Essays

Throughout the American Civil War, people of privilege were going about their day. Carrying on with building a business, having dinner out, spending afternoons in the park.

150 years later we have hot water on tap, refrigeration, grocery stores, television. Over that period of time, what was once considered luxury became necessity. And people are talking a lot about civil war.

As with Wiley Coyote in the Road Runner cartoon, this newfound comfort and convenience headed us over a cliff many …

As I know it, being “Indian” – as Indigenous People have been called in the West – means being deeply aware of one’s relationship to everything. Knowing that an unseen force appears when we live this way. One begins to understand that the divine lives inside of relationship – which means that everything you are in relation to is sacred.

While difficult to practice in every moment, just striving for this ideal creates a better world.

So what has disrupted the Indigenous way …

Let’s start with the assumption that we are all born into two other people’s stories. Which continues backwards in time, of course.

At the level of DNA – whether you believe in “past lives” or not… we literally carry our ancestors with us. And at an “energetic” or “vibrational” level…. here’s my theory…

As infants, we are super sensitive to the energy around us and take it in through very fundamental and subtle vibrations in the environment. Almost as if – in the …