When
you strip us of our home, our vehicle, our job, hair products, clothes,
shoes (preferably "Designer"), telephones, faxes, cell phones,
desktops, laptops, razors, shades, contact lenses, corrective eyewear
(preferably "Designer"), tv's, dvd's, cd's, ipods, Feeds, mp3's,
diplomas, certificates, degrees, 2 year contracts with free activation
and penalties for early cancellation, and easy access to completely
acceptable cosmetic surgery to plump up your lips in order for you to
look like you've just been hit in the face with a baseball bat and
had melons rammed up under your poor thin-skinned chest...
...we're all native.
If you remember these things daily, you'll already be more balanced:
Your home is your shelter
Your vehicle is transportation
Your job is what you contribute into the Stream of Life
Your clothes and shoes protect you from the elements and are for your comfort
Means of communication are to assist you in actually communicating with other human beings
You are blessed if you are able to have your eyesight corrected in order to see the world
Entertainment
does not require electricity. It can be found in silence with eyes
closed, or in the jets of a sprinkler in the front yard
Feeling
good about yourself, filling that hole deep within your soul, doesn't
cost anything. Other people's opinion of you is none of your
business. That frees you up to being authentically you and allows you
to accept them in their shortcomings, ergo Balance.
Peace, all.Pastor L. Rock
Hopi Message to the World
His Final Message to Mankind
From Hotevilla, Arizona, USA
Dan Evehema, Eldest Elder
I
am very glad to have this time to send a message to you. We are
celebrating a time in our history which is both filled with joy and
sadness.
I am very glad that our Hindu brothers have given us
this opportunity to share these feelings with you because we know many
of you are having the same troubles.
We Hopi believe that the
human race has passed through three different worlds and life ways
since the beginning. At the end of each prior world, human life has
been purified or punished by the Great Spirit "Massauu" due mainly to
corruption, greed, and turning away from the Great Spirit's teachings.
The
last great destruction was the flood which destroyed all but a few
faithful ones who asked and received a permission from the Great Spirit
to live with Him in this new land.
The Great Spirit said, "It is
up to you, if you are willing to live my poor, humble, and simple life
way. It is hard but if you agree to live according to my teachings and
instructions, if you never lose faith in the life I shall give you, you
may come and live with me."
The Hopi and all who were saved from
the great flood made a sacred covenant with the Great Spirit at that
time. We Hopi made an oath that we will never turn away from Him. For
us the Creator's laws never change or break down. To the Hopi the Great
Spirit is all powerful.
He appeared to the first people as a man
and talked with them in the beginning of this creation world. He taught
us how to live, to worship, where to go and what food to carry, gave us
seeds to plant and harvest. He gave us a set of sacred stone tablets
into which He breathed all teachings in order to safeguard his land and
life.
In these stone tablets were made, instructions and
prophecies and warnings. This was done with the help of a Spider woman
and Her two grandsons. They were wise and powerful helpers of the Great
Spirit.
Before the Great Spirit went into hiding, He and Spider
woman put before the leaders of the different groups of people many
colors and sizes of corn for them to choose their food in this world.
The Hopi was the last to pick and then choose their food in this world.
The Hopi then chose the smallest ear of corn.
Then Massauu said,
"You have shown me you are wise and humble. For this reason you will be
called Hopi (people of peace) and I will place in your authority all
land and life to guard, protect, and hold trust for Me until I return
to you in later days for I am the First and the Last."
This why
when a Hopi is ordained into the higher religious order, the earth and
all living things are placed upon his hands. He becomes a parent to all
life on earth. He is entitled to advise and correct his children in
whatever peaceful way he can. So we can never give up knowing that our
message of peace will reach our children. Then it is together with the
other spiritual leaders the destiny of our future children is placed.
We
are instructed to hold this world in balance within the land and the
many universes with special prayers and ritual which continue to this
day.
It was to the Spider woman's two grandsons the sacred stone
tablets were given. These two brothers were then instructed to carry
them to a place the Great Spirit had instructed them. The older brother
was to go immediately to the east, to the rising sun and upon reaching
his destination was instructed to immediately start to look for his
younger brother who shall remain in the land of the Great Spirit.
The
Older brothers mission when he returned was to help his younger brother
(Hopi) bring obout peace, brotherhood and everlasting life on his
return. Hopi, the younger brother, was instructed to cover all land and
mark it well with footprints and sacred markings to claim this land for
the Creator and peace on earth.
We established our ceremonials
and sacred shrines to hold this world in balance in accordance with our
first promise to the Creator. This is how our migration story goes,
until we meet the Creator at Old Oribe (place that solidifies) over
1000 years ago.
It was at that meeting when he gave to us these
prophecies to give to you now at this closing of the Fourth World of
destruction and the beginning of the Fifth World of peace. He gave us
many prophecies to pass on to you and all have come to pass. This is
how we know the timing is now to reveal the last warnings and
instructions to mankind.
We were told to settle permanently here
in Hopi land where we met the Great Spirit and wait for Older Brother
who went east to return to us. When he returns to this land he will
place his stone tablets side by side to show all the world that they
are our true brothers.
When the road in the sky has been
fulfilled and when the inventing of something, in Hopi means, gourd of
ashes, a gourd that when drops upon the earth will boil everything
within a large space and nothing will grow for a very long time.
When
the leaders turned to evil ways instead of the Great Spirit we were
told there would be many ways this life may be destroyed. If human kind
does not heed our prophecy and return to one's original spiritual
instructions.
We were told of three helpers who were
commissioned by the Great Spirit to help Hopi bring about the peaceful
life on earth would appear to help us and we should not change our
homes, our ceremonials, our hair, because the true helpers might not
recognize us as the true Hopi.
So we have been waiting all these years.
It
is known that our True White Brother, when he comes, will be all
powerful and will wear a red cap or red cloak. He will be large in
population, belong to no religion but his very own. He will bring with
him the sacred stone tablets. With him there will be two great ones
both very wise and powerful.
One will have a symbol or sign of
swastika which represents purity and is Female, a producer of life. The
third one or the second one of the two helpers to our True White
Brother will have a sign of a symbol of the sun. He, too, will be many
people and very wise and powerful. We have in our sacred Kachina
ceremonies a gourd rattle which is still in use today with these
symbols of these powerful helpers of our True Brother.
It is
also prophesied that if these three fail to fulfill their mission then
the one from the west will come like a big storm. He will be many, in
numbers and unmerciful. When he comes he will cover the land like the
red ants and over take this land in one day.
If the three
helpers chosen by the Creator fulfill their sacred mission and even if
there are only one, two, or three of the true Hopi remaining holding
fast to the last ancient teaching and instructions the Great Spirit,
Massauu will appear before all and our would will be saved.
The
three will lay our a new life plan which leads to everlasting life and
peace. The earth will become new as it was from the beginning. Flowers
will bloom again, wild game will return to barren lands and there will
be abundance of food for all. Those who are saved will share everything
equally and they all will recognize Great Spirit and speak one language.
We
are now faced with great problems, not only here but throughout the
land. Ancient cultures are being annihilated. Our people's lands are
being taken from them, leaving them no place to call their own.
Why is this happening?
It
is happening because many have given up or manipulated their original
spiritual teachings. The way of life which the Great Spirit has given
to all its people of the world, whatever your original instructions are
not being honored. It is because of this great sickness called greed,
which infects every land and country that simple people are losing what
they have kept for thousands of years.
Now we are at the very end of our trail.
Many
people no longer recognize the true path of the Great Spirit. They
have, in fact, no respect for the Great Spirit or for our precious
Mother Earth, who gives us all life. We are instructed in our ancient
prophecy that this would occur.
We were told that someone would
try to go up to the moon: that they would bring something back from the
moon; and that after that, nature would show signs of losing its
balance. Now we see that coming about.
All over the world there
are now many signs that nature is no longer in balance. Floods,
drought, earthquakes, and great storms are occurring and causing much
suffering. We do not want this to occur in our country and we pray to
the Great Spirit to save us from such things. But there are now signs
that this very same thing might happen very soon on our own land.
Now
we must look upon each other as brothers and sisters. There is no more
time for divisions between people. Today I call upon all of us, from
right here at home, Hotevilla, where we to are guilty of gossiping and
causing divisions even among our own families; out to the entire world
where thievery, war, and lying goes on every day. These divisions will
not be our salvation. Wars only bring more wars never peace.
Only
by joining together in a Spiritual Peace with love in our hearts for
one another, love in our hearts for the Great Spirit and Mother Earth,
shall we be saved from the terrible Purification Day which is just
ahead.
There are many of you in this world who are honest
people. We know you spiritually for we are the "Men's Society
Grandfathers" who have been charged to pray for you and all life on
earth never forgetting anything or any one in our ceremonials.
Our
prayer is to have a good happy life, plenty of soft gentle rain for
abundant crops. We pray for balance on earth to live in peace and leave
a beautiful world to the children yet to come.
We know you have
good hearts but good hearts are not enough to help us out with these
great problems. In the past some of you have tried to help us Hopis,
and we will always be thankful for you efforts. But now we need your
help in the worst way.
We want the people of the world to know
the truth of our situation. This land which people call the Land of the
Freedom celebrates many days reminding people of the world of these
things. Yet in well over 200 years the original Americans have not seen
a free day.
We are suffering the final insult.
Our people
are now losing the one thing which give life and meaning of life -- our
ceremonial land, which is being taken away from us. Hotevilla is the
last holy consecrated, undisturbed traditional Native American sacred
shrine to the Creator. As the prophecy says, this sacred shrine must
keep its spiritual pathways open.
This village is the spiritual
vortex for the Hopi to guide the many awakening Native Americans and
other true hearts home to their own unique culture. Hotevilla was
established by the last remaining spiritual elders to maintain peace
and balance on this continent from the tip of South America up to
Alaska. Many of our friends say Hotevilla is a sacred shrine, a
national and world treasure and must be preserved. We need your help.
Where is the freedom which you all fight for and sacrifice your children for?
Is it only the Indian people who have lost or are all Americans losing the very thing which you original came here to find?
We
don't share the freedom of the press because what gets into the papers
is what the government wants people to believe, not what is really
happening. We have no freedom of speech, because we are persecuted by
our own people for speaking our beliefs. We are at the final stages now
and there is a last force that is about to take away our remaining
homeland.
We are still being denied many things including the
rite to be Hopis and to make our living in accordance with our
religious teachings. The Hopi leaders have warned leaders in the White
House and the leaders in the Glass House but they do not listen. So as
our prophecy says then 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.
We now stand at a cross road whether to
lead ourselves in everlasting life or total destruction. We believe
that human beings spiritual power through prayer is so strong it
decides life on earth.
So many people have come to Hopiland to
meet with us. Some of you we have met on your lands. Many times people
have asked how they can help us. Now I hope and pray that your help
will come.
If you have a way to spread the truth, through the
newspapers, radio, books, thought meeting with powerful people, tell
the truth! Tell them what you know to be true. Tell them what you have
seen here; what you have heard us say; what you have seen with your own
eyes. In this way, if we do fall, let it be said that we tried, right
up to the end, to hold fast to the path of peace as we were originally
instructed to do by the Great Spirit.
Should you really succeed,
we will all realize our mistakes of the past and return to the true
path-living in harmony as brothers and sisters, sharing our mother, the
earth with all other living creatures. In this way we could bring about
a new world. A world which would be led by the great Spirit and our
mother will provide plenty and happiness for all.
God bless you,
each one of you and know our prayers for peace meet yours as the sun
rises and sets. May the Great Spirit guide you safely into the path of
love, peace freedom and God on this Earth Mother. May the holy
ancestors of love and light keep you safe in your land and homes. Pray
for God to give you something important to do in this great work which
lies ahead of us all to bring peace on earth.
We the Hopi still
hold the sacred stone tablets and now await the coming of our True
White Brother and others seriously ready to work for the Creator's
peace on earth.
Be well, my children, and think good thoughts of
peace and togetherness. Peace for all life on earth and peace with one
another in our homes, families and countries. We are not so different
in the Creator's eyes. The same great Father Sun shines his love on
each of us daily just as Mother Earth prepares the sustenance for our
table, do they not?
We are one after all.
The
"God thing"
For
those of you who have a problem with the "God thing," I thought it
might be nice to put some words down to perhaps aide in your struggle.
First, we're not talking about religion - period. Try, if you can,
to not think about religion - not churches, not crosses, not Jesus
(yes, I said not Jesus), not Mary, not nuns, not priests, not rabbis,
not confession, not Christmas, not Passover, not "sin," not hell -
please try not to think about any dogma that man has heaped onto that
which is unknown.
Now, I'm going to tell you something that you may not know, that no
one has ever told you. Are you ready? Okay. Choose your own God, a
God of your own understanding. Choose a God that you can trust, and in
which you can have faith. Believe in something other than yourself
because you will , at some point, disappoint yourself and you will
never be enough. You will likely try to fill that gaping whole within
yourself with many things, but it will never go away, that horrible
acid-like feeling in the center of your being. It is possible that you
will expect a great deal from other people, but they too will
disappoint at some time because they, too, are merely human.
I am a drop in the rain. I am one leaf in the forest.
It may be helpful if you stop trying to disprove the existence of
Great Spirit, as the first people (native americans) refer to God. I
would like to suggest that you pray. The act of praying is just
talking to God, nothing fancy, no set "lyrics," no special signals or
crosses that you do with your hands, nothing you have had to memorize
and get just right or else you'll flunk. You don't even have to get on
your knees, bow your head, close your eyes, and clasp your hands
together in front of you. But, if you do those things, you will be
inviting divinity into your life. If you prefer, go outside somewhere
and feel the wind on your face, look up at the sky, take some soil into
your hand. Close your eyes and breath deeply. You're alive. Live in
that moment.
You have a right to a relationship with your own "higher power."
"Some things are true whether you believe in them or not."
What, really, do you have to lose? And wouldn't it help to know
that you always have somebody on your side? And you're always welcome
to pray for others about whom you care.
Please let me know if this has been helpful.
Peace be with you.
Pastor L.
I'm not in charge. That's the
good news. Nor are you, my friend.
Please don't confuse religion with a
personal relationship with something so divine that it can't be explained, so
forgiving that words cannot express, so loving that we have the choice to
disbelieve...and still be loved unconditionally.
"Some
things are true, whether you believe in them or not."
Peace
be with you, my friend.
We're killing the bees.Pesticides used to immobilize, confuse, and attack the system of crop eating insects are doing the same thing to the bees.They become disoriented, lose their way back to the hive, the hive dies off.Other
bees won't even use the abandoned hive because they sense the impending
death associated with the honeycomb that's left behind.
Bees are essential to all life here on earth.For the honey?No, pollination of plants.I have begun to only buy organic.By doing so, I'm gladly paying more to a) save the bees,b) eating better quality food, and c) hopefully discouraging the fast-food-mentality of "producing" life sustaining nourishment.
It's our Country, our Earth, our Lives, the Lives of current and future children.It's also the Lives of all the Beings (animals) and Living Things that were here before us.Let's show some respect.
