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Film on Historic Meeting of Indigenous Grandmothers to Receive Premiere Screening on Oct.ober 10

Gina — Mon, 06 Oct 2008 21:22:32 GMT

Hello all,

Horray for Carole Hart and all who worked with her on this film.

Gina

For more information contact: Jennifer Wilson, 607-753-2232

Film on Historic Meeting of Indigenous Grandmothers to Receive Premiere Screening on Oct. 10
CORTLAND, NY (10/02/2008; 1446)(readMedia)-- The premiere screening of a documentary on a landmark gathering of the International Council of Thirteen Indigenous Grandmothers four years ago in upstate New York, will be held on Friday, Oct. 10, at SUNY Cortland.
The preview, featuring the first act of "For The Next Seven Generations, The Grandmothers Speak," and attended by the award-winning filmmaker Carole Hart, will take place from 7-9 p.m. in Sperry Center, Room 105.
Sponsored by the College's Women's Studies Program in conjunction with the Native American Studies Program and the Center for Gender and Intercultural Studies, the screening is free and open to the public. A suggested donation of $10 to support the grandmothers in their visit to upstate New York and their worldwide work may be presented at the door.
The film documents events of Oct. 11, 2004, when 13 indigenous grandmothers from the Arctic Circle, North, South and Central America, Africa, and Asia arrived in upstate New York in an historic gathering fulfilling an ancient prophecy, "When the Grandmothers from the four directions speak, a new time is coming," known by many of the world's indigenous tribes. The grandmothers formed a global alliance to serve their common goals and specific local concerns.
Approximately eight of the grandmothers will attend and perform a blessing over their film. The grandmothers will answer audience questions briefly after the screening. Audience members will have a chance to provide suggestions to assist Hart in editing her film, an unusual opportunity in documentary filmmaking.
The grandmothers who plan to attend include: Rita Long Visitor Holy Dance and Beatrice Long Visitor Holy Dance, both Oglala Lakota from Black Hills, S.D.; Flordemayo of the Mayan Highlands, Central American; Margaret Behan of the Arapaho/Cheyene from Montana; Tsering Dolma Gyaltong from Tibet; Mona Polacca, a member of the Hopi/Havasupai/Tewa from Arizona; Rita Pitka Blumenstein, a Yup'ik from the Arctic Circle; and Agnes Baker Pilgrim of the Takelma Siletz from Oregon.
Hart is a multi-award-winning television and film producer and writer. One of the original writers of "Sesame Street," she also produced, with Marlo Thomas, the "Free To Be... You and Me" album and television special. She was creator and producer with Bruce Hart of the NBC Emmy-winning series, "Hot Hero Sandwich." Hart has produced and written for many movies for television, including "Leap of Faith" and "Sooner or Later," and the Lifetime documentary, "Our Heroes, Ourselves."
"I believe in the power of film to create real and lasting social change of the kind we all want," Hart said of her film. "‘An Inconvenient Truth' harnessed that power and we are already witnessing positive shifts in attitude and behavior across a wide swath of America and the world. I believe ‘For the Next Seven Generations' will work on people at a deeper level, transporting them from fear to hope, inspiring them to go forward always keeping heart and mind connected. In that way, we can sustain Mother Earth so that she can sustain us."
The rights to her documentary belong to the council and the proceeds from sales relating to it will support their global mission.
The screening is one of many activities taking place from Oct. 5-11 at The Grandmothers Speak event, which is based in Groton, N.Y., with activities in surrounding areas. It is being coordinated with the Women's Gathering Group in Groton.
To learn more about the screening, contact Caroline K. Kaltefleiter, associate professor of communication studies, at (607) 753-4203 or caroline.kaltefleiter@cortland.edu. Information about the grandmothers can be found online at www.womensgathering.com/the_grandmothers.
Film on Historic Meeting of Indigenous Grandmothers to Receive Premiere Screening on Oct. 10

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Prayer Request

Hilaire — Tue, 30 Sep 2008 13:32:35 GMT

Yesterday afternoon Grandmother Beatrice was admitted to Pine Ridge Hospital because she has fluid in her lungs. I talked to my sister Loretta and she says, with all the traveling that mom has been doing lately and with the recent change in her medications, that it was just a little too much for her body to deal with at her age. I also talked to mom in the hospital, who didn't sound too good, but she said that they were going to keep her overnight and were going work on changing her medications today. I am hopeful that they will be releasing her this afternoon, or at the latest tomorrow morning. I humbly ask you all to keep my mom, Beatrice Long Visitor Holy Dance, in your prayers. That Creator provides her with a good speedy recovery. And that he might bless us to have mom around for another 20 years.. so that she can continue to dance under the sun and spread her prayer love... Haho!

Miigwetch,

H-

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Timeline of the Efforts/remove Papal Bulls

Gina — Wed, 24 Sep 2008 16:43:35 GMT

This is from the Grandmothers

Timeline of the Efforts by Indigenous Nations and Peoples
Calling upon the Vatican Revoke the Inter Caetera Papal Bull of 1493
? 1972, Vine Deloria, Jr. writes about the 1493 Inter Caetera papal bull in his book, "God Is Red."

? 1984, the ANASAZI Alliance writes to the Catholic Church asking for the papal bull of 1493 to be annulled by Pope John Paul II. The letter is channeled through the Secretary of State of the Vatican, and back to Bishop Thomas O'Brien of the local diocese in Phoenix, Arizona. The ANASAZI Alliance receives a response from the local archdiocese expressing hope that they all have jobs.

? 1992, the Indigenous Law Institute begins a global campaign to call upon Pope John Paul II to formally revoke the Inter Caetera papal bull of 1493.

? 1992, in August, Indigenous Law Institute meets with the Traditional Circle of Indian Elders and Youth in Yelm, Washington to discuss the papal bulls and their connection to the 1823 Johnson v. McIntosh U.S. Supreme Court decision and federal Indian law. A document is drafted entitled, "Traditional Council of Indian Elders and Youth Communique No. 15, Discovery - Heathens - Slavery - Religious Freedoms, 1492-1992."

? 1992, the Indigenous Law Institute, represented by Birgil Kills Straight (Oglala Lakota) and Steven Newcomb (Shawnee/Lenape) travels to Milan, Italy along with Jacquie Bird (Lakota) for a multi-city tour in northern Italy, stopping near Basel, Switzerland to publicize the papal bulls issue.

? 1993, in February, Steven Newcomb and Birgil Kills Straight travel to Aotearoa (New Zealand) for an elders gathering where they publicize the issue of the papal bulls.

? Some 60 indigenous representatives draft a resolution at the 1993 Parliament of World Religions calling for the revocation of the Inter Caetera papal bull. The resolution is approved by consensus at the plenary session of the Parliament. The vote is overturned the following day by Parliament of World Religions, Mr. David Ramage.

? 1993, the Indigenous Law Institute writes a letter to Pope John Paul II, calling upon the pope to formally revoke the Inter Caetera papal bull of May 4, 1493. The letter is delivered by the UN Human Rights Centre to the Observer Mission of the Holy See to the United Nations. The Human Rights Centre is assured that the letter will be sent on to the Vatican in Rome. The Institute receives no response.

? 1993, Steven Newcomb travels to Cairns, Australia for an Indigenous Intellectual Property Conference. A resolution is passed calling for the revocation of the papal bulls.

? 1994-1995, the Indigenous Law Institute again travels to Northern Italy to publicize the papal
bulls.

? 1997, in October, a group of human and indigenous rights activists gather outside of the Roman Catholic Diocese in Honolulu, Hawai'i to symbolically burn copies of the 1493 papal bull Inter Caetera. This becomes an annual event. Tony Castanha (Taino) and others begin effectively publicizing the issue of the papal bulls on the internet.

? 1999, in February, the United Church of Christ, sponsored a UCC Resolution, passed by Pacific Islander and Asian American Ministries (PAAM), resolving that "President Paul Sherry on behalf
of the United Church of Christ urges and calls upon people of conscience in the Roman Catholic hierarchy and in other organized religions to persuade Pope John Paul II to revoke the papal bull Dum diversas of 1452 and Inter Caetera of 1493 by the year 2,000."

? 1999, the Indigenous Law Institute attends the National Catholic Gathering for Jubilee Justice, at the UCLA campus. A committee of Catholic laity draft a petition titled, "National Catholic Gathering for Jubilee Justice: A Call for the Revocation of the Inter Cetera Bull." The petition called upon Pope John Paul II to revoke the Inter Caetera papal bull of 1493. It is hand delivered along with the pamphlet "Pagans in the Promised Land" to Cardinal Mahony of the Archdiocese in Los Angeles, and to Cardinal Roger Etchegaray, Pope John Paul's personal emissary to the Jubilee event.

? 1999, Tony Castanha is invited to be on a panel at the Hague Appeal for Peace in the Netherlands to discuss the papal bulls. He drafts an essay for the occasion entitled, "Christian Universalism and the Movement to Revoke the Papal Bulls." Nalani Minton (Kanaka Maoli - Hawai'i) and Steven Newcomb draft "The Pu'uhonua Peace Pact" that, among other things, asks the world community to call for the revocation of the papal bull of 1493.

? 2000, in August, a letter to the Prefecture of the Papal Household and to the Most Reverent Eminence Re is co-written by Bishop Francis X. DiLorenzo, Diocese of Honululu, and Tony Castanha, Project Director for the Matsunaga Institute for Peace - requesting a private audience with Pope John Paul II on Wednesday 11 October 2000. Others who were advising the effort to organize a trip to the Vatican were Daniela Minerbi (Italy), Dr. Ralph Summy (Australia), Steve Newcomb, Naniki Reyes Ocasio (Taino), Birgil Kills Straight, Nalani Minton, Russell Means (Oglala Lakota) John Trudell (Santee Sioux), Rev. Kaleo Patterson (Kanaka Maoli), Lynette Cruz (Kanaka Maoli), Hank Raymond (Okanogan), Dr. Johan Galtung (Norway), Dr. Lou Ann Ha'aheo Guanson (Kanaka Maoli), Robert Borrero (Taino/Boriken), Richard Salvador (Belauan/:Palau -Micronesia), Eric Po'ohina (Kanaka Maoli), and Joshua Cooper (Hawai'i).

? 2000, in October, a delegation of Indigenous representatives travel to Italy, where they meet with the Vatican Council for Peace and Justice, travel to northern Italy, and later hold a prayer circle at the Vatican on October 12, 2000. Steven Newcomb symbolically returns the Inter Caetera papal bull to the Vatican by carrying a copy of the bull up the steps to the entrance of the papal residence and asks the Swiss guard to have it delivered to the pope.

? 2001, in June, "National Conference on Peacemaking and Conflict Resolution 2001," on the occasion of the 10th Biennial Conference JustPEACE Training Institute & Summit, George Mason University, General Plenary Session, June 9, 2001, Address on the Revocation of the Papal Bull Inter Caetera, edited by Tony Castanha for the Kosmos Indigena, Matsunaga Institute for Peace and the United Confederation of Taino People.

? 2003, the Seventh Annual burning of the papal bull takes place in Honolulu Hawai'i.

? 2004, the International Council of Thirteen Indigenous Grandmothers forms as a global alliance of prayer, education and healing for our Mother Earth. They will eventually call for the revocation of three papal bulls from the fifteenth century.

? 2004, the Continental Summit of Indigenous Peoples in Quito, Ecuador addresses the issue of the papal bulls.

? 2005, in May, a side-event is convened at the United Nations Church Center, during the UN Permanent Forum on Indigenous Issues. The event, co-sponsored by the American Indian Law Alliance and the Flying Eagle Woman Fund, is entitled "Challenging the Doctrine of Discovery, Christianity, the Papal Bulls, and Manifest Destiny." A letter is written to Pope Benedict XVI calling upon him to formally revoke the Inter Caetera bull of 1493.

? 2005, in July, the Permanent Observer Mission of the Holy See to the United Nations writes to Steven Newcomb at the Indigenous Law Institute responding to a request for information on the work of the Pontifical Committee for Historic Sciences regarding the papal bull Inter Caetera. No information had been found. In the letter, Archbishop Celestino Migliore states that "taken from the context of the political climate at the time, the notion of international law and the geographical notions then extant, the bull Inter Caetera, like other documents of that era, has become ipso facto obsolete and with no effect."

? 2005, in October, the International Council of Thirteen Indigenous Grandmothers writes to Cardinal Kasper at the Vatican, calling upon Pope Benedict XVI "to retract the Dum diversas bull, the Romanus Pontifex bull, and the Inter Caetera bull [and] all related doctrines. They received no response.

2005, in November, Tlahtokan Nahuacalli delivers "The Legend of Truth and the Doctrine of Power," to the Secretariat of the Continental Indigenous Summit. In part, the document calls attention to the issue of the Papal Bull Inter Caetera of 1493.

? 2006, in August, Summit of Indigenous Nations convened at Mato Paha (Bear Butte) passes a resolution calling for a rescission of the doctrine of discovery and related documents, specifically the Inter Caetera bull of 1493.

? 2007, in May, a small delegation of Indigenous representatives sit down with Archbishop Migliore for a meeting regarding the effort to have the papal bull of May 4, 1493 formally revoked.

? 2007, in July, Chief Oren Lyons (Faithkeeper, Onondaga Nation) receives a letter from Archbishop Migliore saying that in the view of the Holy See, the papal bull Inter Caetera has been abrogated a number of times in a number of different ways.

? 2008, in April, at the UN Permanent Forum on Indigenous Issues in New York, Chief Lyons, Tonya Gonnella Frichner (Onondaga) and Steven Newcomb deliver a letter and document of response to the representative of the Permanent Observer Mission of the Holy See to the United Nations, along with a copy of Steven Newcomb's new book, "Pagans in the Promised Land: Decoding the Doctrine of Christian Discovery" (2008).

? 2008, in July, International Council of Thirteen Indigenous Grandmothers travel to the Vatican to deliver a statement calling for the revocation of bulls Dum diversas, Romanus Pontifex, and Inter Caetera from the fifteenth century

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Grandmother Open Statement to Pope

Gina — Wed, 24 Sep 2008 16:49:52 GMT

The Thirteen Grandmothers Open Statement
to
His Holiness, Pope Benedict XVI

We, the International Council of Thirteen Indigenous Grandmothers, from regions throughout the world, hereby make this open statement for and to the Vatican. We do so in a good and prayerful way, for peace and for the healing of Mother Earth. We carry this message for Pope Benedict XVI. We travel with the spirits of our ancestors. When we pray at the Vatican for peace, we will be praying for all peoples. We will not leave anyone out.

Our trip to the Vatican is part of our journey on a spiritual path, a feminine movement of Grandmotherly nurturing and prayerful energy for the sake of our indigenous nations, and for all peoples, and all living things. We include the bird nations, the plant nations, the water nations, the animal nations, including the nations that live in the oceans and other bodies of water, the sacred life-blood of Mother Earth.

Today the waters of the Earth are being made toxic by a modern and poisonous way of life. So toxic are the waters and the environment in which we all live that a young mother's womb often contains hundreds of toxic chemicals that are harmful to developing cells of the unborn, and negatively affect the child when born. Such destructive patterns are the result of a diseased way of life.

As healers, we know that a key to healing disease is a correct diagnosis. In order to heal the planet, we as humans must stop repeating the patterns of thought and behavior that produce illness and disease. Thus, as the International Council of Thirteen Grandmothers, we are traveling in prayer to the Vatican. We do this humbly, not as representatives of the indigenous nations, but as women of prayer who carry lines of wisdom and knowledge about this Creation that go back to the beginning of time.

Many documents issued by the Holy See in the fifteenth century represent patterns of thought and behavior that are resulting in so much planetary disease at this time. Those documents set into motion a perception of relationships based on power and domination that is still the basis of legal systems all around the globe. They are evidence of the true history of what has happened to indigenous peoples.

The relationship between nation-states and tribal peoples in the Americas, Africa, and Oceania rests on the foundation of the "doctrine of conquest" or alternatively, the "doctrine of discovery." The origins of the governmental doctrines of "conquest" and "discovery" may be traced directly to various medieval papal bulls and edicts, notably the bulls Dum Diversas, June 18, 1952, Romanus Pontifex, January 8, 1455, and Inter Caetera, May 4, 1493. These papal edicts granted dominion to European nations over lands which had been occupied by tribal peoples for thousands of years. They also laid the basis for the European "Age of Discovery", setting in motion a disastrous chain of events which ultimately resulted in the outright theft of entire continents from indigenous peoples worldwide.

The Inter Caetera papal bull of May 4, 1493 called for the subjugation of "barbarous nations." The papal bull authorized the monarchy of Portugal, for example, "to invade, capture, vanquish, and subdue, all Saracens, pagans and other enemies of Christ," to "put them into perpetual slavery and to take away all their possessions and property."

We have written to the Vatican and called upon His Holiness Pope Benedict XVI to revoke the Dum Diversas Bull, the Romanus Pontifex Bull, and the Inter Caetera Bull, and all related papal doctrines, thereby affirming the Roman Catholic Church's recognition that all peoples on the Earth are equal, and that our nations and peoples have the inherent right to live free of all forms of domination.

Now we travel to the Vatican, we who are in our elder years, to ask His Holiness Pope Benedict XVI to meet with us and pray with us. Let us begin a spiritual dialogue between the Roman Catholic Church and indigenous peoples. Let us look forward to the world we will leave our grandchildren through the revocation of the papal bulls. Let our goal for them be peace.

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Three Papal Bulls /Holy See

Gina — Wed, 24 Sep 2008 16:48:06 GMT

ANNEX – Revocation of the Three Papal Bulls is Consistent
with Numerous Statements by Representatives of the Holy See

The Holy See’s support for the UN Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples, adopted on 13 September 2007, was an important act in recognition of the fundamental human rights of Indigenous peoples.

Additionally, in its Periodic Report to CERD (UN Committee on the Elimination of Racial Discrimination) in 2000, representatives of the Holy See strongly affirmed the Church’s commitment to truth, peace and reconciliation. Certain statements from this review process clearly demonstrate that the Holy See’s public acknowledgement and revocation of the three papal bulls would be consistent with its own stated positions, with its responsibilities as a party to the International Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Racial Discrimination and more generally, under international law.

Such an acknowledgement and revocation would reinforce its own statement that the “Holy See, for its part, is doing all it can towards the advancement of moral principles and the conditions for ensuring peace, justice and social progress in a context of ever more effective respect of human rights.”

The papal bulls issued to Portuguese monarchs in the fifteenth and sixteenth century instructed Portugal to, “capture, vanquish, and subdue” non-Christians, and to “reduce their persons to perpetual slavery.” This resulted in traditional indigenous cultures being negatively impacted, and, to a great extent, destroyed. Such a medieval point of view is at direct odds with the Holy See’s recognition to the CERD Committee that the “path of peace and reconciliation presupposes respect of the human person, without which it is not possible to reconstruct what has been destroyed.”

In his Universal Prayer of 12 March 2000, Pope John Paul II reaffirmed that “justice and truth must go hand-in-hand,” and acknowledged that “Christians have been guilty of attitudes of rejection and exclusion, consenting to acts of discrimination on the basis of racial and ethnic differences.” Further, he declared “resolve to seek and promote the truth.”

Acknowledgment and revocation of the three papal bulls would be consistent with this resolve.

The Universal Prayer went further, “Let us pray that … Christians will be able to repent of the words and attitudes caused by pride, by hatred, by the desire to dominate others” and “Let us pray for all those who have suffered offences against their human dignity and whose rights have been trampled.”

Acknowledgement and revocation by the Holy See of the three papal bulls is a way to actualize this prayer.

The papal bulls of the fifteenth and sixteenth century authorized Christian monarchs to seize privileges and forcibly take over immense geographical areas of the world that rightfully belonged to Indigenous peoples. Such privileges were seized by the empires of Christendom, increasing their wealth and power. This is one cogent explanation of the Holy See’s statement to CERD that, “[s]eizing privileges and countenancing exclusion on ethnic or regional grounds belongs to another age.”

The Holy See further reaffirmed that the Universal Prayer (2000), “had been an act of great courage and demonstrated a new reading of historical events by the Holy See, as well as a commitment to the future.” Pope Benedict XVI’s acknowledgment and revocation of the three papal bulls would be an even greater act of courage and would reaffirm the Church’s commitment to the future.

Finally, the Holy See stated to CERD that local Catholic churches are tasked with the “defence of the rights of individuals and groups [and] denouncement of the injustices which are at the root of the evil.”

This may certainly be interpreted to mean that local Catholic churches everywhere should support a public acknowledgment and revocation by the Holy See of the three papal bulls as a means of denouncing the injustices of 500 years ago that are “at the root of the evil” and the injustices still visited upon Indigenous peoples today.

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Grandmothers' Forum

Gina — Fri, 22 Aug 2008 18:50:50 GMT

Maybe I am the only one who feels this way. I don't intend to sound mean or cold, but since this is the forum for The International Council of Thirteen Indigenous Grandmothers, shouldn't our messages pertain to them? It's frustrating to wade through the non-grandmothers' stuff. if it's not about them or their direct interests, .

While osome events and lists can be interesting, they aren't related to the Grandmothers. Tribe.net offers oher more pertinent forums for posting such messages. Then it's our choice to subscribe/visit these forums.

Sorry, I don't mean to insult or minimize the importance of any messages. I'd just like to stay on topic. It's just how I feel.

Gina Boltz
Director, Native Village Publications
Director, Youth Forum for International Council of 13 Indigenous Grandmothers
http://www.nativevillage.org
Secretary, Link Center Foundation
http://linkcenterfoundation.org

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Prayer Request

Hilaire — Fri, 22 Aug 2008 15:00:13 GMT

Good Morning Relatives,

I just want to let you all know that Grandmother Rita's son, Duane Blindman, has a sever staph infection in his leg. He is scheduled for surgery today. We are praying that all goes well, that he doesn't lose his leg, that he heals quickly, and that he can come out of this in a good way. So I humbly ask you all to please keep him close to your heart and in your prayers.

If you know Duane and would like to talk to him please call his hospital room at 707-576-4587 room 320. Sutter Medical Center Santa Rosa CA.

I will be leaving shortly with my mother Beatrice and brother Aloysius up to Santa Rosa to support Duane today. Thank you.

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Harmonic Concord Dance, 5 year anniversary!

Celeste1 — Wed, 20 Aug 2008 17:35:05 GMT

Wow, 5 years since I an others danced a Harmonic Concord Dance.. met Millennium there.. wow what a difference the time has made in where my journey was then and where my journey has taken me (as I now ride through distant galaxies, solar systems, nebula in search of of places I danced with my companion friend the Unic`orn.. I remember when this event happened in the sky, how they said it carried with it the mark of Ascension... the Star of David would bow and dance with Earth in center during a total lunar eclipse. 2 triangles laying in reverse directions would lay one on top of the other, divine union between Earth and Sun... and we all watched and wondered what changes would come to our world when it was all done..

In the year after that I watched within the collective dream as we are began to dream together of how the New World was going to appear... and in the year after that I dreamed it was time to become a conscious creator... and this is the energy I now work with... how I see that everything we say and do is part of the new World creation song... so beautiful so holy so sacred our voice singing a song together.... what a difference 5 years makes!

Celeste

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----- Original Message -----
From: "Johnny Mirehiel"
To: Harmonic_Concordance@yahoogroups.com
Sent: Sunday, August 10, 2008 10:07 PM
Subject: [Harmonic_Concordance] The new Harmonic Concordance Newsletter

Please follow this link:

http://www.harmonicconcordance.com/NewSite/5thAnniversaryNewsletter.htm

This edition of the Newsletter has an announcement about the 5th
anniversary of the Harmonic Concordance.

In Gratitude,
Jan and Johnny

~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

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Rosa Maria Cabrera Grandmother and Spiritual Mayan Elder of Guatemala

DreamKeeper — Fri, 01 Aug 2008 23:22:18 GMT

Millennium, My dear brothers and sisters,

This is my prophecy for this 8.8.20088 based
on what my Guiding Spirits are telling me
as I am a Mayan Priestess of the Sacred Fire
from Guatemala, a Grandmother and a Time Keeper.

I just read your wonderful message to the world
for the awaken of the new generation, for respecting
what our ancient Elders taught us and to continue
their paths.

I can see with all my sadness how this world has been
destroyed, how we destroyed it day by day, and just
wish that we ALL can make more actions than only words.

Is beautiful to hear the words but if we do not make
any actions, what we hear will come into one ear and
leave away from the other one.

It is the time for ALL Native American People,
Indigenous from all over parts of this Sacred World
to be unified, to forget who knows more and who knows
less; the main purpose is to join together and in Unity
to make a spiritual army to replenish our Sacred Mother
Earth. Is time to share all our knowledge because truth
should not be only for the 'privileged ones' to know
because if we think like this: How will we learn? -- How
can we pass this Sacred message to the future guardians?

There should be no more competition but complementation
of knowledge and over all: Respect our cultures!

Respect our cultures doesn't mean that you should do
what I do, but share with others how to respect Mother
Earth, tell them what our Elders told us and spread the
message in the good way straight from the Elders of
Tradition so there is no misunderstanding or adding
what is wrong.

We need to be together without thinking who is Cherokee,
Maya, Indigenous from the South, Indians, Yellows, Whites,
African, Tibetan, who came first, who came last, etc. but
to work like sisters and brothers and share the prophecies
of our Ancestors, like those written in our Sacred Mayan
Pop Vuch. They Said: Let's everybody awaken, that not even
one or two stay behind!!! - and this is the main prophecy
of today - They are not saying: ONLY the MAYAS, ONLY the
these or those.... they said_ EVERYBODY!!! !and everybody
is the Universe as we only have ONE SUN with different names.

If we all get together, there will be NO POWER IN THIS WORLD
who will stop us to return our dear Mother Earth to life,
as we are the vast majority population in this world (The
guardians of this Sacred Planet).

This is the main thing we ALL need to do without looking
to our cultural colours, if we look to our different roots,
anyway we are all children of the Spirit, Ahau, Allah,
Kali, Mary, Jesus, Mahoma, Maat, Buddha, Kuan Yin, Krishna
or whichever ancestor you name. We all are rivers which
come from the same Milky Sea (Galaxy), we are all several
electric bulbs of different watts and colours but belong
to the same Universal Energy, we are ONE with the Universe,
with our animal cousins and without keeping this balance no
one will survive. It is true that our prayers are powerful
but there is an expression that I heard: Someone was praying
for guidance and while she was praying, she was hearing
someone crying of pain nearby, but she continued praying
without paying attention to this one who was crying of
pain. The question is: Can we close our ears to other
people pains while praying? When this woman stopped praying,
she looked for this one who was crying and found him dead!

When we pray to Spirit it is to hear Sun's song, and the
cries of Mother Earth. To become a messenger of all our
relations.

We are destroying our families and animals just for fun,
calling it 'sport for hunting or in the bull fights' but
not for surviving. We are seeing children killing the
little birds in the trees just to test their accuracy
for killing them and we do nothing.

We are letting our Governments give permissions to continue
opening mines bleeding, new petroleum wounds, cutting the
living mountains for taking the sacred stones, silver and
gold and for each of these works they need thousands and
thousands of water that later on turn contaminated.

We are letting these big ships throw away all their garbage
to the ocean, plastic bags and our Superior animals of the
water are eating them and die. We are taking the coral from
the seas to sell them in fancy jeweleries with an incredible
value. We are selling wooden statues made our of big trees
that took 200 years for them to grow to get this size and
our governments do nothing because they have 'permission'
if they are carved trees. Isn't it the same to cut a complete
tree and carve it?

In my country Guatemala, I can see people without a house,
without a shelter, sleeping in the wet soil, Elders carrying
heavy things on their hurting backs, without shoes and bleeding
feet and no one do nothing while others have lots of abundance
and dislike sharing or giving what they do not need. I can see
tourists coming to Guatemala, trying to pay less for what our
indigenous people sell without thinking that with one sale,
our people can live for a week while the tourist will spend
the same money in one dinner.

In the first world, they serve plenty amount of food in
restaurants and if you do not eat all, they just throw it
away to the garbage while others in Asia are dying of hunger.
There is no balance in this world and peace will not come
till greed stops. We can see all this money that will cost
the new olympic games in China while they just are passing
through a great tragedy that need to stop wasting all this
money and help their sisters and brothers who have nothing
to eat or no places to live.

The USA government is only wasting our world in wars and
weapons while the soil and food has gone away, and more
people in this world are looking how their children have
nothing to eat. In our country Guatemala, if you go to the
mountains can see there is no more water to drink, and no
one do nothing.

My belief is that what is happening today is the result of
our human indifference to the sorrow of our children and
families, and Mother Nature and the Universe is perfect
and knows perfectly that human hearts will be open only
through pain. The pain that we personally suffer as we
can't feel the same pain for our sisters and brothers
suffering. Our hearts got frozen without feeling compassion
for the ones in desperate need.

Rosa Maria Cabrera
Grandmother and Spiritual
Mayan Elder of Guatemala.

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Indigenous grandmas nearly kicked out of Vatican

Gina — Sat, 19 Jul 2008 10:54:42 GMT

This article appeared in Indian Country Today. However, the last paragraph fails to mention two other U.S. Indigenous women: Mona Polacca, Havasupai/Hopi, and Rita Pitka Blumenstein, Yupik

Indigenous grandmas nearly kicked out of Vatican
http://www.indiancountry.com/content.cfm?id=1096417739

Photo courtesy Marisol Villanueava -- Thirteen indigenous grandmothers, formally known as the International Council of Thirteen Indigenous Grandmothers, initial greeting at the Vatican was not pleasant. The group was almost kicked out while performing a prayer and waiting to speak with Pope Benedict XVI.
ROME - They went to pray. They went to see Pope Benedict XVI on his home turf. They went to ask that he rescind historic church doctrine that played a role in the genocidal onslaught of millions of indigenous people worldwide.

For 13 indigenous grandmothers, accomplishing only one of their three goals wouldn't have been so bad - had they also not been harassed by several Vatican policemen who claimed the women were conducting ''anti-Catholic'' demonstrations.

The elders, formally known as the International Council of Thirteen Indigenous Grandmothers, convened in the morning hours of July 9 at St. Peter's Square. After setting up an altar cloth, candles and sacred objects, including feathers and incense, they began holding a prayer and ceremony circle. Nine-year-old Davian Joell Stand-Gilpin, a direct descendant of Chief Dull Knife of the Lakota Nation, was brought along by one of the grandmothers to participate in traditional regalia.

Soon, however, four Vatican police officials asked the women to stop the prayer ceremony, claiming their prayers were in contradiction to the church's teachings - despite the two crosses on the alter cloth and some of the members being practitioners of the Catholic faith.

The officials told Carole Hart, an Emmy and Peabody award-winning producer and filmmaker traveling with the grandmas, that the group was in violation of Vatican policy. They said a permit Hart had obtained in order to document the prayer gathering was only relevant in terms of filming, but did not allow the women to pray, sing or burn incense.

The police said the actions of the grandmothers were ''idolatrous.''

Through the course of obtaining the permit, Hart had written to Vatican officials explaining that the grandmothers would be conducting a prayer ceremony at the site.

''We stuck to the fact that we were legitimately there with this permit,'' Hart said. ''The grandmas did not back down.''

Still, the police urged the grandmothers to move on; but Hart and the group appealed the decision to a higher authority. Finally, the police brought back a law official who assessed the situation. Upon seeing 13 indigenous elder women and hearing one of their songs, the official concluded there was no problem with the ceremony.

The official also ultimately invited the grandmothers to enter St. Peter's Basilica to rest and pray.

Despite their short-term success, the ultimate goal of the grandmothers - to hand-deliver a statement to Pope Benedict XVI, asking him to rescind several controversial papal bulls that played a part in the colonization of indigenous lands - was thwarted.

Documents from the 15th century, such as the papal bulls, show the papacy played a role in the genocidal onslaught that affected millions of indigenous people on the North American continent. In 1455, for instance, Pope Nicolas authorized Portugal ''to invade, search out, capture, vanquish and subdue all Saracens and pagans'' who had previously made their homes in North America.

Just a short time before the grandmothers left for their long-planned journey to Rome, Pope Benedict XVI announced that he would be leaving the Vatican to rest at his summer home, called Castel Gandolfo, in preparation for a trip to Australia.

The pope had originally been scheduled to be in residence July 9. Laura Jackson, the grandmothers' publicist, described the pope's decision to leave the Vatican as a ''sudden cancellation'' and noted that the grandmas held tickets to a scheduled public audience he was to have held that day.

While Castel Gandolfo is less than 20 miles away from the Vatican, the grandmothers ultimately decided not to make the journey to the pope's summer getaway despite some in their inner circle encouraging them to pay an unexpected visit.

Hart believes the grandmothers chose to focus on St. Peter's Square because it's part of the Vatican and is a strong symbol of the pope.

''As women of prayer, I think they felt that bringing their prayer there, on the very ground on which the church as an institution stands, as close as they could get to the heart of the church, would have a great effect on what will happen next,'' Hart said. Additionally, the women had no guarantee that they would even be able to enter the grounds of the pope's summer residence.

Instead, the elders left a package with one of the pope's personal guards at the Vatican. The package contained a written statement the women had sent to the Vatican in 2005 decrying the papal bulls, to which the Vatican never responded. It also contained a new 632-word statement to the pope asking him to repeal three Christian-based doctrines of ''discovery'' and ''conquest'' that set a foundation for claiming lands occupied by indigenous people around the world.

''We carry this message for Pope Benedict XVI, traveling with the spirits of our ancestors,'' the women said in their new message. ''While praying at the Vatican for peace, we are praying for all peoples. We are here at the Vatican, humbly, not as representatives of indigenous nations, but as women of prayer.''

The package was given to the pope's guard via a traditional Lakota manner, by extending it to him three times with him then accepting it on the fourth attempt. The entire process was captured on film, and is expected to be made into a documentary by Hart in the coming year.

It is unknown whether the pope has yet personally received the package, but legal scholars and Native activists in the U.S. have nonetheless been paying close attention to the grandmothers' journey.

''I think the trip is very significant,'' said Steven Newcomb, co-director of the Indigenous Law Institute and author of the book, ''Pagans in the Promised Land: Decoding the Doctrine of Christian Discovery,'' and an Indian Country Today columnist.

''These are women who are very much grounded in their own languages and traditions. They're able to raise visibility of the issue in ways that others are perhaps less effective.''

The grandmothers from the U.S. who sit on the women's council are Margaret Behan, of the Arapaho/Cheyenne of Montana; Agnes Baker Pilgrim, of the Takelma Siletz; and Beatrice Long Visitor Holy Dance and Rita Long Visitor Holy Dance, both Oglala Lakota of Black Hills, S.D.

All of the grandmothers are currently in private council in Assisi, Italy, and are expected to be returning home by early August.

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Turtle Women Rising

kzelmoon — Thu, 24 Apr 2008 17:59:06 GMT

This event is listed in an email update I received from the Grandmother's Council...

Hello People... I just found out about this event, coming in October, and want to spread the word...

Visit the website to learn more and hear the story of Eli Painted Crow

HEARTBEAT FOR PEACE: DRUM THE HEART, HEAL THE EARTH

October 10-13 2008

The Ellipse in Washington D.C.

www. turtlewomenrising. org
( takes you to http://elipaintedcrow. org )

Turtle Women Rising are needed in Washington D.C.

on October 10-13 2008 at the White House.

Bring your drums, prayers, and your songs.

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Circle Of All Nations

Lummis — Mon, 14 Jul 2008 12:50:40 GMT

Many Grand-Mothers come up to this Event:

www.circleofallnations.com

GRANDFATHER WILLIAM COMMANDA’S
ANNUAL INTERNATIONAL
CIRCLE OF ALL NATIONS SPIRITUAL GATHERING

AUGUST 1, 2 AND 3, 2008
KITIGAN ZIBI ANISHINABEG

Grandfather William Commanda is pleased to invite you to his annual international spiritual gathering at his home at Bitobi Lake, Kitizan Zibi Reserve, Maniwaki, Quebec.
The key themes that Grandfather advances at the Gathering, through a series of presentations and workshops, are
* Indigenous Wisdom, Respect for Mother Earth and Healing,
* Racial Harmony,
* Social Justice and
* Peace Building.

The Special Focus for 2008 is COMMUNICATIONS!

Come prepared to share your own story about why the gathering is important to you – we really want to document the nature of this transformative experience, and need your help to do this!

The Gathering provides opportunity for community development, networking, individual and communal healing, spiritual growth and creativity. Its key objectives are to
* Share the wisdom, knowledge and sacred teachings of Indigenous Elders, Spiritual leaders and Medicine people
* Promote discussion on a range of topics – justice, poverty, aids, racism, spirituality, peace, leadership, healing
* Raise awareness about our relationship with Mother Earth
* Facilitate individual healing, spiritual growth and creativity
* Foster positive inter personal relationships and harmony
* Celebrate life, and build community

A special priority is the vision for ASINABKA, the Sacred Chaudière Site, including the Healing and Peace Building Centre on Victoria Island.
The daily activity plan is simple and comprehensive:
* Sunrise pipe ceremonies,
* Morning presentations by special guests,
* Afternoon workshops, sweat lodge and other healing ceremonies and creative activities,
* Late afternoon time for personal reflection,
* Evening drumming, dancing and socialization.
On Saturday evening, all participate in a community feast, and on Sunday afternoon, in a traditional Giveaway Ceremony.
Grandfather encourages participants to engage in all the activities; the weekend is an unprecedented blueprint for experiencing the timeless wisdom of the Sacred Medicine Wheel, with extraordinary opportunity for emotional, physical, spiritual and mental development.
The Gathering is a very special event that engenders a spirit of generosity and generates harmony, peace and unity.
ALL ARE WELCOME!
DETAILS:
Date
* 1,2, and 3 August, 2008, commencing at sunrise on Friday, and closing on Sunday afternoon
* Camp set up commences on Thursday

Location
* Grandfather Commanda’s residence, 231 Pitobig Mikan, Kitigan Zibi Anishinabeg, Maniwaki, Quebec, J9E 3B1.
* Camping space is available; there are also hotels and motels in town.
* Please bring your own tents, sleeping bags, personal supplies, equipment and food.
* There are outdoor toilet facilities and bathing at the lakeshore shower

Spaces
* Parking – special parking lot across the road
* Camping – north of homes, alongside the road
* Security – entrance and elsewhere
* Communications and Registration – beside Grandfather’s shop
* Vendor for fast food – beside Grandfather’s shop
* Kitchen, Elders’ Eating Space – North of Grandfather’s home
* Sweat Lodge Ceremonies – East of Grandfather’s home
* Sacred Fire, Sunrise Ceremonies, Meditation – Sacred Point
* Morning presentations – Lakeside Arbor
* Children’s activities, Drumming, Giveaway – Round Arbor
* Workshops – Lodge, Lakeside Arbor, grounds

Ceremonies
* Please respect the expectations of the Fire Keeper, Elders, Lodge Keepers, ceremonial leaders and security, with respect to individual protocols – tobacco offerings, dress (especially for the sweat lodges: cotton, long gowns or loose cotton skirts and t-shirts for women, shorts for men), moon cycles, etc.

Considerations
PLEASE: NO DRUGS; NO ALCOHOL; NO PETS.
* This in an indigenous spiritual gathering, rather than a camping outing, and ALL ARE ASKED TO DRESS WITH RESPECT AND DECORUM THROUGHOUT.
* Please take special care with dress, noise and conduct in the area designated for the sacred ceremonies - East of Grandfather’s home
* Children are welcome and some activities are organized for them; however, THERE IS NO BABYSITTING, AND PARENTS ARE FULLY RESPONSIBLE FOR THEIR CHILDREN AT ALL TIMES.
* NO BOATING is permitted.
* NO SWIMMING into the lake is permitted; PARENTS ARE RESPONSIBLE FOR THE SUPERVISION OF CHILDREN AT THE WATER’S EDGE.
* Donations for the Giveaway and Community Feast are welcomed.
* Please be respectful of the communities at Kitign Zibi and Maniwaki

Volunteers
* Grandfather Commanda hosts this Gathering in its entirety; his friends volunteer to prepare for the Gathering and to clean up afterwards, and to take care of most needs during the Gathering.
* ADDITIONAL VOLUNTEERS ARE NEEDED THROUGHOUT THE GATHERING to help with security duties, food preparation and cleanup, assisting elders, facilities cleanup etc. Please be generous with your support: sign up on the Volunteer List in the Communications Booth upon registration.

Directions:
From Ottawa and points South:
* Go North to Maniwaki
* As you approach Maniwaki and enter the 50 km per hour zone you will see a flashing traffic light in front of a Freshmart Grocery store on the right.
* There is a "T" shaped intersection there, turn left, go down that road, cross a small bridge and continue past a sharp curve until you come to another "T" shaped intersection located just before a children’s playground equipped with colourful plastic slides and castle like structures.
* There is a stop sign there, make your stop and turn left.
* Stay on that road for approximately 4 kilometres.
* You will see the Gathering grounds on your left as you drive along a lake on your left.

From Montreal and points East:
* It is much shorter to come through Grand Remous.
* Approximatly 20 KM past Mont Laurier, there is a small town called Grand Remous.
* Just past the town bridge, there is a flashing traffic light indicating the intersection to Maniwaki.
* Turn left to go to Maniwaki.
* Drive South through Maniwaki until you get to a flashing trafic light in front of a Freshmart grocery store.
* Turn right at that intersection, go down that road, cross a small bridge and continue past a sharp curve until you come to another "T" shaped intersection located just before a children’s playground equipped with colourful plastic slides and castle like structures.
* There is a stop sign there, make your stop and turn left.
* Stay on that road for approximately 4 kilometres.
* You will see the Gathering grounds on you left as you drive along a lake on your left.

From points West:
* It is shortest to come trough Pembrook and cross the Ottawa River to the Province of Quebec.
* Follow direction to Cambell's Bay and from there turn North West to Kazabazua.
* From Kazabazua, turn left to Maniwaki.
* As you approach Maniwaki and enter the 50 km per hour zone you will traffic light in front of a Freshmart Grocery store on the right.
* There is a "T" shaped intersection there ,turn left, go down that road, cross a small bridge and continue past a sharp curve until you come to another "T" shaped intersection located just before a children’s playground equipped with colourful plastic slides and castle like structures.
* There is a stop sign there, make your stop and turn left.
* Stay on that road for approximately 4 kilometres. You will see the Gathering grounds on your left as you drive along a lake on your left.
MOST PEOPLE CAMP. POSSIBLE ACCOMMODATION OPTIONS WITH RESTAURANTS IN THE TOWN OF MANIWAKI INCLUDE:
CHATEAU LOGUE - 1-818-449-4848;
AUBERGE DU DRAVEUR – www.aubergedraveur.qc.ca; 1-819-449-7022;
AUBERGE DE LA DESERT – 1-819-449-1213
FOR MORE INFORMATION, PLEASE WRITE TO US AT circleofallnations@sympatico.ca or call 819-449-2668 or 613-599-8385

DAILY AGENDA
ELDER WILLIAM COMMANDA’S
CIRCLE OF ALL NATIONS
ANNUAL SPIRITUAL GATHERING
AUGUST 1 - 3, 2008
Special Focus - Communications
A special priority is the vision for ASINABKA, the Sacred Chaudière Site, including the Healing and Peace Building Centre on Victoria Island.
5.30 – 7.30 SUNRISE CEREMONY
7.30 – 9.00 BREAKFAST
9.00 – 12.00 DAILY PRESENTATIONS AND TEACHINGS
12.00 - 1.30 LUNCH
1.30 - 4.00 SMALL TALKING CIRCLES – LIST AT COMMUNICATIONS BOOTH*
SWEAT LODGE CEREMONIES COMMENCE
4.00 - 8.00 INDIVIDUAL ACTIVITIES, DINNER
8.00 - 11.00 DRUMMING, DANCING AND SOCIALIZATION

NOTE SATURDAY 6.00 PM – COMMUNITY FEAST
SUNDAY 1.30 PM - CLOSING CEREMONIES, GIVEAWAY
*Circle of All Nations volunteers and other interested parties will be coordinating small talking circles on various topics of interest: Asinabka, The Sacred Chaudière Site, including the Victoria Island Healing Centre Project, Circle of All Nations, Water Stewardship;women’s issues; French talking circle; conflict resolution; nutrition; health, environmental issues etc. Participants are encouraged to participate, share or coordinate circles on topics of interest to themselves and others on the grounds. You are requested to communicate your interest in this regard to volunteers at the communications booth upon registration .
Circle of All Nations volunteers thank Grandfather William Commanda and his family for sharing their home with us and we commit on behalf of all participants to honour and respect this generosity.

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Grandmothers Council Honored with the Courage of Conscience award

Gina — Fri, 11 Jul 2008 19:58:22 GMT

The Grandmothers Council has been honored with the Courage of Conscience award from the Peace Abbey, in conjunction with The Chaplaincy Institute for Arts and Interfaith Ministries. This award has been given to peacekeepers and activists such as Mother Teresa, the Dalai Lama, and Rosa Parks, among others.
The award was presented to Grandmother Flordemayo (representing the Council) at Grace North Church in Berkeley on June 20, 2008. The inscription says "Bestowed upon The International Council of Thirteen Indigenous Grandmothers In Recognition of their individual and collective efforts, through education and prayer, giving voice for all indigenous peoples and Mother Earth" Congratulations to the Grandmothers Council on receiving this distinguished honor!
http://www.peaceabbey.org/awards/peace_award.htm

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COULD IT BE THAT SOUND FREQUENCY HAS THE POWER TO HEAL OUR DNA?

amberd — Fri, 20 Jun 2008 21:11:16 GMT

I GOT FROM THIS BLOG SPOT:

http://people.tribe.net/348a0adc-d983-40b0-a873-816674073a11/blog/f781827f-2f63-4050-8157-1f271e8c983d

Amazing info here!
www.abovetopsecret.com/forum/...645/pg1

"If you only knew the magnificence of the 3, 6 and 9, then you would have a key to the universe." Nicola Tesla

Biochemists are using the frequency 528Hz to repair human DNA.
The article stated that it was a "C." When I read that I thought, "
All I would need to do is go to a piano or other instrument and play a "C" and then,
in the DNA workshops we would be able to repair DNA."

Well, it wasn't that simple, because I discovered that the regular "C"
that we all know of in this culture (which is from the diatonic scale of do, re, mi, fa, so, la, ti, do)
was not the 528 Hz frequency "C", as described in the article.

Instead, I discovered that a regular "C" vibrates to a frequency of only 512 Hz,
and that the "C" of 528 Hz used in DNA repair had been a part of an ancient scale
called the Solfeggio Scale.

Moreover, the difference in the scales existed because of different tuning methods
that were utilized in ancient times, vs. those in general use today.
Later, we will explore that difference between how we create music today
vs. how we used to create it, and how that simple change has made all of the difference in the world.

The Six Solfeggio Frequencies include:

UT – 396 Hz – Liberating Guilt and Fear
RE – 417 Hz – Undoing Situations and Facilitating Change
MI – 528 Hz – Transformation and Miracles (DNA Repair)
FA – 639 Hz – Connecting/Relationships
SOL – 741 Hz – Awakening Intuition
LA – 852 Hz – Returning to Spiritual Order

For example, the third note, frequency 528, relates to the note MI on the scale
and derives from the phrase "MI-ra gestorum" in Latin meaning "miracle."
Stunningly, this is the exact frequency used by genetic biochemists to repair broken DNA
– the genetic blueprint upon which life is based!

A Little History

At the turn of the century the awareness of DNA entered the collective consciousness of the world.
We have incarnated into this human experience as divine beings with a blueprint,
a set of instructions.
We know that a very small percentage (3%) of those instructions make up our physiology.

Carl Sagan writes that most of our genetic information (about 97%) is unused DNA.
He refers to this as "genetic gibberish."
Is it possible that most of who we are still lies dormant as our human potential?

In the old paradigm of religion, "potential" remained a mystery to the human mind,
therefore we coined a mystical term called "SPIRIT."
"Spirit" was something that was detached from who we were,
something we didn't have and could only be gained through the systems of most religions.

The study of wave phenomena, the ability of sound to organize and repattern matter, is called Cymatics.
According to John Beaulieu, in Music and Sound in the Healing Arts,
"Form is the more elusive component of sound.
Sound-forms can be seen by subjecting mediums such as sand, water,
or clay to a continuous sound vibration."

The following pictures taken by Dr. Hans Jenny are sound-forms.
They were obtained by placing various mediums on a steel plate
with a crystal sound oscillator attached to the bottom.

The Oscillator creates a pulse, which vibrates the steel plate.
The forms on the plate are examples of sound organizing matter."

Jenny also "noticed that when the vowels of ancient languages like Hebrew
and Sanskrit were pronounced, the sand took the shape of the written symbols for those vowels.
"Modern languages, including English, failed to generate those patterns."

How Did The Solfeggio Frequencies Get Lost?

I discovered that these powerful frequencies had been given to the church
many years ago for a very spiritual purpose.
This was back when the church was a wonderful place for the people in the villages to gather together.
The church served as a social, political, and spiritual place.
People came to Mass, which at that time, was done in Latin (until Vatican II came along).

When people sing in Latin or musical tones, it is very powerful,
because it gets through all of the limited thought forms,
and into deeper levels of the subconscious – accessing insights beyond belief systems.

As described above by Dr. Candice Pert, PhD, energy and vibration go all the way to the molecular level.
She states that we have 70 different receptors on the molecules
and when vibration and frequency reaches that far they begin to vibrate.

Moreover, she observed, "as they begin to vibrate they sort of touch each other,
and tickle each other, and they play and mount each other."

It's this whole energetic dance ritual, at the cellular level,
that opens the chromosomes and exposes the DNA to the frequencies.
When we do toning, drumming, chanting, or tuning forks
– it can be a way to direct energy for transformational purposes.

According to Professor Willi Apel,1 "The orgin of what is now called Solfeggio...
arose from a Mediaeval hymn to John the Baptist which has this peculiarity
that the first six lines of the music commenced respectively
on the first six successive notes of the scale,
and thus the first syllable of each line was sung to a note one degree higher
that the first syllable of the line that preceded it.

By degrees these syllables became associated
and identified with their respective notes and as each syllable ended in a vowel,
they were found to be peculiatly adapted for vocal use.

Hence "Ut" was artificially replaced by "Do."
Guido of Arezzo was the first to adopt them in the 11th century, and Le Marie,
a French musician of the 17th century added "Si" for the seventh note of the scale,
in order to complete the series."

Further research states that, "Pope Johannes later became a saint
- Saint Iohannes - and then the scale was changed.

The seventh note "Si" was added from his name. "Si" later became "Ti."
These changes significantly altered the frequencies sung by the masses.

The alterations also weakened the spiritual impact of the Church's hymns.
Because the music held mathmatic resonance,
frequencies capable of spiritually inspiring mankind to be more "Godlike,"
the changes affected alterations in conceptual thought as well, further distancing humanity from God.

" In other words, whenever you sing a Psalm, it is music to the ears.
But it was originally intended to be music for the soul as well or the "secret ear."
Thus by changing the notes, high matrices of thought and to a great extent well being, was squelched.
Now it is time to recover these missing notes."

I'd heard of do, re, me, fa, so, la, ti, do.
I particularly responded to it whenever I hear that song by Julie Andrews from "The Sound of Music."
I literally have a "brain cell firing" as it is engraved into my brain,
and I see her coming over the mountain in the movie.
I didn't realize this was actually a second, modified scale.
The original Solfeggio scale was actually: UT, RE, MI, FA, SO, LA.

Looking at the definitions of each of the original syllables,
using hidden entries from Webster's Dictionary and the Original Greek Apocrypha,
I have determined that these original frequencies can be used for:

Turning grief to joy,
helping the person connect with their Source to bring forth miracles,
DNA repair,
connecting with spiritual family,
solving situations & becoming more intuitive,
and, finally, returning to spiritual order.

2 Through music these tones can assist all the channels in staying open
and keep the life force (the Chi) literally flowing thru the Chakra System quite freely.

Is this is what the six electro-magnetic frequencies were to accomplish
that were put into "lost" hymns and Gregorian chants?

www.redicecreations.com/specia...io.html

frequency 528 (repair DNA)
www.youtube.com/watch

Resonare Fibris; music & Solfeggio frequency 417 Hz
www.youtube.com/watch

528 HZ - Miracle
www.youtube.com/watch

285 HZ - Quantum Cognition
www.youtube.com/watch

528 hz those frequencies
www.google.com/search

~ please read more ~
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Tue, May 6, 2008 - 2:19 PM
The Solfeggio Scale and note names;
1. UT...396 Hz (Center Pillar of the Tree)
2. RE...417 Hz (Left Pillar of the Tree)
3. MI...528 Hz (Right Pillar of the Tree)
4. FA...639 Hz (Center Pillar of the Tree)
5. SOL..741 Hz (Left Pillar of the Tree)
6. LA...852 Hz (Right Pillar of the Tree)

The first note, "UT quent laxis," is defined in Webster's Dictionary as
"the Gamut of dramatic emotion from grief to joy,"
and "the whole series of recognized musical notes."

It has a frequency of 396 cycles per second,
and is also associated with a "magnetic field strength equal to 105 power gauss," or 100,000.

The second tone, "RE" - short for "resonare fibris" or resonance - also correlates mathematically to 144,000.

snoedel.punt.nl/index.php

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Tue, May 6, 2008 - 2:23 PM
MY POEM about the Holy Grail, and Song of Songs - linked to the 144,000 : )

In truth hearts are fragile like beautiful glass, so beware..
For singing crystal serves as Song of Songs, to our ear
a holy, clear lovesong, that only an open mind can hear
the quest for answers drives us to search beyond our fears

beat by beat our heart fights to brake free from the old chains
light & love shows you The Meaning - it flows through our veins

CHRYSTAL HEARTS

hollowed out and forged by a Master
moulded to agile creation
prepared to be filled
with holy water
from the storm of the deep sea
in constant contact with our source
connected, touching the bells of destiny

our hearts will brake
when held by carelessness hands
for we are made to be cultivated
and filled with the essence of love
and the wounds cut by shards
must be glued with tenderness

set your table for a festive occasion
and celebrate each day with value
for the word of God
which says life is precious –
are always for real...

so let us share our moments,
CHEERS! Gently, and with caution...

© copyright Jessica Sunnely 2007

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Tue, May 6, 2008 - 3:16 PM
~ The Prophecy about he 144,000 ~

In the "christian" prophecy...

From:
144000.net/144000.htm

Who are the 144000 chosen?

It was written by the mercy of God and announced by John the prophet,
that in the plentitude of the Sixth Seal, the chosen of the Lord would be marked.

//

Your presence before this manifestation has not been by chance. My voice summoned you along the pathways and guided you here. Now you know that you have come to recognize the mission that you have to fulfill on Earth. In My word you have learned what is your beginning and what is your ending. You have had the revelation that you are a part of the people who have received the manna of the spirit during three eras.

The 144,000 are the marked ones in this Third Era. A legion of spirits, a group that My charity has designated and selected in all Eras to assign them a special mission, a responsibility before the others.

Many have been chosen, but others, along the journey of their own existence, will be taken by surprise and to them will be revealed, either by My Divine Spirit or through you; that they belong to the 144,000 and the sign that I shall give you that the number is complete, will cause a great commotion in your planet. That commotion, that event, will not be long in coming.

Woe! Woe betide the Universe in that instant, verily the Father says to you, because with it I will let Mankind know that something supernatural is happening; that there is something far beyond the elements, the will of man, taking place. The greater part of Humanity, fearful, will enter into prayer and repentance.

Where are those 144,000? Elijah is reuniting them, without it being an obstacle that some are in spirit, and others are incarnated. All will be united spiritually in this Divine Work.

You will be witnesses of great events, many of which will surprise you, but I will enlighten you with My lessons, so that you will never be confused. Study My word, for it will inspire love toward your Father and your brethren. It is not necessary for you to belong to the 144,000, to be able to serve the Father or be named disciples of the Master. Those who form a part of this number, are just the ones who will open the way and be as guardians of My Work.

//

144,000 (0ne hundred and forty-four thousand) incarnated and discarnated spirits will open the way during this period. They will be forerunners, prophets, and messengers. They are the ones marked by Me to go before the multitudes.

... // " They will be warriors of peace, teachers within My wisdom, doctors for all illnesses; comforters and prophets.

To extend My work in this Third Era, I have come to choose from among the great multitudes, 144,000 spirits, placing upon them a mark with a kiss of Divine light, not a kiss of betrayal, nor a seal of some pact that places your spirit in danger.

My mark is the sign that the Holy Spirit deposits in His chosen ones to fulfill a great mission in this Third Era. He who possesses this seal is not exempt from dangers; on the contrary, he is more tempted and more tested than the others are.

Remember each one of the twelve chosen by Me in that Second Era and you will confirm what I am telling you. Among those there were moments of doubts, of weakness, of confusion, and there was even one who betrayed Me handing Me over to My executioners with a kiss.

The mark means mission, charges, and responsibility before God. It is not a guarantee against the temptations or the illnesses; if it were so, what merits would there be in My chosen ones? What effort would your spirit make to remain faithful to My word?

The mark is the invisible sign through which his mission can be accomplished by the one who carries it with love, with respect, with zeal, and with humility; then he can confirm that the mark is a Divine grace that makes him superior to pain, that illuminates him in the great trials, that reveals to him profound knowledge and makes a breach anywhere so that the spirit may pass through.

The mark is like a link that unites it with who possesses it, by which the thought and the word of the spiritual world can manifest itself in your world; so I say to you that a marked one is a messenger, an envoy, and is My instrument.

Great is the mission as well as the responsibility within My work of the marked one, but he is not alone in his pathway. By his side always goes the angel protector who looks after him, guides him, inspires him, and fortifies him.

How strong has been the one who has known how to embrace his cross with love, and how harsh and bitter has been the pathway for the chosen one who has not been able to carry with him the Divine seal of a chosen one in the Third Era.

I say to you who hear Me, that you should learn to keep vigil and to pray, to carry your cross with love and to practice with uprightness and obedience, so that this life, which has meant for your spirit his most luminous reincarnation, would not be sterile and later on has to weep the lost time and the wasted gifts.

All of you meditate on this lesson, the marked ones or the unmarked, because all of you have within My work a destiny to fulfill.

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Hopi Prophecy

144 000 Sun Dance enlightened teachers will totally awaken in their mind bodies.
They will begin to meet in their own winged serpent wheels
and become a major force of the light to help the rest of humanity to dance their dream awake.

A Sun Dance teacher is any human being who has awakened,
who has balanced, their shields, who has gained the dream mind body
and who honours all paths, all teachers and all ways."

From the book "A Hopi Prophecy"
Acorn Publishing, Glastonbury P 24

So just keep "Dancing with the Sun"!

The Hopi say that the Sacred Symbols will be newly understood as the time of Purification comes.

"When the earth is ravaged and the animals are dying. A new tribe of people shall come unto the earth from many colors, classes, creeds and who by their actions and deeds shall make the earth green again. They will be known as the "Warriors of the Rainbow".
-Old native American prophecy

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Blavatsky's, "Isis Unveiled." I happened to open the book to a page that spoke of God's Signet Ring. She said it was a Tetragrammation, the four letters of the Divine Name, and symbolized by the Tau Cross. It is the mark on the forehead given to the 144,000 thousand in Revelation 7. Rev. 14:1 says they have "his FATHER'S NAME written on their foreheads."

From this and other hints, I believe that mankind is not guilty or condemned, as they say, and will be the hero when the truth finally comes. Babylon, or the seed of Babylon, seems quite negative, suggesting intollerance, division, conflict, and violence, yet these verses suggest the seed of Babylon leads to a very positive outcome.

The "cold" or "winter" season and a change in it are also suggested in the Song of Solomon, verses 2:11, 12 - "for lo, the winter is past, the rain is over and gone. The flowers appear on the earth, the time of singing has come, and the voice of the turtledove is heard in our land."

Your dream suggests that it can also be "too hot." I doubt that this means "too much love," as in my interpretation above. My guess is that it refers to too much "passion," in the sense of feeling so strongly about something you would kill for it. I see a similar symbolism and meaning in many ways. Human beings tend to have a strong desire for justice and righteousness on the one hand, and a loving, forgiving side on the other. I see it in such things as - Old Testament/New Testament, Conservative/Liberal, Republican/Democrat, prosecuting attorney/defense attorney, Capitalism/Communism, etc. It is also part of the meaning of The Tree of Life, in regard to the left and right columns. (5) The middle column shows a balanced condition.

There are many indications that mankind has been out of balance, and that the "male-rational" side has been dominant in the time cycle. There are many signs that the "feminine-intuitive" side will increase, so that mankind will become "balanced." One example is the crop formation that appeared at Tweksbury in 1992. It had the male/female signs of Mars and Venus joined together.

FROM: The Greatest Prophecy
www.greatdreams.com/greatest.htm

"Standing on Mount Zion in Jerusalem,
and with Him were 144,000 who had His Name and His Father's Name written on their foreheads.
And I heard a sound from heaven like the roaring of a great waterfall or the rolling of mighty thunder.
It was the singing of a choir accompanied by harps.

This tremendous choir — 144,000 strong —
sang a wonderful new song in front of the throne of God
and before the four Living Beings and the twenty-four Elders;
and no one could sing this song except those 144,000 who had been redeemed from the earth.

For they are spiritually undefiled, pure as virgins, following the Lamb wherever He goes."

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THE HOPI PROPHECY AGAIN:

" // The transformed elder brother, the True White Brother, will wear a red cloak or a red cap, similar to the pattern on the back of a horned toad. He will bring no religion but his own, and will bring with him the Tiponi tablets. He will be all-powerful; none will be able to stand against him. He will come swiftly, and in one day gain control of this entire continent. It is said, "If he comes from the East, the destruction will not be so bad. But if he comes from the West, do not get up on your housetops to see because he will have no mercy."

The True White Brother will bring with him two great, intelligent and powerful helpers, one of whom will have a sign of a swastika (a masculine symbol of purity), and the sign of the sun. The second great helper will have the sign of a celtic cross with red lines (representing female life blood) between the arms of the cross.

When the Great Purification is near, these helpers will shake the earth first for a short time in preparation. After they shake the earth two times more, they will be joined by the True White Brother, who will become one with them and bring the Purification Day to the world. All three will help the "younger brother" (the Hopi and other pure-hearted people) to make a better world. In the prophecies, the two helpers are designated by the Hopi word for "population," as if they were large groups of people. .." //

www.crystalinks.com/hopi2.html

''So, as our prophecy says, it must be up to the people with good pure hearts that will not be afraid to help us to fulfill our destiny in peace for this world.''

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" // The number 144,000 is especially significant for it is the
multiplier effect of the twelve. The number twelve has
always been one of the most significant numbers known to the
earth inhabitants. You have twelve months in the year, there
are twelve zodiacal signs and twelve houses which represent
the twelve aspects of the human personality. The pyramid's
multiplier of the three sides of each wall of the triangle
times the four sides of the base of its structure also
contains one of the mysteries of the All. Then, there is the
significance of the selection of the twelve apostles that
Jesus chose to continue His work on the earth plane, after
His ascension.

It is this latter example that I will focus the remainder of
my instruction today, continuing on with the lesson of
empowerment to the 144,000. Each of the apostles was
selected because he represented one aspect of the human
psyche that needed to be developed to reach enlightenment.
In order to be one with the spirit, one needs to be in tune
with all twelve sides of the personality that strives to
become united with God. Peter was the builder, Matthew was
the singer of the songs through his messages, Thomas was the
doubter, etc. Even Judas played an important role, for if he
had not fulfilled the prophesy and betrayed Jesus, the
scriptures could not have been fulfilled.

The 144,000 Spiritual Warriors who are emerging on the
beloved earth today are each representative of one of those
Apostles' primary energy fields. The multiplier effect of
12 x 12,000 brings the number to 144,000. That does not mean
that each soul can only develop 1/12 of the totality of
understanding to reach enlightenment themselves. What it
does mean is that instead of 12 separate souls doing the work
on the planet, there are now 12,000 souls in each of the
categories that are emerging to fulfill the scriptures in
this passage of time. Therefore, the original work of the
Great Masters is still unfolding in this drama of time and
space that you know in this third dimension of existence.

They are labeled the Rainbow Warriors, for it is they who
will bring the secrets of the Light energy to the masses upon
the planet. And it is only this information that will
provide the foundation for the rebirth to be perfect.
Nothing in this universe is sustained without Light. Nothing
that is known to the earth is manifested without the mastery
of the spectrum of colors and the vibration of the sound. It
is this information that is once again being revealed to the
souls, so that they may usher in the cries of the infant who
is awaiting the Baptism into the Spirit. For the Spirit is
one with the Light and all is in the Oneness of God."//

www.skepticfiles.org/mys2/empower.htm

Sunn...
Sunnely ۞
offline 315

Tue, May 6, 2008 - 3:18 PM
~ RAINBOW WARRIORS ~

A brief description about the native American prophecy
about the new Tribe of people of all races
that will raise to save Mother earth and its living beings

www.youtube.com/watch

morn...
morning star
offline 73

Thu, May 8, 2008 - 3:14 PM
Gratitude
I really appreciate you for sharing all your healing messages<3
Sunn...
Sunnely ۞
offline 315

Thu, May 8, 2008 - 9:50 PM
oh.. thank you kindly! *big smile*

Im glad YOU like it! : )

Blessings!! JS

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Solstice - a moment of Unified Breath and tone

eesha — Sat, 21 Jun 2008 21:41:47 GMT

Greetings and celebrations and letting go on this Solstice Day. the day of the year with the longest period of sun light so that it appears that the sun (sol) stands still (sistit).

A day then the creatiave life forces are the stongest. A day of letting go and re-newal.

There is also at noon today, June 21, a Time Shift in the Galactic Mayan Calendar (from Judith Moore in New Mexico)

A Note going out from the Great Central Sun creating a sound harmonic that will shift the Earth into a new dimension.

One overtone aligning all the galactic suns, solar codes and the One Harmonic Source.

A perfect time for us to join with this tone - a communion of souls on Earth - so that the wave of a tone moves across the planet iand simultaneously joins with the Overtone from the Great Central Sun.

So whether you happen to get this before noon or after or even the next day... you can intend No Time... or the fluidity of time... and see yourself Joining in this planetary and galactic tone at noon on solstice - merging your heart with the heart of humanity and all life -
I imagine the the rocks and trees and animals know this within themselves and connect - hehhee as if they were not alreacy connected, silly me. :-)

some moments of stillness (sistit), feeling your breath, feeling the beating of your heart, feeling the earth and trees and waters, sensing your feet and toes feeling the floor and sensing the air that is touching your body, breathing in as if you are breathing in thru all of our skin - face and neck and back - fingers, between the fingers, ankles, toes and between your toes, the top of your head and feeling as if you are breathing in thru your heart center and out then through your back and this breath several times of breathing in and out thru every surface of skin on your body.. at one with the breath and heart beat of Gaia.
and then perhaps a sound, or a tone - a laugh or a sigh or a cry - an expression of of your uniqueness merging with every other heart and breath on the earth and with the heart and breath and tone from the Great Central Sun, thru our sun to each of us on this day - each one of us drinking the same Solar light and energy and re-newal.

and so it is, beloveds...
from eesha with smiles ~~

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MESSAGE FOR SUMMER SOLSTICE ON JUNE 21 : )

amberd — Fri, 20 Jun 2008 20:48:13 GMT

I RECEIVED THIS MESSAGE FROM A FRIEND

Dear Friends,

The summer solstice is very powerful and I will be joining this experience with the 13 grandmothers at noon. My guidance is to play the 6 solfuggio tones if you have the recording and become the 7th tone at noon. Since they are 12 minutes each, you would have to start listening at 11 am. Also look at the 5 or 6 crop circles at the link included. Great explanations of the energy we are all receiving. The last crop circle includes a chant you can do on Saturday if it feels right. Please share it with others if you are so guided. Blessings to you all.

In Lak'ech

in New Mexico (http://www.cropcirclesrevealed.com/) received information about June 21st at noon in your area being the Time Shift in the Galactic Mayan Calendar. She was told by the 13 grandmothers that a note would go out creating the sound harmonic that would shift the Earth into the new dimnsion on that day.

The energies for June 21 by my count are 5 CHUEN 15 MOAN. CHUEN is the monkey and humor so keep it light and enjoy the experience as you participate to become the tone which raises your frequencies to match the new tone.

She received information that the Time Shift spoken of in the Galactic Mayan calender will happen on June 21st, 2008 when the harmonic overtone is created. One overtone aligns all the galactic suns, solar codes and the One Harmonic of Source. There is an essential need for one vibration on this planet to be attuned through the consciousness of the lightbodies that have reached a capacity for harmonic union. Through this communion of souls Earth will be lifted beyond the risk of exceeding her limits to stabilize. There must be one harmonic overtone generated from the masses of Awakened Beings.

This one harmonic overtone must be calibrated in a wave that moves across the planet to create one tone at noon June 21st 2008. One overtone must be created simultaneously to the opening of a solar code from the Great Central Sun. That solar code creates a new language pattern of quantum mechanics, quantum energy planes. The tone must be communicated through the Galactic Grail Unified field in harmonic overtone. This tone will be communicated through superconsciousness to six billion humans on the planet creating a wave form that accelerates the space/time continuum of Earth.' ( by permission Judith Moore )

My request is for the lightworkers of the Earth to unite our hearts at noon on June 21st 2008 with the intention of shifting Gaia into her New Form of Love, Oneness, Peace and Harmony.

Feel free to use sound, prayer, visualization as your heart calls.Just go into stillness,into your heart and you will hear the note that unites us all in the One Love. If possible organize groups to meet at that time to amplify the energy.

Please pass this on to as many people as possible .

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