Hopi Message
(A Blackfoot friend shared this message with me today.)
Message from White Eagle, Hopi indigenous.
“This moment humanity is going through can now be seen as a portal and as a hole. The decision to fall into the hole or go through the portal is up to you.
If you repent of the problem and consume the news 24 hours a day, with little energy, nervous all the time, with pessimism, you will fall into the hole. But if you take this opportunity to look at yourself, rethink life and death, take care of yourself and others, you will cross the portal. Take care of your homes, take care of your body. Connect with your spiritual House.
When you are taking care of yourselves, you are taking care of everything else. Do not lose the spiritual dimension of this crisis; have the eagle aspect from above and see the whole; see more broadly.
There is a social demand in this crisis, but there is also a spiritual demand -- the two go hand in hand. Without the social dimension, we fall into fanaticism. But without the spiritual dimension, we fall into pessimism and lack of meaning. You were prepared to go through this crisis. Take your toolbox and use all the tools available to you.
Learn about resistance of the indigenous and African peoples; we have always been, and continue to be, exterminated. But we still haven't stopped singing, dancing, lighting a fire, and having fun. Don't feel guilty about being happy during this difficult time.
You do not help at all being sad and without energy. You help if good things emanate from the Universe now. It is through joy that one resists. Also, when the storm passes, each of you will be very important in the reconstruction of this new world.
You need to be well and strong. And for that, there is no other way than to maintain a beautiful, happy, and bright vibration. This has nothing to do with alienation.
This is a resistance strategy. In shamanism, there is a rite of passage called the quest for vision. You spend a few days alone in the forest, without water, without food, without protection. When you cross this portal, you get a new vision of the world, because you have faced your fears, your difficulties.
This is what is asked of you:
Allow yourself to take advantage of this time to perform your vision-seeking rituals. What world do you want to build for you? For now, this is what you can do -- serenity in the storm. Calm down, pray every day. Establish a routine to meet the sacred every day.
Good things emanate; what you emanate now is the most important thing. And sing, dance, resist through art, joy, faith, and lov
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Ty for posting this! 
And so much expresses my heart right now.
Sometimes I think you’re a higher more evolved version of myself.
As you know I am at that point where the crisis Is either going to break me or make me.
Turning inward, I am waiting for divine inspiration to decide next steps. I can’t be a 24/7consumer of the news anymore.
Love you to death brother. I appreciate you right now more than I ever have before.
I actually feel serene, most of the time. Sometimes my anger rages out of control and I let it go, so that what is left inside me is good. It seems to work.
I am certainly not a holy person but I believe we all have these elements inside us. The trick is to put the holy and good aspects of our personalities in the ascendancy where they will have more room to be expressed.
Thank you so much for posting this! I hope that every person who feels they're headed for the hole will read this.
I am honored by your thoughtful remarks. Thank you.
side note, spent a few summers as a kid below First Mesa in the village of Polacca in a little two room sandstone house with no electricity, out house down the hill. my Father was doing some research at the Health Center in Keams Canyon. my white blond hair was a novelty. went to some dances and saw rain afterwards. it was magical to a child for sure.
This is such an excellent reminder. I used to think of this frequently, as it's something my dearest friend, a Black woman, has pointed out to me and I thus see it in the Black community as a whole.
The joy of people who have been dehumanized and exterminated, as your friend says. Their joy is an act of resistance -- "They can take everything but they can't take our joy."
I, like so many responding, needed this right now.
Thank you.
I'm approaching a numb state. It feels like the Nazi zombie apocalypse is upon us. I can't deal with pro-Trump/QAnon people. At all. Good on you and any other kind soul who can have a civil conversation. to you.
It reminds me of something I heard many years ago, about a prisoner in a Nazi death camp. No matter how horribly he was treated, he would pray to God every night and give thanks. One night another prisoner said to him "We are prisoners in a miserable death camp... what do you have to be thankful for?" The little old man looked at him and said... "Because I'm not like them."
Regardless I will read it everyday starting today.
It is powerful. Real power.
