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Collective and Individual Expansion

Published November 16, 2022 by tindertender

You have a piece of knowledge I need in this world…
And so do you,
And you, and you, and you.
My perception expands every time one of you share your ideas, thoughts, and feelings about situations and circumstance.
Because of you, I expand as an individual.
Which then allows me to share from this new space,
Assisting others in their expansion also.
We don’t have to agree on everything.
We simply BE together in the best way possible, keeping peace at the forefront of the collective.
This does not mean “counseling” every person we meet from a lofty position.
We know who is with us by who supports us in our efforts of unity and grace.
We know who doesn’t because they’d rather us change ourselves to be more pleasing for them.
My love goes out to all the unhealed hearts and minds.
I cannot heal you.
My only responsibility is my own health ~ mental, energetic and physical.
That is challenging enough as it is.
So I look after me,
In the best way I am able,
With the tools and awareness I collect in every progressive moment.
I remain grateful for all who have crossed my path and contributed what they had to offer.
This collective WILL rise,
Despite those who continue to drag the energy downward.
I seek that which is good.
I leave the rest.

I Believe!

Published November 15, 2022 by tindertender

The Same, Yet Different

Published November 15, 2022 by tindertender

We all live on this wonderful planet we get to call Mother Earth. We all want happiness for ourselves and our families. We all want good health and a healthy community. We are different in our looks, the coloring of our skin, the beliefs we hold dear, our preferences and how we choose to live our life. If we were all the same, life would be boring and mundane. Differences challenge us as well as teach us tolerance and understanding of others. 💜

(Art by Phyllis Ann Taylor Pennet)

The Ghost Dance

Published November 15, 2022 by tindertender

On this day, November 12th, 1890, an indigenous movement giving hope to the peoples in their loss and grief, was met with fear and violent suppression by the US government and it’s armed forces.

The Ghost Dance is, and was, a spiritual movement that came about in the late 1880s when conditions were in grave despair on Indian reservations with sickness, starvation and death ever present, Native Americans needed something to give them hope.

  • the Ghost Dance song:
    “The whole world is coming,
    A nation is coming, a nation is coming,
    The eagle has brought the message to the tribe, The father says so, the father says so.
    Over the whole earth they are coming,
    The buffalo are coming, the buffalo are coming, The crow has brought the message to the tribe, The father says so, the father says so.”
    “When the Sun died, I went up to Heaven and saw God [Creator] and all the people who had died a long time ago. God [Creator] told me to come back and tell my people they must be good and love one another, and not fight, or steal or lie. He gave me this dance to give to my people.”

    ~ Wovoka. HISTORIC AUDIO RECORDING, click on link below to hear. https://archive.org/embed/CollectedWorksOfJamesMooney

The Ghost Dance was an answer to the subjugation of Native Americans by the U.S. government. It was an attempt to revitalize traditional culture and to find a way to face increasing poverty, hunger, and disease, all representing the reservation life of the Native Americans in the late nineteenth century.
The Ghost Dance originated among the Paiute Indians around 1870. However, the tide of the movement came in 1889 with a Paiute shaman Wovoka (Jack Wilson). Wovoka had a vision during a sun eclipse in 1889.

While many European Americans were alarmed by the Ghost Dance and saw it as a militant and warlike movement, it was quite the opposite — an emergence of a peaceful resistance movement based on Indian beliefs. It was also a movement of desperation, as existing treaties had been violated and Indians in the West were forced onto reservations. For the Plains Indians, this was a period of starvation as the buffalo were slaughtered, destroying their way of life and main source of food. From an Indian point of view, Europeans were not only destroying the way of life of Indian peoples, but destroying the natural resources of the plains to an extent that would make it impossible for anyone to live there. European Americans often saw the Ghost Dance as irrational. From an Indian point of view, what was being done to them and their way of life was irrational.

James Mooney wrote a book about the Ghost Dance, hoping it would help to counter newspaper articles about it that were inaccurate and promoted prejudice toward the Indians. His research was first published as part of a report in 1890, then enlarged as a book in 1896. The press encouraged popular belief that the dance was dangerous and possibly a prelude to an Indian uprising. Mooney emphatically explained that it was peaceful. In his introduction he describes several fieldwork trips between 1890-1894 that “occupied twenty-two months, involving nearly 32,000 miles of travel, and more or less time spent with about twenty tribes.” As a participant/observer he sang and danced with the Arapaho and Cheyenne, consulted with participants in the new religion, and also took photographs. One reason for the excitement about the Ghost Dance among ethnographers at that time was that the researchers of American Indians were seeing the emergence of a new religion developing in a surprisingly short time and crossing culture and language barriers. This was an extremely rare event. The new movement spread throughout the Native camps in the West, giving Native people much needed hope.

White settlers reacted differently to the “new religion”. Some traveled to the reservations to observe the dancing, others feared the possibility of an Indian uprising. The Bureau of Indian Affairs (BIA) eventually banned the Ghost Dance, because the government believed it was a precursor to renewed Native American militancy and violent rebellion. One of the goals of the agency was to convert the Natives to Christianity. The agency did not recognize the Ghost Dance, misunderstanding and ignorance were part of the BIA decision.

Wovoka’s message clearly promoted pacifism. However, spreading rumors of Indian treachery ignited fear and panic with non natives. On November 12th, 1890, president Benjamin Harrison ordered the military to take control over Lakota Sioux reservation in South Dakota.

On December 29, 1890, 300 Lakota men, women and children were killed in an event that came to be known as the Massacre of Wounded Knee. What started as a peaceful movement in 1889, was brutally ended a year later by the U.S. military.

Spotted Tail – Warrior, Chief and Negotiator

Published November 15, 2022 by tindertender

Spotted Tail (Siŋt Glesk, birth name T’at’aŋka Napca “Jumping Buffalo”; born c. 1823 – died August 5, 1881) was a Brul Lakota tribal chief. He was known as “The Orphan Negotiator.”

Although a great warrior in his youth, and having taken part in the Grattan massacre, he declined to participate in Red Cloud’s War. He had become convinced of the futility of opposing the white incursions into his homeland; he became a statesman, speaking for peace and defending the rights of his tribe.

He made several trips to Washington, D.C. in the 1870s to represent his people, and was noted for his interest in bringing education to the Sioux.

Always, Do unto others 💟

Published November 15, 2022 by tindertender

Tell people how good they are, highlight their acts of love, mention how they made a difference to you, let them feel appreciated, loved and special, allow them to fall in love with themselves, make their day brighter with good words, because at the end of the day we are all struggling, we are all fighting things we don’t say even to ourselves, we are all running from our own demons, so be gentle, be kind, because one good word from you could change someone’s mood and the opposite is true, leave a good trace in someone’s heart it might be his savior.

–Yasmine Lasheen

Art | Corine Ko

Sitting Bull

Published November 14, 2022 by tindertender

Sitting Bull was the first man to become chief of the entire Lakota Sioux nation.

Sitting Bull was born around 1831 into the Hunkpapa people, a Lakota Sioux tribe that roamed the Great Plains in what is now the Dakotas. He was initially called “Jumping Badger” by his family, but earned the boyhood nickname “Slow” for his quiet and deliberate demeanor. The future chief killed his first buffalo when he was just 10 years old. At 14, he joined a Hunkpapa raiding party and distinguished himself by knocking a Crow warrior from his horse with a tomahawk. In celebration of the boy’s bravery, his father relinquished his own name and transferred it to his son. From then on, Slow became known as Tatanka-Iyotanka, or “Sitting Bull.”

Sitting Bull was renowned for his skill in close quarters fighting and collected several red feathers representing wounds sustained in battle. As word of his exploits spread, his fellow warriors took to yelling, “Sitting Bull, I am he!” to intimidate their enemies during combat. The most stunning display of his courage came in 1872, when the Sioux clashed with the U.S. Army during a campaign to block construction of the Northern Pacific Railroad. As a symbol of his contempt for the soldiers, the middle-aged chief strolled out into the open and took a seat in front of their lines. Inviting several others to join him, he proceeded to have a long, leisurely smoke from his tobacco pipe, all the while ignoring the hail of bullets whizzing by his head. Upon finishing his pipe, Siting Bull carefully cleaned it and then walked off, still seemingly oblivious to the gunfire around him. His nephew White Bull would later call the act of defiance “the bravest deed possible.”

Statement / Explanation

Published November 14, 2022 by tindertender

Ever wonder about folks who appear to lack conscience?

NPC is a gaming term for non player characters. We live in the 3D matrix where the “players” are incarnated star beings who are source created with source DNA.

And then there are “non player characters” who are hybrids that were creations of Annunaki, reptilian, Draco & other lower density star beings. Their creation’s purpose is to make this world chaotic. They’re narcissistic, low vibrational, never changing, stuck energies.

They don’t evolve or grow like source DNA star beings & since they’re currently the bigger population on the planet we experience the chaos we see around us.

Their programming agents have been dealt with as far as they’re concerned. Most of them are the population that took v@><, or are not ascending hence, as planet energy rises they’ll keep leaving this place for good.

Explanation by @AnkhetAmenti

Light Body Expansion

Published November 11, 2022 by tindertender

Written by Sami Richard

The negative agenda play both sides. They are master manipulators playing out the same tactics over millenia across multiple empires, and likely off planet too.

Whilst they lack divine creativity, the social engineers are experts in divide and rule through orchestrated polarisation. They achieve this through the Hegelian Dialectic of problem-reaction-solution, so in the end both sides feed the outcome they desire.

The aim of the game is always your attention and energy. This is the fuel they feed off to sustain their existence and power the artificial architecture. When we withdraw and reclaim this outsourced life force, their matrix starts to collapse and we step onto a higher timeline outside of their grasp.

We are being triggered constantly into emotional projections, often aimed at one another, as we seek to prove the validity of our knowledge over those with a different perspective. This keeps us locked within the hive net of separation consciousness, whilst the engineers manoeuvre the chess pieces to push forward their singularity.

This external division represents an internal conflict that requires synthesis through union of the opposites. This brings us into neutral observer awareness where we preserve our energy and can be guided by our own internal compass, rather than attachment to external belief systems, which all become deliberate or self induced psy-ops that divorce us from truth in alignment with spirit.

These battles are also representing parts of the collective consciousness that require integration. Are we able to find common ground despite our differences? Can we accept where we don’t have the power to alter someones soul path, and learn to love them anyway?

At this point most people are fixed in the belief systems they have identified with. No amount of ranting or forcing them to look at information will change that. It’s all already out there for those with the curiosity to go looking. This has to be a personal decision triggered by their own life experience.

There will be progressive waves of people waking up to the control system as this matrix continues to disintegrate and tries to bring people down with it. This grants everyone a choice about whether they want to go down with the sinking ship or start to think for themselves and reclaim sovereignty.

This isn’t just about becoming aware of the external control system. It means accessing and resolving the parts of ourselves that are contributing to it. Where do we still have blind spots and how are these being exploited to keep us ruled by negative ego?

We have a tendency to prefer to outsource the blame to avoid taking personal responsibility and so we never get to the root of the problem, continuing to cycle through the same karmic patterns until balance is restored.

All nature strives for reintegration and so we are seeing our shadows reflected outside as an opportunity to learn something about ourselves and heal the disconnection from within. We are at that point yet again at the end of another cycle where we have the choice to determine the direction of our fate.

Memory of all our previous incarnations and ancestral/collective history is still embedded within our genetic record. As we access deeper self-awareness these memories come back online, and we are able to see the truth of how we got to where we are now, so that we can learn from the past, so not to be doomed to repeat it.

Whatever the collective chooses, we always have a personal choice to move in the direction of true embodied ascension, which always involves extending service and compassion where we can, even if it might feel futile. This expansion of the heart is what connects us back to source and brings miracles into our lives.

When we reclaim our connection to spirit and trust in our path, no matter what, we are liberated from the fears generated by the lower mind that tries to convince us we are powerless to change our circumstances, so that we give our power away to others to govern our lives for us.

This is why there is fear pushed from every direction to exploit our unresolved unconscious wounds to keep us tethered to lower timelines that reflect that vibrational state. We have many subliminal programs running through the subconscious pertaining to crucifixion implants and armageddon software installed in our collective memory through the genetic/karmic record as a result of past suffering and devastation.

These can be transmuted from within by accessing the layers of trapped emotion buried in the shadow/pain body that are still being played out in the outerscape. By feeling through the vibrational spectrum, we can restore the associated memories and clear the their karmic imprints to liberate ourselves from unconscious identification.

This dissolves shadow, evicting imposter consciousness from our field and sealing the lightbody to prevent further infiltration. This is how we free ourselves from consciousness enslavement so we can live according to the will of the higher mind back in congruence with divine law.

Honouring our highest truth and soul expression is the greatest gift we can give to others. It inspires people to better themselves, and with this conscious intent they will receive deeper gnosis about the nature of reality and can commit to their own process out of this restricted vibrational bandwidth. This way free will remains intact and we can honour one another with respect to where we each are on our evolutionary journey.

There are a spectrum of soul groups incarnated on the planet right now, each with different learning requirements and it all matters as part of the grand evolutionary journey back to source. There will be those who don’t want to help themselves and those we just don’t resonate with and that’s okay. It’s all permitted.

My focus at least will be on nurturing connections with those who are on a similar wavelength, to open new doors of co-creative potential and harmonious living, as free from external interference as possible. I don’t know what that will look like yet, but it is an unfolding process and the seeds have already been planted.

I’m not attaching to the idea of a collective awakening, or any particular future for that matter, because it is all being written in each moment, and that’s where I want to place my focus. The idea of a unified awakening doesn’t sound the same as it once did anyway. Expecting the whole of humanity to conform to one unified way of living is unrealistic at this stage.

There is so much beauty within the simplicity of intimate connection within soul groups in alignment, who can construct their shared vision and make miracles happen through the divine creativity of their own consciousness. This will birth new time streams founded on more love, joy and creativity.

Our souls are infinitely expanding. The journey doesn’t stop here, but this dimension is teaching us the importance of these forgotten values. I hope that heaven will return to earth for all living beings and creatures in a true golden age, but once our souls have found one another and forged a quantum entanglement through love, there can be no loss as we become the creators we were always meant to be.

Lucy Nicolar

Published November 11, 2022 by tindertender

Lucy Nicolar was born June 22, 1882, on Indian Island, Maine, the daughter of Joseph Nicolar and Elizabeth Joseph. Every summer, her family traveled to the resort town of Kennebunkport to sell baskets. Lucy and her sister performed in Indian dress for the tourists. In her late teens she started performing at public events such as sportsman’s shows.

During those performances, she came to the attention of a Harvard administrator who hired her as his assistant. He took her into his household and gave her musical and educational opportunities in Boston and New York. In 1905, she married a doctor and moved to Washington, D.C. Eight years later they divorced, and Lucy moved to Chicago to study music.

Lucy Nicolar also toured as part of the Redpath Chatauqua Bureau, then the Keith vaudeville circuit. She married a lawyer who became her manager. He took all her money and fled to Mexico after the stock market crashed in 1929.

When vaudeville died, she returned to the Penobscot Indian Island Reservation with her husband Bruce Poolaw, a Kiowa entertainer from Oklahoma. They opened a gift shop — a teepee 24 feet in diameter — called it Poolaw’s Indian TeePee and sold traditional Indian crafts. They also continued to entertain locally.

Lucy and her sister Florence campaigned to improve life for their people on the reservation,. Their land stretched along the Penobscot River from Indian Island near Old Town to East Millinocket.

The sisters raised the educational standards for Penobscot children by gaining access to the public schools. And they persuaded the state to build a bridge to the island.

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Postcard of Indian Island before the bridge
Lucy and Florence also demanded the right to vote for their people. When the state extended suffrage to the Penobscots in 1955, Lucy Nicolar cast the first ballot.

The Old Town Enterprise reported “The princess has done much for the uplift of her people during her public career, both locally and nationally.”
Lucy Nicolar died at Indian Island on March 27, 1969, at the age of 87.