Chapter Two - Indigenous Sacred Ways

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Indigenous

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Native to the land

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Sacred ways

Back 2

Orally transmitted and experienced, respect their elders

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Conversion

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Playing with fire

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Caution

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Careful with religion

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Circle

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Rotation, revolution, spiral return type of process

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Balance

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Key word, harmony

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High god

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Often withdraws after creation, human beings are pests, always asking for things

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Lesser gods

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Nature spirits, animal spirit helpers, ancestors, trees, mountains and streams

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Cloud of witnesses

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Ancestors who watch our every move

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Medicine wheel

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Invokes keepers of four directions - north, south, east, and west, all healing

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Chief Seattle

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All belong to same family, your god is the same as our god

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"Caretaker of river"

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1. Balance

2. Organization is debilitating - go with natural flow

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Reciprocal relationship

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Not dominating, earth is the womb and the tomb

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"Backster effect"

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Plants appear to have awareness and react to situations in their environment

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Goal

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Keep balance of all things, harmony

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Evil

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Imbalance, excess, or deficiency

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Ley lines

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Energy grids on the planet, acupuncture lines on earth itself, Roman roads were built on them supposedly

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Pole shifts

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Periodically

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Mana

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Impersonal spiritual "presence" in things of Nature

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Animism

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Personal "presence" and identity

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Sacred sites

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Build on previous sacred sites and/or use previous elements, link to the past

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Power objects

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Talismans, spiritual energy

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Sweat lodge - menstruation

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Power goes up and energy becomes disruptive

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Shamans

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"Medicine people" , intermediates between seen and unseen, witch doctors

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Means to become shaman are

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Common

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Vision quest

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Get power animal - could be a deva, angelic being, or elemental

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Rituals

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Morphic energy when ritual is repeated

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Sacred pipe

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Used in ritual, pipe of harmony and balance, stem - male, bowl - female

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Peyote cactus

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"Little deer" , entheogen

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Entheogen

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Bringing out God within

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Deer

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Carry prayers to God

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Sun dance

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Way of self sacrifice to serve as energy of the Great Spirit,

Dance for four days with no food, water, or sleep

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Prerequisites for sundance

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Vision quest, tree, sacred pipe, whistle, piercing, rebirth