“…And after a long time the boy came back again. “I am sorry, Boy,” said the tree, “but I have nothing left to give you- My apples are gone.” “My teeth are too weak for apples,” said the boy. “My branches are gone,” said the tree. “You cannot swing on them-“ “I am too old to swing on branches,” said the boy. “My trunk is gone,” said the tree. “You cannot climb-“ “I am too tired to climb,” said the boy. “I am sorry,” sighed the tree. “I wish that I could give you something… but I have nothing left. I am an old stump. I am sorry…” “I don’t need very much now,” said the boy, “just a quiet pleace to sit and rest. I am very tired.” “Well,” said the tree, straightening herself up as much as she could, “well, an old stump is a good for sitting and resting. Come, Boy, sit down. Sit down and rest.” And the boy did. And the tree was happy.”
With each degree of expanded awareness, you move away from the world you once lived in. Your awakening has meant that you are no longer in the same dimensional space that you used to occupy. Your expanded awareness has started to reveal more of the world around you as you feel and see and become to know a world that you have never experienced before.
Your family and friends will appear identical for they are indeed a version of themselves but you are not the same version of yourself that you were before your journey started. Your version will be present in a greater level of dimensions then they will experience themselves. You will see a world that they do not – you will feel and experience energies that they do not.
To expand your awareness, you must be prepared to severe all the lower vibrational ties that bind you to the lower versions of yourself. In time you become a higher energised, higher dimensional being that will replace the third dimensional version that used to fill the same space. People who knew the previous version will begin to wonder where on Earth YOU came from. Your ‘friends’ will no longer have the same vibration – they will not be able to relate to you or you to them unless they too are prepared to change.
All the day to day worries that occupy so much of your time WILL eventually fall away from your thoughts. Conversations that you once joined in with will sound like the twittering of birds – you will dismiss them as irrelevant, you will ‘literally’ alienate yourself from them, you will not relate to them for indeed you are no longer related to their versions.
The higher energies create larger aura’s – your vibrations will be recognised by those that are similar – you will attract far more to you that is conducive to your advancement.
All that annoys you, worries you, scares you, angers you and upsets you – must be accepted and its control released by you. You cannot take these with you or advance with these present within your Light Body. These are the weights of your beliefs that you have chosen to carry, to keep you heavily anchored to the Earth that you love so much. These are the sacrifices that have to be made for you to advance. This cannot happen if you do not accept their power over you.
Be happy to send Love and Light to those that shout at you. Be happy to recognize those that believe that you should act the way that THEY see fit. Be happy to act subordinately to those who feel the need to show domination. Be happy to understand a bad situation that someone else has put you in to make them feel better about themselves. Be happy to choose to lose to those who only settle for winning. These are all choices which demonstrate awareness of YOU.
Now, choose whether you want THESE people to remain in your life, for they will continue to present their version until your version no longer allows a resonating match for them.
This is Sovereignty – this is enlightenment – this is Mastery – this is Ascension.
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.
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. 💜
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 (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.
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.
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.”
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