood the bear came to me, and said I will make you a leather moccasins you wear them, you will feel the mother through your feet.